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Tampa Bay Times:
Tampa Bay Times announces 10% pay cuts for all full-time staff, until June 5, with five executives getting 15% cuts for same period; more staff layoffs likely — A note from executives cites a tough start to the year. — Citing a tough start to the year financially …
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Lyndsey McKenna / @lyndseymck: Standing with my friends and former colleagues at the @TB_Times. Evergreen reminder to support local journalism wherever you call home. https://www.tampabay.com/...
Mila Mimica / @milamimica1: From a June 2018 article in the @TB_Times on annual salaries: -Author of article: $39,000 -Chairman and CEO Paul Tash: $484,516 https://twitter.com/...
Katie Mettler / @kemettler: I learned how to be a reporter in this newsroom. It employees some of the best journalists in the country, who work tirelessly every day to inform and protect the Tampa Bay region. It's a damn shame this is happening. Please subscribe: https://subscribe.tampabay.com/ https://twitter.com/...
Carolyn P. Fox / @carolynpfox: Thank you, @sarahkaplan48. We all very much appreciate your message and your subscription! https://twitter.com/...
Cary Aspinwall / @caryaspinwall: Thinking of all the hard-working journos I know & admire @tampabaytimes . This seems massively unfair. https://twitter.com/...
Daphne Chen / @daphnechen_: This is heartbreaking. I never thought things could get this bad, especially not at our most legendary papers. https://twitter.com/...
Mary Kay Andrews / @mkayandrews: This is my hometown paper. Reading it every morning inspired my career as a reporter & later a novelist. I just subscribed. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Pantazi / @apantazi: I'm very sorry to hear that staffers at the Tampa Bay Times are going through this. Sending love and support to my friends going through this 10 percent pay cut and job instability. I'm a subscriber to @tb_times, and I hate to see more journalism job losses happening in Florida. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Berry / @adamdberry: This is so disheartening. I grew up reading the Times, which still employs so many good journalists, including many friends and mentors. They deserve better from the people who promised a “financially secure” paper when they bought out the competition. https://www.tampabay.com/...
Carolyn P. Fox / @carolynpfox: Today was a tough day for our staff. But I didn't hear anyone yell, or stomp out. They asked smart questions of management and then turned to their social media accounts and asked people to subscribe. Local journalists are so badass. Please support them. https://www.tampabay.com/...
John Upton / @johnupton: Jesus Christ. Please please please subscribe to your local paper. What could be an excuse to not do so? It's not even a donation — you get something for it, and so does the community in which you live. https://www.tampabay.com/...
Erika / @emesola: “So why did you leave journalism, Erika?” “Don't you miss being a sideline reporter?” https://twitter.com/...
Julie K. Brown / @jkbjournalist: This is terrible news. My heart goes out to everyone @TB_Times ....please folks, subscribe and advertise to support #localjournalism in the Tampa Bay area and beyond. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Kaplan / @sarahkaplan48: This awful news convinced me to become a digital subscriber to @tampabaytimes. For some of the most amazing journalism in the country, including my beloved @lane_write podcast, $5.50 a month is an absolute steal. Great journalism is *always* worth it. https://www.tampabay.com/...
Gene Park / @genepark: They won a Pulitzer last year for investigative reporting. This year they're all getting pay cuts by 10% https://www.tampabay.com/...
Rep. Anna V. Eskamani / @annaforflorida: I actually just subscribed last week! PROUD to have done it, and encourage everyone to support local journalism! https://twitter.com/...
Carolyn P. Fox / @carolynpfox: And if you don't live here, and want to support this rockstar newsroom anyways, here's how to donate to our investigative fund. https://www.tampabay.com/donate
Gregory Pratt / @royalpratt: The Tampa Bay Times is a great newspaper and this is sad to see. https://www.tampabay.com/...
Lydia Polgreen / @lpolgreen: People keep urging citizens to subscribe to newspapers, but the real collapse here is advertising. As I wrote last year, businesses have perhaps an even bigger responsibility to support a stable information ecosystem. https://www.theguardian.com/ ... https://www.tampabay.com/...
Claire McNeill / @clairemcneill: Today has been awful but it has, at least, been heartening to see people posting screenshots of their new subscriptions in solidarity. Every one helps. https://www.tampabay.com/...
New York Times:
Several high-profile Instagram accounts switch to private to avoid scrutiny when posting sponsored content for Bloomberg's campaign — The Bloomberg campaign is putting out more memes on private Instagram accounts — and running faster than Facebook can keep up.
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The Guardian, @hshaban, @taylorlorenz, @mrbrown, @emilybell, @megh_wright and @hshaban, more at Techmeme »
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Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian: Mike Bloomberg's campaign is polluting the internet
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: Facebook's latest response to the Bloomberg campaign's aggressive and unorthodox use of social media, which skirts transparency rules and exploits loopholes, is to say: we don't exactly know what's going on and Washington should tell us what to do: https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: The Bloomberg campaign is releasing sponcon that flagrantly violate FB's branded content policies on private accounts with little to no oversight. A rare collab with @sheeraf! https://www.nytimes.com/...
