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Michael Edison Hayden / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Emails from 2015-2016 to Katie McHugh, then at Breitbart, show how WH adviser Stephen Miller helped shape stories to mirror or amplify white nationalist ideas — In the run-up to the 2016 election, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist literature …
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Michael Edison Hayden / @michaelehayden: .@Hatewatch reviewed over 900 previously private emails Stephen Miller sent to Breitbart during the run-up to the 2016 election. Miller shared white nationalist material. He pushed racist stories. Read part 1 of our investigation here: https://www.splcenter.org/...
Rashaan Ayesh / Axios: Group says Stephen Miller shared story ideas on race, immigration with Breitbart
Brendan Nyhan / @brendannyhan: Not just credible - gave them one of 200 slots in their new Facebook News product https://www.theguardian.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Christopher Mathias / @letsgomathias: I swear to God if everyone doesn't make this the biggest news story today... You're just gonna let this guy stay in the White House aren't you https://www.splcenter.org/...
Sherrilyn Ifill / @sifill_ldf: Do not move past this story. This is a senior advisor to the President. These emails are odious. And “Hatewatch was unable to find any examples of Miller writing sympathetically or even in neutral tones about any person who is nonwhite or foreign-born.” https://www.splcenter.org/...
Harold Maass / The Week: 10 things you need to know today: November 13, 2019
Zach Basu / @zacharybasu: A White House official also provided us with this response on background: “This is clearly a form of anti-Semitism to levy these attacks against a Jewish staffer.” https://twitter.com/...
Caroline Orr / @rvawonk: Breitbart editor Julia Hahn wrote this in Sept 2015. It references the very violent/racist book “The Camp of the Saints,” which is based on the white genocide conspiracy theory. The article ran 18 days after Stephen Miller emailed Hahn about the book. Hahn is now a Trump aide. pic.twitter.com/AxT5c7Fawy
Jared Holt / @jaredlholt: I want to hear from the White House why Stephen Miller should not be immediately fired from his position. I want to hear them say it.
Ham Thankman / @samthielman: great scoop, I can see why you granted anonymity to this person https://twitter.com/...
Paul Farhi / @farhip: Heckuva disclosure paragraph in this @splcenter takedown of Trump immigration advisor Stephen Miller's emails to @BreitbartNews: https://www.splcenter.org/... pic.twitter.com/o1PnQIN3QZ
Michael Edison Hayden / @michaelehayden: The liberal press has mostly talked around the origin of Miller's views, sometimes even romanticizing him. There were details that were there for the taking. Like the fact that his byline appears on American Renaissance as an author. Why has no one asked him about it? pic.twitter.com/LmgIeIRCgm
Jon Favreau / @jonfavs: Documented evidence that the President's top policy aide and speechwriter shares content from white nationalist websites. https://twitter.com/...
Kim Bellware / Washington Post: Leaked Stephen Miller emails suggest Trump's point man on immigration promoted white nationalism
Oliver Darcy / CNN: Stephen Miller privately promoted stories from white nationalist and fringe media organizations
Ham Thankman / @samthielman: Mike, who wrote the @TowCenter guide to OSINT at @CJR, has a monster scoop about the white nationalist far-right's direct influence on Trump's immigration policy. It's amazing. Read the story and his guide to reporting on hostile online communities here: https://www.cjr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo: Leaked Emails Highlight How Stephen Miller Boosted White Nationalist Propaganda
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate: The Supreme Court Seems Ready to Let Trump Kill DACA
J. Clara Chan / The Wrap: Stephen Miller Shared Racist Views With Breitbart Editors, Leaked Emails Show (Report)
Josh Feldman / Mediaite: Leaked Emails Show Stephen Miller Promoted White Nationalist Websites, ‘Extremist, Anti-Immigrant Ideology’
David Covucci / The Daily Dot: Stephen Miller's racist emails leak
Charles Whitaker / Medill:
Northwestern's journalism school dean says The Daily Northwestern's protest coverage was responsible and fair, and student journalists faced “vicious bullying” — “Journalists have a heady responsibility performing our role as the authors of the first rough draft of history …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post: Northwestern's student journalists shouldn't apologize for reporting. But don't pillory them.
Julia Jacobs / @juliarebeccaj: Get yourself a dean who lifts his students up while teaching them journalistic truths in forceful prose https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
Dawn Rhodes / Chicago Tribune: Daily Northwestern staffers apologized for recent coverage of Jeff Sessions visit.
