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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.
Justice News: Six Former eBay Employees Charged with Aggressive Cyberstalking Campaign Targeting Natick Couple
Adi Robertson / The Verge: Former eBay security director arrested for harassing journalist with live cockroaches
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’
TheJournal.ie: Former eBay employees charged after allegedly sending spiders and cockroaches to US couple
Tae Kim / @firstadopter: Pro tip to corporate comm. teams/senior executives: Don't cyberstalk journalists and newsletters with live cockroaches, a funeral wreath, a bloody pig mask and attempted GPS car tracking surveillance. May be over the line and lead to some bad consequences https://www.justice.gov/...
Fortune: Cockroaches, a bloody pig mask, and a coverup. The 5 craziest allegations against former eBay officials
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/...
Elamin Abdelmahmoud / @elamin88: I was like what on earth is Ryan talking about and then I read the eBay revenge story and it is a RIDE https://www.theverge.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/...
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/ ...
Sara Morrison / Vox: Former eBay employees allegedly used spiders and swingers to cyberstalk newsletter authors
@lilsarg: Just so everyone is clear. eBay hired a former police captain as its head of global security. He then cyberstalked a journalist as revenge for publishing criticism of eBay. If you think hiring someone with experience in law enforcement will help your stock price, think again. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.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/ ...
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/...
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/...
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/...
@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.
SCPatriot / @scpatriotsc: “...two members of eBay's exec leadership team sent or forwarded text msgs suggesting that it was time to “take down” the newsletter's editor.” Translation: More indictments coming.. @thejusticedept @potus @realdonaldtrump https://www.justice.gov/...
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/ ...
Ryan Mac / @rmac18: Been offline all day but am shocked none of you freaks sent me the eBay cockroach harassment story. I am disappointed in you all https://www.theverge.com/...
Rupert Myers / @rupertmyers: 😱 Quite a headline - these sick guys seem to have gone the whole hog https://twitter.com/...
David Uberti / @daviduberti: EBay says it investigated its former CEO and fired its top flack last year over an alleged harassment campaign of two bloggers https://www.wsj.com/...
Jake Williams / @malwarejake: This feels like a rejected episode of @blackmirror. Unreal. https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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/...
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/...
Dr Maureen Berg / @maureenbug: This “harassment” included them mailing them live spiders, like I wish that would happen to me wtf https://www.theverge.com/...
Brian Fung / @b_fung: Quite possibly the weirdest story I've seen all year https://www.justice.gov/... 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/...
@kadhim: Yikes. The affidavit reveals more of the text exchanges between the two former eBay executives, including comments like “We are going to crush this lady” and a threat that the WSJ “is next on the list” https://pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.co m/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Matt Binder / Mashable: Live roaches and a bloody pig mask: 6 eBay employees accused of threatening a couple over a newsletter
Nicolas Vega / New York Post: Ex-eBay employees harassed journalist with live roaches, ‘bloody’ pig mask
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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@w7voa, Axios, Washington Post, @brianstelter, @hadas_gold, @stengel, @dabeard, @kevinmkruse, Boing Boing, @waltshaub, @waltmossberg, @sjdemas, @sulliview, @adamsteinbaugh, @ruthbenghiat, @bgrueskin, @radiofreetom, @noahpinion, @waltshaub, @arictoler, @noahbookbinder, @juliaioffe, @karaswisher, Deadline, New York Times and Mediaite
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Steve Herman / @w7voa: Both @VOANews Director @abennett and Deputy Director @slsugawara have just resigned.
Washington Post: Top Voice of America editors resign amid strife with White House, arrival of new Trump-appointed director
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/...
Richard Stengel / @stengel: Amanda Bennett did a great job at @VOA; she's a journalist's journalist. And I echo what she told all the journalists there, keep your independence and your integrity. The world needs it now more than ever. https://www.cnn.com/...
