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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with The Atlantic's Adrienne LaFrance and Jeffrey Goldberg on hiring and promoting women; Goldberg says print cover writers are almost exclusively white men — It's not a shocker that a lot has changed at The Atlantic since it was founded all the way back in 1857.
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The Guardian, Mediaite, @karenkho, @boxall, @fisher_danar, @susanorlean, The Mary Sue, @monaeltahawy, @jessicaschulb, @jbenton, @jeffreygoldberg, @sulliview, @jbenton, @jbenton, @jbenton, @jbenton, @nhannahjones, @andilorenz, @nhannahjones, @nhannahjones, @nhannahjones, @jessieopie, @jaclyncosgrove, @itsalexberg, @jeffreygoldberg, @sarahparvini, @rachelheine, @niemanlab, @jeffreygoldberg, @jsellenberg, @jamilsmith, @laurahazardowen, @eefandrews, @blackamazon, @maxblumenthal, @laurahazardowen, @laurahazardowen, @laurahazardowen, @adriennelaf, @ashleyfeinberg, @jmrivera02, @ashleyfeinberg, @grossdm, @johnghendy, @alexvandermaas, @countmystars, @laurahazardowen, @_almaqah, @christykarras, @karenkho, @vadimjhu, @notesfromhel, @noreenmalone, @carnage4life, @karenkho, @alissamarie, @eenayo, @jeffreygoldberg, @3vansutton, @aarond, @rklein90, @aishas, @anamariecox, @karenkho, @jabogen, @alishagrauso, @laurahazardowen and @miekeeoyang
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Edward Helmore / The Guardian: The Atlantic editor seems to suggest only white men can write long stories
Ken Meyer / Mediaite: The Atlantic Editor Under Fire for Saying Writers Who Can Pen Long Features are ‘Almost Exclusively White Males’
Karen K. Ho / @karenkho: this kind of thinking among so many white male editors, despite clear evidence to the contrary, highlights the bubbles I have been spending most of my career fighting to break into: https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Bettina Boxall / @boxall: Atlantic has lots of company. During my 3 decades+ at @latimes, w/ a few exceptions it's seemed that a prerequisite for being considered a “WRITER” has been a pair of testicles (white of course). https://twitter.com/...
Dana R Fisher / @fisher_danar: Check out that quote down there, folks—apparently most people who can write 10K words are White Men—#OUTRAGEOUS! Just going to list a few authors who have written much longer books (as well as articles) who could do it: @tressiemcphd @sobieraj @SociologistRay @DeanaRohlinger1 https://twitter.com/...
Susan Orlean / @susanorlean: Oh my god is right. Seriously, Jeffrey? Are you reading anything these days? https://twitter.com/...
Chelsea Steiner / The Mary Sue: The Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic Doesn't Think Women Can Write Longform Pieces
Mona Eltahawy / @monaeltahawy: So many white male editors in US media go out of their way to remind us they are gatekeepers of patriarchy - whether it's in who they hire/don't hire, who they publish/don't publish, and the predators they often protect and enable.
Jessica Schulberg / @jessicaschulb: Aside from being patently untrue it blows my mind that the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic still doesn't know better than to say this out loud!!! https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: Oh, one last thing:Generally speaking, when a journalist says he's been “completely misquoted” and asked for a correction — but it turns out the exchange is on tape and quoted completely accurately — the good thing to do is to take back your false charges
Jeffrey Goldberg / @jeffreygoldberg: Re: That @NiemanReports interview: I was trying to explain (and obviously failed to explain) that white males dominate cover-story writing because they've had all the opportunities. We're trying to change that at @TheAtlantic. 1/2
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: I aspire to be one of those women who can write 1,200 words. I top out at about 850.
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: It's the same reason that women/POC typically make up a smaller share of managers/executives with every rung of the corporate ladder you climb. It gets harder to make what a white man's lizard brain falsely tells him is a “riskier” choice. (6.6% of Fortune 500 CEOs are women.)
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: A few thoughts. First, what @TheAtlantic is doing to bring more women into top positions is legit exciting, and not just because it means promotions for beloved @NiemanLab alumni! https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: Third: I thought it was pretty clear what Goldberg meant, that white men are the ones who usually get those opportunities.
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: When an opportunity is that rare, a publication doubles down on whatever its priors are in picking a story/writer. So if its priors are “this is a job for white men,” they'll do that.
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: It is not, clearly, that white men are disproportionately the ones who can write a 10K cover, but it is certainly true that far too many people always assume white men are the most capable even when they write shitty-ass 10K cover stories.
Andrea Lorenz / @andilorenz: I'd be curious to know the makeup of the editors choosing writers for the cover story.
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: Hint: White men.
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: Literally, the difference between Nikole Hannah-Jones the beat reporter who could barely get on the front-page of a regional newspaper and the Nikole Hannah-Jones who could write a 10K-word story for a national magazine was about 12 months and someone believing I was capable.
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: So, no one thought I was capable of writing a 10K cover story...until someone gave me the opportunity to do it. And until someone gave me the opportunity to do it, I had never written a 10K cover story. No matter WHO'S writing these they take A LOT of work, editing, rewriting. https://twitter.com/...
Jessie Opoien / @jessieopie: It's a little known fact, the uterus actually prevents women from being able to write more than 9,999 words in one story. https://twitter.com/...
Jaclyn Cosgrove / @jaclyncosgrove: One time, I used my tiny lady brain to write all these words about mental illness and the criminal justice system: http://newsok.com/... It was real, real hard for a little ol' lady like me. *faints from stress* https://twitter.com/...
Alex Berg / @itsalexberg: I guess it's a miracle that I can even write this fourteen word Tweet. https://twitter.com/...
Jeffrey Goldberg / @jeffreygoldberg: A bit more: Most of the writers of magazine cover stories have been men because men have traditionally been given the opportunity to do so. We're trying to change this at @TheAtlantic. @laurahazardowen interviewed me about changes at the magazine here: https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Sarah Parvini / @sarahparvini: This line: “I used to cover the Middle East & I think the thing that hamstrings Middle Eastern countries more than almost anything else is that they tend not to tap into half their population's potential and intelligence...It's the same principle applied to any field, any place.” https://twitter.com/...
