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Frank E. Lockwood / Arkansas Online:
The RNC says journalists will be barred from attending the GOP convention in Charlotte, NC from August 21-24 due to the state's COVID-19 health restrictions — WASHINGTON — When Republicans renominate Donald Trump for president in Charlotte, N.C., on Aug. 24, journalists won't be on hand to witness it …
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Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: “Barring a last-minute change, this will be the first Republican presidential nominating convention in history where reporters are not admitted.” The president is both angry at coronavirus-related closures and using the cover they provide to bar press. https://www.arkansasonline.com/ ...
Bill Palmer / Palmer Report: Donald Trump just gave something away by banning the press from his Republican National Convention
Polly Davis Doig / Newser: RNC Bans Media From Convention
Max Burns / @themaxburns: I don't see what all the fuss is. It's totally normal for death cults to block access to their private ceremonies. https://twitter.com/...
Tim O'Donnell / The Week: Public transportation may not be a major source of coronavirus transmission
@fourthestateorg: We would remind the @GOP this: “When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.” - Christopher Dodd https://twitter.com/...
Fred Wellman / @fpwellman: I'm passionate about a free press and efforts to limit that are un-American but if this private organization doesn't want to publicize their event for free..go for it. Media should cover other things like rising deaths and unemployment caused by this party's failed leadership. https://twitter.com/...
Morgan Till / @mtill50: I have observed and reported on elections in Russia (ahem), (illegally-occupied) Eastern Ukraine and Crimea, and a totalitarian Egypt. I've never been barred from seeing anything, no matter how farcical and fraudulent. https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Freking / Associated Press: GOP: Renomination of Trump to be held in private
Jeremy Diamond / @jdiamond1: Confirming this — but a GOP official familiar w/ the plans tells me the convention won't be entirely closed door. The Monday proceedings — incl the vote to formally nominate Trump — will be livestreamed. But no press on-site RNC is blaming NC Gov social distancing restrictions https://twitter.com/...
Zeke Miller / @zekejmiller: This is an ill-advised decision that the @GOP @GOPconvention should reconsider. The nomination of a major party presidential candidate is very much the business of the American people. @whca https://twitter.com/...
Sarah D. Wire / @sarahdwire: Quite a scoop from regional reporter @LockwoodFrank —> Reporters won't see Trump nomination. GOP convention to be closed to press national party says https://www.arkansasonline.com/ ...
Andrew Solender / @andrewsolender: The GOP is barring reporters from the Republican convention, per @LockwoodFrank They won't even say whether @CSPAN can air the proceedings. https://www.arkansasonline.com/ ...
Molly McKew / @mollymckew: But somehow I'm sure all the OANs and Ben Shapiros and Daily Callers and True/Gateway/*sshole Pundits will be there live-streaming it Let's do what POTUS wants, and already pretend he is gone. He's not governing anyway. https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
How FiveThirtyEight plans to visually represent uncertainty in its 2020 presidential election polling data and improve upon the infamous 2016 bar chart — One of the more challenging things to represent in journalism is uncertainty. Walter Cronkite ended his newscasts with “That's the way it is …
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Solomon Messing / @solomonmg: THREAD: 538's 2020 election forecast design tweaks solve an important problem from 2016, but 538 has not grappled w larger issues—how they shape the social consensus about the presidential race + what that does to voters and political actors. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Franconeri / @stevefranconeri: @FiveThirtyEight applies research from @NorthwesternU faculty @JessicaHullman & @mjskay to visualize 2020 election uncertainty. Fascinating unpacking of process by @wiederkehra highlights the added power of design iteration & critique to ensure understanding. CC @claresmilliken https://twitter.com/...
@gijn: One of the more challenging things to represent in journalism is uncertainty. @wiederkehra explains how @FiveThirtyEight is trying to build the right amount of uncertainty into its 2020 election data analysis https://www.niemanlab.org/... @NiemanLab https://twitter.com/...
Sebastian Park / @sebpark: A week ago, @drewwww mentioned what a pain in the butt (and often misleading) bad data visualization is. Here, we have a great thread by @wiederkehra showing the thinking behind the upcoming 538 Presidency visualization. Highly recommend you check out this thread! https://twitter.com/...
John Burn-Murdoch / @jburnmurdoch: Anna's process threads have become legendary, and this is a classic of the genre. Enormous amount of detail on the thought processes behind what will become some of the most viewed graphics of 2020 📈📉📊🤓 🤓🤓 https://twitter.com/...
@dj_mosfett: Very nice to see someone take a control theory approach to how election modeling poisons the well it's trying to measure! https://twitter.com/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: A great thread on building 2020 election visualizations ...more than a quivery needle https://twitter.com/...
Nick Davis / @ntdphd: I look at this and I think: all this for...what? Whatever mode they land on just emphasizes the game frame. All of the viz is horribly overwrought, particularly the ball thing. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Kay / @mjskay: Looks like 538 is going to use dotplots ("ballswarms" 🤔) for uncertainty communication this year - yay! Will definitely be watching to see how that is received. Plus there's ballswarms of maps (maybe?) that remind me of some interesting things @Birdbassador has done https://twitter.com/...
