The media landscape has shifted even more in ten years since Deadspin’s Manti Te’o bombshell
Last week Kyle Kensing wrote a retrospective on the ten year anniversary of one of sports broadcasting’s first...
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After Deadspin uncovers Bleacher Report’s faulty math, B/R adjusts win-loss records in NFL season preview
Bleacher Report originally predicted the win-loss records of every NFL team which added up to be a mathematical impossibility.
Trevor Bauer is suing Deadspin for defamation
Trevor Bauer is taking Deadspin to court.
We need to talk about Deadspin
Deadspin added one of the most comical editorial notes in recent memory after botching a post on 49ers OC Mike McDaniel.
LZ Granderson and Will Leitch talk their The Long Game podcast: “This is good shit. This is good chemistry.”
"Getting to work with LZ is deeply, deeply exciting for me, and it gives me that satisfaction, and I hope he lets me do it forever."
Jim Rich out as G/O Media editorial director, reportedly over conflicts with ownership, CEO
Rich said the move was unrelated to criticism over Deadspin's coverage of Rachel Nichols' phone call.
Tony Bruno’s SiriusXM radio show axed following NBA player comments & Deadspin kerfuffle
"I don't care about the politics of these players...most of these guys can't even read for God's sake."
Former Deadspin staffers to launch Defector, a subscription site set for September debut
18 former staffers will own and operate the venture, which aims to fill the void Deadspin-shaped void in online media.
Deadspin’s traffic and execution will both need to vastly improve if the site wants to survive in the long term
New “Deadspin” completely botched the #26 pick, saying Miami took D’Andre Swift when Green Bay took Jordan Love
No, "Deadspin," Miami didn't even keep the #26 pick.
Jim Rich, who was running the Deadspin corpse reanimation project, is now G/O Media’s editorial director
Rich received the editorial director job almost six months after Paul Maidment's resignation, and after other G/O Media editors-in-chief turned it down.
Ex-Deadspin writers are reuniting again for a week around 4/20, sponsored by a CBD company
"Over the course of the next week, April 20 through April 24, we will once again be publishing blogs for your reading pleasure. At the conclusion of this period we will vanish once more."
New Deadspin wants you to buy their t-shirts — and wear them to non-existent sporting events — during the pandemic
"Sport our logo tee to the game, to the courts, to the gym- the supersoft cotton is ultra-light & breathable."
Deadspin officially resumes publishing
Deadspin relaunch day is today. There's no comments section, if you're wondering.
Deadspin is close to revival, hiring writers Jesse Spector and Sam Fels
Can Deadspin be restored to the site so many loved?
Ex-Deadspin writers launch temporary Super Bowl site, a sharp contrast to G/O Media’s attempted “Deadspin” reanimation
"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."
New editor of dead Deadspin Jim Rich (who somehow claims he’s not a scab) says “I don’t want to see Deadspin die.” He’s...
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.
G/O Media has had discussions with long-time Deadspin foe Jim Brady about their vacant editorial director position
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 demands union “not engage in further conduct directed towards job applicants,” moves “Deadspin” to Chicago under The Onion
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.
G/O Media’s Jim Spanfeller holds first post-Deadspin meeting, gets blasted by union, claims profit despite Deadspin traffic drop
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 resigns, days after Deadspin’s entire staff quit
G/O Media editorial director Paul Maidment, who started the site’s decay over the last three months by insisting...
Alan Goldsher’s Deadspin tenure lasted less than an hour
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.
Entire Deadspin staff resigns in wake of Barry Petchesky’s firing, G/O Media reiterating “stick to sports” mandate [updated]
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.
G/O Media fires Deadspin’s Barry Petchesky for not sticking to sports, union responds, Paul Maidment claims site has “incredibly broad mandate”
Petchesky had been with Deadspin for 10 years and wrote almost 20,000 posts there.
