https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/sports/the-athletic-layoffs.html
The Athletic, the sports journalism subscription website that became a bright
spot for a beleaguered industry in recent years, said in a memo Friday that
it is laying off 46 employees in its editorial and business departments,
amounting to 8 percent of its staff.
It also imposed a staffwide pay cut of at least 10 percent for all employees.
近来兴起的运动媒体领导品牌The Athletic
在周五宣告解雇46位员工 这差不多是全部的8%员工
剩下的员工则接受至少10%减薪
“In order to ensure we can be a viable business for many seasons to come, we
have to make decisions that won’t jeopardize our future,” said Taylor
Patterson, a spokeswoman for The Athletic.
The Athletic表示为了维持未来的运作 他们不得不做出决定
The Athletic launched its first local site in 2016, in Chicago, and quickly
grew to cover nearly every major professional sports team in the United
States, as well as dozens of professional soccer teams abroad. As tech giants
like Facebook and Google have gobbled up most online advertising dollars and
the news media has steadily contracted, The Athletic represents the hopes of
many in the sportswriting industry that an alternative business model can be
found.
The company makes the vast majority of its revenue through subscriptions,
which usually cost $60 a year but are frequently discounted. The Athletic has
nearly a million subscribers according to Patterson. That rapid growth has
been fueled by nearly $140 million in venture capital funding, including $50
million raised earlier this year.
从2016年成立以来快速成长
公司主要的营收来自每年60$ 接近1M用户的订阅
另外还有140M的创投资金 包括今年稍早的一笔50M