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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Tribune Publishing is permanently closing The Daily News headquarters at 4 New York Plaza in Manhattan and four other Tribune newspaper newsrooms — Tribune Publishing said that it was permanently closing the tabloid's office in Lower Manhattan. As its journalists work remotely during the pandemic …
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Morning Call: The Morning Call to vacate Allentown office building after 100 years in downtown location
Melynda Fuller / MediaPost: Tribune Publishing Permanently Closes Newsrooms Of ‘New York Daily News,’ ‘Capital Gazette’
Brian Stelter / CNN: Journalists mourn the loss of newsrooms as publishers give up office space to save money
@pwoodreporter: Remember when I told you @tribpub didn't pay its rent?⬇️ Now we're told that the company is permanently shutting down our @capgaznews office in Annapolis and our @CCTNews office in Westminster. https://twitter.com/...
Robert York / New York Daily News: Note from the editor — On Wednesday, the leadership here at the Daily News shared …
@nydailynews: As we work toward our second century of covering our fair city, you'll continue to see our reporters in your neighborhood and our papers at your doorstep or corner bodega. A note to readers from the editor of the New York Daily News. https://www.nydailynews.com/ ...
Danielle Ohl / @dtohl: Wanna expand on what I said in this article. It's not just that it's sad we don't all get to be together. It is. But Tribune spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to harden our newsroom w/ shatterproof glass, a reinforced wall, etc. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Marissa Parra / @marparnews: Capital Gazette is among the newspapers told by Tribune today they will no longer have a newsroom. For those who don't remember, Capital Gazette is the Annapolis newspaper where 5 journalists were murdered by a gunman in 2018. This is an absolute shame. https://www.capitalgazette.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Pat Furgurson / @ebfiii: Working without an office was necessary in the worst of circumstances. Now its is a matter of Alden's Tribune cost cutting. Shame on you. Rob, Wendi, John, Gerald, Rebecca. Where will YOUR Pulitzer now reside? https://twitter.com/...
@mylesmill: I love this paper and the relics stored in that newsroom—the front pages, the typewriter, the plates for archival papers. What to journalism is a newspaper without a newsroom? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Annie McCormick / @6abcannie: I gave my brother a tour when I was a 21 y/o photog intern turned freelancer. “Wow, this is a real paper,” he said ,"It's like where Woodward & Bernstein would work!" I loved being in this newsroom ❤️😥 https://www.mcall.com/...
Nicholas Dawes / @nicdawes: I believe in newsrooms. Collaboration, serendipity, cross-pollination, the rhythm of the publishing cycle (whatever that is) - and a whole lot of bs that is still worth it for the upside https://www.nytimes.com/...
Pat Kiernan / @patkiernan: Can someone still yell “stop the presses” if there is no newsroom? @NYDailyNews is giving up its Manhattan real estate and reporters will all work remotely. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Noah Shachtman / @noahshachtman: This is awful. The Daily News was a great, thriving paper, and not all that long ago. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Chris Krewson / @ckrewson: What has Tribune ownership meant for The Morning Call of Allentown, PA? A payroll that once reached 1,000 is down to around 100. A downtown office it occupied since 1920 has been formally abandoned after missing three months' rent. https://www.mcall.com/...
Gary Myers / @garymyersny: I used to love going into old newsroom at 42nd and Second to write. Great newspaper days! Hardly went into new office. I hope for the best for the 3 or 4 friends remaining at DN from when I left two years ago. So sad to say but Daily News is The Titanic. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Andrew Nusca / @editorialiste: I'm all for recognizing that you don't need a physical newsroom to conduct journalism. But this seems crazy. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Paul Moses / @paulbmoses: Note to @nytimes: The Daily News may not have a New York City newsroom, but at least it has New York City news. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytmetro: Tribune Publishing said that it was permanently closing the tabloid's office in Lower Manhattan. As its journalists work remotely during the pandemic, plans for a future workplace are uncertain. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Senator Brad Hoylman / @bradhoylman: .@NYGovCuomo signed the Child Victims Act into law in this newsroom less than two years ago. Local news is facing an existential crisis. We are the only ones who can save it. Subscribe to your hometown papers. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Zach Murdock / @zach_murdock: Our owners at @tribpub are shutting down several of our sister papers' newsrooms, leaving all of us stunned. We've been told @hartfordcourant will keep our Broad Street newsroom (for now, at least), although most everyone will continue to WFH through the end of the year. https://twitter.com/...
Robert Shields / @rshields37: Every vet of the @NYDailyNews (all the way back to 42nd St.) is talking and reminiscing about this today. It's gutting to me. I'd thought I'd made my peace with my previous life but this brings it all back. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Marc Tracy / @marcatracy: Our story on The Daily News and Capital Gazette, with more tk https://www.nytimes.com/...
