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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Disney's top streaming exec, Kevin Mayer, resigns to become CEO of TikTok and COO of parent company ByteDance; Disney names Rebecca Campbell as his successor — Kevin Mayer will lead the Chinese-owned app for making and sharing short videos, which has exploded in popularity during the pandemic.
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Tim Baysinger / The Wrap: Disney Streaming Boss Kevin Mayer to Become TikTok CEO
Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap: Disney Names Josh D'Amaro as Bob Chapek's Successor in Theme Park Division
Brooks Barnes / @brooksbarnesnyt: Verified account
Hollywood reporter for the NYT since 2007. Former WSJ. Once likened to “the Evil Queen” by a Disney executive, to my eternal delight. Montanan in exile.
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Disney's head of streaming is now the head of Tik Tok. Version with Disney quote: https://www.nytimes.com/... Version with Kevin Mayer quote. https://www.wsj.com/...
Dan Whateley / Business Insider: New TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer highlights music and gaming as focus areas in his first statements …
Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable: Disney's Mayer Jumps to Become TikTok CEO
Todd Spangler / Variety: Disney's Kevin Mayer Exiting to Become CEO of TikTok
Steven Zeitchik / @zeitchikwapo: So the big question about the impact of Mayer-TikTok: Is this a strange move for him or a serious elevation for them?
Matthew Belloni / @mattbelloni: So much for Disney's “Kevin is totally happy not being CEO” narrative.... https://twitter.com/...
Ian Wilmoth / @cydonprax: buried in here is more executive shuffling. Rebecca Campbell recently named the president of disneyland resort takes the streaming position and Josh D'Amaro will now be the parks & resorts chairman. Chapek's old position before being named CEO https://twitter.com/...
Tom Bricker / @tom_bricker: Whoa. Even though he was “snubbed” for CEO, I'm surprised he didn't stick around. Given near-term obstacles facing TWDC, seems like that seat might open again in ~2 years. With Disney+ being one of few bright spots, Mayer would have a strong shot then. https://twitter.com/...
Josh / @joshdwoodbury: Holy shit! So Rebecca Campbell, current President of DLR, is taking his place and Josh D'Amaro is taking over as Chairman of Parks and Resorts, which is GREAT news! https://twitter.com/...
Raju Narisetti / @raju: Maybe someone will now do the definitive story on this guy and his management style and work behavior. https://twitter.com/...
Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed: ⚡️ That boom you hear is one of the most noteworthy execs in legacy media saying “see ya” Disney and climbing aboard a digital/mobile 🚀 at @tiktok_us https://twitter.com/...
Claire Atkinson / @claireatki: Interesting for a Chinese-owned company to pick a major executive from the West. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Wallenstein / @awallenstein: 🚨🚨🚨 No one should be surprised. The clock was ticking on Mayer the second he was passed over to succeed Iger atop Disney. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan W. Mead / @rwmead: Kevin Mayer, who was in charge of streaming for Disney, helping launch Disney+ (and surprisingly also worked for Playboy in between his two non-consecutive Disney stints), has left the company to run the popular video site TikTok: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sally Shin / @sallyshin: Kevin Mayer, who was in the running to take Bob Iger's job now going to TikTok as CEO and COO of its parent company Bytedance, per NYT. The Chinese company's growing influence in the US had gotten the attention of congress recently. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Scott Gustin / @scottgustin: NEW: Disney's top streaming executive, Kevin Mayer, resigned effective Monday and will become the chief executive of TikTok. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tara Lachapelle / @taralach: When Disney picked Bob Chapek to be Bob Iger's successor, everyone wondered, what will happen with Kevin Mayer? ( https://bloomberg.com/...) Now we know the answer: He's left to become CEO of TikTok https://www.prnewswire.com/...
Steve Kovach / @stevekovach: Huge. Kevin Mayer was considered to be one of the top candidates to replace Bob Iger. https://twitter.com/...
Brendan Morrow / The Week: Disney streaming boss leaves to become the new CEO of TikTok
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter: Disney's Kevin Mayer to Become TikTok CEO
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Ronan Farrow, while producing revelatory reporting, often omits inconvenient details in his stories and at times suggests conspiracies he cannot prove — He has delivered revelatory reporting on some of the defining stories of our time. But a close examination reveals the weaknesses …
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Michael Luo / @michaelluo: 1/ THREAD: In his column on @ronanfarrow, @benyt, whom I have respect for, does the same thing he accuses Ronan of—sanding the inconvenient edges off of facts in order to suit the narrative he wants to deliver.
