Looks like Andy Naylor and co will have a new paymaster sometime soon...
https://www.inpublishing.co.uk/articles/new-york-times-agrees-to-buy-the-athletic-20316
I'm sure they have, but I bet it isn't cheap! Which means it probably wouldn't be either for a startup who wanted to do a similar thing with sports/football content...
I stand corrected. So is the content reproduced under license, then? Because, looking at the Ts and Cs on the Guardian, it seems pretty clear:
"3. Use of material appearing on the Guardian Site
Your use of the Guardian Site is for your own personal and non-commercial use only. You acknowledge...
Surely there'd be copyright issues surround that kind of venture, no? Unless it was News UK (or whatever it's called now) who lumped in stuff from Talkshite, Sky Sports, The Times and The Sun?
As for The Athletic in general, I've not signed up, but completely get why Naylor (and probably all of...