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Brian Stelter / CNN:
NPR's Michele Kelemen has been removed from Mike Pompeo's press pool for a trip to UK and Ukraine, a few days after Pompeo responded angrily to an NPR interview — New York (CNN Business)Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appears to be escalating his criticism of NPR — this time not just with words but with actions.
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Lara Jakes / @jakesnyt: The State Department removed NPR reporter Michele Kelemen from the press pool on @SecPompeo trip this week to Europe and Central Asia following his dustup w @NPRKelly. Read statement by @shauntandon, State Department Correspondents' Association president: https://twitter.com/...
Nick Schifrin / @nickschifrin: State Department removes @NPR's @michelekelemen from @SecPompeo plane—where she was scheduled for a pool radio rotation—during upcoming trip to London, Kiev. Comes after @SecPompeo accused media of being “unhinged” after @NPRKelly interview and subsequent back and forth.
Andrea Mitchell / @mitchellreports: State dept colleagues are dismayed, outraged by @SecPompeo decision to kick esteemed @NPR veteran diplomatic correspondent @MicheleKelemen off his plane for this week's trip to Ukraine in apparent retaliation for her colleague standing up to bullying. #FirstAmendment
Dartunorro Clark / NBC News: State Department boots NPR reporter from trip after Pompeo spat
John Kruzel / The Hill: State Department removes NPR reporter from Pompeo trip
Joaquin Castro / @joaquincastrotx: Autocracies target journalists. Democracies respect a free press. Which do you support, @SecPompeo? A reporter's questions may be hard, but the choice is easy. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Lara Jakes / New York Times: State Dept. Will Not Allow NPR Reporter on Pompeo's Plane Following Interview
Amy Scott / @amyreports: How does the State Department explain this to its diplomats promoting freedom of the press abroad? https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: NPR is awaiting answers from the State Dept, according to two sources. NPR has not been told if this is a one-off decision or a full-blown ban. The organization is not covering this matter on the air until it gets more info... https://www.cnn.com/...
Brendan Morrow / The Week: Trump celebrates Pompeo's berating of an NPR reporter: ‘You did a good job on her’
Arden Dier / Newser: NPR-Pompeo Brouhaha Rolls On
Humeyra Pamuk / Reuters: U.S. State Department bars NPR reporter from Pompeo trip after testy interview
Michael Bennet / @senatorbennet: The Secretary of State should promote American values - including a free press - around the globe. Bullying journalists for doing their jobs is something you'd expect from authoritarian regimes, not the U.S. https://twitter.com/...
David Sanger / @sangernyt: I have traveled tens of thousands of miles on the Secretary of State's plane with @michelekelemen. Like @NPRKelly, she is a consummate pro, a superb reporter. The State Dept. may try, childishly, to pick who fills the seats but it won't be able to pick who covers US diplomacy. https://twitter.com/...
Edward Wong / @ewong: .@SecPompeo escalates attack on the press: State Dept. bars NPR reporter @michelekelemen from Pompeo's plane on trip to Ukraine & other nations. State Dept. Correspondents' Association says he is retaliating over journalism by @NPRKelly. Back story: http://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mark Plenke / @mplenke: NPR should be in court challenging this targeted ban on its reporting. Clearly unconstitutional (plenty of case law to back it up). https://apple.news/...
Christopher C. Cuomo / @chriscuomo: Why is this ok? Press works for you. Why should you have less coverage of power? https://twitter.com/...
Scary Lawyerguy / @scarylawyerguy: What is that term for when you help start a fire and then start screaming about how someone needs to put out the fire you helped start? https://twitter.com/...
Sam Seaborn / @samseaborn: This is where I'd love to see a show of solidarity by the press. Vote a single reporter to go and file a pool report; everyone else opt out of the trip https://twitter.com/...
Ed Markey / @senmarkey: Muzzling the press is what dictatorships do, not the United States of America. Retaliation against NPR or any news outlet for doing their job is authoritarianism and entirely un-American. Secretary Pompeo, it's not personal, it's press. https://twitter.com/...
Joyce Alene / @joycewhitevance: This is unacceptable @SecPompeo. You work for us & we expect the press to have access to you. Explain what happened here & how you intend to correct it. This is what dictatorships do to the press, not how our country's officials behave. https://twitter.com/...
Joy Reid / @joyannreid: An attempt by a high administration official to bully and humiliate a reporter, followed by retaliation. Not at all the way autocratic regimes behave ... https://twitter.com/...
Edward Wong / @ewong: Secretary of State is supposed to defend American values, including press freedom. Pompeo does the opposite. Listen to the interview @NPRKelly did that upset him. A true professional, she asked about Iran & Ukraine. Then he cursed her with F-bombs. https://www.npr.org/...
Aaron Blake / @aaronblake: 1. Pompeo implied he had been lied to about the subject of their conversation. Emails show his aide was told. 2. Pompeo laughably suggested @NPRKelly had mistaken Ukraine for Bangladesh on a map. 3. Now NPR is being punished? https://twitter.com/...
Steve Inskeep / @nprinskeep: Allow me to introduce @michelekelemen, a deeply experienced foreign correspondent and @NPR diplomatic correspondent. She's one of the best colleagues I've ever worked with. She's thoughtful, honest, gracious and tough. Also, just got banned from Sec. Pompeo's plane. https://twitter.com/...
