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Glenn Greenwald publishes his email exchange with Intercept editors about his Biden story, which he says precipitated his resignation — Given The Intercept's vehement denials, readers are entitled to see for themselves what the truth is: transparency journalism with integrity requires.
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Zeynep Tufekci / @zeynep: What does the brouhaha over media and the Hunter Biden allegations tell us? First, it's about attention, not speech. Second, I'm baffled that we're not paying attention to the blatant blackmail. Why aren't we discussing that? I wrote about it for @insight. https://zeynep.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Johnson / @nbcjoshua: Some people claim the press is suppressing the Hunter Biden email story. Fact is, NBC News did investigate it, but we didn't run with it because we couldn't verify it. And yes, we tried: over and over and over. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
David Frum / @davidfrum: Useful summary by @KenDilanianNBC on how Giuliani team has made it impossible to verify authenticity of claims about Hunter Biden / Joe Biden https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Emails With Intercept Editors Showing Censorship of My Joe and Hunter Biden Article There's no reason for anyone to have to decide who to believe. Feel free to see for yourselves what really happened: https://greenwald.substack.com/ ...
Jacob Silverman / New Republic: Glenn Greenwald Throws a Fit
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: “Why isn't the media covering the Hunter Biden emails???” @KenDilanianNBC and @Tom_Winter show their work. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Colby Hall / Mediaite: Tucker Carlson, Partisan Opinion Host, Rages at Reporters For Doing Their Job on Hunter Biden Story
David Frum / @davidfrum: Includes weird detail about how DEA picked up a computer supposedly owned by Hunter Biden when it raided the medical offices of a former Fox News contributor accused of professional misconduct. https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: I won't do a tit-for-tat with The Intercept. I get that need to defend themselves. But just note: 1) Ask Betsy Reed why they won't publish an accounting of what happened with Reality Winner & who that cover-up is protecting. 2) “Great journalism” that nobody reads isn't great.
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “Whistle-blowing is designed to focus our attention on something that is being kept from the public... Whistle-drowning is designed to flood the public [with] a flurry of allegations that make it very difficult to concentrate.” https://zeynep.substack.com/ ... Recommended. By @zeynep
Ryan Cooper / @ryanlcooper: odd that in his 10k word article about how the media is covering up this story, ole Glenn never mentions this. instead he heavily implies the opposite https://greenwald.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Ross Anderson / @rossjanderson: Zeynep is, as always, an acute observer of the strategy and tactics of modern information warfare. The mainstream press must get smarter about how they're being played https://twitter.com/...
David Frum / @davidfrum: Many have reported on Hunter Biden as a rogue relative in the mold of Billy Carter. Here's the New Yorker in 2019. So none of that is news. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Here's the article that I wrote about Joe Biden's conduct in Ukraine & China, based on Hunter's emails and other witness testimony, along with a critique of media lies designed to protect the Democratic candidate, which The Intercept refused to publish: https://greenwald.substack.com/ ...
Paris Martineau / @parismartineau: “none of my articles is edited” https://greenwald.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Tana Ganeva / @tanaganeva: Sometimes when I work with female editors, they're profoundly apologetic about edits and I'm like “Why are you saying sorry for making my crappy writing better?” And now I realize it's because they have to deal with ... https://newrepublic.com/...
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: The amazing self-own of “unless it presents original reporting...” https://twitter.com/...
Zaid Jilani / Quillette: How The Intercept Abandoned Its Truth-Seeking Mission—And Lost Its Best Journalist
Dr. Jill Stein / @drjillstein: Assange is in solitary. Snowden's in exile. Corbyn's suspended by his own party. Now Glenn Greenwald's been censored by The Intercept. There's a war on truth-tellers & you could be next. “First they came for Assange and I said nothing...” https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Walther / The Week: How the liberal consensus exercises its power
Jack Crosbie / Discourse Blog: What We're Reading This Week
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: Well, damn. https://theintercept.com/...
Hunter Walker / @hunterw: It also seems pretty clear based on the materials Glenn Greenwald put online that his editors were not actually asking him to remove all materials relating to Joe Biden as he has alleged https://greenwald.substack.com/ ...
Matthew Garrahan / @mattgarrahan: Glenn Greenwald torpedoed by his own editors https://theintercept.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Katie Halper / @kthalps: I sincerely don't understand what my fellow lefties, even the ones who object to Greenwald's appearances on Tucker Carlson, think he did wrong here. Can you articulate it? Here's @mtaibbi's piece, which documents the exchange between GG & TI. https://taibbi.substack.com/ ...
