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Will Leitch On His Career, Founding Deadspin, And Whether He Still Reads The Comments

Will Leitch is best known as the founder of Deadspin, the incredibly influential Gawker sports blog started in 2005. He left Deadspin in 2008 for New York Magazine where he is now a contributing editor. He’s also a senior writer for Sports On Earth, and has contributed to The New York Times, Esquire, The Atlantic, GQ, Bloomberg Businessweek, FastContinue reading “Will Leitch On His Career, Founding Deadspin, And Whether He Still Reads The Comments”

Will Leitch Talks With Us About Keeping Everything In Perspective

For Part 2 of our Q & A with writer Will Leitch, we got a bit more philosophical. Leitch and I discussed how to get ahead in an industry saturated with writers, but we also discussed the state of modern discourse. Leitch is known as a fairly centrist figure in a world that is veryContinue reading “Will Leitch Talks With Us About Keeping Everything In Perspective”