MMA Writer Exposed As Child Pornography Collector [Update]
Late last week, Scottish MMA writer Iain Kidd was arguing with a Twitter user about Greg Hardy’s UFC career. That user,…
Vox Media Publisher Melissa Bell Sends Us Whiny Email About Deadspin's SB Nation Coverage
In a turn of events that will surprise absolutely no one, Vox Media publisher Melissa Bell thinks that Deadspin’s…
SB Nation Boss Announces New, Innovative Way To Not Pay People [Update]
In a recent memo, SB Nation’s “team brands director” John Ness—who has ostensibly spent the past year fixing SB…
SB Nation Wrongly Told Two Writers They Couldn't Get Paid Because They Are Under 18
A manager from SB Nation, a network of sports blogs that continues to profit off the labor of unpaid and underpaid…
FanSided, Sports Illustrated's Slimy Appendage, Reeks Of Exploitation
In 2015, Time Inc., the listing titan of 20th-century publishing, bought FanSided—a network of more than 300 sport- and…
SB Nation Is Paying Workers As Little As $3 Per Blog Post
What’s a fair amount for a billion-dollar company to pay a writer for reporting, writing, and publishing one post per…
SB Nation May Like The Brands More Than Good Interviews
SB Nation published a blog about how Joel Embiid likes a soda that the soda company pays him to say he likes. Yes, it’s…
SB Nation Is Still Exploiting Workers, But In A Kinder, Gentler Way
In the nine months since Deadspin reported on how SB Nation’s business model relies on underpaying and not paying…
SB Nation Laid Off Their Copy Editors
Citing the failure of its social video efforts, Vox Media laid off about 50 people yesterday, mostly from Racked, Curbed…
CBS Sports Accidentally Plagiarized SB Nation Posts Due To "Technical Issue"
CBS Sports has blamed a “technical issue” for scraping blogs from various SB Nation team sites and posting them in full…
Teen Girl Posed For 8 Years As Married Man To Write About Baseball And Harass Women
For the last eight years, baseball fan-turned-writer Becca Schultz has presented herself online as Ryan Schultz, a…
SB Nation Memo To Underpaid Writers: Unspecific Changes Will Happen, Details To Come
SB Nation editor-in-chief Elena Bergeron wrote an internal memo to team-site bloggers today, publishing it on the…
SB Nation To Team Site Managers: You Do This For Love, Now Hit Your Quotas
Earlier this week Deadspin published a story about how SB Nation team sites’ traffic accounts for the vast majority of…
Leaked Data Show Vast Majority Of SB Nation Page Views Come From Team Sites
According to internal SB Nation traffic numbers obtained by Deadspin, SB Nation’s collective team sites significantly…
Former SB Nation Site Manager Files Lawsuit Against Vox Media For Alleged Labor Law Violations
A former SB Nation site manager filed a collective action lawsuit against Vox Media today in U.S. District Court for…
SB Nation Bosses, Current And Former Workers Discuss Pay, Management, And More In Emails And Leaked Memos
Yesterday, Deadspin published a report about how Vox Media and SB Nation profit off of unpaid and underpaid workers.…
How SB Nation Profits Off An Army Of Exploited Workers
Depending on who’s defining it, to whom, and why, SB Nation is either a popular website best-known for puckish,…
SB Nation Cowboys Blog Deletes Bad Post About Ezekiel Elliott [Update]
Yesterday morning, SB Nation’s Cowboys blog, Blogging The Boys, published an article about the NFL’s ongoing…
SB Nation Blogger Removed From Masthead Following Deletion Of Bad Post
On Tuesday night, the editor of SLC Dunk, SB Nation’s Utah Jazz blog, posted an article about Gordon Hayward signing…
Unpaid SB Nation Writer Did Plagiarism, Got "Fired"
One of the hundreds of unpaid randos who produce the vast majority of the blogs on SB Nation’s network of sites has…