These are people who were “On the Move” during April 2020. They have made professional moves in sports media.
If there was a move in your department or you made a move during April that is not included, you can contact Erik Hall at hallerik7@gmail.com.
- Kristen Balboni joined the Carolina Panthers as their new team reporter. She was previously with Stadium.
- Michael Baron, after being laid off in March, was re-hired as sports editor at The Calhoun (Georgia) Times.
- Nolan Beilstein said he was laid off by Bluffton (South Carolina) Today as a sports reporter.
- Abby Bitterman announced she was laid off as a sports reporter at The Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where she covered high schools and Oklahoma University.
- Brandon Boles was laid off as a sports reporter for Prairie Mountain Media.
- Matt Bove said he was laid off as a sports reporter at The New Jersey Herald in Newton, N.J.
- Dan Brood announced he was laid off as sports reporter for The Tigard (Oregon) Times.
- Pat Caputo was laid off as a sports columnist at The Oakland Press in Oakland City, Mich.
- B.W. Carlin said he was laid off by the XFL, where he worked in social media.
- Ryan Clarke announced he was laid off by The Newberg (Oregon) Graphic as a sports reporter.
- Kerry Eggers was laid off as sports reporter at the Portland (Oregon) Tribune, where he’d worked for 19 years.
- Bob Ford left his sports columnist role with The Philadelphia Inquirer.
- Sam Fortier announced he joined the Washington NFL franchise beat for The Washington Post.
- Dan Fouts was replaced as an NFL analyst with CBS, according to numerous reports.
- Robb Garofalo announced he was laid off as a sports reporter at the Aberdeen (South Dakota) News.
- Suzanne Halliburton was laid off as a sports reporter at the Austin (Texas) Statesman.
- Lance Hartzler started a new role as sports editor at the Arizona Daily Sun.
- Jordan Honeycutt announced he was laid off as a sports reporter at the Sun Journal in New Bern, N.C.
- Dave Isaac said he was laid off as a sports reporter at The Courier Post in Cherry Hill, N.J.
- Dan Kadar said his contract was terminated as a sports reporter at SB Nation.
- Reed Koutelas announced he was laid off by Waverly (Iowa) Newspapers.
- Kwani A. Lunis announced she joined NBC 10 Boston. She previously worked for NBC Sports Boston.
- Brandon Marcello joined 247 Sports as a national college football reporter.
- Danny Martin resigned as sports editor at the Fairbanks (Alaska) Daily News-Miner.
- Abbey Mastracco was laid off as a sports reporter at the Bergen (New Jersey) Record.
- Grant McGalliard joined the Springtown (Texas) Epigraph as a sports reporter.
- Kevin McNamara announced he was laid off as a sports reporter at the Providence (Rhode Island) Journal.
- Dave Newman ended his 31 years covering high school sports at the New Richmond (Wisconsin) News.
- Ben Olson said he was laid off as a sports reporter with Sound Publishing in the state of Washington.
- Maurice Patton announced he was laid off as sports editor at The Columbia (Tennessee) Daily Herald.
- Jason Peake was laid off as sports reporter at The Joplin (Missouri) Globe.
- Tashan Reed announced he moved to covering the Las Vegas Raiders for The Athletic. He previously covered Florida State for The Athletic.
- Myles Simmons became senior writer/editor for the Carolina Panthers.
- Bob Sutton was laid off as sports editor by The Times-News in Burlington, N.C.
- Edwin Stanton said he was laid off as executive sports editor at the Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News.
- Brian Thomas announced he was laid off as sports editor at the Montgomery County Chronicle in Independence, Kansas.
- Cameron Van Til said he was laid off as sports reporter at The Everett (Washington) Herald.
- Grant Wahl was terminated by Sports Illustrated/Maven, where he covered soccer.
- Jewell Walston left her role as Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser sports editor to become Asheville (North Carolina) Citizen Times executive editor.
- Charlotte Wilder joined FOX Sports to do multimedia for various digital platforms. She was previously with Sports Illustrated/Maven.
- The Boston Herald laid off John Connolly as sports reporter, Marisa Ingemi as Boston Bruins reporter, and Justin Pelletier as sports editor.
- The Burbank (California) Leader, Glendale (California) News-Press and La Cañada Valley Sun ceased publication, which led to layoffs for sports editor Jeff Tully and sports reporters Vincent Nguyen and Charles Rich.
- The Mankato (Minnesota) Free Press named Chad Courier as sports editor after Shane Frederick left his sports editor role for a position outside of journalism.
- The New York Post parted ways with sports reporter Kevin Kernan and sports columnist George Willis.
- RiverTown Multimedia in Red Wing, Minn., terminated the roles of sports reporters Alec Hamilton and Martin Schlegel.
