Last Thursday, Sports Illustrated reduced its full-time staff of 150 by 40 workers. Greg Witter, who is a spokesman for Maven, the company that manages Sports Illustrated, said 200 contractors will replace the former full-time staffers in terms of covering college and professional sports.
The decision to relieve those full-time staffers was not the correct one in both professional and emotional aspects. Maven didn’t think its decision through, and now a number of people will be affected by the layoffs, including millions of readers across the United States.
An argument that people had against Sports Illustrated was that it would die off eventually because of its traditional print format and its slow response time when it came to updating its digital format.