Yahoo Cuts A Comin'

[BuckeyeGA]

If you saw the L.A. Times story, you know that Yahoo(don't forget the exclamation point) is going to trim its workforce. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-yahoo22-2008oct22,0,2962772.story

A friend of mine within the company says it won't be taking a toll on the sports side of things, so another Bowden (Terry) will still have a job!

 

[luckyducky]

I'm glad to hear it won't hurt sports, but I also wonder if I need to add a Disney ticker to my homepage ... someday, ESPN might have to *gasp* stop hiring everyone who walks through the (theoretical) door.

 

[Joe Williams]

Always wondered how a company without any tradition of journalism would react to funding it in tough times, when even the bastions of the profession are throwing good reporters and editors overboard these days.

Push comes to shove, and Yahoo! seems to respect journalism about as much as Google does. Or GM.

 

[imjustagirl]

Or Gannett.

 

[FileNotFound]

Or Sam Zell. Or Dean Singleton. Or Lee Enterprises. Or McClatchy. Or ...

 

[BMuddMan]

Hearing cuts indeed coming in sports on the college and NASCAR side for sure. Anyone know more?

 

[apseloser]

The situation there sounds just awful.

The guys based out of Rivals HQ are bickering with the Yahoo HQ guys. Yahoo wants to run everything and the Rivals guys' hands are tied.

Shoot, bash their recruiting fanboyism all you want, but I'd argue that Rivals is 10 times the site Yahoo is. That's triply so after the hires they made on colleges.

Those numbers about Yahoo being the No 1 sports site are a crock; they get hits because people go there for fantasy sports and to read their mail. What separates Yahoo from any other site on the web ... besides less content?

Dave Morgan, real visionary.

 

[fishwrapper]

Yeah, ok. There is this little bit of information that seems pertinent here.
Yahoo owns Rivals.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

The situation there sounds just awful.

The guys based out of Rivals HQ are bickering with the Yahoo HQ guys. Yahoo wants to run everything and the Rivals guys' hands are tied.

Shoot, bash their recruiting fanboyism all you want, but I'd argue that Rivals is 10 times the site Yahoo is. That's triply so after the hires they made on colleges.

Those numbers about Yahoo being the No 1 sports site are a crock; they get hits because people go there for fantasy sports and to read their mail. What separates Yahoo from any other site on the web ... besides less content?

Dave Morgan, real visionary.

I'm sorry you didn't get the job at Yahoo!, dude.

 

[Angola!]

Yahoo! is the only site I go to -- other than here -- to get my sports news.

The writers at Yahoo! are consistently legit.

Rivals? I only go there when I go to the college football scoreboard on Yahoo!, which forces me to then go to a Rivals site.

 

[BYH]

too...many...........ellipses...for...me...........to...keep...track.............of

 

[EE94]

The situation there sounds just awful.

The guys based out of Rivals HQ are bickering with the Yahoo HQ guys. Yahoo wants to run everything and the Rivals guys' hands are tied.

Shoot, bash their recruiting fanboyism all you want, but I'd argue that Rivals is 10 times the site Yahoo is. That's triply so after the hires they made on colleges.

Those numbers about Yahoo being the No 1 sports site are a crock; they get hits because people go there for fantasy sports and to read their mail. What separates Yahoo from any other site on the web ... besides less content?

Dave Morgan, real visionary.

actually, they'll know exactly what visitors are looking at because, unlike newspapers, website analytics are exact
you click on football, it's counted
you click on fantasy, it's counted
there's no mystery

 

[SF_Express]

OK, I'm a rival (not Rivals.com), but think Yahoo does a lot of great work, very solid writers. And a LOT of people use Yahoo as one of their primary sports sites.

I think apseloser is in my top five of people I most consistently disagree with here.

 

[fishwrapper]

Am I No. 2 or 3?

 

[SF_Express]

Am I No. 2 or 3?

Wrapper, you're reasonably high on the other list, actually.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Ah, a top-five list I can actually make now.

 

[apseloser]

Disagree with me about the quality of the site all you want, but apseloser knows what he's talking about with the in-fighting that exists there. It is UGLY.

 

[dooley_womack1]

It's just apseloser being apseloser.

Anyhoo, Yahoo has had financial issues for months, so it's not surprising that some trimming could take place.

 

[Fran Curci]

Re: The shot above that apseloser take at Dave Morgan. "A real visionary," apseloser says sarcastically.

I think what APSEloser might have been referring to was a recent APSE article in which Morgan tells us what he would do over again if he returned to newspapers.

The implication that all of a sudden he's such an expert is a little irritating. The advice he gave wasn't too fresh.

 

[friend of a friend]

Yahoo! is the only site I go to -- other than here -- to get my sports news.

The writers at Yahoo! are consistently legit.

Rivals? I only go there when I go to the college football scoreboard on Yahoo!, which forces me to then go to a Rivals site.

Me too.