@mrbrown: Now you know why some of your favourite meme accounts go private and public, on and off. To hide the ads. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: A priceless story from @TaylorLorenz and @sheeraf ...you could not make this stuff up. It bears out a theory I've had for a while, that not enough execs in platform companies live very online lives - they don't know their own product https://www.nytimes.com/...
Megh Wright / @megh_wright: I've been saying this forever now but if you're running ads on Instagram you should not have the ability to flip your account to private, this doesn't need to be complicated https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: Bloomberg is paying massively popular Instagram accounts to run memes, but the accounts aren't using the official tool for ad disclosures. Also, many accounts are “private” so journalists and others can't scrutinize the ads. Via @TaylorLorenz & @sheeraf https://www.nytimes.com/...
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Trump's re-election campaign filed a libel suit against NYT for publishing a Max Frankel opinion piece on Russian interference in the 2016 election — The lawsuit claims the Times falsely wrote the campaign had a quid pro quo with Russia.
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Kyle Pope / @kylepope: This Charles Harder/Trump Campaign NYT filing is a stunt lawsuit over an opinion piece, in which the main point seems to be to add a campaign rally talking point to the argument that the media is based against Republicans.
David Uberti / VICE: Trump's Going After the New York Times With the Lawyer Who Destroyed Gawker Media
Zachary Petrizzo / Mediaite: Trump Sues NY Times For Libel Over Opinion Piece On Russia
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: An absolutely nonsense attempt to use power/$ to intimidate (a Charles Harder specialty) over a writer's opinion... and in this cass, it involves a matter of importance to much of our country. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Peters / @jonathanwpeters: A few thoughts about the Trump libel suit: The complaint is red meat for the president's base and won't succeed on the merits, but I'm still concerned about it.
Howard Dean / @govhowarddean: This called Ad Damnum which is illegal in many states. Trump does this a lot. He simply uses lawsuits as a propaganda tool. The times is not going to lose this, the point is for trump to sow doubt by trying to lie without legal penalty. https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Kirschner / @glennkirschner2: We've seen this movie before. Once things heat up w/the NYT seeking discovery to prove the legitimacy of its reporting, the Trump campaign will back down. In the meantime Trump will crow to his base that he's suing the NYT for telling “lies.” #DontBeFooled https://www.cnbc.com/...
David Rothschild / @davmicrot: Here is the article the President wants you to read https://www.nytimes.com/... Very factual run-down of President Trump's support for Russian attacks on US to help his 2016 campaign. Bigger story is President suing newspaper that worked so hard for him in 2016. But. Her. Emails. https://twitter.com/...
@slpng_giants: There's a non-zero chance that a lot of the people who are excited by this have regularly called us “anti-free speech”. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Peters / @jonathanwpeters: Ours is a country with “a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.”
Richard Stengel / @stengel: Ha. Classic nuisance suit. As though you could defame a president named Trump in an opinion piece! Also shows Trump has not grown in job—exactly the kind of going-nowhere intimidation suit he used to file as a second-tier NY developer. https://www.reuters.com/...
Ted Boutrous / @boutrousted: Yet another egregious example of Trump abusing the judicial process to chill freedom of speech and of the press. This column is opinion based on disclosed facts about issues of great public concern relating to the President. The First Amendment unequivocally bars this lawsuit. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Peters / @jonathanwpeters: The Court's intention was to create maximal space for discussion of public affairs. It's worthwhile to keep these First Amendment traditions in mind as the president's case, such as it is, goes forward.
Tamara Brock / @tamarabrock: Truth is a defense to a libel claim. Bring it on. The NY Times attorneys will have a blast deposing Trump!! https://twitter.com/...
Bernie Sanders / @berniesanders: Trump called the press the “enemy of the people.” Now—taking a page from his dictator friends—he's trying to dismantle the First Amendment right to a free press. In November we will defeat him, restore the rule of law, and protect our constitutional rights. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Peters / @jonathanwpeters: The essence of our political system is public participation, and baseless suits like this one can chill speech about newsworthy political issues—intimidating and discouraging others from speaking out, in view of the risk of being sued and the corresponding costs.
