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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Facebook, Google, and Twitter are making the same mistakes big news outlets made decades ago, trying to placate hyperpartisan critics who are “working the refs” — The new referees in American politics are Facebook, Google and Twitter, and they would be wise to pay attention to lessons the old media tried to learn.
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Steve Katz / @steve_katz: Important from @benyt - especially this, from @BostonJoan about halfway down: if @Google @Facebook, @twitter and the rest are *publishers* and not platforms, the entire regulatory rulebook changes. (narrator: they are). https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Ben Smith in his new column on working the refs writes about “a reality that Facebook won't say aloud: The pro-Trump media is in the misinformation business with scale and energy that lacks parallel.” There is nothing comparable on the Democratic side. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Farhad Manjoo / @fmanjoo: Excellent @benyt on the right working the tech-media refs https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: Some new news in here: NBCUniversal CEO has floated replacing Chuck Todd on Meet The Press with Nicolle Wallace, though it doesn't seem likely to happen https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Steven Greenhouse / @greenhousenyt: It's ridiculous for Facebook & other Silicon Valley giants to see a false equivalence or false symmetry between left & right news organizations. Trump lies all the time. Right-wing media regurgitate his lies & often write & broadcast falsehoods. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@billmoyers: “[T]he vast bulk of the posts getting tagged for being fully or partly false come from the right. That's not bias. It's because sites like The Gateway Pundit are full of falsehoods, and because the president says false things a lot.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “The pro-Trump media is in the misinformation business with scale and energy that lacks parallel, and in part because simply repeating the president often means spreading misinformation” -@BeNYT https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jamal Raad / @jamalraad: Top Bush administration official floated for one of top political press jobs in country. Cancel culture does not exist. https://twitter.com/...
@ceciliakang: Smart smart @benyt piece It's futile to work the refs, SV. It's look at the Times. Great kicker. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeff Kosseff / @jkosseff: If “regulatory rulebook” means Section 230, this distinction is immaterial. https://twitter.com/...
Julian Sanchez / @normative: Apparently this complete misunderstanding of the law is not restricted to the right. https://twitter.com/...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: @CaseyNewton @benyt the false balance in broadcast and print journalism is already internalized in ways that make the ref working on the tech giants seem transparently obvious. Legacy media arguably hasn't learned these lessons. Fearing conservative backlash is baked into appearance of objectivity.
Anil Dash / @anildash: Though the right-wing manipulation of tech & media has been obvious and incredibly damaging for years, it's still good to see the NYT acknowledge the mechanics of it on the record. Doesn't mean anybody will stop appeasing the white supremacists, alas. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Di Stefano / @markdistef: The UK-version of the Working the Refs-phemonea is the truly ridiculous amount of time UK political culture, right and left, spends yelling about the BBC. Even after three years on this island, I still find it mind boggling. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: Credit for turning that document up to @rickperlstein and his new history Reaganland https://www.amazon.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: Another excellent @benyt column, this one on how tech platforms' desire for a false balance allows them to get worked continuously by the right https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ken Meyer / Mediaite: NBC Executives Reportedly Floated Having Nicolle Wallace Replace Chuck Todd as Anchor of Meet The Press
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: This reflects an all too common misunderstanding of what the law says and does. The platforms are totally free to edit, curate, or do pretty much what they want and still retain the — very wise — protection that the law provides. https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: People are dying. Cops are being called and holding hours of abuse in peoples neighborhoods during a pandemic. People think that “Cancel culture” is real while millionaires send untold abuse to the most marginalized . This isn't working the ref because it's not a game https://twitter.com/...
Chris Hoofnagle / @hoofnagle: Why? Ben Smith nails it, in harmony with AGM's observations: “...The pro-Trump media is in the misinformation business with scale and energy that lacks parallel” Facebook is addicted to these users because they're engaged. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: And a scoop from 1980: Future NYT executive editor Max Frankel furious that his boss, Punch Sulzberger, would sit down with right-wing media critic “nitwits” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
April Glaser / @aprilaser: governance without transparency or consistency becomes a spectacle https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tommy Vietor / @tvietor08: This piece perfectly captures the way tech platforms have been browbeaten by bad-faith Republican attacks to the point where they're more afraid of being called partisan than of spreading harmful disinformation. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: After reading @benyt's column about tech platforms getting “worked” by Trump allies to tolerate misinformation and bad-faith actors, it's worth returning to @WesleyLowery's essay about “neutral objectivity” and editorial decision-making in US news media https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@mcbyrne: Why should someone who assisted W Bush host Meet The Press? Are there no consequences for enabling Bush and Cheney? She was communications director during Katrina. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Zeitlin / @mattzeitlin: “...a reality that Facebook won't say aloud: The pro-Trump media is in the misinformation business with scale and energy that lacks parallel, and in part because simply repeating the president often means spreading misinformation. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tim Graham / @timjgraham: Wow, NBC apparently ponders its personnel decisions based on Angry Radicals on Twitter. https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Not sure how this changes the regulatory rulebook. They are still covered by Section 230 regardless of whether we call them a publisher or a platform, no? Their curation decisions are protected regardless of whether they are made by a human or an algorithm https://twitter.com/...
