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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
With fears that Trump may prematurely claim victory, journalists must to do something that is not in their nature: be patient and not join a rush to judgment — Almost two months before the 2016 presidential election, Dave Wasserman, an editor at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, wrote a prescient piece.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios: Scoop: Trump's plan to declare premature victory
@axios: BREAKING: Trump has told confidants he'll claim victory Tuesday night if it appears he's “ahead” — even if the outcome still hinges on uncounted votes in key states like Pennsylvania — according to three people familiar with his comments. https://www.axios.com/...
Andy Campbell / @andybcampbell: Early reminder that news orgs don't have to run the headline “Trump Declares Victory” just because he says it https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Since 2016, Trump's ongoing spectacle has slowed the decline of legacy media, but this election, regardless of who wins, marks the end of an era for the media — Trump made the legacy media great again. Here's what's next for them. — There's a media phenomenon the old-time blogger Mickey Kaus calls …
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@benyt, @nbj914, @stevesi, @mdudas, @pinboard, @bostonjoan, @zachstafford, @evelyndouek, @derekwillis, @mckaycoppins, @jayrosen_nyu, @benyt and @mmasnick
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Ben Smith / @benyt: There have been conversations at Twitter about acquiring Substack, seeing it as a kind of Twitter premium https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nicholas Jackson / @nbj914: Will Twitter buy Substack? Are tech bros going to fund their own tech-friendly outlets? Will Zucker, Baquet, Baron, and others announce their retirement? @benyt on what the news business might look like after the election: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi: This would be a long path to an edit button. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Dudas / @mdudas: “There are deep pools of money for a new assault on big media. ‘There will be a surge of money after the election, especially from tech bros who think they can fix everything,’ said one of the Substack writers who has drawn interest from tech investors.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@pinboard: Medium should acquire it first, and then get bought by Twitter, for the online publishing turfucken https://twitter.com/...
@bostonjoan: A lot has been lost to the major news outlets vs platform wars over the last few years. Watching those who have the resources to shape reality battle it out for ratings (which is just quantified attention) means that we need smaller news & tech companies to remain independent. https://twitter.com/...
Zach Stafford / @zachstafford: “And Lachlan Murdoch ends the election cycle as he began it: with no real control of the network's high-profile talent and an unusually low profile for a figure of his nominal political power.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Evelyn Douek / @evelyndouek: Newsletter content moderation backlash watch AND content cartel watch https://twitter.com/...
Derek Willis / @derekwillis: Look, when you've demonstrated complete success with one product, why not try another? https://twitter.com/...
McKay Coppins / @mckaycoppins: “Before the 2016 election, Andrew Lack, then the head of NBC News, warned colleagues that MSNBC's revenue would take a 30 percent hit if—when—Hillary Clinton was elected, two people familiar with the remark told me.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: I found this the most interesting part of Ben Smith's new column. @benyt “The old top-down newsroom management is a thing of the past. ‘Consent of the governed is something you have to take pretty seriously,’ he said...” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
In an editor's note, The Atlantic says it regrets commissioning a story by Ruth Shalit Barrett, has updated her byline, thought she deserved a “second chance” — In pointing out errors and fabrications in a wildly popular story about niche sports, the magazine said it was wrong …
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The Wrap, New York Post, @sidhubaba, @thewrap, @dabeard, @sharonwaxman, @crecenteb, The Federalist, @delavegalaw, @soledadobrien, @greta and @erikwemple
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Jennifer Maas / The Wrap: Washington Post Writer Who Debunked Atlantic Story Says ‘Fencing Injuries’ Tipped Him Off
Jorge Fitz-Gibbon / New York Post: The Atlantic pulls article on elite sports, admits inaccuracies
Siddhartha Mahanta / @sidhubaba: All that remains of the now-retracted Shalit article is the editor's note https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
@thewrap: A Washington Post media critic says he became suspicious of the “fencing injuries” Ruth Shalit Barrett described in her now-discredited story for The Atlantic https://www.thewrap.com/...
David Beard / @dabeard: How did @ErikWemple suspect that parts of a story in @TheAtlantic were made up? It was the supposed fencing injuries. “I had a general sense that fencers are really well protected and don't often suffer injuries as described in that story.” Bingo. https://www.thewrap.com/...