David Beard / @dabeard: Thanks to @abennett and @slsugawara, two strong journalists who maintained America's high and mandated standards for @VOANews for as long as they could https://edition.cnn.com/... @pressfreedom
Kevin M. Kruse / @kevinmkruse: Somebody at the White House must be a big “V for Vendetta” fan. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing: VOA to be run by Steve Bannon, Sebastian Gorka, and Trump CEO pick Michael Pack, so two top VOA directors just quit
Walter Shaub / @waltshaub: It took decades to build credibility. It takes a second to say goodbye. 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/...
Susan J. Demas / @sjdemas: I don't think we've really contemplated what a threat to the #1A a second Trump term poses. https://twitter.com/...
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: Top Voice of America editors resign amid strife with White House, arrival of new Trump-appointed director, by @farhip and @sarahellison. One of those editors is Amanda Bennett, former top editor at @PhillyInquirer https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Adam Steinbaugh / @adamsteinbaugh: The Voice Of America would like to share the good news about the effectiveness of colloidal silver https://twitter.com/...
Ruth Ben-Ghiat / @ruthbenghiat: Omg Gorka noooo. See my prior tweet about new @VOANews head being a Bannon protégée. Expect the worst right-wing hacks to get jobs there and beam their propaganda to 100s of millions every day. 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/...
Tom Nichols / @radiofreetom: I have to assume this is someone in the White House trolling the entire planet. https://twitter.com/...
@noahpinion: VOA was always U.S. govt. propaganda, but now it's going to be Trump propaganda. 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/...
Aric Toler / @arictoler: voice of gorka baby https://twitter.com/...
Noah Bookbinder / @noahbookbinder: Another front in the President's assault on independent oversight — White House criticism of Voice of America's reporting led to a CDC policy to deny interviews to VOA reporters, a loyalist is taking over VOA, and now the top two editors stepped down. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Julia Ioffe / @juliaioffe: I shouldn't laugh https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Another vain attempt by Trumpies to control a narrative they have already lost: Top Voice of America editors resign amid strife with White House, arrival of new Trump-appointed director https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ted Johnson / Deadline: Voice Of America Director, Deputy Director Resign After Donald Trump-Selected CEO Takes Over At Global Media Agency
Benedict Evans:
Analysis: while US newspaper ad revenue has collapsed since the 2008 financial crisis, newspapers have been losing marketshare of ad spend since the 1950s — There are two ways you can talk about newspapers. You can talk about the ‘third estate’, and newspapers' role in culture, politics …
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@jarroddicker, @benedictevans, @mdudas, @jeffjarvis, @pandemic_times, @jeffjarvis, @jeffjarvis, @jeffjarvis, @jeffjarvis and @benedictevans
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@jarroddicker: Media companies as Record Labels (cont.)— Newspapers didn't adjust their value proposition when they moved from print to digital to mobile. Attention moved but revenue models, reputation & product remained the same. They should be following the music industry. Why? /1 https://twitter.com/...
Benedict Evans / @benedictevans: @jeffjarvis Not much of a paying audience for newspaper history, so I published here https://www.ben-evans.com/...
Mike Dudas / @mdudas: Advertising as a % of GDP has really cratered in the 21st century. One has to imagine it ties to: 1) companies' ability to speak directly to customers through social, etc 2) efficiency introduced by online ads and better marketing science & measurement https://www.ben-evans.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Another fucking brilliant analysis by @benedictevans, this time of newspaper advertising. Some of my favorite insights follow.... https://www.ben-evans.com/... 1/
Ed Day / @pandemic_times: Somehow, Google and Facebook have been “stealing” advertising from Old Media since the 1950s. Zuckerberg must have a time travelling advertising sales dept. The only other explanation is people got bored with ‘whites-only’ news media, and advertisers left with them. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: .@benedictevans debunks publishers' common complaint that Google & FB took their ad revenue. Agencies say two-thirds to three quarters of their revenue came from advertisers never in newspapers; couldn't afford them. 2/
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: .@benedictevans made this analysis of advertising as a percentage of GDP. He's interested in what marketing spend today is not considered advertising and where it came from — e.g., website hosting or Zillow fees. 3/ https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Lore has it that TV advertising has not been affected by the net (yet). But @benedictevans points out that as a percentage of GDP, TV ad revenue has fallen 40%. “The economy grew and advertising didn't get its historic share of that growth.” 4/ https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal:
Staffers across US newsrooms seek changes on diversity, hiring, and coverage; sources: at WSJ, 150+ journalists sent letter to top execs expressing concerns — Staffers at several media outlets are pressing for changes on diversity, coverage and pay transparency
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Alejandro Lazo / @alejandrolazo: At the @WSJ, and many other U.S. news outlets, a reckoning over race: “Many @WSJ journalists, including many who are white, find the way we cover race to be problematic.” https://www.wsj.com/...
