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Lian Buan / RAPPLER:
A court in Manila finds Rappler CEO Maria Ressa guilty of “cyber libel”, along with former researcher-writer Reynaldo Santos Jr. — The court rules only Rappler as a company is not guilty … MANILA, Philippines - The Manila Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 46 convicted Rappler CEO …
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James Griffiths / CNN: Philippines journalist Maria Ressa found guilty of ‘cyber libel’ in latest blow to free press
Andrew Heslop / World News Publishing Focus by WAN-IFRA: World's Press Condemns Guilty Verdict for Maria Ressa in Cyber-Libel Trial
Rappler / @rapplerdotcom: We call on our media colleagues, our community, and other advocates of a free and independent press to be vigilant and vocal now more than ever. Here are some ways to support Rappler. Thank you for holding the line with us! #CourageON #HoldTheLine #DefendPressFreedom https://twitter.com/...
Rebecca Ratcliffe / The Guardian: Journalist Maria Ressa found guilty of ‘cyberlibel’ in Philippines
Andreo Calonzo / Bloomberg: Philippine Journalist Critical of Duterte Convicted of Libel
PA Mediapoint / Press Gazette: Philippine journalist Maria Ressa vows to ‘keep fighting’ after jail sentence
Peter Greste / The Guardian: Maria Ressa's conviction should matter to everyone who cares about democracy
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: Maria Ressa, founder of Filipino independent media site Rappler, found guilty in cyber libel trial
Tetch Torres-Tupas / Philippine Daily Inquirer: A court in Manila finds Rappler CEO and Executive Editor Maria Ressa guilty of “cyber libel”, along with former researcher-writer Reynaldo Santos Jr.
Rappler / @rapplerdotcom: @lianbuan Judge Montesa affirmed that the update in 2014 constituted republication, which made the article fall under the Sept 2012 Cybercrime Law. Article was written May 2012, or before law, but a typo error (evasion spelled as evation) was corrected Feb 2014. | via @lianbuan https://twitter.com/...
Mona Eltahawy / @monaeltahawy: A free press is more necessary than ever. Full solidarity with @mariaressa, a veteran journalist whose work is courageous and vital. Support her as she fights back against a cyber libel conviction that is clearly politically motivated. #DefendPressFreedom #HoldTheLine https://twitter.com/...
Ren LaForme / @itsren: Ressa urged Filipinos and members of the press to persist in spite of the Rappler attacks. “We are meant to be a cautionary tale. We are meant to make you afraid,” she said. “Don't be afraid.” https://www.poynter.org/...
Ava DuVernay / @ava: “You could be arrested for writing something.” Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, a critic of President Duterte, was found guilty in a libel case seen as a test for press freedom in the country. https://twitter.com/...
Camille Elemia / Axios: Rappler CEO Maria Ressa convicted of cyber libel in Philippines
Rappler / @rapplerdotcom: For civic leader Samira Gutoc, the cyber libel conviction of Maria Ressa and Reynaldo Santos Jr serves as a message to both media and people to “play nice or suffer the consequences.” READ: https://rappler.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: There's an international playbook, and autocrats take one another's lead. This is a scary verdict. https://twitter.com/...
Nilanjana Roy / @nilanjanaroy: “We are at the precipice between a democracy and a dictatorship. This is it.” Terrible news. @mariaressa has been a beacon of courage and hope; this has the worst implications for press freedom in the Philippines and South Asia. https://www.aljazeera.com/... https://www.nytimes.com/...
Isko / @iskolarspeaks: Our government never fails to show how they would rather prioritize silencing their critics than address more pressing matters like the pandemic. Napaka sahol. #HoldTheLine #CourageOn #DefendPressFreedom https://twitter.com/...
Frederik Obermaier / @f_obermaier: „The libel case is part of a broad campaign by Duterte to manipulate the country's legal system in order to persecute @mariaressa and her online news organization, @rapplerdotcom ." https://theintercept.com/...
Nate Erskine-Smith / @beynate: Journalist Maria Ressa has been convicted in a clear attack on the rule of law and press freedom. No repercussions in the Philippines for killing drug users, just for reporting and bringing those atrocities to light. https://twitter.com/...
Rappler / @rapplerdotcom: @lianbuan Malice is an element of libel; court said if the subject is a public official then there is a high standard to prove malice to convict the author. But if the subject is a private person, malice is considered presumed. Court said Rappler did not show proof otherwise. | @lianbuan https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: “Corrupt, coerce, co-opt. You're with us or against us. If I'm convicted, then it's codified into law.” - @mariaressa https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nicole Curato / @nicolecurato: Solidarity to @mariaressa @rapplerdotcom and all journalists in the Philippines doing their jobs in democracy's darkest times. #DefendPressFreedom #HoldTheLine https://www.bloomberg.com/...
@gojuris: “Ressa and Santos won't have to go to jail because the conviction is appealable all the way to the Supreme Court. Ressa and Santos are entitled to post-conviction bail while they exhaust legal remedies in higher courts.” https://www.rappler.com/...
Melissa Chan / @melissakchan: One more thing everyone should know about @mariaressa and her newsroom: TWO-THIRDS of them are women. That's the outlet that has spoken truth to power against Duterte's government. Here are ways for anyone in the world to support @rapplerdotcom: https://twitter.com/...
@inquirerdotnet: READ: Statement of news website Rappler (@rapplerdotcom) on the conviction of its CEO and Executive Editor Maria Ressa (@mariaressa) and former writer-researcher Rey Santos for cyber libel. Related story: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Karen Davila / @iamkarendavila: What a sad day for democracy. #IStandWithMariaRessa https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: This is an abomination — a murderous regime gets the go-ahead to be even more so, and what's left of freedom in the Philippines takes another blow. Maria Ressa is a hero in the world of journalism. Nothing the odious Duterte and his minions do will ever change that. https://twitter.com/...
