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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Episode 71 of the Sports Illustrated Media podcast features Terry McDonell, the former editor of the Time Inc. Sports Group and the author of \"The Accidental Life: An Editor\u2019s Notes on Writing and Writers\".\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this episode, McDonell, who ran Sports Illustrated for 10 years (2002-2012), discusses what it was like to edit Outside, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Esquire and Us Weekly among other publications; spending time with Hunter Thompson and George Plimpton; the secret to managing editorial egos; being an outsider at Sports Illustrated; how Lance Armstrong repeatedly lied to him during his SI tenure; why surrogates on behalf of Alex Rodriguez called for SI writers to be fired; whether Rick Reilly leaving SI was a mistake for Reilly and why Reilly was angry with him when Reilly left for ESPN; discussing with the SI staff whether the Swimsuit Issue should end, putting Beyonce on the cover of Swimsuit; how magazines can survive in the future, and much more.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A reminder: you can subscribe to the podcast on&amp;nbsp;iTunes,&amp;nbsp;Google Play&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;Stitcher, and you can view all of&amp;nbsp;SI\u2019s podcasts here. If you have any feedback, questions or suggestions, please comment here or&amp;nbsp;tweet at Deitsch. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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