The Athletic keeps growing .......

I like it. It's like The Athletic suits are telling their writers they value them and are giving them some time to write their pieces. Everybody knows who won and who lost and rather than having them write some drivel for immediate page views, trash for immediate page views, the Athletic suits let their reporters attack postgame. Newspaper suits work their reporters way too hard, demanding twitter posts, halftime updates, instant game stories, then videos and other postgame stories and video analysis. That's simply too much work. Kudos to the Athletic suits for treating their writers as special human beings, not machines.

 

I agree that tweets and such aren't why people subscribe. They go to The Athletic for more (after learning about something through a tweet etc.).

 

Moddy can correct me if I'm wrong, but if one believes teh Twitterez, didn't The Athletic's T'wolves beat guy, a former AP reporter, break the story first?

 

Since the firing reportedly came about 30 minutes after a home game, with local media still on the premises and the media work room about 50 feet from the locker room, I sure as hell would hope somebody on the scene would break it.

 

Has The Athletic filled all the "universal desk" roles advertised a few months ago? (I know, I know, I'm hired... )

 

It seems to be very mysterious since I applied in September, didn't hear a peep and again before Christmas.

 

Noted, thanks for the update moddy.

 

So many job openings. So much money tied up in just those openings. It's interesting the Athletic can take on all that salary. Somebody out there is sold on the old model of subscription based writing. I repeat what I've asked before. Is The Athletic going to be a huge hit financially? Or not?