The Athletic: Difference between revisions

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Local Expertise and League-Wide Perspective

The Athletic is the brainchild of Alex Mather and Adam Hansmann, former colleagues at the fitness tracking app Strava. In 2016, they founded The Athletic with the goal of building the best newsroom in sports, filling a void for fans hungry for deeper sports news and better coverage of their local teams. In 2022, The Athletic was acquired by The New York Times Company.

Note: The above descriptive information came from the site's About Us page. The organization started in Chicago and has a Philadelphia location.

In The News

New sports website The Athletic launches in Philadelphia – with some big media names, Philadelphia Business Journal, September 6, 2017.
The Athletic is bringing subscription-based local sports coverage to a city near you, Tech Crunch, July 8, 2016.

Info

App (Android): Download Our Free Android App (at Google Play)
App (iOS): Download Our Free iOS App (at App Store)

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-{{toplink|url=http://www.theathletic.com|name=theathletic.com}}<blockquote>''Fall in love with the sports page again.''</blockquote>
+{{toplink|url=http://theathletic.com/location/philly/|name=theathletic.com/location/philly}}<blockquote>''Local Expertise and League-Wide Perspective''</blockquote>
-High-quality local sports coverage isn’t dead. At least that’s the premise upon which '''The Athletic''' is building its business.
+'''The Athletic''' is the brainchild of Alex Mather and Adam Hansmann, former colleagues at the fitness tracking app Strava. In 2016, they founded The Athletic with the goal of building '''the best newsroom in sports, filling a void for fans hungry for deeper sports news and better coverage of their local teams'''. In 2022, The Athletic was acquired by The New York Times Company.
-The young startup, part of Y Combinator’s Summer 2016 class, is trying to reinvent local sports media – an industry that has been on the decline ever since newspapers realized that advertising revenue wouldn’t be enough to support a team of writers to cover local sports teams. So when regional newspapers began to cut costs the sports desk was often the first to go – especially since national brands like ESPN were already offering similar content.
+''Note:''&nbsp;&nbsp;The above descriptive information came from the site's [https://theathletic.com/about/ About Us] page. The organization started in Chicago and has a Philadelphia location.
-But The Athletic thinks that there is still demand for truly '''local content, written by sportswriters that live and breathe local teams'''. And, the startup thinks that if this content is good enough, readers will happily pay for it.
-<small>The above descriptive information came from [http://techcrunch.com/2016/07/08/the-athletic-is-bringing-subscription-based-local-sports-coverage-to-a-city-near-you Tech Crunch], except for the tagline, which came from this organization's [http://www.theathletic.com home page]. The organization started in Chicago and now has a Philadelphia location.</small>
 ==In The News==
 *[http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2017/09/06/new-sports-website-the-athletic-launches-in.html New sports website The Athletic launches in Philadelphia – with some big media names], Philadelphia Business Journal, September 6, 2017.
 *[http://techcrunch.com/2016/07/08/the-athletic-is-bringing-subscription-based-local-sports-coverage-to-a-city-near-you/ The Athletic is bringing subscription-based local sports coverage to a city near you], Tech Crunch, July 8, 2016.
+==Info==
+*App (Android):&nbsp;[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theathletic Download Our Free Android App] (at Google Play)
+*App (iOS):&nbsp;[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-athletic-sports-news/id1135216317 Download Our Free iOS App] (at App Store)
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