Owen Winter / @owenwntr: whatever you think of 538's models, you've gotta love this thread https://twitter.com/...
Alberto Cairo / @albertocairo: This thread is amazing #dataviz: https://twitter.com/...
Anna Wiederkehr / @wiederkehra: So I promised more behind-the-scenes of the @FiveThirtyEight 2020 forecast. Today I'll walk you through the development of our topline chart! 👯 That is specifically: the chart that shows the chances of a candidate winning the election in November. https://twitter.com/...
Anna Wiederkehr / @wiederkehra: The desire for maps was unquenchable. We pondered philosophically: what if we created a ☄️universe of maps?💫 (BTW these maps each showed a forecasted electoral college outcome. By showing many maps, we might be able to convey how many possibilities there are!) https://twitter.com/...
Anna Wiederkehr / @wiederkehra: We iterated topline into oblivion (bc lol, remember 2016?) and eventually we landed on what we affectionally call Ballswarm™ 🔴🐝🔵. But there was still a rumbling for maps in the group. 👏There👏must👏 be👏maps!!!!!👏 https://twitter.com/...
Anna Wiederkehr / @wiederkehra: Wellllllll, sort of. When we launch soon (!) you'll still be inundated with maps. 👯 You'll also see Ballswarm. 🐝♥️ And hopefully, you'll check that there are a hell of a lot of ways November can shake out. Check back soon! 👋 (🚨 FAKE DATA throughout this thread!) https://twitter.com/...
Anna Wiederkehr / @wiederkehra: Further attempts of UniverseSwarm™ mashup until maps were imprinted on the inside of my eyelids. 👀 Until we finally thought: maybe we can't kill two birds with one stone? We can't show odds drowning readers in seas of universes of maps. 🏄♀️ https://twitter.com/...
Anna Wiederkehr / @wiederkehra: Combining 2016 (bar chart lead) and 2018 (histogram lead) was an obvious first step. We tried some ✨creative web design ✨ to split the page to show viz + editorial context or to have a sticky bar so odds follow you wherever you go! Still, uncertainty was missing. 🤔 https://twitter.com/...
@gijn: Is a reader better informed about the election knowing that one candidate's chances are 58% or 67% or 84%? @wiederkehra shares some of the iterations @FiveThirtyEight considered for presenting Biden vs. Trump in 2020 https://www.niemanlab.org/... @jbenton @pewresearch https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: Twitter users, beware: If you dare tweetstorm interestingly near me, there's a non-zero chance I'll turn it into a @NiemanLab post My latest victim is @wiederkehra, about how @FiveThirtyEight is trying to build visual uncertainty into its 2020 data viz https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: I legitimately this is a good idea for polling aggregators. Want to help people what a 82% win probably for Biden means? Compare it to sports — where most people realize that even the biggest favorites don't always come win. https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
CNBC:
President Trump told reporters on Friday that he will act soon to ban TikTok in the United States — - President Donald Trump on Friday told reporters he will act as soon as Saturday to ban Chinese-owned video app TikTok from the United States. — President Donald Trump on Friday told reporters …
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Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Let's be clear, just because he says he can do something does not mean he can. And he also cannot decree by fiat whether a US company can or cannot buy something. There is a process here and last time I looked this dude was not a king and this is not like his reality show. https://twitter.com/...
@pranavdixit: When the Indian government banned TikTok and other Chinese apps, TikTok voluntarily pulled its app from the App Store and Play Store and started showing this notice in the app. Curious what a “ban” in the US is going to look like. https://twitter.com/...
Stuart Emmrich / Vogue: Is Sarah Cooper the Reason Donald Trump Wants to Ban TikTok?
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: I've seen a lot of overconfident pronouncements that Trump can't ban TikTok. Presidents have tons of discretionary authority around foreign trade, foreign investment, international financial transactions, etc.
Ovigwe Eguegu / @ovigweeguegu: Sure, sell Tik Tok to Microsoft and let's all pretend Microsoft and other US tech companies don't steal data. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Aaron Klein / @aaronklein: I for one cannot wait for people to announce their new jobs on LinkedIn using music video dance memes. https://twitter.com/...
Beatrice Verhoeven / The Wrap: Microsoft Pauses Talks to Buy TikTok After Trump Suggests Total US Ban (Report)
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: As threats to the company mount, TikTok pushes back
CBS New York: Teens React To President Trump's Threat To Ban TikTok In United States: ‘Nothing Is Like TikTok!’
Christopher Mims / @mims: Good news for Facebook's TikTok clone within Instagram, Reels https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: This is inane action to a complex problem, as all of Trump's actions have been related to tech. He's toxically incompetent: Trump plans to order China's ByteDance to sell U.S. portion of TikTok amid national security concerns https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Daniel Rubino / @daniel_rubino: lol k Still takes a week+ to get COVID test results, 230K+ estimated dead by Nov, the economy is crashing, people are being evicted, but hey, we're saved from silly videos! https://twitter.com/...
