The New York Times to Disband Its Sports Department – The New York Times

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The New York Times to Disband Its Sports Department

Coverage of games, players and leagues will now primarily come from The Athletic, the sports website that the company bought last year.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/business/media/the-new-york-times-sports-department.html

“We plan to focus even more directly on distinctive, high-impact news and enterprise journalism about how sports intersect with money, power, culture, politics and society at large,” the editors wrote in an email to The Times’s newsroom on Monday morning. “At the same time, we will scale back the newsroom’s coverage of games, players, teams and leagues.”