@forecasterenten: I can recall with great joy walking the 5 minutes up the hill and putting in a few quarters to get the Daily News & Post as a kid. It was the way to get the late sports... Alas, so much has changed. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Paul Schwartzman / @paulschwartzman: The 42d Street office — first time I walked in as an employee — felt like Yankee Stadium. Are they replacing this one with a Duane Reade? https://twitter.com/...
Christopher Mele / @melechristopher: This is heart-breaking. I recall touring the old Daily News newsroom as a high schooler when it was on 42nd Street and it was every bit of a newsroom you could imagine. A terrible loss this is. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dwight Silverman / @dsilverman: The Daily News Is Now a Newspaper Without a Newsroom https://www.nytimes.com/... Many newsrooms, including the @houstonchron's are empty as reporters, editors, artists, photographers work remotely. Do we really need a newsroom?
Derek Willis / @derekwillis: Will be curious to see how many more newspaper companies take away the lesson that they no longer need buildings for their employees (or much, much smaller ones).
Craig McCarthy / @createcraig: What's amazing is this is just another example of an axe being taken to local journalism in four cities. Yet, nothing will be done. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Stephanie Sigafoos / @ssigafoos: .@brianstelter asked what the reaction has been like today from remote colleagues. Basically ...this a gut punch. https://www.mcall.com/...
Melissa Lee / @melissaleecnbc: I did my first internship in the business section of the Daily News. Being in the newsroom was an important part of my education. https://twitter.com/...
@pwoodreporter: Thank you to @marcatracy at @nytimes for writing about @tribpub closing the newsroom of our sister paper, @NYDailyNews, and also including @capgaznews. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nelson Oliveira / @olivnelson: Time to upgrade my bedroom, aka, my newsroom. https://twitter.com/...
Zephyr Teachout / @zephyrteachout: Oh my god. The Daily News Is Now a Newspaper Without a Newsroom https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jonathan Lemire / @jonlemire: This is truly heartbreaking https://twitter.com/...
Stephen Stirling / @sstirling: First daily newsroom I ever worked in. It wasn't pretty. Newsrooms aren't. But as a 22 year-old the energy that coursed through that place was exhilarating and overwhelming. https://twitter.com/...
Derek Willis / @derekwillis: I guess we have something of an answer to this. https://twitter.com/...
Laura Curran / @nassauexecutive: As a former @NYDailyNews reporter, I'm sad to see this. Getting to work in that newsroom is one of my most cherished memories. It's never been more important for us to #SupportLocalJournalism. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rebecca Baird-Remba / @thecitywanderer: honestly kind of blown away by this as a business choice. if the daily news needs office space again in a year or two (and hopefully it will), it will not be cheaper on a per square foot basis than a lease signed in 2011 https://twitter.com/...
Dave Brown / @dave_brown24: What? “A Tribune Publishing spokesman confirmed that the Annapolis, Md., newsroom of The Capital Gazette — the site two years ago of a tragedy, when a gunman killed five staff members in the newsroom — would also be shutting down.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Vivian Salama / @vmsalama: Oh dear, this is so disconcerting. “The paper will continue to be published. The company made no promises about a future physical location... Newsroom workers were given until Oct. 30 to collect any belongings they had left in the office.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Harry Siegel / @harrysiegel: Just perfect from @MichaelDalynyc, and even more so for running in a broadsheet https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Erica Orden / @eorden: Especially for young reporters, there's nothing better than working in a great newsroom. You learn so much from observing others. This is such a bummer. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Joe Favorito / @joefav: At least they waited til the passing of Pete Hammill. The Daily News Is Now a Newspaper Without a Newsroom https://www.nytimes.com/...
Will James / @otherwilljames: Where I once roamed the halls as a forgettable intern Actually, I was at the prior office on 33rd. But one of the main things I took from that internship was the experience of watching the reporters near me work the phones. It was like, “Ah. Okay. That's how you report.” https://twitter.com/...
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Roger Simmons / Orlando Sentinel:
The Orlando Sentinel says it is leaving its downtown office building, which it has occupied since 1951, in October as staff continues to work remotely — The Orlando Sentinel announced Wednesday it will leave its downtown building, the newspaper's home since 1951.
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Kristen Hare / Poynter: Tribune Publishing is closing some physical newsrooms, including the Capital Gazette
Derf Backderf / @derfbackderf: Tribune Inc. closes newsrooms in five cities. The downsized staff works from home from here on. Until they're laid off. What a sad business. The only paper I worked for during my newspaper career that's still in its building is my college paper! https://twitter.com/...
Julia Glum / @superjulia: so sad. I get it — media companies need to reduce expenses, maintaining an office doesn't make sense when nobody's there, etc. — but I cannot emphasize how important newsrooms are for journalists https://twitter.com/...
Colleen Wright / @colleen_wright: Sad to see this happen, but it's worth stopping the bleed. I have good memories interning in this windowless newsroom, like watching the lunchtime pick-up games on the rooftop court. And I will always stan the gyro shop on the corner. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/ ...