Sam Heft-Luthy / Notes From A Crisis: Markets, Subjects, and The State
Jordan Hoffman / Vanity Fair: Donald Trump Declares War on TikTok From Air Force One
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: Tik Tok ban creates another news cycle that's not coronavirus or economy. Which is the intent.
Kombiz Lavasany / @kombiz: Maybe teens in Iran can write instructions for teens in the US on how to illegally use apps banned by the Government
Quentin Hardy / @qhardy: Banning Tik Tok, talking about stalling the election, whatever he does tomorrow- it's every bit as likely a distraction from all the dead Americans as any context the pundits try. Maybe more likely.
@yashar: Keep in mind this is happening days ahead of Instagram/Facebook launching a competitor to TikTok called REELS https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: That said, there's a lot of irrational damage Trump can do here since this is hard to litigate & he can throw a lot of crazy law at it related to foreign companies. That said, there're also those involved who would support a US IPO or sale to a US company. A giant mess as usual.
Will Oremus / @willoremus: I wrote earlier this month about how to tell if a call to ban TikTok is in good faith: whether it also addresses the real security risks posed by U.S. social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter: https://onezero.medium.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Jacobs / @jenniferjjacobs: “As far as TikTok is concerned, we're banning them from the United States,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One. “Soon. Immediately. I mean essentially immediately.” “I will sign the document tomorrow,” he said..
Josh Constine -SignalFire / @joshconstine: Trump says he's banning TikTok rather than let Microsoft buy it. Uncortunately, this keeps China in control of the app's global cultural influence, even in not in the US
@tessplease: trump's desire to ban tiktok has nothing to do with its privacy violations. it has to do with gen z's ability to make waves on it. he's trying to sweep their platform from beneath them. now's a good time for a new platform to step in, one run by a diverse team of sensitive folks. https://twitter.com/...
Ron Nehring / @ronnehring: Sincere questions: - Source of exec authority to ban a social media platform? App? - What special risk posed by #TikTok vs laptop, router, phone all made in China? - Why not ban every app and platform from any company with a presence in China? - Why oppose sale to Microsoft?
Sarah Frier / @sarahfrier: so as the US government pursues a probe of Facebook for antitrust the president wants to ban their fastest-growing competitor from operating in their most profitable market
Daniel Sinclair / @_danielsinclair: What would a U.S. ban look like? It depends how it is implemented, but U.S. enterprises would likely quickly break off relationships. There would be no censorship, but TikTok would disappear from Apple's App Store and Google Play. Then AWS would wind down ByteDance as a customer. https://twitter.com/...
Vikas SN / @tsuvik: @zittrain @TaylorLorenz In India, TikTok voluntarily took down the apps from Google Play Store & Apple App Store as well as shutting down the service entirely. Not accessible via VPNs as well. For other apps that were banned, Google & Apple have blocked access to the apps https://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.c om/ ...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: This is deep in my long thread, but let me make this dead clear: Banning TikTok and then oddly enough not allowing a decent solution like an IPO here in the US or being bought by a US company is a THANK YOU gift to Mark Zuckerberg from Donald Trump. Or should I say Spasibo? 🇷🇺 https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: This is national security issue, so the White House has much more power than its usual goofy and ultimately toothless declarations such as around Section 230.
Jane Manchun Wong / @wongmjane: This TikTok ban is gonna piss off many teens, especially the underage ones, many of which probably won't vote for Trump this fall
Laurie Voss / @seldo: It is really weird that none of the coverage of Trump's desire to ban TikTok mentions that TikTok was credited with ruining his Tulsa rally and that he is still really mad about that. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Ahmed Baba / @ahmedbaba_: I'm sure the reasoning for Trump wanting to ban TikTok was 100% due to his very deep concerns about Chinese surveillance of US citizens and has nothing to do with the fact TikTok users helped sabotage his Tulsa rally and @sarahcpr uses TikTok and goes viral mocking him.
Jason Wong / @eggroli: The potential ban on Tiktok is a harsh reminder that we're all living on rented land Creators not only need to diversify their social channels, but take ownership over their career by starting a business so they're not depending their income on something that could be gone tmr
Aaron Levie / @levie: Someone's about to make a gajillion dollars cloning TikTok in the US. https://twitter.com/...
Kaya Yurieff / @kyurieff: TikTok creators are going live + posting videos about the ban and asking their fans to follow them on Instagram and other social platforms. Much like when the Trump admin initially said it was looking into a TikTok ban: https://www.cnn.com/...
Daniel Sinclair / @_danielsinclair: I would expect Apple to be in the line of fire if China retaliates https://twitter.com/...
Lauren Weinstein / @laurenweinstein: Trump is pissed off because of the (somewhat dubious) claims that TikTok users wrecked his Tulsa rally. He doesn't give a damn about Chinese “espionage,” etc. He just starts ranting when he doesn't get a cut.
