Fox Sports Adding More Original Written Content To Website, App

The Fox Sports website and app has hired longtime ESPN exec Kevin Jackson “as its new managing editor of FoxSports.com,” and he is “expected to add more original content creators, who can write, talk and appear on video,” according to Andrew Marchand of the N.Y. POST. Jackson did not say how many writers Fox Sports will add, but it “seems within reason it could hire around five-to-10 new voices to the site.” Fox Sports is “not going to try to be fully comprehensive, covering everything, but it does want more original content.” Former Fox Sports President Jamie Horowitz in June ’17 “decided to gear the site toward ‘premium video,’ which resulted in around 20 writers and editors being let go.” The company’s website “lost much of its relevance after that.” Fox in July “redesigned its app" (N.Y. POST, 9/25).