Asawin Suebsaeng / @swin24: cool how Mr. Trump decided to marshal actual campaign and legal team resources in an effort to drive what must be now a lot of traffic to a NYT column that literally nobody else remembered had been published
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: On top of everything else ludicrous about Trump's lawsuit against @nytimes, it manages to completely mangle its description of Max Frankel, the paper's former executive editor and author of the @nytopinion Opinion piece in question. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@teamtrump: Today, Team Trump filed a libel lawsuit against the New York Times over a story falsely reporting as fact a conspiracy with Russia. Statement from @JennaEllisEsq, Senior Legal Adviser to Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. below. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan D. Enos / @ryandenos: This is so, so dangerous. It is straight out of the soft-autocrat's playbook. Bully and intimidate the opposition, using ostensibly legal means, until they stop criticizing. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Jonathan Peters / @jonathanwpeters: This is precisely why we have the First Amendment. The Supreme Court once said that “public discussion is a political duty,” and in a landmark case involving no less than The New York Times, in 1964, the Court observed:
Tim O'Brien / @timobrien: Been there, done that. https://twitter.com/...
@nytimes: President Trump's re-election campaign is suing The New York Times over an essay published in the Opinion section in March 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mark S. Zaid / @markszaidesq: Absurd #defamation suit over op-ed (not news story) & frankly likely nothing beyond political stunt for fundraising purposes. If I was part of NYT or legal team, I would be ecstatic this occurred bc now #Trump & key advisors just opened themselves up for depositions. Can't wait! https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Exactly. Please, please, editors, do not treat it seriously. Give context to your readers. https://twitter.com/...
Harrison Weber / Fast Company: President Trump's reelection campaign is suing a familiar target: The New York Times
Jay Peters / The Verge: The Trump campaign is suing The New York Times over an op-ed about Russian election interference
Brendan Morrow / The Week: Trump campaign sues The New York Times over a 2019 Russia op-ed
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Discovery to grow Dplay, its on-demand European streaming service, to 18 countries in 2020; Joyn, its ad-supported German streaming service, has 7M users — US media group focusing on content overlooked by heavyweights such as Disney and AT&T — Every week, tens of thousands of tourists flock …
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Discovery reports Q4 earnings of $476M, up 77% YoY, on revenue of $2.87B, up 2% YoY; ad revenue grew 1% and distribution 5% thanks in part to carriage on MVPDs — The company, led by CEO David Zaslav, posts its latest financials. — Discovery on Thursday reported higher fourth-quarter …
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Washington Post:
Five alleged members of Atomwaffen Division are arrested, charged with plotting to intimidate journalists and others via swatting and leaving fliers at homes — Federal officials on Wednesday arrested several alleged members of a white supremacist group called Atomwaffen Division …
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U.S. Department of Justice: Arrests in Four States of Racially Motivated Violent Extremists Targeting Journalists and Activists
Alex Emmons / @alexemmons: A former white supremacist leader was arrested for trying to “swat” a Propublica journalist & Propublica's NYC office, in retaliation for their reporting. https://www.justice.gov/...
Dokhi Fassihian / @dokhifassihian: RSF condemns the intimidation and threats against American journalists by a white supremacist group and we welcome the federal charges against its members. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce: “The defendants conspired via an encrypted online chat group to identify journalists and others they wanted to intimidate. The group focused primarily on those who are Jewish or journalists of color.” https://www.justice.gov/...
James W. Loewen / @jameswloewen: Even after C-ville, I continue to believe that the alt-right number few. However, the present political climate, esp. at the top, emboldens them, and even a few can threaten (& cause) serious harm. Cf. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@lilsarg: Atomwaffen was concerned with their members not taking videos in vertical mode (vertical mode videos are a boomer move, if there ever was one). Of less concern? Being infiltrated by the feds. 🤦🏼♀️ 🤦🏼♀️ 🤦🏼♀ ️ https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Weiner / @rachelweinerwp: He is accused of working with John Kirby Kelley, who was arrested last month in Virginia and was caught after allegedly swatting his own school (Old Dominion University)
Naveed Jamali / @naveedajamali: As both a victim of this group and active participant in combatting swatting with the @SeattlePD and allies like @ADL, I am grateful the feds are taking this very seriously. https://www.justice.gov/...
Matthew Levitt / @levitt_matt: The group focused primarily on those who are Jewish or journalists of color. Defendants Cole and Shea created the posters, which included Nazi symbols, masked figures with guns and Molotov cocktails, and threatening language https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Weiner / @rachelweinerwp: ProPublica outed him as an Atomwaffen leader — so prosecutors say he targeted their office and a reporter's home http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Steve Herman / @w7voa: Among defendants charged in the conspiracy: Cameron Brandon Shea, 24, of Redmond, #Washington; Kaleb Cole, 24, of Montgomery, #Texas; Taylor Ashley Parker-Dipeppe, 20, of Spring Hill, #Florida, and Johnny Roman Garza, 20, of Queen Creek, #Arizona. https://twitter.com/...
Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro: FBI just arrested a leader of neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division—he's accused of threatening ProPublica because of its reporting on the far-right. https://www.justice.gov/... In 2018, I wrote about the hazards of covering the far-right beat for @pressfreedom https://cpj.org/...
