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Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
In an interview, Heath Freeman of Alden Global Capital says he wants to safeguard the news business, while other industry leaders warn against believing him — Ask Heath Freeman why he got into the newspaper business and the explanation is specific and bloodless.
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Dan Kennedy / Media Nation: Alden's Heath Freeman: Destroying the newspaper business in order to save it?
Sarah Ellison / @sarahellison: He gave me his first-ever interview and I was surprised to hear him say he wanted to be remembered as someone whose team “saved the newspaper business.”
Chris Krewson / @ckrewson: WOW. Vulture capitalist Heath Freeman: “I would love our team to be remembered as the team that saved the newspaper business.” I would put the odds of that as ... low. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Incredible get from @sarahellison; cc @kdoctor, @jbenton
Sarah Ellison / @sarahellison: Here's what other people had to say about that: “Don't buy the idea that Alden is trying to save newspapers. I don't think any idiot would buy that.” - Dean Singleton
Sarah Ellison / @sarahellison: “He just strikes you as someone who is young and made a lot of money fast.” Larry Kramer president and publisher of USA Today. “It felt in retrospect that [he] was not straightforward.”
Sarah Ellison / @sarahellison: “[They] strip the assets and liquidate buildings and liquidate the lightbulbs, and squeeze as much cash out as possible.” - Doug Arthur, financial analyst
Jason Zengerle / @zengerle: If I was writing a novel about the destruction of local newspapers and I made the villain a hedge-funder who'd been a walk-on placekicker at Dook (and who once paid $120k for a Laettner jersey), my editor would tell me I had anger issues. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Danielle Ohl / @dtohl: “I would love our team to be remembered as the team that saved the newspaper business,” he told The Post in May. AHAHAHA WHAT https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan O'Connell / @oconnellpostbiz: Must-read interview with the person who has probably done more to destroy American newspapers than anyone else: Heath Freeman of Alden Global Capital. via @sarahellison https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Sarah Ellison / @sarahellison: I learned a lot more about Freeman, and you'll likely be hearing more from him soon, as Alden circles Tribune Publishing. So stay tuned for more on that front.
@ctguild: If Heath Freeman of Alden Global Capital wants to avoid being remembered as a villain who destroyed useful newspapers and hurt communities, there is still time for him to change and we hope he does. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Sammy Roth / @sammy_roth: After years of slashing newspapers to the bone, then slashing again, and again and again, and refusing to discuss any of this openly, does Heath Freeman *really* think he can just declare he's “cutting newspapers to save them” and expect anyone to buy it? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Lauren Lindstrom / @lelindstrom: Read this if you value local news, but no promises that you'll be able to keep your lunch down. https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: I would love to be remembered as the Prince of Siam https://twitter.com/...
Nathan Heller / @nathanheller: A great profile of the man probably more responsible than any other single individual for the gutting of local news across America. https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Hernandez / @ehernandez: “I would love our team to be remembered as the team that saved the newspaper business.” That's fun, Heath! I would love to have a career that didn't consist of looming buyouts, layoffs, furloughs, burnout at your hands & your other greedy newspaper owner friends but alas!! https://twitter.com/...
Alex Burness / @alex_burness: “I would love our team to be remembered as the team that saved the newspaper business,” says the hedge fund guy working overtime to gut newsrooms in Colorado and throughout the country in order to enrich himself and his investors. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan O'Connell / @oconnellpostbiz: Newspapers that Freeman is now pushing to dismantle as part of his buy-up of Tribune: @chicagotribune @baltimoresun @hartfordcourant @orlandosentinel @NYDailyNews @SunSentinel @capgaznews @virginianpilot etc https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@larryryckman: Read this and understand why you don't want hedge funds to control your news. With Alden in control, its newspapers are headed in one direction. ... Heath Freeman is the hedge fund guy who says he wants to save local news. Somehow, no one's buying it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Kim Masters / @kimmasters: People like this say they are going to “fix the broken model” but instead they destroy journalism and pulverize the cornerstone of democracy. https://twitter.com/...
JM Rieger / @riegerreport: .@sarahellison profiles Heath Freeman and his firm Alden Global Capital, which has cut more than 70 percent of unionized staff at the more than 100 newspapers it owns over the past 8 years. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Patrick Saunders / @psaundersdp: From the Washington Post ... and how this affects The Denver Post. Heath Freeman is the hedge fund guy who says he wants to save local news. Somehow, no one's buying it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Julia Angwin / @juliaangwin: Thank you @sarahellison for digging deep into the company that is eviscerating local newspapers around the country. The destruction of local media is as much a threat to our democracy as misinformation on Facebook. https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: I would love to be remembered as the man who ran the first three-minute mile https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Baggarly / @extrabaggs: I thought vampires died in sunlight. https://twitter.com/...
