Lurkers are blissfully unaware of that forum.Many who post in V&N subforum are boycotting the Gray Lady
Lurkers are blissfully unaware of that forum.Many who post in V&N subforum are boycotting the Gray Lady
I did a little research. Prefer my current blissful state.Lurkers are blissfully unaware of that forum.
I don’t think it’s a catastrophe if a national publication doesn’t have beat reporters covering, say, the Kansas City Royals or the Nashville Predators.https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/12/business/media/the-athletic-layoffs.html
Layoffs and a coverage switch to more general vs. local.... so basically going from what made the Athletic unique to "wanna pay for the same thing most places have for free?"
Some of them have already posted on Twitter. These are the ones I've seen so far...Any idea on who got laid off?
Interesting. There’s certainly significant overlap between the two, but I guess I don’t full understand how the print copy of the NYT sports section is going to function.The Athletic Becomes NYT Sports Dept (gift link)
Over the weekend, the WSJ had a story on Athletic-NYT (gift link)
High school me quoted Red Smith in a cover letter for a local newspaper looking for someone to cover HS sports.The Athletic Becomes NYT Sports Dept (gift link)
Over the weekend, the WSJ had a story on Athletic-NYT (gift link)
This doesn't seem promising.
“We plan to focus even more directly on distinctive, high-impact news and enterprise journalism about how sports intersect with money, power, culture, politics and society at large,” the editors wrote in an email to The Times’s newsroom on Monday morning. “At the same time, we will scale back the newsroom’s coverage of games, players, teams and leagues.”
The shuttering of the sports desk, which has more than 35 reporters and editors, is a major shift for The Times.
This isn't really any different - the Times doesn't do many game stories or day-to-day beat coverage as-is. With this move, that'll increase exponentially. What I'm unsure of is how the non-Sports desks will cover the typical sports stories the NYT staff the last few months has covered.This doesn't seem promising.
It seems obvious that some game stories all over the place are being written entirely or heavily assisted by AI. The Athletic has what I consider to be good Jets reporting but it’s never about game stuff.This isn't really any different - the Times doesn't do many game stories or day-to-day beat coverage as-is. With this move, that'll increase exponentially. What I'm unsure of is how the non-Sports desks will cover the typical sports stories the NYT staff the last few months has covered.
FWIW the LA Times just announced it's no longer doing game stories and moving the sports deadline up to mid-afternoon.