I eventually left that for a fact-checking gig at ESPN The Magazine, which still existed at the time. But that was a really good grounding for the sort of basic journalism that serves you well. From there, I went to the New York Post -again, not what I would like to do-as a general cops and courts reporter. So I took on an internship at a personal-finance magazine, which was almost the exact opposite of what I wanted to do. But coming out of Columbia Journalism School, there were no jobs. I’d buy a newspaper on the subway every morning and just read the sports section back to front. Keith Gessen: How did you get involved in sports journalism, and how did you get involved with Defector?īarry Petchesky: I always wanted to be a sportswriter. Their conversation took place over Zoom the transcript has been edited for length and clarity. In December, Keith Gessen, Delacorte Professor of Magazine Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, spoke with Barry Petchesky, deputy editor of Defector Media Giri Nathan, staff writer Lauren Theisen, engagement editor and Jasper Wang, vice president of revenue and operations, who collectively explained the creation of Defector and how its unique business model works. Defector is devoted to sports, but it is hardly stuck on them rather, it engages with the deeper concerns of culture, labor, and politics that sports often prompt. In late 2019, writers at Deadspin, the sports website formerly owned by Gawker Media, quit en masse, partly to protest a mandate from the site’s new owner, a private equity firm, to “stick to sports.” In 2020, they reconvened to launch Defector Media, an employee-owned, subscription-only website.
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