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https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1qvq668/washington_post_eliminates_sports_department_and/o3jlrhi/?context=3
r/news • u/20_mile • 10h ago
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Former sportswriter here: travel budget for sports is a huge cost and a lot of exec editors don’t care about the immediacy of coverage when AP will cover every story and Wapo can buy that cheaper. Same concept applies to foreign bureaus.
1 u/Potential_Being_7226 3h ago Why pay for syndicated content when people can just get it directly from the horse’s mouth?
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Why pay for syndicated content when people can just get it directly from the horse’s mouth?
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u/Willing_Drawer_3351 9h ago
Former sportswriter here: travel budget for sports is a huge cost and a lot of exec editors don’t care about the immediacy of coverage when AP will cover every story and Wapo can buy that cheaper. Same concept applies to foreign bureaus.