Seventy years after its birth, Sports Illustrated alums gathered to cherish memories and impact, and hope for its future
I was going to a funeral, so I thought. Maybe a wake, since the deceased was declared terminal, if not dead, months ago now. Back in January. So, I thought.
It was a majestic, though relatively muted debut that didn’t fully signal what the SI cover would become: among the most anticipated and coveted spaces in all of journalism —SI’s cover was anticipated by sports fans everywhere. Every week, dads and their sons—and in time, yes, their daughters, too—raced to the mailbox to see if their favorite athlete or team graced the paper facade.
The magazine hired me right out of college. I started at SI as a reporter, a fact-checker, and worked there during three separate stints before being laid off in 2003 as an Assistant Managing Editor. It was among the first of a tsunami of layoffs that still roil the media industry.bought SI for $110 million in 2019
We were all nonetheless journalistically kindred, threads woven into the fabric of something that meant more to each of us than could express. My heart lifted at seeing Peter Carry, Navy vet and Princeton magna cum laude grad who started at SI in 1964 and rose to long serve as one of its Executive Editors, perhaps its consummate shaper of stories. And global appreciator of wine.
If it doesn’t, we’ll be alright. It’s more vital that SI endures. That honors the room that gathered to celebrate its 70 years on the shores of Long Island Sounds.“Obviously, a lot of what we do is a lot of video audiences,” he said. “Between SI.com as a national site, our network of team and about 160 local sites, when you add all that up — it’s gonna sound like sound bite — but compared to the glory days, more people interact with Sports Illustrated than ever.
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