Episode 3, PennLive Legal Reporter, John Luciew, Dr. Scott Lynch’s Retaliation Lawsuit and Penn State’s Head Football Coach James Franklin

In an age of sports journalism where ESPN canceled Bob Ley’s Outside the Lines and HBO/Warner Discovery canceled Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, and the recent New York Post report by Ryan Glasspiegel that Around the Horn will be canceled before the 2025 football season, sports journalism has been marginalized. In response, John Camacho and Zack Hamilton created The Moral Questions of Sports to address the intersection of sport, business, legal, and moral issues.

One of these controversial topics is College Coach’s Pressuring Medical Doctors.

To address it, John interviewed Penn Live Legal Reporter, John Luciew. He wrote at least 30 stories on the Dr. Scott Lynch’s Lawsuit to Penn State Health for Wrongful Firing/Retaliation due to Disagreements with Penn State Head Football Coach James Franklin. Mr. Luciew goes in depth into this complicated sports, medical, moral, legal, and business issue.

John Luciew is an award-winning writer specializing in compelling true crime narratives and in-depth enterprise stories for PennLive.com based in Harrisburg, Pa. He hosts the Steelers Update Podcast from PennLive. And he’s the author of more than 10 mystery/thriller novels, including Fatal Dead Lines, published by Simon & Schuster. As an old-school newspaper reporter with 35 years in the business, Luciew says he prefers face-to-face over Facebook, conversation over tweeting, and genuine storytelling over quick online posts, adding: “I write to be understood, always, but know that delivering emotion is the most powerful form of communication ever invented. After all else fades, readers will remember how you made them feel.” Notable journalism and writing honors: Twice named Pennsylvania’s Distinguished Writer by the Pa. News Media Association. Finalist for the national Ernie Pyle Award for Human Interest Storytelling given by the Scripps Howard Foundation. Winner of the Society of Professional Journalists/Sigma Delta Chi Award.

Visit John’s recent articles, https://www.pennlive.com/staff/jluciew/posts.html

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