Alberto Luperon / Law & Crime: White Supremacist Nicknamed ‘Rape’ Was Involved in Conspiracy to Swat Cabinet Official: Prosecutors
Digiday:
Interview with Time President Keith Grossman on revenue sources, the loss of display advertising, broadening brand identity, and planning long-term strategies — Keith Grossman, seven months into the job as president of Time, doesn't mice words when it comes to Time's recent history.
Alex Barker / Financial Times:
The upcoming third-party cookie ban in market-leading Chrome will mean changes in adtech, more site-specific direct user tracking, and more power for Google — Complex, unloved and often over-intrusive: few are mourning the demise of the third-party cookie — cross-website trackers that Apple …
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Siva Vaidhyanathan / @sivavaid: This could yield the demise of intrusive #AdTech surveillance. OTOH it strengthens Google, MS, and FB. Dismantling the power of those monsters will take more. https://www.ft.com/...
Andrus Ansip / @ansip_eu: Some ad executives and analysts see cookie elimination strengthening Google's market power, making Chrome an almost indispensable intermediary for advertisers that need data to target adverts accurately and track their effectiveness... https://twitter.com/...
Robert Hackett / Fortune: Google's crown is Chrome
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
ABC suspends reporter David Wright after reviewing Project Veritas footage in which he criticized Trump coverage and ABC News' promotion of Disney content — ABC News suspended one of its veteran correspondents late Tuesday for unguarded remarks he made in a video by operatives of Project Veritas …
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Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: The first passage is from a note from the editorial leadership of the Verge, defending one of their reporters in 2018. The second is a quote from ABC News today: https://www.theverge.com/... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Tom Jones / Poynter: Was Wright really even wrong? » Trump campaign sues New York Times » We're still debating Tuesday's debate
Dave Jamieson / @jamieson: When news organizations fall into these traps and fire or suspend their journalists, they always include a clause like this in their statements letting you know they don't actually care what happened. https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / Washington Post: ABC News hands James O'Keefe a victory
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: As far as I can tell, ABC News has suspended one of its senior correspondents for saying totally unsurprising and completely non-controversial things in one of those ridiculous “Project Veritas” sting operations https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Will Sommer / @willsommer: ABC's suspension of David Wright looks ridiculous now that the @JamesOKeefeIII video he got suspended for is out. Wright makes the same critiques of the broadcast news business that you'd hear in any journalism class. https://www.youtube.com/...
Sopan Deb / @sopandeb: This suspension is patently absurd. Newsrooms continue to give in to bad faith efforts. How many times do we have to go through this before institutions learn? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: In suspending David Wright, ABC News has handed Project Veritas a scalp; exposed its ignorance regarding journalism ethics; screwed a longtime correspondent; and botched the distinction between opinion and bias. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: ABC News Suspends Correspondent David Wright Over ‘Compromising’ Sting Video Comments About Trump, Network
Sopan Deb / @sopandeb: The more I think about this, the more mad I get. Wright deserves better. I hope some of his powerful colleagues, the ones who don't ever have to worry about their jobs, stand up for him. And it sets yet another bad precedent for other newsrooms.
Rachel Martin / @rachelnpr: What @ABC *should* have said instead of suspending @WrightUps (as professional and even-handed as they come) “We are proud of the work of David Wright, and we denounce this attempt to weaponize his affability and openness. ” But they didn't. https://twitter.com/...
Peter W. Singer / @peterwsinger: The unwillingness of the media to learn from how it has been played by foreign info ops and domestic bad faith actors, again and again and again and again and again and again..., is really quite amazing. And it only incentivizes more. #LikeWar https://twitter.com/...
@mattnegrin: imagine thinking the institutions that are about to air trump's lie-filled bullshit coronavirus screed live, knowing that he's going to lie, will ever change https://twitter.com/...
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: “ABC News is powerful enough to fight back, to issue a declaration along these lines: We are proud of the work of David Wright, and we denounce this attempt to weaponize his affability and openness,” writes @ErikWemple. I agree. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: You can really tell which newsroom leaders paid attention during Gamergate. https://twitter.com/...
Sopan Deb / @sopandeb: By the way, David Wright got demoted because of this. He won't be on the air covering politics anymore for ABC because of this. You know who will be? Chris Christie and Rahm Emanuel.
Peter Hart / @peterfhart: The outrage is over ‘suspended for being a socialist,’ but it's important to note that he never did anything on the air that reflected his apparent ideology. That alone speaks volumes about the whole ‘liberal media bias’ scam. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Sopan Deb / @sopandeb: Newsflash everyone: Journalists have opinions they share privately. We're not robots. To publicly embarrass a seasoned reporter for a private conversation caught on tape by an organization known for lying is incredibly frustrating.
