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Grantland and the Surprising Future of Publishing
- danso 11y agoGood piece, the OP sums up why even as analytics show that a diminishing number of users visit news site homepages, I still will type in the URLs to domains such as Grantland, NYT, and the New Yorker...and only ever visit places like BuzzFeed and Vox through Twitter or HN: the sites in the former category still have front pages in which the majority of content is original...the sites in the latter, you have to work to get to the good stuff. I liked reading the linked-to Deadspin piece about Simmons and Grantland [1], which contains a lot of detail about the site's size and cost (linking to a NYT report [2] of Simmons earning $5M)...also, I didn't know Simmons conceived of "30 for 30"...that alone explains his worth to me (in terms of ESPN video content). [1] http://deadspin.com/how-to-employ-bill-simmons-1703224603 http://deadspin.com/how-to-employ-bill-simmons-1703224603 [2] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/sports/bill-simmonss-return-sets-intrigue-in-motion-at-espn.html http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/sports/bill-simmonss-retur...