Peter Alexander / @peteralexander: Proudly support this statement by Dean Whitaker @MedillSchool @NorthwesternU. https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
Wesley Yang / @wesyang: The statement from the Dean of Medill about the Daily Northwestern is about as good as you can expect for such things. https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
Danielle Cohen / @daniellemcohen: i cannot stop thinking about how deeply proud i am to have @CharlesWhitak16 leading @MedillSchool. there is simply no one better suited for the job https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News: Northwestern journalism dean reacts to ‘heartfelt, though not well-considered’ newspaper apology for reporting
John Roberts / @johnrobertsfox: Glad to see someone standing up for the reporters of The Daily Northwestern: Statement from Dean Charles Whitaker on The Daily Northwestern's coverage of campus events - Medill - Northwestern University https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
Liz Wolfe / @lizzywol: “I patently reject the notion that our students have no right to report on communities other than those from which they hail...” As 99.9% of my feed has noted, @MedillSchool dean's statement is excellent: https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: “I understand why The Daily editors felt the need to issue their mea culpa. They were beat into submission by the vitriol and relentless public shaming they have been subjected to since the Sessions stories appeared.” https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
Helen Kennedy / @helenkennedy: Excellent statement from the Medill dean https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
Paige Williams / @williams_paige: “their well-intentioned gesture sends a chilling message about journalism and its role in society. It suggests that we are not independent authors of the community narrative, but are prone to bowing to the loudest and most influential voices in our orbit.” https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
Claire Lehmann / @clairlemon: A tremendous defence of journalism, & liberal principles in general, from the Dean of the college where students apologised for...doing journalism. Gives a bit more context too — the students apologised because they were being physically threatened https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
Elena Schneider / @ec_schneider: “... Don't make judgments about them or their mettle until you've walked in their shoes. What they need at this moment is our support and the encouragement to stay the course.” Thoughtful, thorough stmt: https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
KC Johnson / @kcjohnson9: This section from Medill dean—editors “were beat into submission by the vitriol and relentless public shaming they have been subjected to since the Sessions stories appeared”—sounds v. much like the atmosphere at Harvard on the ICE story. V. troubling. https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
Sarah Ellison / @sarahellison: And of course @Sulliview has exactly the right take on The Daily and its mistakes. “Don't pillory them.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@allahpundit: The key point in this piece is how much duress the student paper is under from activists. It's not merely that the editorial board consists of campus snowflakes. It's that they were borderline physically coerced into groveling. https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
Amy Hollyfield / @amy_hollyfield: I find this to be an incredibly thoughtful, spot-on statement from @MedillSchool dean https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
Dr. Elisia Cohen / @ecohen_umn: I encourage student journalists and journalism educators to read @MedillSchool Dean Whitaker's defense of journalism, student journalists, public protest and civic responsibility at Northwestern. It identifies the contours of the teachable moment: https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
Deborah Blum / @deborahblum: “I understand why The Daily editors felt the need to issue their mea culpa. They were beat into submission by the vitriol and relentless public shaming”. Solid and smart support of journalism from the dean of Medill. https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
Bari Weiss / @bariweiss: “As the dean of Medill, where many of these young journalists are trained, I am deeply troubled by the vicious bullying and badgering that the students responsible for that coverage have endured for the ‘sin’ of doing journalism.” https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
Radley Balko / @radleybalko: Pitch perfect. https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
Nick Confessore / @nickconfessore: Like everyone else, I'm impressed with this strong and compassionate statement of journalistic values from @MedillSchool's dean, Charles Whitaker. https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
Nick Fox / @nickfoxnyt: A great defense of journalism by the dean of the journalism school at Northwestern University, where it has come under attack by students. https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
Dorothy Tucker / @dorothytv2: Thank you Dean @CharlesWhitak16 for a powerful statement that both journalists and the public need to read. @NUBlackAlumni https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Marissa J. Lang / @marissa_jae: To the @thedailynu journos at the center of this: We all screw up. It takes guts to own it & strength to learn from it. Keep striving to be better. My DMs are open. To everyone else: If you're worried about “the future of journalism” — teach, mentor, take an intern to lunch. (5/
Caroline Chen / @carolineylchen: Medill dean is compassionate but clear: “Their well-intentioned gesture sends a chilling message...It suggests that we are not independent authors of the community narrative, but are prone to bowing to the loudest & most influential voices” Worth a read: https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
Josh Barro / @jbarro: The Medill dean statement hits most of the right notes, but it still buys into the harm/safety ideology — only now with the student journalists being the ones who are unsafe from activists. https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ... pic.twitter.com/1mZOqPd9F7
Saraya Wintersmith / @swintersmith: This statement from from Dean Charles Whitaker on The Daily Northwestern's coverage of campus events makes the situation seem more prickly & confusing to me than before. https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
Aileen Gallagher / @aegallagher: .@MedillSchool @ @CharlesWhitak16 writes a passionate, eloquent defense of journalism and the students learning to do it. https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “give the young people a break.” https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
Mohamad Bazzi / @bazzinyu: “The journalists at the Daily Northwestern seem interested in learning something from all of what happened, including their mistakes. Which is, after all, what being a student is all about” — important piece by @Sulliview on Northwestern controversy https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Michael Calderone / @mlcalderone: Good @Sulliview piece on Northwestern controversy: student journalists shouldn't have apologized for reporting, but they also shouldn't be pilloried https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ann Marie Lipinski / @amlwhere: Strong message from @MedillSchool dean Charles Whitaker about journalism @NorthwesternU. “I patently reject the notion that our students have no right to report on communities other than those from which they hail.” https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
Priya Krishnakumar / @priyakkumar: Medill is very lucky it has Charles Whitaker https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Guy Benson / @guypbenson: The @MedillSchool Dean weighs in. Pretty strong. https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/ ...