Lothar / @ltr_zh: Had not seen this tidbit: In a filing w/SEC on June 8, Tribune Publishing withheld April, May & June rent payments for “a majority of its facilities and requested rent relief from the lessors in various forms, including rent abatement, lease restructuring or lease terminations.” https://twitter.com/...
@journomurph: Tribune already did this before - at the Virginian-Pilot. Now, they're doing it nationwide. What are they doing with the money they'll save? IDK. Here's what I know they AREN'T doing: - hiring more reporters -offering raises to those that remain - bettering their products https://twitter.com/...
Charles Minshew / @charlesminshew: As a former @orlandosentinel staffer, I certainly miss my friends and co-workers, but I will never miss that building. I do hope that when things return to normal, the Sentinel will have a place in Orlando to have a presence in the community https://www.orlandosentinel.com/ ...
Kerry Flynn / @kerrymflynn: “Three other company newspapers, the New York Daily News, the Allentown Morning Call in Pennsylvania and the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md., will join the Sentinel in permanently leaving their current office space.” https://www.orlandosentinel.com/ ...
Eric Hartley / @ethartley: A company with over $80 million in the bank is closing newsrooms. This is a disgrace, though sadly not a surprise. A surprise at this point would be Tribune doing the right thing. https://www.poynter.org/...
Monivette Cordeiro / @monivettec: I'm going to miss this windowless hunk 😭 Orlando Sentinel to leave downtown office building after 69 years https://www.orlandosentinel.com/ ...
@pwoodreporter: Our sister paper in Florida, @orlandosentinel, is losing its newsroom, too: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/ ...
Kristen Hare / @kristenhare: Also closing physical Tribune newsrooms: - Orlando Sentinel https://www.orlandosentinel.com/ ... - New York Daily News
Jennifer W. Sheehan / @jenwsheehan: Worth noting that in its recent earnings call @tribpub reported that it has zero debt. This is not a debt issue. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Lafferty / @mlafferty1: We're going to be leaving the facility built by former Orlando Sentinel owner Martin Andersen. The newsroom didn't have any windows, and we sometimes found dead rats in the ceiling, but a lot of us grew old in that place. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/ ...
@davidshepardson: Newspapers are not paying their rent: “In June, the Sentinel was sued by its landlord for not paying rent for three months during the coronavirus pandemic. According to an Orange Circuit Court lawsuit, Midtown Opportunities said it was owed about $370,000 for rent” https://twitter.com/...
Julia Poe / @jpoe24601: I had just finally, fully decorated my desk at the office on March 5, a week before the whole sports world stopped... seems about on par for 2020 https://twitter.com/...
Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Sources: USAGM put 7 senior leaders on leave and pulled their security clearances, in response to a pro-Joe Biden video and a review of foreign worker hiring — President Trump's new leader at the Voice of America and its parent organization made sweeping staff changes this week in response …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico: Trump appointee deepens purge of U.S. global media agency
David Beard / @dabeard: Former VOA chief: Lame-duck federal government is “driving out honest, skilled, talented long serving professional public servants on trumped up charges & replacing them with people of no qualifications...(Joe) McCarthy couldn't have done it any better.” https://www.politico.com/...
Steven Nelson / @stevennelson10: Scoop: Some major staff changes today at VOA and parent org USAGM: -Digital managing director of VOA Urdu placed on leave over pro-Biden video -7 USAGM execs, including general counsel and CFO, placed on leave with security clearances suspended https://nypost.com/...
Daniel Lippman / @dlippman: Former VOA head Amanda Bennett said the changes at @USAGM were “driving out honest, skilled, talented long serving professional public servants on trumped up charges and replacing them with people of no qualifications whose only attribute is loyalty.” https://www.politico.com/...
Karen Kornbluh / @karenkornbluh: VOA USGM purge continues. Terrible. Civil servants who demonstrated the highest level of professionalism under Republican- and Democratic- led bipartisan boards. These professionals deserve all our thanks for their service on behalf of the US https://www.politico.com/...
@miketheidealist: So this is the new VOA. A propaganda outlet for #Trump and his friends. Gross. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Capus / @stevecapus: More disgraceful, politically motivated, unjustified firings of non-partisans at @USAGMgov ... American tax dollars are being used to execute the political vision of the Trump Administration. There is no other way to interpret these moves https://twitter.com/...
Steve Capus / @stevecapus: They have smashed editorial firewalls designed to protect independent news ops from undue political interference - and are now firing journalists when their stories rub the Trump Administration the wrong way. Pack is dictating content that goes on the front pages of VOA websites
Steve Capus / @stevecapus: The @USAGMgov executives fired today and network officials let go weeks ago are some of the finest professionals I've worried with in my three + decades in journalism. With Trump, it's par for the course: scientists, public health officials, prosecutors all sidelined.
