Times’ Gerry Marzorati on Play: No Options to ‘Make it Viable’

Play, the Times Magazine’s quarterly sports magazine, folded yesterday because it was losing six-digit sums every year, said its editorial director Gerry Marzorati.

“It was losing hundreds of thousands of dollars over several years and when you’re not going to see that turn around, that’s the problem,” he said.

Mr. Marzorati, the editor of the Read More

No Pay to Play

Back in April, the New York Times' glossy sports magazine Play, which appears as a Sunday insert four times a year, rolled out a weekly e-mail newsletter.

The newsletter, which is delivered to the readers’ inboxes for free, includes a weekly batch of brief, original items.

At the time, we noted that Play would be Read More