5 NFL writers, including B/R’s Freeman, talk shop with SI’s Deitsch

It’s a few days old now, but I think it’s worth reading Richard Deitsch’s two-part roundtable discussion with five NFL reporters at SI.com.

Part 1.

Part 2.

The reporters are Mike Freeman of Bleacher Report, Clarence Hill of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Jason Reid of the Washington Post and Adam Schefter and Ed Werder of ESPN.

A lot of the questions are about the NFL, but one I found interesting was when Deitsch asked, “Will your job exist 20 years from now? If yes, why? If no, why?”

Freeman and Reid took the question to be about the NFL, while the others took it as a question about media. Schefter says yes, but:

But what form it takes is going to be fascinating. There’s a whole new generation of people getting their news and information from their PDAs and tablets and not glued to ESPN the way so many other young adults, and adults, have been for the past 30 or so years. Times are changing … I don’t know how the job will evolve, it already looks different than it did a decade ago, pre Twitter and Facebook. But the one thing that I’m counting on is that there always be a premium on information. Hopefully that doesn’t change.

What do you think NFL media will look like in 20 years?