Andrew Prokop / @awprokop: Greenwald's editor: Hey, keep in mind that Tony Bobulinski was Trump's debate guest Greenwald: I saw Bobulinski on Tucker and have concluded he's “inherently credible” (Not mentioned: Bobulinski reportedly worked with Trump's team for weeks beforehand) https://greenwald.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Evan Hill / @evanchill: These emails show an extremely generous editor trying to ensure his publication adheres to the facts and a mission of informing the public and a writer whose primary goal seems to be neither https://greenwald.substack.com/ ...
Laura Bassett / @lebassett: This is a self-own. All the emails show is impressive editorial rigor. The editor is worried Greenwald's claims aren't factual, as he hasn't backed them up. https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Beck / @glennbeck: Another journalist censored. How do those who thought Greenwald was a ‘brave journalist’, now call him crazy, reckless or on the ‘Trump train.’ It just might be possible, the guy that broke the news on national surveillance - just reports the truth. https://greenwald.substack.com/ ...
Alexa O'Brien / @alexadobrien: I can't find the tweet now (I read it earlier, & looked and looked), but I support the sentiment that if Pulitzer were given for editor's note, this one surely deserves the prize. https://theintercept.com/...
Christopher Miller / @christopherjm: This piece is unreadable and nuts and filled with inaccuracies. Greenwald citing Taibbi citing Vogel on Ukraine and Shokin and Burisma is 🤯🤣. None of these guys are well sourced in Ukraine, they've inaccurately reported on the country and fueled right-wing conspiracy theories. https://twitter.com/...
@edburmila: I am just embarrassed for him, choosing Tony Bobulinski as the hill to die on. https://greenwald.substack.com/ ...
Stacy Lee Kong / @stacyleekong: Imagine your editor sends you a super specific and detailed edit note explaining just how badly you argued your thesis and then you post it for everyone to see 🤯 https://greenwald.substack.com/ ...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: This is all very good, thorough feedback. It's a good thing when editors ask questions and point out inconvenient facts. https://greenwald.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: I have been friends with @maassp for years. He's a mensch. https://twitter.com/...
Noah Berlatsky / @nberlat: rarely has anyone self owned this hard or this self righteously. or at such interminable length. https://twitter.com/...
Delian / @zebulgar: can you imagine telling @hamishmckenzie a few years ago that substack would be national news because one of america's most prominent journalists left the media org they founded... so they could join substack?? and publish their take on the biden emails??? wowieeee wowieeee https://twitter.com/...
@taber: facing accusations that he was just throwing a gigantic fucking hissy fit, Greenwald boldly chooses to prove it beyond all doubt, and additionally instill in writers a sense of awe at what kind of excellent guidance you can get from a really sensational editor if you're Important https://twitter.com/...
Charles Gasparino / @cgasparino: Most baffling for me: MSM continues to blow it off this story even though neither @JoeBiden nor Hunter have denied the authenticity of the emails -Article on Joe and Hunter Biden Censored By The Intercept - @ggreenwald https://greenwald.substack.com/ ...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Um. Those seem to show some pretty decent editing, in that your editors asked you to fix some problems in your piece that you did not support with much evidence, and then you losing it over some good suggestions? Is this really the stand you wanted to take? https://twitter.com/...
Matt Novak / @paleofuture: what if glenn got hit by that secret cia microwave thing and it scrambled his brain tho https://twitter.com/...
Tyler DiBOOcci / @tylerdinucci: it's unreal but also unsurprising that Glenn thought these emails made him look good. read them! have a laugh. https://twitter.com/...
Jack Crosbie / @jscros: for a long time at splinter i had a running bit where @kath_krueger was censoring my ideas by turning down pitches related to the fast and furious series but i never thought i'd see someone commit to it this hard
Jack Crosbie / @jscros: Emails With My Very Patient and Professional Editors That Show They, Not Me, Are Cowardly Propagandists With No Moral Values
David Klion / @davidklion: I cannot imagine anyone who has ever worked as an editor reading this exchange and thinking Glenn is the victim here https://greenwald.substack.com/ ...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: These emails seem to show thoughtful editors trying to responsibly publish this piece and you going nuclear and immediately accusing them of censorship? https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: pulling out increasingly larger magnifying glasses trying to find the damning part https://twitter.com/...
Matt Taibbi / Reporting: Glenn Greenwald On His Resignation From The Intercept
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Peter Sterne / New York Magazine:
Greenwald's break with The Intercept was inevitable: he planned to leave, viewed editing as censorship, and Substack may be able to match his six-figure salary — On Thursday, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald denounced The Intercept, the news outlet he co-founded six years ago, and announced his immediate resignation.