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: Northwestern's student journalists shouldn't apologize for reporting. But don't pillory them. ... My column: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Katie Herzog / The Stranger: Anatomy of Online Outrage: Northwestern Edition
Josh Feldman / Mediaite: Dean of Northwestern's J-School Defends Student Reporters Amid Backlash from Protesters: Coverage Was Fair, Responsible
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Robby Soave / Reason:
Northwestern University's student newspaper The Daily Northwestern sparks backlash for editorial apologizing for its news reporting that offended some students — The Daily Northwestern is the student newspaper of Northwestern University, which is home to the Medill School of Journalism …
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Troy Closson / @troy_closson: /1 Yesterday, @thedailynu published a statement on our coverage of the Jeff Sessions event and protests on campus last week and I wanted to address the concerns that everyone has shared on Twitter.
Amy Brittain / @amyjbrittain: This is called reporting. Why are you apologizing for it? Mind-boggling to read this editorial from student journalists who attend one of the top schools for journalism in the country. https://dailynorthwestern.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Gregory Pratt / @royalpratt: There's a lot to comment on in this Daily Northwestern editorial, but apologizing for contacting people to ask if they're willing to be interviewed? Regretting that you photographed protesters protesting in public? https://dailynorthwestern.com/ ...
Troy Closson / @troy_closson: /9 The last thing I want to say is that I hope in providing critiques and feedback of our statement, you can direct that toward me. The other staff members whose names are on it don't have the final say, I do. I can live with the consequences of that, but they shouldn't have to.
Heidi Stevens / Chicago Tribune: Column: Backlash against The Daily Northwestern's apology editorial is a better lesson than anything …
Neil Steinberg / Chicago Sun Times: The Daily Northwestern falls on face with apology shame
Charlotte Walsh / @charwalsh_: (1/3) The only comment I'll say on this. As a former editor and current reporter at The Daily, we're a student newspaper and have a duty to protect students. Many people tweeting do not understand the University's amnesty policy, which could have targeted our sources. https://twitter.com/...
Katie Rosman / @katierosman: Just arrived in Ann Arbor to spend two evenings working with student journalists at @michigandaily. There will be much to discuss!! https://twitter.com/...
Gene-Parkemon / @genepark: this thread from the Daily Northwestern's editor is more honest and transparent than most of what we see from the nation's top editors. If anything, he's teaching us something important about the challenge of building trust within the communities we cover https://twitter.com/...
Dan Kennedy / @dankennedy_nu: There's something about @thedailynu editorial/apology that feels like we're not hearing the full story. It sounds terrible — “We're sorry we did our jobs as journalists.” But I want to know more, as I assume we will soon. https://dailynorthwestern.com/ ...
Pamela Colloff / @pamelacolloff: .@troy_closson did great work when he was a @TexasTribune fellow and he'll go on to do more great work. I can vividly remember the hard, painful lessons I learned as a college reporter *before* the glare of Twitter. I learned from them & they made me the reporter I am today. https://twitter.com/...
@karenkho: a number of journalists are mad about the Northwestern note in a way I have never really seen with several other issues, such the lack of diversity in their newsrooms, declines in public trust, or how reporting can further hurt underrepresented communities
TantalizingHat / @popehat: I think college journalists are adult enough that it's condescending to say they've just made a “mistake” when what they've done is officially and with deliberation announce a position antithetical to the concept of journalism.
Katherine Timpf / National Review: Northwestern's Newspaper Doesn't Get Journalism
Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce: I don't doubt the sincerity of these student journalists. But I worry that if journalists keep ceding ground on when it is acceptable to do basic reporting, we eventually play into the hands of powerful interests who would love to criminalize journalism. https://dailynorthwestern.com/ ...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: There's a lot wrong with this, but this graf just stunned me. Asking someone if they want to be interviewed is “an invasion of privacy”? https://dailynorthwestern.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Troy Closson / @troy_closson: /6 I appreciate the concerns raised w/ our statement and understand how different parts can prompt worry re: the values we have as a student newspaper. We aren't unclear about our rights as a newspaper to cover student protest, but also understand the need to do so with empathy.
