Jim Rich named Deadspin editor-in-chief. Again.
"My first time around as editor in chief was a blast and I’m looking forward to getting started again."
"My first time around as editor in chief was a blast and I’m looking forward to getting started again."
A Deadspin writer penned a sarcastic, mocking post in the direction of AI-generated content sweeping through G/O Media.
"This is unethical and unacceptable. If you see a byline ending in 'Bot,' don’t click it."
Rich said the move was unrelated to criticism over Deadspin's coverage of Rachel Nichols' phone call.
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.
Can Deadspin be restored to the site so many loved?
"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."
The GMG Union is now calling for Spanfeller's ouster.
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.