Ronan Farrow / @ronanfarrow: .@michaelluo has pointed out facts that contradict aspects of @benyt's column about my work in The New Yorker. A few additional thoughts:
Delia Cai / Deez Links: All the essential tweets you need re: the Ben / Ronan situation (hereafter known as The 2020 …
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian: Ronan Farrow: master #MeToo reporter hit by surprise New York Times takedown
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: “Shakiness at its foundation” @benyt delves into some of Ronan Farrow's best-known scoops, and often finds uncorroborated claims based on thin sourcing https://www.nytimes.com/...
KJ Edelman / Mediaite: ‘I Stand By My Reporting’: Ronan Farrow Defends Himself After NY Times Deep Dive Audits His Work
Ronan Farrow / @ronanfarrow: I stand by my reporting.
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: Ronan Farrow Responds to Searing NY Times Piece: ‘I Stand by My Reporting’
Brett Pransky / @brettpransky: I think the better question is “What does Ronan have, and why does the Times want to get out in front of it?” https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: i dunno, there sure is a lot of throat-clearing and implication without actually saying the thing for someone who's trying to ding farrow for doing just that https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mark Byrne / @markwby: @benyt Implying that there is some kind of rot at the core of Farrow's work simply because you're unable to reverse engineer the extent of his reporting and he won't divulge is sources is some pretty fucked up media reporting.
Michael Luo / @michaelluo: 15/ We take corrections seriously and would be happy to correct something if it were shown to be wrong. But Ben has not done that here.
Ronan Farrow / @ronanfarrow: Ben notes a Weinstein script from NBC and a radio interview I gave about it. The book discusses that draft and its account is accurate. In the interview, I misspoke. What I should have said was that there were at least two women named or willing to be named, as the book lays out.
Felix Salmon / @felixsalmon: Are there any more sacred cows in journalism than Ronan Farrow and David Remnick? You have to be fearless when you're on the media-criticism beat, but this from @benyt is next-level. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tom Watson / @tomwatson: The irony of the NYT - which abandoned both ethics and principle in its catastrophic political coverage during an era of incipient fascism - running big with this can't be overstated. https://twitter.com/...
Lindsay Gibbs / @linzsports: This is a very weird piece! https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: absolutely phenomenal https://twitter.com/...
Jason Whittaker / @thetowncrier: In @nytimes, @benyt takes a pin to the bubble around @RonanFarrow, who “may now be the most famous investigative reporter in America”. “His work ... reveals the weakness of a kind of resistance journalism that has thrived in the age of Donald Trump.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Hugh Naylor / @hughnaylor: All that said, I hope Ronan has a wildly successful career. I just think he needs more mentorship to really grow into the reporter he wants to be (and who we want him to be) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dan McGowan / @danmcgowan: “But Mr. Farrow brings that same inclination to the other big theme that shapes his work: conspiracy. His stories are built and sold on his belief — which he rarely proves — that powerful forces and people are conspiring against those trying to do good...” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@katzonearth: I've had my suspicions for a while. Good on @benyt for sticking his neck out. This is a damning read. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Harris / @markharrisnyc: I'm not being snide. But it is important, in looking at the framing of the Ronan Farrow story, to note that the editor of the NYT has called resistance journalism “an untenable, nonjournalistic, immoral position” for the paper. https://www.motherjones.com/ ...
Gary Weiss / @gary_weiss: In case you were wondering, why @nytimes got rid of its Public Editor, and started burying corrections instead of putting them on page two. Otherwise the public might realize that much of what's in the Times is too bad to be true. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Martin / @jmartnyt: Every reporter - and aspiring reporter - should read this @benyt piece > https://www.nytimes.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Super-deep accountability journalism by @benyt on Ronan Farrow's written record. Muscular debunking work, though it falls short of excusing NBC News's fumbling of Farrow's Weinstein reporting. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Gorilla Warfare / @menshevikm: wow. he said he couldn't fully verify something and it turns out it couldn't be fully verified. damning stuff https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: The piece scores several good points but the “Resistance Journalism” frame doesn't make sense to me. Something I bet most readers don't know: Books are less rigorous than periodicals & you should be suspicious of book-only investigative work. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Zack Kopplin / @zackkopplin: Ronan Farrow is definitely problematic in some ways, but this would be better as an analysis of celebrity and power rather than a critique of young journalists ethics https://twitter.com/...
K. Rosef / @kayrosef: We are in the middle of a deadly pandemic right now. Over 90,000 Americans are now dead and there's no end in sight. So the top story from the New York Times is...an oddly timed hit piece on Ronan Farrow. https://twitter.com/...
Max Kennerly / @maxkennerly: This article is an embarrassment for the NYTimes. The very first example, the one that's supposed to grab the reader's attention, is <drumroll> Farrow's source being so 100% legit—an IRS analyst with access to Michael Cohen's SARs!—that he got prosecuted for the leak. /1 https://twitter.com/...
Lukas I. Alpert / @lalpert1: I think a lot of journalists who have worked on stories that Ronan Farrow became involved in have asked many of these same questions https://www.nytimes.com/...