Ben Mullin / @benmullin: NEW: Employees of @WSJ, @business and @CNN are among journalists demanding change or grilling their bosses about racial justice in the wake of George Floyd's killing: https://www.wsj.com/... W/@khadeeja_safdar and @JeffreyT1
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: More than 150 employees at the Wall Street Journal sent a letter to the editor in chief and the chief executive of News Corp expressing concerns about diversity, hiring and the WSJ's coverage of race. https://www.wsj.com/...
Amol Sharma / @asharma: A Bloomberg exec told staffers concerned about a lack of protest coverage that the outlet's focus is business. “I don't think decisions to cover what are essentially crime scenes on the ground reflects insensitivity to the news value of what's going on.” https://www.wsj.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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Joel D. Anderson / @byjoelanderson: This graf is specific to the LA Times but could broadly apply to the journalism industry specifically and most institutions generally. They make small, mostly symbolic concessions in hopes of quelling dissent until the news cycle mercifully moves on. https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
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/...
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/...
@npratc: Staffers at the “Los Angeles Times” say editors have failed to fulfill promises of racial equity at the paper including in hiring, pay and the coverage it offers readers. https://www.npr.org/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Claire Atkinson / NBC News: Top ABC News executive placed on leave amid probe into racially insensitive comments
Karen K. Ho / @karenkho: This paraphrase from Crawford insinuates that non-white people likely won't pay for a newspaper subscription and white readers won't like that coverage, so why bother covering the population in a way that reflects how much they now make up LA County? https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
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/...
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/...
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/
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/
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/
Olivia Solon / NBC News:
Dozens of Tunisian, Syrian, and Palestinian activists and journalists say their Facebook accounts have been deactivated recently on the pretext of terrorism — “Facebook doesn't care. It closes our accounts on the pretext of terrorism. We are against terrorism and violence," one journalist said.
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@bruno_j_navarro, @g_healy_, @evan_greer, @aprilaser, @mslods, @wiczipedia, @sivavaid, @oliviasolon, @oliviasolon and @oliviasolon, more at Techmeme »
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@bruno_j_navarro: “My job is to document the kidnapping of children, the raids on the homes of innocent civilians and bombings carried out by the Syrian regime,” said Syrian journalist Mohammed Asakra, whose personal Facebook account was deleted in early May https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Gabrielle Healy / @g_healy_: “Dozens of Tunisian, Syrian and Palestinian activists and journalists, many of whom use the platform to document human rights abuses in the region, say their Facebook accounts have been deactivated over the last few months.” https://twitter.com/...
Evan Greer / @evan_greer: Absolutely crucial reporting. White liberals in the US spend a lot of time handwringing about “misinformation” and “harmful content” online and almost never talk about the voices silenced by Big Tech platforms' hamfisted responses to calls for more aggressive moderation https://twitter.com/...
April Glaser / @aprilaser: In the last two months, Facebook has deactivated the accounts of at least 52 of Palestinian journalists and activists, at least 35 Syrian journalists and activists, and more than 60 Tunisian journalists, activists and the public https://www.nbcnews.com/... by @oliviasolon
Leanne O'Donnell / @mslods: “Human rights experts fear Facebook isn't doing enough to protect the speech of those who aren't in power.” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Nina Jankowicz / @wiczipedia: Just last week a Ukrainian investigative team found one of their articles censored without explanation. These standards need to be applied consistently, up to and including POTUS. https://twitter.com/...