Elise Labott / @eliselabott: Statement by the State Department Correspondents' Association responding to @SecPompeo decision to ban respected veteran diplomatic correspondent @michelekelemen from his plane on his upcoming trip to Ukraine in apparent retaliation against @NPR https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: Shameful. Every other reporter on this trip should refuse to accompany, or cover, this Pompeo trip. Stand up against the administration's anti-press and divide-and-rule approach. https://twitter.com/...
Qasim Rashid / @qasimrashid: Here's an NPR report on how in 2019 the United States dropped to 48th in World Press Freedom. The move downgrades America from a “satisfactory” place to work freely to a “problematic” one for journalists.😳 America was 20th in 2010😑 Are we great yet?🤔 https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Chuck Holmes / @chuckatwbhm: Really? @michelekelemen has covered State for years under Rs and Ds, earning the respect of her peers & from those she covered. She does her job with intelligence & professionalism. But, um, she has been known to ask questions on a variety of topics. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Kaczynski / @kfile: As a rule we shouldn't be restricting reporters because their outlet's questions hurt Mike Pompeo's feelings https://twitter.com/...
Dan Barry / @danbarrynyt: Let's slow this down: The Secretary of State. Removes an NPR reporter from the press pool for a diplomatic trip. Because another NPR reporter asked him hard but fair questions. After which he maligned her by misrepresenting what the ground rules had been. Where are we? https://twitter.com/...
Laura Kennedy / @ambkennedy_ret: Can anyone see this removal of @michelekelemen by Pompeo as anything but retribution against NPR? How do US diplomats promote democracy & freedom of press with a Secretary like Pompeo? PS He sure likes to pick on women journalists https://twitter.com/...
Toomas Hendrik Ilves / @ilvestoomas: The US is a member of the @OSCE and pushed hard for the establishment of the office of the @OSCE_RFoM, the organization's High Representative for Media Freedom, a post currently held by @harlemdesir. Cases such as this are investigated by the High Representative. https://twitter.com/...
Ashton Pittman / @ashtonpittman: Mike Pompeo, like Donald Trump, has the instincts of a true despot. Retaliating against one NPR reporter because a different NPR reporter asked you a question you didn't like—and then noted your abusive rage at her to the public—is the marking of a weak, petty tyrant. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Klaas / @brianklaas: Pompeo bullied an NPR reporter for doing her job. Then he lied about her. And now he's banned her colleague from covering him as a form of retribution for simply asking a basic and reasonable question. This is the kind of stuff you see under despots, not in democracies. https://twitter.com/...
Jessica Taylor / @jessicataylor: Both @michelekelemen and @NPRKelly are consummate professionals. This is absurd. Reporters ask tough questions. It's their job. https://twitter.com/...
Mary Delach Leonard / @marydleonard: Well, this looks petty ... And I'll betcha NPR's @michelekelemen can also point to Ukraine on a map. https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “The removal of Michele ... comes days after Secretary Pompeo harshly criticized the work of an NPR host. We can only conclude that the State Department is retaliating against National Public Radio as a result of this exchange.” https://www.cnn.com/...
Tim Pearce / Washington Examiner: State Department removes NPR reporter from Pompeo travel pool after feud with outlet
Deirdre Shesgreen / USA Today: State Department blocks NPR reporter from Pompeo trip after radio host said he cursed, shouted at her
Cody Fenwick / Alternet.org: Pompeo accused of ‘retaliating against’ NPR after he bars reporter from his plane
Mike Pompeo / The Guardian: NPR reporter removed from Pompeo trip in ‘retaliation’, says press group
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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Trump praises Pompeo for his behavior with NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly: “That was very impressive....I think you did a good job on her, actually.” — At a White House ceremony with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump noted the presence of Pompeo and said, “That was very impressive.
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Aaron Rupar / @atrupar: Trump praises Pompeo after he bullied an NPR reporter and then prohibited another NPR reporter from traveling with him: “That reporter couldn't have done too good a job on you ... I think you did a good job on her actually.” https://twitter.com/...
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill: Trump praises Pompeo over handling of NPR reporter: ‘You did a good job on her’
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News: ‘You did a good job on her’: Trump praises Pompeo for confrontation with NPR reporter
John Lansing / @johnlansing: I stand behind the NPR newsroom, which has some of the most respected, truthful, factual, professional and ethical journalists in the United States. Our mission is to serve the American public by seeking and reporting the truth.
Elizabeth de la Vega / @delavegalaw: Why did the journalists not just walk out of the room en masse? https://twitter.com/...
Evan McMurry / @evanmcmurry: Pres. Trump to Sec. of State Mike Pompeo: “That reporter couldn't have done too good a job on you yesterday, huh? I think you did a good job on her, actually.” https://abcnews.go.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Juliette Kayyem / @juliettekayyem: “on her” https://twitter.com/...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: Congrats to all of those in the audience laughing along to attacks on the free press. https://twitter.com/...
Mallory Yu / @mallory_yu: “That reporter” has a name - Mary Louise Kelly - a celebrated body of work, the deep respect and admiration of her colleagues here at NPR and within the journalism community, and the ethics and trustworthiness of the kind of journalists this country needs now more than ever. https://twitter.com/...
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
News startup Scroll debuts today with ad-free access to ~300 partners, including BuzzFeed News, BI, and Vox, for $2.49/mo. for first six months then $4.99/mo. — After a long period of invite-only beta testing, Scroll is officially launching today, offering ad-free access to sites like BuzzFeed News …
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab: Scroll promises a better Internet for users and more money for publishers, all for just five bucks
Scroll / @tryscroll: Scroll is now open to the public! Now you can experience an internet that's twice as fast, with 80% fewer trackers and completely ad free on a growing network of sites. Your membership directly funds the sites you love. Become a member today! http://scroll.com/ https://twitter.com/...