Ian Bassin / @ianbassin: “a reality that Facebook won't say aloud: The pro-Trump media is in the misinformation business with scale and energy that lacks parallel, and in part because simply repeating the president often means spreading misinformation.” @benyt on reality. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix: Great Ben Smith column on an important phenomenon. https://twitter.com/...
A.J. Katz / TVNewser: Report: NBCUniversal Chairman Jeff Shell ‘Floated the Notion’ of Elevating Nicolle Wallace to Role of Meet the Press Moderator
Olivia Solon / @oliviasolon: NEW: Under Facebook's own rules, high-profile accounts get their reach and advertising restricted if they have two misinformation “strikes” within 90 days. Leaked internal documents show FB repeatedly bent these rules for conservative partners https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Bloomberg:
Hong Kong police have arrested pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai as well as his sons and Next Digital execs under its new national security law — - Lai's media group had backed pro-democracy demonstrations — His two sons, media executives also arrested: report
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@joshuawongcf: Can you imagine the newsrooms of @nytimes or @guardian encounter something like this? After HK police arrested @JimmyLaiApple, hundreds of police were sent to Apple Daily office without the search warrant. https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: The days of press freedom in Hong Kong seem numbered
John Lyons / Wall Street Journal: Hong Kong Publisher Jimmy Lai Arrested Under New National Security Law
Clifford Lo / South China Morning Post: Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai arrested under national security law
Wesley Hunt / @wesleyhunttx: The new #HongKong Security Law is an instrument of the CCP's clear ambition to suppress democracy and free speech. The United States must continue to stand against China's attacks on freedom and human rights. https://www.wsj.com/...
Jim Sciutto / @jimsciutto: China immediately exposes the “national security” law as an instrument of silencing dissent. https://twitter.com/...
Los Angeles Times: Hong Kong police arrest media tycoon Jimmy Lai, raid newspaper in crackdown by Beijing
Shibani Mahtani / Washington Post: Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national security law
The Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong | FCC: FCC Condemns Arrest of Jimmy Lai and Raid on Apple Daily's Offices
Antonio Garca Martnez / @antoniogm: “Officers were seen rifling through papers on a journalist's desks as Mr. Lai was led through his office in handcuffs.” How ugly it is to watch freedom just get snuffed out before your eyes. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Please pray for ten arrested freedom-loving Hongkonger: [Please pray for ten arrested freedom-loving Hongkonger] — Soon after Beijing …
Senator Jeff Merkley / @senjeffmerkley: A shameless attack on the freedom of the press & clear sign that the new “security” law will be as severe an assault as we feared. We all hoped this day would never come, but it's clear we must pass the Safe Harbor Act & enable HK pro-democracy dissidents to seek refuge here. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Crutchmer / @jcrutchmer: man i was really hoping i'd land a hong kong assignment before it all went down :(
@tanganzhu: This is a significant development. I am surprised at how quickly HK's NatSec Law became a tool of political oppression wielded by unaccountable officials. Vague terms in the law such as “subversion” and “collusion” can be applied to any business person in HK. https://twitter.com/...
@paulmozur: Each week it's something new. What Beijing is doing in Hong Kong is straight from the playbook of the paranoid dictator. It continues to be jaw dropping to watch this global city fall under the pall of China's hard authoritarianism. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Bird / @birdyword: The Hong Kong immigration department has set up a new national security unit to handle sensitive visa applications, such as those from foreign media https://www.thestandard.com.hk/ ...
@business: BREAKING: Hong Kong police arrest media tycoon Jimmy Lai under national security law for allegedly colluding with foreign forces, local media report https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Mary Hui / @maryhui: Police are inspecting highly subversive blue plastic storage tubs, which are suspected of colluding with foreign forces (I jest...) Also note the footage of horse racing playing on the screen. https://twitter.com/...
Mary Hui / @maryhui: Officers just casually poking through documents on desks, tho reporter on livestream repeats search warrant not yet served. @appledaily_hk employee asked officers what their search area was; no answer. Apple Daily lawyer yet to arrive & may not be able to enter cordoned-off bldg https://twitter.com/...
Senator Mitt Romney / @senatorromney: Hong Kong's national security law is working exactly as the CCP intended—to crush political dissent anywhere in the world and unjustly imprison pro-democracy leaders like Jimmy Lai. The world needs to wake up to the threat of China. https://twitter.com/...
