“This is a bittersweet note of thanks to our California independent contractors,” wrote John Ness, executive director of SB Nation, in a blog post. In 2020, the company will create a new team of SB Nation employees to cover California sports that have largely been covered by independent contractors since 2003. Given the pace of sports blogging, many of the writers producing work for SB Nation’s California blogs would easily hit that benchmark, the source said. Ness wrote in the memo that California contractors were encouraged to apply for full-time or part-time positions. Hann received an email notifying him of “changes” to his contract a minute after Ness’ blog post was published.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 17, 2019 11:02 UTC