Sharon Waxman / @sharonwaxman: Great piece explaining the unraveling of the Ruth Shalit story in @TheAtlantic https://www.thewrap.com/...
Brian Crecente / @crecenteb: Big publications' never-ending issue of style over substance. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Kylee Zempel / The Federalist: Atlantic 'Editor's Note' Adds New Layers To The Magazine's Unethical Journalism Standard
Elizabeth de la Vega / @delavegalaw: Yeah. Getting stabbed in the carotid artery during a fencing bout? Ah, no...maybe pulling a hamstring. https://twitter.com/...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: Such good work by @ErikWemple and I think a mostly good response by @TheAtlantic. https://twitter.com/...
Greta Van Susteren / @greta: How many chances should journalists who lie or really bad behavior-in print or tv-get?What is kind and what is harming the american people? The Atlantic gave Ruth Shalit a ‘second chance’ 25 years after a journalism scandal. It ended with an ugly correct... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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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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@erikwemple, @asteadwesley, New York Times, @karaswisher, Awful Announcing, @kenwheaton, @akesslerdc, @lisettevoytko, @mathewi, @deggans, @jeffstone500, @brandonrittiman, @dancow, @jamieklingler, @jeremylittau, @constans, @brynstole, @bluespacecanary, @sdonnan, @lschmeiser, @d_twit, @kerryreid, @timcarman, @mollyratty, @bakerdphd, @dancow, @johnrussell99, @realjacobperry, @sarahw, @owillis, @leoncrawl, @davidlarter, @kvanvalkenburg, @ericmgarcia, @hannahgais, @sullivanamy, @arponbasu, @asmamk, @jjones9, @esotericcd, @scbaird, @sulliview, @mathewi, @dankennedy_nu, @espiers, @biblioracle, @erikwemple, The Wrap, Mediaite, @pescami, @amyargetsinger, @byronyork, @lollardfish, @jbenton, @helaineolen, @anniegowen, @jeremymbarr, @albertburneko, @elongreen, @mc_of_a, @alixabeth, @megreenwell, @mccarthyryanj, @oknox, @jamespmanley, @andrewdasnyt, @leoncrawl, @jackshafer and @erikwemple
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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/ ...
Michael Levenson / New York Times: The Atlantic Retracts Ruth Shalit Barrett Article on Niche Sports
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/...
Sean Keeley / Awful Announcing: The Atlantic retracts niche sports article, saying author with history of plagiarism “deceived” them
@kenwheaton: Sure. Let's give the reporter with a known history for making shit up another chance. What could possibly go wrong. ... You know what? They deserve this. https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Kessler / @akesslerdc: There are *so* many talented reporters looking for work right now who would have done an awesome job writing this story — ones who don't already have a history of plagiarism https://twitter.com/...
Lisette Voytko / @lisettevoytko: The length of this correction made me break into a cold sweat https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Seeing a lot of debate on this question — leave it up as a warning/mea culpa, or take it down? Take it down but leave the correction? https://twitter.com/...
Eric Deggans At Npr / @deggans: Wow. I have never seen an editors' note like that one... https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Stone / @jeffstone500: a note to aspiring fabulists: it is so much easier to *not* be a weird liar who makes up sources. https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Rittiman / @brandonrittiman: One thought for @TheAtlantic: Perhaps it is the article, and not the editor's note, which ought to appear in italics here. Holy. Smokes. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Nguyen / @dancow: Fuck that horseshit. Then call them editors, not “fact-checkers”. They didn't even look up a fact that @ErikWemple could find on Google: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jamie Klingler / @jamieklingler: This is a wild story- I'd remove it https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Littau / @jeremylittau: The correction is a READ. https://twitter.com/...
@constans: I should have seen the red flag in that Atlantic sports article— I was a fencer for many years and never once did I ever seen blood drawn (I did crack someone's rib once, though) https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Bryn Stole / @brynstole: Impression I got from the Rolling Stone / UVa. debacle was that, when a magazine's prime defense of a dubious story is to talk up their vaunted fact-checkers, the jig is likely up. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Socialism Or Barbarism / @bluespacecanary: Come for the article-sized editor's note, stay for the hilarious transparently fake anecdotes they haven't gotten to yet in their fact check https://twitter.com/...
