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 custodians, who will be hearing from us even more than before,” said Libit in a statement.

The Intercollegiate launched in October 2019. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Cyphers previously worked on the New York Daily News investigations team and spent a decade as a senior editor and senior writer for ESPN The Magazine.

Libit spent more than a decade covering national politics for Politico, National Journal, The Daily and CNBC.com.

Sportico launched earlier this year.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.