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G/O Media Continues Fire Sale, Dumps A.V. Club and Takeout

ANOTHER ONE

Weeks after dumping Deadspin, the rapidly shrinking media company sold off two more brands and is shopping around the popular satire site The Onion.

Justin Baragona | Published Mar 26, 2024

Deadspin’s Mysterious New Buyer Is Finally Unmasked

A DEAD SPIN

There was no public information available about the people behind the mysterious Lineup Publishing until Thursday.

Amanda Yen | Published Mar 21, 2024
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G/O Media Sells Off Deadspin to Be Entirely Gutted

DEADSPINDEAD

The beleaguered media company has sold its key sports property off to a European publisher who will gut the website and replace its staff.

Justin Baragona | Published Mar 11, 2024

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Young Chiefs Fan’s Family Sues Deadspin Over Blackface Story

YIKES

The family said their son’s grades dropped and the family had to consider moving out of the state over the “onslaught of negative attention” brought on by the discredited story.

AJ McDougall | Published Feb 07, 2024

Deadspin Overhauls Story Accusing Chiefs Fan of ‘Blackface’

OOPS

“We regret any suggestion that we were attacking the fan,” an editor’s note now reads.

Mark Alfred | Published Dec 08, 2023

Deadspin Slammed by Mom of KC Chiefs Fan for Blackface Claim

‘MISLEADING’

The mom suggested that the website had intentionally picked a photo that concealed the red paint on her son’s face to “create division.”

Alex Nguyen | Published Nov 29, 2023
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Jezebel Boss Quits as G/O Media Dumpster Fire Burns On

G/O OFF

In this week’s edition of Confider, we look at how G/O Media just lost its seventh EIC in eight months—a sign of absolute tumult at the private equity-owned media empire.

Lachlan Cartwright | Published Aug 21, 2023
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CNN’s New Boss Signals for Truce With Fox News

CONFIDER

In this week’s Confider, we reveal massive changes coming to CNN, the way Twitter quietly changed its rules during wartime, and the drama at ABC News and G/O Media.

Lachlan Cartwright, Justin Baragona, Zachary Petrizzo | Published Mar 08, 2022
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Jezebel Editor Exits, the Latest in String of G/O Departures

EXODUS

The women-focused site is losing its top editor—yet another exit in a months-long series of departures.

Maxwell Tani, Lachlan Cartwright | Published Aug 04, 2021

Ex-Deadspin Writers Reunite Once Again, This Time for 4/20

‘BACK IN A BIG WAY’

As the actual Deadspin struggles with readership amid the coronavirus, more than a dozen of the site’s ex-staff will reunite starting on a weed holiday.

Maxwell Tani | Published Apr 19, 2020

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