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====== Defector Media ======

{{:wiki:defectormedia_governancedocuments_selcversion.pdf|Read the contractual voting rights and governance document here}}.

Summary by Olivia Henry, March 2021

**Organization description**

Defector Media is an New York LLC wholly-owned by a Delaware corporation.

**Types of membership**

   * Active employees are voting members.
  * Certain decisions — including selling the company or dissolving it — requires a vote of the supermajority holders.

**Board of directors**

//Composition//

  * Publisher
  * Vice President of revenue & operations (COO)
  * Editor in chief
  * Staff member who is an editor
  * Staff member who is a writer

//Governance//

  * Directors are elected by a supermajority employee vote.
  * Staff directors have one-year terms.
  * It takes a supermajority employee vote to hire or remove the publisher, COO and/or editor-in-chief.
  * The publisher, COO and editor-in-chief are directors as long as they hold those jobs (ex officio directors).

//Management//

  * The Board of Directors manage the day-to-day operations of the Company.

**Voting**

  * Standing committees can make decisions about certain business and operations issues, while editorial decision-making is carried out in a traditional newsroom hierarchy.
  * Committees seek to make decisions using active solidarity, or when “everyone is ‘okay’ with the decisions even if it is not their first choice.”
  * There are also temporary committees and advice circles.

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