Shawn Donnan / @sdonnan: I get why and that the writer has a history... But my contrarian thought is that in the middle of a pandemic and a consequential election campaign this seems like an awful lot of time to invest in debunking story about fencing... https://twitter.com/...
Lisa Schmeiser / @lschmeiser: This line in the correction stands out: “Barrett says that the fabricated son is the only detail about which she deceived our fact-checkers and editors.” https://twitter.com/...
@d_twit: Editors Note: “Sloan doesn't exist and we assigned this piece to a known liar and plagiarizer who lied to us — and with that being said, here's the piece about Sloan!” https://twitter.com/...
Kerry Reid / @kerryreid: So many great journalists out of work, but serial plagiarists and fabricators are given second and third chances at major publications. Ugh. https://twitter.com/...
Tim Carman / @timcarman: This correction covers just a fraction of the potential errors Erik unearthed with his reporting. Correcting the record is not fun. It's a messy and embarrassing process, but it has to be done. https://twitter.com/...
Mo Mo / @mollyratty: The Atlantic is full of awful decision makers, part 7,347. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dominique Baker / @bakerdphd: Wow and the wapo factcheck of the story is somehow worse than the editor's note? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Dan Nguyen / @dancow: I used to think being caught plagiarizing and fabricating resulted in the death penalty for a journalism career, based on what happened to Jayson Blair. Guess it's different for some folks https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
John Russell / @johnrussell99: Take the damn article down if it's such a damn mess. I would never read a story that started off with 12-paragraph editor's note describing all the author's mistakes and lies. https://twitter.com/...
@realjacobperry: Remember a few months back when I tried to tell everyone that @TheAtlantic has the most rigourus fact checking in the business? 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/...
David B. Larter / @davidlarter: TFW the editor's note is like 25% as long as the story. This is insanity. https://twitter.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/...
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/...
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/...
Amy Sullivan / @sullivanamy: What if I told you there were hundreds—nay, thousands—of talented journalists available to write for your magazine who haven't already been fired for making things up? 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/...
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/...
@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/...
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/ ...
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: Take the story down and leave the correction up? 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/...
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-
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/...
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/ ...
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/ ...
Jennifer Maas / The Wrap: The Atlantic Apologizes for Ruth Shalit Barrett Story After Fabrication, Multiple Inaccuracies Revealed
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite: The Atlantic Runs Enormous and Brutal Correction on Controversial Story About WASPs: The Author ‘Deceived’ Us
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/ ...
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/ ...
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/ ...
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/ ...
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/ ...
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/...
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/...
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/ ...
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/ ...
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/ ...
Leon Neyfakh / @leoncrawl: i love @ErikWemple for insisting on calling himself “this blog.” blogs forever https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
David Bauder / Associated Press:
AP says it will be more transparent with calling US elections, explaining how its experts make decisions and why they hold off declaring a winner in tight races — NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press, one of several news organizations whose declarations of winners drive election coverage …
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@tackettdc, @fbajak, @jakesherman, @s_m_i, @jongambrellap, @tackettdc, @andykroll, @apbennuckols and @joelockhart
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Michael Tackett / @tackettdc: “We don't want to be a dark, mysterious black box of 'We're going to declare a winner, and we're not going to tell you how we do it.' I don't think that benefits us, and I don't think it benefits democracy,” Buzbee said. https://apnews.com/...
Frank Bajak / @fbajak: Never has it been more vital for serious journalists to show their work, with a U.S. president who constantly seeks to denigrate and belittle their work. Here's how the @AP calls elections. https://apnews.com/...
Jake Sherman / @jakesherman: This is very useful. https://twitter.com/...
Stacy-Marie Ishmael / @s_m_i: “Race calling used to be hotly competitive, but the disaster of 2000 taught media organizations that the embarrassment of being wrong outweighed the satisfaction of being first.” https://apnews.com/...
@jongambrellap: “The @AP traditionally doesn't have a public face — as a wholesaler of information to other outlets, it is usually content to do its work and let others talk.” https://apnews.com/...
Michael Tackett / @tackettdc: “The Associated Press, one of several news organizations whose declarations of winners drive election coverage, is pulling back the curtain this year to explain how it is reaching those conclusions.” via @DBauder https://apnews.com/...
Andy Kroll / @andykroll: “The @AP plans to write stories explaining how its experts make decisions or why, in tight contests, they are holding back. If necessary, top news executives will speak publicly in interviews about the process...” https://apnews.com/...