Howard Dean / @govhowarddean: As usual, a very thoughtful column by Ben Smith. Assuming he is mostly correct, this is another way trump has debased America. What Farrow has done may not comport with the more ethical, better refereed journalism of yesteryear. It is incredibly effective, however. https://twitter.com/...
@jonisawesomest: @benyt @perlberg If Ronan Farrow really wanted to cover sexual assault, he'd do it the proper way, by hiding it in a later paragraph of a book review, like the Times does.
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Editor of http://newyorker.com/ responds to @benyt's column: https://twitter.com/...
T. Fisher King / @t_fisherking: At this point I think the NY time staff pretty much, wake up, stretch, shower and ponder, “How AWFUL a human being are we gonna be today? https://twitter.com/...
Neera Tanden / @neeratanden: It's kind of remarkable that the @nytimes rejects a public editor of its own work but has a media critic willing to dissect others. If it's a good idea to do then they should do it for themselves. https://twitter.com/...
Jack Shafer / @jackshafer: There is something wonderfully cleansing about a full-bore @nytimes vs. @NewYorker fight.
Nick Confessore / @nickconfessore: As with any reporting that raises serious questions about an important figure, people ought to read @benyt's story and make up their own minds. But I'm struck by how the replies to his tweet below prove Ben's point about “resistance journalism.” https://twitter.com/...
Ronan Farrow / @ronanfarrow: Ben claims a central theme was whether Weinstein threatened NBC with Lauer info. Not central, and not what the book says. The book establishes a pressure campaign against NBC, including talks between Weinstein and executives as they told me and my producer to stop reporting.
Jesse Dougherty / @dougherty_jesse: This, from @benyt, is what I tought but couldn't articulate after reading “Catch and Kill” and “She Said” back-to-back earlier this year. Fascinating: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jason Leopold / @jasonleopold: “Two years after publication, little of [Ronan] Farrow's article holds up, according to prosecutors and court documents. The Treasury Department [financial] records on Michael Cohen never went ‘missing.’” Damning @benyt column https://www.nytimes.com/...
Cliff Levy / @cliffordlevy: This column is epic. David Carr would have been proud. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: “if reporters swim ably along with the tides of social media and produce damaging reporting about public figures most disliked by the loudest voices, the old rules of fairness and open-mindedness can seem more like impediments than essential” tenets https://www.nytimes.com/...
John Ziegler / @zigmanfreud: This piece this is a MUST read! It backs up a lot of what I have been saying about @RonanFarrow being a fraud ever since I heavily researched the Matt Lauer allegations, which I believe to be false. I can assure you this is just the tip of an iceberg & much more is coming soon! https://twitter.com/...
Liz Lane / @thelizlane: What is so unbelievably troubling about this @nytimes piece re @RonanFarrow is that it uses the complicated/traumatizing experience of women reliving their assault as reason to doubt or challenge his sensitive and nuanced reporting. What a shame. #MeToo https://www.nytimes.com/...
Marc Ambinder / @marcambinder: .@benyt seems to gravitate towards journalism's third rails ... and this one is perhaps the thirdliest....most thir...well, the most electrically charged of all of them. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael Luo / @michaelluo: 2/ We provided detailed responses to Ben that contradict the narrative he wants to tell. They didn't make it into the column, so I'll outline some of them here.
Ryan Cooper / @ryanlcooper: there is some stuff to chew on in here but this nitpicking would be far better directed at the NYT's own routinely-dogshit political coverage https://www.nytimes.com/...
David M. Perry / @lollardfish: The interesting story to me is how standard media norms precluded journalists from reporting on known rapists who happened to be rich and powerful men (mostly but not always white). It was a failure of our norms, as less powerful alleged rapists were not so protected. https://twitter.com/...
Prof Zenkus / @anthonyzenkus: The timing of this trash hit piece by the Times is very interesting. The establishment is in full freak out mode, literally trying to discredit the journalist who brought down Harvey Weinstein. That and Axelrod tweet tonight makes me think they're worried that something's coming https://twitter.com/...
Felix Salmon / @felixsalmon: @benyt This of course after he asked “whether The New Yorker can keep pace with the red-hot Atlantic” in a previous column. If this is going to be a running theme, I am SO here for it
Amanda / @motelamanda: this article is bizarre for a number of reasons but it's the timing of this that's so weird to me farrow's book came out 7 months ago and he hasn't published any new reporting since why publish this out of the blue? https://twitter.com/...
Hunter Walker / @hunterw: Ronan Farrow's Michael Cohen records story was overhyped and overshadowed more important work that week thanks to his star power. Seems he really did also overhype his role int the Weinstein jury selection. HOWEVER ... https://twitter.com/...