Shashank Joshi / @shashj: Next on @VOANews: the inspiring story of how tractor production is up again! https://twitter.com/...
Nicole Ogrysko / Federal News Network: In rare move, OPM strips broadcasting agency of background investigation and vetting authorities
Steve Capus / @stevecapus: They've now retaliated against the general counsel - because he refused to bend to their twisted legal views. They didn't like when people like me & the head of @VOANews Editorial Statndards refused their demand to label an @AP wire story “Chinese propaganda,” so we were fired.
Wall Street Journal:
Sumner Redstone, the mogul who transformed National Amusements into a media empire that included Viacom, Paramount Pictures, and CBS, has died at 97 — Mr. Redstone built empire of TV, movies and radio that became focus of power struggle — Sumner Redstone, who turned his family's movie-theater company …
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Gideon Yago / @gideonyago: A couple thoughts on the passing of Sumner Redstone, my old boss and the mogul behind Viacom/MTV Networks. There is a gaping hole in his obituaries right now and it is about a historic exploitation of freelance labor in broadcasting. Not a single obituary mentions it, so ... 1/
Jonathan Kandell / New York Times: Sumner Redstone Dies at 97; Built Media Empire and Long Reigned Over It
Jake Kanter / Deadline: Sumner Redstone Dies: Giant Of The Media World Was 97
Brian Lowry / CNN: Sumner Redstone, billionaire media mogul, dead at 97
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: From Shari Redstone: “My father led an extraordinary life that not only shaped entertainment as we know it today, but created an incredible family legacy...” https://twitter.com/...
Cynthia Littleton / Variety: Sumner Redstone, Towering Media Mogul Who Helped Shape Modern Entertainment Industry, Dies at 97
Forbes: #804 Sumner Redstone — Sumner Redstone is the controlling shareholder of the new ViacomCBS …
@dynamofire: thinking today about all the folks who gave years of their professional lives to viacom and got not a single benefit. redstone made billions destroying the media industry for everyone else. fuck him and everyone like him. https://twitter.com/...
David Enrich / @davidenrich: Sumner Redstone - the ancient, controversial mogul who shaped how we all consume media - is dead. My friend and former @WSJ colleague @keachhagey wrote the definitive book on Redstone. You should buy it. https://www.amazon.com/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: wondering about the oldest pre-write obit...am guessing there are several 20+ years out of date https://twitter.com/...
Alicia Lutes / @alicialutes: Summer Redstone was a piece of shit. Signed, A former Viacom/MTV employee https://twitter.com/...
Morgan Evans / @totallymorgan: I literally thought he'd never die. Like Guy Pierce in Prometheus. Him and Bob Evans getting “sucked off” on Mars. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Bob Bakish's statement on the death of ViacomCBS chairman emeritus Sumner Redstone: “He was a force of nature and fierce competitor, who leaves behind a profound legacy in both business and philanthropy.”
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: Also, anyone who wants to know Sumner Redstone should read this infamous Daily Beast piece which include actual voicemails from the man. He was a force of personality who fought constantly with Shari Redstone but reconciled in recent years. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Marshall Steinbaum / @econ_marshall: To all the people who say labor rights are at odds with antitrust enforcement, or that antitrust is irrelevant to workers, I bring you the career of Sumner Redstone, who made a god-damn killing by steamrolling both. https://twitter.com/...
Eriq Gardner / @eriqgardner: Say what you will, but very very very few shaped entertainment in the 20th Century like Sumner Redstone https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Suzy Exposito / @hexpositive: I barely tell anyone I used to work at MTV, but I did, and it was absolutely hellish. Zero ethics, infinite exploitation of young people. Thank you for speaking up, Gideon. ♥️ https://twitter.com/...
Irin Carmon / @irin: Keach wrote the definitive book on Redstone but I still wish I could bleach some of the creepy details from my brain. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Weinman / @sarahw: Need several thousand more words on this paragraph in the NYT Sumner Redstone obit https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Claire Atkinson / @claireatki: Get ready for legal fights of epic proportions over the estate. https://twitter.com/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: Obituary of Sumner Redstone is a riveting read , particularly for those of us who covered the media business between 1990 and 2010. Forgot the detail that he fired Tom Freston for essentially failing to buy MySpace .... https://www.wsj.com/...
Andrew Nusca / @editorialiste: It's a quirk of publishing that you can run an obituary by a long-departed writer. This one, by the great @mathewi perhaps four years ago, finally went live thanks to @BernhardWarner: https://fortune.com/...
@nymag: In the wake of Sumner Redstone's death, revisit our 2019 profile of his daughter Shari, who now sits atop the media empire he built https://nymag.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: This was a long time coming — I pre-wrote an obituary for Sumner when I was at Fortune in 2016! https://twitter.com/...
Hanna Brooks Olsen / @mshannabrooks: 👏 when wealthy white dudes build their empires on the backs of underpaid underlings, that need to be part of the story 👏 https://twitter.com/...