Nick Groke / @nickgroke: Heathy don't even front. You were Duke's third-string place kicker. You sucked. Cool your dad bought you onto the team tho... https://twitter.com/...
Michael Littwin / @mike_littwin: Alden hedge fund manager Heath Freeman, trying to change his vulture-like image, is saying he wants to save journalism. Does destroying the village in order to save it ring a bell? The best, and only, way for Freeman to save journalism would be to remove himself from it. https://twitter.com/...
David Malitz / @malitzd: The guy overseeing the hedge fund that's slashing staffs at local newspapers all over America once spent $120k on Christian Laettner's jersey from the 1992 “The Shot” game against Kentucky. That def checks out https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... illuminating profile by @sarahellison
Tommy Tomlinson / @tommytomlinson: Somehow it tracks that the guy liquidating the newspaper business is a former placekicker at Duke https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: “We saved the village. Unfortunately, none of the villagers survived” https://twitter.com/...
Lucas Grindley / @lucasgrindley: Here's the single most important line in the Post's lengthy profile of Alden hedge-fund's Heath Freeman. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Snapchat redesigns its app with a new action bar and a new Happening Now banner based on a curation of news stories — Snap is unveiling some important changes for Snapchat at its Snap Partner Summit. The navigation has been rethought with a new action bar at the bottom that lets you access Snap Map and Snap Originals in just a tap.
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Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: 👻Snapchat on Thursday introduced a slate of new products, tools and partnerships that move the company closer to being a platform for developers and businesses, rather than just a chat app for friends. https://www.axios.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety: Snapchat Unveils ‘Snap Minis’ With Coachella, Atom Tickets; Announces Other Developer Tools, Games and Partners
Casey Newton / The Verge: Snap announces Minis to bring other apps into Snapchat
@internetryan: That it's taken them this long to abandon their (purposefully) complex UX is pretty wild. https://twitter.com/...
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Snap hits 100 million players, teams with Zynga, and launches more chat games
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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Kerry Flynn / CNN:
Sources: Refinery29, a brand focused on women's empowerment, fostered a toxic workplace at odds with its public image, including pay gaps for women and POC — New York (CNN Business)Amid the protests over the death of George Floyd and larger racial inequalities in the US last week …
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Vox, @kerrymflynn, @maxwellstrachan, @amelia_faith, @amelia_faith, @amelia_faith, @amelia_faith, @hiishaydenthere, @nnekaxoxo, @conniewang, @michellelegro, @margareteby, @anhaiphung, @kantrowitz, @kimberlanded, @sal19, @andreagonram, @jillkrajewski, @kimberlanded, @andreagonram, @alyssavingan, @iramfali, @itstheannmarie, @badfatblackgirl, @saba_h, @priyadesai, @andreagonram, @winonasrider, @andreagonram, @rachelcharlenel, @lisahopeking, @amandamull, @mf_greatest, @andreagonram, @a_w_gordon, @maxwelltani, @r29union, @andreagonram, @andreagonram, @thegarance, @anastasiakeeley, @mcwm, @saraqdavid, @frankpallotta, @heatherbarmore, @karenattiah, @heyydnae, @rebel19, @rebexxxxa, @kimberlanded, @rfmb and @joshsternberg
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Rebecca Jennings / Vox: The racial reckoning in women's media
@kerrymflynn: When I joined CNN in August last year, I said I wanted to write a story about Refinery29. It didn't take me long to learn the culture was toxic. Over the last nine months, I spoke to 60 former and current staffers. Here's what they said https://www.cnn.com/...
Maxwell / @maxwellstrachan: the entire digital media industry really needs to reckon with the analytics-first approach that dominated the last decade. people are racist, so the analytics are racist. making them your god only perpetuates an already racist environment. https://www.cnn.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@amelia_faith: ...protect editorial from the whims of people who literally didn't even read the site much less understand why it wasn't possible or humane to ask people to write 5 stories a day and change the world in the process.
@amelia_faith: In my experience, every time they hired a new editorial leader (shocker, but there was quite a bit of shuffling), that leader was run off or so exhausted by constantly managing up that within months they were either: 1) gone or 2) completely unable to ...
@amelia_faith: First, I need to take responsibility for being complicit in R29's culture and racism. As CNN lays out in stark detail, there is a specific brand of gaslighting & exploitation-with-a-wink that comes w/ working at R29, and no one has it worse than Black women and women of color.
@amelia_faith: I just sat by as talented people were pushed out. They were forced to leave by R29's inept leadership—and in part by me and my silence. Sure, I empathized when I heard stories, but I thought listening & helping people politely navigate, and leave R29 if needed was good enough.
Hayden / @hiishaydenthere: As a former employee of Refinery29, I can say everything said in this startling in-depth exposé on the way leadership treats its talent, from the deplorable treatment of BIPOC to its lust for clicks over brand accountability, is both true and triggering. https://www.cnn.com/...
