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Deadspin’s Entire Staff Laid Off as G/O Media Sells Sports News Site to European Startup
Variety ^ | 3/11/2024 | By Todd Spangler

Posted on 03/11/2024 11:55:12 AM PDT by NohSpinZone

Sports news and commentary Deadspin has been sold again — and its entire staff has been laid off.

Deadspin, once owned by Gawker Media, became part of G/O Media in 2019. In a memo to company staff Monday, G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller announced that Deadspin was sold to European firm Lineup Publishing.

With the sale, the staff of Deadspin is getting pink-slipped. “Deadspin’s new owners have made the decision to not carry over any of the site’s existing staff and instead build a new team more in line with their editorial vision for the brand,” Spanfeller wrote in the memo. “While the new owners plan to be reverential to Deadpin’s unique voice, they plan to take a different content approach regarding the site’s overall sports coverage. This unfortunately means that we will be parting ways with those impacted staff members, who were notified earlier today.”

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I wonder if one of the factors to lay off the entire staff was to get rid of the racist chump who libeled a 9-year-old boy as wearing "blackface" to a Chiefs game. I hope the lawsuit is super successful and puts an even bigger hurt than the unemployment line.


1 posted on 03/11/2024 11:55:12 AM PDT by NohSpinZone
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And as it turns out, that boy is also a Native American.................


2 posted on 03/11/2024 11:57:11 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

This is true.


3 posted on 03/11/2024 12:09:18 PM PDT by packagingguy
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4 posted on 03/11/2024 12:18:20 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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According to Adweek, the incident frustrated priv equity ownership G&O. What happens to the lawsuit?


5 posted on 03/11/2024 12:38:00 PM PDT by gcparent (God Bless America )
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What happens to the lawsuit?

Really good question. I wonder if requiring G&O to settle the lawsuit was one of the terms of the deal.

6 posted on 03/11/2024 12:41:14 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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Each time I hear of lay-offs or a closing of a leftist media outlet, it brings a tear of happiness to my eyes.


7 posted on 03/11/2024 1:53:21 PM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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Carron J. Phillips be workin' the unemployable line overtime...


8 posted on 03/11/2024 2:22:25 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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[Sports news and commentary Deadspin has been sold again — and its entire staff has been laid off.]

panic-oh-noes

9 posted on 03/11/2024 3:07:24 PM PDT by Col Freeper (Praise and Trust in the LORD in All Things at All Times.)
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“The WGA East-affiliated Onion Inc Union, which has represented some Deadspin workers...”

Well then, go on STRIKE and ‘teach the man a lesson’.

Oh yeah, never mind, you’ve already been fired. LOL!!!!


10 posted on 03/11/2024 6:42:53 PM PDT by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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