RIP SI

[Renauda]

I don’t think I’ve looked at an SI since high school when Harry Sinden coached the Bruins to their first Stanley Cup victory in 29 years in spring 1970. It was a big deal back then.

[Axtremus]

Have any of you actually paid for subscription or bought an issue of SI?
I don’t think I have. :man-shrugging:

[George K]

@Axtremus said in RIP SI:

Have any of you actually paid for subscription or bought an issue of SI?

I don't think I've ever even opened the magazine.

[Jolly]

Had a subscription years and years ago.

I do still check their fan-written site for Saints news.

[LuFins Dad]

@Jolly said in RIP SI:

Had a subscription years and years ago.

I do still check their fan-written AI written site for Saints news.

FIFY

[Copper]

I had an SI subscription for many years.

It might be 20 years now since I have read one. I saw the Jack Nicklaus Sportsman of the Year issue in a box in my closet last week. Those were the days.

[George K]

Regardless of politics, I think we can all agree that this was not the best decision by Sports Illustrated.

[Axtremus]

Ezra Klein talks about to e shrinking news and magazine business:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/21/opinion/pitchfork-gq-internet-media.html

Sports Illustrated just laid off most of its staff. BuzzFeed News is gone. HuffPost has shrunk. Jezebel was shut down (then partly resurrected). Vice is on life support. Popular Science is done. U.S. News & World Report shuttered its magazine and is basically a college ranking service now. Old Gawker is gone and so too is New Gawker. FiveThirtyEight sold to ABC News and then had its staff and ambitions slashed. Grid News was bought out by The Messenger, which is now reportedly “out of money.” Fusion failed. Vox Media — my former home, where I co-founded Vox.com, and a place I love — is doing much better than most, but has seen huge layoffs over the past few years.
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Nor is it just digital journalism suffering. More than 350 newspapers failed in the first few years of the pandemic. That was the same pace at which newspapers were failing before the pandemic: a rate of two closures or so per week. Alabama’s three largest newspapers have ceased printing. Southern California’s oldest paper went out of business. The McClatchy chain filed for bankruptcy. Storied newspapers like The Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun and The Dallas Morning News have been racked by layoffs, forced to become shadows of what they once were. What’s failing here isn’t a particular editorial strategy. It’s that the middle is collapsing in journalism.

[Jolly]

In the first place, journalism no longer exists.

[taiwan_girl]

@Jolly said in RIP SI:

In the first place, journalism no longer exists.

I agree. In a lot of cases now, it is just posting or writing the most outrageous stuff to get a higher number of "clicks"

[Jolly]

@taiwan_girl said in RIP SI:

@Jolly said in RIP SI:

In the first place, journalism no longer exists.

I agree. In a lot of cases now, it is just posting or writing the most outrageous stuff to get a higher number of "clicks"

Nothing new, just a different version of "if it bleeds it leads". The difference is in the size of the megaphone.