Hugh Naylor / @hughnaylor: This article is really important. A really bad man was taken down. But how many non-bad people will end up fucked over by loose reporting? Good journalism and rule of law for not letting mob sentiment overtake us —> a key struggle for America nowadays https://www.nytimes.com/...
Liz Dye / @5dollarfeminist: NYT, why are you like this????? The guy is 32 and brought down Harvey Weinstein and Matt Lauer. And, not for nothing, but he did it without bankrupting the New Yorker with defamation suits, either. https://www.nytimes.com/...
John Carreyrou / @johncarreyrou: Journalistic high-mindedness from @benyt, the guy who pubbed the Trump dossier without fact-checking a shred of it and who later refused to retract the Trump-instructed-Cohen-to-lie-to- Congress story. Rich with irony and quite brazen. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Bess Kalb / @bessbell: Imagine thinking you could take a shot at Ronan Farrow using exactly the kind of slipshod tactics and vague aspersions Ronan Farrow has a Pulitzer for uncovering and dismantling. https://twitter.com/...
Geoff Ziezulewicz / @journogeoffz: “if reporters swim ably along with the tides of social media and produce damaging reporting about public figures most disliked by the loudest voices, the old rules of fairness and open-mindedness can seem more like impediments than essential journalistic imperatives.” https://twitter.com/...
Mark Harris / @markharrisnyc: I would like to read a piece in the NYT about the hazards and compromises of access journalism that is at least as long, stern, and detailed as the one I read today about the purported dangers of “Resistance journalism.”
Lilly Dancyger / @lillydancyger: I find it ‘funny’ that one of this piece's central claims against Farrow is that he twists facts to suit the narrative he wants, when it's *abundantly* clear that this writer went looking for an angle after deciding that “A Ronan Farrow takedown” would make a big splash https://twitter.com/...
Emma Loop / @loopemma: Why criticize Farrow when there are so many slimeballs out there? Because reporting — especially of this magnitude — should always be held to the highest standard. Journalism is about the truth, even the truths we don't like, and we need credibility to successfully expose them. https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Not mentioned in the column is the piece that Farrow co-authored in 2018, about an accuser from Brett Kavanaugh's college days https://www.politico.com/...
Liam Stack / @liamstack: “The best reporting tries to capture the most attainable version of the truth... Instead, Mr. Farrow told us what we wanted to believe about the way power works, and now, it seems, he and his publicity team are not even pretending to know if it's true.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Elizabeth Holmes / @eholmes: This reminds me of the time I was kicked off a presidential campaign bus and my editor said, “They didn't disrespect you, they disrespected the Wall Street Journal.” Coming for @RonanFarrow means coming for @NewYorker ⬇️ https://twitter.com/...
Meghan McCain / @meghanmccain: .@RonanFarrow - you have made the industry safer for all women and you know how grateful we all are. Men in power can't just run ramshot on women in the workplace now. You helped start and support a cultural movement when many in power tried to stop you. I really hate hit pieces. https://twitter.com/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: setting aside the substance of the column and now simmering NY media beef: I can not fathom my anger if one of my mentors went on the record in the NYT to say I don't “cross my Ts and dot my Is” in my reporting
@will_bunch: 1. I won't quibble with @benyt finding cases of excess and unfairness in Ronan Farrow's reporting - it was a solid, well-reported piece - but I do worry (and maybe I'm alone in this) about the overall context. I've worked with a lot of investigative reporters over 40 years and...
@timothys: This sounds a lot like the Times' reporting on North Korea over the last three years, which @benyt should also take a deep look at. “Is Ronan Farrow Too Good to Be True?” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Chris Cillizza / @cillizzacnn: One of the things I really admire about @benyt: He's utterly fearless https://www.nytimes.com/...
Neera Tanden / @neeratanden: For everyone pushing the @benyt piece, you owe it to yourself to read the response here. Having read both, I find the Times piece is a lot less convincing. But people can read both for themselves. https://twitter.com/...
David Enrich / @davidenrich: Wow. This is pretty devastating. Make sure not to miss the final anecdote. @benyt https://www.nytimes.com/...
Molly Crane-Newman / @molcranenewman: Hoo boy were we pissed when Ronan Farrow tweeted that out during jury selection. It's easy to verify something that's on the record. If I, or any of the core group of women who covered the trial, reported bad info or skipped fact-checking, we wouldn't get a pass—why should he? https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: This is a pretty broad statement without examples, extrapolating from n=1. Perhaps better to make the story about Farrow just be about Farrow and not make a trend of it. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@petersterne: @benyt The critical examination of Farrow's work is good, but I'm troubled by your framing of the IRS leaker. He broke the law, but that doesn't mean he was lying to Farrow or behaving unethically. Surely you can agree that it's good when sources leak docs to journalists.
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: I thought it was odd of @benyt to link alleged flaws in Ronan Farrow's work to “resistance journalism” when one of his clearest examples of Farrow getting something serious wrong involved him attacking Hillary Clinton.
