{"id":780465,"date":"2026-07-23T20:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780465\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T20:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:03:08","slug":"jonathan-jones-leaves-cbs-to-become-senior-writer-at-the-athletic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780465\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Jones leaves CBS to become &#8220;senior writer&#8221; at The Athletic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/report-jonathan-jones-is-in-advanced-talks-to-leave-cbs-for-the-athletic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">advanced talks<\/a>\u201d have advanced all the way to a done deal.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Jones announced on Thursday that <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jjones9\/status\/2080303153556205811?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">he has left CBS<\/a>. The Athletic separately announced that Jones will become a \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytco.com\/press\/jonathan-jones-joins-the-athletic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">senior writer<\/a>\u201d covering the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Per the item posted by The Athletic, \u201cJonathan will focus on bringing behind-the-scenes stories to the forefront, breaking news and capturing game moments with deeply reported articles and video analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones had worked for CBS since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Athletic has not yet filled its \u201cNFL Insider\u201d role following the abrupt resignation of Dianna Russini in April, a week after photos emerged of Russini with Patriots coach Mike Vrabel at a resort in Arizona. (The Athletic also has not yet concluded its internal investigation regarding Russini\u2019s reporting.)<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s possible, if not likely, that The Athletic will not have an \u201cNFL Insider\u201d in the sense that the job has evolved. <\/p>\n<p>Frankly, it would be difficult if not impossible for an \u201cNFL Insider\u201d to do the job competitively while also complying with the high journalistic standards of the New York Times, which apply by extension to The Athletic. Throw in the lingering newsroom tensions regarding the perception that The Athletic is held to a lower bar, and it arguably makes no sense to have an employee in a role that necessitates the kind of relationships that the Times would regard as actual or apparent conflicts of interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u201cadvanced talks\u201d have advanced all the way to a done deal. Jonathan Jones announced on Thursday that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-780465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}