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Defector, the site launched Tuesday by 18 former Deadspin staffers, reported 10,000 subscriptions in its first day. That’s all I can say to that. We’ve got plenty of people to pull that off—this is roughly the size of the staff at our old job.There are differences that will happen just going from a traffic, ad-based revenue model to a subscription model, where you’re writing for a much smaller, more specific audience. We want to be in regular contact with the news cycle and have plenty of posts up for people to read and comment under.
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Former Deadspin writers Drew Magary and David Roth should really stick to sports.
It was a lot of gaming out the math, which is stressful, but I hope what we landed on works for us and our readers.We want to be publishing a lot, and have this be a daily website where people come frequently.
According to Maitreyi Anantharaman, a staff writer and one of the co-founders of Defector, the company has already netted around 7,000 subscribers. We might do more Stitcher, or some that are in-house and only for subscribers. From award-winning writing and photography to binge-ready videos to electric live events, GQ meets millions of modern men where they live, creating the moments that create conversations.The Staff of Deadspin Is Taking Their Talents to Defector. We tried to split it down the middle as much as we could.
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. 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. But we also wanted to take as big of a swing as possible, since we have a staff of 19 people. “That all came about pretty organically. “ Over 10,000 people subscribed to http:// defector.com on Day One, but billions more have the opportunity to join on Day Two,” the official website account tweeted Wednesday. Slate … The end result, announced today, is Much has changed in the media landscape since last November.