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Weeks after dumping Deadspin, the rapidly shrinking media company sold off two more brands and is shopping around the popular satire site The Onion.
There was no public information available about the people behind the mysterious Lineup Publishing until Thursday.
The beleaguered media company has sold its key sports property off to a European publisher who will gut the website and replace its staff.
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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.
“We regret any suggestion that we were attacking the fan,” an editor’s note now reads.
The mom suggested that the website had intentionally picked a photo that concealed the red paint on her son’s face to “create division.”
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.
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.
The women-focused site is losing its top editor—yet another exit in a months-long series of departures.
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.
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