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The Athletic keeps growing .......

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Fran Curci, Feb 3, 2018.

  1. justgladtobehere

    justgladtobehere Well-Known Member

    BSJ is just under 10,000 subscribers 14 months in. I cannot find the source but I believe this figure is below the hoped for projections.
     
  2. Ice9

    Ice9 Active Member

    Scroll all the way to the bottom of the front page, right hand corner as of this very moment says "8,950 members, 101 lifetime"
     
  3. Reddy235

    Reddy235 Member

    But they grow a little more every day. I guarantee you not many Athletic cities have more than 10k subscribers
     
  4. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Has anybody on this board ever hated anything as much as Reddy hates The Athletic?
     
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  5. Jake_Taylor

    Jake_Taylor Well-Known Member

    I bet most of the ones that have been up and running more than a year have at least 10K.
     
  6. ChrisLong

    ChrisLong Well-Known Member

    Spinach
     
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  7. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    Old Tony and Making a Murderer?
     
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  8. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Nah, I don't think so.

    Maybe Ragu and The Fed. But I'm going with Reddy and The Athletic.
     
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  9. Reddy235

    Reddy235 Member

    I don’t hate them at all. Just have extreme doubts about their business model. And I debate about it. Which, you know, I thought was what happened on message boards
     
  10. justgladtobehere

    justgladtobehere Well-Known Member

    I transpo'ed the '8' and '9' in my head.
    Chicago has 30k according to that Slate article. And BSJ in a larger market is behind DK's growth rate. (Although the situation with the local papers makes a pure market size comparison incomplete.)
     
  11. Moderator1

    Moderator1 Moderator Staff Member

    I try to stay off threads that involve where I work but I have to weigh in here.
    Reddy, you hate us. Hey, that's your right. But let's not try to paint your passion as anything but hate. Everyone has access to your posting history. You joined us in April (about a week before I started at The Athletic). About 95 percent of your posts are on this thread. You rip not only the business model but the quality of our work. If you've said one good thing about The Athletic, I missed it.
    Again, everyone is entitled to an opinion and you have as much right to hate us as others do to love us.
    Just be honest about it, eh?

    Carry on.
     
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  12. Severian

    Severian Well-Known Member

    What small markets? Kansa City? Cleveland? Houston?
     
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