@nnekaxoxo: As a former @Refinery29 employee I started at $35K/year. I later learned my white male counterpart was making $55K/year. We had the same title. I asked for a promotion and they put me on a 6-month plan. I met all my goals and received a title change but no pay increase. https://twitter.com/...
Connie Wang / @conniewang: Hope this doesn't get lost in this article, so I'll say here: In spite of mismanagement & an analytics-first approach to content, @refinery29 employees were able to produce work that changed culture. I am so excited to see what we can do with more freedom. https://www.cnn.com/...
Michelle Legro / @michellelegro: Sometimes stories can take nearly a year to come out. They're always worth it. https://twitter.com/...
Margaret Eby / @margareteby: I just...yes. In 50 years when we look back at a system that had a whole generation of writers have to guess what an algorithm weighted towards the worst opinions on earth was trawling for it will seem ludicrous BECAUSE IT IS https://twitter.com/...
@anhaiphung: Photos of black or plus-size women were considered “off brand.” The editor in chief repeatedly confused one black woman with another. Employees were “subjected to tone policing, pay disparity, and open verbal abuse.” This is the story of Refinery29👇https://www.cnn.com/ ...
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: Terrific reporting from @kerrymflynn on the awful working conditions at Refinery29: https://www.cnn.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kim Truong / @kimberlanded: these issues are pervasive all across media, and we're not done solving them just because they're out in the open now.
@sal19: Are you really a minority working in corporate America if your colleagues have never called you by the name of the only other person of color in the office? https://www.cnn.com/... great reporting by @kerrymflynn
@andreagonram: I asked for one day per week to report my investigation into women's rights (!) in Puerto Rico. I had just been promoted to senior writer and writing features was part of the job. She said no. It escalated to the point I was taken to HR. I had never been written up in my life.
Jill Krajewski / @jillkrajewski: “[I] observed other colleagues, usually Black and Brown women, be subjected to tone policing, pay disparity, and open verbal abuse.” https://www.cnn.com/ ...
@andreagonram: I experienced what is described here. I heard similar stories from current and former coworkers. I knew this piece was coming. And yet nothing prepared me for how physically ill it would make me to see all of Refinery29's toxicity laid out like this. https://www.cnn.com/...
Alyssa Vingan Klein / @alyssavingan: I've never worked at R29 but have experienced a similar “prep stories for each planned vacation day on top of normal daily assignments” policy, which led to my first-ever panic attacks. This is unsafe, unacceptable, and unsustainable: https://www.cnn.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Iram Ali / @iramfali: It's not just digital media industry. It's also political campaigns, digital-first advocacy orgs, and every industry that uses data for decision-making and prioritization. How many times have people heard that something couldn't be focused on bc of “the data”? https://twitter.com/...
@itstheannmarie: hmmmmmmmmmm “Refinery29 promotes stories about self-care, but 23 employees said overly ambitious traffic demands made them feel chained to their desks, and others said it kept them from taking vacations.” https://www.cnn.com/...
Sesali / @badfatblackgirl: Some points were made here, but let's clarify some things. I believe in saying names. First and foremost, Christene Barberich was about to leave Refinery anyway. She was an easy sacrificial lamb for all this. https://www.cnn.com/...
Saba Hamedy / @saba_h: Excellent reporting as always from @kerrymflynn that adds to the current important conversation around treatment of POCs in newsrooms. https://twitter.com/...
@priyadesai: The Wing, Refinery29, Who What Wear and now Man Repeller? This is my sports now. https://twitter.com/...
@andreagonram: Worst part is that there are so many anecdotes—and so many names of perpetrators and enablers—that likely did not make the final draft. The people most impacted are the women who every day bust their asses off for this damn brand. They deserve much more. https://www.cnn.com/...
Sienna / @winonasrider: Refinery29 also openly supported Amber Heard (who has since then confessed to being an abuser) and her outrageous “sympathy PR” campaign with 3 articles. @AshleyAlese herself said they were FORCED to write about Heard's immigration piece, even after raising concerns. https://twitter.com/...
Andrea Gonzlez-Ramrez / @andreagonram: Sending love to all the Black women who put themselves at professional risk to expose the failures of women's media, and to those who can't share their stories publicly. I'm in awe of all of you and how you're changing this industry. #QuietAsWereKept https://www.vox.com/...
Rachel Charlene / @rachelcharlenel: “In addition to being segregated, we were told that we wouldn't be given resources to create. After it took off ... the company realized that Unbothered could be monetized and that's when they started to care.” https://www.cnn.com/...
Hope King / @lisahopeking: Thorough, detailed reporting here by @kerrymflynn — read how a veneer of cool hides the splintered belly of media company, a pattern we've been seeing https://twitter.com/...
