Will Leitch is a contributing editor at New York. He joined the magazine in July 2008. He writes for both the print magazine and website, including feature stories, essays for the magazine’s Intelligencer section, magazine columns and blog posts at nymag.com’s “The Sports Section.” Prior to joining the magazine’s staff, Leitch had been writing for New York since June 2004. In September 2005, Leitch became the founding editor of Gawker Media’s Deadspin sports blog, one of the most highly trafficked sports blogs on the Internet. He was also the founding editor of The Black Table along with Eric Gillin, A.J. Daulerio and Aileen Gallagher where he had an online column, Life as a Loser, which ran for five years. The column has since been compiled into a book.
Leitch has also written for Slate, Playboy, Fast Company, Men’s Journal, and Men’s Health, and contributed to The New York Times Op-Ed page and nytimes.com. Leitch is the author of four books: Are We Winning?: Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball, God Save the Fan, the novel Catch, and the collection of Internet columns Life As a Loser. Leitch graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was the editor of the Daily Illini, the University’s paper.