@niemanlab: “I want to create conditions in which women and people of color don't feel like they have to represent all the time, they can just do their jobs."https://www.niemanlab.org/ ...
Jeffrey Goldberg / @jeffreygoldberg: 2/2 @laurahazardowen's story has the details about how we're trying to improve (going from 17% women leaders to 63% women leaders in less than 3 years, for 1 thing). I'm sorry I didn't make myself clear in this interview, and I'm sorry that I hurt anyone. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Jordan Ellenberg / @jsellenberg: Everybody who writes long pieces at some point writes their first. @nxthompson assigned me 6k words for Wired when I'd never done >1200. https://twitter.com/...
Jamil Smith / @jamilsmith: I hope that @JeffreyGoldberg now realizes how this attitude perpetuates the very problem that he claims that he wants to solve. Yes, writing those stories is difficult. There are those of us who aren't white men who are quite capable of handling the task. https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: Here are my comments on my Atlantic interview with @JeffreyGoldberg. 1) I enjoyed talking with Jeff and think that @TheAtlantic is doing an admirable job of hiring women. This is WHY I did the piece. It sucks if a stray comment distracts from what the team there is accomplishing.
Eve Andrews / @eefandrews: i don't think that's what's going on.... it's that there already ARE a lot of women and non-white men who write longform reported features, including for the atlantic, and to say that “almost exclusively” white men do it is out of touch and out of date
Max Blumenthal / @maxblumenthal: Jeffrey Goldberg: It's really hard to write a bogus 10,000 word cover story linking Saddam to Al Qaeda or drumming up war with Iran, then get promoted to editor in chief. The journalists in America who can do it are exclusively ex-Israeli prison guards. https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: 4) And to the Twitter dudes (some of whom have now deleted their tweets) suggesting I made this up: JFC, of course I recorded it.
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: 3) Please please read the whole story, including the comments from @AdrienneLaF, the first female executive editor in the company's history. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: 2) An earlier thread suggested that Jeff believes I misquoted him. He says this is not the case. https://twitter.com/...
Adrienne LaFrance / @adriennelaf: A lot of people are sharing one quote by @JeffreyGoldberg from this Nieman Lab piece. I understand why. But as someone who has had infinity conversations with him about getting more women bylines in the print magazine, I know what he actually meant. (1/2)
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: oh my GOD https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Rivera / @jmrivera02: there are all sorts of ways top editors ghettoize marginalized writers—"reporters" is one. POC are rarely seen as “reporters” because they only break through when they're writing about—guess what—race. there are all sorts of arbitrary experience thresholds in this business https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: Gotta train up all these women so hopefully one day they can reach the level of..... Jesse Singal? pic.twitter.com/LG9EykNDJo
Daniel Gross / @grossdm: And yet somehow virtually every New York Magazine piece that is knocked out of the park is by @lisaxmiller or @jpressler or @Olivianuzzi or @rtraister or @vanessagrigor https://twitter.com/...
John Hendrickson / @johnghendy: This piece is a good occasion to acknowledge that @nora_kelly is the backbone of @TheAtlPolitics team and makes us all better every day: https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Alex Vandermaas-Peeler / @alexvandermaas: One of the first impressions I had interviewing for my role at Atlantic 57 was that the team is run by women (including many woc). I've seen how rare that can be and cannot emphasize enough how important this is for me as a woman in the workplace. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Liz Thurmond / @countmystars: Men are always, ALWAYS seen for their potential and women are always seen for the absolute minimum evaluation of their experience. https://twitter.com/...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: I will be doing a couple more tweets about this. To respond briefly here, Jeff isn't misquoted - but I also believe his comments are being somewhat misconstrued. He didn't say the only people who *CAN* write these stories are men.
Almaqah / @_almaqah: Does Jeff Golberg think David Frum is so much more talented than other writers that he merits 10% of their cover stories in the past two years https://twitter.com/...
Christy Karras / @christykarras: So you're saying they completely misquoted you? Have you asked for a correction?
Karen K. Ho / @karenkho: Off the top of my head, here are some non-white guys capable of writing 10,000 word cover stories: @jaycaspiankang @carvellwallace @jaeahjlee @alexandrianeas @jiatolentino @caityweaver @taffyakner @MirinFader @minakimes @joonlee @JamilSmith @jelani9 @caseyparks @conniewang
Vadim Schick / @vadimjhu: If you read it context of the first paragraph though, it's pretty clear he meant is as self-criticism, no?
Helen Ubias / @notesfromhel: There are not a lot of journalists in America who can do it...in large part because the editors in America who hire/assign people to do these stories are almost exclusively white males. There you go, Mr. Goldberg. Fixed it for you. https://twitter.com/...
Noreen Malone / @noreenmalone: What's interesting is that so many men who have been handed the editorship of a magazine without ... ever having been an editor seem to have a difficult time imagining taking a flyer on others doing the thing they used to do. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: This is an example of confusing opportunity with ability https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Karen K. Ho / @karenkho: More great names who are not white dudes capable of writing cover-length longform stories ALL THE TIME: @AdrianChen @gingerthomp1 @evaholland @omar_aok @williams_paige @e_alexjung @bijanstephen @marissaaevans @ktbenner @mega2e @jodikantor
Alissa Wilkinson / @alissamarie: Honestly can not emphasize enough how often I've seen the latter be true in my professional experience (over and over and over again) https://twitter.com/...
Inae Oh / @eenayo: also! the last line in this very dumb graf is how most Precious Editors at Important Magazines tend to operate https://twitter.com/...
Jeffrey Goldberg / @jeffreygoldberg: They didn't. I told the reporter that many women haven't been given the chance to write the 10,000 word stories. That's what I'm trying to change.
Evan Sutton / @3vansutton: The reason most of the cover stories are written by white men is that editors assign the stories to white men, not because women or people of color can't write great cover stories. https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Dunlap / @aarond: Goldberg tries to deny saying that quote, then backpedals and says it's he said it but it's not what he meant, even though it was pic.twitter.com/mVU0sPlxrM
Rebecca Klein / @rklein90: This is profoundly infuriating https://twitter.com/...