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Scroll makes hundreds of websites ad-free for $5 per month
Sara Fischer / Axios: Former Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile launches startup Scroll
Nathan Bomey / USA Today: Gannett-backed Scroll launches subscription service for ad-free journalism
Mike Murphy / @mcwm: this is an interesting idea — effectively trying to take advertising ARPU, make customers pay it directly to one company, and then revenue is split between partners ? seems like a lot of work, but could be cool if people buy into it https://twitter.com/...
Nathan Lawrence / @nathanblawrence: I've been on Scroll for a few months now. It's great. We've obviously walked the subscription revenue split path before, and if the economics scale is something I just don't know if our industry can see yet, but I'm glad someone's giving it another try. https://twitter.com/...
Maya Rodale / @mayarodale: HUZZZAH! Congrats to @arctictony and his awesome team on their big launch today! I've been using scroll for months (cos I know a guy 😉 ) and it's an amazing, beautiful way to experience the web. Check it out. https://twitter.com/...
Martin Sfp Bryant / @martinsfp: I've been using Scroll for the past few months and I really like it. If you hate adtech and like supporting journalism, give it a go. https://twitter.com/...
Rick Edmonds / Poynter: Revolutionary? A hit? A miss? In any case, Tony Haile's Scroll has launched at last
Alex Fitzpatrick / @alexjamesfitz: Really interested to see where this goes. It's promising, but whether anyone can overcome the original sin of making Internet content free remains to be seen. https://twitter.com/...
Geoffrey Fowler / Washington Post:
Facebook says its Off-Facebook Activity tool, which lets users clear all the data passed onto Facebook by other apps and sites, is now available globally — The new ‘Off-Facebook Activity’ tool reminds us we're living in a reality TV program where the cameras are always on.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: All users can now access Facebook's tool for controlling which apps and sites can share data for ad-targeting
Edward C. Baig / USA Today: Facebook privacy tool gives you more control on how you're being watched online
Mark Zuckerberg / About Facebook: Starting the Decade by Giving You More Control Over Your Privacy
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Daily Crunch: Facebook expands privacy options
Michael Grothaus / Fast Company: Here's how to see where Facebook follows you around the web—and how to make it stop
David Carroll / @profcarroll: Facebook: We don't assemble “shadow profiles” and users can download their data. Also Facebook: Here's a metric ton of tracking data that hasn't been previously disclosed until this year's #DataPrivacyDay #DataProtectionDay https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Aral Balkan / @aral: Transparency is only Step 1. If we don't like what we see, what can we do about it? If the answer is nothing (e.g., because the regulators want to work there in 3 yrs), transparency becomes a synonym for learned helplessness; a snuff film of our lives that we're forced to watch. https://twitter.com/...
David Bauder / Associated Press:
AP held “townhall” meetings on racial sensitivity in its journalism after it was slammed for mistakenly cropping out an African climate activist on Friday — NEW YORK (AP) — A “terrible mistake” in cropping an African climate activist out of a photo sent to customers …
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@ap: “It was a mistake that we realize silenced your voice, and we apologize. We will all work hard to learn from this.” @AP executive editor apologizes to African climate activist for photo crop that removed her from image where she posed with other activists. https://apnews.com/...
Vanessa Nakate / @vanessa_vash: Anyway my name is Vanessa Nakate Thought I would add that https://twitter.com/...
Bree Newsome Bass / @breenewsome: Climate change disproportionately impacts communities of color. The centering of white activists on the issue is deliberate erasure. Dominant media does this with everything. https://twitter.com/...
@deardean22: 1. Edit Vanessa Nakate out of the picture. 2. Apologize without naming Vanessa Nakate. 3. Vanessa Nakate puts AP on blast again. First of her name, working to improve climates the world over, is not to be erased or ignored. Vanessa Nakate. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Holthaus / @ericholthaus: It took @AP til the fourth paragraph in this news story about the erasure of an African climate activist to mention that her name is Vanessa Nakate @vanessa_vash. Vanessa has founded a pan-African climate solidarity movement. We should all know her name. https://apnews.com/...
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers:
Former Fox News executive producer Jennifer Williams named head of editorial video strategy for Facebook News — Scoop: Facebook has tapped former Fox News executive producer Jennifer Williams to head video strategy for Facebook News, the dedicated news tab that will launch wide later this year, a source familiar with the move tells me. https://link.nbcnews.com/...
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Pardes Seleh / @pardesseleh: People think nobody outside conservative media will hire you after you work for Fox but Take it from me, being a former Fox producer is a media golden ticket 😂they don't care who you are they just want those sexy ass NUMBERS https://twitter.com/...
Cassidy Olsen / @olsencassidy: Love to see Facebook doubling down on radicalizing boomers while YouTube stays radicalizing teens https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Flipboard will now feature local news coverage in 23 cities in US and Canada and start recommending stories based on IP address — Flipboard, the personalized news aggregation app used by 145 million users per month, is today launching a new feature aimed at bringing local news coverage …
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Sara Guaglione / MediaPost: Flipboard Creates Local Hub For 23 Cities
Michael Rosenwald / Columbia Journalism Review: Is the quest for profits and clicks killing local news?