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Alexa O'Brien / @alexadobrien: Glenn Greenwald lied in his account in the Edward Snowden saga, (from Bart Gellman's Dark Mirror). https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@niemanlab: “Not only may Substack be able to give Greenwald the six-figure salary he had, it may be able to give him something even more valuable — the ability to publish whatever he wants, free of any editorial oversight and colleagues who hold a different view.” https://nymag.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: He “never, ever soiled himself with the day-to-day business of news gathering” — the brave, globally acclaimed and extremely accomplished Intercept Deputy Editor @RogerdHodge, suddenly courageous enough to voice little sniping grievances to @NYMag. https://nymag.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@pbmcbeth: Good piece in ny mag - interesting shifts going on with some marquee journos out there https://twitter.com/...
Reza Aslan / @rezaaslan: Raise your hand if Glenn Greenwald used to be your friend until you gently, slightly criticized a take of his on twitter and then he immediately blocked you. 🙋🏽♂ ️ Temper tantrum indeed. https://twitter.com/...
Tpampalone / Global Investigative Journalism Network: What We're Reading: Greenwald Out of The Intercept, Collaborating on Pandemic Data, and Bellingcat's Updated Toolkit
Joe Berkowitz / @joeberkowitz: The Intercept: *applies editorial standards* Glenn Greenwald: https://twitter.com/...
Amy Argetsinger / @amyargetsinger: @Sulliview Honestly, my impulse after that letter was to rage-edit, but then you turned in 93% flawless copy, so what could I do?
@jslez: @Sulliview Hahaha 💛 i want it on the record that I am an automatic subscribe to your substack should the need arise
Anna Holmes / @annaholmes: GG didn't give a shit about me, about black people, or about anything other than scoring points against the idea that there was a censorious cadre of youngs within FLM. So please spare me the idea that he was in any way a defender.
Anna Holmes / @annaholmes: Also: “financial reasons.” 🙄
Anna Holmes / @annaholmes: They were not “glamorous portraits,” and the idea that I needed to be - or was being - defended because of anything but self-interest is laughable. https://nymag.com/...
Shuja Haider / @shujaxhaider: gonna remember how everyone insisted “editing is not censorship” next time i ask one of you to cut a tangential personal anecdote
@petersterne: @BGrueskin @theintercept When I called @rogerdhodge, I asked if he wanted to go on background and he said, no I want to talk on the record.
@petersterne: @ggreenwald I'm about to publish an article about you and The Intercept, with a particular focus on the cultural climate of the newsroom. So far, I haven't been able to get in touch with you to hear your perspective directly, but I'd still like to at some point.
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: I would subscribe to a Substack that consists solely of editors' and reporters' nasty notes to each other.
Dan Kennedy / @dankennedy_nu: @BGrueskin I think it's worth investigating Greenwald's claim that he had a contractual right not to be edited. (What a terrible idea.) That would seem to trump any discussion about normal editorial practice.
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Greenwald's draft clocks in around 5,700 words. His editor suggests it be cut to around 2,000
Justin Miller / @justinjm1: NEW: Intercept staff say Greenwald was distancing himself from for years and was increasingly upset by “cancel culture” from younger journalists protesting certain speech. @petersterne reports: https://nymag.com/...
Amy Plitt / @plitter: ""Glenn considers editing censorship," Hodge said. “That's his general position. He regards any editorial intervention as censorship."" 🙄🙄🙄 https://nymag.com/...
@intelligencer: Glenn Greenwald says he was being canceled, but insiders at The Intercept say he ostracized himself. @petersterne reports on Greenwald's resignation from the news outlet he co-founded six years ago https://nymag.com/...
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: My editor is being very nice to me today. The Greenwald Effect???
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: “Glenn's idea of The Intercept was a chorus of Glenns, people who agree with Glenn,” Hodge said. “That was his vision, and that was why he became increasingly frustrated with the newsroom.” https://nymag.com/... via @intelligencer
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Every editor in America is saying, “Damn, I wish they'd let me write notes like that” https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Gotta hand it to @theintercept editors: When they criticize Greenwald, they do it on the record. None of that anonymous backstabbing stuff you get from most news orgs. via @petersterne https://nymag.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@newrepublic: In his spectacular departure from The Intercept, Glenn Greenwald previewed a new media venture that seems destined to showcase the most insufferable people in American media, writes @SilvermanJacob. https://newrepublic.com/...
