The New York Times has introduced they’re disbanding their sports activities division, containing greater than 35 journalists and editors.
The Gray Lady mentioned will probably be leaning on The Athletic, bought by the Times in January 2022 for $550 million, for its protection of groups and sporting occasions. An e mail from The Times’ Executive Director Joe Kahn and Deputy Managing Editor Monica Drake instructed the Times newsroom that they’d “scale back the newsroom’s coverage of games, players, teams and leagues,” an announcement states.
The firm’s present sports activities desk staffers, in response to The Times, will shift to different newsroom roles and no layoffs are anticipated. A enterprise desk group will concentrate on the monetary and energy facets of the sporting world, The Times mentioned.
A letter from The Times’ sports activities division, signed by 28 members, was printed within the firm’s Sunday paper and requested for readability in regards to the rumored elimination of the division.
“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,” the missive learn.
The Athletic, a subscription sports activities firm, will probably be taking on “a bulk” of The Times’ sports activities protection, the corporate introduced. The Athletic introduced in June that they’d be shedding roughly 4% of the corporate’s 450-person newsroom.
Before being bought by The Times in January 2022, The Athletic noticed annual losses of $55 million in 2021. According to the Associated Press, they misplaced roughly $36 million final 12 months.
Subscribers of the NYTimes.com even have entry to tales finished by The Athletic, which operates outdoors of The Times’ newsroom, in response to the corporate.
Source: www.bostonherald.com