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The Athletic is outstanding, and they fit very well into the New York Times model, who purchased them. Former players and managers writing for them, in depth c
by jimbokun 3y ago
The Athletic is outstanding, and they fit very well into the New York Times model, who purchased them.
Former players and managers writing for them, in depth coverage of almost every sports team, stats guys doing deep dive analyses, insiders with lots of connections to break stories on trade and transfer deals, a nice daily email summarizing the previous days sporting news.
I gladly pay their subscription fee.
So I agree. Sports Illustrated dying does not entail the death of sports journalism. Just means other institutions are doing it better.
- BadCookie 3y agoThis argument would be more convincing if The Athletic weren’t also losing millions of dollars a year. “Since The New York Times Co. acquired The Athletic for $550 million in January 2022, the site has had a total operating loss of more than $43 million, even as subscribers have more than doubled to 3.27 million over the same span.” Source: https://frontofficesports.com/the-athletic-lays-off-20-journalists-in-reorganization/ https://frontofficesports.com/the-athletic-lays-off-20-journ...
- 15457345234 3y agoI really don't know how you can lose that much money running a website like that for two years unless you're deliberately using it as a cost sink.
- infamouscow 3y agoThe NYT is not composed of impressive people.