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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
Sara Fischer / Axios: Disney streaming chief Kevin Mayer leaving to become TikTok CEO
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.
Frank Pallotta / CNN: Disney executive leaves to become CEO of TikTok
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/...
Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap: Disney Names Josh D'Amaro as Bob Chapek's Successor in Theme Park Division
Christopher Zara / Fast Company: TikTok gets a new CEO with a dose of Disney magic
Claire Atkinson / @claireatki: Interesting for a Chinese-owned company to pick a major executive from the West. https://twitter.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/...
Matthew Belloni / @mattbelloni: So much for Disney's “Kevin is totally happy not being CEO” narrative.... https://twitter.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/...
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/...
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?
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/...
Josh Hawley / @hawleymo: .@tiktok_us previously told me they couldn't attend hearings and testify because executives were located in #China. But this new executive lives in the USA. I look forward to hearing from him. Under oath. https://www.wsj.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety: Disney's Kevin Mayer Exiting to Become CEO of TikTok
Saagar Enjeti / @esaagar: Tiktoks entire PR defense was centered around how it wasn't connected to its Chinese parent company Naturally their new CEO is now also appointed as their Chinese parent company's COO I hope Mr. Mayer enjoys the look of a Congressional hearing room https://twitter.com/...
Steve Kovach / @stevekovach: Huge. Kevin Mayer was considered to be one of the top candidates to replace Bob Iger. 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/...
Raju Narisetti / @raju: Maybe someone will now do the definitive story on this guy and his management style and work behavior. 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/...
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/...
Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable: Disney's Mayer Jumps to Become TikTok CEO
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/...
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
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Profile of Rebecca Campbell, Disney's new direct-to-consumer and international chairperson in charge of streaming, including the global expansion of Disney+ — Rebecca Campbell, whose promotion to Disney's Chairman of Direct-to-Consumer & International on Monday put her in charge of Disney+ …
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.
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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
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/ ...
James Fallows / @jamesfallows: In @washingtonpost, both @ThePlumLineGS and @sulliview underscore what @jayrosen_nyu laid out recently: Media sleep-walking into re-run of 2016. As if someone said in 2006, “Oh, let's invade Iraq again.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... 28fb313d1886_story.html + 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/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: File this under “allowing the zone to be flooded with shit...” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... “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.” By @Sulliview
Dan Pfeiffer / @danpfeiffer: It's so horribly familiar because we have failed to learn very much, if anything, about how much attention to give exaggerated pseudo-scandals — which in this case should be nothing at all. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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 …
Ronan Farrow / @ronanfarrow: I stand by my reporting.
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Jack Shafer / @jackshafer: There is something wonderfully cleansing about a full-bore @nytimes vs. @NewYorker fight.
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.
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair: The Times' Smith Versus The New Yorker's Farrow: The Great Powers of Liberal Journalism Go to War
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/...
Jonathan Martin / @jmartnyt: Every reporter - and aspiring reporter - should read this @benyt piece > https://www.nytimes.com/...
Cliff Levy / @cliffordlevy: This column is epic. David Carr would have been proud. 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/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: absolutely phenomenal https://twitter.com/...
KJ Edelman / Mediaite: ‘I Stand By My Reporting’: Ronan Farrow Defends Himself After NY Times Deep Dive Audits His Work
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/...
Malcolm Nance / @malcolmnance: Shorter .@maggieNYT: '"Real" journalists write fluffy pieces to curry favor with the unbridled money lust of the powerful & rich like Trump & Ivanka. It's power to be respected so pull your punches, kiss our ring or we will journalismo you out of a J.O.B.'. #ITrustRonan 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/...
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/...
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/...
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.
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian: Ronan Farrow: master #MeToo reporter hit by surprise New York Times takedown
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...
Laura Hudson / @laura_hudson: Corrections are good! And mistakes do happen, even to good reporters. But if you're gonna write a takedown of another reporter for lacking rigor when it comes to detail and forcing convenient narratives you better make damn sure you aren't doing the same https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.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/...
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/...
Julie K. Brown / @jkbjournalist: I kept thinking, as I'm reading @benyt piece about @RonanFarrow: Did he read the same book or articles that I did? What mistakes did @benyt cite? Did I miss something? Does anyone really doubt that NBC was covering up? Or that AMI had a program of catch and kill? 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.
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/...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: The @nytimes should examine it's own messiness, so we don't have to tweet for hours to get inaccurate headlines changed, or fawning profiles re-worded. That would be a good use of your time. https://twitter.com/...
