# Defector

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Market: Worldwide
Main language: en
Traffic rank (Tranco): #51,692
Kind of site: magazine
Last updated: 2026-09-17

## Best for
- awareness · entertainment (medium): Employee-owned sports and culture site with a paying readership, covering the NFL, NBA, movies and television.

## About
Defector is an employee-owned sports and culture website

Defector is an employee-owned sports and culture website. It covers major leagues including the NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB and NHL, soccer and tennis, alongside arts and culture, politics, movies, television and crossword puzzles, with a blog section and reader comments on articles. The site also publishes a hall of fame for past staff, a tip line for news and financial tips, freelancer pitch guidelines, crossword submission guidelines, a masthead, books written by its staff, and a merchandise shop, and distributes content through Twitch and Bluesky, describing itself on its homepage as the last good website.

The site carries advertising, described on the homepage as removable through a paid subscription.

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