Aisha Sultan / @aishas: It's really, really hard to be an editor-in-chief w. enough self awareness to realize how ridiculous and terrible this sounds. But, we see the promise and potential here. With enough exposure to lady writers capable of producing 10,000 words, we can get you there. https://twitter.com/...
Ana Marie Cox / @anamariecox: Ok I'll go first: @rtraister @Remember_Sarah @taffyakner @susanorlean @JaneMayerNYer @jiatolentino @michelledean @annehelen @lyzl @BlairBraverman And that was without looking anything up. Please, everyone, add whomever I forgot. https://twitter.com/...
Karen K. Ho / @karenkho: I'm sure many Atlantic staffers read @lyzl but if I was independently rich one of the first things I would do is hire her to write whatever the hell she wanted, including cover features. You bet your butts she's one of the best features writers in America right now.
Julie Bogen / @jabogen: .@AdrienneLaF tells @NiemanLab “The only way to put women in leadership is to do it for the first time.” “My wife introduced me to the concept that women are judged on experience and men are judged on potential,” says @JeffreyGoldberg. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Craig Newmark gives $6M to Consumer Reports, the largest donation in the history of the 80+ year organization, as it expands its coverage of the tech industry — An entrepreneur who made a fortune thanks to his digital disruption of the newspaper industry has joined forces …
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@craignewmark, @dangillmor, @fastcompany, @scottnover, @craigsilverman, @mlsif, @janebsinger and Fast Company
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Craig Newmark / @craignewmark: I love watching TV, but don't love when my TV watches me. The @ConsumerReports Digital Lab will inform folks of these unintended consequences of new tech and advocate for consumers' digital rights. Talked this and more with @marcatracy https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: Today's award for journalistic snide goes to the @nytimes for its headline (and lede) on the story about the big @craignewmark donation to Consumer Reports. Petty, wrong in key ways, and way beneath you, NYT. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@fastcompany: Digital Lab, a new project from Consumer Reports, will investigate and rate the data security of internet tools and services. Craig Newmark thinks these types of efforts should be a priority in the digital era. https://www.fastcompany.com/ ...
Scott Nover / @scottnover: I think @craignewmark is more than a “new friend to journalism” at this point. https://twitter.com/...
Craig Silverman / @craigsilverman: Very much looking forward to what Consumer Reports will do with a new lab to investigate and rate digits products. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Micah Sifry / @mlsif: Really thrilled at this news! With help fro @craignewmark @ConsumerReports is building a Digital Lab to expose the hidden harms in platforms, products and services and to advance consumers' digital rights. https://twitter.com/...
Jane Singer / @janebsinger: With a $6m gift from Craisglist founder, the venerable Consumer Reports is to launch a Digital Lab division. Famous for crash-testing cars and putting washers through the wringer, CR will create comparably rigorous tests for today's digital tools. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
Major media outlets, including the Daily Beast and WaPo, fail to fact-check and wrongly report a story about Dutch teenager being euthanized, issue corrections — Inaccurate stories claiming the 17-year-old had been “legally euthanised” travelled so widely across the internet that even the Pope appeared to tweet about it.
Discussion:
Politico, @anamariecox, @buzzfeedben, @buzzfeedben, @craigsilverman, @mathewi, @politicoeurope, @natemcdermott, @tomgara, Jezebel and New York Post
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Naomi O'Leary / Politico: The euthanasia that wasn't — Noa Pothoven sought help to end her life but was refused.
Ana Marie Cox / @anamariecox: Because I am a glutton for punishment, I listen/watch a lot of right wing media and a story about the untimely death of a young Dutch woman was ALL THE TALK yesterday ("Culture of death!" “First abortion, then euthanasia!"). Here's what really happened. https://www.buzzfeed.com/...
Ben Smith / @buzzfeedben: Part of the story here is how neatly the motives for profit and ideological combat align https://www.buzzfeed.com/...
Ben Smith / @buzzfeedben: A great story from @MarkDiStef and @ikran on how the organization we wrote about years ago under the headline “king of bullshit news” started an ideological fight over Dutch euthanasia laws https://www.buzzfeed.com/...
Craig Silverman / @craigsilverman: A dive into how the false claim that a Dutch teenager died by euthanasia cascaded across int'l media — and how a news agency we investigated (and won a recent legal decision against) appears to have played a role in spreading it: https://www.buzzfeed.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: This is a classic “too good to check” story, the kind that seems to be even more common now as everyone chases those declining clickbait ad revenues https://www.mediagazer.com/...
Politico Europe / @politicoeurope: It was a story too horrible to be true: A 17-year-old victim of sexual assault had been euthanized in the Netherlands. And indeed, it wasn't true https://www.politico.eu/...
Nathan McDermott / @natemcdermott: Just a reminder: if a one sentence summary of a story you see in a tweet seems to good—or screwed up—to be true, it often times is. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Gara / @tomgara: A big part of the Dutch teen euthanasia story is that media is so much more comfortable aggregating sketchy news if it's foreign. Would WaPo or Daily Beast run with an ambiguously sourced Daily Mail article about a US prison executing a teenager? https://www.buzzfeed.com/...
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Hundreds of Vox Media workers stage a one-day walkout to pressure management to sign a union contract; an editor says SBNation won't cover the NBA finals Game 3 — - Employees aren't writing or editing stories on Thursday — ‘This was a hard decision,’ SBNation editor says on Twitter
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@germanrlopez, The Wrap, @josheidelson, @dlind, Mediaite, @mskellymhayes, @gmgunion, @letsgomathias, HuffPost, @charliemagne, @lukewsavage, @sarahmccammon, @iwwfju, @thesarahkelly, @dianaelbasha, @samleecole, @jmsummers, @kath_krueger, @attackerman, @austinhunt, @timebner, @rachelysanders, @brandonetc, @zzzzaaaacccchhh and @attackerman
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German Lopez / @germanrlopez: .@Bankoff: I love working at Vox. But when I started, I made just $30,000 a year in DC (a pretty expensive city). I don't want anyone at Vox Media to go through that again. It's time the company agree to a fair contract with @vox_union.
Josh Eidelson / @josheidelson: Latest: Vox CEO @Bankoff tells employees he's “disappointed” by @vox_union walkout and, “While paying people a lot more than market wages sounds great on the surface, it's not realistic or smart.” https://www.bloomberg.com/... Says he wants “fair & highly competitive agreement quickly” https://twitter.com/...