Emily Ramshaw / @eramshaw: This is brave. It speaks to lived experiences almost none of the people tweeting about this share, & growing up in a climate almost none of the people tweeting about this did. I'm proud of this young man, who was a terrific Trib fellow. Higher ed is about learning, and he is. https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Wall / @walldo: A thoughtful thread from the Daily Northwestern's EIC. I ran my college paper and I can't imagine what it's like to go through the trials and tribulations of j-school in this extremely online, shoot-from-the-hip dogpiling era. Kudos https://twitter.com/...
Sopan Deb / @sopandeb: The news industry is brutal. But it needs more people like Troy. Not less. https://twitter.com/...
Mindy McAdams / @macloo: I struggle almost daily to balance being nurturing and warm toward #journalism students and being tough and cold like a mean old newspaper editor. Students need both if they are to grow into the journalists we need them to become.
Anil Dash / @anildash: Many people also seem unaware that the same extreme right forces that advance the lies about speech on campuses also target vulnerable students (including the undocumented, or those for whom visibility can be dangerous) when covering protests, and source images from social media.
Anil Dash / @anildash: I know I didn't go to college, let alone j-school, so feel free to dismiss me. But I would think big-name journalists, when seeing a behavior they don't understand from students who went to the same schools as their peers, would ask “Why?” and assume they need to investigate.
John Bowden / The Hill: Medill dean ‘deeply troubled by the vicious bullying and badgering’ of student journalists
Tom Ciccotta / Breitbart: Northwestern U. Student Newspaper Apologizes for Reporting on Jeff Sessions Lecture
Clay Travis / @claytravis: So Northwestern's student newspaper apologized for the trauma brought on by its coverage of a Jeff Sessions speech on campus?! When I read articles like these I feel like the country has gone insane. https://dailynorthwestern.com/ ...
Anil Dash / @anildash: I wonder if people who make statements like this know that organized right-wing extremist groups are making databases of vulnerable students based on imagery found on social media so that they can be targeted? And whether that would, you know, matter. https://twitter.com/...
Renee DiResta / @noupside: What a mess. One reason we're here is that the cost of public speech/counterspeech now often includes having to deal w/an online mob. As a result, simply being photographed on a public street or named in a news article -reporting- is being recast as a “hostile” or “traumatic” act https://twitter.com/...
Robby Soave / @robbysoave: Students at the most prestigious journalism program in the country, to activists: So sorry for covering news that offended you, we promise to do better. https://reason.com/...
Dan Balz / @danbalz: College journalists are under new pressures. Witness what the Harvard Crimson just went through. Rather than jumping on the Northwestern student journalists, we all need to help explain to other students the basic practices and values of good journalism and why it matters. https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Eisinger / @eisingerj: -Harvard would like the Crimson to stop reaching out to objectionable entities for comment. -Northwestern would like reporters not to reach people at all. Too invasive. https://twitter.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: One of the biggest problems US journalists face in this day and age is how few people understand what standard news-gathering process looks like. A student newspaper saying normal process is somehow a bad thing is incredibly troubling. https://twitter.com/...
J. David McSwane / @davidmcswane: Joking aside, these are kids navigating what feels like tremendous pressure - from faculty, students and administrators. Toughness in the face of that is something we all have to learn - usually at a campus newspaper, where we probably all had a few screw ups (lord knows I did) https://twitter.com/...
Michael Shermer / @michaelshermer: “While our goal is to document history and spread information, nothing is more important than ensuring that our fellow students feel safe” —The Daily Northwestern newspaper apologizes that it's coverage of Jeff Sessions event hurt students' feelings. Wow. https://reason.com/...
Jim Meigs / @jamesbmeigs: The editors of the Daily Northwestern have apparently decided that when your reporters experience any kind of criticism, you must throw them under the bus as promptly as possible. https://twitter.com/...
Christopher Leonard / @cleonardnews: Honestly: this is super disturbing. The public relations industry is already working hard to hem in the boundaries of journalism. Journalism teachers should not be helping them. https://twitter.com/...
Mara Gay / @maragay: To my fellow professionals trolling student journalists, save it. Did your college paper get it right every time? Ours didn't. So close the app and make yourself available for friendly advice offline. Be an adult. https://dailynorthwestern.com/ ...
Kurt Andersen / @kbandersen: Wow. It's as much like an over-the-top caricature of triggered snowflake campus idiocy as Trump is like an over-the-top caricature of grotesque stupid right-wingers. Real life = bad satire. https://twitter.com/...
Will E. Young / @weyoung8: As someone who had to constantly apologize to administration for the @LUChampionNews covering basic campus events and contacting professors for interviews, I can tell you how damaging it is for a young reporter to be shamed for..... reporting https://twitter.com/...
