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Last Thursday, at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention and Career Fair, Hugh Douglas, the…
Welcome back to The Beat-Off, our crowd-sourced effort to determine the very best and the very worst reporters in…
"Dear Mike Freeman, You, are garbage." Here are some of Bleacher Report's finest stories that involve its newest hire, Mike Freeman. [Bleacher Report Report] Read more
Awful Announcing reports that NFL scoopmeister Mike Freeman is headed to Bleacher Report, which "has a strict policy against writers breaking their own news." Good luck, Mike. [Awful Announcing] Read more
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