Amanda Mull / @amandamull: i think fashion as a personal interest can be reformed—dressing itself can be subversive—but fashion as an industry cannot be. it's built on aspiration, and aspiration requires hierarchy, and if there's no hierarchy there's no industry https://www.vox.com/...
M A Y A / @mf_greatest: I am not impressed by white women who were able to create large media companies using family wealth stepping back/down/aside from their media empires that have already expanded their riches. https://twitter.com/...
@andreagonram: Management loved having a Latina represent them on interviews and panels. They loved when celebrities shared my content. What they did not love was paying me fairly. Or treating me with dignity. I was one of the most high-profile writers, and I was still treated like shit.
Aaron W. Gordon / @a_w_gordon: I will echo what Maxwell said and extend that to every industry that uses analytics as a key driver of decisions, which is, last I checked, every industry. https://twitter.com/...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: Nancy Dubuc emailed Vice Media Group staff saying CNN is publishing a story today with “accusations of a toxic culture at Refinery29.” Dubuc says Vice was “not made aware of any of the claims that have come out in the past week” and “we are dismayed by what we have heard.”
@r29union: We stand in solidarity with all the employees, past and present, who spoke out for this article, and think it's as accurate as it is devastating in its portrayal of R29 as a hotbed of racist aggressions that has prioritized clicks over community. https://twitter.com/...
@andreagonram: In fact, fuck it I'm ready to talk more about my experiences at R29. Not only was grossly underpaid for years, but the then-executive editor actively tried to derail my career by meddling with my Ida B. Wells fellowship.
@andreagonram: During the wave of six-week abortion bans, an Editorial SVP suggested we reached out to T*m* L*hr*en for an op-ed on abortion rights. I pushed back on Slack, saying it was more newsworthy to interview women actually impacted by the policy. I got reprimanded in my next 1:1.
Garance Franke-Ruta / @thegarance: Women's media seemed progressive in the 2010s. Black employees say otherwise. https://www.vox.com/... via @voxdotcom
Annie Shields / @anastasiakeeley: Unlimited vacation is a scam, and this whole story is horrendous https://www.cnn.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mike Murphy / @mcwm: Absolute bombshell from Kerry. So proud of her for chasing down this story. I gasped several times while reading it https://twitter.com/...
Sara David / @saraqdavid: THIS and also, this is a coward's excuse—audiences evolve with you if you commit to change. we learned that at broadly (s/o @angiejaime) where we made it a point to diverge from stereotypical lede images and create our own https://twitter.com/...
Frank Pallotta / @frankpallotta: If you need to know why @kerrymflynn is one of the best media reporters in the business, read this. Here's her deep dive into the toxic culture at Refinery29. https://www.cnn.com/...
Heather Barmore / @heatherbarmore: Just gonna leave this here. This happens to Black women across industries, all of the time. The sad part is how many of us are so used to being bruised in our professional life so we just roll with it. https://www.vox.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Karen Attiah / @karenattiah: The reckoning continues. https://twitter.com/...
Rachelle D'nae / @heyydnae: this, along with that big piece in Jezebel about feminist bloggers, fall into this trap of “HOW could we have KNOWN that these websites were racist??” and lemme say a whole lot of black women y'all called bitter would love to have a word w/ you https://www.vox.com/...
@rebel19: I wish this whole piece didn't resonate so deeply. Sound so familiar. Ring so unsurprisingly true. https://www.cnn.com/...
Rebecca Jennings / @rebexxxxa: i spent this week listening to black former employees of ~cool feminist~ fashion publications. their stories are infuriating, and i hope this industry makes some real changes, real soon https://www.vox.com/...
Kim Truong / @kimberlanded: i haven't spoken much about my personal experiences at Refinery29, but this by @kerrymflynn just about sums it up: https://www.cnn.com/...
P. Kim Bui / Collected Notes:
What it's like to be a newsroom leader and a person of color right now, quietly swallowing racism, fake allies, slights, and soul-deep exhaustion — A day in our shoes — You put on two faces, two personalities each morning. And everything you say, everything you do has dual implications.
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Nieman Lab, @kimbui, @leezeltanglao, @bydavidsingh, @acarvin, @mthomps, @emmacarew, @saleemkhan, @florangela, @elaheizadi, @niketa, @walldo, @neeeda, @nikkiusher, @losowsky, @mathewi, @sdkstl, @mahnoorie, @jeffjarvis, @nicolelzhu, @emmacarew, @paigeosburn, @kimbui, @raju, @amzam and @sisiwei
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: “I continue to have nightmares that I still work there”: Many, many journalists speak …
P. Kim Bui / @kimbui: What is it like to be a leader in a newsroom right now? You are probably “the only ____ editor.” An essay from me, distilling my feelings about this moment in time. https://collectednotes.com/...