Greg Sargent / @theplumlinegs: Yep, @paulwaldman1 is absolutely right. @abcnews has no excuse whatsoever for getting bullied into punishing David Wright over James O'Keefe's latest nonsense, which only empowers conservative grift: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Mona Eltahawy / @monaeltahawy: Project Veritas is the epitome of right wing fuckery and ABC fell for their shitty “gotcha!” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Emma Vigeland / @emmavigeland: We all presumably got into this industry because we care about the country. ABC just suspended David Wright for that. Project Veritas caught him criticizing Disney, the media's coverage of Trump and the wealth gap. ABC sees that as unacceptable. Gross. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Joe Berkowitz / @joeberkowitz: Truly thought after he got caught trying to hoax WaPo in 2017, James Keefe would drift away on an ice floe of irrelevance. Never underestimate mainstream media's terror at being accused of bias by right wing dingbats. https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Balan / @jeremybalan: This is insanity. Guy makes valid critiques on the national news media (and he's right on most everything) and admits his personal political beliefs while being secretly recorded, then gets suspended. Reporters are allowed to have opinions and express them in private. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Edison Hayden / @michaelehayden: Solidarity with @WrightUps. I worked at ABC News churning out chartbeat fodder and what he says here brings back bad memories of 2016. O'Keefe will continue to exploit the gap between management and labor until we learn to ignore him and judge reporters on their work. https://twitter.com/...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: I asked ABC News if there are any policies prohibiting employees from making political statements privately, and if the company believes Wright's reporting has been unfairly skewed/biased by his personal beliefs. Sadly I have not heard back... https://twitter.com/...
Rod Dreher / @roddreher: I agree with this. And I don't care that Wright is a self-described “socialist,” as long as he reports fairly and accurately. What's more, I don't see where he said anything untrue about ABC News. https://twitter.com/...
@leslieleeiii: ABC news literally suspended a socialist for criticizing their constant promotion of Disney/Marvel. Is Struggle Session's curse that we can only foresee bad things? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Lee Fang / @lhfang: This is just so disgusting in every way. The journalist was fired for saying Disney has commercial motivations, inequality is a problem, and Trump coverage is sometimes not tough enough and at other times not fair to him? How is any of that a scandal? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Joe Lockhart / @joelockhart: Does this clown ever sting anyone from @foxnews https://twitter.com/...
Adam Serwer / @adamserwer: This left wing political correctness is getting out of control https://twitter.com/...
Radley Balko / @radleybalko: Wright's comments aren't damning at all. And the notion that journalists should never express opinions in private is absurd. O'Keefe is a fraud who operates in bad faith. Stop accepting his premise. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Andrew Jerell Jones / @sluggahjells: @lhfang This is always the chilling dangers of working for Centrist Corporate Media https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: Few people are worse faith actors than James O'Keefe.... https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Staff @abcnews should demand withdrawal of David Wright's suspension. His cardinal sin was being honest about how his bosses “don't see an upside in doing the job we're supposed to do, which is speak truth to power and hold people to account.” WATCH THIS: https://www.youtube.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: “With Trump, we're interested in three things. We're interested in the outrage of the day, the investigation, and the palace intrigue of who's backstabbing who. Beyond that, we don't really cover the guy.” TRUTH https://twitter.com/...
Nick Stellini / @stellinitweets: Project Veritas has never operated in good faith and a major news operation doing anything but telling them to screw off is disgraceful https://twitter.com/...
Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce: If it's a suspendable offense for journalists to privately gripe about their media company's news coverage of whatever, then nobody in this business would have a job. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Rosie Gray / @rosiegray: it's terrible that ABC News suspended David Wright for this. a) are journalists not allowed to express a political opinion even privately? b) his comments on how TV news works are basically generic conventional wisdom https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Eric Spracklen / Project Veritas: BREAKING: Senior ABC Correspondent David Wright on Hidden Camera: How 'Bosses Don't See an Upside …
Caleb Ecarma / Vanity Fair: Why Is ABC News Feeding the Project Veritas Trolls?
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico: ABC News suspends journalist over ‘socialist’ remarks in Project Veritas sting
A.J. Katz / TVNewser: ABC News Suspends David Wright After Making Controversial Comments Captured on Hidden Camera
Ken Meyer / Mediaite: ABC Suspends David Wright After Hidden Video Reveals Him Criticizing Network, Calling Himself a ‘Socialist’
Jenn Gidman / Newser: Report: New Project Veritas Sting Hits ABC Again
Emily Gould / The Cut:
A writer recalls her time at Gawker in 2007, including Nick Denton's shaming of her online, and how public shaming and online mockery leave lasting marks — Red Sketchbook, 2019. Oil on canvas. 40 x 30 inches. Courtesy the artist and V1 Gallery, Copenhagen. Photo: Courtesy the artist and V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
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Rebecca Colesworthy / @rcolesworthy: “No one was on Twitter yet, & Facebook was just becoming a thing outside college campuses, so people wasting time at desk jobs in NY were basically forced to read Gawker.” Oof see also grad students in 07. Great piece on shame & especially women's stories. https://www.thecut.com/...
