When the staff of Deadspin resigned en masse last fall, it felt like the end of an era of online journalism. The fun internet—best embodied by the old Gawker Media sites and The Awl—was gone, undone ...
Last year, the entire staff of the sports media website Deadspin quit after a dispute with their private equity bosses. Now, most of them are coming back under a new name, Defector, and a very ...
In early November of 2019, former staffers at Deadspin, who had just resigned en masse from the publication after G/O Media and its CEO Jim Spanfeller issued a stick-to-sports edict, began talking in ...
During year two, Defector experimented with promotional pricing for the first time — $0.99 for the first month — and said more than 60% of the 2,000 people who subscribed to the promo rate converted ...
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Deadspin, the influential sports and culture blog that all but imploded a few years ago, made its name by savaging those it ...
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