Pittsburgh Sports Media Thread

Postby **faftorial** » Mon Jun 12, 2023 4:57 pm

The athletic, another one of those things that worked when interest rates were 0

NYT left holding the bag now.

Postby **faftorial** » Mon Jun 12, 2023 4:59 pm

The Athletic, the subscription sports website owned by the New York Times, announced Monday that it was laying off nearly 20 reporters, or about 4 percent of its journalistic staff. The news was delivered in an email to staffers from The Athletic’s publisher David Perpich and executive editor Steven Ginsberg.

The note described an evolving approach to coverage. The NFL and English Premier League dominate reader interest, it said, and staffing for those leagues remains mostly unchanged. Because NHL and Major League Baseball audiences are more local, those leagues will have some beats eliminated.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2 ... ork-times/

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Mon Jun 12, 2023 5:58 pm

We get the NY Times via site license for my university (actually both schools I've worked for had it, and I still have access to both accounts), but The Athletic isn't included. In fact, reading that WaPo's articles comments, many NY Times subscribers don't have The Athletic bundled and won't add on to it. For our university, it was like $1000+ to add The Athletic for our users. My previous school has the NY Times Cooking app built in to that subscription, but my new employer doesn't. It appears the NY Times is intent on nickling and diming subscribers. I'm sure that will work out well for them.

Postby **FlightlessBird** » Mon Jun 12, 2023 7:37 pm

Oh, DK was definitely relishing in the news. And apparently lots of people were “subtweeting” him, including Kaboly and his ex-employee Sara Civian. And now he’s acting even more holier than thou (if that’s possible) because he’s offering some of those laid off people jobs! What a great guy, that DK!

Also, he claimed his top line revenue was $1.15 million (and profitable) in 2022.

Postby **willeyeam** » Mon Jun 12, 2023 9:50 pm

Looks like The Athletic is purging staff this week, including Rob Biertempfel. Very strange that he only covered home games, like the rest of the Athletic beat reporters.

Hate to see that happen to such a nice guy

Postby **Ad@m** » Mon Jun 12, 2023 11:19 pm

Oh, DK was definitely relishing in the news. And apparently lots of people were “subtweeting” him, including Kaboly and his ex-employee Sara Civian. And now he’s acting even more holier than thou (if that’s possible) because he’s offering some of those laid off people jobs! What a great guy, that DK!

Also, he claimed his top line revenue was $1.15 million (and profitable) in 2022.

I also noticed that

Postby **Morkle** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 9:51 am

DK's holier than thou approach to EVERYTHING is 1000% annoying. He isn't wrong about any of this Athletic stuff, but the way he goes about it is just so self-serving.

Postby **NAN** » Tue Jun 13, 2023 10:20 am

DK's holier than thou approach to EVERYTHING is 1000% annoying. He isn't wrong about any of this Athletic stuff, but the way he goes about it is just so self-serving.

Yep, and it's like that with everything.

Postby **iamjs** » Wed Jun 14, 2023 7:52 pm

I was getting ready to cancel my sub with The Athletic. Went to my settings and it cancel and was countered with an offer for $2/mo.

Ok, I guess I'll stick around, but only this time.

Postby **RonnieFranchise** » Fri Jun 16, 2023 7:17 pm

They can keep the deals coming and I'll keep it, but there's no way I'm ever paying $79 a year or whatever full price is for it.

Postby **NAN** » Fri Jun 16, 2023 7:32 pm

I was getting ready to cancel my sub with The Athletic. Went to my settings and it cancel and was countered with an offer for $2/mo.

Ok, I guess I'll stick around, but only this time.

Thanks for the tip. I'm going to try.

Postby **Nuge** » Fri Jun 16, 2023 9:09 pm

Caught the best of Stan savran on att tonight. Lots of great memories

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Tue Jun 27, 2023 1:37 pm

Of course it was a Pittsburgh person (Seth Rorabaugh) that voted McDavid 5th for Hart, the only non-1st place vote he got...

Postby **MR25** » Tue Jun 27, 2023 1:42 pm

I'm annoyed that he did that, but I do recall him having similar votes in the past based on how he defines value.

He's usually pretty level-headed, so it's hard to wrap my head around why he did that.

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Tue Jun 27, 2023 1:50 pm

If he said 2nd because you can't have two MVP candidates on the same team (McDavid/Drai) and put, like, Pasta up there. But McDavid at 5 is tough...

Postby **meow** » Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:26 pm

This undoes any level headedness he banked and firmly plants him into the “asshat” category for all eternity

Postby **Joegap** » Wed Jun 28, 2023 4:10 pm

This reply to one of his tweets made me lol

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Wed Jun 28, 2023 4:14 pm

Seth getting dragged by everyone, everywhere, all the time. Sad.

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Fri Jun 30, 2023 2:40 pm

Looks like the Red Wedding over at ESPN today. Suzy Kolber (27 years), Jalen Rose, Jeff Van Gundy among others have been laid off.

Postby **dodint** » Fri Jun 30, 2023 3:07 pm

Oh, no, how will I ever get by without Keyshawn Johnson's perspective...

Postby **Beveridge** » Fri Jun 30, 2023 3:43 pm

Todd McShay and Steve Young out but they keep Mel Kiper and probably Booger McFarland. Makes sense.

Postby **Morkle** » Fri Jun 30, 2023 3:50 pm

What does Mel Kiper have on ESPN that they can't let that guy go?

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Fri Jun 30, 2023 4:14 pm

Add Matt Hasselbeck to the list.

Postby **RonnieFranchise** » Fri Jun 30, 2023 4:39 pm

Congrats Plum Pat McAfee you, Kiper, Mena Kimes, Hexy’s Kid and Dickie V are the whole show at the Worldwide Leader now.

Postby **Joegap** » Tue Jul 11, 2023 10:07 am