Otegha K. Uwagba / @oteghauwagba: The other stuff that happened - her boss publishing compromising stories about her - is obviously unconscionable, but I just can't conjure up sympathy for a slightly hacky journalist wandering onto primetime TV without doing any research, and getting taken to task for their work.
Otegha K. Uwagba / @oteghauwagba: Read this earlier and struggling to find the sympathy for this writer I think I'm supposed to feel. If you're a 25 year old doing slightly dubious journalism to make a living, you're definitely open to being held accountable? https://www.thecut.com/...
Doree Shafrir / @doree: I love @EmilyGould's essay so much and I hope people who think Gawker was this righteous speaking truth to power utopia read it and realize what a deeply misogynistic place it was https://www.thecut.com/...
@megsokay: This is beautiful and - awfully - reminding me of moments in my own life, not as public as what @EmilyGould is writing about, that shook me in the same way. https://www.thecut.com/...
Maddy Myers / @midimyers: this essay is good although “good” clearly isn't the word. i don't know how to describe how it felt to read https://www.thecut.com/...
Saeed Jones / @theferocity: “I didn't understand yet that amoral people are not silenced by shame. Quite the opposite: The shame often rebounds off them and back onto the people whom they have victimized.” https://www.thecut.com/...
Jason Pontin / @jason_pontin: I published @EmilyGould on a couple of occasions @techreview, and think she never gets sufficient credit for her prose style. In a very elegantly written piece, she returns to her Gawker-era humiliation here, which she says never goes away. https://www.thecut.com/...
@thecut: “Being hated quickly became something that I took for granted as the price of doing business, and I leaned in to it; I would humiliate myself willingly, as if to show that I was in on the joke,” @EmilyGould writes https://www.thecut.com/...
Marina Franco / @marina_ef: A difficult, maddening read, only because it hits the nail on the head in very many ways. “How to explain why...when first person art by women is more culturally ascendent and embraced...the most rapacious, damning forms of sexism are also on the rise?”. https://www.thecut.com/...
Joanne Lipman / @joannelipman: I was a frequent Gawker target back in the day, yet I totally relate to this piece, especially Emily's observation that “In 2008, I didn't know how to contextualize what I was experiencing.” Superb piece, @EmilyGould https://www.thecut.com/...
Sarah MacDonald / @sarahsmacdonald: “I have lost hope that hearing women's stories will ever make even one man realize that what seemed like an ordinary night of his life was a life-changing horror story from the perspective of the woman involved.” https://www.thecut.com/...
Caitlin Tremblay / @ctrembz: 2. A beautiful essay on shame, trauma and the underlying misogyny of almost everything by @EmilyGould https://www.thecut.com/...
Kristin Salaky / @kristinsalaky: Let me be another person to recommend this incredible @EmilyGould essay to you. Cannot stop thinking about this passage. https://www.thecut.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Aneya Fernando / @aneyafernando: “If this is the patriarchy's last gasp, it's a long one that shows no sign of ending.” Jesus. What a gut punch. https://www.thecut.com/...
Caitlin Dewey Rainwater / @caitlindewey: This is exactly as good and sad and *infuriating* as everybody says https://www.thecut.com/...
The Daily Beast:
Sources: MSNBC temporarily sidelines Jason Johnson, a network fixture for election analysis, after his derogatory comments about Bernie Sanders supporters — Johnson was a regular fixture on MSNBC, providing analysis of the Democratic primary, but he has disappeared from the network since making incendiary comments about the senator.
Makena Kelly / The Verge:
Twitch suspended some popular channels offering debate commentary after copyright claims by Praxis Political, then reinstated them after finding claims false — ‘I refuse to be silenced,’ one streamer says — On February 25th, CBS News hosted the last Democratic presidential debate ahead …
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Rod Breslau / @slasher: the organization that DMCA'ed a dozen Twitch streamers last night during the debate on behalf of CBS, Political Praxis Legal, has scrubbed its entire webpage and gone offline, and a Twitch spokesperson says they are reviewing the case for false DMCA claims https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Roger Quiles / @rogerquiles: Assuming the claims are false, there's civil liability here. You can't abuse the DMCA system https://twitter.com/...
Rod Breslau / @slasher: all Twitch channels suspended last night for streaming the debate with what definitely looks to be false DMCA claims on behalf of CBS have now been unsuspended/reinstated https://twitter.com/...
Peter Sterne / @petersterne: The DMCA takedown system is beyond parody* at this point: https://www.theverge.com/... *which is protected fair use https://twitter.com/...
