Anthony DeanDeadspin Staff Laid Off; G/O Media Sells Sports Site
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/deadspin-staff-laid-off-site-sold-1235938325/
VarietyDeadspin Entire Staff Laid Off as G/O Media Sells Sports News Site to European Startup
#Variety #News #Deadspin #GOMedia
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/deadspin-staff-laid-off-site-sold-1235938325/
Dave Portnoy 🤖@[email protected] Damn. Hate to see it. #deadspin
Cory DoctorowThis, in turn, put Jezebel under the ownership of G/O Media, who are unwilling to pay for a human salesforce that would - for example - sell advertising space on Jezebel to sex-toy companies or pro-abortion groups. G/O has been on a killing spree, shuttering beloved news outlets like #Deadspin:
https://deadspin.com/this-is-how-things-work-now-at-g-o-media-1836908201
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This Is How Things Work Now At G/O Media
When Jim Spanfeller and a private equity firm called Great Hill Partners took over G/O Media—formerly Gizmodo Media Group—in April, their stated goal was to make the company profitable. It was a welcome refrain for employees all too aware of how the company had languished under Univision’s doomed ownership. But as…
DogzillaI’d been a Sox fan for almost 20 years before the bloody sock, so I have every reason to admire Curt Schilling.
But that ended pretty early for me once he opened his mouth. He always has been and always will be a piece of garbage, and what he just did to Wake and his family is disgusting. The Nazi stuff is just icing on a shit cake.
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IDIOT OF THE MONTH: Who's worse -- the alleged sex pest or the Nazi enthusiast?
https://deadspin.com/mel-tucker-curt-schilling-chicago-bears-idiot-month-sep-1850892153 https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/111167567243042352
Mason Pelt dot comFrom Deadspins’s Ashes: The Story Of Defector
I think more publications like Deadspin would be a net positive. Back in the day only Gawker reliably called out startup bullshit.
‘The last good website’
Deadspin, the influential sports and culture blog that all but imploded a few years ago, made its name by savaging those it deemed “assh
https://www.masonpelt.com/from-deadspinss-ashes-the-story-of-defector/
#ColumbiaJournalismReview #DannyFunt #Deadspin #Defector #GawkerMedia
kilombavitahttps://archive.org/details/shitty-men-in-media
Shitty Men In Media by Moira Donegan; crowdsourced
Topics #shittymeninmedia, #shittymediamen, #abusers, #abuse, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #columbiauniversity, #theparisreview, #thenewrepublic, #newyorkmagazine, #londonreviewofbooks, #nymag, #lrb, #harpersmagazine, #harpers, #nplus1magazine, #nplus1, #riverheadbooks, #thebaffler, #thenation, #losangelestimes, #latimes, #thenewyorker, #powellsbooks, #tinhouse, #versobooks, #verso, #wendyssubway, #mcnallyjackson, #bleacherreport, #thetrumpscorecard, #gq, #condénast, #vocativ, #vicesports, #vicemedia, #fsg, #farrarstrausandgiroux, #kissingsuzykolber, #cnbc, #wallstreetjournal, #wsj, #breitbart, #valleywag, #wiredmagazine, #guernica, #brooklynpubliclibrary, #medium, #villagevoice, #fastcompany, #thebatsegundoshow, #batsegundo, #thehuffingtonpost, #huffpo, #politico, #deadspin, #newyorktimes, #nyt, #aeon, #simonandschuster, #harpercollins, #esquire, #gawker, #theintercept, #techcrunch, #buzzfeed, #grantland, #ratter, #quartz, #penguinyoungreaders, #philomel, #fivethirtyeight, #theguardian, #rollingstone, #dailydot, #thedailydot, #macmillan, #motherjones, #pitchfork, #chicagoreader, #nationalgeographic, #slate, #slatemagazine, #mic, #cbs, #cracked, #electronicbeats, #thedailyshow, #euromoney, #nomadcinema, #newyorkmedia
deutrinoI see out-of-touch rich guy Jim Spanfeller finally killed #Deadspin.
Interesting story, if only because it's been so well-reported; out-of-touch rich people ruin things like this every day.
Gregori FabreStick to Sports? No Way. #deadspin Journalists Quit en Masse. #nyt https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/business/media/deadspin-sports-staff.html
