(They’ll still be available on the L.A. Times website and app.) The next day, The New York Times announced it was disbanding its award-winning sports department and drawing its sports coverage from The Athletic, the digital entity with three million subscribers it bought last year for $550 million. Why should you care if you don’t live in L.A. or New York, don’t like sports and don’t subscribe to either paper? Now, it seems, the NYT seeks a return to more traditional coverage via The Athletic, which goes heavy into soccer as well. “I was really sorry to hear the L.A. Times and N.Y. Times news,” Reeve said.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 20, 2023 18:08 UTC