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fact-checking finds more problems with The Atlantic story on niche sports by Ruth S. Barrett, who had a scandal-ridden record when using the byline Ruth Shalit — Over a couple of paragraphs in a recent story on niche sports and college athletics, Ruth S. Barrett writes of two injuries sustained …
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Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Late last night The Atlantic attached an editor's note to its story on niche sports, saying that author Ruth Shalit Barrett “deceived” the magazine about the central person in the narrative, a woman ID'd as “Sloane”: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Steadman&trade / @asteadwesley: wildest editors note I've ever seen https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Jennifer Maas / The Wrap: Washington Post Writer Who Debunked Atlantic Story Says ‘Fencing Injuries’ Tipped Him Off
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Truly. At this point, should the Atlantic just take down the story or leave it up? I cannot decide. One thing for sure the last line about their being wrong about hiring of Shalit to do a story is accurate. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Weinman / @sarahw: Truly amazed* that Ruth Shalit got an infinite number of second chances before plagiarizing in grand fashion again *not amazed at all https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Willis / @owillis: It's amazing the latitude given to ... ahem... certain people in journalism. I assure you if someone who looked more like me had this track record of fabrication they wouldn't still be writing at the Atlantic. And we all know it. https://twitter.com/...
Leon Neyfakh / @leoncrawl: i was only vaguely aware of the ruth shalit story until this latest round, but i feel like i know enough to say this is a bummer for anyone who believes in second chances... imagine discrediting not just yourself but the very concept of redemption https://twitter.com/...
Amy Argetsinger / @amyargetsinger: >>@ErikWemple truth-squadding the hell out of that Atlantic story about rich-kids sports is exactly what I needed on the last weekend before Election Day, and it may be what you need too. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Sarah Baird / @scbaird: this whole atlantic niche-sports-story nightmare should really bring up a lot of bigger questions, too, like: why choose to give a “second chance” to a person like this over a first chance to one of the 1000s of amazing underemployed journalists out there? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Eric Michael Garcia / @ericmgarcia: Reminder that Ruth Shalit initially got busted after she wrote an extremely racist piece essentially saying that Black people were not qualified to work at @washingtonpost and the paper had to lower its standards to hire Black people. https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: It gives me anxiety to even read about what she did here. I am so paranoid about getting even tiny non-essential details wrong, and the idea of intentionally fabricating something or constructing a composite or “compressing a timeline” gives me hives. Like panic attack territory. https://twitter.com/...
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: Take the story down and leave the correction up? https://twitter.com/...
Sean Keeley / Awful Announcing: The Atlantic adds editor's note to niche sports article saying author with history of plagiarism “deceived” them
John Warner / @biblioracle: All you really need to prevent the kind of shenanigans that Shalit is up to here is to read carefully and closely. @ErikWemple did it and then backed up his close reading by consulting sources and experts. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Mike Pesca / @pescami: Nice job from @ErikWemple. But @stefanfatsis @josh_levin and @byjoelanderson made an great point on https://podcasts.apple.com/.... The young affluent athletes are extended anonymity. Why? AAU kids are not extended such courtesy https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Kevin Van Valkenburg / @kvanvalkenburg: There are so many great journalists dying for a break, any kind of break where someone important believes in them, and why instead some very bad actors are given endless chances by the same gatekeepers to redeem themselves (when they can't resist lying again!) is baffling. https://twitter.com/...
Asma Khalid / @asmamk: “We took into consideration the argument that Barrett deserved a second chance to write feature stories such as this one.” The unasked question — who gets second chances? https://twitter.com/...
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite: The Atlantic Runs Enormous and Brutal Correction on Controversial Story About WASPs: The Author ‘Deceived’ Us
Dan Kennedy / @dankennedy_nu: 4. You would think that at a certain point Shalit would have realized that journalism wasn't for her. But here she is again. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... -30-
Hannah Gais / @hannahgais: the thing that deeply pisses me off about the “second chance” narrative is how many of us would actually be given a second chance by prestigious magazines for making mistakes that were actually innocuous and not indicative of, say, intent to mislead readers. https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Kudos to Erik for his fact-checking on this Atlantic piece, without which we would never have gotten what could be the world's longest correction https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Jones / @jjones9: The woman who a quarter-century ago railed against diverse hiring practices in journalism (thousands of worthless words!) got more chances after committing the profession's cardinal sin and is given the platform to commit the cardinal sin yet again #WhitePrivilege https://twitter.com/...