Ben Hunt / @epsilontheory: Thread. Sumner “content is king” Redstone sure as hell didn't believe in paying for it. https://twitter.com/...
Sara Benincasa / @sarajbenincasa: Excellent thread by Gideon, who I think had left MTV News by the time I got there and who did a great job. But whew, the last tweet here. Yup. https://twitter.com/...
Grace Lee Pawgs / @jamie_elizabeth: I was permalance at MTV (and many other places) when I was a music and culture writer...pretty much every blogging gig I had until I got a job at Death and Taxes (rip) was a violation of labor laws. Glad the media biz is finally unionizing! https://twitter.com/...
Quinn Cummings / @quinncy: This is the meaningful stuff. Afterwards, can we talk about the rumor he let his mistress burn to death in that hotel fire? https://twitter.com/...
Tiffany Hsu / @tiffkhsu: Father-daughter power duos are rare at the top of corporate America, and they usually get along. But the Redstones operated more like a wolf pack, one expert said: “You can only have so many alphas in one room.” w/ @edmundlee https://www.nytimes.com/...
Perez / @theperezhilton: Media giant Sumer Redstone lived a looooong life! He leaves behind some mega corporations. https://tinyurl.com/...
@loulumenick: No small irony that Sumner Redstone barely outlived the antiquated Paramount Decrees whose loopholes he and his lawyers so deftly navigated to create a media empire that made theater chain National Amusements the parent of Paramount Pictures.
Britt Hayes / The A.V. Club: R.I.P. media mogul Sumner Redstone
Christopher Rosen / Vanity Fair: Media Mogul Sumner Redstone Is Dead at 97
Ted Johnson / Variety: Sumner Redstone: A Lawyer Who Loved to Litigate
Tim O'Donnell / The Week: Billionaire media mogul Sumner Redstone dies at 97
Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone: Media Mogul Sumner Redstone Dead at 97
Claire Spellberg / Decider: Sumner Redstone, Viacom and CBS Titan, Dies at 97
Laura Italiano / New York Post: Sumner Redstone, billionaire media mogul, dead at 97
Marty Steinberg / NBC News: Sumner Redstone, billionaire media tycoon, dead at age 97
Marty Steinberg / CNBC: Sumner Redstone, billionaire media tycoon, dead at age 97
Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
Twitter staffers publicly called out an error by Daily Caller and National Review, which wrongly said Twitter hired an ex-Harris staffer to police POTUS tweets — According to leading conservative columnists, Twitter has hired Nick Pacilio, a former staffer for Sen. Kamala Harris …
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David Harsanyi / National Review: Kamala Harris's Former Press Secretary Is the Face of Twitter Censorship
Ari Fleischer / @arifleischer: “could you imagine what the nightly reaction on CNN and MSNBC would be if Mike Pence's former spokesperson was censoring Joe Biden's tweets during a presidential election? I have no doubt Democrats would be calling for congressional hearings.” https://www.nationalreview.com/ ...
Brandon / @bborrman: This piece is completely factually inaccurate. He is a spokesperson and plays no role in enforcement decisions. The article is wrong, full stop, and it's deeply disappointing that @NRO never so much as called to fact check it knowing it would put my colleague in the spotlight. https://twitter.com/...
Dell Cameron / @dellcam: I just spoke to Twitter. This tweet is their official statement: https://twitter.com/...
Brandon / @bborrman: Ari, he's a spokesperson. The article is 100% incorrect. He has nothing to do with enforcement. You're RTing completely fabricated information. https://twitter.com/...
Kirstine Stewart / @kirstinestewart: Both these publications know full well the role of a comms lead. This is no mistake - it's a blatant, personal and unwarranted attack. National Review, Daily Caller Help Publicize Lies About Former Kamala Harris Staffer https://gizmodo.com/... via @gizmodo
Alex Kotch / @alexkotch: Ok this is hilarious. The evolution of the rightwing media brain: 1. Twitter spox tweets that his company removed a Trump tweet. 2. Federalist co-founder quotes tweet, thinks the spox made this decision. 3. Ex-Federalist editor uses Davis' false tweet as basis for NRO story 😂 https://twitter.com/...
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: This story demonstrates an embarrassing lack of comprehension of the way Twitter works https://www.nationalreview.com/ ...
Jenna Golden / @jigolden: “To be clear, Pacilio has worked at Twitter for nearly six years; only his duties have nothing to do with fact-checking the president, or anyone else, according to Twitter, where Pacilio works as a top spokesman.” https://gizmodo.com/...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: The guy personally overriding policy to remove fake news flags from conservative posts at Facebook was George W. Bush's policy advisor for eight years, so, yes, I can imagine. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Couts / @andrewcouts: in which @dellcam reports on how the bullshit sausage is made https://gizmodo.com/...
@larakate: @AriFleischer Hey Ari! Nick is actually on our comms team — much like your former job. He does not make policy decisions. I would expect communications professionals to check stories like this before sharing them so broadly.