Leezel Tanglao / @leezeltanglao: Thank You @kimbui for articulating what many of us have had to endure while navigating a world that never really fully accepted us for us. https://collectednotes.com/...
David Singh / @bydavidsingh: This is written from the perspective of an editor, but really, can extend to all journalists of colour. A striking and realistic read that shows what it's like to be one and the kinds of things we think about/deal with on a daily basis. https://twitter.com/...
Andy Carvin / @acarvin: My fellow journalists: please take a break from whatever you're doing and read this essay by @kimbui on being a journalist of color during #blacklivesmatter. Thank you for writing this, Kim. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Thompson / @mthomps: Yes, this is all pretty much exactly it. The resonance is uncanny. https://twitter.com/...
Emma Carew Grovum / @emmacarew: Also consider, there are LOTS of managers in our field that would look at an essay like this and think, “let's punish this writer,” instead of thinking, “oh god, how can I support this person.” https://twitter.com/...
@saleemkhan: 1505ET If you work in journalism, this is a must-read, by a skilled journalist I'm proud to call a friend: @kimbui. It will burn. Walk through the fire. https://collectednotes.com/... #journalism #racism #bigotry #leadership #DEI #diversity #equity #inclusion https://twitter.com/...
Florangela Davila / @florangela: “You swallowed the racism. You swallowed the stories that made you wince, the meetings that made you want to scream and cry.” On being ‘the only.’ (I see you @kimbui. Brown tricep emoji) #journalism #mediadiversity https://collectednotes.com/...
Elahe Izadi / @elaheizadi: read this essay on what it feels like to be an editor of color: https://twitter.com/...
Niketa Patel / @niketa: I see you and I hear you, Phuong. Such a beautiful name for a beautiful person. You are not alone in terms of the pain. Thanks for writing & sharing this, @kimbui. https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Wall / @walldo: This is gutwrenching. Important reading for white editors. “We are tired. Bone tired. The kind of tired that is deeper than bones and marrow, but soul tired.” https://collectednotes.com/...
Anita Li / @neeeda: I felt this in the core of my being. A #mustread about being a newsroom leader of colour by the fantastic @kimbui: https://twitter.com/...
Nikki Usher, Ph.D. / @nikkiusher: Re-upping @kimbui, who does not get to be called her beautiful name, Phuong, because people like me can't pronounce it Journalism silences journalists of color “Because of the systems in place, most of us cannot even post that #BlackLivesMatter. Nope.” https://collectednotes.com/...
Andrew Losowsky / @losowsky: Everyone in media should read this from @kimbui on being a WOC leader in the newsroom. https://collectednotes.com/... Kim is a force in our industry, despite everything that we have done to her. Change is long, long overdue. Maybe now it can finally begin.
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: An excellent essay by my friend Phuong Kim Bui (@kimbui) about working and living as a journalist of color: https://collectednotes.com/...
Staci D Kramer / @sdkstl: Closing out the night with @kimbui >>This is my experience, but I doubt I will be alone in saying this: We are tired. Bone tired. The kind of tired that is deeper than bones and marrow, but soul tired. We have waited patiently for change. And change (we hope) is here.<< https://twitter.com/...
Mahnoor Yawar / @mahnoorie: “You put on two faces, two personalities each morning. And everything you say, everything you do has dual implications. That is just one part. The other part is the part of you that has learned to stay quiet. To climb, sometimes... in stealth, & hope no one noticed your ascent.” https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: I learn from our student @kimbui — Phuong Kim Bui — in our Innovation and Leadership program because she is a brilliant innovator and leader . I learn from her here. Do please read. https://twitter.com/...
Nicole Zhu / @nicolelzhu: “i am impatient and want change now, but part of what i learned in the quiet ascension is it takes small work to make big change. annoyingly.” — such important words from @kimbui ♥️ https://collectednotes.com/...
Emma Carew Grovum / @emmacarew: If you missed last night, this should be required reading for every white editor in media today. This is what it feels like to be an only lonely. This is what it feels like to be elevated and promoted, only to find that power and responsibility comes with walls. #mediadiversity https://twitter.com/...
Paige Osburn / @paigeosburn: I have already shared this many times but — I'm blessed to have known @kimbui way back when I was a baby journalist. When you're first starting, you notice every damn thing your boss does. And she did so much. https://twitter.com/...
P. Kim Bui / @kimbui: I intentionally published this in a space without comments, because I want to have a conversation about it. I want to hear from you, and your experiences, too. https://twitter.com/...
Raju Narisetti / @raju: On the many American journalists who are speaking out about racism in newsrooms across the country https://www.niemanlab.org/... via @NiemanLab
Ginia Bellafante / New York Times:
As a reckoning comes for Condé Nast magazines, questions arise on the future of Anna Wintour, who has enshrined values of pedigree and privilege at the company — A reckoning has come to Bon Appétit and the other magazines of Condé Nast. Can a culture built on elitism and exclusion possibly change?
