Online sports magazine Deadspin has been sold to a European company that will not keep any of its current employees—just months after it triggered an intense backlash by falsely accusing a young boy of wearing “blackface” to a Kansas City Chiefs game.
“Recently we were approached by the European firm Lineup Publishing expressing interest in purchasing Deadspin to add to their growing media holdings,” Jim Spanfeller, the chief executive of Deadspin publisher G/O Media, said in a company-wide notice on Monday.
