The New York Times Kills its Sports Desk
Sports will no longer be part of The New York Times.
The newspaper is eliminating its sports desk and folding such coverage into The Athletic, the subscription-based sports outlet the Times purchased last year. The paper’s sports writers and editors will be moved to different roles in the newsroom and no layoffs are planned, executive editor Joe Kahn and deputy managing editor Monica Drake announced in a memo to Times staff.
“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 two wrote, according to The New York Times. “At the same time, we will scale back the newsroom’s coverage of games, players, teams and leagues.”