In place of the Times sports section, the newspaper will rely on the Athletic for the majority of its sports coverage, both in print and online.
that it would disband the section, and it has spent the ensuing weeks relocating sports staffers to different sections around the newsroom. The move has outraged the NewsGuild, the union that represents the Times newsroom, which has accused Times leadership of union-busting. The guildwith the newspaper accusing management of replacing union work with non-union work.
The Athletic’s newsroom of around 400 reporters and editors is not unionized. The Times has said it is contracting with the Athletic, which the company says is not part of the Times newsroom, the same way it does with a wire service like the Associated Press.In continued protest of management’s decision, Times sports staffers are planning a march through the office and a rally outside the Times headquarters Monday afternoon, with speeches and a brass band.
Despite the dissolution of the sports desk, the Times company will continue to cover sports. The Timeslast year and acquired the site’s approximately 1 million subscribers. Its efforts to integrate the Athletic into the newsroom have been rocky, with Times staffers bristling at the shuttering of the sports desk and asking questions of management about the Athletic’s editorial standards and business model.
Several former Times sports staffers have already found new homes at the Athletic. Longtime baseball writer Tyler Kepner; veteran sportswriter and editor Matthew Futterman will lead the site’s tennis coverage; and Oskar GarciaA number of other sportswriters have been moved to other desks in the newsroom, where their roles will continue to include some sports coverage.
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