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Nearly all of the 20 or so staffers of Deadspin who departed the sports and culture website in 2019 during a remarkable mass exodus have reunited to form a new digital company, Defector Media. Using a subscription format, unlike the advertising-dependent Deadspin, Defector will primarily cover sports but plans to…

Deadspin, the beleaguered sports website that has not published new material in more than two months following a mass staff exodus, has appointed Jim Rich as editor-in-chief. Rich, a former editor-in-chief of the New York Daily News and editor at outlets like the New York Post and HuffPost, will begin his new role…

The owners of Deadspin, the New York-based sports and culture website that has lain dormant for two months after a remarkable exodus of all editorial staffers, will move its operations to Chicago in a bid to restart the site. The move will align Deadspin with the Chicago-based Onion, one of the digital properties…

Paul Maidment, a former Financial Times and Forbes editor who oversaw a remarkable exodus of staff members at the sports blog Deadspin, has resigned his post as G/O Media’s editorial director. A G/O Media spokesman confirmed the news, which made Twitter vibrate anew after days of froth over Deadspin’s meltdown. The…

UPDATED with further staff departures: Deadspin, the formerly Gawker-owned sports-website that has become a case study in the management of digital news assets, saw its news flow go dry for nearly 24 hours as writer Drew Magary joined a mass editorial exodus on Thursday. By Friday morning, the entire staff was gone…

UPDATE, with more staff exits: Deadspin employees revolted against a corporate “stick to sports” mandate made by its parent company G/O Media that led to the firing of interim editor-in-chief Barry Petchesky, with several staffers on the well-read sports blog taking to social media Wednesday to say they also have left…