Ari Fleischer / @arifleischer: NR has updated its story. They removed the line below, which I quoted from their story, and added this note: “Twitter says Pacilio isn't involved in the removal decisions himself. I have updated the post to reflect his role...” https://twitter.com/...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: Also, this story is fundamentally incorrect. That's not how stuff gets removed at Twitter. There's a team of people doing this. This is the second story I've read in a few of months claiming a single guy at Twitter makes these decisions. Both were wrong. https://www.nationalreview.com/ ...
Ken Yeung / @thekenyeung: I mean, how dare Nick Pacilio not have the foresight to know all of this before joining Twitter? The optics! Heavens! https://gizmodo.com/... via @gizmodo https://twitter.com/...
Cristiano Lima / @viacristiano: This article, which is making the rounds, is incorrect. @NickPacilio is not “in charge of deciding what the president of the United States can and can't say on Twitter to his 85 million followers.” He's a Twitter spox https://www.nationalreview.com/ ...
Liz Kelley / @lizkelley: “In fact, Pacilio is a spokesperson. That's literally his job.” https://gizmodo.com/...
Sean Czarnecki / @seanmczarnecki: I'll expand further. Here are my thoughts: https://www.youtube.com/...
Sean Czarnecki / @seanmczarnecki: Enough has been tweeted about this already but here's my two cents: Twitter spokespeople do not police speech on its platform. https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: @Larakate @mathewi @AriFleischer Fleischer isn't too skilled at checking things (eg pretexts for foreign wars)
Siobhan Murphy / @siobhan: “Lies about Pacilio's fake job responsibilities, which have gone viral online thanks to conservative writers at the Daily Caller and the National Review, are pretty easy to debunk.” https://gizmodo.com/...
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: And it's written off a bad faith tweet that apparently didn't merit an ounce of research. This is the type of shit you retract.
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Good example of how misinfo quickly spreads. While the National Review article now has a (weak) correx attached to it, the misinfo has already reverberated across the right-wing media universe, amassing thousands of retweets as big figures like Ari share. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Byers / @byersalex: Unbelievably lazy failure to do basic research, or purposeful bad-faith effort designed to spread falsehood? You decide! https://twitter.com/...
Brandon / @bborrman: Just to make this clear, spokespeople at Twitter don't make enforcement decisions. They aren't involved in the review process. They share the decisions with the public and answer questions.
Dell Cameron / @dellcam: The @DailyCaller has now also altered its week-old headline about @NickPacilio, who has been working at Twitter for almost 6 years. The Caller had reported he was just hired (because its reporters apparently can't, or won't, Google) https://twitter.com/...
Cristiano Lima / @viacristiano: Update: NRO has rewritten this headline and added quite a footnote correcting the error https://www.nationalreview.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Menotti Minutillo / @44: @Kantrowitz the correction is as bad https://twitter.com/...
The Information:
Sources: AT&T is in talks to sell Crunchyroll, its anime streaming service, to Sony, but its $1.5B asking price is a sticking point — AT&T is in discussions to sell WarnerMedia's Crunchyroll Japanese anime-streaming service to Sony, according to three people familiar with the situation.
Discussion:
@zhugeex, Variety, @zhugeex, Gizmodo, @rythianwrites, @pessimism, @teanubis, @blakeir, @pessimism, @loudmouthjulia, Hollywood Reporter, @lynxarav3, @shinden9, The Wrap, The Streamable and Cord Cutters News
Discussion:
Daniel Ahmad / @zhugeex: AT&T is looking to sell anime streaming service Crunchyroll to Sony for $1.5 billion. The deal would add Crunchyroll to Sony's growing anime empire which includes Funimation and Aniplex (FGO). Sony also recently took a stake in Bilibili. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Todd Spangler / Variety: WarnerMedia Looking to Sell Crunchyroll Anime-Streaming Service for at Least $1 Billion
Daniel Ahmad / @zhugeex: AT&T has been looking to sell non core assets to reduce its nearly $150bn debt. Crunchyroll, which has over 3m subs, is being considered. Warner Bros Gaming unit is also being considered. Warner recently said it would cut up to 650 jobs to save costs. No final decisions yet
Catie Keck / Gizmodo: Crunchyroll Might Get Sold to Sony—Wait, What?
