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Sports Media Reacts to New York Times Shuttering Its Sports Department
"The paper plans to transition all the employees who were with the newspaper's sports department to positions at The Athletic, which the New York Times Company purchased last year for $550 million."
The New York Times Eliminates Its Sports Desk
The New York Times Company purchased The Athletic for $550 million in the first fiscal quarter of 2022 in an all-cash deal.
Uncertainty Hits New York Times Sports Department Amid Changes at The Athletic
"We have watched the company buy a competitor with hundreds of sportswriters and weigh decisions about the future of sports coverage at The Times without, in many instances, so much as a courtesy call, let alone any solicitation of our expertise."
Andy Staples Joining On3 for Daily Video Show
“His authenticity, likeability, and passion for college sports makes him the perfect candidate to lead and anchor a flagship daily show for On3.”
Trevor Bauer Settles Lawsuits Against The Athletic & Molly Knight
"As part of the stipulation in the settlement, Knight's tweets have been removed, and The Athletic had published a clarification on past reporting of Bauer's allegations."
Ian Rapoport on Shams Charania, Draft Reporting: You Need to Say ‘I Don’t Know’
“Reporting on the Draft is so hard because nobody wants to get jumped and teams will say [stuff and] people will talk about lying season."
Dan Bernstein: The Athletic has Become ‘Exactly What it Was Trying to Disrupt’
"'Oh, now we are gonna have ads, and we are gonna chase clicks, and we are gonna cut costs, and we are gonna slash the travel budget.'"
Ken Rosenthal Built a Career on Bowties and Credibility
"A lot of baseball writers, and I guess sports writers joke that really we’re not equipped or trained to do anything else, which is true."
The Athletic Cuts 4% of Newsroom
“At the end of this process, we will have more than 100 beat reporters on teams.”
Scott Kaplan: Lakers Front Office Understands Influence of Our Show
“I don’t think that Shams and Haynes are making this up independently of each other. They don’t even work together.”