@rmac18: New update: TikTok declined to comment on if it'd take legal action against the Trump admin if there's an executive order that's used to ban the app. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Avtar / @avtarramsingh: The pace at which TikTok influencers are asking their followers to follow them on other platforms is the only proof you'll need of any kind of “platform loyalty” that you thought existed. Influencers only care about monetisable reach to an audience. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Pete / @p_money: A lot of record label marketing budgets are toast next week https://twitter.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: it's going to be super ~something~ watching people who don't use tiktok talk about nothing but tiktok for the next little while, huh
Tim O'Donnell / The Week: 10 things you need to know today: August 1, 2020
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: News is spreading abt the ban through all the TikToker group chats rn. Everyone is going live encouraging fans to follow them elsewhere on social media https://twitter.com/...
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing: Trump says he'll ban Tik Tok
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite: Twitter Blue Checks Blame Sarah Cooper and Tulsa Humiliation for Trump's TikTok Ban Threat
Paul Squire / Digital Trends: Trump says he'll ban TikTok from the U.S.
Adam Bankhurst / IGN: Trump Says He Will Ban TikTok in the United States As Early as Saturday, August 1
Alexandra Alper in Washington / Reuters: Trump says he will ban TikTok app in the United States
Kathryn Watson / CBS News: Trump says he plans to ban TikTok from U.S.
Benedict Brook / news.com.au: TikTok: President Trump announces US ban of popular video app
Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
James Murdoch is resigning from the board of News Corp, effective immediately, due to disagreements over editorial content and other strategic decisions — The mogul sent a letter of resignation on Friday afternoon. — Former 21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch has resigned from the board of News Corp.
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Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch issue this short statement: “We're grateful to James for his many years of service to the company. We wish him the very best in his future endeavors.”
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post: James Murdoch resigns from News Corp. board over ‘disagreements’ about editorial content
Neil King / @nkingofdc: The good Murdoch has left the NewsCorp board and abandoned the family business, citing coverage issues, leaving it all to the bad Murdochs. https://www.wsj.com/...
Judd Apatow / @juddapatow: James Murdoch should speak publicly about what he objected to. https://twitter.com/...
Staci D Kramer / @sdkstl: About freaking time: >>My resignation is due to disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company's news outlets and certain other strategic decisions.>> https://twitter.com/...
Alayna Treene / @alaynatreene: This comes after James & Kathryn Murdoch donate big $$ to the Biden campaign https://www.axios.com/...
Jeanne Whalen / @jeannewhalen: In a 2019 interview, James Murdoch replied “uh, no” when asked if he still watches the network that he once ran. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Source indicates to @brianstelter that James Murdoch's resignation letter was not the result of any abrupt action, but that tensions had been building for months. https://www.cnn.com/...
Neal Colgrass / Newser: James Murdoch Quits the Family Business
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal: James Murdoch Resigns From News Corp Board
Judd Apatow / @juddapatow: James Murdoch Steps Down from News Corp Board Over ‘Disagreements’ - Variety. PEOPLE ARE GOING TO TRY TO GET THEIR SOULS BACK NOW- WHICH IS EASIER WHEN YOU HAVE ALREADY TAKEN YOUR BILLIONS OUT OF THE FOX POT. https://variety.com/...
@amy_siskind: This seems important: maybe not wanting to be a part of a neo-Nazi and Covid propaganda network? “My resignation is due to disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company's news outlets and certain other strategic decisions.” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Jeremy Hobson / @jeremyhobson: Cue the “Succession” theme song with this statement! https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Aka “Bless your heart, James” https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: Logan Roy really sticking it to Kendall here. https://twitter.com/...
Kim Masters / @kimmasters: Doesn't want to be associated with white nationalism and spreading death. Understandable. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Ooh, the old “wish him well in his future endeavors” send off. Brutal. https://twitter.com/...
@yashar: Not surprised at all.... Also just a reminder, News Corp does not own Fox News. Fox News is owned by the Fox Corporation. Both News Corp and the Fox Corporation are controlled by Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch. James Murdoch is NOT on the board of the Fox Corporation https://twitter.com/...
Mike Carlton / @mikecarlton01: Very much looking forward to the NewsCorpse tabloid front pages: RUPERT, JAMES, FAMILY FEUD. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ... via @thr
@clarajeffery: LISTEN MEDIA REPORTERS I KNOW IT'S FRIDAY EVENING BUT WE NEED 20,000 WORDS BY TOMORROW KTHXBAI https://twitter.com/...
Mark Pitcavage / @egavactip: Murdoch of Fox News, that is. Other than unspecified disagreements in editorial matters and other decisions, it is not clear what prompted this resignation. Anybody hear details anywhere? https://twitter.com/...
Gretchen Carlson / @gretchencarlson: Big breaking news: Thank you #JamesMurdoch - I only wish you would have fought to let all Fox News women out of their NDAs before you left! @LiftOurVoicesUS @dianafalzone @JukieFX https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Michael Moran / @themichaelmoran: Does this resignation mean James Murdoch has suddenly noticed Fox News peddle dishonest right wing nonsense? Because yeah, great. But I could have told him that a decade ago.
