07-29-2023, 02:15 PM
(07-29-2023, 01:12 PM)Nicomo Cosca Wrote: The Athletic has majorly gone down hill in the last couple years. They’ve laid off a ton of good people, and it’s definitely not as good as it once was. I recently cancelled my auto renewal.
The New York Times majorly overpaid for the Athletic. And now their trying to cut their losses by dropping their own sports section and trying to get those who pick up the paper at the newsstand to get their sports through paid subscriptions to The Athletic.
What's interesting is that one of the co-founders of the Athletic stated as his goal to wreck local newspapers' sports coverage: "We will wait out every local paper out and let them continuously bleed until we are the last ones standing... We will suck them dry of their best talent at every moment."
The NYT covered it back then (2017) by saying "By the time you finish reading this article, the upstart sports news outlet called The Athletic probably will have hired another well-known sportswriter from your local newspaper. In a couple of years, once the Athletic has completed its breakneck expansion, perhaps that newspaper's sports section will no longer exist."
Interesting that the one they did end was the NYT Sports Department.
