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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 now, too"

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 game. One night, a bunch of us wanted to go out to dinner, and all of a sudden the volunteers turned borderline inhospitable: Look, we have all this food...

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!" Dude, you know him in a Lakers jersey. The idea that he might treat someone without a national television presence differently had not occurred to...

To the extent that the sustainability (survivability) of Gannett and McClatchy papers depend on getting people to pay for local news, why would either of those companies invest in an outlet that would provide local readers with primarily non-local sports? Alden doesn't invest in anything like this.

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 capricious billionaires and other people who genuinely believe that they are rich because they are smart and that they are smart because they are rich, 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 folks who talk the most do the least. If you're really as valuable as you say, you're having discussions with multiple suitors out of public view...

$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 since there is no profit? And how much would the continued lack of profitability put a damper on another round of funding, especially given the failed...

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 decades getting rid of certain employees and then hiring younger and cheaper.

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?)

For the office wall, the boss would much prefer a framed copy of a print story to a framed copy of a printout.

UNIONIZE YOUR NEWSROOMS! Management loves to say how unions can't guarantee you a raise. Maybe not. But, if this is as the OP states, with no other disciplinary history, a good union contract would have averted this outcome.

Every bloated "oral history." Write a story instead of stringing together a lot of quotes and bragging about your 3,000-word piece.

This is hilariously false. The mayor decides what is most important or interesting. So does the superintendent of schools. So does the CEO of the hospital. Your job is to present that "information" in the most positive light. No wonder: this guy's bio makes no mention of him working as an...