Fox Sports shuts ‘loss making’ The Crowd forum with plans to refocus on citizen journalism

Fox Sports has quietly shuttered its fan forum section The Crowd after one of its main product managers admitted on Twitter it “runs at a loss”.

The News Corp-owned entity last posted content on The Crowd ahead of the AFL Grand Final this month, with a new holding page for the site reading “The home of aspiring journalists. Coming soon.”

However, it failed to fire, with Fox Sports’ social product manager Paul Wissam admitting on Twitter in September “it runs at a loss”. The tweet was made in reply to this conversation around whether news sites should pay contributors, but Wissam has since protected his tweets.