@aliciakearns: True face of CCP's so-called National Security Law Grotesquely, not only was Jimmy Lai arrested, but his sons Lai: “I've feared...the CCP would grow tired not only of HK's free press but also of its free people. That day has come” Lai is UK Citizen - Ministers must raise case https://twitter.com/...
Zach Weinberg / @zachweinberg: Hi Press (and tech press in particular): US ≠ China. Please stop pretending it's the same set of issues. We may have our fair share of problems, but our government isn't arresting Ted Turner because he owns CNN. - Zach https://twitter.com/...
Melissa Chan / @melissakchan: There is something extra perverse when authoritarians round up the sons and daughters of their target as well. Jimmy Lai has shown he's willing to give up his wealth, his freedom, for his convictions. So they go after the only thing that might break him: his children.
@axios: UPDATE: Hong Kong police are now at the newsroom of Apple Daily, an outlet owned by the arrested media tycoon Jimmy Lai, with search warrants, an aide said
China Commission / @ceccgov: The arrest of #JimmyLai & others @appledaily_hk is intended to intimidate media #Beijing cannot control. Strong int'l condemnation of these outrageous actions are needed & the @UN should begin urgent discussions of the human rights restrictions condoned by #HongKong's #NatSecLaw. https://twitter.com/...
Andy Green / @andygreensf: This has huge consequences for media freedom in Hong Kong, and with that, the reliability of it as a capital markets hub. Will US investors be getting updated risk factors regarding investments in HK listed stocks and even in Hong Kong corporate holding companies? https://twitter.com/...
@kanghexin: Hong Kong media Tycoon Jimmy Lai being paraded through the HQ of pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily to his office, while more than a hundred cops swarm through the building, openly rifling through reporters' desks and refusing to show a warrant. Unthinkable just months ago. https://twitter.com/...
Michael McFaul / Foreign Affairs: Xi Jinping Is Not Stalin
Melissa Chan / @melissakchan: This is a common tactic of authoritarians everywhere, but Beijing has a long history of this because they know it often works. For those who remain immovable despite the peril to their loved ones, the activists live with that guilt, trauma, and are permanently damaged.
Shibani Mahtani / @shibanimahtani: Monday morning in Hong Kong: police have entered the offices of a media organization that hires thousands, searching the premises under the National Security Law and the powers it affords: https://www.facebook.com/...
Lisa Fleisher / @lisafleisher: From 2015: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
@mpwangtingyu: If the Hong Kong police force has the audacity to raid a major media outlet, it means the international community is not doing nearly enough to pushback against the CCP's suppression of freedom & human rights. https://twitter.com/...
Kathleen Kingsbury / @katiekings: Jimmy Lai wrote in May for @nytopinion: “I have always thought I might one day be sent to jail for my publications or for my calls for democracy in Hong Kong.” Today, Lai, publisher of Apple Daily, has been arrested under China's new national security law. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Chungyan Chow / @chungyanchow: After the arrest of Jimmy Lai, police also raided the Next Digital office which houses Apple Daily. Latest @ https://www.scmp.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Timothy McLaughlin / The Atlantic: Hong Kong's Most Brazen Arrest Yet
Jonathan Cheng / @jchengwsj: “The arrest of the Hong Kong media baron is by far the most significant under the new national security law. Mr. Lai is a towering figure in Hong Kong and his newspaper was a thorn in the side of the city's pro-Beijing leadership.” @LyonsNotes https://www.wsj.com/...
@business: Hong Kong police arrest media tycoon Jimmy Lai under national security law for allegedly colluding with foreign forces, local media report. Joshua Wong, one of the city's most prominent activists, says on Twitter that he strongly condemns Lai's arrest. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Michael McFaul / @mcfaul: Outrageous. Xi's recklessness and overreach continues. https://twitter.com/...
Mary Hui / @maryhui: .@JimmyLaiApple now at the Apple Daily newsroom. The reporter asks Lai what he thinks of his arrest. He snickers. “What do I think? They have to arrest me, what can I think? I don't know what I to think.” Lai said he saw the search warrant, tho unclear if it covers all floors https://twitter.com/...
Committee to Protect Journalists: Hong Kong police raid Apple Daily newsroom, arrest founder Jimmy Lai, his sons, and 4 executives
Mary Hui / @maryhui: Kudos to the Apple Daily reporter livestreaming the search, who said he will uphold press freedom and fulfil his duties as a journalist and continue livestreaming until police stop him from doing so. https://twitter.com/...
Al Smith / @alvarosmith_: Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai arrested along with two of his sons and employees of Apple Daily. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Mike Bird / @birdyword: “If an editor does not mention that reporting is part of the job duties in the first visa application, his or her visa renewal could be delayed or rejected if the editor was found to be reporting on a protest.” https://twitter.com/...
Iain Marlow / @iainmarlow: So, it's Monday. Not even 10 a.m. Already in Hong Kong, media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been arrested under the new national security law https://www.bloomberg.com/... and there's a report foreign media visas will now face new level of scrutiny https://www.thestandard.com.hk/ ...
