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G/O Media (Deadspin)
Publisher of Deadspin, Gizmodo, Jezebel, The Onion. Great Hill dismantled the portfolio — entire Deadspin staff resigned, Jezebel shuttered, all properties sold off.
Also known as Gizmodo Media Group
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Reviewed operating findings or a classified operating outcome are available.
Record updated Sept. 4, 2026
Current ownership
Current owner not established
This record does not identify a current owner. That absence is a gap in the record, not a conclusion about ownership.
1 ownership record has an unresolved current/former status.
Ownership and transaction history
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March 11, 2024
Operations ceased
Operating outcome
May 13, 2024
Revival or successor activity recorded
Operating outcome
Date not recorded
What happened under and after ownership
Operating outcome
Ceased operations, then returned
G/O Media sold Deadspin to Lineup Publishing on March 11, 2024, laid off its entire editorial staff, and the site published nothing new for about two months.
Lineup Publishing resumed publishing on May 13, 2024, with an entirely new, previously unannounced staff.
Owned and operated by Lineup Publishing, a Malta-based media company unrelated to G/O Media.
- Founded
- 2005
- Sponsor at closure
- G/O Media (owned by Great Hill Partners)
- Axios · 2024 · sale to Lineup Publishing, staff layoffs, March 11 2024
- Front Office Sports · roughly two-month dark period between the March sale and the May relaunch, no staff details released in the interim
- Awful Announcing · 2024 · publishing resumed May 13, 2024, with a new staff
- Wikipedia · founded/launched in 2005 by Will Leitch; G/O Media, owned by Great Hill Partners since April 2019, sold Deadspin to Lineup Publishing in March 2024 and laid off
What we do not know
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- No current public ownership assessment has been published.
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