Vox lays off seven percent of staff, closes many SB Nation sites
There seem to be particular impacts on hockey and soccer coverage, but some people outside of that have been hit too.
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The media landscape has shifted even more in ten years since Deadspin’s Manti Te’o bombshell
Last week Kyle Kensing wrote a retrospective on the ten year anniversary of one of sports broadcasting’s first...
Cleveland.com responds to Jadeveon Clowney alleging he was ‘completely misrepresented’
"The context really could not have been any fuller.”
Grant Wahl’s wife reveals his cause of death to ‘put to rest’ conspiracy theories
"His death was unrelated to COVID. His death was unrelated to vaccination status. There was nothing nefarious about his death."
theScore’s Aubrey Levy talks why they hired NFL insider Jordan Schultz: ‘It kind of fit like a glove.’
"It's a bit of a unique beast to find someone who has got that ability, who's got the credibility to do the work and get the story, but at the same time, can jump into a Twitter Spaces or an IG Live or jump into an on-camera interview for broadcast and be able to crush it across all of those."
Defector’s Ray Ratto on the media, Bay Area sports, and that time Barry Bonds pretended to be his buddy
'You have to be a little more nimble to keep up' with sports media
Barstool Sports’ Dave Portnoy’s lawsuit against Insider has been dismissed
"Plaintiff had no reasonable expectation of privacy in the text and social media messages published by Insider."
The 33rd Team adds execs Tony Petitti and John Entz, partners with NFL Films, Liberty Media, and The Baupost Group
Entz and Petitti both have decades of high-level media experience.
‘We Got Ice’ hosts Lorenzo DeMalia and Jack Doyle talk creating MLB content and joining Jomboy
"I don't think baseball has a product issue, I think it has a packaging issue. They need creators to help package the game, and that's what we do, make the game more consumable for people."
NJ.com reports ESPN pressured MLB to not end game over Aaron Judge, Buster Olney pushes back
"ESPN pressured MLB officials to wait out an already long and particularly nasty rain delay between the Yankees and Red Sox at Yankee Stadium because the network was desperate to air Judge getting at least one more at-bat in his chase of 61 home runs, a person with knowledge of the situation told NJ Advance Media."
Durland and Darvin Miller have now sold Twins.com, one of the last team site holdouts, to MLB
MLB finally has Twins.com, leaving them just Giants.com (owned by the football team), Rays.com (owned by a Seattle seafood restaurant), and Guardians.com (up for sale).
Saints’ reporter Mike Triplett goes from ESPN to Nick Underhill’s NewOrleans.Football
Underhill has been running NewOrleans.Football since 2020 after leaving his job at The Athletic. He's now brought in another prominent writer in Triplett.
Former Bucs’ DE and NFL writer Stephen White passes away at 48, tributes pour in
White had been battling chronic lymphocytic leukemia for years.