Siva Vaidhyanathan / @sivavaid: Next time someone tells you Zuckerberg believes in free speech show then this. https://twitter.com/...
Olivia Solon / @oliviasolon: “Public debate means providing a space where everybody can speak. The whole focus on Trump has shown he [Zuckerberg] doesn't understand what freedom of expression really means.” @davidakaye https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Olivia Solon / @oliviasolon: “The imbalance of power is already skewed toward politicians. Activists only have these platforms to get heard. They don't have the New York Times op-ed pages.” @jilliancyork 🔥 https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Wall Street Journal:
Black producers say more representation in management and creative roles is needed to make real change in Hollywood, not just empty gestures like canceling Cops — Black entertainment professionals say it's time to go beyond superficial measures; to make real change in Hollywood …
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Joe Flint / @jbflint: “So much of what I feel I've experienced in this industry has been a disconnect,” says producer Reggie Rock Bythewood https://www.wsj.com/...
Joe Flint / @jbflint: There have been some improvements for Blacks in Hollywood over the decades — veteran actor Ernie Hudson remembers pushing back against a part that had him in gold teeth with a name that rhymed with Sambo. But there is still long way to go, he says. https://www.wsj.com/...
Ethan Smith / @ethanwsj: When it comes to meaningful change in the TV industry, says ‘S.W.A.T.’ and ‘Southland’ producer Aaron Rahsaan Thomas, the cancellation of ‘Cops’ “means nothing as far as I'm concerned” https://twitter.com/...
Joe Flint / @jbflint: “No perspective is going to change until you have more diversity of life experience, ethnicity and world views,” said producer Aaron Rahsaan Thomas. https://www.wsj.com/... via
Amol Sharma / @asharma: “There are too many people in entertainment who are pushing black people to the front of the cameras...rather than diversifying the decision makers.” https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Joe Flint / @jbflint: For Black creative talent, cancelling “Cops” and “Live PD” are empty gestures and the usual window dressing of adding more diversity in front of the cameras won't do the trick this time. https://www.wsj.com/...
Marc Malkin / Variety:
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences postpones the 93rd Academy Awards by two months to April 25, 2021 — The 2021 Oscars will go on — just not on Feb. 28. — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Monday that the 93rd Academy Awards telecast has been postponed two months to April 25, 2021.
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Hollywood Reporter, New York Times, The Verge, The Wrap, @theacademy, IndieWire, @paras7te, @mattbelloni, @variety, @jessiemaltin, @scottfeinberg, @likaluca, @richardlnewby, The Wrap and io9
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Scott Feinberg / Hollywood Reporter: Oscars Pushed Back to April 25; Eligibility Window Extended, Governors Awards Canceled
Brooks Barnes / New York Times: The 2021 Oscars Will Be Delayed
Julia Alexander / The Verge: The 2021 Oscars are delayed two months
Steve Pond / The Wrap: Academy Postpones Next Year's Oscars to April 25
@theacademy: It's true! Next year's #Oscars will happen on April 25, 2021. Here's what else you need to know: - The eligibility period for the Oscars will be extended to February 28, 2021 - Nominations will be announced on March 15, 2021 - @AcademyMuseum will open on April 30, 2021 https://twitter.com/...
Zack Sharf / IndieWire: BAFTA Film Awards Becomes First Ceremony to Shift Dates Following Oscars Change
Matthew Belloni / @mattbelloni: Globes and others now need to move their dates or risk giving the Oscars an exclusive on some big movies and, importantly, their big movie stars. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
@variety: This is the fourth time the #Oscars have been postponed: - 1938: Massive flooding in L.A. - 1968: the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - 1981: an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan https://variety.com/...
Jessie Maltin / @jessiemaltin: Big news indeed. Living in an industry town (whatever the industry may be) is always interesting. The ripple effects and such. We'll see what happens next. https://twitter.com/...