Rishika Dugyala / @rishikadugyala: Were The Daily reporters just doing their jobs? Yes. But also: Are they real people + student journalists who are navigating outreach to marginalized communities at a privileged institution? Absolutely. Wherever you fall on this, don't crucify them. https://twitter.com/...
Susan Candiotti / @susancandiotti: Hope this is discussed in journalism programs nationwide. https://twitter.com/...
Ally Mauch / @allymauch: Don't the big J Journalists have more important things to do right now that don't include shaming students trying to learn? https://twitter.com/...
Robby Soave / @robbysoave: @jessesingal @ByronTau @ryanjreilly Don't name or shame any individuals, but this is 100% part of a trend in college journalism facing ridiculous constraints by activists and I think it's fine and even necessary to point out how contrary to actual journalistic principle this is. https://reason.com/...
Joe Flint / @jbflint: Reminds me of when an entertainment flack chided me and @writerchica for going to the homes of staffers during our reporting of a sensitive story. I was like, didn't you see “All the President's Men” https://twitter.com/...
Chris Vannini / @chrisvannini: Exactly. What precedent are you setting by letting people making a public display determine if you can photograph them? And finding a phone number is literally day one stuff. It's not journalism if subjects set all the rules. https://twitter.com/...
Hannah Meisel / @hannahmeisel: This Daily Northwestern editorial is super bizarre. But the flap-up makes me grateful for all my peers who were willing to play ball and do interviews with me while I learned to be a reporter at @TheDailyIllini (and in high school too). https://twitter.com/...
Adam Rogers / @jetjocko: The job, fundamentally, requires bending some social norms. We ask impertinent questions. All the time. Inconveniently. https://twitter.com/...
Rachana D. Pradhan / @rachanadixit: What?! This is happening at one of the most reputable j-schools in the country? https://twitter.com/...
Alexander McCoy / @alexandermccoy4: So, besides the journalism aspect here, this attitude is also bizarre from a grassroots organizing perspective. The whole POINT of holding a protest is to draw attention, typically by earning press coverage. So why the freak out when the protest achieves its basic function? https://twitter.com/...
Trey Wallace / @treywallace_: This is wild. Apologizing for doing their job & finding a source? This editorial is basically saying “we're sorry for doing our job, I hope you forgive us” https://twitter.com/...
Nader Issa / @naderdissa: This is a wildly strange editorial. But where the hell are the newspaper advisers? Sometimes it's hard as a student reporter not to overreact and overcompensate when you get heat for a story. But that's when the adults should step in and talk some sense into them https://twitter.com/...
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
Politico owner Robert Allbritton is officially announcing his new tech site, Protocol, to launch in early 2020 with several dozen journalists and business staff — With talent poached from Wired, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, etc., and coverage written for “C-suite kinds of folks …
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Protocol / @protocol_media: Oh, hey Twitter. We're excited to announce Protocol, a new tech publication from the publisher of @politico https://www.protocol.com/ pic.twitter.com/rfpH4khuCC
Kate Nocera / @katenocera: As an aside, it's really gross and weird to describe someone as accomplished as @EmilyDreyfuss as “the daughter of Richard” when that has absolutely no bearing on the story at all???? https://www.vanityfair.com/... (also congrats on the new gig Emily!)
@vladsavov: You can't report on tech without the political context + You can't report on politics without the tech context = What these guys are doing https://twitter.com/...
David Pierce / @pierce: I am Protocol's editor-at-large, which means... something. My email is david@protocol.com, and please send me all your story ideas and feelings about the world.
Tim Grieve / @timgrieve: Unbelievably excited to be working with this crew @protocol_media (plus the Twitter-free Vivyan Tran): @emilydreyfuss @jopearl @pierce @jme_c @mariojoze @k__mcallister @lindakintsler @mattdrange @adamjanofsky @emma_jmeier @issielapowsky @levinsonc
Esra'a / @ealshafei: Too many of these are almost exclusively U.S centric - important to diversify information with solid international coverage considering the increasing power and influence of foreign governments on the tech industry at large. https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Nick Schulz / @nickschulz: Congrats to Tammy Wincup. This is much needed. Tech reporting, despite its abundance, is generally weak and thin. There's ample opportunity here. https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Protocol / @protocol_media: Our leadership team includes President @tmwincup, Executive Editor @timgrieve, VP/GM @bennettrich, Editorial Director @emilydreyfuss, Managing Editor @jopearl, Head of Digital Vivyan Tran, and Editor-at-Large @pierce https://www.protocol.com/...
Protocol / @protocol_media: We've hired more than a dozen journalists including: Editorial Director @EmilyDreyfuss and Managing Editor @jopearl (both from WIRED), Editor-at-Large @pierce (WSJ), and Head of Digital Vivyan Tran (WSJ & POLITICO) ... 1/4
Sarah Emerson / @sarahnemerson: how you gonna be the executive editor of a tech site and not know that tons of reporters are already covering these issues https://www.vanityfair.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: A big bet by Robert Allbritton, officially announced today: https://twitter.com/...
