Mitch Sherman and Max Olson, The Athletic

MITCH SHERMAN and MAX OLSON are sports reporters at The Athletic, a subscription-based sports journalism web site and app. Sherman covers the Huskers and Olson is a national college football writer. They both worked at ESPN before departing for the sports journalism startup.  Sherman and Olson are Nebraska natives and UNL alums. They do a weekly podcast, The Sellouts. In this conversation we talk about the process of doing their jobs, the new delivery models for journalism, and where it’s going next.