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.
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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.
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.
Maven executive tells SI/Maven channel staffers to get “community” conversations going, suggests they create burner accounts
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.
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...
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.
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.
Sports Illustrated Maven writer steps down after being outed for sexual harassment by fellow UNC reporter
HeelsMaven writer Brant Wilkerson-New sent North Carolina radio host Jasmyn Fritz inappropriate sexual messages on social media, and later announced he is stepping away from writing.
The Athletic reportedly made a last minute offer for Sports Illustrated
The offer came too late to be considered, and maybe wouldn't have been regardless.
Sports Illustrated layoffs reportedly coming as soon as today (UPDATE)
This could be a very bad day for staff at Sports Illustrated.
