Awful Announcing
"We raised this Series C with audio and video in mind. We can tell even more stories when we add in audio and video possibilities. Our goal is to serve the subscriber: some love to read, some love to listen, others prefer to watch."
This matches the $40 million The Players' Tribune brought in last January, and is way above what many other sports media companies made early on.
The five episode series will be about Hayward getting back from injury.
"I say all this because I suspect the onslaught will continue. ...If they go under, a lot of veteran sports writers will be out of jobs in a suddenly glutted market. I’d hate for someone on our team to be one of them."
Sam Amick and Zach Harper were also added to The Athletic's expanded NBA vertical.
Aldridge will stay with Turner Sports until the hire becomes official in October.
The quest for world domination shows no signs of slowing down.
A second paper is adopting a sports-only subscription model. What does it mean for newspapers?
The Athletic introduces its lineup of NFL experts for the upcoming season.
Haney is known for his work as a national college football reporter for ESPN, while Auman is known for covering the Buccaneers for The Tampa Bay Times.
The Athletic will be launching a national NBA vertical in the near future.
A way for local papers to compete with The Athletic?
Andy Bitter's former paper is suing him over the @AndyBitterVT Twitter account, which they claim is company property.
The Athletic's World Tour of Sports Media Domination continues.