Byron York / @byronyork: From Washington Post: 'The Atlantic's troubled niche-sports story.' Atlantic seems to have more than its share of troubled stories these days... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@esotericcd: So what's insane about this is that Shalit was famously implicated in massive plagiarism and journalistic falsification scandals at WaPo and New Republic LONG LONG AGO. It should be inconceivable that anyone would give her an MSM platform again, but The Network is The Network. https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: I have written two pieces on this episode, one about the reemergence of Ruth Shalit Barrett: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... And another about a number of problems with the story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
David M. Perry / @lollardfish: “bloody themselves in medieval fashion to advance their parents' college-admissions schemes.” #medievalwatch But also possible fabulism https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: What's weirdest for those of us who remember the 1990s @newrepublic is that what @ErikWemple finds here is much more Stephen Glass than Ruth Shalit https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Helaine Olen / @helaineolen: Today's must read from @ErikWemple. Remember that almost too good to be true @TheAtlantic piece on Fairfield County sports parents? Well ........https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Annie Gowen / @anniegowen: Great reporting by @erikwemple on the factual inaccuracies in @TheAtlantic story about the competitive world of youth niche sports. Stunning they would hire Ruth Shalit, one of journalism's notorious fabulists https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: Erik Wemple gets results. The Atlantic tells him: “We are conducting a review of charges related to the accuracy of certain sections of this piece. When we complete our review, we will report to our readers fully any information that needs to be corrected https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Elon Green / @elongreen: just thinking back a decade, when, on the occasion of Dave Weigel's move to the Post, Jeffrey Goldberg said the paper “hires people who came up in journalism without much adult supervision, and without the proper amount of toilet-training.” https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen / @alixabeth: Been waiting for this. To me the tip off was an article about non-revenue sports that didn't touch Title IX. But that wasn't the only clue. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Megan Greenwell / @megreenwell: As a former elite junior fencer who loves a good journalism scandal, I must thank @ErikWemple for targeting my particular interests so precisely. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Dracubert Nosferatko / @albertburneko: oh wow, the story that instantly set off every reader's bullshit alarm, by the famous bullshitter, appears to have in fact been a bunch of bullshit https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Michael Caley / @mc_of_a: we now have confirmation that the confessed plagiarist hiding her identity behind a married name made up this story and also it was obviously insane to start with I fenced for years and this NEVER happens, the blades aren't like that https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jim Manley / @jamespmanley: Ruth shalit. Now here is a name I never wanted to hear again. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Das / @andrewdasnyt: Just re-upping this story because it turns out the author is a convicted plagiarist and some of the best details in the piece don't stand up to scrutiny. Man, you can't even trust in your schadenfreude in 2020. This year sucks. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ryan McCarthy / @mccarthyryanj: Some classic Wemple-ing here on the Atlantic's story about Fairfield County parents https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Oblivier Knox / @oknox: For a certain generation of Beltway reporters, this is a little triggering. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Leon Neyfakh / @leoncrawl: i love @ErikWemple for insisting on calling himself “this blog.” blogs forever https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Twitter allows NY Post's account to tweet again, updating its practice of “not retroactively overturning prior enforcement” — Social-media company reverses policy that previously required newspaper to delete old tweets before being able to tweet again
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@twittersafety: Our policies are living documents. We're willing to update and adjust them when we encounter new scenarios or receive important feedback from the public. One such example is the recent change to our Hacked Materials Policy and its impact on accounts like the New York Post.
Bruce Golding / New York Post: How tweet it is: Twitter backs down, unlocks Post's account
@twittersafety: This means that because a specific @nypost enforcement led us to update the Hacked Materials Policy, we will no longer restrict their account under the terms of the previous policy and they can now Tweet again.
@twittersafety: In response, we're updating our practice of not retroactively overturning prior enforcement. Decisions made under policies that are subsequently changed & published can now be appealed if the account at issue is a driver of that change. We believe this is fair and appropriate.
Ben Domenech / @bdomenech: After CNN's precious flower @jaketapper begged the @nypost to just lie and sign away their honor earlier today, Twitter acknowledges the truth and finally bends. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Thompson / @alxthomp: Murdoch wins Nypost is unlocked https://twitter.com/...
Tom Fitton / @tomfitton: .@Twitter is engaged in deceptive business practices. Political censorship under the laughable guise of a “hacked materials policy” is false advertising and a fraud on the public. @FTC @TheJusticeDept @SEC https://twitter.com/...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Yet another reason why transparency around content moderation is overrated. Twitter has actually done a good job explaining its policies, and how and why they've changed. And every single response is angry people mocking them and claiming they're lying or assuming ulterior motive https://twitter.com/...
Celine Castronuovo / The Hill: Twitter changes policy, unlocks New York Post account after standoff
Todd Spangler / Variety: Twitter Unblocks Account of New York Post, Which Claims Victory in Standoff Over Biden Stories
Nancy Scola / @nancyscola: Twitter just changed course & unlocked the @nypost's account. Its previous approach was to say the even though the relevant policy had changed, its application of it wasn't ‘retroactive.’ https://twitter.com/...
