[Misc] Would you pay £40 a year for ad-free sports writing from the likes of Andy Naylor?

[Bozza]

Seems very likely that Andy Naylor will be part of The Athletic's forthcoming UK launch.

Would you pay £40 per year for ad-free Premier League coverage from a group of top writers?

https://nortr3nixy.nimpr.uk/showthread.php?373820-Andy-Naylor-is-leaving

 

[jonny.rainbow]

Using the term ‘Top writer’ and Andy Naylor in the same breath is the epitome of incongruity.

 

[Bozza]

Using the term ‘Top writer’ and Andy Naylor in the same breath is the epitome of incongruity.

"An American Sports Website Is On A Hiring Spree For Some Of Britain's Top Football Writers"

https://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/athletic-football-writers

 

[AmexRuislip]

Isn't that what the Argus on line is, free with adbloc

 

[Change at Barnham]

77p a week? Providing there was plenty of quality content that was related to Brighton I would consider it.
If there was an introductory offer to sample it I'm fairly sure I'd sign up.

 

[Bozza]

Isn't that what the Argus on line is, with adblock??.

As I posted on the other thread, The Athletic aren't interested in churning out multiple say-nothing articles a day, as Andy Naylor has had to do to please whoever owns The Argus these days. The Argus wants high volume to attract clicks to pages saturated in ads.

The brief of a writer at The Athletic will be to produce long-form deeper pieces. Quality, not quantity.

 

[GT49er]

No.


Let's hope AZGull doesn't try his luck at going commercial....................

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Quite illogically I wouldn't dream of paying £40 a year...

But I would spend far more than that annually on print newspapers.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Yes, for sure I'd give it a go.

If the albion then went down - and albion content disappeared - then I'd bin off the subscription

 

[AmexRuislip]

As I posted on the other thread, The Athletic aren't interested in churning out multiple say-nothing articles a day, as Andy Naylor has had to do to please whoever owns The Argus these days. The Argus wants high volume to attract clicks to pages saturated in ads.

The brief of a writer at The Athletic will be to produce long-form deeper pieces. Quality, not quantity.

Apologies Bozza, have just read that post.
Perhaps the sports reporting over here needs some much needed competition.
The Football Whispers site, you've introduced on here is an example of half decent footy reporting.
IMO of course.

 

[Doc Lynam]

Why would I pay £40 a year when we have some of the best investigative writing and thought provoking piece for free on NSC!

 

[Change at Barnham]

"An American Sports Website Is On A Hiring Spree For Some Of Britain's Top Football Writers"

https://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/athletic-football-writers

Having read the BuzzFeed article it sounds as if it could be a very interesting project. Particularly if it can get some journos like Jonathan Liew and Oliver Kay to move across. I will follow it's progress with interest.

 

[Blue3]

I suspect we are beyond the need of sports journalists as information appears to be gathered by many and formed into a collective whole the days of access to a select few are long gone

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

I would pay £40 for Timmy though. He's a great writer.

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

I would pay £40 for Timmy though. He's a great writer.

Go to bed. You're drunk...

 

[vegster]

Hard to know, probably not.

 

[Falmerfourtickets]

I would pay £40 for Timmy though. He's a great writer.

14 posts in. It be he’d wager post 7 or 8.

Well, if he hadn’t done his dough at Cartmel - or so I read Twitter

 

[The Andy Naylor Fan Club]

I would pay £40 for Timmy though. He's a great writer.

Go to bed. You're drunk...

14 posts in. It be he’d wager post 7 or 8.

Well, if he hadn’t done his dough at Cartmel - or so I read Twitter

See what you've done?

 

[Bry Nylon]

Why would I pay £40 a year when we have some of the best investigative writing and thought provoking pieces for free on NSC!

Aww, you guys!

 

[studio150]

Having read the BuzzFeed article it sounds as if it could be a very interesting project. Particularly if it can get some journos like Jonathan Liew and Oliver Kay to move across. I will follow it's progress with interest.

Not the same Jonathan Liew who when he was at the Telegraph wrote an article about Southampton winning League One when we were the runaway winners