Ezra Cheung / @ezracheungtoto: #BREAKING: Freelance ITV videographer in Hong Kong Wilson Li @wilsonlicc has been arrested over the newly implemented national security law. He becomes the ninth media person arrested today and the first worker at foreign media. #FreePress #HongKongProtests
Fion Li / @fion_li: Now TV shows large number of cops at @appledaily_hk headquarters after @JimmyLaiApple was arrested under national security law. Daily staff reportedly asked not to go to work. #HongKong Media Tycoon Arrested in Latest Blow to Democracy Camp https://www.bloomberg.com/... @bpolitics https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: The Beijing dictatorship is turning Hong Kong into a police state, just like the rest of China. https://twitter.com/...
@nathanlawkc: Crazy arrests. The end of freedom of press in Hong Kong. The national security law is quashing the freedom of our society, spreading politics of fear. Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under security law, bearing out ‘worst fears’ https://uk.reuters.com/...
Newley Purnell / @newley: @LyonsNotes The arrest of the 70-year-old Hong Kong media baron is by far the most significant under the new #NationalSecurityLaw. Lai is a towering figure in HK life whose newspaper was a thorn in the side of the city's pro-Beijing leadership during months of massive protests.
Max Boot / @maxboot: This is an outrage and a disgrace. #freejimmylai #freeJimmy https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Cheng / @jchengwsj: Jimmy Lai to WSJ hours before security law enacted on June 30: “Whatever we say, they can label secession or subversion or whatever...They want to intimidate me, to frighten me...so that I...undermine the solidarity of the pandemocrat movement.” @LyonsNotes https://www.wsj.com/...
Shibani Mahtani / @shibanimahtani: Video shows literally dozens and dozens of cops, though most journalists are continuing to work from home given covid19 restrictions. Bear in mind: restaurants here still have to close at 6 p.m., no more than 2 can gather publicly, crippling businesses.
Steve Herman / @w7voa: Livestream of the raid by @hkpoliceforce of the @appledaily_hk office: https://www.facebook.com/...
Mary Hui / @maryhui: While raiding the newsroom of @appledaily_hk to execute a search warrant (tho officers have yet to display the warrant, per reporter), an officer asks the reporter to stop livestreaming bc the search may entail “personal data & news material.” Maybe don't raid the newsroom then? https://twitter.com/...
Newley Purnell / @newley: Police entered Mr. Lai's home and informed him that he was being arrested under suspicion of national security and other violations, @LyonsNotes reports. Police have also conducted searches at the home of a son of Mr. Lai.
Eva Dou / @evadou: A prominent Hong Kong media tycoon has been arrested. Marks the beginning of the end of Hong Kong as a Chinese enclave of free speech, as enforcement of the security law begins. https://twitter.com/...
Rebecca Falconer / Axios: Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under national security law
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Galileo Cheng / @galileocheng:
[Thread] Police in Hong Kong are raiding the Next Media Building, amid the arrest of Jimmy Lai and six others under a national security law passed in late June
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Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette: Hong Kong media tycoon and Beijing critic Jimmy Lai arrested under new national security law
William Yang / @williamyang120: Images from inside @appledaily_hk's building. Yes, this is #HongKong. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Victor / @bydanielvictor: The police in Hong Kong have arrested a pro-democracy newspaper publisher and are now searching his newsroom. Bleak day for press freedom here https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Mc Nicholas / @aaronmcn: Confirmation from @hkpoliceforce that seven men, aged between 39 to 72, have been arrested, on suspicion of colluding with foreign or external elements to endanger national security, as well as conspiracy to commit fraud Police do not rule out more arrests https://twitter.com/...
Hong Kong Police Force / @hkpoliceforce: Search with a warrant: #HKPolice entered and searched a building in Tseung Kwan O in accordance with a warrant issued by a magistrate to gather evidence for offences related to #NationalSecurityLaw. https://twitter.com/...
Fion Li / @fion_li: Nearly 200 cops entered Apple Daily's headquarters after its founder @JimmyLaiApple was arrested under the new national security law: Apple Daily #HongKong Media Tycoon Arrested in Latest Blow to Democracy Camp https://www.bloomberg.com/... @business @bpolitics
Aaron Mc Nicholas / @aaronmcn: Police say they are executing a search warrant in connection with national security offences, and they have already displayed the warrant and explained its contents to staff inside the building. Livestreams suggest that requests to clarify the scope of the warrant were ignored. https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Mc Nicholas / @aaronmcn: Jimmy Lai, who was arrested at home about three hours ago, is now being led through his company's office by scores of police officers. https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Mc Nicholas / @aaronmcn: Oriental also reports that an arrest warrant has been issued for @HKMarkSimon, who is outside Hong Kong at the moment.
