Deadspin editor quits, blasts G/O management

Context when necessary. If I’m covering Legion baseball on a 92-degree night, I’m sure as hell wearing shorts.

 

No surprise she got scooped up somewhere.

Hopefully, when the layoffs at Deadspin do arrive, her staff land on their feet.

 

She got out just in time. Deadspin will be unrecognizable within a year, and not in a good way. Magary has talent and a following, so he's set.

The rest of them will just get gobbled up by former Deadspin/Gawker staff at other sites.

 

This -- and the comments, especially one by Greenwell herself -- was amusing.

https://deadspin.com/it-is-vitally-important-that-you-click-on-this-oakland-1837502226

Except for Wagner, who will next be seen throwing buckets of paint at a PETA protest.

 

My first job out of college, I showed up to work wearing what I would to my internship. It wasn't hobo status, but slacks and a shirt you'd wear out to a nice but not fancy dinner. I immediately had the publisher creating a scene because no one told me the dress code: button-up shirt and tie. I made a quick trip to Walmart very shortly there after.

 

More Deadspin on Gawker on Gawker on Deadspin here.

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584

tl/dr

 

I read it. It was good.

 

I read it. She spends an inordinate amount of time writing about how much better the politics/culture stuff does than the sports stuff does in terms of legitimate traffic, which makes me wonder if she just gave the new owners the roadmap to simply erasing Deadspin once and for all and just remaking the place as a politics/culture site.

Apart from Magary twice a week or whatever his schedule is, I click on basically nothing there anymore. There's not much to differentiate it from everyplace else (I guess they swear more). It's the same aggregation, only the Deadspin writers are significantly lazier at it than everyone else, a problem that got worse under Greenwell, even before the new owners came in. I'm not sure what the audience is for that along with Laura Wagner screeching about something over 60 in-dire-need-of-editing inches.

 

I don't know that they have a choice but to let it get published, per the union contract.

 

I'm sure Wired couldn't care less and I don't mean that as a compliment to Wired.

I feel for Greenwell, in the sense that something important was lost. But, generally, Deadspin folks are like alien life forms to me, and I, I am quite sure, to them.