Alex Kay-Jelski: Editor-in-chief of The Athletic UK
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Alex Kay Jelski, editor-in-chief of the Athletic UK joins Tifo to discuss what being a football editor looks like. How do you pick stories? What do you do throughout the week? What are you looking for in the stories you commission? And more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO Football Podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | My name is Joe Devine, and today I was joined by Alex Stewart and also Alex K. Jelsky, |
| 0:12.5 | who is the editor-in-chief of the Athletic UK. |
| 0:16.2 | Alex's job is as the top editor of a team of editors who run all of the journalists who write all of the |
| 0:22.9 | football stories for The Athletic in the UK. And it was a pleasure to speak to him. We spoke to him |
| 0:29.1 | today mostly about what an editor does, what his day to days like, what he does when he gets up on a |
| 0:34.7 | Monday, how that job works and how you pick stories and how you work through them, stuff like that. And also a little bit about how it's been going at the athletic so far. This is something that only started in the UK at least nine months ago in the summer, so the beginning of this football season. They have nearly a full season under their belt now. Lots of people have been talking about |
| 0:54.1 | them and we've been working with them for a while, so we thought it was a good idea to get Alex |
| 0:57.8 | in and talk a little bit more about that. So I hope you enjoy today's episode. It's really |
| 1:03.2 | interesting to listen to. It's a little additional one on the end of this week here. We've |
| 1:08.4 | released two this week. I hope you've enjoyed the extra bonus content. |
| 1:12.4 | And I'm delighted to tell you also that next week on Tuesday, |
| 1:16.3 | the episode being released will be of a conversation I am yet to have, |
| 1:19.8 | but we'll be having with James Montague about his new book, 1312. |
| 1:24.5 | And that's all about football ultras all over the world. |
| 1:27.4 | So I'm really excited to talk to him |
| 1:28.6 | about that. But anyway, I hope you enjoy today's episode. This episode, of course, is supported by |
| 1:33.8 | The Athletic, where you can get a seven-day free trial and 50% off an annual subscription by visiting |
| 1:39.4 | theathletic.com.co.com. So I hope you go and check that out, |
| 1:45.4 | particularly after today's episode with Alex. |
| 1:47.5 | If you find it interesting |
| 1:48.2 | and you want to read more about what they're doing |
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