Send us a tip using our anonymous form.Copyright © 2020 Sportico Media, LLC. Before “The hardest part is still the hard part,” Mr. Wang said, “which is having writers with talent and followings, and having these writers willing to hold hands and jump together. Rather, they said, they hoped to be able to pay themselves competitive salaries while developing a sustainable media business that produces content they are interested in.“It would be cool to show that this could be successful,” said Samer Kalaf, a former Deadspin managing editor who has joined Defector. “If we tried it and it doesn’t work, at least we can say we tried it.”After Quitting Deadspin in Protest, They’re Starting a New SiteStaff members — and owners — of Defector Media meeting on Zoom. The sports site Deadspin still exists in name, but loyal readers know the publication they loved was effectively killed last year, when … Just announced, Defector is a new sports-media company with a podcast starting August 13th and a website launching this fall headed up by former Deadspin features editor Tom Ley and featuring more than a dozen ex-Deadspin employees. Defector Media. The site will not run ads and be accessible through a subscription service. Through a new tie-up with streaming tech provider LiveLike, Turner Sports and the NBA will host private group chats synced to playoff action in the NBA app and on NBA.com starting next week. LiveLike… Seattle BLM protesters demand white people ‘give up' their homesTrump visits 'very ill' brother Robert in NYC hospitalBison rips pants off woman in violent attack caught on videoInside Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's new California estateMultiple staffers who quit Deadspin back in October joined forces to launch a rival site.Seattle BLM protesters demand white people ‘give up' their homesJennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez buy $40M Miami homeNYC man wanted for torching NYPD car busted after taunting fedsKarlie Kloss, Kaia Gerber among W Magazine’s new investorsKarlie Kloss, Kaia Gerber among W Magazine’s new investorsInside the summer camp that grooms future presidents and governorsInside the summer camp that grooms future presidents and governorsTom Cruise Told His ‘Mummy’ Co-Star That No One Can Run with Him On ScreenTom Cruise Told His ‘Mummy’ Co-Star That No One Can Run with Him On Screen Defector, the site launched Tuesday by 18 former Deadspin staffers, reported 10,000 subscriptions in its first day. As much as we all should probably be accustomed to a little uncertainty by now—beware anyone who expresses great conviction in the era of coronavirus; they’re either a charlatan or just plain… We've received your submission.More than a dozen of the Deadspin staffers who left the sports website for dead when they Defector Media will be staffed by 18 of the roughly 25 Deadspin writers and editors who quit en masse following a heated dispute with management about the direction of the website.The threat of a rival upstart marks the latest problem for G/O Media-owned Deadspin, which took so long to get back up and running, there were no more live sporting events to cover because of the coronavirus.Tom Ley, Deadspin’s former feature editor, will be the editor-in-chief of the new site, which plans to unveil a subscription-supported website and a weekly podcast in September. It was 2016, and the senior forward for the University of Wisconsin basketball team wanted to send a message to the NCAA. Defector Media is scheduled to start a podcast next month and roll out its website in September, its founders said. Jasper Wang, an ex-Bain & Co. staffer, will be handling the business side.Each staffer will own a 5 percent stake in the company, The first podcast will be available Aug. 13, in advance of the website’s launch in September. After they published articles on a pumpkin thief and how to dress for a wedding, Since the exodus, Deadspin itself has carried on under G/O Media, moving to Chicago from New York and hiring While the people who left Deadspin plan to write on sports for the new site, they will be free to go off-topic when the mood strikes them.After their departures last year, they created a Twitter feed, “A lot of us felt adrift,” Mr. Ley said. In October and November 2019, all writers at Deadspin quit en masse following an edict from the blog's owner, G/O Media, to "stick to sports". Post was not sent - check your email addresses!

Make use of this second chance, folks. Former Deadspin writer and editor Tom Ley will serve as editor in chief. Once they decided to do that, building the scaffolding of the business is easier than it’s ever been.”He said he was optimistic because readers have become accustomed to paying for online content, noting the sports fans who subscribe to The Athletic. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. The Big Ten’s decision to postpone fall sports has caused infighting at the 14-school league. Eighteen former Deadspin staffers are on the Defector …

“This is Defector, a new sports blog and media company,” according to the site. Former staffers of Deadspin, a sports and culture website under the G/O Media banner, have come together to launch their own website, Defector.
Eighteen former Deadspin employees who left the website in protest last October are forming a new subscription-based sports blog called Defector Media, it announced Tuesday morning. DON’T pick right up where you left off.”Ley and other editorial staffers walked over an unpopular edict to “stick to sports,” issued by G/O Media CEO James Spanfeller’s The company is the creation of journalists who left Deadspin last year. All Rights reserved. The site will launch in September of 2020. The journalists who took part in a staff rebellion last year are starting Defector Media, a company with a podcast and a website dedicated to sports and culture.One of the biggest staff rebellions in online media took place last year, when Defector’s founders said the company had no outside investors, and each employee has taken a stake of roughly 5 percent in the venture. On January 31, 2020, Tom Ley and several other former writers established Unnamed Temporary Sports Blog, an interim site sponsored by Dashlane. Former Deadspin writer and editor Tom Ley will serve as editor in chief. Eighteen former Deadspin employees who left the website in protest last October are forming a new subscription-based sports blog called Defector Media, it announced Tuesday morning.