Thanks. It just seemed odd (at least from afar) to jettison a beat writer during the season.
Thanks. I was trying to see what @Woody Long meant by this: "No editor needs these headaches, which is probably why Marisa Ingemi is a freelancer...
Apologies for the threadjack, but what turned out to be the deal with Marisa Ingemi?
I covered the Sun Bowl one time, and they did have plenty of food and drink on hand -- not only on game day, but during the week preceding the...
This. Some here might remember the outrageous fawning Jim Gray did over Kobe after the rape allegations surfaced. "I know Kobe! That's not Kobe!"...
To the extent that the sustainability (survivability) of Gannett and McClatchy papers depend on getting people to pay for local news, why would...
Reporting on the trend? They're part of it.
Megan Greenwell, in her farewell to Deadspin, put it best: "A metastasizing swath of media is controlled by private-equity vultures and...
It'd be one thing to say, "They didn't cover the playoff game." But: "They didn't cover a conference call."
You're right, it only takes one. Hope they get one. Wishing the best for so many good people there. But, in the business deals I've covered, the...
$750 million is an asking price, of course. How much less could The Athletic take so as to repay the venture capitalists wanting their return...
Marc Stein Leaving New York Times, Moving to Substack
Yes. Many writers on expiring contracts have been offered new deals with pay cuts.
Unless The Athletic is unionized, management can do whatever it wants (assuming no illegal discrimination). Newspapers have spent the past few...
Why is a job at your weekly good for you but not good for her? (And why is this your business, if she hasn't asked you first?)
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