Chicago Tribune - Posted on September 24, 2009

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Reporting on MLS: Will teams hire their own beat coverage?

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The collapse of the newspaper industry comes at a terrible time for a growing league like MLS. Numerous MLS teams don't even have beat reporters dedicated to them in the first place. Or if they do, they're the first to go.

Take the case of the struggling Chicago Tribune, who decided a few months ago to drop their beat coverage of the Chicago Fire by moving reporter Luis Arroyave from covering the Fire to covering showbusiness (a fitting move for the former FHM writer).