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Former Deadspin owner G/O Media puts The Onion up for sale: source
G/O Media, the struggling company that recently sold Deadspin, is shopping popular humor site The Onion and continued its fire sale by dumping two other sites Tuesday, The Post has...
Barstool founder Dave Portnoy drinks champagne to celebrate fall of Deadspin: 'Kicking a dead ass dog!'
Deadspin, the popular sports blogger, laid off its entire staff in the wake of its parent company's acquisition by a European startup.
G/O Media sells Deadspin, lays off entire staff with barely any notice amid 'blackface' scandal
Sports blogging site Deadspin was sold to a European start-up and the entire staff was reportedly fired with barely any notice Monday -- just months after the publication was forced to...
Family of 9-year-old Kansas City Chiefs fan accused of blackface sues Deadspin for defamation
The boy's family claims Deadspin intentionally published a defamatory article, exposing "the family to a barrage of hate, including death threats."
Deadspin quietly tweaks viral story on 9-year-old Chiefs fan's 'blackface' after his parents threaten legal action
Deadspin quietly amended Carron J. Phillips' Nov. 27 story accusing 9-year-old Kansas City Chiefs fan Holden Armenta of wearing "blackface" to a game after his parents threatened legal action against...
Sports journalism utterly sucks: Deadspin 'blackface' debacle proves it
Deadspin senior writer Carron Phillips criticized the 9-year-old Chiefs fan for allegedly wearing “black face” and appropriating a headdress and chastised the NFL for not “speaking out” on the issue.
Parents of 9-year-old Chiefs fan threaten to sue Deadspin over 'blackface' claim
The family of a 9-year-old Kansas City Chiefs fan who was accused of “racism” in a Deadspin article for wearing a Native American headdress and painting his face half black...
Young Chiefs' fan accused of blackface in lefty Deadspin smear job
The boy that Deadspin writer Carron Phillips accused of "hating black people and Native American people at the same time," is in fact Native American.
Deadspin shaming a kid for 'blackface' is a gross example of woke adults chasing virtue points
Little Holden Armenta got called racist for painting his face in the Chiefs colors of red and black. Can we just stop unfairly pointing fingers at kids?
Trevor Bauer's defamation suit against Deadspin is thrown out
Judge Paul Crotty ruled that Bauer’s claims were “premised on nonactionable statements."
Deadspin owner G/O Media buys business news site Quartz
Quartz co-founder and CEO Zach Seward told employees in a memo Thursday that he agreed to sell the business to G/O to "help propel" its "next phase of growth."
G/O Media, owner of Deadspin, the Onion, faces new staff woes, discrimination suit
G/O Media, the digital media outfit that saw the entire editorial staff of Deadspin walk out in 2019, continues to grapple with staffing issues, Media Ink has learned.
Ex-Deadspin EIC Jim Rich resigns in latest turmoil at G/O Media
Jim Rich, the former Daily News editor charged with bringing Deadspin back to life following a mass staff exodus, has resigned after just 18 months on the job, The Post...
Ex-Deadspin staffers reunite to launch sports and culture site Defector Media
It’s the staff revolt that refuses to die. More than a dozen of the Deadspin staffers who left the sports website for dead when they walked off their jobs last...
Deadspin comes back to life just as sporting events pause over coronavirus
Deadspin — the irreverent sports blog that was left for dead following a staff exodus last year — is back, even though there are no more sporting events to cover....
New Deadspin owner plans to relaunch site in Chicago amid union tension
The owner of Deadspin said it’s looking to relaunch the irreverent sports site in Chicago, even as it breaks off tense conversations with its writers union in New York. G/O...
G/O Media exec holds first meetings since Deadspin resignations
G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller recently held the first all-hands meeting since a mass revolt at Deadspin crippled the site last month. But if a blistering memo released by the...
Deadspin website in limbo after editorial staff resignations
Deadspin is really living up to the “dead” part of its name. The sports Web site owned by G/O Media has posted no new articles to its site in over...
Head of The Onion, Deadspin sued for sex discrimination
Jim Spanfeller — the beleaguered boss of G/O Media, which owns The Onion and Deadspin — is being sued by two former executives who claim in separate lawsuits that he...
Deadspin exec resigns after sparking staff revolt with 'stick to sports' memo
The media executive who kicked off a staff revolt at news web site Deadspin has resigned. Paul Maidment, editorial director of Deadspin’s parent company G/O Media, announced his departure roughly...