The Athletic keeps growing .......

It’s not like a paywall is a novel thing anymore. Plenty of people tweet links to Times and Post stuff.

 

What's he supposed to do, not tweet out links to his own stories because they're paywalled? How are you going to get people to subscribe if you don't promote it?

 

Journalists: Newspapers were stupid by giving away everything for free online.
Also journalists: What? You mean it's behind a paywall? Pass.

 

You talking about regular reporters and copy editors? Why shouldn't they comment this way? It's the suits' fault this was all screwed up. And they continue to make so much money compared to the reporters and editors who can't get a cost of living raise and are forced to work 60-70 and get paid 40. Meanwhile the suits who made so many bad decisions regarded the newspaper web sites make so much money it'll make your head spin.

 

Frederick makes a very good point.

Management screwed everything up with how it chose to give content away when reporters were screaming not to give it away. Now that they've given it away so much, nobody is willing to pay for it creating this Quasimoto Catch-22 with paywalls. Neither makes sense now, yet here we are living in this world. Make the right decision when this all started, and you don't have this problem.

 

Let me make sure I follow you. It is appropriate that journalists should deride The Athletic's Danny Taylor, four-time Football Journalist of the Year award winner in the UK, for promoting his work, because newspaper executives in the United States are lazy and overpaid.

 

Of the few "Why I'm with The Athletic pieces" that I've read, that was among the most interesting and compelling.

 

The Athletic "2.0" - when they transition from former local beat writers to people from outside the area will be interesting to watch.

 

This is why I subscribe to The Athletic. I can think of maybe three other journalism orgs that would pay to send someone to Senegal.

The pride of Bambali. Watching Sadio score against City with...

 

Moron from the Athletic is lone writer not to vote for Pete Alonso for NL ROY. Quit overthinking things, ya hump. Home run allowed rate versus the league average? Yeah, whatever, buddy.

https://nypost.com/2019/11/11/writer-begs-for-mets-fans-forgiveness-after-pete-alonso-award-snub/