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Andrew LaVallee / @andrewlavallee: ‘Last month, during a round of layoffs, in which 100 people were let go amid the economic calamities of Covid-19, the company dismissed three Asian-American editors, all of whom covered culture at different publications’ https://www.nytimes.com/...
@dodaistewart: “Even though they were no longer at Condé Nast, not one of them felt free to speak on the record out of fear of retaliation from the company or the concern that they would be looked at as complainers, making it much harder to find work.”
Jessica Goldstein / @jessicagolds: “Over and over, power structures seem to require that accusations of racial bias are documented by photographic evidence — proof to override a reflexive or simply inconvenient skepticism.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rick Rojas / @rar: “For so long it was central to the Condé Nast ethos that you had to be thin, gorgeous and impeccably credentialed to retrieve someone else's espresso macchiato.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Eric Michael Garcia / @ericmgarcia: I love it when a writer goes to town and writes a good takedown. @GiniaNYT filets Anna Wintour like a fish here. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Chris Crowley / @chrisecrowley: “for decades, both at the level of corporate culture and branded worldview, the company's lifestyle magazines have held to the notion that there are “right” people and wrong people, a determination made by birthright.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@yoshita_singh: “There are the rich, and there are the dismissible; the great looking, and the condemned — a paradigm that has now become dangerously untenable, and one the company has been striving to change.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Amy Alexander / @amyalex63: “Race is a fraught subject at Condé Nast. Several employees of color I spoke with, all of them laid off over the past few years, talked about the challenges they faced.” — @GiniaNYT. Good column...tho one *might* raise similar points about The Times. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Thessaly La Force / @thessaly: “I wanna say one thing, Dame Anna Wintour is a colonial broad; she's a colonial dame,” he told Ms. Bernhard. “I do not think she will ever let anything get in the way of her white privilege.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Clara Jeffery / @clarajeffery: every paragraph in this piece has a gobsmacking detail, even to people in the industry! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alyssa Vingan Klein / @alyssavingan: I hope no digital fashion news editors logged off early tonight: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sewell Chan / @sewellchan: “For someone who had seemed so averse to activism as the world has roiled from inequality for years, it felt like a desperate grasp for relevance.” Devastating: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Julia Rubin / @juliarubin: This isn't just an indictment of Condé. It's an indictment of the entire fashion industry. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Taffy Brodesser-Akner / @taffyakner: “...during that period she has done more to enshrine the values of bloodline, pedigree and privilege than anyone in American media.” What my sister Lauren Weisberger started, my sister @GiniaNYT is finishing. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rachel Premack / Business Insider: Condé Nast launches investigation into a top executive who staff say ignored their calls …
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Edmund Lee / New York Times:
Condé Nast head of video, Matt Duckor, resigns after accusations of bias for his role in deciding who appeared in Bon Appétit videos and racist tweets surface — Matt Duckor, who led the publisher's programming efforts, resigned after accusations of bias.
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@blackamazon, @jakeswearingen, @jakeswearingen, @4evrmalone, @alysewhitney, @sophiekleeman, @nicoleblades and @mattwelch
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@blackamazon: Folks love saying accusations of bias rather than incidents of insidious and pernicious racism https://twitter.com/...
Jake Swearingen / @jakeswearingen: wow the discourse is really moving fast on this... maybe the NYT is not good at linking? idk only time will tell https://twitter.com/...
Jake Swearingen / @jakeswearingen: some really good points made here... https://twitter.com/...
Madison Malone Kircher / @4evrmalone: less insane than textbook Times but credit @rrpre my god!!!!!!! https://twitter.com/...
Alyse Whitney / @alysewhitney: .@rrpre put in the hard work for weeks before adam's photo surfaced. she has worked tirelessly all week to amplify the voices who were silenced at bon appetit and tell our stories thoughtfully. please give credit where credit is due, @nytimes! https://twitter.com/...
Sophie Kleeman / @sophiekleeman: hey @nytimes you know what would be great here? a link to @rrpre's reporting on many things mentioned in this story https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nicole Blades / @nicoleblades: This *had* to happen. The petition demanding that he step all the way off called him “the architect of a predatory [at] Bon Appétit.” The architect. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matt Welch / @mattwelch: Paragraph 9 is the first mention here: “Several Bon Appétit staff members had pressed him to highlight more diverse cuisines, according to Sohla El-Waylly, an assistant editor at Bon Appétit. They also sought equitable compensation for their work.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
MIT News:
MIT ends negotiations with Elsevier for a new journals contract, saying Elsevier was unable to offer a proposal that aligned with open access principles — Institute ends negotiations for a new journals contract in the absence of a proposal aligning with the MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts.