Rythian Max / @rythianwrites: Sony to buy Crunchyroll from AT&T for $1.5 billion. This would mean my employer, WarnerMedia, would be adding Funimation to HBO Max in a 2 way deal. Sony Group, the new name for Sony starting April 2021, has anime as their 4th pillar of entertainment. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Pessimist / @pessimism: First thought: Sony is clearly looking to secure anime as a major sector, as it already bought Funmation. Second thought: LOL at the idea that CR is anywhere close to $1B worth. More background on Sony's bet on anime: https://asia.nikkei.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@teanubis: The Funimation acquisition was $143 million for 95%. IMO, AT&T is smoking crack if they think they're getting $1.5 billion for CR. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Blake Robbins / @blakeir: The Big Niche: A market that looks like a niche, but in reality is quite large. Accessible software built for these niches expands the market size to worth billions. @Crunchyroll, a verticalized OTT platform for anime, is reportedly selling for $1.5bn https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Pessimist / @pessimism: First thought: Sony is clearly looking to secure anime as a major sector, as it already owns Aniplex. Second thought: LOL at the idea that CR is anywhere close to $1B worth. https://twitter.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: ⦿Shut down (I mean, likely) DC Universe ⦿Sell Crunchyroll ⦿Sunset HBO Go ⦿Rebrand HBO Now as HBO 🎯Drive everything and everyone to HBO Max. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter: WarnerMedia Shopping Crunchyroll Sale
@lynxarav3: So there's a bit of really important context you need to keep in mind for this story that's going around: Sony paid only $143 million for FUNimation. AT&T is asking literally ten times as much for Crunchyroll. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
@shinden9: A lot to unpack here: -Is CR really worth that much? -Sony will enact their Halalification Global Standards Beam and destroy 2/3 of CR's library -CR is never going to be an infinitely growing asset and AT&T knows it now. https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Stephanie Sengwe / The Streamable: Report: AT&T Lists Crunchyroll at $1.5 Billion in Bid to Sell Service to Sony
Jess Barnes / Cord Cutters News: AT&T Wants to Sell Crunchyroll for $1.5 Billion
Kyle Pope / Columbia Journalism Review:
Biden's selection of Harris seems to have reignited typical political coverage, turning the election into just a story of superficial campaign machinations — Joe Biden's selection of Kamala Harris as his running mate—a thrillingly historic choice, no matter your politics—has delivered a restart of the 2020 campaign cycle.
Discussion:
Kyle Pope / @kylepope: The campaign has restarted. Can political reporters please not pick up where they left off? https://www.cjr.org/...
@cjr: When the pandemic froze the campaign and protesters filled the streets, we experienced a reprieve: officialdom was stripped of its agency, @kylepope writes. Journalists ignored disinformation streaming from officials. Let's get back to that. https://www.cjr.org/...
@cjr: New from @kylepope: The only way journalism can regain its rightful place as a trusted institution is to tell the whole story of the American experience, not merely the horserace of candidates for high office. https://www.cjr.org/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: The editor of @CJR: “The press must look past the campaign coverage that was and embrace its role as a safeguard of democracy. We have to tell the whole story of the American experience, not merely the horse race of candidates for high office.” https://www.cjr.org/...
Lauren Harris / Columbia Journalism Review:
Tow Center records consolidations or mergers of more than 30 local journalism outlets in Kentucky and in CNHI-owned outlets in FL, IA, AL, IN, OK, and TX — Last week, in a Q&A about covering losses in the journalism industry, Poynter reporter Kristen Hare observed that the newsroom mergers …
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Damian Radcliffe / @damianradcliffe: Consolidations come at a cost https://www.cjr.org/... via @cjr - another fantastic weekly round-up from @LHarrisWrites as part of the Journalism Crisis Project. 🙏 for the s/o for my new @TowCenter survey. If you work at a local 📰 please contribute https://oregon.qualtrics.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@cjr: New from @LHarrisWrites: As newspaper publishers continue cut, it's important to take stock of the cost behind every decision—in individual jobs lost, public meetings left uncovered, newspapers disappearing from community doorsteps. https://www.cjr.org/...
Bloomberg:
Study finds 22 Trump campaign ads ran on YouTube channels linked to the Chinese government, showing how hard it is to control where ads end up on YouTube — - Ads also ran on channels with links to Kremlin, Omelas says — Review finds one Biden ad on video from China-backed outlet
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Ash Carter / Air Mail:
Former New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier talks about his new quarterly, Liberties, which comes out 3 years after #MeToo claims sank his last magazine — Three years after #MeToo allegations sank his Laurene Powell Jobs-funded magazine, Leon Wieseltier wants back in
Discussion:
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: Ah not sure there's ever been a more Air Mail exclusive: Leon Wieseltier's first post MeToo interview including an announcement of his new publication featuring six of the writers of the infamous Harper's letter https://airmail.news/... https://twitter.com/...
Jason Linkins / @dceiver: I was wondering if we'd make it through this week without a new stunt from the Harpers Hype House https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Liberties will be “420 pages of text with zero images (and zero ads). There are 20 essays, each several thousand words long.” This should do well! https://airmail.news/...
Paul Bloom / @paulbloomatyale: The last sentence is wonderful: “At the same time, much of the attention Wieseltier attracted was the wrong kind. He was called a dilettante, a social climber, a warmonger. There was the reported gram-a-day cocaine habit. The never-delivered book on the significance of sighing.”
