George Clooney set to produce documentary series with Sports Illustrated Studios on Ohio State athletics abuse scandal
The documentary series currently doesn't have an outlet, but that will certainly change.
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Sports Illustrated reportedly setting up paywall for “premium content” in February
The model would be a metered paywall with some content still available for free.
Sports Illustrated’s reporting on Houston Texans garners alleged legal threats from EVP Jack Easterby
The Houston Texans are a mess.
Two large Maven investors have called for a new board and a new direction, and say they have the votes to force change
Investors Bryant Riley and Kevin Rendino are calling for a new Maven board.
Grant Wahl will write three final long-form stories for Sports Illustrated
SI fired Wahl without severance in April. Now, he'll write three final long-form stories for the company.
Ben Reiter’s Astros podcast series, ‘The Edge,’ explores what led to sign-stealing scandal
How much will Reiter end up reporting on himself?
Meredith has dropped its suit against Sports Illustrated operator Maven over unpaid fees, saying the sides have reached an agreement
"We dismissed our suit as we have come to an agreement with them that we are satisfied with."
Sports Illustrated operator Maven eliminates publisher guarantees, terminates more publishers and two execs
Maven is making significant changes to its SI-branded team sites, including eliminating publishers' guaranteed pay and parting ways with more publishers.
Dan Patrick talks to SI on his “What am I doing here?” moment ahead of leaving ESPN in 2007
When Dan Patrick left ESPN in 2007, it was a bold move, and one that spurred a lot of discussion. This week, Patrick revealed some new and interesting details to Jimmy Traina of Sports Illustrated on how he felt approaching that move.
Maven replaces CEO Jim Heckman with Ross Levinsohn, who has quite the past
Levinsohn was previously the CEO of Sports Illustrated's media side under Maven. Before that, he was publisher and CEO of The Los Angeles Times, but eventually left there after staff protests about his past behavior.
A Maven exec told laid-off Sports Illustrated team channel publishers to take down tweets about being laid off
"Please take down the tweet that you put out. We are still paying you (will get paid at end of Sept for August work) and are asking you delete it. Thank-you. Mark."
Sports Illustrated and Maven have laid off several publishers of their team channel sites, citing COVID-19
Several publishers of SI/Maven team channel sites have been laid off in the past few days.
Former Sports Illustrated owner Meredith is suing SI operator Maven, claiming more than a million in unpaid fees
Meredith is seeking $1,087,065 in damages, plus interest and attorneys' fees.
