West Ham defender Patrice Evra tackles Manchester City's Leroy Sane. Photo: Photosport
Earlier this year American sporting journalism website The Athletic made the ambitious move of buying up football writers across the UK and Europe. It's a bit of a head scratcher. In a period where the only media stories we hear are about diminishing presence, football journalism appears to be growing?
Colin Peacock from RNZ's Mediawatch joins me now to try and make sense of all this.