Scott Feinberg / @scottfeinberg: Big news just in from @TheAcademy: The 93rd Oscars ceremony has been pushed back from Feb. 28 to April 25 (and will still happen at Dolby Theatre and air live); extended the eligibility window; canceled the Governors Awards; & postponed the Sci-Tech Awards https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Richard Newby / @richardlnewby: At least the eligibility window isn't huge. I'm still not a fan of it though. Plenty of great films in 2020 and more to come. https://twitter.com/...
Beatrice Verhoeven / The Wrap: BAFTA Film Awards Pushed Back 2 Months
Germain Lussier / io9: Coronavirus Pushes Oscars, and Oscar Eligibility, Back Several Months
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap:
E! Online launches a redesign to highlight 24-hour news and the live events it covers, and says between 80% and 90% of visits come from users on mobile devices — Starting Monday, E! Online is going to look different as the company seeks to highlight not only the popular shows on its cable channel …
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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Rappler, @rapplerdotcom, The Intercept, World News Publishing Focus …, The Guardian, CNN, New York Times, @rapplerdotcom, American Press Institute, Scott Lamb's i18n, @f_obermaier, @rapplerdotcom, @marshablackburn, Washington Post, @monaeltahawy, @theintercept, @mariaressa, @sarahmargon, @policy, Newser, @itsren, @amlwhere, @rapplerdotcom, @rapplerdotcom, @cdeloire, @jamesrbuk, Techdirt, @zenjournalist, @rapplerdotcom, SPJ News, @rapplerdotcom, @senatorwong, @ava, @astroehlein, @melissakchan, @nilanjanaroy, @jason_kint, @amaramarasingam, @nicolecurato, BBC, Committee to Protect …, Poynter, @inquirerdotnet, NPR, @gojuris, @iskolarspeaks, @tinssoldier, @factchecknet, @beynate, @iamkarendavila, @piaranada, @dangillmor and @benyt
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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/...
Andrew Heslop / World News Publishing Focus by WAN-IFRA: World's Press Condemns Guilty Verdict for Maria Ressa in Cyber-Libel Trial
Peter Greste / The Guardian: Maria Ressa's conviction should matter to everyone who cares about democracy
James Griffiths / CNN: Philippines journalist Maria Ressa found guilty of ‘cyber libel’ in latest blow to free press
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/...
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/...
Rappler / @rapplerdotcom: International news groups cried foul following the conviction of Rappler CEO and Executive Editor Maria Ressa and former researcher Reynaldo Santos Jr over cyber libel charges. https://www.rappler.com/...
Sen. Marsha Blackburn / @marshablackburn: In the Philippines, fighting for democracy and freedom of the press comes with grave consequences. The United States stands firmly behind you, @mariaressa. Stay strong. Never stop fighting. https://www.nytimes.com/... 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/...
@theintercept: To bring its libel case against Ressa, the Filipino government went to extraordinary lengths to manipulate the country's libel law, writes James Risen. https://theintercept.com/...
Maria Ressa / @mariaressa: (4/4) So many to thank - please give me a few days to catch up. For journalists here and around the world, I can't remember a more dangerous time to be a journalist. We #CourageON because this time matters #HoldTheLine https://www.rappler.com/...
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/...
@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/...
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/...
Ann Marie Lipinski / @amlwhere: She's right. This is more than journalism on trial. 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/...
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/...
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/...
James Ball / @jamesrbuk: This is absolutely unjust (among other things - it's a retroactive law) and a thread to press freedom everywhere. It deserves international condemnation. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Philippines Spits On Free Speech, Convicts Journalist Maria Ressa For Criminal ‘Cyber Libel’
Andrew MacGregor Marshall / @zenjournalist: I stand with @mariaressa. Journalism is not a crime. https://www.rappler.com/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Amarnath Amarasingam / @amaramarasingam: This is a fuckin travesty. https://twitter.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/...
Committee to Protect Journalists: CPJ calls on Philippine authorities not to contest editor Maria Ressa's cyber libel appeal
Poynter: Fact-checkers stand by Maria Ressa, Santos Jr. and Rappler in the wake of Filipino court's verdict
@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/...
