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![SB Nation Deletes Racist Article Full Of Jokes About Domestic Violence](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/gayto1xi37lngpj4zbg6.png)
![Elena Bergeron Stepped Down At SB Nation Amid Questions About Handling Of Sexual Misconduct Allegation [Update]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/zd0pkcdvxorkq7wyxcwf.png)
![SB Nation Boss Announces New, Innovative Way To Not Pay People [Update]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/x2s5dwhixpqtrvrnquaq.gif)
SB Nation Boss Announces New, Innovative Way To Not Pay People [Update]
In a recent memo, SB Nation’s “team brands director” John Ness—who has ostensibly spent the past year fixing SB Nation’s outdated and exploitative team site model, but is in reality just one more bullshitter Vox Media’s upper management has put between themselves and an increasingly angry army of bl...
![SB Nation Wrongly Told Two Writers They Couldn't Get Paid Because They Are Under 18<em></em>](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/zgagfdqjbuvryy9gw5hn.gif)
SB Nation Wrongly Told Two Writers They Couldn't Get Paid Because They Are Under 18<em></em>
A manager from SB Nation, a network of sports blogs that continues to profit off the labor of unpaid and underpaid workers, recently told two writers who are still in high school that they could not be paid for their work because they are under the age of 18....
![FanSided, <i>Sports Illustrated's</i> Slimy Appendage, Reeks Of Exploitation](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/Image_Not_Found_1x_qjofp8.png)
FanSided, <i>Sports Illustrated's</i> Slimy Appendage, Reeks Of Exploitation
In 2015, Time Inc., the listing titan of 20th-century publishing, bought FanSided—a network of more than 300 sport- and team-centric blogs producing the sort of easily digestible and SEO-friendly posts that exist purely to show up near the top in Google searches—and attached it to their legacy publi...
![SB Nation Is Paying Workers As Little As $3 Per Blog Post](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/xkrvw9zrusdilvmbbh1b.gif)
SB Nation Is Paying Workers As Little As $3 Per Blog Post
What’s a fair amount for a billion-dollar company to pay a writer for reporting, writing, and publishing one post per day on the company’s website? Two posts per day? One post per week? Two posts per week? These are the questions Vox Media and SB Nation are batting back and forth as they grind their...
![SB Nation May Like The Brands More Than Good Interviews](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/wt2chco1b5mxhygfpfkh.jpg)
SB Nation May Like The Brands More Than Good Interviews
SB Nation published a blog about how Joel Embiid likes a soda that the soda company pays him to say he likes. Yes, it’s as embarrassing and pointless as it sounds....
![SB Nation Is Still Exploiting Workers, But In A Kinder, Gentler Way](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/dlqcv0udoiaf4hp9foer.gif)
SB Nation Is Still Exploiting Workers, But In A Kinder, Gentler Way
In the nine months since Deadspin reported on how SB Nation’s business model relies on underpaying and not paying workers across its sprawling empire of more than 300 sports sites—“team sites,” as the jargon goes—bosses at SB Nation and its parent company, Vox Media, have put in a lot of work to mak...
![SB Nation Laid Off Their Copy Editors](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/lfrsouev4xajobnsp7x5.jpg)
SB Nation Laid Off Their Copy Editors
Citing the failure of its social video efforts, Vox Media laid off about 50 people yesterday, mostly from Racked, Curbed, SB Nation, and the video team. At SB Nation, that meant terminating several full-time employees as well as at least 12 part-time employees who staffed the copy-editing desk and t...
![SB Nation Memo To Underpaid Writers: Unspecific Changes Will Happen, Details To Come](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/imsgkxhqqsfnxfzpmyna.png)
SB Nation Memo To Underpaid Writers: Unspecific Changes Will Happen, Details To Come
SB Nation editor-in-chief Elena Bergeron wrote an internal memo to team-site bloggers today, publishing it on the company’s internal “Community Corner” page. It announced a few updates and a series of planned changes to a sprawling team-site network comprising more than 319 team sites staffed by tho...
![SB Nation To Team Site Managers: You Do This For Love, Now Hit Your Quotas](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/g3ebwhdzqukcjm3le4wc.png)
SB Nation To Team Site Managers: You Do This For Love, Now Hit Your Quotas
Earlier this week Deadspin published a story about how SB Nation team sites’ traffic accounts for the vast majority of the network’s total traffic, even though the people who staff these sites are primarily paid low monthly stipends or nothing at all. The story detailed, among other things, how a Vo...
![Leaked Data Show Vast Majority Of SB Nation Page Views Come From Team Sites<em></em>](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/lknazeomjomvcztvzeih.png)
Leaked Data Show Vast Majority Of SB Nation Page Views Come From Team Sites<em></em>
According to internal SB Nation traffic numbers obtained by Deadspin, SB Nation’s collective team sites significantly outperformed SBNation.com in terms of page views over a two-week period in August. These numbers are consistent with data from Comscore, an internet analytics company that functions ...
![Former SB Nation Site Manager Files Lawsuit Against Vox Media For Alleged Labor Law Violations <em></em>](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/vmxaxyk31rab1lzwmnxh.jpg)
Former SB Nation Site Manager Files Lawsuit Against Vox Media For Alleged Labor Law Violations <em></em>
A former SB Nation site manager filed a collective action lawsuit against Vox Media today in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia....
![SB Nation Bosses, Current And Former Workers Discuss Pay, Management, And More In Emails And Leaked Memos<em></em>](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/wvjmqmtjtqo8cxgnj9gf.png)
SB Nation Bosses, Current And Former Workers Discuss Pay, Management, And More In Emails And Leaked Memos<em></em>
Yesterday, Deadspin published a report about how Vox Media and SB Nation profit off of unpaid and underpaid workers. With names and other identifying information redacted by request, here are some of the dozens of emails I received in response to the article....