Still No Public Apology From Nico Hines

Four months of silence.

Heading into the holiday break, we made some attempts to resolve one of this year’s great journalism mysteries: the professional fate of The Daily Beast London editor Nico Hines following his extremely misguided article about using an online dating app to cruise male athletes housed at the Rio Summer Olympics Village. As you may recall, the incident expedited the credentialed journalist’s departure from Brazil.

We were unsuccessful. However, on the same general front, SB Nation’s Outsports earlier this month conferred upon Hines (and his asleep-at-the-wheel Daily Beast editors) the honor of “Assholes of the Year.”

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