Deadspin sold by parent company, employees laid off with half-hour’s notice

Sports-blogging and pop-culture website Deadspin is being sold by parent company G/O Media. All of Deadspin‘s employees were laid off on Monday.

G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller announced Monday that the sports blogging website will be sold to European startup Lineup Publishing, and none of Deadspin‘s employees will be retained by the new owner. Former Deadspin writer Julie DiCaro said on X Monday that the staff got a half-hour notice about the layoffs, and employees were immediately locked out of internal Slack channels and laptops.

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