The New York Occasions, on Monday, introduced that it’s closing down its sports activities desk, which has greater than 35 journalists and editors, and can rely upon The Athletic for sports activities protection.
The Occasions purchased The Athletic, which covers greater than 200 skilled sports activities groups, in January 2022 for $550 million.
“We plan to focus much more straight on distinctive, high-impact information and enterprise journalism about how sports activities intersect with cash, energy, tradition, politics and society at giant,” govt editor of NYT Joe Kahn and deputy managing editor Monica Drake knowledgeable the newsroom in a mail.
“On the similar time, we are going to cut back the newsroom’s protection of video games, gamers, groups and leagues,” the mail additional learn, in accordance with a information report on The New York Occasions.
With this, for the primary time, tales from The Athletic will seem within the print part of The Occasions.
Nonetheless, not one of the sports activities journalists at The New York Occasions shall be laid off; they are going to be supplied different roles within the newsroom.
