INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Writers Laura Wagner, Kelsey McKinney, Tom Ley, Lauren Theisen, Patrick Redford, Albert Burneko and Chris Thompson all tweeted today that
they have resigned from Deadspin, the sports-focused site owned by G/O Media.A quick refresher: G/O Media was formerly known as Gizmodo
Media Group, and before that as Gawker Media
It took on its current name and current leadership earlier this year when Univision sold the unit to private equity firm Great Hill
Partners, who appointed former Forbes.com CEO Jim Spanfeller as its new chief executive.Since then, the relationship between G/O Media
leadership and the editorial staff has been rocky, as you would have learned by reading Deadspin itself, particularly an in-depth story by
dedicated to politics and culture and other topics that are not sports, outperform posts on the main site by slightly more than two to
reportedly prompted advertiser Farmers Insurance to pull the campaign.This all appears to have prompted a mass exodus from Deadspin today
The Gizmodo Media Group union also issued this statement:Today, a number of our colleagues at Deadspin resigned from their positions
From the outset, CEO Jim Spanfeller has worked to undermine a successful site by curtailing its most well-read coverage because it makes him
reached out to G/O Media for comment and will update if we hear back.
