Saints’ reporter Mike Triplett goes from ESPN to Nick Underhill’s NewOrleans.Football
Underhill has been running NewOrleans.Football since 2020 after leaving his job at The Athletic. He's now brought in another prominent writer in Triplett.
Underhill has been running NewOrleans.Football since 2020 after leaving his job at The Athletic. He's now brought in another prominent writer in Triplett.
Previously, an annual subscription cost $59.99.
"We missed this. The thing where you open a window, write some words, and send it into the ether for people to read."
Yahoo's next foray into subscription products comes in fantasy sports.
"We're both vocal, we both care about off-the-field issues that shape college athletics, we both care about academic research. It seemed like we could do more together than apart."
"I want to work for you. This thing is called New Orleans Football. This site, these words, are in essence, yours."
The Athletic says they now have more than 500,000 subscribers, and they expect to almost double that by the end of the year.
Yahoo's Mets' subscription site is no more. It was initially set to launch in March, then in June, and now it's been cancelled completely.
Verizon Media Group CEO K. Guru Gowrappan told Axios' Sara Fischer that Yahoo Finance Premium, set for launch in 2019, "is one example of the membership opportunities ahead for us." So other subscription services, possibly including a sports product, could follow.
"Let’s be honest: This is the only kind of offer that really gets us to abandon the project."
Tim Williams' appeal at Pirates Prospects shows wider challenges for subscription sites, but also an important focus on how sites need to provide unique value.
“There’s no excuse, at the end of the day. We f—ed up. that’s on us, and that’s on me.”
"It won’t be, we’re not going to put shit behind a paywall, but it’ll be new stuff. (The Chernin Group) wants us to do it, so it’s very important to the company, blah blah blah."
"It just feels right. Everything feels like it's working and I can't wait to keep working."
Other sites cutting writers to pivot to video sparked The Athletic to raise more funds and bring in laid-off writers.