Alex Weprin / @alexweprin: Murdoch's name has already been scrubbed from News Corp.'s website: https://newscorp.com/...
Gabe Rivera / @gaberivera: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: Adrift from the company for a while James Murdoch resigns from board. Still a big moment for News Corp Kremlinologists. 15 years ago he was an all but nailed on certainty to succeed Rupert - a smart exec who understood digital . Then phone hacking happened... https://t.co/iwcUgF9JOl
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: His letter: Ladies and Gentlemen: I hereby tender my resignation as a member of the Board of Directors of News Corporation (the “Company"), effective as of the date hereof.
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: My resignation is due to disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company's news outlets and certain other strategic decisions.
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: .@jamesmurdoch resigning from board of News Corp effective immediately https://www.sec.gov/...
ProPublica:
How Larry King, who has hosted a talk show on RT America since 2013, says he was duped into taping a fake interview that was Chinese propaganda — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.
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Suhasini Haidar / @suhasinih: “King was expected to tape his questions without speaking to the guest.”, 😱How US TV icon Larry King agreed to an unethical interview format, and became part of a Chinese propaganda show on Russian TV. https://twitter.com/...
Pete Evans / @911corlebra777: But of course. Larry King was already working for RT cc @thespybrief https://twitter.com/...
Lucas Waldron / @lhwaldron: Yes, I did manage to squeeze in the @trixiemattel interview into this explainer about how Larry King unwittingly starred in Chinese propaganda. https://twitter.com/...
@propublica: The broadcasting icon's fake interview with a Russian journalist went viral on social media, spread by accounts tied to China's government. https://www.propublica.org/...
Barry Malone / @malonebarry: Great work from ProPublica breaking down all of the pieces to the puzzle of how Larry King came to unwittingly take part in a Chinese government propaganda video. Worth four minutes of your time. https://twitter.com/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: A wild story, an insight into the dynamics of disinformation ...and help from @TowCenter 's computational journalist @acookiecrumbles on tracking the spread https://twitter.com/...
@jamaldajani: By an Israeli with designer clothes, a buzz cut and a long history of failed businesses and inflated credentials... https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: Larry King, the host of a talk show on Russia-funded RT and pitchman for dietary supplements known as “Omega XL,” was duped into recording an interview that served as propaganda for the Chinese government. https://www.propublica.org/...
Elise Thomas / @elisethoma5: This is a brilliant, bonkers and disturbing investigation by @jeffykao and @Renee_Dudley which, among many other things, highlights the way in which content which blurs the lines between ads and journalism can be harnessed for disinformation https://www.propublica.org/...
Tony Haile / Columbia Journalism Review:
Small pubs can compete with NYT's subscription dominance by using WaPo's ad tech platform Zeus or by sharing subscription-only content across multiple pubs — Meredith Kopit Levien, who was named the new CEO of the New York Times last week, has six million subscribers …
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Martin Sfp Bryant / @martinsfp: I have five news subscriptions and I didn't realise I was quite such an outlier that even most people who are most likely to have multiple subscriptions only have one. https://www.cjr.org/...
Jacob Donnelly / @jaycodon: Excited to see @arctictony's piece come out today on CJR about how to actually compete with The New York Times. From a strictly business perspective, they compete with every local newspaper whether they realize it or not. But there's a way to win. https://www.cjr.org/...
Mike Dudas / @mdudas: The harsh reality of the subscription news economy: “The vast majority of news subscribers in thirty-eight countries have ONE online [news] subscription.” https://www.cjr.org/... via @arctictony https://twitter.com/...
Jack Power / @jackpowerit: Interesting article on news subscriptions here, would suggest local and regional papers in the wider @IrishTimes Group offering some form of bundle subscription with access to IT content as well could be an interesting option for the future https://www.cjr.org/...
Mark Little / @marklittlenews: I've come to believe the future of a local/regional news business is to be the anchor of a bundle of news curated from multiple quality sources. Put far more eloquently in this superb piece from @arctictony https://www.cjr.org/...
Ahmed Al Omran / @ahmed: We now have non-overlapping audiences divided by subscription. That opens the door to leveraging common subscription-only content that can be shared across multiple publishers to create enough value for a larger audience to value a single news subscription https://www.cjr.org/...
Rowland Manthorpe / @rowlsmanthorpe: “The logic of the single slot requires us to unlearn the lessons of the open internet.” Now THIS is what sophisticated media analysis looks like https://www.cjr.org/...
Dmitry Shishkin / @dmitryshishkin: A few things stood out in excellent @arctictony piece. 1. Open ecosystems are more democratic. 2. Media leaders must draw commercial-centric actions from annual @risj_oxford reports. 3. Centralised content production is beneficial if not core to this https://www.cjr.org/...