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
In iOS 14, Apple News+ publishers' web links are opened in the Apple News app by default for Apple News+ subscribers, though this feature can be turned off — Apple News in iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur has a toggle that's designed to open web links from Apple News+ publishers directly …
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Tony Haile / @arctictony: Woah, I wonder how many publishers in Apple News+ realize that the new iOS14 and MacOS Big Sur are by default intercepting traffic to their sites and sending it to the Apple News app instead. https://twitter.com/...
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: iOS 14 redirects web links from News+ publishers directly to the Apple News app
Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken: I was so relieved when I learned I could turn it off. https://twitter.com/...
Clayton Morris / @claytonmorris: Had the same experience this morning with a few WSJ articles. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Coates / @tomcoates: Just in case anyone is out there covering this story, worth checking into how publishers entered into contracts with a company called Texture, which then Apple bought, effectively locking publishers into predatory terms like these. https://twitter.com/...
Jared White / @jaredcwhite: Some web devs: Apple hates the open web! Me: No they don't! Apple: https://www.macrumors.com/... Me: 😑
Alex Fitzpatrick / @alexjamesfitz: remember the open web? pepperidge farm remembers https://twitter.com/...
Kushal Dave / @krave: Especially worth noting how many ways Apple News does things that are disallowed on iOS browsers/Safari or for other apps 1. other apps can only bind to a finite number of domains 2. non-Safari browsers cannot intercept traffic in any way ... https://twitter.com/...
Tom Coates / @tomcoates: Some context: As of a couple of years ago, Slate was getting more money from a single article on its site with 50,000 page views than from 6 million page views from all articles on Apple News in a calendar year: https://www.fastcompany.com/ ...
Benjamin Mayo / @bzamayo: This feature directs News+ subscribers from paywalled pages to the unlocked versions (that they are paying for with their sub) in the News app. It's convenient. Whether it should be on by default or not is questionable. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Coates / @tomcoates: You do appear to be able to turn off Apple News opening all web links to a news source, but anyone who has worked in tech for any period of time knows full well that users generally don't change their defaults. https://service-design.co/...
Tom Gara / @tomgara: As a free market libertarian I support vigorous competition among those who seek to hikack web links - for too long Google had a monopoly on pushing everything to an AMP page, it must now compete with Apple redirecting everything to its News app https://twitter.com/...
Tom Coates / @tomcoates: Apparently this only happens if you're an Apple News subscriber, but regardless—if it is true—it seems highly dubious and will almost certainly drain revenue from publishers. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Panzarino / @panzer: Not a fan of this behavior by default. https://twitter.com/...
Rob Pegoraro / @robpegoraro: I also wonder how many of those publishers have done the math on how much money they'll lose from visits to their sites becoming detours into the Apple News app, where Apple keeps 50% of News+ subscription revenue. https://twitter.com/...
Liz Mair / @lizmair: This has been a longtime problem and one that drives everyone who ever gets a shared link from a colleague or friend or whoever absolutely nuts. https://twitter.com/...
M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler: @arctictony @mathewi As a user I noticed it as I kept getting notices that Apple News had crashed, which is weird because I didn't have it open. But it was intercepting links I was opening in background on browser. What a weird experience. Who wants to open another whole app to read a single article?
Nathan Lawrence / @nathanblawrence: OK, tested out: This tweet is just a little oversimplified. It's working right. It's only for News+ subscribers, to help them get around paywalls to the content they already paid for. (News+ continues to be a terrible deal for journalists, don't do it.) https://twitter.com/...
Mitch Pugh / @scmitchp: This is super interesting. Also why all publishers should be incredibly reluctant to seed any control of any of their content to a third party, but especially Big Tech. https://twitter.com/...
Tony Haile / @arctictony: Regardless, Apple News is making a big move to move user behavior from a web that they don't control to an app where they do. Will be fascinating to see how the industry reacts.
Jim / @dimsartz_: @arctictony But isn't it obvious that the Apple News+ subscriber subscribed to the service to use it? If the subscriber finds a link which exists on the News app they obviously want to read it there (so it's a convenience). Otherwise why did they subscribe?
Steven Perlberg / Digiday:
Some publishers worry about the end of the “Trump Bump” in traffic, ratings, and subscriptions if he loses to Biden, as the pandemic decimates the ad market — It had been more than a decade since the New York Times launched a brand advertising campaign, but 2017 felt like the right moment.
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite: Fmr. CNN Exec Dishes on Network's Future if Biden Wins: The ‘Relevance of CNN for Better or Worse is Tied to Donald Trump’
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: “There isn't going to be an arms race for Joe Biden TV analysts”: good story by @perlberg (even though he didn't link to my semi-adjacent May 2nd story: https://t.co/...) https://digiday.com/...
Gerry Smith / @gerryfsmith: “Everybody might be relieved to not watch as much cable news anymore and go find a book to read, a garden to plant, or a socially-distanced walk to take.” https://twitter.com/...