Dara Lind / @dlind: .@Bankoff I took a big pay cut to come to Vox on the promise that my $40K salary would be raised once I was more trained in journalism. Instead I worked as hard as anyone (mostly autodidactically) to help build a website for a year and a half on $40-44K. https://twitter.com/...
Connor Mannion / Mediaite: Vox Media Employees Stage Walkout, Work Stoppage to Demand Contract
@mskellymhayes: The average Vox Media executive makes $223,347 per year. When you have employees living in a place as expensive as DC making $30K per year, you can fuck off with your disappointment about people walking off the job. https://twitter.com/...
@gmgunion: a wealthy CEO trying to convince media workers that the unlivable salaries they're being paid are “market” wages.... really, truly, you hate to see it https://twitter.com/...
Christopher Mathias / @letsgomathias: I recommend reading the first letter of each paragraph in this @AndyBCampbell article https://www.huffpost.com/...
Andy Campbell / HuffPost: Vox Media Employees Walk Out On Final Day Of Union Bargaining
Charlie J. Johnson / @charliemagne: Meaning no disrespect — an enormous deficit of understanding exists on wage, development and growth opps between the generations in this profession, and it's only becoming understood by the older guard when we talk about it, share salary data, organize. It ain't like it was. https://twitter.com/...
Luke Savage / @lukewsavage: Sending solidarity to staff @vox_union today ✊✊✊✊https:// www.bloomberg.com/...
Sarah McCammon / @sarahmccammon: Another reason to consider starting a journalism career somewhere else. There's often more room to experiment/learn/grow/fail, and $30,000 goes a lot farther in Des Moines than D.C. https://twitter.com/...
@iwwfju: FYI: @voxmediainc owns @voxdotcom, @verge, @SBNation, @Eater, @Polygon, and @Curbed. (Thank @Phanzon for the list!)
Sarah Kelly / @thesarahkelly: Given that SB Nation was paying its copy editors $10/hr (except where prohibited by law, because that's below minimum wage some places) as late as February 2018, I'm not sure Bankoff knows what market wages are. https://twitter.com/...
Diana Elbasha / @dianaelbasha: extremely true — my first DC journalism job paid $28K. https://twitter.com/...
Samantha Cole / @samleecole: another great thing about unions: they force management to show their full asses to every potential future employee that's paying attention https://twitter.com/...
Juana / @jmsummers: We *all* need to be talking about this more. Ever thankful for a colleague early on in my DC career who helped me realize how underpaid I was at the time. https://twitter.com/...
Katherine Krueger / @kath_krueger: tweet your salary @Bankoff https://twitter.com/...
Austin Hunt / @austinhunt: BuzzFeed paid me $35,000 a year in NYC — and they acted like they were doing me a favor 😬 https://twitter.com/...
Tim Ebner / @timebner: FYI: @Eater_DC is rerunning old stories today, including one that I wrote a month ago. I am not a scab. I support the @Eater staff working to negotiate a fair wage and contract for the 335 members of the @vox_union. The time is now @Bankoff. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Rachel Sanders / @rachelysanders: there's a very special way that CEOs and HR people use the word “competitive” when they're talking about how uninterested they are in paying their employees more https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Brandon Carter / @brandonetc: every DC/NYC journo RT'ing this in shock: y'all really don't know how much your orgs pay entry-level people do you https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Meredith's Entertainment Weekly is going to a monthly print schedule and gets a new EIC, J.D. Heyman, replacing Henry Goldblatt; July 5 is last weekly edition — The frequency change takes effect in August. — Entertainment Weekly will no longer be a weekly magazine starting in August …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety: Entertainment Weekly Will Go Monthly
Dino-Ray Ramos / Deadline: Entertainment Weekly To Go Monthly, Names New Editor-In-Chief
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Barack and Michelle Obama's company, Higher Ground Productions, strikes a multiyear deal with Spotify to produce exclusive podcasts for the platform — President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are the latest to jump into the podcast game, under a pact with Spotify to produce a series …
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CNN, The Wrap, Deadline, Fast Company, Washington Post, Hollywood Reporter, @eldsjal, Los Angeles Times, @ow, Engadget, The Week, Axios and The Daily Caller, more at Techmeme »
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Brian Stelter / CNN: Spotify strikes deal with Barack and Michelle Obama to produce exclusive podcasts
Sean Burch / The Wrap: Barack and Michelle Obama's Production Company Signs Exclusive Podcast Deal With Spotify
Dade Hayes / Deadline: Spotify, Barack And Michelle Obama's Higher Ground Strike Exclusive Podcast Deal
Melissa Locker / Fast Company: Barack and Michelle Obama's podcast company signs exclusive deal with Spotify
Emily Heil / Washington Post: The Obamas are getting into podcasting (of course) in a new deal with Spotify
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter: The Obamas Ink Deal With Spotify to Produce, Host Podcasts
Daniel Ek / @eldsjal: Very excited to partner with Higher Ground - - @BarackObama and @MichelleObama! https://twitter.com/...
Owen Williams / @ow: And with that, the podcast war kicks off https://twitter.com/...
Brendan Morrow / The Week: Barack and Michelle Obama sign multiyear deal to produce Spotify podcasts
Ursula Perano / Axios: Obamas sign podcast production deal with Spotify
Lauryn Overhultz / The Daily Caller: Obamas Sign Deal To Produce And Host Podcasts With Spotify
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: WarnerMedia abandons plan for a three-tiered streaming service, will likely package HBO, Cinemax, and the Warner Bros. library together for $16-$17/mo — New package is expected to include HBO, Cinemax and Warner Bros. content for barely more than HBO's current streaming service
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Fast Company, The Wrap, Variety, TechCrunch, /Film, Gizmodo, @benfritz, @mattscalici, @michael_calia, The Verge, @tvgrimreaper and Light Reading, more at Techmeme »
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Tim Baysinger / The Wrap: ‘Tokyo Vice’ Drama Series With Ansel Elgort Set at WarnerMedia Streaming Service
Todd Spangler / Variety: WarnerMedia Streaming Service Likely to Cost $16-$17 Monthly, Bundle HBO and Cinemax (Report)
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: AT&T's WarnerMedia might be punting on its original streaming service plans
Chris Evangelista / /Film: WarnerMedia Streaming Service Could Cost as Much as $17 Per Month, Would Include HBO and Cinemax
Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: AT&T's Plan for a Netflix Killer Reportedly Gets an Overhaul, Expected to Cost Around $17 Per Month
Ben Fritz / @benfritz: Plus $13 for Netflix, $12 for Hulu, $10 for Amazon, $7 for DisneyPlus... https://www.wsj.com/...
