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Yes, the Swimsuit franchise will continue to be available for free at SI. But the franchise is managed separately, according to Hunt. Despite layoffs and turmoil under Maven management , SI boasts a heritage that few sports brands can match. The magazine still has 1. What people think of Sports Illustrated. The feelings that they have for the brand.

Our objective is to take in the direction that has resonated with people that long. SI is not planning further layoffs, according to Hunt. But Hunt expects most of his editorial team to eventually return to their New York newsroom. Daily Cover stories will be included in digital subscriptions. When people think of premium storytelling and elite journalism, Sports Illustrated should be top of the list.

Paywalls are nothing new in the media business. Consumers have always paid for news and entertainment one way or another. The key is to offer something of real value in an overcrowded media market, said Jed Willams, Chief Revenue Officer of Lookout Local, a network of membership and reader-driven local news sites. Does the content value proposition break through? Is it scarce and uniquely valuable? Of course other sports media brands suffered financial fallout from the COVID-induced shutdown last year.

ESPN, long regarded as the safest career choice, laid off employees in November and declined to fill another open positions. The Athletic and Fox Sports also suffered through layoffs and job cuts in But in a changing media environment, legacy brands like SI have to adapt too, said Hunt. We understand that. Newspapers around the country have cut their issues in half, trimmed down the size of pages, laid off staff or even gone out of business if they couldn't sell it.

Sports Illustrated , which has 2. That's before Meredith bought the publications from Time Inc. Stephen Cannella and Ryan Hunt, co-editors-in-chief at Sports Illustrated, said Forde fit perfectly into their restructure moving forward in the 21st century. We're thrilled to have him on our side.

We want the best of the best. And no one embodies our new direction and vision as much as Pat," Hunt said. Forde pronounced like 40 , will bring his signature columns for college football Forde-yard dash and college basketball Forde minutes to Sports Illustrated , a place he called a "dream destination" for him as a sportswriter.

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