Sara Fischer / Axios: Flipboard launches local news initiative
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Felicia Sonmez shares her account of suspension from WaPo, says Managing Editor Tracy Grant had concerns that the tweets didn't pertain to her coverage area — The Post has suspended reporter Felicia Sonmez following her social-media activity over the death of NBA great Kobe Bryant.
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Emily Stewart / Vox: The controversy over a Washington Post reporter's Kobe Bryant tweets, explained
Paul Farhi / Washington Post: Washington Post reporter who tweeted about Kobe Bryant rape allegations placed on administrative leave
Vanity Fair: “There's Incredible Outrage”: Washington Post Newsroom Revolts After Reporter Suspended For Kobe Bryant Tweets
Paul Farhi / @farhip: Breaking: State Dept. blocks @npr reporter from covering Secretary of State's trip, apparently in retaliation for Pompeo's run-in with @NPRKelly. Statement from State Dept. Correspndts Assn. protesting decision: https://twitter.com/...
Tom Gara / @tomgara: Such crappy treatment of Felicia Sonmez by her bosses at the WaPo here https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian: Wesley Lowery Will Leave the Washington Post
Marc Stein / New York Times: Kobe Bryant's Brilliant and Complicated Legacy
Chris Riotta / The Independent: Washington Post staff rally behind journalist suspended for tweeting about Kobe Bryant rape case
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review: But Hunter Biden...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: “...the ancient wisdom that urges folks not to speak ill of the dead. It's a fine rule for everyone except for historians and journalists, upon whom the public relies to provide warts-and-all look-backs on the lives of influential people.” - @ErikWemple https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Tom Jones / Poynter: The Washington Post suspended a reporter for tweeting about Kobe Bryant's sexual assault …
Alex Henderson / Alternet.org: Washington Post newsroom rallies around reporter who was suspended for posting Kobe Bryant tweets
Amy Widdowson / The Morning Missive: Today's Mantra Is Scream Into That Void Until You Feel Something Real! Woooo!
Anil Dash / @anildash: At this point, being illiterate about the intellectually dishonest tactics that harassers use is just malpractice. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Linkins / @dceiver: I hope the @postguild extracts an operatic, grovelling apology from the ostensible adult managers who made this bush league decision https://twitter.com/...
Dennis Perkins / The A.V. Club: Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon bid emotional farewells to Kobe Bryant
Wesley / @wesleylowery: The Post has a policy against criticizing colleagues, which I fear they'd argue I violated if I tweeted the headline to this @ErikWemple piece. (I've asked, haven't heard back). In the meantime, you should read it https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: i've been sick all day but good lord newsrooms simply have to be more apprised of what information war tactics look like and have the backs of their reporters when the culture war comes for them (it'll come for most everyone at some point!) https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Tim Steller / @senyorreporter: Absolutely shocking that the @washingtonpost put a reporter on leave for posting a news story, after Kobe Bryant's death, about Bryant's sexual assault case. Incredibly disappointing and cowardly. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Anna Merlan / @annamerlan: If you disagree with the timing of her tweets, her management should have made sure she was safe. That's it.
Anna Merlan / @annamerlan: I interviewed Felicia Sonmez about her own sexual assault a few months ago, and being smeared by Emily Yoffe. She was extremely careful about what she said because, as it sounds like we learned today, WaPo disciplines her for very little https://jezebel.com/...
Julia Carrie Wong / @juliacarriew: the precedent that this sets is so utterly absurd and untenable that it's almost impossible to imagine that the post doesn't walk this back. except, well, they haven't yet, so there's that. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Irin Carmon / @irin: The cowardice here is appalling. https://twitter.com/...
Gene Weingarten / @geneweingarten: If you want a measure of how great the Washington Post is, read this piece by @ErikWemple, which the Post published. He is right, and The Post is right to have published it, and you don't see that courage and accountability anymore, in most venues. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Rachel Cohen / @rmc031: someone had posted Sonmez's address, leading her to fear for her safety at home, so she checked into a hotel on Sunday night. She learned she was being suspended while hiding out in the hotel https://twitter.com/...
Aleksander Chan / @aleksnotalex: it is insane to me is that there appears to have been no regard for sonmez's safety from her editors? if your reporter find themselves in this kind of situation it is your obligation to make sure they are safe https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Dominique Mosbergen / HuffPost: ‘Outrage’ At Washington Post After Reporter Suspended For Viral Kobe Bryant Tweets
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: Context for Sonmez tweets, however Ill-timed some considered them - she has been vocal on the subject of sexual assault and harassment on Twitter for a very long time. https://twitter.com/...
James Poniewozik / @poniewozik: “Management continued to worry about the tweets, says Sonmez, noting that Grant sent her another message saying that if she didn't delete them, she'd be ‘in violation of a directive from a managing editor.’” https://twitter.com/...
James Poniewozik / @poniewozik: If your social-media policy boils down to, “Don't get people mad at us on Twitter,” just ban your staff from social media and get it over with.
Dan Nguyen / @dancow: Maybe figure out exactly what policies an employee has violated before suspending her https://twitter.com/...
