Awful Announcing
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.
"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."
Several publishers of SI/Maven team channel sites have been laid off in the past few days.
Meredith is seeking $1,087,065 in damages, plus interest and attorneys' fees.
Awful Announcing obtained an April 29 e-mail from The Maven SVP Glenn Nelson linking Texans' writer Patrick Starr to Patrick Colon, a former high school coach and teacher who pled guilty to two counts of improper relations between an educator and a student in 2008. Starr continued to write for SI/The Maven through at least June.
Maven general manager (sports) Scott Kennedy has asked SI/Maven team channel writers to get more content in their "community" sections, and suggested they could use fake accounts to do so.
The SI brand is now on everything from "brain formula" to "nitric oxide."
Seems like whenever we write about Maven Media Brands, it’s never great news. After the media company took...
Things continue to go well for TheMaven.
In a series of tweets Thursday, Buck pushed back on SI's claim that he said Fox "will add" virtual fans as well as crowd noise.
"I still cringe every time I see it... I wish they had run the headline by me."
Revoking the Sports Illustrated license is a possibility if ABG feels TheMaven has damaged the SI brand.
After criticizing Maven for trying to implement permanent salary cuts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Grant Wahl has now been fired.
"There's a total lack of confidence in the leadership," says the Washington Post's Ben Strauss.
Wilder announced yesterday was her final day at Sports Illustrated.
