Defector, the site launched Tuesday by 18 former Deadspin staffers, reported 10,000 subscriptions in its first day. “Over 10,000 people subscribed to http ...

Seoul — The South Korean military said on Monday that a man believed to be a North Korean who defected to the South had crossed the border back into North Korea on New Year's Day. The unidentified ...

On Tuesday a new sports blog popped up on the internet, one created by a familiar cast of characters: The site is called Defector, and it is made up of former writers and editors of Deadspin, ...

Sadly, this counts as a normal week for digital media these days—although the problems and solutions are seldom illustrated with such on-the-nose proximity. It’s a big flex in a year that has seen ...

Yeonmi Park, a North Korean defector, said Friday her experiences since coming to the U.S. as a college student have left her questioning some of what she was told about America. Park grew up in North ...

Giving and receiving criticism is uncomfortable, even with only 27 employees. Defector Media’s quest to address that dilemma ...

Roughly six months after announcing its launch, Defector has become a media success story. That warranted some spotlight from the Washington Post‘s media columnist, Margaret Sullivan, who praised the ...

Nearly all of the 20 or so staffers of Deadspin who departed the sports and culture website in 2019 during a remarkable mass exodus have reunited to form a new digital company, Defector Media. Using a ...

During year two, Defector experimented with promotional pricing for the first time — $0.99 for the first month — and said more than 60% of the 2,000 people who subscribed to the promo rate converted ...

Last year, the entire staff of the sports media website Deadspin quit after a dispute with their private equity bosses. Now, most of them are coming back under a new name, Defector, and a very ...