Feliz Solomon / Wall Street Journal: Rodrigo Duterte Critic Found Guilty of Libel in the Philippines
@policy: We stand with @MariaRessa and journalists around the world who are being persecuted for doing their jobs and holding power to account. Governments should not impinge on the fundamental values of a #FreePress. It must end now. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Philippines Spits On Free Speech, Convicts Journalist Maria Ressa For Criminal 'Cyber Libel"
Sarah Margon / @sarahmargon: .@mariaressa after her conviction: “We are meant to be a cautionary tale. We are meant to make you afraid. So I appeal again. Not be afraid. Because it you don't use your rights, you will lose them.” https://www.cnn.com/...
Andrew Stroehlein / @astroehlein: Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte's has killed tens of thousands in his “war on drugs”. He gets away with it. Journalist Maria Ressa has reported the extrajudicial killings committed by police & police-linked “death squads.” She's going to jail. https://www.hrw.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Christophe Deloire / @cdeloire: This case is probably one of the most crucial ones for #pressfreedom in the entire world. The fate of @mariaressa is intimately connected to the global situation for journalists. Her freedom is not just an example. It is a corner stone. @rapplerdotcom https://twitter.com/...
Rappler / @rapplerdotcom: The Court did not accept Rappler's assertion that what was corrected was just a typo error, and faulted them for not presenting Rey Santos on the stand to testify that no substantial change was made on his article in 2014. | via @lianbuan https://twitter.com/...
Pia Ranada / @piaranada: Not surprised but horrified nonetheless. This is a blow to our freedom of expression online and to press freedom as a whole. Maria Ressa, Rey Santos Jr convicted of cyber libel https://www.rappler.com/... via @rapplerdotcom
Senator Penny Wong / @senatorwong: This is a very concerning development in the Philippines. Accountability, transparency and media freedom are vital for democracy. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Andrew MacGregor Marshall / @zenjournalist: I stand with @mariaressa. Journalism is not a crime. https://www.rappler.com/...
Rappler / @rapplerdotcom: Vice President Leni Robredo warned that the cyber libel conviction of Maria Ressa and Reynaldo Santos Jr could spell danger for any citizen. Despite this, she also urged Filipinos to “not be cowed into silence.” RELATED STORY: https://www.rappler.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Class divisions in media rise to the surface as executives and stars take refuge in the Hamptons while reporters continue to deal with the pandemic and protests — Those who can afford it left the city, shining a spotlight on class divisions in the media. — EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. …
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Amber Jamieson / @ambiej: Only took @benyt 8 weeks to write the column I suggested https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
David Hines / @hradzka: Today I learned that the NYT internal slack has a guillotine emoji. I also learned that you can use eliminationist rhetoric in NYT's internal slack and stay employed by the NYT. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Aisha S Gani / @aishagani: This quote really struck me: “The biggest story in the world came to your front door and you left — that to me is insane.” The disparities in newsrooms are in our faces. And bosses are in their country homes https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rania Abouzeid / @raniaab: . @benyt is on fire, this week looking at $ in media. Coronavirus “revealed the money in journalism — who has cash and who doesn't and how much this industry is from people with trust funds or well-connected parents,” she said. https://twitter.com/...
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: A great column in which @benyt gets at one of the most irritating issues in media: The sharp class divide between executives and media staff. This is why when media execs say “we don't have the budget” to pay people, you can be skeptical. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Karen Weise / @kyweise: “The biggest story in the world came to your front door and you left — that to me is insane” @benyt and his EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. dateline did not disappoint https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kelsey Mckinney / @mckinneykelsey: I do wish this touched on the fact that so many people in our industry do not have jobs because of decisions made by these people's selfishness. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Bad Fox Graphics / @badfoxgraphics: “Sean Hannity has been working from the North Shore of Long Island since before the crisis, and Tucker Carlson's show is produced near his homes in Florida and Maine.” -@benyt https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: One media kingpin ensconced somewhere lovely asked me last week how I was handling the anarchy in DC, which I was confused by until I read this (FYI, aside from lots of boarded up windows, it's been non-anarchic and even inspiring to remain in the city). https://www.nytimes.com/...
Joe Flint / @jbflint: The view from my country estate. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: I feel this would have benefitted from a lavishly illustrated map .... https://twitter.com/...
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: People in New York are talking about the @benyt column in all its detail.... People in L.A. are talking about this sentence, or rather, this clause: “And even as media power has shifted somewhat from New York to Los Angeles....” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alexander Kaufman / @alexckaufman: “The biggest story in the world came to your front door and you left — that to me is insane. You left for your own personal safety and because it made you stressed and anxious.” hell yeah @ambiej https://www.nytimes.com/...
@azi: “Not only are people mad, but they have time to talk about it” — Ashley Ford https://twitter.com/...
Shannon Dooling / @sdooling: I'm fairly certain I'm one of few state school grads in my pub radio newsroom. Racial diversity is of the utmost importance. Including more people who grew up living paycheck-to-paycheck adds enormous value as well. Of course, we know these demographics all too often overlap. https://twitter.com/...
Jonquilyn Hill / @jonquilynhill: I've heard so many conversations re: being Black and objective in news and NONE about being wealthy and objective https://www.nytimes.com/...
Borzou Daragahi / @borzou: 'Sean Hannity has been working from the North Shore of Long Island since before the crisis, and Tucker Carlson's show is produced near his homes in Florida and Maine.' https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kenneth Li / @kenli729: “At a recent WarnerMedia town hall, employees listening to an executive speak about his experience with police also took note of the hot tub over his shoulder.” And other bombs from @benyt https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mujib Mashal / @mujmash: “Their employees have made an art of deducing their surroundings from details of Zoom backdrops.” @benyt https://www.nytimes.com/...
