Layoffs at Yahoo Sports?

[nafselon]

In the last 20 minutes Kevin Iole and Marcus Vandenberg sent messages on Twitter acknowledging layoffs in Yahoo Sports after the sale to Verizon went through.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Just keep Jeff Passan please. Please.

 

[LanceyHoward]

I wonder how long Yahoo will maintain an editorial department in sports now that it is part of Verizon.

 

[YankeeFan]

Huffington HuffPost laid off something like 39 folks yesterday as well.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Huffington HuffPost laid off something like 39 folks yesterday as well.

That's the best ****ing news I've heard since Nov. 8.

 

[Fran Curci]

Sounds like Yahoo eliminated all of its sports people. Anyone else read that?

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

That's the best ****ing news I've heard since Nov. 8.

A poster here was one laid off. So **** you.

 

[QYFW]

From the Huffington Post?

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

As part of the merger.

 

[Alma]

Yahoo Sports does good work. Really, it does.

I have no idea how, over time, it could just give away all its content for free. I don't know how any of them do it for any length of time. Sooner or later, you gotta charge for it or lay off good people and turn the operation over to kids right out of college who want to work for pennies on the dollar for the prestige factor.

Dan Wetzel's content should not be free. Period. It's too good to be free. So is Jeff Passan. It boggles my mind that so much insight and excellence is just...given away. Once the seed money runs out, how do you justify it?

 

[Cosmo]

An esteemed longtime poster was among the layoffs, as was Kelly Dwyer, who is not Sandy.

 

[CD Boogie]

Yahoo Sports does good work. Really, it does.

I have no idea how, over time, it could just give away all its content for free. I don't know how any of them do it for any length of time. Sooner or later, you gotta charge for it or lay off good people and turn the operation over to kids right out of college who want to work for pennies on the dollar for the prestige factor.

Dan Wetzel's content should not be free. Period. It's too good to be free. So is Jeff Passan. It boggles my mind that so much insight and excellence is just...given away. Once the seed money runs out, how do you justify it?

They've been giving their stuff away for free for 20 years. It'd be like Google having a paid sports department and dumping their content in the news portals. Obviously Google hasn't made the missteps Yahoo has, but there's time.

 

[nafselon]

That's the best ****ing news I've heard since Nov. 8.

I thought we were above celebrating the loss of a job on this board.

 

[CD Boogie]

I thought we were above celebrating the loss of a job on this board.

You must be new here. It's one of the board's prevailing themes.

 

[typefitter]

Sounds like Yahoo eliminated all of its sports people. Anyone else read that?

I don't think that's true. Forde, Wetzel, Passan still have Yahoo in their Twitter bios.

 

[Moderator1]

I thought we were above celebrating the loss of a job on this board.

Most of us are, some of us sadly are not. That someone would think that way baffles me, that they'd be a big enough asshole to post something like that makes me shake my head.

 

[HanSenSE]

I don't think that's true. Forde, Wetzel, Passan still have Yahoo in their Twitter bios.

As is Kevin Iole.

 

[Doc Holliday]

I thought we were above celebrating the loss of a job on this board.

I've been in this business for nearly 30 years, and I don't give a **** about individuals who use their positions to try and dictate public opinion, write slanted stories or push an agenda. I sure as hell don't give a **** if they ever work in journalism again considering the bull**** those assholes have produced. I'm glad as **** to see them crash and burn. They have no business in journalism. People like them have ruined the credibility for the rest of us who do the job the way it's supposed to be done. Hope they never work another day in this business.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

I've been in this business for nearly 30 years, and I don't give a **** about individuals who use their positions to try and dictate public opinion, write slanted stories or push an agenda. I sure as hell don't give a **** if they ever work in journalism again considering the bull**** those assholes have produced. I'm glad as **** to see them crash and burn. They have no business in journalism. People like them have ruined the credibility for the rest of us who do the job the way it's supposed to be done. Hope they never work another day in this business.

Nothing personal, but go **** yourself.

Many of us have been in this business a long time. It's never right to celebrate someone losing a job. Even a competitor.

Never, ever ok. JFC.

 

[Moderator1]

What am I missing? What did Yahoo do that would make someone react like that? I never thought of Yahoo as anything close to a cesspool.