Who is Barry Petchesky? Former Deputy Editor of Deadspin; Bio, Wiki, Age, Family, Education, Career, Fired, Twitter

Barry Petchesky Bio, Wiki

Barry Petchesky was the Deputy Editor of Deadspin, a sports news and blog website, originally founded by Gawker Media. He was fired on Tuesday, October 29th for “not sticking to sports,” he announced in a tweet. Gizmodo Media Group Union confirmed the move in a subsequent Twitter post.

Barry Petchesky Education

According to his Linkedln, he went to Stuyvesant High School and later joined Temple University for a degree in Journalist from 2002 to 2016. He was a member of the Alpha Epsilon Pi at the University. Petchesky later did his masters in Journalism at Columbia University.

Barry Petchesky Deadspin

Petchesky worked as the Deputy Editor of Deadspin having joined the sports news and blog website in 2009. He was fired on Tuesday October 29th for “not sticking to sports,” he announced in a tweet. Gizmodo Media Group Union confirmed the move in a subsequent Twitter post.

https://twitter.com/barry/status/1189224064788979712

Earlier today, @JimSpanfeller, CEO of G/O Media, fired our colleague and longtime Deadspin Deputy Editor Barry Petchesky. This will not stand. We will have updates soon.

— GMG Union WON A FAIR CONTRACT (@gmgunion) October 29, 2019

Petchesky’s removal comes a day after a staff memo from Paul Maidment, the editorial director of G/O Media, Deadspin’s parent company. Maidment wrote that creating great sports journalism would be the site’s “sole focus” and that Deadspin would write only about sports “and that which is relevant to sports in some way.”

“Where such subjects touch on sports, they are fair game for Deadspin,” Maidment wrote in the memo, the text of which was obtained by The Washington Post after first being reported by the Daily Beast. “Where they do not, they are not. We have plenty of other sites that write about politics, pop culture, the arts and the rest, and they are the appropriate places for such work.”

Since it was sold in April 2019, Deadspin has had a difficult relationship with its new corporate owner. Univision, the mainly Spanish-language media giant, sold off the properties that now make up G/O Media to private equity firm Great Hill Partners as part of a corporate restructuring.

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