New York Daily News

He gone:

https://nypost.com/2018/08/16/the-daily-news-loses-its-most-well-known-writer/

 

$1 million a year?

 

How many jobs could have been saved? Truly Loopy.

 

They made a hire!


Kristie Ackert switches to the Yankees beat.

 

Wally Matthews started at the Daily News a few months ago. Perhaps a bit of a rebuild after the total bloodbath.

 

Wonder if they're going to travel their baseball writers again? And I can't think of any paper in two-team markets that has both teams covered by female writers.

 

I thought that Ackert covered both the Yankees and Mets last summer after the purge. So this gives the News a beat reporter on each team.

 

Hiring a beat writer is great; did they lay off a baseball beat writer last year?

 

Mike Mazzeo, Yankees beat writer, got axed.

 

Great plan by NYDN. Unless they didn't like Mazzeo's work.

 

I realize that you are being sarcastic when you refer to a "great plan." However, as a NYDN on-line subscriber (99 cents a month, why not?), my opinion is that the use of the word "plan" in any context to describe what happened to the NYDN last summer is giving Tribune executives far more credit than they deserve.

 

They cut back the sports department considerably at that time. Obviously they saw how tough/stupid that was going to be and recorrected