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Deadspin's Last Staff Member Quits. But Deadspin Is Not Dead, the Boss Says.
Source: New York Times
Deadspin’s Last Staff Member Quits. But Deadspin Is Not Dead, the Boss Says.
The site’s editorial team, more than 20 journalists, resigned after an instance of what they saw as meddling by G/O Media.
By Katie Robertson
Nov. 1, 2019
Updated 7:21 p.m. ET
And then there were none.
The exodus of staff members at the popular sports website Deadspin started on Tuesday, with the firing of the interim editor in chief, Barry Petchesky, who had refused to obey an order from higher-ups to confine the site’s posts to sports-related subject matter.
On Wednesday, more than eight staff members quit in protest. The next day, more writers and editors followed. On Friday, the last remaining journalist from a staff of more than 20 — the writer Dave McKenna — resigned.
Diana Moskovitz, a senior editor, was technically the last one standing. She had handed in her resignation two weeks ago, and Friday was set to be her last workday. She had no idea, when she gave notice, that she would be the last of the original team to post a Deadspin story.
She spent most of Friday working from a Starbucks in Manhattan. At 10:24 a.m., she put up a post headlined “Was Deadspin a Good Sports Blog? A Very Short Debate.” The article had a word count of one. “Yes,” it read. By evening, it had more than 110,000 page views.
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The site’s editorial team, more than 20 journalists, resigned after an instance of what they saw as meddling by G/O Media.
By Katie Robertson
Nov. 1, 2019
Updated 7:21 p.m. ET
And then there were none.
The exodus of staff members at the popular sports website Deadspin started on Tuesday, with the firing of the interim editor in chief, Barry Petchesky, who had refused to obey an order from higher-ups to confine the site’s posts to sports-related subject matter.
On Wednesday, more than eight staff members quit in protest. The next day, more writers and editors followed. On Friday, the last remaining journalist from a staff of more than 20 — the writer Dave McKenna — resigned.
Diana Moskovitz, a senior editor, was technically the last one standing. She had handed in her resignation two weeks ago, and Friday was set to be her last workday. She had no idea, when she gave notice, that she would be the last of the original team to post a Deadspin story.
She spent most of Friday working from a Starbucks in Manhattan. At 10:24 a.m., she put up a post headlined “Was Deadspin a Good Sports Blog? A Very Short Debate.” The article had a word count of one. “Yes,” it read. By evening, it had more than 110,000 page views.
-snip-
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/01/business/deadspin-staff-quits.html
