The New York Times will shut down its sports desk and shift coverage to The AthleticThe New York Times will shut down its sports desk and shift its daily coverage of athletes and teams to The Athletic, the newspaper announced Monday. The decision to dismantle The Times’ long-standing Sports desk comes as the paper aims to provide a “greater abundance of sports coverage than ever before,” New York Times Chairman A.G. Sulzberger and CEO Meredith Kopit Levien announced in a memo Monday. The closure will allow the paper to maximize both The Times’ and The Athletic’s respective newsrooms, they said. The New York Times acquired The Athletic last year in a bid to expand its sporting coverage. “This announcement is a profound betrayal of our colleagues and of Times values,” the Guild said in a statement.

Source: CNN July 10, 2023 19:34 UTC