Matt Scalici / @mattscalici: Very excited to pay $17 a month to watch Wonder Woman and no other good movies https://www.wsj.com/...
Mike Calia / @michael_calia: AT&T is probably going to package all of its content (HBO, WB, etc) in one big streaming service for up to $17 a month — $10 more a month than Disney's streaming service. @JBFlint and @Lilliannnn report: https://www.wsj.com/...
Kevin Nguyen / The Verge: AT&T's WarnerMedia streaming service to cost “between $16 and $17 a month”
TV Grim Reaper / @tvgrimreaper: The tiers (& their fiefdoms?) are collapsing! Demonstrates the pricing conundrum Warner is in. HBO currently priced at $15 sets a floor. Add in a bunch more and only add $1-2? Market confusion/friction ahead! https://www.wsj.com/...
Jeff Baumgartner / Light Reading: AT&T Exec Said Telco's Ideas Will ‘Radically Reshape’ TV
Peter Greste / The Guardian:
While the Australian laws behind the media raids include a “public interest” defense, the country should instead pass a law explicitly protecting press freedom — Parliament has passed a slew of national security laws that limit and even criminalise the fundamental work of the press
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Nieman Lab, Samantha Dunn, CNN, Alliance for Journalists …, @themurdochtimes and @vmp9
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Rebecca Ananian-Welsh / Nieman Lab: Why this week's raids on Australian media present a clear threat to democracy and press freedom there
Alt-Rupert / @themurdochtimes: What about the rest of us, @PeterGreste? Who protects whistleblowers and sources if the billionaire owners of Australia's news industry can't protect their own staff from “police raids”? https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Michelle Pini / @vmp9: This is true, of course. But it should not be a selective process by which some journalists and whistleblowers are protected and others are OK to be sacrificed. Press freedom that is not freedom for all is just oppression by another name. #JulianAssange #WitnessK #BernardCollaery https://twitter.com/...
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CNN:
Two police raids in two days on Australia's national broadcaster and the home of a prominent journalist raise concerns about press freedom in Australia
Discussion:
Press Gazette, @thelyonsden, @thelyonsden, @jstorycarter, @theprojecttv and Common Dreams
Discussion:
John Lyons / @thelyonsden: AFP: I'm still staggered by the power of this warrant. It allows the AFP to “add, copy, delete or alter” material in the ABC's computers. All Australians, please think about that: as of this moment, the AFP has the power to delete material in the ABC's computers. Australia 2019.
John Lyons / @thelyonsden: Bravo to the country's media for taking on government over the new war on the media @australian @dailytelegraph @smh The Age, @GuardianAus @abcnews @SkyNewsAust all leading tonite with this story. I've never seen such united front. Old rivalries put aside. Journalism matters.
Jeremy Story Carter / @jstorycarter: “I've never seen a warrant this comprehensive - and I would say, this scary. The chilling message is not so much just for the journalists - but for the public."Head of ABC Investigations @TheLyonsDen taking a break from live-tweeting the AFP's raid to speak with @PatsKarvelas https://twitter.com/...
@theprojecttv: Extraordinary scenes inside Australia's biggest news organisation today - the sorts of scenes you would not expect to see in a free, open, democracy. AFP carried out the second raid on journalists raising serious concerns that media freedom in this country is under attack. pic.twitter.com/TIsNBzuekp
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
YouTube suspends monetization of Steven Crowder's channel after continued review finds “pattern of egregious actions” that are against Partner Program policies — Right-wing performer gay-bashed a Vox reporter for years. They initially declined to do anything, then ‘demonetized’ him …
Discussion:
@teamyoutube, @teamyoutube, @ceodonovan, @reckless, @teamyoutube, WIRED UK, @kevinroose, Bloomberg, @reckless, CNN, @normative, The Federalist, The Week, Engadget, @davidakaye, @ggreenwald, @humanistreport, @clarajeffery, @felixsalmon, @justinjm1, @kellyweill, @jason_koebler, CNBC, @oneunderscore__, @justinjm1, @willoremus, @gaywonk, @emilygorcenski, @w7voa and @cwarzel, more at Techmeme »
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@teamyoutube: (1/4) Thanks again for taking the time to share all of this information with us. We take allegations of harassment very seriously-we know this is important and impacts a lot of people.
@teamyoutube: @gaywonk @YouTube To clarify, in order to reinstate monetization on this channel, he will need to remove the link to his T-shirts.
Caroline O'Donovan / @ceodonovan: YouTube's handling of this homophobic harassment situation has been so messy that employees are demanding via internal petition that it take Pride branding off its public social media accounts: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Nilay Patel / @reckless: YouTube has a major harassment problem, but an even bigger problem with transparency and consistency of policy enforcement. It is not our job to paraphrase their explanations. It is their job to own their policy decisions. (2/2)
@teamyoutube: Sorry for the confusion, we were responding to your tweets about the T-shirts. Again, this channel is demonetized due to continued egregious actions that have harmed the broader community. To be reinstated, he will need to address all of the issues with his channel.
Chris Stokel-Walker / WIRED UK: YouTube's plan to fix hate speech failed before it even started
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: YouTube is now demonetizing Steven Crowder, a day after saying he didn't break any rules. I'm confused! https://twitter.com/...
Nilay Patel / @reckless: YouTube tried to explain this decision on background to us, but I made the call to ignore it because they won't go on the record. (1/2) https://www.theverge.com/...
Julian Sanchez / @normative: A few thoughts (THREAD INCOMING) on the Maza/Crowder/YouTube debate: I think this ends up being tricky for companies in large part because they aspire to uniform rules, but the harms of abusive speech in a social network ecology vary wildly depending on the speaker's audience. https://twitter.com/...