Gerry Doyle / @mgerrydoyle: class divisions in the media are extremely stark and in many ways explain why top-down decisions always seem to implicitly favor power structures like giving fascists “the right” to have their views printed https://twitter.com/...
Brett Williams / @bdwilliams910: lol they're not slick enough. brain-shattering that ethics in disclosure is supposedly such a big deal yet this is the second NYT “people left the city oh no the conflict” piece written by SOMEONE WHO LEFT that waits until 3/4 of the way through to DISCLOSE THAT THEY LEFT TOO https://twitter.com/...
Annemarie Dooling / @travelinganna: ""The biggest story in the world came to your front door and you left" wooooooooooo https://www.nytimes.com/...
Greg Miller / @gregpmiller: ‘No oceans. No pools. No nannies.’ What media magnates try to keep out of their Zoom backdrops as they ride out covid and newsroom unrest in the Hamptons. https://twitter.com/...
Hunter Walker / @hunterw: Journalists are supposed to run towards the fire, but during some of the biggest stories in American history, some newsroom leaders ran away. Respect to @benyt for honestly grappling with his choices while taking a look at peers. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Eileen Clancy / @clancynewyork: A delightful read on the nervousness of media executives hiding themselves & their conspicuous consumption from the hoi polloi. I won't tease too many spoilers; but learning that a yacht broker is selling twice as many yachts as usual is, um, a data point. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: One media kingpin ensconced somewhere lovely asked me last week how I was handling the anarchy in DC, which I was confused by until I read this (FYI, aside from lots of boarded up windows, it's been non-anarchic and even inspiring to remain in the city). https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael Crowley / @michaelcrowley: so much going on in this story! @benyt at his best with jabs, nuance, self-examination — and A+ reporting. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller: One reason tensions around media are so intense is that it's basically impossible to start a new outlet funded by advertising because Google and Facebook have snuffed everything out. So people fight over scraps. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Caroline Moss / @carolinemoss: This is hilarious for a lot of reasons but I think @ambiej hits the nail on the head with her assessment of New York editors and writers who made their $$ post-2008 bouncing out the city as BIGGEST STORY OF OUR LIFETIME “came knocking on their front door” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: at its current pace, Quibi will sign up fewer than 2M paying subscribers by the end of its first year, well under its original target of 7.4M — Two veteran executives with contrasting styles are launching Quibi, an on-the-go streaming service, during a pandemic
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Todd Spangler / Variety: Quibi on Pace to Hit Less Than 30% of Year-One Paid Subscriber Goal (Report)
Garance Franke-Ruta / @thegarance: As far as I can tell Quibi is a vehicle for moving money from one group of rich people to another group of rich people for a product no one needs. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Gara / @tomgara: Quibi is burning a truly heroic amount of cash. It raised $1.75 billion from investors, expects to have spent *a billion* of it by *October* and will need to raise at least $200 million more by the middle of next year to keep going. https://www.wsj.com/...
Katie Notopoulos / @katienotopoulos: These two paragraphs are the perfect example of the most annoying part of reporting (having to include a bs corporate denial) and also the most pleasurable (writing it so that everyone knows it's bs) https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@keachhagey: Hats off to Meg Whitman, who kept Jeffrey Katzenberg from naming Quibi “Omakase,” a term used to describe high-quality sushi selected by the chef. One of many great details in this @BenMullin must-read. https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Scott Mendelson / Forbes: Quibi: The Fatal Miscalculation That Doomed Katzenberg And Whitman's Streamer
Brendan Porath / @brendanporath: this all could have been avoided by picking up Bryson's 15 minute quarantine video https://twitter.com/...
Mic Wright / @brokenbottleboy: Quibi isn't a startup, it's a union busting, capital squandering investment scam in search of a monopoly position or an acquisition. Listen to @trashfuturepod's episode on the company for a longer explanation https://www.wsj.com/...
Business Insider: 15 Quibi insiders describe Hollywood veteran Jeffrey Katzenberg's tight control of the startup's …
Nilay Patel / @reckless: There is a reason it is called the go90 Scale of Doomed Streaming Services https://twitter.com/...
Mo Ryan / @moryan: I think about how much important important journalism infrastructure/jobs & local media could have been saved by an infusion of $1.75 billion, and then I grind my teeth into dust and spontaneously explode. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Leopold / @jasonleopold: “The executives wanted a name that captured that strategy. Mr. Katzenberg was initially partial to ‘Omakase,’ a term used to describe high-quality sushi selected by the chef. Ms. Whitman wasn't in favor. The two agreed to set it aside.” https://twitter.com/...
Joanna Stern / @joannastern: Quibi is either going to turn this around to be the biggest tech comeback story or it will be buried alongside Go90 in the mobile video graveyard https://www.wsj.com/...
Hugh Langley / @hughlangley: The internal drama at Quibi continues to be far more gripping than anything on Quibi https://www.wsj.com/...
Amol Sharma / @asharma: Tensions at the top of Quibi between founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman were once so bad she threatened to quit. Now their uneasy partnership is being put to the test. Great yarn from @BenMullin https://www.wsj.com/...
Shannon Miller / The A.V. Club: Quibi, a billion-dollar startup, might have to raise a lot more money to stay afloat
Christopher Michel / @chrismichel: Least surprising story of the year: Jeffrey Katzenberg & Meg Whitman don't really get along. https://www.wsj.com/...
Ashlee Vance / @valleyhack: I see https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Aaron W. Gordon / @a_w_gordon: Wait a minute...is it pronounced “qui-bye?” https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Bowdeya Tweh / @bowknowsbiz: We've been telling y'all that @Quibi was going to have a shaky entrance into the streaming wars. Quibi is facing slower-than-expected sign ups, a looming cash crunch and some executive tensions, @BenMullin reports. https://www.wsj.com/... @WSJ
Christopher Rosen / Vanity Fair: Surprise: Quibi Is Not Doing So Great
Drew Olanoff / @yoda: Qwibby is Color, Clinkle and WeWork and probably a few other failures all wrapped up into one https://www.wsj.com/...
