The New York Times sports department sent a pointed letter to the newspaper’s leadership Sunday asking for answers about the future of the section amid concern it could be shut down in an ongoing effort to further integrate the Athletic into the Times.
, and has since sought to integrate it into its bundle of offerings that includes recipes and games. The Athletic employs some 400 staffers in North America and Europe, where it offers blanket coverage of the English Premier League. The Times, as of last year, had between 40 and 50 writers and editors in sports, according to two people with knowledge of the department, though some have since left the section and not been replaced.
Since the acquisition of the Athletic, there has been notable overlap in sports coverage between the two entities, which prompted Kahn to tell sports staffers earlier this year that the Times had more reporters covering sports than any other topic and that there needed to be more integration.One complicating factor in any effort to do so concerns the state of labor agreements at the two publications.
The letter also highlights the sports department’s meaningful scoops and leading coverage on issues such as concussions in football, doping in horse racing, Russia’s detention of Brittney Griner and the injection of billions of dollars from the Middle East into global sports. Among the signers of the letter were prominent baseball and NFL writers Tyler Kepner and Ken Belson; Jenny Vrentas, an investigative reporter who has written extensively about NFL quarterback Deshaun Watson; and Juliet Macur, who last year chronicled the harrowing journey of a female soccer player out of Afghanistan.as part of a shift from employing beat writers for most major pro sports teams in the country to a more nationally focused outlet.
Several current and former Athletic staffers have wondered in recent days if there may be more cuts coming at some point, given that the outlet may need fewer reporters to carry out its mission of less expansive coverage.
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