@nedregotten: @arctictony We've actually done something similar with our 70-odd titles in Norway, launched in mid-May. Currently performing substantially above our most optimistic, and quite bullish, scenario - both in terms of actual subscription up-sell AND income.
John Thornton / @thorntonaustin: Got it. The way to save newspapers is to have them compete more effectively for the same attention-share economics that drive entertainment. But wait—then what's the point of saving newspapers again? ]https://www.cjr.org/...
Daniel Tedford / @dgtedford: With that said, I still agree with the general idea that we are all competing with the NYT, just as we are competing with Netflix and Disney+ and cable and public radio and video games and Tik Tok. Attention and money are finite and there are growing options to choose from.
Tony Haile / @arctictony: @thorntonaustin Also, love what you and Elizabeth are doing with AJP. Rooting for you!
Tony Haile / @arctictony: @thorntonaustin Hi John, I'd respectfully argue that 1) I'm pointing to existing dynamics that don't have to form the basis of strategy but should at least be acknowledged and 2) that many fine news orgs have balanced breadth & depth for the last 100 years or so without losing their purpose.
Chris Jones / @chrisjonestrib: This is a very smart analysis. Very. https://www.cjr.org/... via @cjr
Daniel Tedford / @dgtedford: While a majority only purchase 1, 44% purchase 2 or more. While there is room for improvement and we shouldn't settle, that is ... not that bad. But this math ignores one important data point I hope we learn: Does purchasing a news subscription lead to you purchasing more?
Daniel Tedford / @dgtedford: And I can't tell you how many times I just about scream this while understanding how difficult a proposition it is to be both wider and deeper. It is a near impossibility. Finding this balance is incredibly important and difficult when there are so many things we want to cover. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Tedford / @dgtedford: I agree with a lot in this article and respect Tony Haile, but not sure I entirely buy the premise of “there's only one slot.” And it is really just for two connected reasons. https://www.cjr.org/...
Phillip Smith / @phillipadsmith: @idratherbeacat @arctictony I would personally put publications like EIJ in a different category, one that is outside of that one *news* subscription rule.
Maureen NandiniMitra / @idratherbeacat: @phillipadsmith @arctictony Oh boy, the whole 1 subscription data is depressing. And that hub and spoke model won't work for teeny pubs like ours, right?
Frank Mungeam / @frankwords: Provocative perspetive from @arctictony for news org's trying to rethink their business model. How do you compete with the Winner Takes Most dominance of the New York Times. You need to be able to compete for attention at scale. Broadcasters take note. https://www.cjr.org/...
Phillip Smith / @phillipadsmith: @idratherbeacat @arctictony I believe that pubs like EIJ are more like civic org memberships; they're as much about identity as the content.
Eric Morrow / @morroweric: “The New York Times has more digital subscribers in Dallas-Fort Worth than the Dallas Morning News, more digital subscribers in Seattle than the Seattle Times, more digital subscribers in California than the LA Times or the San Francisco Chronicle.” https://www.cjr.org/...
@notesfromhel: “If the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Chicago Tribune offered subscribers shared access to their sports content, this would be noncannibalistic and would increase the attention share associated with a subscription.” https://www.cjr.org/... via @cjr
Jacob Donnelly / @jaycodon: Why not do that same thing but with a hub-and-spoke “skinny bundle.” If you subscribe to the Seattle Times, you also get The Washington Post. Both parties earn less ARPU than on their own, but with a bigger pile of potential subscriptions. Here's how the math works: https://twitter.com/...
Jacob Donnelly / @jaycodon: This also means that the Seattle Times can focus on what it does best: local coverage. Too many local papers feel that they also have to cover national issues. They shouldn't. People want local news, so reallocate those journalists to doing that really well.
Kara Carlson / @karacarlson2: “The Times in 2020 added 587,000 new subscribers in the first quarter. That's almost three times the number of total subscribers to the Los Angeles Times. It's more than 70 percent of the total cumulative subscribers to Gannett's 260 media properties” https://www.cjr.org/... @cjr
Jacob Donnelly / @jaycodon: If you don't believe The New York Times is a competitor, consider this little factoid. Yeah, they're competing with you. So, how do you compete with the juggernaut that is The New York Times? https://twitter.com/...
Jacob Donnelly / @jaycodon: These skinny bundles only work with a hub-and-spoke because the local content only matters to people in those regions. I live in New York City; I don't need news from Dallas. And vice versa. But both Dallas residents and I want national news with our local news.
Jacob Donnelly / @jaycodon: Partner with the company that is also competing with NYT at the national level: The Washington Post. Earlier this week, I wrote about The Matchup, which is multiple local papers teaming up to deliver sports news, but in a smart way. https://www.amediaoperator.com/ ...
Dan Kennedy / @dankennedy_nu: 2. Last December I wrote a piece for @wgbhnews arguing the same thing from a different direction: that metro newspapers have to offer regional coverage vital enough that people will pay for it *and* robust wire coverage of national and international news. https://www.wgbh.org/...