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: Quibi failed because the content isn't good enough. Period. Full stop. https://twitter.com/...
@wsj: “Any new founder-CEO partnership has to find its footing.” That wasn't easy at Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman's startup Quibi. https://www.wsj.com/...
Stephanie Sengwe / The Streamable: Report: Quibi Will Miss First Year Subscriber Goal by More Than 5 Million
Charles Barfield / The Playlist: Quibi Will Reportedly Spend $1 Billion By Q3 & Is Currently Seeking More Money
Kim Masters / @kimmasters: “Its success hinges, in part, on whether the duo at the top can overcome their sometimes clashing styles and leverage their more than 80 years of combined business experience.” Mmmmm.... I dunno, does it? https://www.wsj.com/...
Walter Hickey / @walthickey: do none of these people have friends they can run stuff by https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Lisa Bari / @lisabari: $2 billion is enough to allow Morgan State University (an important HBCU in Baltimore) to pay for tuition for all students in perpetuity. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Flint / @jbflint: I'm not saying it's going to be a short baseball season, but I I'm hearing Quibi wants the rights! Zing! Here all week folks.
Zak Kukoff / @zck: The single best predictor of failure is raising obscene amounts of money before shipping https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: The classic @WSJ stories take you all the way inside a business and this from @BenMullin is one of those https://www.wsj.com/...
CBS Boston:
Six former employees of eBay charged with leading a cyberstalking campaign against a couple they believed was critical of eBay in an online ecommerce newsletter — BOSTON (CBS) - Six former eBay executives and employees are facing federal charges after they allegedly led a cyberstalking campaign …
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Tom Winter / @tom_winter: NEW: Six former members of E-Bay's global security team have been charged by the FBI and federal prosecutors in Boston with cyberstalking to “stifle” the publishers of an online newsletter. They allegedly sent porn and tried to send a pig fetus to their house to harass them.
Adi Robertson / The Verge: Former eBay security director arrested for harassing journalist with live cockroaches
Justice News: Six Former eBay Employees Charged with Aggressive Cyberstalking Campaign Targeting Natick Couple
Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: Former eBay employees sent bloody pig mask to intimidate critics, feds allege
Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: Justice Department Charges Former eBay Staff With ‘Cyberstalking Campaign’
Brian Heater / TechCrunch: US attorney details eBay employees' harassment campaign, including live roaches and a pig fetus
Matt Binder / Mashable: Live roaches and a bloody pig mask: Six eBay employees charged with threatening a couple over a newsletter
Jonathan Zittrain / @zittrain: A colleague's reaction: “Relieved to hear that ‘eBay holds its employees to high standards of conduct and ethics.’ Otherwise, this would be worrying!” https://www.theverge.com/...
@karlbode: ebay statement: https://www.ebayinc.com/... Kind of speaks to your corporate culture that you have six high level execs that A. thought this was a good idea and B. never ran up against any institutional guardrails or oversight until after the fact.
Brian Fung / @b_fung: And here's Ebay's statement, which references an internal board investigation that found then-CEO Devin Wenig had some “inappropriate” communications (???) but did not know about or authorize what's alleged in the complaint: https://www.ebayinc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jay Yarow / @jyarow: I can't believe these eBay execs lost their mind over what (to me, anyway) is a pretty obscure newsletter/site. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Adi Robertson / @thedextriarchy: so it sure looks like eBay's ex-CEO left after making an ambiguously threatening directive that led a team of employees to start mailing *live cockroaches and a bloody pig mask* to a newsletter editor he hated https://www.theverge.com/...
Ed Zitron / @edzitron: says a lot about me that my first thought is ‘how did they get a pig fetus? did they get it mailed to them, then packaged it up and sent it on?’ https://twitter.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: Anti-journalism sentiment is rampant in the country and on Twitter, and this is where it leads https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: eBay's security director allegedly mailed a pig fetus and live cockroaches to a journalist who had been critical of the company and the harassment was tacitly approved by the then CEO https://www.theverge.com/...
Jeff Ballinger / @press4change: h/t @BGPublic The employees also allegedly sent anonymous threatening messages and traveled to Massachusetts to conduct “covert surveillance” of the victims..."all because they published content company executives didn't like" #cyberstalking https://boston.cbslocal.com/ ...
Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker: Some days “WTF?!” doesn't cut it. “Six former executives and employees of eBay are facing federal charges are they allegedly led a cyberstalking campaign against a Natick couple they believed was critical of the company in an online ecommerce newsletter.” https://boston.cbslocal.com/ ...
Ernie Smith / @shortformernie: Seems on brand (though deeply screwed up) for eBay executives to try to conduct a cyberstalking campaign via package delivery. https://twitter.com/...
Helen Kennedy / @helenkennedy: Six top eBay execs charged with insane harassment of Mass couple who published a newsletter critical of eBay: deliveries of live spiders and cockroaches, a funeral wreath, porn mailed to their neighbors in their names, ads for sex parties at their home. https://boston.cbslocal.com/ ...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: This isn't the half of it. This couple was harassed by six eBay employees, receiving all of this stuff, for... writing an email newsletter that was *sometimes* critical of eBay. https://boston.cbslocal.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Rupert Myers / @rupertmyers: 😱 Quite a headline - these sick guys seem to have gone the whole hog https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Sources describe an “internal uprising” over racial inequity at LA Times, which has one black reporter on the metro desk of nearly 90 people covering greater LA — The Los Angeles Times' top editor is scrambling to placate journalists of color after years of often-unfulfilled promises …
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Caille Millner / @caillemillner: If you're wondering why these stories keep popping up and keep being important, it's because these are the people who shape the way we view the world. https://www.npr.org/...
