Sports Illustrated lays off most of its staff

[Monday Morning Sportswriter]

I don't think about SI and sports journalism anymore because I have clicked on way too much aggregated SEO randomness over the last few years. A tragedy for the few writers there who do still practice reporting and offer original commentary.

 

[playthrough]

Good luck to you.

Will there be a February issue – it had to be close to closing by now – and will the printer want money in advance? Who's in charge, Authentic or a new licensee? Or Arena under new terms? It does seem the vultures have reason to circle when the licensee can't pay the license fee.

The Feb issue should be closed, maybe even March too (I work on the web side and don't know much about print, just that it has crazy lead times).

I also don't know a ton about the business side but an option to renegotiate kicked in with the missed payment and that could go any number of ways.

 

[WriteThinking]

This is the saddest I've felt about sports journalism in a while.

 

[HanSenSE]

 

[Readallover]

Fisst they came for Sports Illustrated.

If a magazine that was as successful on so many levels as SI is going belly up you in a good economy you ahve to wonder how many other periodicals are going to soon walk the plank. Time? Fortune? The Conde Nast publications?

It will be interesting to see if the Newhouse clan can weather the tsunami that is sweeping away the storied publications.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

From The Sporting News layoffs thread earlier this week:

Props to everyone still trying to make it work, but I don't know how they're still in business. As awful as Sports Illustrated has become under the Maven morons, at least they're still publishing a magazine and you can see a sliver of well-that-makes-sense-for-2024 idiotic logic to their web presence.

Welp. So much for that. fork these forking forkers forever.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

The first times I remember reading SI as a kid was waiting in my orthodontists' office with the other kids with crooked teeth. My parents got me a subscription on and off through my teen years, and I subscribed through my 20s and early 30s.

I've barely thought of them and haven't been on their website, except once in their Vault recently, for months.

Wishing all the layoff folks the best. It's sad to see a sports institution die.

 

[micropolitan guy]

My name appeared in SI once. I have that issue. My name also appeared in transactions once. I have that newspaper someplace.

I don't plan on being around to see my name appear on the obits page as the subject of the story.

 

[I Should Coco]

My name appeared in SI once. I have that issue. My name also appeared in transactions once. I have that newspaper someplace.

I don't plan on being around to see my name appear on the obits page as the subject of the story.

Just hang in there for a few more years and there won't be any newspapers left to print your obituary.

And @playthrough, best of luck amid the chaos and changes at SI.

 

[Readallover]

https://nypost.com/2024/01/19/sports/remembering-sports-illustrateds-most-iconic-covers/

 

[Michael_ Gee]

That was good, Readallover, but SI covers used to be the ultimate in sports photography, week after week after week, year after year after year. My parents got me an SI subscription when I was four. I learned to read from that magazine. My feelings are infinite sadness mixed with homicidal rage. It's a good thing nobody in private equity or US finance in general is near me tonight.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]