@abgutman: As someone who ate up (and reviewed fawningly) Catch & Kill, I found @benyt's column on Farrow's style (narrative over rigor) to be critical reading — especially for journalists early in their careers. Reporting is *always* first, writing is second. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: This is a great piece, didn't get the attention it deserved when it ran. https://twitter.com/...
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: The @benyt column on Ronan Farrow isn't just an indictment of @RonanFarrow, but an indictment of all journalism that eschews the messy complexity of truth in favor of dramatic and oversimplified narratives.... https://link.nbcnews.com/...
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The media, which never fully reckoned with the mistakes of 2016, is on a course to help Trump turn “Obamagate” into the 2020 version of Clinton's emails — It's becoming clear that journalists never fully reckoned with the mistakes of 2016 campaign coverage.
Discussion:
@sulliview, Vox, @7homaslin, The Philadelphia Inquirer, @samanthajpower, @pubtheologian, @mcopelov, @hunterschwarz, @dominicholden, @dana1981, @jayrosen_nyu and @danpfeiffer
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Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: It's becoming clear that journalists never fully reckoned with the mistakes of 2016 campaign coverage. We know this because they seem poised to repeat them. My column https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Sean Illing / Vox: The fake “Obamagate” scandal shows how Trump hacks the media
Thomas Lin / @7homaslin: Something every political reporter and editor should read. https://twitter.com/...
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer: Trump is right: ‘OBAMAGATE’ is ‘the biggest political crime in American history’
Samantha Power / @samanthajpower: “In just six days [in 2016], The New York Times ran as many cover stories about Hillary Clinton's emails as they did about all policy issues combined in the 69 days leading up to the election, @CJR calculated.” @nytimes @washingtonpost https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Bryan Berghoef / @pubtheologian: The goal of zone-flooding is simple: introduce BS stories into the information bloodstream, sit back while the media feverishly covers them (from all sides), and then exploit the chaos that results from the subsequent fog of disinformation. ~@seanilling https://www.vox.com/...
Mark Copelovitch / @mcopelov: “My critique, to be as clear as possible, is of journalism, not journalists.” This, of course, is why it keeps happening. It allows editors & publishers to keep justifying business as usual. Structural problems only get fixed when powerful individuals make different choices. https://twitter.com/...
Hunter Schwarz / @hunterschwarz: The media at large still hasn't figured out how to cover exaggerated pseudo-scandals https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Dominic Holden / @dominicholden: a journalist who writes genuinely smart media critiques! https://twitter.com/...
Dana Nuccitelli / @dana1981: “And if the ‘document itself does not show any evidence of wrongdoing,’ why the hell are we talking about it? Again, we're talking about it because Trump talked about it and now it's a legitimized ‘story.’” https://twitter.com/...
Megan Graham / CNBC:
A reporter set up a bogus news website, scraping stories from CNBC, and says it was shockingly easy to generate ad revenue using various ad tech companies — - In recent years, it's become common for fraudsters to make ad-supported “news” sites with content scraped from legitimate publishers.
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@megancgraham, @davemorgannyc, @newsceo, @emilybell, @jason_kint, @megancgraham, @digitalshields, @profcarroll, @slpng_giants and @megancgraham
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Meg Graham / @megancgraham: Last month, I started finding my stories on ad-supported sites that were ripping off content from publishers. To see how easy it was to monetize these sites, I made one. Within days, I was approved by adtech co's to run ads on stories “stolen” from CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dave Morgan / @davemorgannyc: Great work @megancgraham exposing how Programmatic Ad Biz supports fraud, undermines journalism and is protected by “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” adtech world, from @Google on down ... https://www.cnbc.com/...
David Chavern / @newsceo: An incredible piece of journalism. The intersection of ad tech and news content theft. https://twitter.com/...
@jason_kint: In hours, a reporter “outmoderated” Google and its $175B/year empire. If there ever was a case for all open programmatic advertising requiring “whitelisting” (rather than the 40k+ websites per campaign according to recent @ISBAsays research) then it's staring industry in face. https://twitter.com/...
Meg Graham / @megancgraham: Not that this is surprising in the least, but here's my story on ad-supported plagiarism, scraped in full on four websites that are running ads on it through @google, @criteo, @MGID and more https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mike Shields / @digitalshields: Lots of ad tech cos look bad in this killer @megancgraham fraud story, but this stands out “Sovrn said it is the first, and remains one of the few exchanges to achieve a TAG Platinum certification” https://www.cnbc.com/...
David Carroll / @profcarroll: The first 20 years of digital attention merchandising achieved frictionless automated revenue and data sharing at scale. Is it any wonder a toxic disinfoscape schemed by fraud-filled hucksters monetizes the infodemic of today? https://twitter.com/...