Jacob Donnelly / @jaycodon: But why The Washington Post? Quite simply, they're built for it. Because of work by people like @jarroddicker, WaPo provides software through Arc Publishing and Zeus (among a ton of other things). The DNA of WaPo is both journalism and technology; most companies can't do that.
Jacob Donnelly / @jaycodon: To sum up, The New York Times is not coming to save local news. Believing it will is like living in a fantasy land. It has a business to run. But it is the best interest of WaPo and local pubs to do this sort of skinny bundle. When incentives align, good things happen. -fin-
Curt Woodward / @curtwoodward: @dankennedy_nu Great points. Subscribers love to read NYT, WaPo wires in the regional pub they pay for. That's not advertised as a subscriber benefit per se (subscribe to us and you don't have to buy two more!) but certainly it could be. 🤔
Dan Kennedy / @dankennedy_nu: 4. I totally agree with Tony that the @washingtonpost could get into the game by serving as the center of a hub-and-spokes system serving regional papers. It makes no sense to me that they retreated from the subscription partnerships they had a few years ago.
Dan Kennedy / @dankennedy_nu: 5. Finally, these ideas may help regional papers, but they leave truly local news organizations out in the cold. Since few people are going to pay for more than one subscription, we need other models for local — free for-profit, nonprofit, volunteer, co-op. -30-
Dan Kennedy / @dankennedy_nu: 3. The idea is to make the regional paper the one subscription that readers will feel they have to pay for. But if quality national and international news isn't there, they'll opt for the NYT and decide they can live without regional news.
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Read it in tandem with @jbenton's piece, which describes a very different way for NYT and local media to interact. https://www.niemanlab.org/... 2/2
Scott Greer / @scottlgreer: I'd subscribe to my local papers except they are being gutted by predatory private equity. So I'm donating to propublica, which provides some of their best content and embeds reporters with them. https://twitter.com/...
Shannan Bowen / @shanbow: “Disclosure: The New York Times is a small minority investor in the author's company. It had no involvement in the drafting of this article and would probably rather he hadn't written it in the first place.” -@arctictony (Should be good weekend reading) https://www.cjr.org/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: It is possible to compete with the New York Times and its highly successful digital subscription play. Here's how. https://www.cjr.org/... A brilliant analysis by @arctictony.
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: and I should add a similar disclaimer. I have no idea what NYT thinks of Tony's column or my comments above. I am certain they want local news to thrive, recognize criticality of consumer trust, and have a ton of competition. and yes, they're one of our nearly 75 members. cheers.
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: 4) Do you believe the 1-sub average (which doesn't even make sense to me considering study is only news subscribers) is really a forecast of the future or just the current state? I believe mindset/UX(tech/product) are still key friction to subscriptions. Those are all evolving.
@om: The always brilliant @arctictony on how to compete with @nytimes #omazingread https://www.cjr.org/...
Trei Brundrett / @clockwerks: Maybe not intentionally, but effectively a rebuttal to the open letter @jbenton published yesterday about NYT's obligation/opportunity to support/aggregate local newspapers from @arctictony who has been honing this one slot theory for awhile. https://www.cjr.org/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Fascinating fact: “The New York Times has more digital subscribers in Dallas-Fort Worth than the Dallas Morning News, more digital subscribers in Seattle than the Seattle Times, more digital subscribers in California than the LA Times or the Chronicle.” https://www.cjr.org/...
Curt Woodward / @curtwoodward: It would help if @nytimes would stick to its previous pledge not to force small papers to overpay for their own names simply because NYT is carpetbombing “Times subscription” search ads. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mike Orren / @mikeorren: The local bundling concept is getting traction, as @arctictony well articulated in @CJR: https://www.cjr.org/... @MatchupTeam could be seen as the beta test.
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: How can local news orgs compete as the NYT gobbles up tons of subscription revenue and reader attention? @arctictony has some provocative ideas. (And be sure to read his disclaimer at the end) Via @CJR 1/2 https://www.cjr.org/...
Dan Kennedy / @dankennedy_nu: 1. Brief thread. @arctictony has some smart ideas at @cjr about local newspaper (he actually means regional) subscriptions in a world dominated by the @NYTimes. It's built around the idea that very few people will pay for more than one subscription. https://www.cjr.org/...
Michelle Celarier / Institutional Investor:
Profile of Henry Blodget, co-founder and CEO of Business Insider who sold the financial news site to Axel Springer in 2015 and currently is its editor — Shortly after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos headlined a $5 million equity round in the scrappy young media brand Business Insider in 2013 …
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Misinformation Review:
Study: people are likelier to share questionable content from low-credibility sources when it has high social engagement in the form of shares and likes — News feeds in virtually all social media platforms include engagement metrics, such as the number of times each post is liked and shared.