Jack Crosbie / @jscros: even without considering that sonmez is an assault survivor herself, this is just absolutely throwing a writer under the bus. for what? tweeting a factual news story that the public didn't like? pure coward shit here
@libbycwatson: so someone posts felicia's address online, making her fear for her safety, and wapo's management's response is to suspend HER. for having tweeted a headline! what a shitty organization https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: this suspension is absurd and the least the post could do after failing to stand by its reporter in the face of aggressive harassment is publicly apologize, but anyway this is good https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jack Crosbie / @jscros: absolutely shameful handling of the situation from the editors in charge here. any editor who isn't willing to go to bat for their writers and subordinates isn't worth shit https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jim Waterson / @jimwaterson: Washington Post journalist writes blog for Washington Post on why Washington Post management was wrong to suspend a Washington Post journalist. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Lydia DePillis / @lydiadepillis: Tweeting a story “off my beat,” because @feliciasonmez is an impeccable journalist and human with, I dare say, excellent judgment. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Kudos to @ErikWemple, followed by other Post journalists, in being vocally critical of their paper's treatment of reporter @feliciasonmez. As @yashar says, you don't have to agree with her tweets to recognize how shoddy was her editors' treatment of her: https://twitter.com/...
@yashar: 3. As @ErikWemple points out in his column...if tweeting about stuff that is outside of a reporter's coverage area, the whole newsroom should be suspended. By the way, @feliciasonmez was never told her posting emails was the reason for suspension https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Zach Carter / @zachdcarter: What @ErikWemple details here is an embarrassment for Washington Post management. The Post is going after their own reporter for the “crime” of ... receiving death threats. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: So WaPo's only explanation was she was tweeting off her beat (everyone does that) and making it hard for other WaPo reporters to do their jobs (but they won't explain how tweeting a factual article made others lives harder). Pretty weak stuff! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Delia Cai / Deez Links: About that WaPo reporter's tweet debacle...
Rebecca Cohen / @gynostar: A reporter tweets a link to a well-reported, relevant piece about Kobe Bryant. She gets deluged with abuse and threats. She tweets about that. So what does @washingtonpost do? They suspend her, of course. Baffling. https://nypost.com/... via @nypost
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News: Planters ‘pausing’ death of Mr. Peanut online campaign following death of Kobe Bryant
Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News: Washington Post suspends reporter after Kobe Bryant rape allegation tweet
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Ariel Zilber / Daily Mail:
WaPo suspends Felicia Sonmez after she tweeted a story about a rape allegation against Kobe Bryant, responded to criticism, and detailed abuse sent to her email
WaPo suspends Felicia Sonmez after she tweeted a story about a rape allegation against Kobe Bryant, responded to criticism, and detailed abuse sent to her email
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Jeremy Gordon / The Outline: Kobe Bryant was an incredible basketball player; he also admitted to sexual assault.
Rachel C. Abrams / @rachelabramsny: UPDATE: “Felicia, A real lack of judgment to tweet this. Please stop. You're hurting this institution by doing this.” - Marty Baron, executive editor @ Washington Post, to a suspended reporter. But her colleagues have been rallying to her defense. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@davidklion: It's outrageous and cowardly that the Washington Post is suspending a reporter for tweeting factual, reported information about a public figure who was credibly accused of rape. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ ...
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian: The Washington Post Has Offered to Pay for Suspended Reporter's Hotel and Security Detail
Mona Eltahawy / @monaeltahawy: 2 female journalists in the US have been punished for doing their jobs recently: - Mary Louise Kelly yelled at, cursed by Secretary of State - Felicia Sonmez suspended by Washington Post for tweeting article written by someone else about Kobe Bryant 2003 sexually assault case
Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: “Her managers don't care about the Daily Beast tweet,” a Washington Post employee told me. “But there's a concern that the screen shot (of her email inbox) might create some legal issues and could violate Twitter's terms (of service).” https://thedesk.matthewkeys.net/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Elise Hu / @elisewho: “Here a valued colleague is being censured for making a statement of fact.” This doesn't seem complicated. I don't understand why @feliciasonmez is suspended https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rebecca Davis / Variety: Washington Post Under Fire From Its Own Union, Media Critic for Suspending Reporter Over Kobe Tweets
Adam Jentleson / @ajentleson: Sure seems like WaPo management was more concerned with an employee's tweets than their physical safety https://twitter.com/...
Melissa Chan / @melissakchan: Anyone who works in an office knows social media policies are used as a political tool, applying to some and not others. Management playing favorites is bad enough, but suspending @feliciasonmez, a survivor, is evidence we still have so much work to do. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael Powell / New York Times: Kobe Bryant Up Close: Ferocious and Flawed, Gruff and Gracious
Southpaw / @nycsouthpaw: nursing a theory that editors are particularly susceptible to crowd effects and algorithmic influences during moments of great audience emotion, except my editors who are perfect of course https://twitter.com/...
Talia Lavin / @chick_in_kiev: The only person “hurting the institution” of the Washington Post yesterday was Martin Baron, by being a coward who censured a reporter for stating facts in the public record, in an anodyne, measured and considered way. This is appalling. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Yashar Ali / @yashar: This is absolutely outrageous. You don't even have to agree with @feliciasonmez tweets to agree that for her to be suspended for tweeting out a newsstory and then talking about being harassed for her tweets is an insane reaction. https://twitter.com/...
David M. Perry / @lollardfish: This account worked hard to magnify the harassment of a sexual assault survivor and now he's boasting about having gotten her suspended. I want to be clear that only one person is behaving badly here and it's not Felicia. https://twitter.com/...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: Hard to see how this, from the paper's top editor, would reassure someone thinking about bringing WaPo a serious story about sexual misconduct/misbehavior https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Staci D Kramer / @sdkstl: Streisand Effect at work https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sopan Deb / @sopandeb: Wa Po's own media reporter, @ErikWemple on his employer suspending a reporter over Bryant tweets: “What did Sonmez do to deserve this brushback? She tweeted out a very good story from the Daily Beast.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@jimrutenberg: Sure would be great if @washingtonpost would offer a little more context on its decision here https://twitter.com/...