Joseph Hernandez / @joeybear85: All publications truly need to not just soul-search right now, but pay up. The time for “listening and learning” has long been over. https://www.npr.org/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Under Pearlstine and new owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, the paper went on major hiring spree to restock newsroom. The numbers did not notably improve. The LAT has a more diverse newsroom than most major news orgs. But it falls far short in reflecting diversity of L.A. County. 4/
Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce: We just have to do better. We just have to. I stand with all my colleagues who have bravely spoken out to management, and @latguild will be presenting more demands soon. https://www.npr.org/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: At the L.A. Times, a newsroom “uprising” over racial equity. Exhibit A: There is one black reporter among nearly 90 ppl on the metro desk. She was turned down for raise repeatedly despite pleas from city editor it was a “moral” issue. My NPR story: https://www.npr.org/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Exec Editor Norm Pearlstine tells NPR: “I would say in the case of black journalists, that we do not have enough journalists in positions where they are able to help us tell stories that really need to be told. I've asked myself in hindsight what got us to where we are now.” 3/
Makeda Easter / @makedaeaster: black journalists only made up about 4% of the la times newsroom last year. 🙄https://www.npr.org/ ...
Gene Park / @genepark: lots of heartbreaking details about the LA Times, which i consider my favorite newspaper. for me it's tough to read about its Metpro internship program, which i applied for and was rejected from 3 times, because it was billed to me as the best career path https://www.npr.org/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: The rancor arises over hiring/treatment of black journalists, as well as coverage of Floyd protests. Internal slack channels have been fiery: ""We can't constantly pander to our primarily white audience with stories like this that affirm their biases" - LAT's @sonaiyak 2/
Johana Bhuiyan / @jmbooyah: “1 of the responsibilities of the job is to state the facts & tell it true...it's alienating...viewers we're trying to attract. As well as POC journalists like me who contribute so much...& then have to read stories...that oversimplify our struggles.” https://www.npr.org/...
Priya Krishnakumar / @priyakkumar: As a Metpro in '15, one of the men in this story refused to consider me for a job even though there was an opening on our team and I'd been there a year (it was “too early") — he'd worked out a similar deal with a male colleague just months before. https://www.npr.org/...
Tal Kopan / @talkopan: These stories are painful to read, but so important that we are subjecting our own industry to scrutiny it deserves, especially if we're scrutinizing the record of other industries, too. https://twitter.com/...
Lisa Armstrong / @lisaarmstrong: “The Los Angeles Times' top editor is scrambling to placate journalists of color after years of often-unfulfilled promises by the paper to make grand progress in the diversity of the newsroom's ranks.” #DEI https://www.npr.org/...
Ben Muessig / @benmuessig: For the record: This is absolutely not the business desk's thinking. Hiring a Black or Latino reporter for a tech beat — or any specialty beat — is not some kind of unique challenge. There are so many amazingly talented journalists out there https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Steven Perlberg / Digiday:
How Quartz, sold to Japanese company Uzabase in 2018, went from a profitable high-flyer to announcing layoffs and restructuring in May — In July 2018, Uzabase co-founder Yusuke Umeda addressed a room of anxious Quartz employees. — Staffers were reeling from the news that the business publication …
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@kerrymflynn: “Quartz has joined a growing club of publications that seemingly got caught in the mushy middle of 2010s digital media, like Mic and Mashable. Not quite niche enough to be essential to a small group of readers, but not quite big enough to compete at scale” https://digiday.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: As of the first quarter of 2020, net advertising sales dropped by 54.1% year-over-year. In 2019, Quartz reported a $18.4 million loss on $26.9 million in revenue https://digiday.com/... via @digiday
Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
In response to Australian regulator, Facebook says it will not pay for shared news links and that not having them at all would not significantly impact business — Social media giant rejects ACCC proposal, saying it could cut out news completely without any significant impact on its business
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Nieman Lab, MediaPost, MediaNama, @mathewi, Business Insider, @emilybell, @alibreland, @benwhitelaw, @jimwaterson, @moonalice, @donie, @jason_kint, @tom_swann and @matthewstoller, more at Techmeme »
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Hal Crawford / Nieman Lab: Australia is trying to make Facebook and Google pay for news. Facebook Australia says it doesn't need news, actually.
Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost: Facebook Rejects Request To Subsidize Australian Publishers
Trisha Jalan / MediaNama: Facebook refuses to share ad revenue with Australia news orgs, says news content is “highly substitutable”: Report
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Facebook's bottom line re the media: “News content is highly substitutable with other content for our users [and] news does not drive significant long-term value for our business” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Isobel Asher Hamilton / Business Insider: Facebook says its business could afford to get rid of news
Emily Bell / @emilybell: This piece is *absolutely fascinating* when read in tandem with Facebook's ‘commitment’ to - and expenditure on - journalism in the US and Europe. Could it be that the lip service paid to supporting journalism is ..just that ? (h/t @Moonalice ) https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Ali Breland / @alibreland: aha yeah, that classic rivalry between one $600 billion conglomerate and an entire industry that's been forced into endless rounds of hemorrhaging off its workforce https://theguardian.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ben Whitelaw / @benwhitelaw: Judging by these comments, history will not look kindly upon the news execs that jumped on Google Accelerated Mobile Pages and Facebook Instant Articles. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Jim Waterson / @jimwaterson: Australian government is trying to force Facebook and Google to pay mainstream news outlets for content. Facebook's response is they won't pay and frankly if they removed news then people would keep using the social network and probably be happier. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Roger McNamee / @moonalice: My hypothesis: attention-driven platforms like FB have killed economics and impact of journalism ... and best plan is to get off them entirely. No more clicks. No more tweets. Work w/ Apple to build mass channel not based on attention. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Donie O'Sullivan / @donie: 👀 “If there were no news content available on Facebook in Australia, we are confident the impact on Facebook's community metrics and revenues in Australia would not be significant.” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Read my lips. Facebook is bluffing here. Don't listen to them @acccgovau. Without the currency of news feeding through Facebook's bloodstream, they die a slow death. Globally. ht @Moonalice https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Tom Swann / @tom_swann: Facebook threatens to stop sharing news rather than pay for it. Go on then! https://twitter.com/...
Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller: Facebook says news doesn't drive any revenue or profit and so it won't share revenue with publishers in Australia. Maybe. But two years ago Mark Zuckerberg negotiated hard with the Washington Post to make sure FB users could share around its paywall. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Sources detail NYT publisher A.G. Sulzberger's handling of Tom Cotton's op-ed, initially defending James Bennet before realizing the damage was too great — INSIDE THE CIVIL WAR — The 39-year-old Times boss now oversees a newspaper in crisis—and his leadership has never been under such intense scrutiny.
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Roger Cohen / New York Times: The Outcry Over ‘Both Sides’ Journalism
Felix Salmon / @felixsalmon: There are certain NYT journalists, who wish to remain anonymous, who prefer the business imperatives of an ad-funded paper to those of a subscriptions-funded paper. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Oedipa Maas / @bridgietherease: I love a good heavy investment in the growth of opinion https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: The Times has been publishing 120 opinion pieces every week? That seems like overkill https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Girish Gupta / @jammastergirish: So it was Jim Dao—the New York Times opinion editor who accused me of working for the Venezuelan government when I pointed out a factual error in one of his pieces—who published the Cotton piece. https://twitter.com/...
Balaji S. Srinivasan / @balajis: Interesting thought experiment: what if every journalist had a disclosed political affiliation by their name, like politicians do? John Smith, D-NYT Jane Doe, R-WSJ The AP style guide once considered this “essential” information. https://www.ap.org/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Noah Shachtman / @noahshachtman: NYT's publisher and CEO both express deep, on-the-record regret about James Bennet stepping down. Pretty clear they wanted the guy to stick around. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Michael Calderone / @mlcalderone: “I really lament the loss of a talent that I respect and admire more than you could know,” AG Sulzberger said of Bennet's departure https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “It's OK to make people angry, just don't do it by accident. In other words, it's one thing to choose to stride into controversy with eyes open, but it's quite another to stumble into it...” https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Kurt Andersen / @kbandersen: I knew they'd been publishing a ton of opinion pieces, but the actual number—120 a week!—shocked me. I think at that volume, the delicate balance between diversity-of-voices and @nytimes-seal-of- approval is just impossible to maintain. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Clara Jeffery / @clarajeffery: 1/ Always suspected that this was tipping point, both the breakdown in process and that AG felt blindsided by it https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Seth Mandel / @sethamandel: Bari was and remains the original target. Everyone else is collateral damage https://twitter.com/...
Paul Graham / @paulg: I had long suspected that the reason for the NYT's sharp leftward shift was that highly partisan articles drive subscriber signups, but this is the first confirmation I've seen from inside the business. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
KC Johnson / @kcjohnson9: Daily Beast piece reveals the unsurprising next target of the NYT successor ideology caucus. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
David Carroll / @profcarroll: The commercial web was built to monetize quantity, not quality, using a magical metric that fails to measure scarcity. Everything in digital publishing runs downstream from that fundamentally flawed baked-in business imperative. https://twitter.com/...
Robert Caruso / @robertcaruso: “For Sulzberger, the past 10 days have amounted to both his most searing crucible and the defining moment of his young tenure as publisher of the 169-year-old newspaper.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Memo: Voice of America Director Amanda Bennett and Deputy Director Sandy Sugawara have resigned as Trump appointee Michael Pack takes over VOA's parent agency — New York (CNN Business)Two top officials at Voice of America resigned on Monday as an appointee of President Trump prepares …
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Axios, @brianstelter, Mediaite, @w7voa, Deadline, @brianstelter, @hadas_gold, @waltmossberg, @bgrueskin and @waltshaub
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Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Breaking: VOA director Amanda Bennett (@abennett) has resigned, per an internal memo, on the heels of Trump appointee Michael Pack taking over VOA's parent agency.
Steve Herman / @w7voa: Both @VOANews Director @abennett and Deputy Director @slsugawara have just resigned.
Ted Johnson / Deadline: Voice Of America Director, Deputy Director Resign After Donald Trump-Selected CEO Takes Over At Global Media Agency
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: From today's internal memo: “Michael Pack swore before Congress to respect and honor the firewall that guarantees VOA's independence, which in turn plays the single most important role in the stunning trust our audiences around the world have in us...” https://www.cnn.com/...
Hadas Gold / @hadas_gold: Way back in 2018 I reported that several people at US Agency for Global Media (VOA parent agency) I spoke to said they would probably leave if/when Pack was confirmed.. I wouldn't be surprised if we see more... https://money.cnn.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Walt Mossberg / @waltmossberg: If this report from the @VOANews White House bureau chief is true, then the U.S. has lost leaders of the highest integrity for its official voice, the Voice of America. I have known Amanda Bennett (@abennett) for years, and she is superb. Yet she has been targeted by the WH. https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: For the record, Amanda Bennett (@abennett) is one of the most talented, principled editors in America. Her loss is the country's loss. https://twitter.com/...
Walter Shaub / @waltshaub: This should alarm you. CDC banned VOA because Trump said it's not giving him good press. On June 4, Trump installed a Steve Bannon associate, Michael Pack, as head of VOA's parent agency. Prepare for this impartial government media outlet to become a state-sponsored Breitbart. https://twitter.com/...