House Judiciary Gop / @judiciarygop: Free speech wins. @jack caves. Welcome back, @nypost! https://twitter.com/...
Brit Hume / @brithume: Thread. Twitter backs down, which is the right thing to do. (wonder if I can get @Twitter to stop slapping “sensitive content” warnings on my posts, including one that was a golf tip.) https://twitter.com/...
Sean Davis / @seanmdav: Bravo to the New York Post, founded by Alexander Hamilton and in continuous circulation in the U.S. since 1801, for refusing to bend the knee to the corrupt technocracy that is Big Tech. Never bow before totalitarians. https://twitter.com/...
Sohrab Ahmari / @sohrabahmari: As early as this afternoon, prominent journalists [!] were urging us to back down in the face of lefty-tech-bro bullying. The lesson: Never, ever give up when you have truth on your side. https://twitter.com/...
@stonekettle: Point to the part where any person or business is constitutionally guaranteed access to any particular social media platform. Also, remind me: back when we were arguing about a citizen's right to access the internet without gatekeeping by ISPs, what was the Republican position? https://twitter.com/...
Miranda Yaver / @mirandayaver: The First Amendment protects against government censorship of speech and the press. Twitter is not the government. You know this. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Rosenwald / @brianros1: FFS. Facebook and Twitter are not the government. They can ban whoever they want and no one's freedom of speech is affected. Thank you for attending my Ted (Correction) Talk. https://twitter.com/...
Deadline: Twitter Unlocks New York Post Account, Claims It Revised Policy And Allows Hunter Biden Links
Breck Dumas / TheBlaze: Twitter finally unlocks New York Post's account after two-week ban over Hunter Biden report
Corinne Reichert / CNET: Twitter is no longer restricting the New York Post's account
Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: In its latest confusing decision, Twitter reinstates The New York Post
Mairead McArdle / National Review: Twitter Relents, Unlocks New York Post's Account after Blocking Hunter Biden Reports
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News: Twitter backs down, lifts New York Post's suspension after lengthy standoff over Hunter Biden report
Sara Fischer / Axios: Twitter unlocks New York Post's account
Sebastian Tong / Bloomberg: Twitter Clears the N.Y. Post to Tweet Again After Policy Change
Kerry Flynn / CNN:
The NYT podcast The Daily plans to host its first-ever live show, from 4pm to 8pm on Election Day, anchored by Michael Barbaro and Carolyn Ryan on the NYT site — New York (CNN Business)The New York Times' (NYT) news podcast, “The Daily,” is planning to host its first-ever live show on Tuesday to cover Election Day.
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Sam Dolnick / @samdolnick: The Daily — LIVE BROADCAST! This is going to be really fun. https://www.cnn.com/...
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Tim Davie says that BBC journalists can attend Pride marches, if they aren't seen as taking a stand on “politicized issues”, though what that means is unclear — Non-politicised participation allowed, Tim Davie says, as newsrooms call for clarity on new impartiality rules
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Benjamin Butterworth / @benjaminbutter: Exclusive: BBC staff have been banned from attending LGBT pride events and told they could be suspended if they breach the new rules. David Jordan, the head of editorial policy and standards, took the decision on Wednesday. https://inews.co.uk/...
Benjamin Butterworth / inews.co.uk: BBC staff told they could be suspended if they attend LGBT pride events under new rules
Leanne Wood / @leannewood: So now, according to the BBC, being gay or non-binary is political. https://inews.co.uk/...
Dean Cooper-Cunningham / @whereisdean: Someone rent Tim a JCB because he just keeps digging... Pride is political and so it should be. The rights of minorities should be supported by the BBC not painted as something up for debate. Pandering to Tories is revolting & ironically not impartial. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Andy Burnham / @andyburnhamgm: If true, this needs to be challenged. Are they seriously saying that BBC staff working at @MediaCityUK can't attend @ManchesterPride? https://twitter.com/...
Brighton & Hove Pride / @pridebrighton: The lives of Trans people and our QTIPOC family are not up for debate. All BBC staff should be able to attend Pride event's without fear of repercussions, and yes that includes in support of our trans communities and Black Lives Matter. #WeStandTogether https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Nazir Afzal / @nazirafzal: If true I don't recall the BBC getting an exemption from the Equality Act, the Human Rights Act & Employment Legislation that forbids discrimination https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Adonis / @andrew_adonis: It is unacceptable that BBC staff, or anyone employed anywhere in Britain, should be banned from attending pride marches. A real blow to equal rights. If this is accurate, Tim Davie & the BBC need to reconsider urgently https://inews.co.uk/...