@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/...
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/...
Kristine Servando / @tinssoldier: Maria Ressa and Rey Santos Jr convicted of cyber libel over 2012 article. Verdict could have “chilling effect” on press freedom, critics say. They can appeal all the way up to Supreme Court. Here's a primer on the case: https://www.rappler.com/... #PressFreedom #HoldTheLine https://twitter.com/...
Ifcn / @factchecknet: If you want to understand the case, read this article published by @rapplerdotcom. https://www.rappler.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/...
Karen Davila / @iamkarendavila: What a sad day for democracy. #IStandWithMariaRessa 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
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/...
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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Sangeeta / @sangeetaskurtz: This doesn't even get into the company's cultural failings; I wonder how many younger writers, interns, assistants, and bipoc (there weren't a lot, and most of them intersected with those other categories) @perlberg spoke to about their experiences at @qz https://digiday.com/...
Dan Frommer / @fromedome: Quartz was a very special place and that comes through in this @Digiday feature by @perlberg. Iterating isn't glamorous, and no guarantees @qz will make subs work. But I believe in @zseward and the pivot toward education. 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
Seth Fiegerman / @sfiegerman: This one sentence sums up so much pain and heartache in the media industry. https://digiday.com/... https://twitter.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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@felixsalmon, Fox News, @jammastergirish, @angela_walch, @prestonjbyrne, @balajis, @rubinreport, @paulg, @balajis, @benedictevans, @mathewi, @simonbchen, @bridgietherease, @balajis, @noahshachtman, @jeffjarvis, @sethamandel, @profcarroll, @mlcalderone, @brianstelter, @kbandersen, @clarajeffery, @kcjohnson9, @robertcaruso and @jayrosen_nyu
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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/...
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News: NY Times publisher ‘laments’ ousting of editorial page editor over Tom Cotton op-ed
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/...
Angela Walch / @angela_walch: Or, say, what if speakers at crypto conferences had a disclosed crypto affiliation by their name? Or if every crypto core dev had a disclosed funding affiliation by their name? https://twitter.com/...
Preston Byrne / @prestonjbyrne: Twitter is one off-the-platform controversy away from losing this title. As soon as the conversation goes somewhere else, Twitter loses this power. https://twitter.com/...
Balaji S. Srinivasan / @balajis: People say that the West today has no goals, no metrics, no sense of purpose by which to measure itself. Nonsense! The purpose of every politician, journalist, and intellectual is clearly to amass likes on Twitter. By extension this is now the purpose of Western civilization.
Dave Rubin / @rubinreport: Interesting thread. I'll add... The game is rigged and we all know it's rigged. Twitter boosts and deboosts certain accounts. It's in the Terms of Service. So the numbers being chased are fake in the first place. https://twitter.com/... 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/...
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/...
Benedict Evans / @benedictevans: I don't understand. everyone says ad-funded models drive divisiveness and a subscription model has no such problems? https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: The Times has been publishing 120 opinion pieces every week? That seems like overkill https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Simon Boyi Chen / @simonbchen: Neither political nor a journalist, but will proudly publicly affiliate myself with Pastafarianism https://twitter.com/...
Oedipa Maas / @bridgietherease: I love a good heavy investment in the growth of opinion https://twitter.com/...
Balaji S. Srinivasan / @balajis: Twitter is now the supreme force in Western civilization. It edits both Trump and the Times. Neither the president of the United States of America nor the publisher of the New York Times can write whatever they want if Twitter doesn't like it. https://www.thedailybeast.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/ ...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Every revenue stream — every — carries conflict of interest. .@jayrosen_nyu explored the conflict inherent in a subscription-sustained Times in 2018: https://pressthink.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Seth Mandel / @sethamandel: Bari was and remains the original target. Everyone else is collateral damage 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/...
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/ ...
KC Johnson / @kcjohnson9: Daily Beast piece reveals the unsurprising next target of the NYT successor ideology caucus. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
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