UPDATED 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…
, with several staffers on the well-read sports blog taking to social media Wednesday to say they had also left the site.
“Today, a number of our colleagues at Deadspin resigned from their positions,” said GMG Union, a WGA East local that reps the editorial staff. “From the outset, [G/O Media CEO] Jim Spanfeller has worked to undermine a successful site by curtailing its most well-read coverage because it makes him personally uncomfortable. This is not what journalism looks like and it is not what editorial independence looks like.
Petchesky’s termination Tuesday came a day after management handed down the mandate telling employees to stop writing stories that don’t involve sports. The edict was met with anger internally and by readers on social media, prompting staffers to fill Deadspin’s homepage with non-sports stories.
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