Ethan Zuckerman / @ethanz: The other possibility is that we might go back to reporting on something other than Trump... :-) https://twitter.com/...
Steven Perlberg / @perlberg: it's common knowledge that Trump drives traffic, TV ratings, & paid subscriptions for publishers (who have happily rebranded themselves for the Trump era). Now media execs are wondering what happens if he loses in the middle of a recession/ bad ad market! https://digiday.com/...
Andrew Clark / @andrewhclark: “What would go away is the bad guy in the story. There's no antagonist. So what are we tuning in for?” - Jonathan Klein, the former president of CNN. Make no mistake: the media views President Trump as the “antagonist” and adjusts for clicks accordingly. https://digiday.com/...
Maxwell / @maxwellstrachan: considering advertisers are so unwilling to buy online against anything that isn't like “5 Really Big Hats” i suspect the effect on digitial media will be less than on, say, CNN https://twitter.com/...
Josh Kraushaar / @hotlinejosh: Infotainment > news “There isn't going to be an arms race for Joe Biden TV analysts.” https://digiday.com/...
Evan DeSimone / @media_evan: It occurs to me that a post-Presidency Trump, if we're lucky enough to get one, would create even more media spectacle, presumably from a new perch somewhere on cable. https://digiday.com/...
Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times:
TikTok announces first round of recipients of its $200M US creator fund, composed of 19 creators, 6 in LA; source: at least one will receive six figures — TikTok on Monday pushed back against rivals eager to poach its U.S. video creators (and to lure their audiences) …
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Vanessa Pappas / TikTok: First recipients of the $1 billion TikTok Creator Fund
Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost: Report: TikTok Preparing To Sue Trump
Chris Stokel-Walker / @stokel: Lol I love David Dobrik but the guy does not need more money from TikTok https://newsroom.tiktok.com/ ...
Natalie Jarvey / @natjarv: TikTok has announced the first recipients of its $200 million creator fund. They include @brittany_broski and @DavidDobrik
@thr: #TikTok has revealed the first recipients of its creator fund, which was announced in July to support talent who have built followings on its platform https://thr.cm/zYHdYqF
@tubefilter: David Dobrik, Avani Gregg, Brittany Broski Among First Recipients Of TikTok's $1 Billion Creator Fund https://www.tubefilter.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: TikTok has announced the recipients of their $1 billion TikTok Creator Fund https://newsroom.tiktok.com/ ...
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter: Avani Gregg, Brittany Tomlinson Among Recipients of TikTok Creator Funding
Julia Alexander / The Verge: TikTok announces first wave of creators set to receive payment for their videos
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: David Dobrik is one of the first recipients of TikTok's Creator Fund. Congrats to one of YouTube's top creators on being one of TikTok's first creators to get paid by the company for posting. https://newsroom.tiktok.com/ ...
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: after its corporate restructuring announced Friday, about 800 layoffs are expected in WarnerMedia's HBO and Warner Bros. divisions, starting Monday — WarnerMedia is expected to let go of at least 800 staffers at its Warner Bros. and HBO operations as part of a broad restructuring put in place by the unit's CEO, Jason Kilar.
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Variety: Jeffrey Schlesinger, Ron Sanders and Kim Williams Exit Warner Bros. Amid Mass WarnerMedia Layoffs
Lauren Johnson / Business Insider: Why brands like Anheuser-Busch are taking more advertising in-house
Julia Alexander / Musings on Mouse: Is Disney going to buy a theater chain?
Stephanie Sengwe / The Streamable: WarnerMedia Expected to Layoff at Least 800 Employees as Company Restructures Under Jason Kilar
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: WarnerMedia Layoffs Expected to Hit Warner Bros., HBO Starting Today https://variety.com/... via @variety
Joe Flint / @jbflint: As WSJ reported Friday, Warner Bros. will bear the brunt of Monday's layoffs with more than 500 expected to be let go. HBO also making cuts but not as substantial and the combo of HBO and HBO Max will lead to further consolidation. https://www.wsj.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: “Warner Bros. is expected to commence layoffs of around 650 people starting Monday, according to people familiar with the matter, while HBO is seen shedding between 150 and 175 staffers.” Jesus. 😞 https://variety.com/...
Ethan Zuckerman / The Atlantic:
Trump, who has dominated US media coverage since 2016, and the pandemic, which has dominated coverage in 2020, are crowding out almost all other topics — Over the past six months, it has seemed like every news story is about the coronavirus, or President Donald Trump's failed response to it.