Chrissy Clark / The Federalist: YouTube Demonetizes Steven Crowder's Videos After Pressure Campaign By Gay Vox Writer
Brendan Morrow / The Week: YouTube promises to take a ‘hard look’ at its harassment policies amid backlash
Daniel Cooper / Engadget: Why isn't YouTube held accountable for the actions of its stars?
David Kaye / @davidakaye: yes, this is really central to the problem - a lack of clarity about the rules, enforcement, consistency. & it is absolutely not just a YT problem. https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Apparently, creating and implementing vague, arbitrary censorship standards on the fly in response to mob demands and then purging people en masse end up suppressing and punishing many voices that censorship advocates like. Who could have guessed this would happen? https://twitter.com/...
@humanistreport: Maybe it's because “haha, you're a queer” isn't comedy, and most people realize Crowder was shielding himself from criticism using “comedy” as a defense. https://twitter.com/...
Clara Jeffery / @clarajeffery: The #NoPrideInYT movement is important. One of the only things that historically has moved social media platforms to less heinous policies is employee revolts. https://twitter.com/...
Felix Salmon / @felixsalmon: “If they don't violate our policies, they'll remain on our site”. A crystal-clear statement of rules-based rather than principles-based regulation, in a context where principles-based regulation is the only conceivable hope. https://twitter.com/...
Justin Miller / @justinjm1: “I'm not asking YouTube to create some massive, complicated new policy to deal with this person. I'm asking them to enforce the policies that have been on the books for a long time at YouTube.” — @gaywonk https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Kelly Weill / @kellyweill: Oh my god, who is tweeting from the YouTube account: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Jason Koebler / @jason_koebler: I cannot stress enough that if you are tweetstorming clarifications of clarifications in someone's replies your PR strategy has gone completely off the rails pic.twitter.com/nm8MNzAWU4
Jennifer Elias / CNBC: YouTube flip-flops on suspending video blogger accused of harassment
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: After YouTube said it'd demonetize Nazi and false flag content, far-right YouTubers are now trying to make the case that splitting advertiser revenue with a private internet conglomerate is somehow a right embedded in the First Amendment.
Justin Miller / @justinjm1: Chernobyl was handled better than this https://twitter.com/...
Will Oremus / @willoremus: And here's @YouTube just 20 hours later, reversing itself in the face of outrage that should have been fully predictable: https://twitter.com/...
Carlos Maza / @gaywonk: For the record, demonetizing Crowder means that @YouTube now treats anti-LGBT harassment the same way it treats pro-LGBT content. Bonkers. https://www.theverge.com/...
@emilygorcenski: Youtube is making it up as it goes along, because the whole concept of “policy” is, and always will be, subservient to to the flow of capital. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Herman / @w7voa: “We expect to issue these new consequences only in a rare handful of egregious cases, but hope they will help us prevent the actions of a few from harming the broader community.” https://twitter.com/...
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YouTube Blog:
YouTube says it will “remove content denying that well-documented violent events, like the Holocaust or the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, took place”
Discussion:
The Verge, The Guardian, Nieman Lab, Columbia Journalism Review, @reckless, @profdaveandress, @andybcampbell, @loudmouthjulia, Common Dreams, Gizmodo, @senblumenthal, BuzzFeed News, @amescg, MediaNama, @stevesilberman, @reillyadam, Engadget, Vox, @bostonjoan, CNBC and Music Ally, more at Techmeme »
Discussion:
Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: Bowing to pressure, YouTube will reconsider its harassment policies
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: YouTube says it'll have no more videos from Nazis, Sandy Hook truthers, Holocaust deniers, and white supremacists
Nilay Patel / @reckless: YouTube has decided what it needs now is a new committee to study its hate speech and harassment policies. Hope nothing else happens in the meantime? At least this blog post is signed, though. https://www.theverge.com/...
David Andress / @profdaveandress: This is the part where we have to talk about fascism historically as something that refused ‘seriousness’, notoriously ‘joked’ about its real intentions, sneered at the idea of being coherent, mocked those who looked for logic in its pronouncements... https://twitter.com/...
Andy Campbell / @andybcampbell: *Sends 20,000 racist frogs to attack a gay man while screeching slurs* I'm just a comedian! *Gets defunded and banned* I'm a serious conservative voice and I am being silenced! https://twitter.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Big update from YouTube. The next question is whether these policies will be enforced. One thing to have them; another to enforce. This could have a major impact on the overarching creator community. https://twitter.com/...
Eoin Higgins / Common Dreams: Journalist and Educator Among Those Caught Up in YouTube's Latest Attempt to Purge Online Hate Speech
Tom McKay / Gizmodo: YouTube Just Can't Stop Mumbling Nonsense About Its Harassment and Hate Speech Policy
Richard Blumenthal / @senblumenthal: Social media platforms have been repeatedly abused to spread repulsive lies & terrorize the victims of tragic crimes, including Sandy Hook parents. The steps taken by YouTube are overdue & must be a model for all tech platforms. https://youtube.googleblog.com/ ...
Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News: YouTube Has Finally Admitted That Steven Crowder Mocking Someone For Being A Gay Latino Is Not OK
Ames Grawert / @amescg: So @YouTube's theory — that calling out & slurring a particular person at length from a huge digital platform doesn't rise to harassment — laughably misunderstands an internet culture it helped create, and 1L tort principles (you “intend” the logical consequences of your actions) https://twitter.com/...
Aditi Agrawal / MediaNama: YouTube updates its policy to ban some hateful content and conspiracy theories
Steve Silberman / @stevesilberman: If Steven Crowder's online harrassment of @gaywonk doesn't violate @YouTube's community standards, the company has no standards. Gay kids attempt suicide every week because of language like this. It's not speech or “debate”; it's a weapon. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Adam Reilly / @reillyadam: Wow! After only [checks Wikipedia] 14 years in business! https://twitter.com/...
Richard Lawler / Engadget: YouTube tries to explain its policies on harassment, again
@bostonjoan: Youtube reacts to research indicating that the algorithm was recommending videos of partial clothed children by saying they are a corporation of parents and families. This should have been a significant topic for an internal red team long ago. https://youtube.googleblog.com/ ...
