Awful Announcing
"It’s a blog! Temporarily! Over the course of the next three days, Jan. 31 through Feb. 2, we will be publishing blogs for your reading pleasure. At the conclusion of this three-day period, we will vanish."
Rich has been named to head the new "Deadspin," but there's little reason to believe it will share more than a name and a URL with the old site.
Brady confirmed to The Daily Beast that he has had talks with G/O Media, but added "Not really seeking an industry job at the moment; my focus is on continuing to build my consulting business."
G/O Media Jim Spanfeller sent a letter to the union Friday informing them of a plan to move "Deadspin" to Chicago and relaunch it, and instructing union members not to criticize new hires for the relaunched site.
Spanfeller recently held the company's first all-hands meeting since the mass resignations at Deadspin, but the union said the meeting was "full of empty platitudes."
G/O Media editorial director Paul Maidment, who started the site’s decay over the last three months by insisting...
Goldsher sent a tweet promoting his first piece at Deadspin at 2:09 p.m. Eastern Friday. The tweet got ratioed to hell, and he announced he was leaving Deadspin at 2:53 p.m. Eastern.
After G/O Media's post removal, firing of Barry Petchesky, and repeated "stick-to-sports" mandate, the rest of the Deadspin editors and writers have resigned.
Petchesky had been with Deadspin for 10 years and wrote almost 20,000 posts there.
The conflict between G/O Media writers and management continues to play out very publicly.
After a pair of strokes, long-time sports blogging figure Chandler has been moved to palliative care.
Less than three years after buying the former Gawker Media Group titles, Univision has sold them off, as well as The Onion and its associated properties.
Super Bowl LIII sucked. That’s not an opinion. And it’s not meant as an attack. It’s a statement...
Goldberg reportedly paid $1.35 million for Gawker's domain, archives and social media accounts, beating out Didit and Online Logo Maker LLC.
Univision bought the Gawker properties for $135 million in bankruptcy proceedings in August 2016, and is now looking to sell them and more.