Olivia Nuzzi / @olivianuzzi: News organizations should protect their journalists, not acquiesce to the mob when it comes for them. The Washington Post not only failed Felicia Sonmez, but set a dangerous precedent.
Carla Sosenko / @carlasosenko: The @washingtonpost should be ashamed of itself and reinstate Felicia Sonmez immediately. People do not become retroactively perfect once they die. Bryant's death is a horrible tragedy but the assault case is part of his legacy. This is censorship. https://www.thewrap.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Suspended??? That's a ridiculous overreaction. And people who email abuse to reporters have ZERO right to privacy. https://thedesk.matthewkeys.net/ ...
Helen Ubias / @notesfromhel: Putting aside the timing of her tweets, I've aways wondered (in my own experience) why readers who send hateful, threatening and abusive emails are afforded such an undeserving expectation of privacy. It just empowers their abusive behavior. https://twitter.com/...
Stacy Washington / @stacyontheright: Why protect the ones attacking her? They deserve to be outed for sending death threats. I cannot agree with this. https://twitter.com/...
Peter Sterne / @petersterne: It wasn't just @feliciasonmez. A number of journalists tweeted links to articles about the Kobe Bryant rape allegations yesterday. But only the Washington Post saw fit to suspend its reporter.
Marlow Stern / @marlownyc: as the writer of the kobe rape case story she tweeted out, this is completely insane. #metoo but also let's suspend a brave survivor of sexual assault for pointing out the facts? https://www.mediaite.com/...
Dylan Matthews / @dylanmatt: A fun story is that while I was planning to leave anyway, the Post technically fired me bc, after Ezra tweeted something asking people to follow Wonkblog on Twitter, I jokingly quote-tweeted it with “NEVER” @feliciasonmez is the best and this is idiotic https://www.mediaite.com/...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: A lot of people were online yesterday refreshing their phones, desperate for somebody to blame for something inexplicable. A lot of them were driven, algorithmically or otherwise, to this outrage mob. This is the Post giving into it, and feeding their reporter to the wolves. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Di Stefano / @markdistef: I love that no matter what happens - like a beloved sports legend dies - the online conversation arc will always bend towards a fight about ethics in journalism
@libbycwatson: I mean just as a matter of principle, if you send me an email and we don't agree that it's off the record, I can do what I want with it. if you send me an abusive email it is within my rights to tweet about it
@libbycwatson: regardless of the rule, it is so clear that wapo could have exercised discretion on whether to fucking SUSPEND her over it. they should side with their reporter over the nutters sending her abusive emails. it is that simple
@libbycwatson: what wapo did to felicia sonmez is so shameful—even if the ostensible reason for suspending is that she tweeted the names of people emailing her. media organizations are still so susceptible to gamergate style campaigns from right-wing psychos (who fueled the outrage against her)
Christina Cauterucci / Slate: How Media Outlets Are Acknowledging (and Not Acknowledging) Kobe Bryant's Rape Case
Jonathan Myerson Katz / @katzonearth: If the @washingtonpost really did this, it's disgusting. Who is it supposed to assuage? The people who sent her death threats? They'll forget about it in a day anyway. https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: Nine different stories by @washingtonpost reporters yesterday made reference to the sexual assault allegation against Kobe Bryant. But a reporter who tweets a story about it w/o any commentary gets suspended for “poor judgment that undermined the work of her colleagues”? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: This is insane and clearly an overreaction by WaPo. The rape allegation is a part of Kobe's legacy. Punishing a reporter for pointing that out is confusing and a bizarre choice for an outlet that does serious reporting on harassment and misconduct. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ ...
Elon Green / @elongreen: yessssssssss, tell me more about the legend of Marty Baron https://twitter.com/...
Stuart McDonald / @travelfish: ‘The tweets displayed poor judgment that undermined the work of her colleagues.’ Yeah, ahhh nope. https://twitter.com/...
Lindsey Barrett / @lam_barrett: this is flat-out obscene and would be if it happened to anyone, but it's all the more atrocious given what sonmez has already gone through with her own sexual assault, as david points out. https://twitter.com/...
Chad Loder / @chadloder: I was bothered by her timing. But she tweeted facts. This is what journalists do. https://twitter.com/...
@davidklion: This is especially troubling considering that a few months ago, Sonmez bravely went public with the details of her own sexual assault at the hands of a fellow journalist in China, and was smeared by the usual gang of unaccountable reactionary pundits for doing so.
@davidklion: NYT and the Atlantic will do nothing to their employees who smear a reporter (relying on a debunked report by their friend) on Twitter; meanwhile WaPo will suspend that same reporter for tweeting facts about Kobe Bryant and setting off the MAGA crowd. It's sickening.
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: This response from the Post is shameful and incoherent. If the editors feel that a reporter tweeting a well-reported story's headline with a link is beyond the pale and damages the paper they should get it over with and ban the newsroom from Twitter. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ ...
