“There Hasn’t Been Empathy”: NYT Staff Frustration Over After Sports Desk Closure
New York Times employees pressed management for answers about the paper’s recent decision to #disband the #sports section.
The move left many angry about the company’s plan to #subcontract certain sports coverage through The Athletic, the #nonunion subscription-based sports website the Times acquired last year.
“There is sincere concern in the newsroom that if this is left to stand, they could do this to any section, and nothing they said at the meeting made us feel otherwise,” one Times staffer tells me.
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/07/new-york-times-sports