The Athletic, the New York Times\u2019\u00a0dedicated sports newsroom, has hired six former Washington Post sports journalists weeks after the newspaper ended its sports section.<\/p>\n
The hires include Post columnist Barry Svrluga to cover the Washington Commanders; reporter Spencer Nusbaum\u00a0to continue covering the Washington Nationals; columnist Candace Buckner to launch a new column; reporter Ava Wallace to cover tennis and contribute to women\u2019s sports coverage; reporter Adam Kilgore to join its rapid-response investigative unit; and former Post sports editor Jason Murray as deputy editorial director. The six join the Athletic\u2019s team of more than 500 journalists.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith these moves, we intend to provide fans in Washington with unparalleled coverage of the teams and sports they love,\u201d\u00a0executive editor Steven Ginsberg said in a note to staff.<\/a><\/p>\n The hires were first reported<\/a> by Axios. Ginsberg told the outlet that, while the Post was no longer a \u201cgo-to place for sports for Washingtonians,\u201d \u201cwe want to make sure that people understand that the Athletic can be one.\u201d<\/p>\n Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray defended<\/a> shuttering the sports desk, noting the challenge competing in a changing sports media landscape.<\/p>\n The Athletic has served as a landing spot for sports reporters after legacy papers like the Post, Los Angeles Times and New York Times have scaled back<\/a>. It\u2019s latest hiring spree follows the upstart Baltimore Banner planning<\/a> to cover D.C.-based sports teams.<\/p>\n Ginsberg told TheWrap earlier this month that he felt the need \u201cto prove the value of sports journalism\u201d through the Athletic\u2019s work, especially after the Post ended its sports desk.<\/p>\n \u201cFans are into sports for lots of reasons, but one of the big ones is fun, and they want to get good information out of it, and so they\u2019ll gravitate to places that are fun and that give them good information,\u201d he said. \u201cAt the Athletic, we\u2019re trying to do both.\u201d<\/p>\n The post The Athletic Picks Up 6 Washington Post Sports Journalists<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Athletic, the New York Times\u2019\u00a0dedicated sports newsroom, has hired six former Washington Post sports journalists weeks after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2398],"tags":[5,77624,77626,4,415,63761,77627,77625,414,9379,71,33622,4222],"class_list":{"0":"post-594434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-candace-buckner","10":"tag-jason-murray","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-nationals","13":"tag-sports-journalists","14":"tag-sports-section","15":"tag-steven-ginsberg","16":"tag-washington","17":"tag-washington-commanders","18":"tag-washington-nationals","19":"tag-washington-post","20":"tag-washingtonnationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116138205891275875","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}