Washington Post Guild:
Washington Post Guild issues scathing critique of the paper's suspension of Felicia Sonmez, says WaPo should let her return and provide a security detail
Washington Post Guild issues scathing critique of the paper's suspension of Felicia Sonmez, says WaPo should let her return and provide a security detail
Discussion:
The Guardian, @petersterne, Talking Points Memo, Washingtonian, @moiradonegan, @megancarpentier, @meghara, @thischairrocks, @emmaroller, @zoeyorkwrites, @timothys, @elisewho, @jessicavalenti, @sarahkaplan48, @grahamstarr, @xor, @bgrueskin, @josheidelson, @marcatracy, @abeaujon, @abeaujon, @dlind, Fox News and The Daily Beast
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Amanda Holpuch / The Guardian: More than 300 Washington Post staff reject reporter's suspension over tweet
Peter Sterne / @petersterne: WaPo union statement on @feliciasonmez notes that Washington Post management previously disciplined her for tweeting about *her own* experience of sexual assault. https://docs.google.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo: WaPo Guild Urges Paper To Lift Suspension Of Journo Who Tweeted Kobe Bryant Rape Case
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian: Washington Post Union Blasts Paper for Suspending Reporter Over Kobe Bryant Tweets
Moira Donegan / @moiradonegan: My thoughts are with @feliciasonmez, a journalist of uncommon integrity and ethical commitment to whom I and other women in media owe an enormous debt. https://docs.google.com/...
Megan Carpentier / @megancarpentier: It's pretty difficult to see their decision to suspend her for those Tweets as distinct from their knowledge of her history and how that is determined by them to affect her “objectivity” — even if the piece she tweeted didn't state her opinion of it.
Megha Rajagopalan / @meghara: Suspending a reporter over a controversial tweet instead of helping her deal with credible threats of physical violence that happened because of the tweet is what's wrong with the media industry https://docs.google.com/...
Ashton Applewhite / @thischairrocks: It's uncomfortable to raise the worst thing a beloved figure has ever done when that person dies. It should be uncomfortable. It is also brave and necessary. https://twitter.com/...
Emma Roller / @emmaroller: making a mental note of all the WaPo people whose names aren't on this (very good) statement https://docs.google.com/...
@zoeyorkwrites: As a @washingtonpost subscriber, this is deeply concerning to me. I'll be emailing them about this as well. Muzzling anyone for talking about sexual assault is inappropriate. https://twitter.com/...
Tim Shorrock / @timothys: Really glad to see the union aggressively defend @feliciasonmez. Incredibly heavy-handed actions by Post editorial management. https://twitter.com/...
Elise Hu / @elisewho: Now more than 300 @washingtonpost journalists have signed the Post union's petition in support of their colleague @feliciasonmez, who was suspended for ... tweeting a link to a story about Kobe Bryant's 2003 rape case #hifelicia https://docs.google.com/...
Jessica Valenti / @jessicavalenti: This should concern all female reporters. If women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted are not considered objective, you're going to have a *really* hard time finding any women to write about these issues https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Kaplan / @sarahkaplan48: Days like today are what unions are for. I'm proud to stand with my colleague Felicia and my fellow @PostGuild members: https://docs.google.com/...
Graham Starr / @grahamstarr: The Post Guild doesn't pull punches in its statement: “The Post's handling of this issue shows utter disregard for best practices” https://docs.google.com/...
Parker Higgins / @xor: The four pages of signatures on this letter suggests that journalists did not in fact think that Sonmez's tweets had made their work harder https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Washpost employees' statement: “This is not the first time that The Post has sought to control how Felicia speaks on matters of sexual violence” https://docs.google.com/...
Josh Eidelson / @josheidelson: “The Post's handling of this issue shows utter disregard for best practices in supporting survivors of sexual violence — including the practices we use in our own journalism,” @Newsguild union leaders and Washington Post employees say in new statement https://docs.google.com/...
Marc Tracy / @marcatracy: Union representing Washington Post journalists out with statement. Lot of signatures https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Beaujon / @abeaujon: this appears to be a reference to when Sonmez wrote a letter to the Atlantic complaining about statements Caitlin Flanagan made about her (and tweeted the letter) https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Beaujon / @abeaujon: Some interesting texture in here: The union says management previously placed a letter in Sonmez's file after “articles attacking her were published in other outlets”
Dara Lind / @dlind: This is a good statement. Newsroom unions: they're good. https://docs.google.com/...
The Citizen Lab:
A link to a site with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware was sent to NYT journalist Ben Hubbard by an operator tied to Saudi Arabia who also targeted Saudi dissidents — Key Findings — New York Times journalist Ben Hubbard was targeted with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware via …
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Ben Hubbard / New York Times: Someone Tried to Hack My Phone. Technology Researchers Accused Saudi Arabia.
Profdeibert / @rondeibert: @citizenlab @nytimes @NYTBen .@NYTBen is the first American journalist we have verified to be targeted with NSO's spyware. I suspect he's not the only one, or the last.
Kevin Collier / @kevincollier: @citizenlab @NYTBen @RonDeibert A clarification I haven't seen elsewhere, since today's report is the first reported instance of NSO being used against an American, which is against NSO's TOS. The phone where Hubbard received the targeted message wasn't registered with a US #, source says.
Kevin Collier / @kevincollier: @citizenlab @NYTBen CitizenLab director @RonDeibert to me: “We present detailed, peer-reviewed evidence. For their part, they provide dubious claims and never directly address our evidence.” Of note, CL is a U of Toronto lab. Today's report, if you haven't read yet, is here: https://citizenlab.ca/...
