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FoxSports.com

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Moderator1, Feb 26, 2016.

  1. Moderator1

    Moderator1 Moderator Staff Member

    From the Pipeline:

    They wiped out nearly all the national website desk (9 of 14 editors let go) and the entire photo desk. New guys from For The Win focusing more on mobile and social than web.
     
  2. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Horrible.

    FS1 will be down to a skeleton crew in 5 years.
     
  3. BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo

    BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo Well-Known Member

    Site has always been garbage, run by garbage people.
     
  4. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    We had a long thread a month ago about what has become of CBS Sports.

    The downfall of CBS Sports

    This is what has become of it, as Fox is realizing: Attempting to be good is way too expensive with no return.
     
  5. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Fox was never that good. Not really. Some of the Fox region-specific sites were. They had some good folks. But Fox national? Meh.

    CBS Sports goes back a long ways, and it was long a quality place. Fox, not so much. Feldman's fine.
     
  6. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Looks like Bruce Feldman is still there, but yeah thought it weird that Bill Reiter who does radio and TV for Fox, now writes for CBS sports.
     
  7. wheels89

    wheels89 Active Member

    I thought For The Win was USA Today. Plus Fox showed the direction the Website was headed when they let go of all of the regional writers.
     
  8. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    For the Win is/was USA Today - part of the vertical platform they were building before the guy whose brainchild it was bailed after two years.
     
  9. Deskgrunt50

    Deskgrunt50 Well-Known Member

    There's really no place left to land in this biz, is there?
     
  10. BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo

    BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo Well-Known Member

    Scheduled post?
     
    Deskgrunt50 and franticscribe like this.
  11. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    Shrewd business decision.

    The Internet is not about websites anymore. It's about social media and apps, which both require far fewer content creators.
     
  12. Matt Stephens

    Matt Stephens Well-Known Member

    Not Fox, but also in the online world: I was told last night that 120 Sports laid off at least 20 last week. Bad time of year.
     
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