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.
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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.
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.
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.
Sports Illustrated operator Maven ran background checks on publishers in July, months after an e-mail on Patrick Starr
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 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-branded nutrition supplements, including a “brain formula,” have led to backlash for owner Authentic Brands Group
The SI brand is now on everything from "brain formula" to "nitric oxide."