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@jeffspies, @erikbryn, @wolfejosh, @mit_csail, @familyunequal, @marynmck, @gettinshifdone, @five9a2, @gprefon, @drugmonkeyblog, @geoffreywoo, @prof_nch, @fdrubio1977, @brewster_kahle, @tamarhaspel and STAT
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Jeffrey Spies / @jeffspies: In 2017, @mchris4duke & I keynoted @socarxiv's O3S. In my talk, I discussed problems w library/publisher “negotiations”. Chris hilariously added, “It's like bringing a cardigan to a knife fight.” Lesson after today though: if you see Chris in a cardigan, look out! https://twitter.com/...
Erik Brynjolfsson / @erikbryn: Kudos to MIT for standing up to the for-profit academic publishing scam. Every academic should encourage their university to take similar steps. #openaccess https://twitter.com/...
Mit Csail / @mit_csail: BREAKING: In the name of open access, MIT has ended journal negotiations w/Elsevier. https://news.mit.edu/... MIT's Framework for Publisher Contracts has been endorsed by 100+ institutions, incl. Duke, Harvard, UCLA & Yale: https://libraries.mit.edu/... (v/@mitlibraries) #openaccess https://twitter.com/...
Philip N Cohen / @familyunequal: This is amazing. 💥 @mitlibraries and @mchris4duke have built a foundation for ethical contracting and Elsevier can't just steamroll universities anymore. Tide = turned https://twitter.com/...
Maryn McKenna / @marynmck: Not a thing that anyone is going to be able to focus on right now, but big: Out of respect for open access, MIT's libraries have ended their contract with Elsevier's journals. https://news.mit.edu/...
Shifrah Gadamsetti / @gettinshifdone: “ It affirms the overarching principle that control of scholarship and its dissemination should reside with scholars and their institutions, and aims to ensure that scholarly research outputs are openly and equitably available to the broadest possible audience.” That's hot. https://twitter.com/...
Jed Brown / @five9a2: Hi @cublibraries, can you think of anything you could do with the money saved by joining UC and MIT in dropping Elsevier? https://news.mit.edu/... https://twitter.com/...
Gabrielle Prefontaine / @gprefon: Wow. This is happening. Also, this MIT position statement does a lot of heavy lifting in its establishment of solid language and ideas around OA adoption https://libraries.mit.edu/... https://twitter.com/...
Drug Monkey / @drugmonkeyblog: U of California, MIT....is there a list of which Universities are facing down Elsevier at the moment? https://twitter.com/...
Geoffrey Woo / @geoffreywoo: Bravo @MIT. Science is for everyone, not just for the elites in the academy. https://twitter.com/...
Nathan C. Hall / @prof_nch: Would be great to see @McGillLib do the same; it's unfortunate to see hundreds of thousands of dollars wasted each year on unnecessary deals with big publishers that could otherwise go towards supporting faculty, staff, and students https://twitter.com/...
Fernando Domnguez Rubio / @fdrubio1977: Great news. After LSU, the University of California system, Norway, Sweden, Germany..and now the MIT. https://news.mit.edu/...
Brewster Kahle / @brewster_kahle: MIT, guided by open access principles, ends Elsevier negotiations https://news.mit.edu/... Big deal— use library $ to get openness. Joins University of California in using bargaining power. Openness and $ can work. Go @mitlibraries @mchris4duke
Robert Silverman / The Daily Beast:
Per current terms only reporters who quarantine at Disney's ESPN complex with NBA teams will be able to interact with players; the NBA won't cover housing costs — According to an NBA beat writers association memo obtained by The Daily Beast, reporters who want to cover the resumed season …
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@benjstrauss, @dlind, @timbenzpgh, @johnmichaelsu, @joebrunowsoc9, @skylerhenry, @maura, @wesleylowery, @seungminkim, @fmanjoo, @wxstrong, @roccodisangro, @sam_baker, @jeskeets, @natalieegenolf, @ryanphardy, @toddfuhrman, @ahmed, @sahilkapur, @mrrickyspanish, @ramieistweeting, @tomgara, @kalynkahler, @marisa_ingemi, @insidethehall, @kami, @jessbensontv, @kerithburke, @masedenver, @thesarahkelly and NPR
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Ben Strauss / @benjstrauss: Members of the press would be fed, though their housing expenses would not be covered by the NBA nor their Disney hosts, making the price tag “cost-prohibitive for most outlets,” the memo stated. Good reporting by @BobSaietta: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
John Michaels / @johnmichaelsu: Anyone that doesn't want to go I'll gladly take your spot https://twitter.com/...
@skylerhenry: Lol at “trapped.” Put me in COACH. It'd be an honor and a privilege. https://twitter.com/...
@maura: who knew that mtv's cartel experiment of 2007 would be a dry run https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Seung Min Kim / @seungminkim: I mean .... I might be into this. https://twitter.com/...
