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Jim Spanfeller, CEO, G/O Media, on Fourth Estate Stage during day two of Collision 2022 at Enercare Centre in Toronto, Canada.
ANOTHER ONE

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

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

An employee of the website Deadspin shows a logo at their office in Manhattan, New York on November 1, 2018.
A DEAD SPIN

Deadspin’s Mysterious New Buyer Is Finally Unmasked

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

Amanda Yen

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DEADSPINDEAD

G/O Media Sells Off Deadspin to Be Entirely Gutted

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

Isiah Pacheco #10 of the Kansas City Chiefs celebrates with Joe Thuney #62 of the Kansas City Chiefs after a touchdown during the fourth quarter against the Los Angeles Chargers
YIKES

Young Chiefs Fan’s Family Sues Deadspin Over Blackface Story

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

Kansas City, Missouri, USA; A general view of a Kansas City Chiefs helmet after the game against the Philadelphia Eagles.
OOPS

Deadspin Overhauls Story Accusing Chiefs Fan of ‘Blackface’

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

Mark Alfred

Kansas City Chiefs fans performing the tomahawk chop, Sept. 26, 2021.
‘MISLEADING’

Deadspin Slammed by Mom of KC Chiefs Fan for Blackface Claim

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

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Photo illustration of Jim Spanfeller with the G/O Media group logo over his eyes with further text reading out “goodbye!”
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G/O OFF

Jezebel Boss Quits as G/O Media Dumpster Fire Burns On

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

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CONFIDER

CNN’s New Boss Signals for Truce With Fox News

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

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EXODUS

Jezebel Editor Exits, the Latest in String of G/O Departures

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

Maxwell Tani

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‘BACK IN A BIG WAY’

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

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

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‘EXTREMELY PAINFUL’

G/O Media Announces Layoffs Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic

“Direct advertising is slowing dramatically and as such forcing these difficult decisions to be made,” CEO Jim Spanfeller said.

Maxwell Tani

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