@jonvanbondy: Because apparently my rights as a gay man, or a black person's rights, are controversial and ‘still up for debate’. The blinding irony here is that this rule is itself the opposite of impartial. Trans people exist. Gay people exist. https://inews.co.uk/...
Manoj Dias-Abey / @mdiasabey: Once you start drawing artificial boundaries between the political and non-political, you end up in all sorts of stupid places https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
@thestephenralph: I had a pretty low opinion of Lord Hall because of how he ruined @BBCNews. Today, my view of Tim Davie has already fallen to the same level and he's only been in the job 5 minutes. 😒 #BBC #TimDavie #BBCNews https://twitter.com/...
Alex Taylor / @alextaylornews: What on EARTH does this now mean ? 😀 In 40 yrs I've never been to a 🏳️🌈 Pride which wasn't “politicized” (legal discrimination, Clause 28, gay marriage, gay adoption, transgender rights etc) So BBC employees can go just as long as they only wear glitter and disco-dance ??? 😀😀 https://twitter.com/...
@europride: The UK's national broadcaster has made a serious error of judgment. More than 250 journalists worldwide are in prison (according to @pressfreedom) and support for human rights and equality should never be contentious. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Sue Nelson / @sciencenelson: This could also apply to a female staff member in news/current affairs taking part in a Women's Day March on her day off. https://twitter.com/...
Peter Jukes / @peterjukes: Davie “staff need to ensure that they are not seen to be taking a stand on politicised or contested issues” But genocide, apartheid, civilian war casualties, racism, climate change - they're all contested by someone. This isn't a policy. It's retreat https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Miles King / @milesking10: oh. err.... how would they express their non-politicised attendance. https://twitter.com/...
Emily Gore-Censki / @emilygorcenski: Weird... you mean to tell me that not pushing back on a culture of rampant transphobia turns out to have wider reaching implications for civil rights and free expression? https://inews.co.uk/...
@technicallyron: BBC: “We have to be completely impartial” Also the BBC: “Let's put Nigel Farage on every programme” Also the BBC: “We better not say transgender people need rights so pride is now banned for some reason” https://twitter.com/...
Jack Monroe / @bootstrapcook: Can somebody explain how an employer barring an LGBT employee from attending a core community celebration for their protected characteristic is not an explicit contravention of the Equality Act? https://twitter.com/...
Femi / @femi_sorry: This is where you inevitably end up with a BBC so manically committed to the concept of “balance” that everything had to have two sides. Employees can't celebrate the rights of LGBT people. Next week they'll fire someone for saying racism is bad.... https://inews.co.uk/...
Seb Dance / @sebdance: This cannot be true? I'm absolutely stunned. To have the affirmation of LGBT rights contextualised as a matter of controversy is staggeringly offensive - not to mention unbelievably retrograde. There's more to this, surely?? https://twitter.com/...
Ian Betteridge / @ianbetteridge: Tim Davie's “clarification” that Pride is OK as long as you don't take part in anything “political” is pathetic, particularly given that last year the BBC withdrew from Belfast Pride because the issue of same-sex marriage is seen as “political” there. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Miqdaad Versi / @miqdaad: If I've understood this correctly, it says that BBC guidelines now allow staff to attend Pride marches but do not allow staff to attend a BLM rally? https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Peter R. Neumann / @peterrneumann: Not a lawyer, but pretty sure such a massive restriction of freedom of speech would be unlawful in most countries, definitely the US and Germany. He's essentially banning staff from expressing political views even outside work and in private capacity. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism:
Survey of 136 news industry leaders from 38 countries: 55% say remote work has helped efficiency and 48% are planning to downsize physical premises — Reckoning with the lack of diversity in newsrooms | Attracting, developing and retaining talent | Executive summary ↑
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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab: Reuters survey: 42% of news leaders globally say improving ethnic diversity in their newsroom is the highest diversity priority, while 18% say gender diversity
Federica Cherubini / @fedecherubini: Today we publish ‘Changing Newsrooms 2020’, a @risj_oxford report by @rasmus_kleis, @nicnewman & myself. We looked at how, at a time of unprecedented change, newsrooms are: - adapting to remote working - addressing diversity challenges - nurturing talent https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac .uk/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Yemisi Akinbobola / @dryemisi: Remote working may have increased productivity with less time commuting and socialising in the workplace, but it has impacted relationship building and concerns over welfare and creativity of staff Interesting report https://twitter.com/...
Chris Moran / @chrismoranuk: ‘Many news media are struggling to cope with reporting one of the biggest stories of our lifetimes while also trying to confront the need for various forms of internal change.’ Excellent stuff as always from @fedecherubini, @nicnewman and @rasmus_kleis https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac .uk/ ...
