Kalyn Kahler - Senior NFL Writer, The Athletic

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Kalyn Kahler is a senior NFL writer for The Athletic, covering the league from a national perspective. She has a traditional journalism background and also likes to use numbers in her stories. She is a graduate of Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism and has previously worked for Sports Illustrated, Bleacher Report, and Defector Media. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Colorado Springs Gazette, among other publications. In this conversation, Kalyn talks about…

Her path from Medill to The Athletic

Her general approach to using stats in stories

What she took away from working with Peter King

The evolution of data in journalism

How coaches and players react when she brings up stats to them

Advice for someone looking to break into the sports media field

Why she’s not a fan of even numbers

Then, TruMedia’s Sergio De La Espriella joins the show to discuss Paul’s conversation with Kalyn.

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Follow Kalyn on Twitter: @kalynkahler

To see Kalyn’s work at The Athletic, click here.

To check out Kalyn’s website, click here.

To read her piece on how the Eagles used the QB rush to their advantage, click here.

To read her piece on why NFL coaches call for shotgun at the goal line, click here.

To read her piece on how a cow becomes a football, click here.

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