“We will wait every local paper out and let them continuously bleed until we are the last ones standing,” Alex Mather, a co-founder of The Athletic, said in an interview in San Francisco. “We will suck them dry of their best talent at every moment. We will make business extremely difficult for them.”
Last week, sports columnist Bob Kravitz went viral after going scorched earth on his former employer, The Athletic. Now he shares more on why he wrote it.
Bob Kravitz: At The Athletic, that started to slip away. I had some lousy editors (and some great ones, too). I was constantly questioning myself: Is this the right story idea? Did I write it well …
Times staffers in the guild demonstrated outside HQ on a rainy Monday, railing against the paper ditching its sports desk in favor of non-unionized writers at The Athletic.