@slpng_giants: 3.5 years after we started alerting advertisers who appeared inadvertently on Breitbart, the opaque ad tech that was allowing them to clear $8 million in cash flow a year hasn't changed. It would be one thing if it was just a scam, but it's also harming the Internet and society. https://twitter.com/...
Meg Graham / @megancgraham: In mid-April, I tweeted this. It sparked some really interesting conversations about what's going on here — why are sites incentivized to do this? How do they do it? Who's even visiting these sites? Why is anyone in their right mind advertising on them? https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Trump ratchets up his attacks on a local news reporter, again sharing footage of the reporter being verbally abused by anti-lockdown protesters in Long Island — Four days after the video first caught his attention, President Donald Trump is ratcheting up his attacks on a local news reporter …
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@realdonaldtrump, @akarl_smith, @jordanonrecord, @chrismegerian, The Sun, @jemelehill, Business Pundit, Commack, NY Patch, CNN, @jamesqueallylat, @mlcalderone, @bruce_arthur, Associated Press, @patkiernan, @sulliview, @brianstelter, Deadline, @renato_mariotti, @maggienyt, The Hill, TVSpy, Slate and New York Post
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Donald J. Trump / @realdonaldtrump: This love of Country went all over. They hate Fake News, and so do I! https://twitter.com/...
Jordan Fischer / @jordanonrecord: I get why people are mad at the press. I do. We have privileged jobs. But I promise you that when we're all gone, when the companies you work for use pandemic relief to do stock buybacks and pad CEO bonuses instead of helping you, they aren't going to write about it themselves. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Megerian / @chrismegerian: This is the third time the president has shared this video of people harassing a local news reporter https://twitter.com/...
Samantha Lock / The Sun: ‘GREAT PEOPLE’ Trump backs anti-lockdown protesters in Long Island who shouted abuse at a local reporter in viral video
Jemele Hill / @jemelehill: This is a great thread, but I take issue with the word “privileged.” Journalism is a working class profession. Either way, people do not understand how much local journalists hold leadership accountable. Worth reading 👇🏾 https://twitter.com/...
Chris Cillizza / CNN: This viral video of Trump supporters screaming at a reporter is a Rorschach test of America right now
James Queally / @jamesqueallylat: I've lost count of how many times the President has cackled over this video of a reporter (whose main mission was to cover these protesters point of view) being harassed by protesters who endlessly complain that “the media” works to minimize their point of view. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Calderone / @mlcalderone: Good thread: Highlights important accountability work journalists do, acknowledges how serious scrutiny can improve the work journalists do, and addresses some common critiques of the media https://twitter.com/...
Bruce Arthur / @bruce_arthur: This thread gets at something that people don't always get: conservative media is largely about making you mad. Maybe scared too, but mostly it cultivates anger with lies. Actual honest media fights for you whether you like and trust us or not, and never more than in the pandemic https://twitter.com/...
Ariel Zilber / Associated Press: ‘Fake news is not essential’: Trump celebrates local reporter being abused and intimidated …
Pat Kiernan / @patkiernan: Update on the local reporter who was harassed for trying to cover a “reopen” protest. Now POTUS has deemed it his Monday morning priority to cheerlead the harassment. https://twitter.com/...
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: Great thread https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Trump has shared the video of local TV reporter @KevinVesey being harassed 4 times now, including again this morning. He's tacitly giving permission for his supporters to behave the same way elsewhere.
Ted Johnson / Deadline: “Fake News Is Not Essential!”: Donald Trump Shares Video Of Protesters Berating Long Island News Reporter
Renato Mariotti / @renato_mariotti: This is the second time that Trump tweeted with approval about the same video, which depicts people acting hateful towards a reporter. https://twitter.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: Not like it's new for potus to encourage people to go after reporters but this one is of a reporter - who the president has likely never met or heard of - who now gets to be targeted by potus supporters who dislike the press. https://twitter.com/...
Rebecca Klar / The Hill: ‘Hang Fauci, Hang Gates’ sign held at Open New York protest
Stephanie Tsoflias Siegel / TVSpy: President Trump Keeps Tweeting His Support of Protesters Harassing Long Island Reporter
John Koblin / New York Times:
Comedy Central, a factory for A-list comedians, is in decline, losing almost all its top executives and, sources say, shifting to unscripted, cheaper shows — The network that made the careers of Dave Chappelle, Stephen Colbert and Amy Schumer has laid off top executives while looking to make shows that are cheaper to produce.