Timothy McLaughlin / The Atlantic:
Profile of SCMP, where last year's HK protests highlighted the tensions between senior editors who often appear to be deferential to authorities and reporters — On the night of August 31, 2019, police officers rushed into a Hong Kong subway station, swinging their batons …
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@ofarry, @tmclaughlin3, @davidpaulk, @eileenechang, @charlesclark, @azhang852, @mattrodierphot1, @katerinareports, @maryhui, @freed_west, @prashantrao, @melissakchan, @jamesplloyd and e_ting
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Oliver Farry / @ofarry: Siri, find me a 100 per cent accurate paragraph of journalism. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Timothy McLaughlin / @tmclaughlin3: “That was frustrating,” one current reporter told me “they've given an impression that SCMP is anti protesters. As journalists, we should never be pro or against protesters.” A look at some tensions inside Hong Kong's biggest English language newspaper. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
@davidpaulk: A Newsroom at the Edge of Autocracy “Last year's protests tested @SCMPNews, as the global media spotlight shifted to Hong Kong, & its reporters found themselves butting up against senior editors who often appeared to be overly deferential to authorities.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Eileen Chang / @eileenechang: //The police were typically portrayed as heroes, and the protesters as villains. “That was frustrating,” an anonymous report said, “they've given an impression that #SCMP is anti protesters. As journalists, we should never be pro or against protesters."// https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Charles Clark / @charlesclark: Can confirm this is a startlingly accurate insight into SCMP's newsroom. Its journalists are some of the bravest you will ever meet, but their world-class protest coverage was often tarnished by “slanted” editing and inflammatory op-eds. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Amy Zhang / @azhang852: I grew up reading South China Morning Post (and HK Magazine— RIP!) and this article has taught me so much about its history and where it's going. Thank you @TMclaughlin3 @TheAtlantic for highlighting a news outlet that many in the US do not know, but should https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Rodier / @mattrodierphot1: I watched a lot of SCMP reporters cover the Hong Kong protests from the field, and can attest they seemed to do great work, but what showed up in the paper was almost always slanted against the protesters and usually biased. https://twitter.com/...
Katerina Ang / @katerinareports: Thread on a publication trying to be Asia's English language newspaper of record 👇🏼 https://twitter.com/...
Mary Hui / @maryhui: Former editor on the South China Morning Post's city desk: https://twitter.com/...
@freed_west: Good article on SCMP and its perceived lack of editorial independence/political neutrality. This piece shows beyond all reasonable doubt that South China Morning Post, once a revered #HongKong English paper (now #ChinaOwned by Alibaba), is a soft propaganda outlet for the #CCP. https://twitter.com/...
Prashant Rao / @prashantrao: There is perhaps no more important news outlet in the world than the South China Morning Post, for what it says about the future of media freedom in a China-led world. Let @TMclaughlin3 take you inside a newsroom at the edge of autocracy https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Melissa Chan / @melissakchan: Hong Kong's South China Morning Post was once the world's most profitable newspaper. It still is one of Asia's top English-language outlets and its website is blocked in China — but to be a reporter in its newsroom is... tricky, as @TMclaughlin3 writes: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
James Lloyd / @jamesplloyd: That journalists should “never be pro or against” is rather naive (just think of the @FT's coverage, for example) - but, as an all-weather subscriber and daily reader, I actually think @SCMPNews reporting is quite good - it's much of the opinion pieces that are low-rent garbage. https://twitter.com/...
Janice Leung Hayes / e_ting: Why does food writing in Hong Kong suck so much?
Elaine Low / Variety:
Profile of Netflix's Bela Bajaria, who is leading the company's content growth outside of the US as its VP of local language originals — She relished the development process and reading the latest drafts of scripts, which she calls the most formative part of her early Hollywood education.
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@elainelow, Connecting the dots, @nreviewed, @variety and @variety, more at Techmeme »
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Elaine Low / @elainelow: Bajaria, who grew up in the UK, Zambia & LA, is the TV exec behind The Mindy Project and Queer Eye reboot. “When I read a script, I imagine a brown girl as the hero of the story... I'm being an advocate and really wanting people's authentic stories told” https://variety.com/...
@nreviewed: Lots of interesting data in this story about viewing habits in the US when it comes to non-English fare and some stats on India market penetration, which is still far behind competitors. #Netflix https://variety.com/...
@variety: Netflix's Bela Bajaria first came up in the entertainment industry in the mid-1990s as an assistant at CBS, after mailing letters to “hundreds of people” in the Hollywood Creative Directory. Now she's the vice president for content https://variety.com/...
New York Times:
How The New York Times adds high-fidelity 3D models of large-scale journalistic scenes, such as disaster zones, into its news reporting, with photogrammetry — We can bring readers closer to the story by more faithfully rendering what our journalists witness on the ground
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Iain Overton / @iainoverton: This would be a potent tool to use following a bombing or an attack on a hospital. Or perhaps that would be too graphic? It raises so much potential, and questions too. https://rd.nytimes.com/...
Institute for Nonprofit News:
Case study: Rivard Report, a successful nonprofit newsroom in San Antonio, TX, generates a third of its revenue from sponsorships and “business memberships” — With funding from Google News Initiative (GNI), the Institute for Nonprofit News has launched the IGNITE Sponsorship Program …
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