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: I'm fine with #metoo men doing their own vanity projects because it's better than news orgs hiring them to manage people again. But as vanity projects go, this one is pretty eye-popping in its founder's extreme confidence that people want it. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Farago / @jsf: “With its elegant layout, thick paper stock, and French flap, Idea may be the most lavishly produced intellectual journal ever printed without C.I.A. backing” — clearly our correspondent never subscribed to @evenmagazine https://airmail.news/...
Andrew Beaujon / @abeaujon: perhaps “Leon Wieseltier wants back in” isn't the best way to describe this?
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Look who's back, back again. Really going to have the folks that reside in this atmosphere going on and on. Perhaps ignore that but worth a read since Ash Carter is deft writer and has good words (longueurs): Taking—and Making—Liberties via @airmailweekly https://airmail.news/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: I saw this lead photo and was going to joke that Wieseltier still has very important hair, but the joke is made in the text of the article. https://airmail.news/...
Thomas Chatterton Williams / @thomaschattwill: Ash Carter's very thoughtful first-look at Leon Wieseltier's new journal, Liberties, coming in October three years after Idea was scrapped and all the more necessary now: https://airmail.news/...
Josh Chafetz / @joshchafetz: I have ... complicated feelings about this.
Oris Aigbokhaevbolo / @catchoris: One of my favourite types of things to read includes writing from/about old literary types. And this one is about Leon Wieseltier. https://airmail.news/...
James Palmer / @beijingpalmer: it's good when a terrible person like serial sexual harasser Leon Wieseltier launches something that sounds absolutely goddamn unreadable. saves us any dilemmas on art vs artist https://airmail.news/...
@yousefmunayyer: Find yourself someone who thinks as highly of you as this guy thinks of himself https://airmail.news/...
Alexander Nazaryan / @alexnazaryan: “There was the reported gram-a-day cocaine habit.” https://airmail.news/...
Sonny Bunch / @sonnybunch: This piece has all sorts of interesting little tidbits about Leon Wieseltier and his new ... periodical book? ... but this is by far my favorite. https://airmail.news/... https://twitter.com/...
David Klion / @davidklion: Wow, they made a whole new publication just for me https://airmail.news/... https://twitter.com/...
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Scribd buys SlideShare from LinkedIn for an undisclosed sum; SlideShare has a content library of 40M presentations and 100M monthly unique visitors — SlideShare has a new owner, with LinkedIn selling the presentation-sharing service to Scribd for an undisclosed price.
Discussion:
@sameerpatel, @marktraphagen, @scribd, @leeodden, @martinsfp, @jboutelle, @randfish, @amitranjan, Beyond Search, Scribd Blog and ZDNet
Discussion:
Sameer Patel / @sameerpatel: Glad to see that @slideshare found a home w @Scribd. That said, I wanted to see it work within @LinkedIn. It made a ton of sense to me as an integrated tool for professional expression. On that note, I hope that @LinkedIn doesn't ship off its blogging feature to @Medium.
@marktraphagen: Dare we hope that Scribd will bring Slideshare's featured content functions back from the dead? https://techcrunch.com/...
@scribd: We are proud to welcome SlideShare to the Scribd family! Our mission is to change the way the world reads by providing readers with unparalleled access to the world's best content. Today, we're excited to add over 40 million presentations to our reading ecosystem.
Lee Odden / @leeodden: Hopefully Scribd will restore / add functionality to make SlideShare useful again. https://twitter.com/...
Martin Sfp Bryant / @martinsfp: I don't understand why a professional networking giant owned by the maker of PowerPoint would want to sell SlideShare https://techcrunch.com/...
Jonathan Boutelle / @jboutelle: LinkedIn drove @SlideShare into the ground and made it irrelevant. Hope @Scribd and @tripadler can bring back some of the social magic. https://techcrunch.com/...
Rand Fishkin / @randfish: Wow. This is shocking and wonderful news. Scribd acquired Slideshare from LinkedIn (who ignored the product so badly, I left it for PowerPoint online after 12+ years of loyal use). Fingers crossed they invest in improvements: https://blog.scribd.com/...
Amit Ranjan / @amitranjan: SlideShare has a new home! Scribd has acquired SlideShare from LinkedIn. Not surprised by this move... the product had became a pale shadow of its earlier avataar as LinkedIn had stopped investing in its growth. Scribd & SlideShare together clearly is... https://techcrunch.com/...
Stephen E. Arnold / Beyond Search: SlideShare: Some Work to Do — DarkCyber noted “Scribd Acquires Presentation Sharing Service SlideShare from LinkedIn.”
Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: Scribd to acquire Slideshare from LinkedIn
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
News Corp CEO Robert Thomson says it will continue its Apple News partnership because the arrangement helps introduce potential new subscribers to the WSJ — News Corp. will continue to allow tech giant Apple to disseminate its news articles through the Apple News platform because the arrangement …
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