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Ethan Zuckerman / @ethanz: From 2013-2016, Obama appeared in ~10% of US news stories. Since 2016, Trump has appeared in ~25% of US news stories. The result - less attention to everything else, even critical issues like climate, racial justice: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
@medialab: “The compression of the media agenda should worry us as citizens in a democracy.” @civicMIT head @EthanZ explores the consequences of narrowing news coverage in the United States—currently dominated by stories about the pandemic and the president. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
@bkcharvard: “2020 may demonstrate an uncomfortable truth: The months of coverage of conventions and debates is more helpful in providing advertising revenue...than it is in informing citizens.” -@EthanZ on Media Cloud & the narrowing of the media agenda (@TheAtlantic) https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
@niemanreports: “The compression of the media agenda should worry us as citizens in a democracy...[since] protest, media coverage, and social change have an interlocking relationship. When important stories go undercovered, the potential for protest & change are reduced.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
StefanieFriedhoff / @stefanie2000: Ask any foreign correspondent or science, health, environment and other beat journalist and they have lots to say about all the important stories we missed. We are all less informed because of this. Yet journalism holds the key to changing it. https://twitter.com/...
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Disney changes name of 20th Century Fox Television to 20th Television and Fox 21 TV Studios to Touchstone Television — No leadership changes or layoffs are expected to come with the moves. — To no surprise, Disney is rebranding its TV studios to remove the Fox name from two of them.
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Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Disney has no Fox left to give as it renames TV studio to 20th Television
Quinn Nelson / @snazzyq: 20th Television That's the name. That's the best the mouse could come up with. https://twitter.com/...
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline: Disney Television Studios Rebrands Its Three Units As 20th Television, ABC Signature & Touchstone Television
Dieter Bohn / @backlon: “20th Television” is a dumb name that's not worthy of this excelent headline. https://twitter.com/...
Wet-ass P-word / @wonderella: “Let's only keep the part that was outdated 20 years ago” -execs making seven-figure salaries https://www.theverge.com/...
Jeff Ewing / Forbes: Disney Finalizes Rebranding Of TV Studios
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Chatham names former Tribune Publishing CEO Tony Hunter as CEO of McClatchy when the newspaper chain emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy next month — Former Tribune Publishing CEO Tony Hunter will become CEO of McClatchy Co. when the newspaper chain emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy next month …
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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review: Abandoning business as usual in coverage of coronavirus relief spending
Tony Hunter / @tonywhunter: McClatchy has a well-earned reputation for independent journalism in the public interest. I'm humbled to lead this institution. We will chart a sustainable path focused on customers, operational excellence, and organizational agility. #leadingfromthefront https://www.prnewswire.com/...
Raju Narisetti / @raju: How did @ChicagoTribune and Tribune Co do under Tony Hunter's leadership years there? Chatham names former Tribune executive as new CEO, says it will keep @McClatchy name https://www.mcclatchydc.com/ ...
@chicagotribune: Former Tribune Publishing CEO Tony Hunter will become CEO of McClatchy Co. when the newspaper chain emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy next month, its new hedge fund owner announced Friday. https://www.chicagotribune.com/ ...
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Sports Illustrated staff describe mismanagement issues under Maven like the CEO hiring his relatives; Meredith has limited Maven's access to SI's photo archive — CUSTODY BATTLE — Staffers at the iconic sports mag feel caught in the middle of a war between the brand's owner and its publisher …
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Andrew Bucholtz / Awful Announcing: Sports Illustrated operator The Maven ran background checks on publishers in July, two months after an e-mail on Patrick Starr
@kerrymflynn: 👀 I had to read this graf of @maxwelltani's deep dive into the state of Sports Illustrated twice. Dear god https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@rolandsmartin: “let's fix it. Our business is our business. There's no need for us to allow others from outside to know what we are doing inside, either good or bad.” The Civil War Tearing Sports Illustrated Apart: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... 2/2
Myles Udland / @mylesudland: .@maxwelltani reports that Maven has set up a board that oversees editorial issues at SI which... does not have representation by anyone who works at SI? https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@jatayler: Fucking of course. Of course. Of fucking course. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@thedailybeast: EXCLUSIVE: The company that runs Sports Illustrated has in recent months made a series of moves that have left staffers more demoralized and dejected than ever—and worried about the financial health of the company https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Noah Shachtman / @noahshachtman: How bad are things at Sports Illustrated? The parent company put on the payroll a former high-school teacher who once pleaded guilty to having “an improper relationship with a student.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Mike Shields / @digitalshields: Sports Illustrated can't access its own photo library because old owner Meredith says new owner Maven owes it money https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: Some staff have also been uncomfortable with the fact that four children of Maven execs work or claim to have positions at Sports Illustrated https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Ryan McCarthy / @mccarthyryanj: Some utterly tragic stuff going on at Sports Illustrated including: - The Maven's CEO hiring *his son* - SI employing a former high school teacher who pleaded guilty to an inappropriate relationship with a student - Incomprehensible IP ownership issues https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: Maven also learned earlier this year that a blogger on the payroll pleaded guilty years ago to the second-degree felony of having an improper relationship with a student while he was a teacher. The blogger continued to write for the site for months: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: SI's previous owner Meredith has temporarily restricted Maven's access to much of the magazine's iconic decades-spanning photo library, saying the company owes Meredith money https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: A narrowly avoided legal war, unpaid bills, a former high-school teacher on the payroll who once pleaded guilty to having an improper relationship with a student. I wrote about how Maven's decisions have continued to demoralize Sports Illustrated staff: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
The Guardian:
BBC's Tony Hall apologizes after the N-word was used during a TV news broadcast, following mass complaints; BBC had initially refused to apologize last month — Play Video — The BBC's director general, Tony Hall, has apologised after the N-word was used in a TV news broadcast …
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Press Gazette, BBC, NBC News, @larrymadowo, @wahibaasa, @dionnegrant, @bbcnewsbeat, @mlothianmclean, CNN, Metro.co.uk, @bbcsangita, @sofiehagen, @thelondonhughes, @ammarkazmi_, BBC, The Independent, Deadline and New York Post
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Kalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News: BBC radio DJ quits over use of N-word during news broadcast
Larry Madowo / @larrymadowo: The BBC didn't allow me, an actual black man, to use the N-word in an article when quoting an African American who used it. But a white person was allowed to say it ON TV because it was ‘editorially justified’ https://www.bbc.com/...