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@koblin, @nytimesbusiness, @nemalki, @henereyg, @danielmarans, @digitalshields and @nytimes
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John Koblin / @koblin: Senior executives have been pushed out. Most of the talent and development team has been gutted. As ViacomCBS execs take the reins, the comedy world is worried about the future of Comedy Central https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimesbusiness: Comedy Central, the onetime home of Stephen Colbert and Amy Schumer, has laid off most of its old leadership team and filled its schedule with reruns as it looks to make shows that are cheaper to produce https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeff Harris / @nemalki: In an awesome world, Comedy Central could have been the comedy equivalent to TCM. A celebration of the industry in all its forms as well as preserving the legacies of performers, movies, and shows of the past while presenting today's best and brightest. But nope, damn that. https://twitter.com/...
Henry Gilbert / @henereyg: Sounds like Comedy Central is slowly bleeding to death of talent and budget. And you'll never believe it, its mainly because of a giant merger into a monopolistic media giant makes for fewer jobs at a more risk-averse company https://www.nytimes.com/...
Daniel Marans / @danielmarans: To generate $750 million in savings from the Viacom-CBS merger, Comedy Central is gutting its creative talent. https://www.nytimes.com/... The tentacles of corporate consolidation run deep. https://twitter.com/...
Barton Gellman / The Atlantic:
Reporter describes being under surveillance and investigation by the US government after receiving documents from Snowden and how it affected his personal life — “What time exactly does your clock say?” asked the voice on the telephone, the first words Edward Snowden ever spoke to me aloud.
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@theatlantic, @kennwhite, @bartongellman, @shashj, @shashj, @mwhanna1, @shashj, @jeffreygoldberg, @jessysaurusrex, @jackshafer, @andersen, @brianstelter, @adriennelaf, @chronic, @shashj, @hatr, @seanmcarroll, @denisewills and @shashj
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@theatlantic: “Were my security measures excessive?” writes @bartongellman. “I knew the spy agencies of multiple governments—most notably the United States'—were eager to glean anything they could from Edward Snowden.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Kenn White / @kennwhite: “The [iPad] display powered on...White text began to scroll across an all-black background. The text moved too fast for me to take it all in, but I caught a few fragments. # root:xnu ... # dumping kernel ... # patching file system ...” https://twitter.com/...
Barton Gellman / @bartongellman: “Someone had taken control of my iPad, blasting through Apple's security restrictions.... I dropped the tablet on the seat next to me as if it were contagious. I had an impulse to toss it out the window.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Shashank Joshi / @shashj: “At heart, national-security secrecy presents a conflict of core values: self-government and self-defense. If we do not know what our government is doing, we cannot hold it accountable. If we do know, our enemies know too ... This is our predicament.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Shashank Joshi / @shashj: If this is how the American state engages with an American journalist, imagines how it does so with foreign ones. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... (this applies double to many other countries, of course) https://twitter.com/...
Michael Hanna / @mwhanna1: Throughout this period @bartongellman's office was next door to mine, and I'll admit to thinking his precautions had probably gone overboard. I was obviously pretty foooish to think that. In any event, congratulations on this really fascinating book. https://twitter.com/...
Shashank Joshi / @shashj: Gellman on defending against state sponsored espionage. “Against adversaries like this, all I could do was make myself a less appealing target. I layered on so many defenses that navigating through them became a chronic drain on my time, mental energy, and emotional equilibrium” https://twitter.com/...
Jeffrey Goldberg / @jeffreygoldberg: Read this to find out what it's like to be surveilled by the government while not being absolutely sure you're being surveilled, or even which government is doing the surveilling: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Jessy Irwin / @jessysaurusrex: If you're ever running low on empathy for at-risk journalists who depend on technology to speak truth to power, this piece and the experiences described in it will remedy that. https://twitter.com/...
Jack Shafer / @jackshafer: This @bartongellman except is a fun, justifiably paranoid ride. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Ross Andersen / @andersen: “I dabbed epoxy and glitter on the screws along the bottom of all my machines, to help detect tampering in my absence.” Read @bartongellman on what happens when *several* of the world's most powerful governments desperately want your data: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: This is a breathtaking read about the life of a reporter under surveillance and investigation by the U.S. government in the Obama years: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... It's by @BartonGellman, adapted from his book “Dark Mirror,” out tomorrow - buy it here https://www.amazon.com/...
Adrienne LaFrance / @adriennelaf: “Mueller cross-examined me: Were the NSA documents not lawfully classified? Were they not stolen? Did I not publish them anyway? I held out my arms toward him, wrists together, as if for handcuffs. The audience laughed. Mueller did not.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Will Strafach / @chronic: can't quite wrap my head around an iPad 0-day which turns on verbose boot https://twitter.com/...
