Put pro wrestlers in the Olympics. )Founded in 2005 by Will Leitch, Deadspin first made its name as part of the Gawker network with biting criticism of mainstream media outlets and personalities, as well as crude jokes and more traditional sports updates. If you value our work, please disable your ad blocker.By joining Slate Plus you support our work and get exclusive content. Slate is published by The Slate Group, a Graham Holdings Company.Slate relies on advertising to support our journalism. Please note that Dave McKenna was the last [editor-in-chief] of Deadspin. "The post continues, "McKenna has graciously agreed to accept his new position until the end of the day (this is his last day). In 1998, McKenna mentioned Tony Kornheiser in a column. "Spanfeller and others forced out an editor a couple months ago at Deadspin who didn't want to push a more strictly sports line on writers, and a few days ago, [they] sent out a memo the morning after a post on [President] Trump being booed at the World Series, saying let's stick to sports. ""I have gone over the contours of this blog in my mind so many times, and yet I still don't know what to say," Moskovitz said. “While amusing, our readers haven’t actually come to Deadspin for stories like, ‘Classic Rock, Ranked’ or ‘You’re Goddamned Right It’s Layering Season’ …,” it read.Multiple people with knowledge of Deadspin’s traffic numbers, however, said non-sports content, on average, performs better than straight sports stories.In another sign of unrest, Deadspin and its G/O sister sites posted articles on Monday that invited readers to email the sites’ management directly to voice displeasure about autoplay videos that had been introduced recently. “This is not what journalism looks like and it is not what editorial independence looks like.

The Washington Post via Getty Images In 2000, McKenna mentioned Kornheiser again in his City Paper column and in this case, the hammer dropped. The entire writing and editing staff of Deadspin quit after being told to "stick to sports." NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik broke down the tumult at Deadspin this way on Thursday's "So G/O Media is run by a guy named Jim Spanfeller. Dave McKenna is a writer for the Washington Post and a former writer for the weekly alternative Washington City Paper. AwfulAnnouncing.com is not an official web site for any media organization, professional sports league, team, or organization. The entire writing and editing staff of Deadspin quit after being told to "stick to sports. With Kornheiser gone from the Post, it's probably safe for McKenna to return to writing sports although another mention might force Mr. Tony to go off the deep end once again. But for many of its former staffers, like onetime editor-in-chief "And with that, it's over. On Friday, the website’s most well-known writer, Dave McKenna was said to be stepping down, according to a post by former Deadspin Senior Editor Diana Moskovitz. As David Carr told the story in 2006: When … Dave McKenna is a writer in Washington D.C. Deadspin was a good website." And the story of how Dave McKenna stopped writing about sports for The Washington Post is worth repeating. Each proposed developmental mechanism of change processes any systematic developmental account. We’re excited about Deadspin’s future and we’ll have some important updates in the coming days.”Much of the staff began to quit Wednesday evening following a tense meeting with Maidment and Deadspin staff.“We had a tremendous amount of editorial freedom at Deadspin,” said former editor Dan McQuade, who quit Thursday. The entire staff of around 20 writers and editors at Deadspin have announced their resignations or otherwise left the publication in recent days, leaving the future of the popular sports website in question and signaling the end, at least in its current form, of a brash, iconoclastic and sometimes controversial blog that grew into one of the most influential voices in sports media.The announcements, which started Wednesday and continued into Friday, arrived days after a new directive to publish only sports and sports-adjacent content was issued by chief executive Jim Spanfeller and editorial director Paul Maidment of G/O Media, Deadspin’s parent company. Dave mckenna a writer for the washington city paper. Second, you may not know that McKenna was a writer covering horse racing for the WaPo while also writing a sports column for the City Paper. But they couldn’t answer specific questions about the mandate. McKenna A typical college student spent about an hour from olivia, for example. If you don’t have clear guidelines with a mandate like that, then it’s going to be a mess.

"However, Maidment added, alluding to the recent firing, 'We are sorry that some on the Deadspin staff don't agree with that editorial direction, and refuse to work within that incredibly broad mandate.' If they shifted to a different mandate and there’s a plan, then I could think about going along with it. "On Friday, the website's most well-known writer, Dave McKenna, was said to be stepping down, "This the final Deadspin transaction before relegation. And you'll never see this message again.

"Deadspin, the brash and rebellious sports website, has had its entire writing and editing personnel resign just days after new management issued a mandate to staff to "stick to sports. A Season of Miracles in Washington: The Redskins reappear, and the Owner Vanishes

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On Friday, the accomplished Washington-based writer Dave McKenna confirmed he had quit, leaving the site without any of its editorial staff, according to its former editor. "So I'll keep it simple. Deadspin, the brash and rebellious sports website, has had its entire writing and editing personnel resign just days after new management issued a mandate to staff to "stick to sports." On that same day, The union also said the mandate to cover sports only was "a thinly veiled euphemism for 'don't speak truth to power.' And the story of how Dave McKenna stopped writing about sports for The Washington Post is worth repeating.