Rafat Ali / @rafat: “Does the media really need yet another publication going balls to the wall on tech?” No. Also, you should never count out Robert Allbritton on anything. Both can simultaneously be true. https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Joe Pompeo / @joepompeo: Robert Allbritton wants to replicate Politico's playbook, as it were, with Protocol, which will lift off early next year with several dozen journos/biz people and $10m under the hood: https://www.vanityfair.com/...
David Pierce / @pierce: Some personal news! I'm working with a bunch of awesome folks to launch a new tech-focused publication called Protocol, launching early next year. It's going to be rad, and we're hiring like crazy. Come work with us! https://twitter.com/...
Stephen Nellis / @stephennellis: Well of course! Why didn't I think of any of that? I mean, it's so easy and obvious. https://www.vanityfair.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Protocol / @protocol_media: Protocol's mission? To treat technology as the formidable force it's become, by reporting on the people, power and politics of the industry https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Jamie Condliffe / @jme_c: Some news! I'm leaving the @nytimes at Thanksgiving to join @protocol_media, a new tech publication from the publisher of @politico. Read about it: https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Protocol / @protocol_media: Reporters @mattdrange (The Information), @AdamJanofsky (The Wall Street Journal), @emma_jmeier (former editor of The Fountain Hopper at Stanford), @issielapowsky (WIRED), and @levinsonc (Reuters). 3/4
Adam Janofsky / @adamjanofsky: Oh hey here's the project I'm joining (!) https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Ben Dreyfuss / @bendreyfuss: My sister is way amazing and this thing that involves other people but will be referred by me for forever as “Emily's publication” seems super cool and good https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Protocol / @protocol_media: Newsletter Editor @jme_c (NYT), Senior Editor @mariojoze (Gizmodo), Associate Editor @K__McAllister (WSJ), and Contributing Editor @lindakinstler (The New Republic & POLITICO EU) ... 2/4
Alex Heath / @alexeheath: “Does the media really need yet another publication going balls to the wall on tech?” Do we really need to be writing “balls to the wall” in 2019? https://www.vanityfair.com/...
David Pierce / @pierce: We're going to have newsletters and podcasts and a website and also I'm pitching a thing where I just come to your house and read you the newspaper. It's going to be great and our team is so awesome and I can't wait to show you all everything we're working on!
Linda Kinstler / @lindakinstler: Really excited to be a part of this. I'm commissioning feature stories & profiles on the people, power, & politics of tech, broadly interpreted. Pitch me: lkinstler@protocol.com https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Jackson / @nbj914: “I'd love for this to be the ESPN of technology.” — I see some folks dismissing this because tech journalism is “crowded,” but it only looks that way because the whole media landscape has been decimated. The Protocol team will pull off something great: https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Sources: former HBO chairman and CEO Richard Plepler is in talks with Apple for an exclusive deal for his new production company — Former HBO chairman and CEO Richard Plepler is back with a new venture, a production company based at Apple. — Plepler, who exited HBO at the end of February …
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Wall Street Journal, The Wrap, @mgsiegler, New York Post, CNN, The Verge, New York Times, Vanity Fair, Broadcasting & Cable, The Streamable, TechCrunch, Variety, MacRumors and Business Insider
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal: Apple TV+ in Talks to Add Ex-HBO Boss Richard Plepler to Producer Lineup
Tim Baysinger / The Wrap: HBO Ex-CEO Richard Plepler Close to Apple Production Deal
M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler: Makes sense since Apple is trying to turn Apple TV+ into HBO with the content high ground ceded by AT&T in order to try to turn HBO into Netflix. https://www.wsj.com/...
Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post: Ex-HBO chief Richard Plepler, Apple TV+ near production deal
Frank Pallotta / CNN: Former HBO chief Richard Plepler in talks for production deal at Apple
Julia Alexander / The Verge: Apple in final talks with former HBO visionary who championed Game of Thrones
Jason Gurwin / The Streamable: Former HBO CEO In Talks To Create Shows for Apple TV+ With New Production Company
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: HBO's former CEO said to be in talks with Apple TV+ for an exclusive production deal
Cynthia Littleton / Variety: Former HBO Chief Richard Plepler Close to Signing Apple TV Plus Production Pact
Juli Clover / MacRumors: Former HBO CEO Richard Plepler in Talks With Apple About Apple TV+ Production Deal
Travis Clark / Business Insider: The former HBO CEO is in talks to join Apple TV Plus
Sara Fischer / Axios:
A look at AARP's significant media presence, with $174M in print and digital ad revenue in 2017 and magazine circulation that surpassed People's — “OK, millennials. But we're the people that actually have the money," Myrna Blyth, senior vice president and editorial director of AARP Media …
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Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: NEW: AARP is one of the largest media companies that you didn't realize was even a media company. - The non-profit brings in $174 million+ annually in media-based advertising revenue. - Has highest circulation of any magazine in the U.S. More on @axios: https://www.axios.com/...
