Layoffs at Yahoo Sports?

In the last 20 minutes Kevin Iole and Marcus Vandenberg sent messages on Twitter acknowledging layoffs in Yahoo Sports after the sale to Verizon went through.

 

Just keep Jeff Passan please. Please.

 

I wonder how long Yahoo will maintain an editorial department in sports now that it is part of Verizon.

 

Huffington HuffPost laid off something like 39 folks yesterday as well.

 

That's the best fucking news I've heard since Nov. 8.

 

Sounds like Yahoo eliminated all of its sports people. Anyone else read that?

 

A poster here was one laid off. So fuck you.

 

From the Huffington Post?

 

As part of the merger.

 

Yahoo Sports does good work. Really, it does.

I have no idea how, over time, it could just give away all its content for free. I don't know how any of them do it for any length of time. Sooner or later, you gotta charge for it or lay off good people and turn the operation over to kids right out of college who want to work for pennies on the dollar for the prestige factor.

Dan Wetzel's content should not be free. Period. It's too good to be free. So is Jeff Passan. It boggles my mind that so much insight and excellence is just...given away. Once the seed money runs out, how do you justify it?

 

An esteemed longtime poster was among the layoffs, as was Kelly Dwyer, who is not Sandy.

 

They've been giving their stuff away for free for 20 years. It'd be like Google having a paid sports department and dumping their content in the news portals. Obviously Google hasn't made the missteps Yahoo has, but there's time.