Kevin Collier / @kevincollier: NSO Group has responding to this morning's report from @citizenlab, which found that NSO software was used to target @NYTBen's phone with malware. In a statement, NSO denies it's them and goes ad hominem against both parties. https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Holmes / Business Insider: A New York Times reporter who covers Saudi Arabia was targeted by the same spyware used …
Clint Watts / @selectedwisdom: We had the hacking and killing of a @washingtonpost journalist and now we have the hacking of a US @nytimes reporter. What will be 🇺🇸 response? (Guessing we know the answer) https://twitter.com/...
Stefan Simanowitz / @stefsimanowitz: NSO's Pegasus spyware tool is cited as the most likely culprit in the Bezos hacking. #SaudiArabia is believed to have used NSO software to spy on Khashoggi & other critics. Govts in 45 other countries also use Pegasus. @amnesty are trying to stop this. https://www.google.co.uk/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
David Gura / @davidgura: “Technology researchers who inspected the message I received concluded that I was targeted with powerful software sold by NSO Group, an Israeli company, and deployed by hackers working for Saudi Arabia.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Agnes Callamard / @agnescallamard: I could@not agree more: @davidakaye and I issued our statement last week regarding the hacking of #Bezos phone to warn people of strategic interest to #SaudiArabia that their phone too may have been compromised. https://twitter.com/...
Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro: Did Saudi use spyware supplied by the Israeli surveilence firm NSO Group to try & hack into the NYTimes Beirut bureau chief's phone? It looks like the first documented NSO-hack of an American journalist. Read @NYTBen's account of what went down: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jennifer Cohn / @jennycohn1: “The NSO Group has also run operations under different names like OSY Technologies, which paid former U.S. national security adviser Michal Flynn over $40,000 as an advisory board member for nearly a year, until last January [2016].” https://www.haaretz.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Marietje Schaake / @marietjeschaake: ‘The targeting of yet another journalist makes clear the current regulatory regime for the spyware industry is not working. Absent strong regulation & control, the industry will continue to bolster authoritarianism & powerful elites invisibly thwart the work of journalists’ ↘️ https://twitter.com/...
Ben Hubbard / @nytben: I got a weird SMS. I didn't click. Researchers concluded it was a hacking attempt with Israeli software by hackers linked to Saudi Arabia. Saudi officials: no comment. The Israeli company: not all hack attempts use our products. Be careful out there, kids. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Raphael Satter / @razhael: Deeply concerning. @NYTBen was targeted using NSO spyware, @citizenlab says. Kudos to Ben for knowing who to call — and to the Times for agreeing to make this case public. Not all organizations have the courage to talk about these threats publicly. https://citizenlab.ca/...
Kim Zetter / @kimzetter: NYTimes journalist targeted w/ mobile spyware Pegasus from NSO Group; evidence also suggests an NSO Group operator may have been infecting targets while impersonating the Washington Post in the weeks leading up to and after Khashoggi's killing in 2018 https://citizenlab.ca/...
Nicholas Quah / Nieman Lab:
Podcast analytics group Podsights raises $1.5M; it helps advertisers track the impact of their buys on podcasts, and its clients include NYT, NPR, and Wondery — Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 243, dated January 28, 2020. — Recap. The busyness of January continues.
Leo Barraclough / Variety:
Meet Cute, a company that produces and distributes romantic comedy podcasts, which are published in three five-minute chapters, raises more than $3M in funding — Meet Cute, a New York-based podcast company that focuses on romantic comedies, has secured more than $3 million in funding …
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ProPublica:
Craig Newmark Philanthropies donates $1M to ProPublica for its Electionland collaboration and related reporting on voting issues around the 2020 US elections — Gift from organization of craigslist founder to support national and local reporting on voting issues around 2020 U.S. elections
New York Times:
India restores internet access in Kashmir to 301 “whitelisted” sites, including Netflix and NYT, after nearly six months, but all social media remain blocked — The announcement applied only to 301 websites, and many Kashmiris said they were still in an information black hole.
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MediaNama, Committee to Protect …, @kenroth, @kenroth, @alfonslopeztena, @netshutdowns, ZDNet, Washington Post and American Press Institute
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MediaNama: Even the 301 whitelisted sites in Jammu and Kashmir are not entirely accessible: An analysis
Committee to Protect Journalists: Kashmiri journalists, news outlets still offline after India partially restores internet
Kenneth Roth / @kenroth: The Indian government is restoring some internet service in Kashmir—for 301 “white-listed” web sites—but access to “many Indian publications remained blocked, along with all social media,” lest the Kashmiri people be able to talk to each other freely. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kenneth Roth / @kenroth: Cutting off access to the internet is “a tactic more commonly associated with dictatorships than democracies,” but India “tops the world in the number of internet shutdowns, with 134 last year.” Kashmir has been the most serious cse. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Alfons Lpez Tena / @alfonslopeztena: India restores Internet access to only 301 websites in Kashmir, all the rest remains shut down after 5 months. Modi's India has increasingly come under scrutiny —domestically and abroad— for cutting off the internet, a tactic associated with dictatorships https://www.nytimes.com/...
InternetShutdowns.in / @netshutdowns: A tentative end to the world's longest #internetshutdown in a #democracy. Mobile data gets limited to 2G with many publications along with all #SocialMedia being #blocked. @nytimes #JKLive #keepiton #letthenetwork https://www.nytimes.com/...
Campbell Kwan / ZDNet: India partially lifts internet block in Kashmir