Wahiba Ahmed / @wahibaasa: We're told progress is being made, yet the BBC upheld a single complaint against @NagaMunchetty for speaking out against racism, but it took over 18,000 complaints, national criticism and @Sidemanallday quitting his job for the BBC to apologise for its use of the N-Word.
Dionne Grant / @dionnegrant: “The action and the defence of the action feels like a slap in the face of our community... Money and opportunity doesn't outweigh the dissatisfaction I feel” - BBC 1Xtra presenter David “Sideman” Whitely quits after the BBC defended its use of the N-Word in a news broadcast https://twitter.com/...
BBC Newsbeat / @bbcnewsbeat: 18,600 people complained to the BBC about its use of the n-word in a recent news report https://www.bbc.co.uk/...
Moya Lothian-Mclean / @mlothianmclean: So the BBC broadcasting the n-word (twice) is the second-most complained about incident apart from Emily Maitlis speaking the truth about Dominic Cummings. She was reprimanded for that. But no apology forthcoming for this? https://www.bbc.co.uk/...
Cydney Yeates / Metro.co.uk: BBC Director-General Tony Hall apologises for N-word after Sideman quits 1Xtra show
Sangita Myska / @bbcsangita: NEW: On the use of the N-word in a recent News report about an alleged racially motivated assault in Bristol, “The BBC now accepts that we should have taken a different approach at the time of broadcast and we are very sorry for that”, says the Director General. https://twitter.com/...
Sofie Hagen / @sofiehagen: So a white BBC Newsreader is allowed to say the n-word on television whilst, on our BBC Sounds podcast, we were told not to say ‘oh my god’ because it could offend some listeners. Last year, I was told I couldn't say ‘queer’ in a BBC video even though I was describing myself.
London Hughes / @thelondonhughes: The BBC let a white newsreader say the N-word on national television. Over 18,000 of us complained but the BBC simply replied “We know it's offensive, but we were told we can say it by the black family we were reporting on 😒” I FULLY SUPPORT THIS 👇🏾 https://www.bbc.co.uk/...
Ammar Kazmi / @ammarkazmi_: The BBC is institutionally racist. It took over 18k complaints—and one of their own prominent Black presenter's resignation—to issue an apology almost TWO WEEKS after using the N-word twice in a news report. Shameless. This should not be forgotten. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Ellie Harrison / The Independent: Sideman quits Radio 1Xtra over BBC's use of n-word: ‘It felt like a slap in the face’
Noam Cohen / Wired:
A look at Wikipedia's growing skepticism towards Fox News, designated as a generally unreliable source on politics and science in July — The move offered a new model for moderation. Maybe other platforms will take note. — When Karen Bass, a Congresswoman from Los Angeles …
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@privacydigest: Why Wikipedia Decided to Stop Calling Fox a ‘Reliable’ Source The move offered a new model for moderation. Maybe other platforms will take note. https://www.wired.com/...
Caitlin Kelly / @caitlin__kelly: A panel of Wikipedia administrators in July declared that Fox News would no longer be considered “generally reliable” in its reporting on politics and science, and in those areas “should be used with caution to verify contentious claims.” https://www.wired.com/...
Ed Day / @pandemic_times: @mediagazer @noamcohen News Corp/Fox News has a “trusted news source” partnership with Facebook.
Noam Cohen / @noamcohen: Wikipedia's move to inoculate itself from Fox News' slanted reporting involves politics and science. It is of a piece with WP's tight hold on Covid-19 info and shames social networks that claim to value democracy and health but do little to protect them. https://www.wired.com/...
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