Makena Kelly / @kellymakena: Twitch suspended a handful of channels last night that were streaming or co-streaming the Democratic debate. But after an investigation, Twitch discovered that the DMCA takedowns were false. I talked to @trihex, who was suspended last night: https://www.theverge.com/...
The Walt Disney Co.:
Bob Chapek has been named CEO of The Walt Disney Company, effective immediately; Bob Iger will serve as executive chairman through 2021 — 1 BOB CHAPEK NAMED CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY Robert A. Iger Assumes Role of Executive Chairman through 2021 Mr. Iger Will Direct …
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Joe Berkowitz / Fast Company: How Bob Iger's Disney changed the entertainment industry forever—for better and worse
Matthew Ball / @ballmatthew: Summary of weird: - Bob is 14 months into 36 month extension - Didn't do this during blow-them-away earnings a few weeks ago - No transition; immediate - During Coronavirus parks/theatrical scare crushing stock - Random Tuesday drop - Comes after months of Iger's press tour
Todd Martens / Los Angeles Times: Commentary: Bob Chapek as CEO is a vote of confidence in Disney's parks. What does that mean for Disneyland?
Andrea Peterson / Protocol: Bob Chapek now runs Disney. How's his tech resume?
Matthew Ball / @ballmatthew: 1/ The timing, suddenness and details of the Iger news is weird for sure. However, the context and struggles of execution transition needs context. Bob is one of the greatest CEOs in modern history. He is a loss regardless of who to/when succession occurs https://twitter.com/...
Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed: 🚨 $DIS Did not see this coming — Wowza 👇👀 https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Panzarino / @panzer: Chapek ran Parks, divisive figure in that he led value engineering and budget concious strategy instead of the more popular ‘let Imagineers do the most’ tactic.
Matthew Panzarino / @panzer: Bob Iger's letter to employees on his move to Chairman and out of CEO spot. He and Bob Chapek will address co tomorrow morning at 9am PT. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Panzarino / @panzer: Iger cites Chapek's “vault strategy” (yeah that was him) for home video as one of his key achievements at Disney. Really responsible for blowing old Disney movies up to enormous profit centers during VHS/DVD era.
Matthew Panzarino / @panzer: Strat was responsible for enormous profit and for buoying Disney revenue at a time when it was sorely needed, using existing, languishing, material.
@thr: Bob Iger explains why he's stepping down as Disney CEO immediately https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Sean Chandler / @kirkneverdied: What a run as CEO! His book from last year is a great read and very informative. You can certainly question the artistic merits of his strategies, but he's brilliant business man. And he was smart enough to retire on top of the world. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Weprin / @alexweprin: When Bob Iger took over as Disney's CEO, the company had a market cap of about $55 billion. As he steps down, he leaves a company with a market cap of over $230 billion. http://hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
@thr: “[The succession plan] was not accelerated for any particular reason other than we thought the need was now to make this change.” Bob Iger says that the Disney board had identified Bob Chapek as his potential successor “quite some time ago” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Bill Murphy Jr / Understandably: 26 words that created the Internet
Joanna Stern / @joannastern: Not written in this release: “Mr. Iger will now dedicate his time to figuring out the plot of Frozen 2.” https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/ ...
@muppetmindset: Hi, Mr. Chapek. Can you please do something with The Muppets? Thanks, — The World. https://twitter.com/...
@wdwtales: Well, I guess that's that. Hopefully, he'll be too busy now to screw with the parks. Right. https://twitter.com/...
Louie Mantia, Jr / @mantia: You know what's incredible? Bob Chapek does not yet even have a Wikipedia article (one is being drafted).
Janine Gibson / @janinegibson: @ballmatthew @felixsalmon you don't say ‘effective immediately’ and not expect people to ask WHY. Even weirder not to attempt to provide an answer?
Derek Thompson / @dkthomp: @ballmatthew @janinegibson @felixsalmon Iger quitting Disney a week before Super Tuesday to run for president is like Tom Brady retiring from the Patriots to join the Celtics in the first round of the playoffs. It's beyond surreal and ludicrously timed. I'm worried it's something worse.
M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler: @pkafka “They worked out a real cute job title too. Tangiers Public Relations Director. But the only thing he ever directed was the casino.” https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: For non-olds: When Michael Eisner left Disney CEO job in 2005, everyone believed that Iger couldn't be his *real* successor, because he was a suit without creative bona fides; couldn't possibly replace Eisner's magic. Now Iger says he's in charge of creative.
@orlparknews: Please, someone tell me I am having a bad dream and that everything is going to be fine once I wake up. https://twitter.com/...
Frank Pallotta / @frankpallotta: I cannot stress enough how much of an end of an era this is for Disney. http://www.cnn.com/...