Shashank Joshi / @shashj: 'I asked Clapper whether I was a valid counterintelligence target. “Theoretically you could be ... Given how Snowden is viewed by the [IC], someone who's in league with him ... that's a valid counterintelligence—and for that matter law-enforcement—target"' https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Hakan / @hatr: Barton Gellman writes about being spied upon - among others, by the U.S. and the turkish intel agency MIT, after having reported on the Snowden docs. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Sean Carroll / @seanmcarroll: Barton Gellman, reporter who published some of Edward Snowden's documents, explains what it's like to know that multiple governments are surveilling every aspect of your life. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Scott Roxborough / Hollywood Reporter:
Several European countries, including Iceland, the Czech Republic, Poland, and France, have reopened for film and TV shoots with varying safety guidelines — Several European countries, including Iceland, the Czech Republic, Poland and France, have begun to allow film and television production under new COVID-19 guidelines.
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Nicole Sperling / New York Times: Two Projects Are Filming Again. Here's How They're Doing It.
Erik Hayden / @erik_hayden: “the rules for shooting vary from territory to territory and in some cases within a single country” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Mia Farrow / @miafarrow: Two film makers have found their way back into production: In Iceland, a Netflix series relied on testing and color-coded armbands. In Australia, the entire cast and crew of a Stephen King adaptation quarantined together. via @NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lexi Alexander / @lexialex: For a short moment last month I thought Covid could become an equalizer in the film business, that it would come down to a filmmaker's ability to work with a smaller crew, less toys etc. but I was wrong. It's going to be about connections and money...and guess who has those? https://twitter.com/...
Jordan Hoffman / Vanity Fair: Are These The New Protocols for Film and TV Production?
David Cohen / Adweek:
Instagram introduces Guides, a feature letting creators and publishers curate content on a specific subject, debuting with select accounts focusing on wellness — Creators, public figures, organizations and publishers can curate content on a specific subject
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Instagram, @mosseri, The Verge, @instagram, 9to5Mac, @besvinick and @mattnavarra, more at Techmeme »
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Adam Mosseri / @mosseri: Starting today, you can check out Guides - a new way to discover recommendations on Instagram. We know people are struggling due to COVID-19, so the first Guides focus on wellness content from respected organizations and creators. Find out more: https://about.instagram.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Instagram adding Guides for recommendations, starting with wellness and COVID-19
@instagram: Starting today, you can check out Guides - a new way to discover recommendations from people on Instagram. 🙌 The first Guides focus on wellness and mental health content from respected organizations and creators. ❤️ Find out more: https://about.instagram.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Adam Besvinick / @besvinick: Discovery of great accounts and content isn't something I've struggled with on Instagram, but Guides looks like it supercharges that already good ability — and the wellness content is an awesome first use case https://twitter.com/...
The Daily Beast:
Insiders wonder if The National Enquirer, besieged by scandals and devastated by the lack of newsstand sales during the pandemic, is in its final death spiral — ‘THE LAST OF THE DINOSAURS’ — As a documentary about the “scandalous” tabloid airs on CNN, insiders ponder whether …
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David Lazarus / @davidlaz: But how will we be apprised of Jennifer Aniston's years-long pregnancy with Brad Pitt's love child? https://twitter.com/...
@thedailybeast: As a documentary about the “scandalous” tabloid airs on CNN, insiders ponder whether we are finally witnessing the end of the National Enquirer https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post: AMI awaiting PPP loan worth $5-6M amid coronavirus pandemic
Max Willens / Digiday:
Digital publishers say the ad market is currently split between small and huge deals, eliminating $100,000-$300,000 deals that most large publishers rely on — The coronavirus is causing many publishers to experience of bifurcation of their ad sales that's led to an evaporation of the mid-sized deal.
Axios:
US Sec. of State Pompeo alleges that China threatened to interfere in US journalists' work in Hong Kong and warned doing so may risk Hong Kong's status with US — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a statement on Sunday warning China the U.S. would take action if authorities interfere …
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Vox, United States Department …, @freedomnowla, @stengel, @baldingsworld, @jayrosen_nyu, Reuters and Fox News
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Alex Ward / Vox: How masks helped Hong Kong control the coronavirus
Michael R. Pompeo / United States Department of State: American Journalists Based in Hong Kong
Dawn After Night / @freedomnowla: @mediagazer Please the US revoke the #HongKong special status, suspend the HK Policy Act. The #CCP won't stop eroding HKers' rights. We still have not gotten our #FiveDemands yet, especially #UniversalSuffrage. #FreeHK #HKHRDA https://twitter.com/...
Richard Stengel / @stengel: Why are you defending American journalists abroad and attacking them as enemies of the people at home? https://www.axios.com/...
@baldingsworld: I can't wait to hear the outraged cries from independent Chinese media and journalists beginning in infinity x never https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: When two “wars” for which they are trying to whip up sentiment come into conflict, the one they side with tells you something about the regime's intentions. https://www.axios.com/... Here, China as the enemy that gave us the virus wins out over press as enemy of the people. https://twitter.com/...
Patricia Zengerle / Reuters: Pompeo warns China over interference with U.S. journalists in Hong Kong