Awful Announcing
Vox has demonstrated abhorrent management with SB Nation for several years. Their latest move there comes in finally giving SB Nation a senior vice president, but giving that role to the man who oversaw its destruction.
Three long-running lawsuits against Vox Media from former SB Nation site managers and contributors have now been settled.
Many prominent former SB Nation and Banner Society writers have now set up shop at a new, free, donation-supported newsletter, Moon Crew.
Vox Media is only bringing back around 30 percent of the pool of furloughed employees that didn't take buyouts. The others, and some who weren't furloughed, have been caught in a new wave of layoffs.
It looks like Vox is set to announce that many of the writers it furloughed won't be coming back. That will have a significant impact on SB Nation and Banner Society.
SB Nation and Banner Society saw several further long-time employees leave permanently Friday.
Hall was one of the many SB Nation and Banner Society employees furloughed from May through July. He announced Tuesday he's taken a buyout.
Furloughed Banner Society staffers Spencer Hall, Jason Kirk, Richard Johnson, Alex Kirshner and Tyson Whiting have teamed up for an ebook "about the ever-desperate crusade to wrangle college sports, set in and around a time-travelin’, rootin’-tootin’, extra-demented American West."
The Vox cutbacks focus on "revenue areas where short-term demand will be lower," including sports.
The law has already led to Vox cutting California positions.
This move saw SB Nation criticized both by current contractors and by overall critics of their business model.
The post was labeled as satire, which isn't really much of an excuse in this case.
"Banner Society is an ongoing experiment with two goals. The first is to keep expanding, warping, and sharpening the conversation around college football in all its bizarre, corrupt, colorful elements. The second is to find new and different ways to connect with our audience directly, all over the internet."
