What are we to make of The Athletic at this point, folks?
I think the Liverpool writers are excellent - Simon Hughes in particular is wonderful and will no doubt continue to be wonderful for the remainder of his career.
I'm just curious - subscription as a model is gonna be the norm more and more, so it's not about that - more the nature of the content. Think they're delivering on brief?
I took the 6 month trial at £1 but haven't renewed.
Agree re Si Hughes, he does some wonderfully niche, well researched articles, not so sure about James Pearce though.
I'd love to know how they measure their writers because I just got the impression that it was starting to veer towards articles aimed at creating debate, which was then poorly moderated.
After the season we had, I hoped it would be a refuge from the normal clickbait and banter, but I got sick of articles where the comments section was infested with ignorant trolling comments.
Journalism is at an inflection point though and as consumers we need to place more value on well researched balanced journalism, and be prepared to pay for it because the alternative is there for all to see - just look at the once great Echo's coverage of Liverpool now.
It's worth more than £1 per month, but I'm not sure I read enough for £7, especially if good articles are spoiled by childish trolling in the comments. I'm interested in other reds thoughts, and other sensible fans for that matter, but can't be arsed with wading through the crap.
£5 pm and better moderation would probably get me back.