Matthew Panzarino / @panzer: Oh man. This is a controversial choice. https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: The messaging (and SEC filing) is that Iger isn't really leaving Disney, and will be running its “content creation”. Reminder: Disney is a content company. https://www.sec.gov/... https://twitter.com/...
Anand Giridharadas / @anandwrites: Disney conducted a wide search of a vast country and found a replacement for Bob named...Bob. https://twitter.com/...
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: WHOA: Disney CEO Bob Iger to step down (per release): Bob Chapek, who runs the theme parks, will start immediately as CEO. (Also means Kevin Mayer, who runs the streaming biz, didn't get it.)
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Bob Iger's timing as he steps down is a head scratcher, but Disney is telling Wall Street and consumers that they shouldn't expect anything to change soon
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times: Center Stage at Disney After a Career Out of the Spotlight
Ashley Rodriguez / Business Insider: Disney has a new CEO: Bob Chapek. Wall Street breaks down the former parks boss' strengths and weaknesses.
Ben Mullin / @benmullin: “A meal with Bob Chapek is one minute and 30 seconds of pleasantries and 58 minutes and 30 seconds of business.” https://www.wsj.com/...
Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed: Disney $DIS Hopefully [Bob] Chapek is prepared and ready to make the hard, but necessary strategic changes. Disney...needs to continue to cannibalize its legacy businesses and accelerate its shift into future. https://lightshedtmt.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed: Dear Bob Chapek $DIS One Big Idea to Propel Disney Stock: Get Rid of ESPN/ABC “there is no easy fix and the transition from over-earning in the bundle to direct-to-consumer is going to be difficult to navigate with no visibility of long-term success” https://lightshedtmt.com/...
Jennifer Dauble / CNBC: First On CNBC: CNBC Transcript: Disney Executive Chairman Bob Iger and Incoming CEO Bob Chapek Speak …
The Wrap: From ‘The Bachelor’ to ‘Avengers,’ How Bob Iger Grew Disney From a Mouse Into a Media Goliath
Peter Sciretta / @petersciretta: For those of you who don't know, Bob Chapek is basically treated as a robotic supervillain by the online theme park communities. He's made some decisions which many believe hurt the creative experience of the Disney parks.
Gwynedd Stuart / Los Angeles Magazine: Behind Bob Iger's Shocking Decision to Step Aside as Disney's CEO
Felix Salmon / @felixsalmon: Bob Iger is not taking any kind of pay cut as he steps down as CEO. So now Disney has 2 men named Bob making CEO salary https://www.sec.gov/...
Brooks Barnes / @brooksbarnesnyt: Iger said by phone that he considered first elevating Chapek to a role like COO. “But I did not believe that would bestow on him the kind of autonomy that I wanted him to have during this transition.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
John Koblin / @koblin: Bob Iger considered elevating Bob Chapek to a COO role but tells @brooksbarnesNYT: “I did not believe that would bestow on him the kind of autonomy that I wanted him to have during this transition.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jamesmiller / @jimmiller: End of legendary run. We knew it was coming one day soon. Big question — does he wish he was on the debate stage tonight, and will he be there in '24 (Against Ivanka). https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Draper / @kevinmdraper: Incredible that not even a tiny hint of this leaked despite Bob Iger Succession being a damn parlor game in the media and Hollywood.... https://twitter.com/...
@cnbc: Bob Iger's contract was extended to the end of 2021 — why is he stepping down more than a year and a half before that? https://twitter.com/...
@cnbc: Bob Iger will not extend his time at Disney beyond 2021, he tells @jboorstin. “I've been at the company 45 years ... It's been a fun run, and I'm looking forward to the run ending.” https://twitter.com/...
@cnbc: What will Bob Iger do after 2021, when his run at Disney is done? “I'm going to go to Disneyland,” Iger tells CNBC. https://twitter.com/...
@cnbc: Bob Chapek “is going to be running the company and running the day-to-day businesses. I have one direct report and that's Bob,” outgoing Disney CEO Bob Iger says, addressing the confusion on who reports to who. https://twitter.com/...
@cnbc: The coronavirus “is certainly a bump on the road” for the company, incoming Disney CEO Bob Chapek says. https://twitter.com/...
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Disney did a damn good job of keeping this one under wraps. Most people inside and outside the company expected Kevin Mayer to be the next CEO. Shows we know nothing
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Current Disney exec: “Bob Chapek was the emergency guy in the board envelope for a while.” Asked another exec if they were surprised to see Chapek ascend: “Nope.” https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Did you guys hear that Disney has a new CEO? I wrote about it here. https://www.vox.com/...
M.G. Siegler / 5ish from M.G. Siegler: “I'm delivering Mr. Sinatra's Listerine.”
Sarah Whitten / CNBC: What you need to know about Bob Chapek, Disney's 7th CEO
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