Condé Nast Portfolio
Home > Views > Blogs > Mixed Media > Going, Going, GONE! Deadspin Editor Quits
EMAIL
PRINT
RSS
SHARE
TEXT SIZE:
SHARE
Send a copy to me

Separate multiple email addresses (max 20) with commas.

0/1500

Main
Idle Chatter: HuffPo as Fad; Maxim o...   Ballmer Sets a Newspaper Deadline: 2018
Jun 5 2008 3:43PM EDT

Going, Going, GONE! Deadspin Editor Quits


Another day, another exit at Gawker Media. Well-liked Deadspin editor Will Leitch is parting ways with the Gawker sports title.

"It is with heavy heart -- yet mirthful disposition! -- that we announce that our time as Deadspin editor is about to draw to a close," Leitch wrote today. "After almost three years of plugging away around here, we are leaving as editor of Deadspin on Friday, June 27."

And how's Gawker boss Nick Denton feel about it one of his most popular employees? "I'm trying to be pleased for Will!" he told Portfolio.com. "It's extraordinary for a 32-year-old writer to have a column alongside Heilemann, Cramer, Andersen."

Leitch has signed on with New York magazine as contributing editor.

"And I'm sure we'll use the example of Will's career trajectory in recruiting new writers to Gawker titles," Denton offered.

Leitch sounded somewhat melancholy. "We're excited about it," he wrote. "But, obviously, this has been our baby and our life every day for three years -- which is about four decades in blog time -- and we're too emotional about the whole thing to get into much more detail about how we feel about the whole matter."

by John Clarke Jr.

(Jeff Bercovici is on vacation.)

See more in

Loading...
Add Your Comment
View
 

Thank you for registering as a Portfolio.com Insider. Your comment has been added.

Create Your Public Profile


Archive

Previous
Jul
2009
Next


Also in Portfolio.com
Most Read
Most Emailed
Recently Commented

Newsletter Sign-Up
Inside Portfolio.com
In This Issue
Subscribe
Newsletter Sign-Up
Inside Portfolio.com
In This Issue
Subscribe