After almost 70 years, Sports Illustrated — the storied magazine that has published some of the best sports journalism of the past two centuries — appears to be over, at least as anyone knew it. On Friday, the union representing the magazine’s reporting staff announced that the Arena Group, the company that owned S.I.’s publishing license, will be laying off “a significant number, possibly all” of its 100 employees. “Some employees will be terminated immediately, and paid in lieu of the applicable notice period under the [the union contract],” an email to staffers said, according to Front Office Sports.
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