Under a New Editorial Regime, Deadspin Tries to Move Forward

Despite a staff exodus, months of subsequent inactivity and a long, accusation-filled dispute with a union representing staffers at several of its brands, G/O Media remains committed to resurrecting Deadspin. The 15-year-old sports site, whose irreverent and wide-ranging commentary once attracted a massive audience—reaching 19 million unique visitors as recently as last October—ground to a halt in November, when all of its remaining editors chose to leave rather than comply with a directive to stick to covering sports, one of multiple actions that staffers saw as undue meddling by management under private equity owner Great Hill Partners, which acquired Deadspin and other former Gawker Media properties earlier in 2019. While the author of the controversial "stick to sports" memo, editorial director Paul Maidment, resigned himself last November after a brief attempt to keep the site running, G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller has vowed that Deadspin will live again. His latest shot at restoring the site began to take shape in January, when the company hired former New York Daily News editor-in-chief Jim Rich as Deadspin's top editor, tasked with building a new team that could help the site emerge from the ashes and win back its readers. In the four months since, Rich has been elevated to editorial director across G/O Media's portfolio, a role left vacant since Maidment's resignation, and a Daily News colleague, former sports editor Eric Barrow, has been brought in as Deadspin's... Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'

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