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Internal docs: CDC's media relations office was instructed to refuse interview requests from VOA, citing WH tweets accusing VOA of spreading Chinese propaganda
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Politico, @jameeljaffer, @abennett, Voice of America, Committee to Protect …, @aravosis, @waltshaub, CNN, @profkeithdevlin, @tomashbrook, @propornot, @miafarrow, @molliekatzen and @waltshaub
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Quint Forgey / Politico: Voice of America leaders to resign amid friction with Trump
Jameel Jaffer / @jameeljaffer: We (@knightcolumbia) sued to find out what restrictions the CDC has placed on employees who want to speak publicly about the pandemic. One of the docs we got shows that CDC's media office has blacklisted @greta and @VOANews. https://twitter.com/...
Amanda Bennett / @abennett: We expect this in the countries we broadcast to that don't have a free press, not here. #afreepressmatters @VOANews https://twitter.com/...
Jessica Jerreat / Voice of America: CDC Media Guidance Blacklists VOA Interview Requests
Committee to Protect Journalists: Internal CDC memo forbids staff from speaking with Voice of America
Walter Shaub / @waltshaub: With Trump attacking @VOANews and CDC banning it from interviews, it's clear Trump would prefer to follow the Russian model of state media (RT) instead of the British model (BBC). The American president aspires to be like the leader of a failed authoritarian state. Disgusting. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / CNN: Three months of the pandemic: 'We can't get acclimated to losing 800 to 1,000 Americans every single day'
Keith Devlin / @profkeithdevlin: After @GOP is out, we need to defund the @CDCgov, fire everyone, and build a brand new disease control organization based on science, which sees its mission as providing the American people and their government (and the world) reliable information. Current employees could apply https://twitter.com/...
Tom Ashbrook / @tomashbrook: Trump and the GOP are trying to strangle our democracy, right in front of our faces. https://twitter.com/...
PropOrNot ID / @propornot: People just assume that Voice of America is “state-controlled media” because, like NPR, it's supported by public funding, but Trump is actually really mad at VOA for factually reporting on things that made him look bad... Just like he's mad at the rest of actual journalism ❤️ https://twitter.com/...
Mia Farrow / @miafarrow: This is outrageous. The CDC is instructed to refuse media requests from “anyone associated with Voice of America,” citing ridiculous Trump tweets accusing VOA of spreading Chinese propaganda. The CDC is now an arm of Trump. https://www.insidevoa.com/...
Mollie Katzen / @molliekatzen: While we're all busy enjoying Barack Obama Day and the inimitable Ron Perlman, the dismantling of our democracy continues apace, lower on the radar. https://twitter.com/...
Walter Shaub / @waltshaub: Here's background on why Trump's attacks on VOA are concerning. VOA's one of 5 fed govt news outlets. It used to be overseen by the Broadcasting Board of Governors. A restructuring placed it under control of a single CEO. The Senate confirmed a Trump appointed CEO on June 4. /1 https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Interview with Fox News host Chris Wallace, often at odds with the rest of the network, on critiquing Trump, his colleagues, and more — The “Fox News Sunday” anchor opens up about his childhood, career and what he makes of his pro-Trump colleagues. — Chris Wallace is a registered Democrat who hosts …
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Mediaite, @nytmedia, @brianstelter, @samthielman, @howardmortman, @fitzfox5dc and @nytimes
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite: Fox's Chris Wallace: ‘The Vast Majority of Democratic Leaders’ Don't Support Defunding the Police
@nytmedia: Chris Wallace is comfortable being a bit of an enigma. For every Trump loyalist who views him as a heretic, there is a liberal who wishes he'd denounce colleagues like Sean Hannity. (To be clear: He won't.) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Chris Wallace: “One of the things I loved most about coming up with the idea for the book, researching the book, writing the book, and now talking about the book, is it has nothing to do with Donald Trump.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sam Thielman / @samthielman: I really wish this had dealt with the supposedly evenhanded content of Wallace's work. He persistently refers to public benefits as “entitlements” including during the 2016 debate and he's obsessed with abortion. He's not a good-faith actor. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Howard Mortman / @howardmortman: .@grynbaum writes of Chris Wallace: As NBC chief WH correspondent “he had feisty reputation, squabbling with Sam Donaldson over camera positions in briefing room” https://www.nytimes.com/... From 5/13/1988 here's WaPost photog Dayna Smith describing “altercation...thought fistfight” https://twitter.com/...
Tom Fitzgerald / @fitzfox5dc: There's a reason he's one of the most well respected journalists we have. It doesn't matter if it's on @FoxNewsSunday, moderating a Presidential debate, or writing a book. Chris Wallace is the gold standard. No flash. No B.S. and always pushing for the truth. https://twitter.com/...
Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast:
Sources: Trump's niece, Mary Trump, to publish a tell-all this summer revealing she was a primary source for NYT's Pulitzer-winning deep dive into Trump's taxes — The president's niece Mary Trump is set to publish a tell-all this summer—and to reveal that she was a primary source …
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Noah Shachtman / @noahshachtman: EXCLUSIVE: The president's niece Mary Trump is set to publish a tell-all this summer—and to reveal that she was a primary source for The New York Times' investigation into Trump's taxes. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Alison Flood / The Guardian: Donald Trump's niece Mary set to publish explosive book about her family
Hannah Bleau / Breitbart: Trump's Niece to Drop Tell-All Book, Claims She Leaked Tax Information to NYT
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair: Trump's Niece Leaked His Tax Secrets to the New York Times; Report
Lachlan Cartwright / @lachcartwright: NEW: Details of Mary Trump's book are being closely guarded by its publisher but it will include conversations with Trump's sister, retired federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry, that contain intimate and damning thoughts about her brother https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
@joncoopertweets: Donald Trump's niece, his deceased brother's daughter, is set to publish a tell-all book this summer that will detail “harrowing and salacious” stories about him, according to people with knowledge of the project. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo: Trump's Niece Helped NYT Expose His Massive Tax Fraud Schemes
Chris Riotta / The Independent: Trump's niece to reveal in new book how she leaked details of his ‘fraudulent’ tax schemes
Noah Shachtman / @noahshachtman: The bad blood between Trump and his niece dates back 20 years, to when Trump cut off financial and medical support for her brother's ill child. “My aunt and uncles should be ashamed of themselves,” Mary Trump said in 2000. “I'm sure they are not.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Natasha Bertrand / @natashabertrand: “As she is set to outline in her book, Mary [Trump] was a primary source for the NYT's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation, supplying Fred Trump Sr.'s tax returns and other highly confidential family financial documentation to the paper.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Kyle Griffin / @kylegriffin1: Trump's niece will reveal in an upcoming book, according to The Daily Beast, that she played a critical role helping the NYT print startling revelations about Trump's taxes, including how he was involved in ‘fraudulent’ tax schemes. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Kathryn Krawczyk / The Week: Why summer heat might be making the Sun Belt's coronavirus spread worse
Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
Sources detail a history of insensitive and racist comments by Barbara Fedida, a powerful ABC News exec who has now been placed on administrative leave — Sources say Barbara Fedida, a powerful ABC News executive, has an extensive history of insensitive comments.