@mediavoicespod: A new report from the Reuters Institute found that nearly half — 48% — of newsroom leaders from around the world say their companies are planning to downsize their physical premises https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac .uk/ ...
@dcnorg: Reuters Institute surveyed a strategic sample of newsroom leaders from around the world on how their organizations are adapting to these external and internal challenges. https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac .uk/ ...
Tania L. Montalvo / @tanlmont: New report from @risj_oxford to understand how news organizations are adapting to current external and internal challenges with #covid19 around. Changing newsrooms 2020: addressing diversity and nurturing talent at a time of unprecedented change https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac .uk/ ...
Vignesh Ramachandran / Nieman Lab:
Brown Institute's Local News Lab is partnering with small- and medium-sized newsrooms to help build dynamic paywalls that adapt to content or reader behavior — Paywalls are nothing new. But using advances in machine learning to make paywalls “smarter” could help resource-strapped local newsrooms …
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@niemanreports: From @niemanlab: The new Local News Lab project ( @LocalAtBrown) helps small- and medium-sized news organizations take advantage of machine learning to deepen engagement and improve subscription conversions. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
@browninstitute: The Brown Institute is proud to be incubating a Local News Lab @LocalAtBrown. We are helping local newsrooms make use of computation/machine learning to sustain their businesses. We're starting with a “smart” paywall. Read more about it at the Nieman Lab! https://www.niemanlab.org/...
@spj_tweets: “The crux of the idea is to put an ask in front of the right reader at the right time. While many newsrooms might already have a metered paywall, the lab... might give some readers more articles, others fewer before they're prompted to engage.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Vignesh Ramachandran / @vigneshr: Great talking to @cocteau, @hannahjwise & @aljohri at @BrownInstitute's @LocalAtBrown Lab about their first project working with small- & medium-sized local newsrooms to experiment w/ “smart paywall” strategies using machine learning. New on @NiemanLab: https://www.niemanlab.org/...
David Bauder / Associated Press:
How news outlets are preparing for election night, with plans for extended live coverage and transparency about what's known and what isn't — NEW YORK (AP) — This coming weekend, CNN's Sam Feist will distribute to his staff copies of the testimony news executives gave to Congress …
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter: The AP and other media players have changed their game for making election night calls
@niemanlab: “Our byword of the night is transparency,” @MarcBurstein said. “We will tell people what we know. We will tell people what we don't know, and we will tell them why.” https://apnews.com/...
Vivian Schiller / @vivian: Cannot say this often enough. News organization do not ‘call’ the Presidential elections. That is the job of the electoral college. Projection, fine. This year precise language matter more than ever. https://www.ft.com/...
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: “Arnon Mishkin, director of the Fox News “decision desk” [and] Democrat who voted for Hillary Clinton [said]"We will give that guidance to all of our reporters: do not draw conclusions if you're seeing a lead that's inconsistent with pre-election polling"" https://www.ft.com/...
Christina A. Cassidy / @ap_christina: @AP: “We need to prepare ourselves for a different kind of election night,” said Sam Feist, CNN's Washington bureau chief, “and the word I keep using is ‘patience.’” https://apnews.com/...
Jason Gurwin / The Streamable:
YouTube TV says it is dropping NESN, the sports network for the Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins, on Saturday; NESN will only stream on fuboTV and AT&T TV NOW — Just a few weeks after losing Fox Sports RSNs, YouTube TV will be dropping NESN, the regional sports network coving the Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins.
Lauren Harris / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Priyanjana Bengani, who began researching “pink slime” journalism in 2019, on how it scales and the role of local outlets in discovering the phenomenon — Last week, outlets like the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and the New York Times reported the emergence …
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@cjr: “These guys have also bought two local newspapers that have been around for 100 years or so. They're basically leaning on the built-in credibility or legitimacy.” @acookiecrumbles talks about her research into shadow networks of partisan local news: https://www.cjr.org/...
@cjr: New: @LHarrisWrites talks with @acookiecrumbles about her research into local partisan shadow news networks, how numbers lend these sites legitimacy, and what happens next: https://www.cjr.org/...
Lauren Harris / @lharriswrites: Local news outlets are cutting back; shadowy partisan outlets with algorithmically-generated content are on the rise. @acookiecrumbles began investigating these sites a year ago, and she spoke with me about what she has observed in her research since then. https://www.cjr.org/...
Lara O'Reilly / Digiday:
Interview with Petra Wikström, director of public policy at Schibsted, on joining the Coalition for App Fairness to pressure app store owners to change rules — Nordic publishing giant Schibsted became one of 20 new members of the recently formed Coalition for App Fairness earlier this month.
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