Cyrus Habib / @cyrushabib: I've known Ronan for nearly 15 years, including rooming with him, and I know how seriously he takes his journalism. The hit piece by @benyt screams jealousy and clickbait. Ronan will keep doing world-class work, exposing the truth and winning more well-deserved Pulitzers. https://twitter.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/...
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/...
Lindsay Gibbs / @linzsports: This is a very weird piece! https://twitter.com/...
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/...
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: NY Times Media Columnist Ben Smith Questions Ronan Farrow's ‘Misleading’ and ‘Dangerous’ Journalism
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/...
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/...
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: 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/...
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/...
David Enrich / @davidenrich: Wow. This is pretty devastating. Make sure not to miss the final anecdote. @benyt https://www.nytimes.com/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
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/...
@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/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
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/...
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/...
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
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Clémence Michallon / The Independent: Ronan Farrow responds to New York Times column pointing to ‘weakness’ in his work
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, @emilybell, @digitalshields, @profcarroll, @megancgraham, @newsceo, @jason_kint, @megancgraham and @slpng_giants
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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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
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, @renato_mariotti, @maggienyt, The Hill, TVSpy and Deadline
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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.
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
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.
Discussion:
@theatlantic, @kennwhite, @bartongellman, @shashj, @shashj, @mwhanna1, @shashj, @jeffreygoldberg, @craiu, @jessysaurusrex, @jackshafer, @andersen, @cereinynord, @brianstelter, @dnvolz, @steipete, @adriennelaf, @chronic, @shashj, @hatr, @seanmcarroll, @bing_chris, @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/ ...
Costin Raiu / @craiu: Journalists like @bartongellman are an easy prey for nation state actors with unlimited budgets. However, practice shows that even high end attackers have buggy implants. Eventually these crash or show debug errors, hinting the victims about the intrusion. https://twitter.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/ ...
Cereinyn / @cereinynord: Investigative journalist and counterintelligence target, @BartonGellman, asks “If we do not know what our government is doing, we cannot hold it accountable. If we do know, our enemies know too. That can be dangerous. This is our predicament.” 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/...
Dustin Volz / @dnvolz: “According to internal government correspondence I received in the course of my lawsuit, that government spokesmen were forwarding my emails to the FBI. The NSA public-affairs shop subsumed its work entirely to law enforcement.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Peter Steinberger / @steipete: “Watching my iPad turn against me was remarkably unsettling. This sleek little slab of glass and aluminum featured a microphone, cameras on the front and back, and a whole array of internal sensors. An exemplary spy device.” https://www.theatlantic.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/ ...
Chris Bing / @bing_chris: “When the Snowden story broke, I was using a BlackBerry smartphone. I began to receive blank text messages and emails that appeared to have no content and no reply address.” —> kinda sounds like no click SMS malware circa 2014...... https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
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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@nytimesbusiness, @nemalki, @danielmarans, @digitalshields, @nytimes, @koblin and @henereyg
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@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/...
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/...
Mike Shields / @digitalshields: This reads like an obituary for Comedy Central, and maybe basic cable https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimes: A shift in corporate strategy and a number of layoffs have left people in the comedy world concerned about the future of Comedy Central. “The comedy community is a small one, and any significant change touches everyone.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
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, CNET, 9to5Mac, @besvinick, @mattnavarra and @instagram, 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/...
Alexandra Garrett / CNET: Instagram's new guide feature will help you find wellness content
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/...
@mattnavarra: Instagram launches a new way to find information and get inspired - ‘Guides’ https://about.instagram.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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Elsa Keslassy / Variety: Amazon, Netflix Prepare to Restart Shoots in France (EXCLUSIVE)
Nicole Sperling / New York Times: Two Projects Are Filming Again. Here's How They're Doing It.
David Ng / Breitbart: Amazon, Netflix Planning to Restart Production in France Despite Coronavirus Challenges
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/...
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Bauer Media says it is looking at whether to move ten of its magazines in the UK to a digital-only format, merge, sell, or close them — Magazine publisher Bauer Media plans to close, merge or sell ten of its titles it says will not be sustainable once the Covid-19 crisis is over.
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Laura Barton / @missbarton: Aside from the fact that I hope we merge with Your Horse, I second this. Q is the best-written music magazine there is: fascinating and joyous and brilliantly edited. https://twitter.com/...
John Harris / @johnharris1969: Q is a brilliant magazine that under @TedKessler1's editorship has become synonymous with an inspirational range of music, a strong identiity & really good writing. It would be tragic if it was no longer a print product. Buy the new issue here https://www.greatmagazines.co.uk/ ... 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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@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/ ...
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/...
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post: AMI awaiting PPP loan worth $5-6M amid coronavirus pandemic