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@nabj, The Hill, Variety, Deadline, Mediaite, @yashar, Fox News, The Wrap, @yashar, @katherinemiller, ABC News, @drjasonjohnson, @drjasonjohnson, @drjasonjohnson, @drjasonjohnson, @yashar, @jonlemire, Too Much TV Newsletter, @rawyarageh, @soledadobrien, @tomgara, @evanasmith, Breitbart, @kareports, Poynter and @yashar
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NABJ Headquarters / @nabj: #NABJ calls for @ABC News/@Disney to immediately launch a transparent, external investigation led by a diverse law firm to examine all of the allegations detailed in @yashar's report, while conducting a thorough review of ABC News Exec Barbara Fedida and the talent dept. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Steinberg / Variety: ABC News Covers Itself as Hosts on ‘View,’ ‘GMA’ Weigh in On Racial Remark Allegations
Ted Johnson / Deadline: ‘The View’ Co-Host Sunny Hostin Talks Of Claims That ABC News Executive Made Derogatory Comments …
Ken Meyer / Mediaite: The View's Sunny Hostin Gives Emotional Statement on ABC Exec's Alleged Racist Comments: ‘This Has Got to Stop!’
@yashar: 1. EXCLUSIVE: For the past six months I've been investigating a very powerful media executive you've never heard of: ABC News head of talent Barbara Fedida. What I uncovered is confidential settlements, racist and inappropriate statements, and more... https://www.huffpost.com/...
Brian Flood / Fox News: Sunny Hostin ‘disappointed and saddened’ by alleged racist comments from ABC News exec
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: ‘The View’ Co-Host Whoopi Goldberg Defends ABC News Exec Barbara Fedida: 'I Don't Think She's a Racist' (Video)
Yashar Ali / @yashar: 15. A name that kept coming up when I was speaking to my sources was Tanya Menton who serves as assistant general counsel at Disney company. She oversaw the negotiation of some of the settlements I mention in my story...whether they involved Fedida or not https://www.huffpost.com/...
Katherine Miller / @katherinemiller: This gets into the ethics of whether people should have stayed in New York during the pandemic, featuring a whole discussion between @benyt and @ambiej (with requisite cool photo) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jason Johnson / @drjasonjohnson: In a better world, this article would lead to serious re-evaluation and changes across various outlets to eliminate these racial issues. Instead there will probably have to be more breaking stories before anything happens https://www.huffpost.com/...
Jason Johnson / @drjasonjohnson: Relegating black talent to certain timeslots, if at all, using subordinates to do the racial dirty work so higher executives can claim plausible deniability, this is happening across journalism right now despite the breaking news about #GeorgeFloyd https://www.huffpost.com/...
Jason Johnson / @drjasonjohnson: I have taken a few days to really absorb the excellent reporting and larger meaning of what @yashar did in his piece about ABC for @HuffPost . If you haven't read it please do https://www.huffpost.com/...
Jason Johnson / @drjasonjohnson: These kinds of stories are not going to stop, and my guess is the revelations of this story have given many the courage to write these stories about other outlets and for more people to come forward with their experiences https://www.huffpost.com/...
Yashar Ali / @yashar: 17. How did this story start out? I've been working on it in earnest for 6 months..but it all got ignited by a voicemail left for me last March. The anonymous voicemail said: “Look into settlements involving Barbara Fedida that are handled by Tanya Menton” https://www.huffpost.com/...
Jonathan Lemire / @jonlemire: “The biggest story in the world came to your front door and you left — that to me is insane.” “I feel bad that I feel like everybody should feel absolutely self-loathing and shame” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rawya Rageh / @rawyarageh: “The #coronavirus crisis forced #America to look directly at its deep inequalities & the media industry's are no different.” “One new media exec told me he issued specific instruction to his execs to be careful about what gets into the Zoom frame: no pool, no ocean, no nanny.” https://twitter.com/...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: Lol—that's frequently how it works and it's intentional. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Gara / @tomgara: Finally, the New York Times devotes serious column inches to the populist rhetoric of working class media hero @ambiej, who speaks for the street https://www.nytimes.com/...
Evan Smith / @evanasmith: .@benyt is particularly good at last paragraphs. This week: robot caddies https://www.nytimes.com/...
Katherine Rodriguez / Breitbart: ABC News Executive Placed on Leave over Alleged Racist Language About Black Staff
Kimberly Adams / @kareports: This thread... wow. As others have suggested, now would be a great time for allies to demand their news orgs or other companies release BIPOC from the NDAs they signed on the way out. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Jones / Poynter: Where does The New York Times go from here?
Yashar Ali / @yashar: Some people have asked me if I think Robin Roberts will address my reporting on GMA tomorrow morning. Robin is taking this week off, that is not due to my story, she has had this coming week off for some time. Unclear if she'll address the issue in some other way. https://twitter.com/...
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