Steve Kovach / CNBC: YouTube says it is banning supremacist videos
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: YouTube cracks down on videos with supremacist content
Casey Newton / The Verge:
YouTube updates guidelines to ban videos that promote the superiority of any group to justify discrimination, resulting in the removal of thousands of channels
Discussion:
YouTube Blog, @fordfischer, American Press Institute, TechCrunch, The Hill, CNN, @kevinroose, Deadline, Business Insider, @riotdoge, Variety, @ninadschick, Axios, @oliverdarcy, @oneunderscore__, @kevinwglass, @the_moviebob, @kevinroose, @kevinroose, @inafried, @tim_stevens, @caseynewton, @reckless, @tbskyen, @caseynewton and @oliverdarcy, more at Techmeme »
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Chris Dale / YouTube Blog: Taking a harder look at harassment
Ford Fischer / @fordfischer: Within minutes of @YouTube's announcement of a new purge it appears they caught my outlet, which documents activism and extremism, in the crossfire.I was just notified my entire channel has been demonetized. I am a journalist whose work there is used in dozens of documentaries. https://twitter.com/...
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: In trying to clear “confusion” over anti-harassment policy, YouTube creates more confusion
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: New: YouTube is removing thousands of videos from white supremacists and tightening its hate speech policies. At the same time, it is under fire for allowing a popular right-wing creator to harass @gaywonk. Making rules is easier than enforcing them! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Isobel Asher Hamilton / Business Insider: ‘Not everyone will agree with the calls we make’: YouTube explained its seemingly inconsistent policies …
@riotdoge: Only 1 out of the 20+ Nazi Youtube channels I monitor regularly has had some videos removed, even that channel wasn't full on suspended. https://twitter.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety: YouTube Says It's Reviewing Harassment Policies, After It Condoned Sustained Attacks on Gay Latino Journalist
Nina Schick / @ninadschick: Heartening move @YouTube. Remember when the parents of the victims of Sandy Hook had to go into hiding bc Alex Jones claimed it was a hoax? YouTubers will no longer be able to upload videos denying that these historical events happened. https://www.theverge.com/...
Ina Fried / Axios: Inside YouTube's hate speech minefield
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: I just spoke to Josh Koskoff, a lawyer representing several Sandy Hook families, and he said while he welcomed YouTube's decision it's “too late to undue the harm that occurred” to his clients over the last several years. But, he added, “At the same time, better late than never.”
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: It is almost impossible to square these two decisions, and yet still one announcement is probably tied to the other one. https://twitter.com/...
@kevinwglass: I'm wondering if this means taking down 9/11 truther videos, or Kennedy assassination conspiracy videos. I think “Loose Change” was the first video I ever watched on YouTube. https://twitter.com/...
Bob Chipman / @the_moviebob: So apparently @YouTube is actually going to attempt to ban the Nazis - let's see how that goes: https://youtube.googleblog.com/ ...
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: @gaywonk Here is YouTube's full rundown of its changes. Notable: the co says efforts to recommend less “borderline content” through the algo have led to a 50% drop in views for those videos. (Which videos? From what number to what number? I asked — no details.) https://youtube.googleblog.com/ ...
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: Importantly, YouTube is also changing its recommendation engine to display “authoritative sources” more prominently in more cases, such as when a user has watched a bunch of conspiracy theory videos in a row.
Ina Fried / @inafried: But, no, @youtube says these changes still wouldn't result in a different result to its investigation of Steven Crowder's harassment of @gaywonk https://twitter.com/...
Tim Stevens / @tim_stevens: Feeling a little better about humanity this morning. Of about Google/YouTube, anyway. Kudos to all who had a hand in pushing to make this happen. https://twitter.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: One notable thing here is that YouTube now considers survivors of mass tragedies, such as Sandy Hook and 9/11, a protected class. So videos denying that those events took place are now prohibited
Nilay Patel / @reckless: What a day for YouTube to announce that it is banning supremacist channels in an unsigned blog post! https://www.theverge.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: This is an important step, and will have some positive effects. It's unrelated to the ongoing controversy over harassment, though. https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: YouTube announces it is prohibiting supremacist content, like videos glorifying Nazi ideology. Youtube will also be removing content “denying that well-documented violent events, like the Holocaust or the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, took place."https://youtube.googleblog.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Kassel / Columbia Journalism Review:
Some journalists are returning to their hometowns to work, citing the benefits of meaningful work, strong emotional connections, and trust from sources — It's quite possible that Caitlin Dewey owes her career in journalism to The Buffalo News. She grew up in the suburban town of Wheatfield …
Discussion:
Jacob Titus / @jacobonpurpose: “Journalists who return to their hometowns are serving a vital need ... there is 'a level of intimacy and trust with sources that's deeply beneficial for telling more thoughtful, nuanced stories' than national reporters, who often parachute in.” https://www.cjr.org/...
Kytja Weir / @kytja: You can go home again: Journalists who return to their hometowns to work, with nice cameo by @KHNews' own @LaurenWeberHP https://www.cjr.org/... via @cjr
Lauren Weber / @laurenweberhp: My @stltoday hometown dream shoutout made the @CJR today...now if the Blues can just win the Stanley Cup... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Carmen Forman / @carmenmforman: Dozens of people have asked me why I moved back to Oklahoma to work at @TheOklahoman. This about sums it up. via @CJR #localnewsmatters https://www.cjr.org/...