Sam Baker / @sam_baker: Doesn't sound fun, but to be there for LeBron's 4th NBA championship, and AD's 1st, would be worth it. https://twitter.com/...
J.E. Skeets / @jeskeets: “According to a [PBWA] memo, a select group of reporters could be locked inside the Disney bubble for at least three-and-a-half months—with no option to re-enter if they exit quarantine.” If y'all can guarantee a microwave, we'll send @LeighEllis. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Natalie Egenolf / @natalieegenolf: But can they go to the park? Is that being “trapped”? https://twitter.com/...
Todd Fuhrman / @toddfuhrman: Trapped at Disney World using terms like “this is hell?” Man I wonder how all the war correspondents out there feel when it comes to journalistic coverage https://twitter.com/...
Ahmed Al Omran / @ahmed: NBA reporters who want to cover rest of the season when the league resumes might be locked inside Disney World for 3.5 months https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
@mrrickyspanish: Would anyone else love to be “trapped” at Disney World covering the NBA playoffs or is it just me? https://twitter.com/...
Ramie Makhlouf / @ramieistweeting: I'm not saying this to demean anyone's concern to do this. I completely understand that and to each their own. I say this to say I'm unemployed, have some reporter experience, and will gladly do the job! #HireRamie https://twitter.com/...
Tom Gara / @tomgara: Spare a thought for those forced to make the ultimate sacrifice https://twitter.com/...
Kalyn Kahler / @kalynkahler: Locked inside Disney with live sports?!!!!! sounds like the best summer camp ever https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Marisa Ingemi / @marisa_ingemi: All fun and games until media outlets say they won't pay for that anymore so you're trapped and paying out of pocket https://twitter.com/...
@insidethehall: “Trapped” probably isn't the best way to describe this setup. https://twitter.com/...
Kami Mattioli / @kami: This is honestly my nightmare. I've never been to Disney World and plan to keep it that way. Seems fitting that the last time I was in Orlando I spent the day / night puking my brains out, which about sums up my overall feelings on the city. 😂 https://twitter.com/...
Jessica Benson / @jessbensontv: “Trapped at Disney World” would have been 12-year-old me's dream job. https://twitter.com/...
Kerith Burke / @kerithburke: My mind went to a weird place: bringing 3.5 months worth of different outfits because the wardrobe police love to let you know when you've repeated one https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Golis / New York Public Radio:
Memo: Audrey Cooper, who has been editor in chief of the San Francisco Chronicle since 2015, will join WNYC as editor in chief on July 20 — Cooper to Lead All Local WNYC News Efforts — Read more in these notes from WNYC Chief Content Officer Andrew Golis and Audrey Cooper:
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Heather Knight / @hknightsf: Here's more about where @audreyhasnews is headed and her plans for @WNYC. Heartening data point: She hired 46 people at the @sfchronicle in the past two years, and 41 are women, people of color and/or identify as LGBTQ. https://nypublicradio.org/...
S. Mitra Kalita / @mitrakalita: Congrats to @audreyhasnews and @agolis. As white leaders of a newsroom in a city that is 60% poc, they head on address what they have to do next. Both are friends, great journos and know I'll hold them to account. https://nypublicradio.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Henry Schulman / @hankschulman: Good luck to @audreyhasnews in New York leading public-radio @wnyc. You can read the station's news release and Audrey's comments to the staff here. Good stuff, all things considered. Staffers there should know they're getting a good one. Tough one, too. https://nypublicradio.org/...
Ann Killion / @annkillion: Congratulations to @audreyhasnews. Can't wait to have a drink with you in my other favorite city. https://twitter.com/...
Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal:
Some big-name advertisers join the Association of National Advertisers in asking for TV upfronts to move to fall to negotiate for the following calendar year — Procter & Gamble, Bank of America and others want to move upfront negotiations for ads in the multibillion TV market to the fall from the spring.
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Mike Shields / @digitalshields: This feels pretty significant. once you put off the upfront and the world doesn't end, do CMOs start saying “do we really need this at all?” https://www.wsj.com/... @sizpatel
Sam Byford / The Verge:
Apple pulls podcast apps Pocket Casts and Castro from the App Store in China after China's government determined they can be used to access “illegal” content — Pocket Casts and Castro are gone from China's App Store — Apple has removed Pocket Casts, the popular iOS …
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Andrew Sharp / @andrewsharp: FYI the right photo choice can take a good news story and make it great https://twitter.com/...
Neeraj K. Agrawal / @neerajka: ah well if the content is illegal then what's the problem https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: I'm always intrigued by how the same act by different companies is viewed differently by employees & media. Google employees threatened to unionize over what's just another Thursday at Apple. People quit over contracts Microsoft & Amazon scrambled to win. https://www.theverge.com/...
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