Sportico seeks a business reporter
Sportico is hiring a dogged reporter to cover the sports business industry. The Sports Business Reporter will have a passion for breaking news and solid sources at every level of the industry who is interested in joining a dynamic publishing startup. We are seeking a strong writer who is well-connected with good sourcing within sports and entertainment, from […]
Sportico hires Pelit to cover finance and private equity
Sports business website Sportico has hired Asli Pelit to cover finance and private equity. She will start the first week of July. Pelit has been a Knight-Bagehot fellow at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism for the past year. She has been a multimedia journalist with the Voice of America in New York. She covers […]
Sportico hires Badenhausen as a reporter
Sports business publication Sportico has hired Kurt Badenhausen as a reporter. Badenhausen spent the last 23 years at Forbes magazine, most recently as a senior editor. He focused mainly on the business of sports and its annual franchise valuations. He also spent a lot of time digging into what athletes earn on and off the field of […]
Sportico strikes content deal with Bloomberg
Sports business news site Sportico has struck a deal with Bloomberg News to provide its content to the financial news service’s readers. Sportico was launched in 2020 by Penske Media Corp., and is led by former Bloomberg News sports business reporter Scott Soshnick. Soshnick spent 27 years at Bloomberg News and established himself as the […]
Sportico adds two editorial staffers with Intercollegiate acquisitions
Sports business news site Sportico has added two editorial staffers as part of its acquisition of The Intercollegiate, which covers college sports. The Intercollegiate cofounder Daniel Libit is joining as sports business reporter, and cofounder Luke Cyphers is joining as editor and reporter. “We can only offer our sympathies to the nation’s public university records […]
Why Sportico moves its launch date up three months
Kayleigh Barber of Digiday writes about sports business news site Sportico, which moved up its launch date by three months. Barber writes, “Originally set to launch in September during a ‘confluence of all the sports,’ Sportico CEO Dick Glover said his team decided to move up its launch to June 30 to cover the reopening […]
Sportico EIC Soshnick: I want a “team” that collaborates
Brad Adgate of Forbes interviewed Sportico editor in chief Scott Soshnick about the editorial strategy for the new sports business website. Here is an excerpt: How many reporters do you have on staff and what criteria did you use when selecting reporters? Does each reporter have a particular specialty in their sports business coverage? Scott Soshnick: We have […]
How Sportico was created and launched during a pandemic
Seth Everett of the “Sports with Friends” podcast interviewed Sportico CEO Dick Glover about the creation of the sports business news website, which launched this week by Penske Media. “The ideas was hatched six or seven months ago,” said Glover. “It was just finding the right people to do it.” The site is run editorially by Scott […]
Sportico hires editor, ME and five reporters
Sportico, the website covering sports business launching from Penske Media, has hired an editor, managing editor and five reporters. Sarah Kwak is the new editor. She previously was a senior editor at Sports Illustrated, which she joined in 2007. She was also a writer-reporter and associate editor at the magazine. As senior editor, she wrote and […]
Sportico hires Forbes contributor Bloom
Barry Bloom, a sports business contributor for Forbes for the past two years, has been hired by the new sports business publication Sportico. He started on Monday. Bloom has written about professional sports since 1976. He joined Sportico after covering baseball on and off the field for MLB.com from 2002 to 2018. Previously to that, […]
