Sports Illustrated publisher Maven announces salary reductions as employees call for shutdown of Blue Lives Matter website
Seems like whenever we write about Maven Media Brands, it’s never great news. After the media company took...
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TheMaven claims it only has resources to operate through April 2021, also received $5.7 million CARES Act loan
Things continue to go well for TheMaven.
Joe Buck disputed a now-deleted Sports Illustrated tweet that misrepresented his remarks on Fox possibly using virtual fans
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.
Steve Wulf, writer of Sports Illustrated ‘Bag It, Michael” story, admits he was wrong on Michael Jordan playing baseball
"I still cringe every time I see it... I wish they had run the headline by me."
ABG, which owns Sports Illustrated, has asked TheMaven to reverse recent staffing cuts
Revoking the Sports Illustrated license is a possibility if ABG feels TheMaven has damaged the SI brand.
Maven fires Grant Wahl from Sports Illustrated with no severance, less than a week after his criticisms of the company
After criticizing Maven for trying to implement permanent salary cuts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Grant Wahl has now been fired.
Sports Illustrated’s Grant Wahl criticizes Maven and CEO James Heckman on social media
"There's a total lack of confidence in the leadership," says the Washington Post's Ben Strauss.
Charlotte Wilder joins Fox Sports as part of Fox’s digital rebuild
Wilder announced yesterday was her final day at Sports Illustrated.
Maven to lay off nine percent of staff, including six percent of Sports Illustrated editorial staff, projects $30 million revenue loss
Amidst projections for a $30 million drop in revenue this year, Maven has laid off nine percent of its staff, including six percent of the remaining editorial staff at SI.
Coming off a 71 win season, the Colorado Rockies are upset Sports Illustrated predicted them for 66 wins
A 91-loss team isn't happy about being predicted to lose 96 games.
Long-time SI writer and “Astroball” author Ben Reiter is doing a podcast on the Astros’ scandal, with a TV series based on it...
"The Astros of the 2010s were the most innovative organization in the history of sports. As it turned out, the ‘new way to win it all’ involved factors that no one could have imagined - myself included. Cadence13, Prologue Projects, and Left/Right are the ideal partners with whom to reveal the full story of the Astros’ exhilarating rise and shocking fall."
The Hockey News is teaming up with Maven and Sports Illustrated for “a co-branded digital experience” and team sites
This partnership will include a combined "digital experience" on SI.com, and a co-branded network of team sites.
Dan Patrick, Michael Wilbon, and Tom Verducci will be inducted into the National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame
In addition to the Hall of Fame class, Woj and Kevin Harlan were named 2019 sportswriter and sportscaster of the year, respectively.
TheMaven SEC filing cites $45 million in Q4 revenue, projects millions in savings from SI cuts, discusses new traffic from team sites
TheMaven announced that it beat its revenue projection for this year and that it expects "more than $27 million in operational savings at Sports Illustrated" in 2020 (compared to the magazine's 2018 numbers) from cuts, including further print issue reductions.
Sports Illustrated staffers are looking to form a wider newsroom union, citing concerns about decisions made by Maven management
Around 15 SI staffers (who mostly work for the print magazine) are already represented by the NewsGuild of New York. SI employees are now looking to form a wider union with that organization that would see around 80 newsroom employees represented.