Splinter:
Splinter staff says farewell in final joint post: “I remember my editor telling me ‘no heroes’, and we stuck with that”, said Managing Editor Katherine Krueger — There is no real origin story for Splinter. — Across my two years as editor in chief …
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@jscros, @pblest, @mattbors, @aleksnotalex, @squintermedia, @hannahsmothers_, @pblest, @jackmirkinson, @timmarchman, @bypatrickgeorge, @kath_krueger, @stephentotilo and @annamerlan
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Jack Crosbie / @jscros: “No one's bullshitting you, no one's holding anything back. Imagine: publications where the writers were honest about what they believed, and what they didn't.” https://splinternews.com/...
Aleksander Chan / @aleksnotalex: *daft punk voice* one more time https://splinternews.com/...
Hannah / @hannahsmothers_: “You could be as dumb or smart as you wanted, sometimes both on the same day. And that's what made it exciting and interesting.” https://splinternews.com/...
Paul Blest / @pblest: follow @new_splints to keep track of our work
Jack Mirkinson / @jackmirkinson: Splinter has been resurrected for one last post: a goodbye, from us to you. Splinter forever. https://splinternews.com/...
Tim Marchman / @timmarchman: Splinter was good. https://splinternews.com/...
Patrick George / @bypatrickgeorge: RIP Splinter, full of good blogs written by good humans https://twitter.com/...
Katherine Krueger / @kath_krueger: wow, back from the dead to say good bye, one month later. (don't worry we're still dead) https://splinternews.com/...
EU DisinfoLab:
Investigation finds 265+ fake local news sites in 65+ countries, managed by an Indian network, designed to influence the EU and the UN by criticizing Pakistan — Over 265 fake local news sites in more than 65 countries are managed by an Indian influence network.
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EU DisinfoLab / @disinfoeu: BREAKING: We uncovered a worldwide network of 265 fake media outlets in 65 countries, targeting the US, Canada, Brussels, Geneva and many more, which all serve Indian lobbying interests. (1/9) Thread 👇 Summary: https://www.disinfo.eu/... Interactive map: https://www.google.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Tanvi Madan / @tanvi_madan: Once, India was ground zero for KGB: “opening salvo of the AIDS disinformation campaign was fired on 17 July 1983, when an obscure newspaper in India, the Patriot, printed an anonymous letter headlined ‘AIDS may invade India: Mystery disease caused by US experiments’” 1/ https://twitter.com/...
Pawan Khera / @pawankhera: WHOA. Shocking https://twitter.com/...
Praveen Swami / @praveenswami: The real scandal here is that Indian taxpayer money, courtesy the intelligence services, is funding these extremely low-intelligence propaganda operations, which have in the decades of their existence achieved a big zero. They're an embarrassment, not a lobbying operation. https://twitter.com/...
Raju Narisetti / @raju: Quietly, India has become a huge source of global, fake “local” news web sites Uncovered: 265 coordinated fake local media outlets run by Indian interests - EU DisinfoLab https://www.disinfo.eu/... h/t @JemielniakD
Maya Mirchandani / @maya206: Detailed, damning investigation using open source material by @DisinfoEU ... puts together how a group of right wing, even fringe European Members of Parliament were feted by Delhi and taken on a guided tour of #Kashmir - among other influence operations #disinformation #OSINT https://twitter.com/...
EU DisinfoLab / @disinfoeu: And among these pages, you will always find the republication of articles and videos by politicians and obscure think tanks that support Indian geopolitical interests. (6/9) pic.twitter.com/W0UrOnh6sX
EU DisinfoLab / @disinfoeu: Have you heard of New York Journal American? It was a daily newspaper until 1966. Recently, it was resurrected online by the network we uncovered. (2/9) pic.twitter.com/GR9GTy7MEd
EU DisinfoLab / @disinfoeu: We're sure you know @MSNBC... but do you know http://MSNBC.UK ? (3/9) pic.twitter.com/pbuastIhKx
Karen Zraick / New York Times:
A University of Illinois policy requiring NPR member station reporters to disclose information about sources who report sexual misconduct comes under criticism — The university, which owns the license for NPR Illinois, says the station's journalists are bound by Title IX rules …
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@aclu: Rather than encouraging students to come forward with reports of sexual misconduct, the university's policy chills students from discussing their experiences. The policy is terrible for survivors, for reporters, and for the public. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lara O'Reilly / Digiday:
Ad tech company Sharethrough, which had specialized in native ads, is shutting EU operations, cutting 11 jobs in London; CEO says GDPR hit operations severely — Sharethrough is shutting its European operations. The San Francisco-based company said it is centralizing support for its U.K …
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Jeremy Hlavacek / @jhlava: It's a shame to see smaller competitors impacted by GDPR... https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
C-SPAN's assignment desk manager Jon Kelley, who covered Clinton's impeachment, talks about the channel's extensive preparations to cover the Trump impeachment — Jon Kelley was just one year into his career at C-SPAN when he operated a camera at the House's impeachment hearings for President Bill Clinton in 1998.
