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While it is “not as drastic" as the N.Y Times' decision to disband its sports department and rely on The Athletic for sports coverage, the L.A. Times also is “making major changes to their sports coverage,” according to Andrew Bucholtz of AWFUL ANNOUNCING. The publication's printed sports section is “doing away with several elements that had long been standbys: game stories, box scores, and standings." The move comes “after changes to their print deadlines from the sale of their printing press,” but also with them "billing their print sports section as taking on 'the look and feel of a daily sports magazine.'" The L.A. Times is “far from the only paper to make these kinds of changes to sports coverage in its print editions,” but the “degree to which the Times is shifting their approach here is notable, and unusual.” It will be "worth watching to see how the paper allocates resources after this, and how their new print and online approaches are received” (AWFUL ANNOUNCING, 7/10).
KILLING THE HAND THAT FEEDS: In Boston, Chad Finn wrote The Athletic has “assured that one newspaper’s sports department will no longer exist." The sports section The Athletic "killed was the one that gave space to its founders’ early boasting,” in a newspaper that “eventually made those founders filthy rich,” after its purchase in 2022 for $550M. Times management said that it will "not lay off sports staffers” but “reassign them within the newsroom.” Finn: "That’s supposed to be a reassuring sentiment for the 40 or so sports staffers whose worlds were turned upside-down Monday, but would you believe it?" Sports was "never a top priority at the Times,” but it “always has had a section befitting sports’ place in American society and the Times’s quest to be the newspaper of record.” Prior to yesterday's announcement, the Times "already had eliminated beat coverage,” but it was a “strength, at least in terms of clever, informative feature stories, for The Athletic.” But The Athletic “hasn’t been without recent drama, either.” In June, it "laid off 20 staffers while reducing its beat coverage and focusing more on the national picture.” In retrospect, this “should have been seen as one more bit of grim foreshadowing for what was to come” with the Times (BOSTON GLOBE, 7/10).
CULTURE CLASH: The WALL STREET JOURNAL's Alexandra Bruell wrote the Times decision comes as it “goes all in on its strategy to sell subscriptions to a multi-product offering, including news, games and sports, and justify its Athletic purchase." The Athletic is “currently losing money and set a goal to turn a profit by 2025.” Last year’s acquisition of the outlet “created tensions within the Times from the start,” and “fueled concerns among staffers that it may lead to the sports section eventually being shut down.” The tensions within the Times about The Athletic were also “sometimes cultural,” as the two newsrooms “keep a different set of standards and editorial processes.” Members of the NYT Guild, the union which represents Times employees, yesterday said that they “were infuriated by the decision to dissolve the Times sports desk.” The Guild in a statement said, “Times leadership is attempting to outsource union jobs on our sports desk to a nonunion Times subsidiary under the preposterous argument that The Times can ‘subcontract’ its sports coverage to itself” (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 7/10).
STILL MATTERED: In Toronto, Bruce Arthur wrote it is "fair to say the Times’ section had been left to languish a bit, at a titanic newspaper that doubtless considers sports an expensive sideline to stuff like politics, global news and its burgeoning crosswords-and-games concern." The Times "glided away from New York-centred sports coverage," which left it "sometimes caught between the clever whimsy of the Wall Street Journal’s sports section and the more traditional coverage of the Washington Post sports section and a more news-centred approach." But it "did truly great work," and "that mattered." The list of "recent media carnage is long enough that any attempt will not be exhaustive, but will be exhausting" (TORONTO STAR, 7/10).
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