{"id":19608,"date":"2019-06-17T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/sports-illustrated-magazine-now-under-ross-levinsohn-exec-with-controversial-past\/"},"modified":"2019-06-17T17:49:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T01:49:00","slug":"sports-illustrated-magazine-now-under-ross-levinsohn-exec-with-controversial-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/sports-illustrated-magazine-now-under-ross-levinsohn-exec-with-controversial-past\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Sports Illustrated’ Magazine Now Under Ross Levinsohn, Exec With Controversial Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Authentic Brands Group, which bought Sports Illustrated<\/em> in May, has now licensed its print and digital publishing rights to another company.<\/p>\n

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The storied magazine Sports Illustrated<\/em> and its website have a new publisher.<\/p>\n

The 65-year-old magazine’s editorial content will be controlled by a digital outfit called Maven, in a deal announced Monday<\/a>. Ross Levinsohn, <\/em>the controversial former publisher of the Los Angeles Times, <\/em>has been named CEO.<\/p>\n

It comes just three weeks after Sports Illustrated<\/a> was bought for $110 million by a brand and marketing firm called Authentic Brands Group. As part of that deal, its previous owner Meredith Corp. would have had editorial control for up to two years. Instead, Authentic Brands now has a deal with Maven.<\/p>\n

A Seattle-based media company, Maven was founded by James Heckman<\/a>, who previously worked at Fox and Yahoo. Heckman and Levinsohn<\/a>, who was also an executive at Fox and Yahoo, have long been professionally intertwined.<\/p>\n

They plan to rename the organization Sports Illustrated Media and expand the brand internationally in partnership with Authentic Brands.<\/p>\n