Grantland Suspends Publication Indefinitely
Grantland, the sports and culture outlet founded by Bill Simmons in 2011, has suspended publication indefinitely, according to an ESPN press release issued on Friday afternoon:
Writing Lessons: You Are Trying Too Hard
You are a writer. You write features. You are supposed to write a feature about a very famous person at a major sporting event, but the event has not started yet, so you have no new reporting or novel insights on the subject. No one does, and no one can. This is a difficulty, perhaps even a metaphysical difficulty; if…
ESPN and Bill Simmons Sign Their Divorce Papers
After 14 years, the most notorious relationship in sports media has reached its end: Today, ESPN announced that it has broken off negotiations with star personality Bill Simmons, who will leave the sports behemoth when his contract is up this fall.
Ex-First Look editor Matt Taibbi has landed a new feature-writing gig at Grantland. Taibbi has also returned to writing for Rolling Stone.
The Journalist and the Con Artist
It wasn't even a well-executed story about a golf club. Most people agree now, broadly, about Grantland's failings toward transgender people in its telling of—and creation of—the tragic story of the golf-club inventor Essay Anne Vanderbilt. Bill Simmons, the founder and editor-in-chief of the prestige-sportswriting…
Twitter Explodes After Trans Subject of Golf Article Kills Herself
On Friday, journalist Caleb Hannan tweeted a link to a recent Grantland story he did, writing, "Not sure what to say other than this is the strangest story I've ever worked on."
MSNBC Don't Need No Stinking Olbermann
In your beautiful Wednesday media column: MSNBC's doing fine without Olbermann, network news is on the rise, a crazy NY Daily News rumor, the AP plays footsie with North Korea, David Cho to Grantland, and a Village Voice strike update.
Greta Van Susteren Unclear on What Journalism Is
In your finally Friday media column: Greta Van Susteren stands up for Sarah Palin, the NYT vs. HuffPo Twitter traffic war, an excellent history of The National, Conde Nast must have its own air, and Larry King comments on penises.
White House Outraged That Newspaper Showed Video Unflattering to White House
In your fine Friday media column: the White House press office bitches about petty things, Bloomberg View and Grantland reveal their rosters, the WSJ gets a new money editor, and the media's Royal Wedding conundrum is unsolvable.