David Chrisinger / New York Times:
A look back at the reporting of Ernie Pyle and how the beaches of Normandy changed the way America's most famous war correspondent reported what he saw — Most of the men in the first wave never stood a chance. In the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, thousands of American soldiers crawled …
Discussion:
Press Gazette, Poynter, CBS News, The Clarion Ledger, @billybragg, Fortune, @jbeano, @billjcameron, @jskl, @nickturse, @repmarcykaptur, @campfirewood, @megwclayton, @atompkins, @abclibrary, 1A, @paulheggenwx, @votevets, @cfidd, @spytalker, @timobrien and TIME
Discussion:
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: D-Day: How the papers covered landmark World War Two operation in 1944 vs 2019
Kristen Hare / Poynter: On the 75th anniversary of D-Day, front pages around the world offer a glimpse into the past
Ernie Pyle / The Clarion Ledger: D-Day: This is what Ernie Pyle wrote after hitting Normandy Beach in June 1944
Billy Bragg / @billybragg: Of all the words about D-Day I've read and heard in the past few days, this is the most powerful evocation of what happened 75 years ago today and the effect it had on those who were there #LestWeForget https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ellen McGirt / Fortune: The Eyes of the World Are Upon Some of Them: RaceAhead
Justin Bean / @jbeano: “Pyle had written about battles and #war in a way that promised hope. By the time victory was actually in sight, he had come to feel that there was no way the war could be a story with a happy ending.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Bill Cameron / @billjcameron: “I get so obsessed with the tragedy and horror of seeing dead men that I can hardly stand it. But I guess there's nothing to do but keep going.” @wlsam890 https://www.nytimes.com/...
Justin Scuiletti / @jskl: “Here are socks and shoe polish, sewing kits, diaries, Bibles and hand grenades. Here are the latest letters from home. . . . Here are toothbrushes and razors, and snapshots of families back home staring up at you from the sand.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nick Turse / @nickturse: “What [Erine] Pyle witnessed on the Normandy coast triggered a sort of journalistic conversion for him: Soon his readers... were digesting columns that brought them more of the war's pain, costs and losses” writes @StrongerAtBP in an exceptional article. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Marcy Kaptur / @repmarcykaptur: “The advantages were theirs. Concrete gun emplacements. Gun nests w/ crossfire taking every inch of the beach. Buried mines, barbed wire. Whole fields of devices under the water to catch our boats & 4 men on shore for every 3 we had. And yet, we got on.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael Ross / @campfirewood: Ernie Pyle, ladies and gentlemen. There is a reason his is one of the first graves you encounter at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. https://nyti.ms/2wB0401
Meg Waite Clayton / @megwclayton: The world could use a few more Ernie Pyles right about now. Terrific piece about him — The Man Who Told America the Truth About D-Day by @davidchrisinger in @nytimes. I read so much about him when researching The Race for Paris, and remain in awe. https://nyti.ms/2wB0401
Al Tompkins / @atompkins: God bless the journalists who did their job on the beaches, at sea and in the air on D Day https://www.cbsnews.com/...
Abq-Bernco Library / @abclibrary: A fantastic story on Ernie Pyle today, please take the time to read it. The Man Who Told America the Truth About D-Day https://www.nytimes.com/... If you would like to come by and visit his home here in Albuquerque please do - Ernie Pyle Library http://abqlibrary.org/...
@votevets: Ernie Pyle's war reporting had already earned him a Pulitzer Prize before #DDay, but his stark, personal dispatches from the Normandy beaches gave readers back home a first-hand account of the true cost of the battle. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeff Stein / @spytalker: “Sometimes,” Pyle wrote on June 29, two weeks after the Normandy invasion, “I get so obsessed with the tragedy and horror of seeing dead men that I can hardly stand it. But I guess there's nothing to do but keep going.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Daily Hive:
CNN hires the Toronto Star's Daniel Dale as a reporter on the fact-checking beat in Washington DC — After 11 years, The Toronto Star's Daniel Dale is leaving his position as their Washington bureau chief. — The award-winning political reporter says he will be working with CNN …
Discussion:
@cnnpr, @ddale8, Washington Post, @ddale8, @grantstern, @mathewi, @ddale8, @torontostar, @mehdirhasan, @robyndoolittle, @patterballs, @susandelacourt, @bruce_arthur and @sdkstl
Discussion:
@cnnpr: We are excited to welcome Daniel Dale @ddale8 to @CNN's Washington bureau, where he will join as a reporter on the fact-checking beat!
Daniel Dale / @ddale8: For the last three years, I've done most of the fact-checking on my “own” time, weekends and nights, while trying to do my actual correspondent job during the day. Now the truth file will be my full-time focus.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post: Lies? The news media is starting to describe Trump's ‘falsehoods’ that way.
Daniel Dale / @ddale8: I'm going to work for CNN! I'll be on the truth beat full-time starting June 17, dissecting dishonesty from Trump, Democratic candidates and others. https://twitter.com/...
Grant Stern / @grantstern: Three years ago, lots of media critics called the site I write for “hyper partisan” for the simple reason that we called Trump's lies what they are: LIES. It's shameful that mainstream news has taken three years to report the truth about a Trump: he lies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Still remember a heated debate with a senior exec at Fortune over whether I could call the president a liar in a column. I lost, and eventually everything I wrote about Trump had to be personally approved by the head of content for Time Inc. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Dale / @ddale8: Here are some of my thoughts in WaPo about the objective truth that Donald Trump lies, why media outlets don't need to dance around that truth to be objective...and why the terminology-dancing isn't the #1 failure here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@torontostar: Washington bureau chief @ddale8 will be leaving the Star to join CNN later this month. His very last fact check for the Star counted more than 5,000 false claims by U.S. President Donald Trump. http://torstar.co/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: Wow! Good for @CNN. I'm amazed it took this long for a big US news outlet to steal Canadian @ddale8 from the Toronto Star. You literally can't keep track of Trump's inanities and falsehoods if you're not following Daniel. Congrats to him. https://twitter.com/...
Robyn Doolittle / @robyndoolittle: Daniel Dale, I would like to point out that your start date suspiciously falls *after* the NBA Finals. Can you confirm that you are making career decisions around the @Raptors' schedule? #WeTheNorth https://twitter.com/...
Steve Patterson / @patterballs: Nice to see a Canadian doing well in our basement. I wouldn't wish this gig on anyone but he's been doing it (and doing it and doing it well) for a while now so best of success to him. True story... https://twitter.com/...
Susan Delacourt / @susandelacourt: Big gain for @CNN, big loss for @TorontoStar, but overall, a major gain for journalism and democratic accountability in the U.S... Congrats to @ddale8 on this huge career move! #cdnpoli https://twitter.com/...
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
As companies like Charter and Comcast shift focus to lucrative broadband services, they are pulling back on discounts used for years to retain TV subscribers — - Charter, Comcast shares rise despite surge in cord cutters — Profits grow as providers show low-profit customers the door
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