Many furloughed writers and editors have now left Vox’s SB Nation and Banner Society for good
SB Nation and Banner Society saw several further long-time employees leave permanently Friday.
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Spencer Hall takes a buyout from Vox
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.
Some furloughed Banner Society writers are creating a “Sinful Seven: Sci-Fi Western Legends of the NCAA” ebook
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."
Vox Media furloughs 9 percent of employees, many at SB Nation, also cuts pay for higher-paid employees
The Vox cutbacks focus on "revenue areas where short-term demand will be lower," including sports.
Lawsuit filed on behalf of freelance journalists set to lose income over California gig economy law
The law has already led to Vox cutting California positions.
SB Nation ends contracts with California contractors, encourages them to apply for employee jobs, takes major blowback
This move saw SB Nation criticized both by current contractors and by overall critics of their business model.
SB Nation deletes “satirical” Raiders team site post filled with racism, jokes about domestic violence
The post was labeled as satire, which isn't really much of an excuse in this case.
SB Nation unveils new “Banner Society” multiplatform college football brand, says website will launch Aug. 21
"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."
Every Day Should Be Saturday shuts down after over a decade, with SB Nation apparently set to launch a new college football site
Every Day Should Be Saturday was launched back in 2005, and moved to SB Nation in January 2010. Now, it's shutting down.
SB Nation appears to now have a new interim editor-in-chief, Graham MacAree
Ryan Nanni was previously named SB Nation's interim editor-in-chief after editor-in-chief Elena Bergeron left that role in February.
Former SB Nation editor-in-chief Elena Bergeron is joining the New York Times as an assistant editor
Bergeron was SB Nation's editor-in-chief from 2017 through her departure in March, 2019.
The employee/contractor lawsuit against SB Nation has progressed to lawyers asking site managers to join the case
The plaintiffs' lawyers have sent a notice sent to "all current or former Site Managers and Managing Editors" since March 2015 asking if they want to join this class, with a response requested by June 3.
SB Nation editor-in-chief Elena Bergeron stepping down, Ryan Nanni named interim EIC
Bergeron had been SBN's editor-in-chief since March 2017.
SB Nation parts ways with Jen Rainwater after she calls Kyler Murray a brat, she responds with Facebook rant
SB Nation and Athletics Nation parted ways with Rainwater Thursday after her rant Wednesday. She responded on Facebook, claiming other people have been fabricating her tweets.
Vox lays off staffers, including from SB Nation, in shift away from native social video
These cuts look like a response to Facebook's ever-shifting priorities.
