This article popped up in my feed. There has been lots of turmoil related to a takeover of Sports Illustrated, big layoffs recently. According to the author, TheMaven is an outfit with a content mill model that they are trying to impose on SI, home of a lot of good sports journalism over the years.
The author mentions a lot issues with current sports 'reporting' online- the content 'aggregation', content farms, low pay for contributors. I've seen @GabeD and others here and elsewhere lash the content aggregators, talk about the economics of online sports reporting environment. Also talk about newer sites like The Athletic that do a lot of that good sports journalism that SI used to be known for. As well about trying to maintain the practice of real journalism on the site, instead of descending into cheerleading like the Illinois Rivals site.
Just wondering what you guys thought if you take a read. I don't want to take a shot at Rivals, I wouldn't pay for access if I didn't think it had value. But the author takes big shots at the local team website model of SB Nation and FanSided, and lumps in the Rival model with that. I see far more real reporting here than in those sites IMO, but their is some similarity with the team model.
https://deadspin.com/inside-themavens-plan-to-turn-sports-illustrated-into-a-1838756286
The author mentions a lot issues with current sports 'reporting' online- the content 'aggregation', content farms, low pay for contributors. I've seen @GabeD and others here and elsewhere lash the content aggregators, talk about the economics of online sports reporting environment. Also talk about newer sites like The Athletic that do a lot of that good sports journalism that SI used to be known for. As well about trying to maintain the practice of real journalism on the site, instead of descending into cheerleading like the Illinois Rivals site.
Just wondering what you guys thought if you take a read. I don't want to take a shot at Rivals, I wouldn't pay for access if I didn't think it had value. But the author takes big shots at the local team website model of SB Nation and FanSided, and lumps in the Rival model with that. I see far more real reporting here than in those sites IMO, but their is some similarity with the team model.
https://deadspin.com/inside-themavens-plan-to-turn-sports-illustrated-into-a-1838756286