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Columbia Journalism Review, New York Times, @ideagov, CNN, @matthewkeyslive, @jimmaiella and @nathanhurst
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James Poniewozik / New York Times: When Watergate Was Appointment TV
Alan W. Silberberg / @ideagov: Good. If @cnn @msnbc did wall to wall bs trump rallies in 2016 - then surely can do wall to wall actual impeachment hearings of traitor they propped up then? Fair + Balanced. @foxnews nothing but, so no. @abc @cbs @nbc? What are you going to do? Throw with Patriots or Traitors? https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: Thought I'd mention C-SPAN is funded through a consortium of cable and satellite TV providers, including Comcast, AT&T, Dish, Spectrum and others. It was started as a public service, but it paywalled its video streams a few years ago. http://bit.ly/2QebnGc https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists are anonymously sharing their salaries and other relevant information like their gender identity, location, and work history in a public Google doc — When journalists want to talk among themselves about something difficult, the anonymous Google Doc seems to have become the mechanism.
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Bloomberg, @schwindter, @inatania, @janelytv, @thomdunn, @dlberes, @jbenton, Boing Boing, @andreagonram, @timweideman, @rachelmetz, @cnqmdi, @mathewi, @mathewi, @somospostpc, @schwindter, @mathewi and @skobos, Thanks:@mathewi
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Oriana Schwindt / @schwindter: this line is really telling on people's perception of how much money you need to live—this would be really comfortable for me https://www.cjr.org/... pic.twitter.com/HZtimHEWs6
Natania Malin Gazek / @inatania: Salary transparency is one of the best tools we have for closing the pay gap—and when companies don't do it proactively, employees are creative about getting the info they need! https://twitter.com/...
@janelytv: The few Canadian salaries disclosed in the spreadsheet are minuscule https://www.cjr.org/...
Turkey Doom / @thomdunn: I mean, even that fact alone is eye-opening, and probably why such pay transparency is important
Damon Beres / @dlberes: “Journalists doing anonymous journalism about journalism, in the shape of Google docs, is a new development in form.” https://www.cjr.org/...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: The Shitty Media Salaries List https://www.cjr.org/...
Thom Dunn / Boing Boing: Hundreds of journalists are sharing their salary information in a spreadsheet
Andrea Gonzlez-Ramrez / @andreagonram: yes i would like to have some worker solidarity with my wine, thank you https://www.cjr.org/...
Tim Weideman / @timweideman: Would genuinely be interested in more small town newspaper employees sharing info. My first reporter job out of college (2012) - $10.25/hour. Second job at a slightly larger paper in the area was a couple dollars more. Then I took a break from journalism. https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Metz / @rachelmetz: good! and this isn't the only google doc about this stuff that's out there. https://twitter.com/...
Rahel / @cnqmdi: i can't even imagine making “just” 50k or “only” 62k truly WATTBA https://www.cjr.org/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: New low: A staff reporter with 3 years experience at Ogden Newspapers in Utah makes $14.91 per hour, according to this crowdsourced Google Doc: https://www.cjr.org/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: There's a Google Doc circulating with anonymous details of the salaries for various journalism jobs, and it makes for interesting — if awkward — reading. Share yours and circulate! https://www.cjr.org/...
Alex Barredo / @somospostpc: > A web producer for Wirecutter, the consumer review site now owned by the New York Times, makes just $45,000, according to the list. Yikes. https://www.cjr.org/... 🆕 Today on @Wirecutter 🆕 📦Top 10 Cardboard Boxes 🎧The Best Headphones for Running Away From Your Job
Oriana Schwindt / @schwindter: I remember at TV Guide I told someone who had worked there forever and easily made in the 6 figures that I was making $45,000 a year and they were horrified and yeah it wasn't great but also they were used to, like, having a 2nd house in the Hamptons
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Highest salary so far in the crowdsourced Google Doc on media salaries is $145,000 for a deputy editor at the NYT with 15 years of experience. Lowest so far is $35,500 for a digital co-ordinator at BH Media in Virginia https://www.cjr.org/...
Sarah Kobos / @skobos: Hey we made this happen and @CJR wrote about it! Thank you to everyone who has shared so far - knowledge is power!! https://www.cjr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Thanks:@mathewi
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