Ben Nuckols / @apbennuckols: Here's how AP calls elections. In the interest of further transparency: Right now I am one of a couple dozen staffers in the Washington office, all of us wearing masks, doing a practice run for the jobs we will perform on election night. https://apnews.com/...
Joe Lockhart / @joelockhart: Very smart. https://twitter.com/...
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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
How news outlets are preparing for election night, with plans for extended live coverage and transparency about what's known and what isn't
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New York Times, Slate, @politics1com, @bristei, @aclu_mo, @jeffveillette, Variety, @ap, @ellenlweintraub, @mikeysmith, @stengel, The Wrap, @niemanlab, @vivian, @rasmus_kleis, @ap_christina, @ap, @ap_politics and Poynter
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times: Networks Pledge Caution for an Election Night Like No Other
Richard L. Hasen / Slate: Trump Can't Just “Declare Victory”
@politics1com: No matter who you watch this year for results - ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC or CNN - it will be an election night like none other seen before in how it will be presented to viewers: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Steinberg / @bristei: The networks know their Election Night coverage will have to go late. But their calculations suggest it's wise to start early.... https://variety.com/... via @variety
@aclu_mo: “Election law experts are urging patience and reminding people that election night calls by TV networks carry no legal weight. It takes states several days or even weeks to count all valid ballots before certifying results.” https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Veillette / @jeffveillette: A reminder that US presidential elections aren't actually ever finalized on election night. TV networks are often confident enough in their data to project a winner, but that's not the same as a final tally. This year will be more difficult to quickly project, that's all. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Steinberg / Variety: Election Day Is November 3. TV-News Coverage Has Already Started
@ap: @AP_Politics TV networks are adding experts in election law to their election night coverage teams to prepare for any legal challenges or irregularities. CBS expert David Becker says part of his job will be to bolster public confidence in the vote. https://apne.ws/v8hgIij
@ellenlweintraub: An election is not a reality show with a big reveal at the end. All we get on Election Night are projections from TV networks. We *never* have official results on Election Night. Counting ballots - all of 'em - is the appropriate, proper, and very legal way to determine who won. https://twitter.com/...
Mikey Smith / @mikeysmith: Elections never end on election day. They're called by the TV networks on election night, but it regularly takes weeks for the result to be officially certified by the states. Either the President doesn't know this, or he does and is laying the groundwork something bad. https://twitter.com/...
Richard Stengel / @stengel: The AP is a straight shooter when it comes to declaring winners on election night. More transparency + explanation is a good thing. And remember, in 2000, when the TV networks declared Bush the winner, AP would not because Florida was too close. #VOTE https://apnews.com/...
Jennifer Maas / The Wrap: Fox News President Hedges on Whether Trump Could Call In on Election Night
@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/...
@ap: News organizations preparing for next week's vote count are preaching caution. The onslaught of early voting and mail-in ballots will complicate what used to be a fairly cut-and-dried process of reporting election results. https://apne.ws/l3h8Snb
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.
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/...
@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.
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/...
Bruce Golding / New York Post: How tweet it is: Twitter backs down, unlocks Post's account
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/...
Alex Thompson / @alxthomp: Murdoch wins Nypost is unlocked https://twitter.com/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
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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@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/ ...
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/ ...
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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 — More than four out of ten newsroom employees believe ethnic diversity is the highest diversity priority in the next year …
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@niemanlab: “It is about allowing staff from diverse backgrounds to tell stories that are important to that group through the lens of that background and for people from that background in a way that resonates with them vs a homogeneous approach.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
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/...
Mark Graham / Internet Archive Blogs:
The Internet Archive starts adding banners on some Wayback Machine pages with links that provide contextual information from fact-checking organizations — Fact checking organizations and origin websites sometimes have information about pages archived in the Wayback Machine.
Discussion:
@internetarchive: NEW: fact-checking & context banners now on some #WaybackMachine pages. Our goal is to preserve the Web as it was published. In addition, fact checks & context about the original web page are important data for our users. Learn more abt our new efforts: https://blog.archive.org/...
@waybackmachine: Working to preserve our digital history, and recognizing issues around providing access to false and misleading information coming from different sources, the @internetarchive's @waybackmachine adds context banners to some archived Web pages: https://blog.archive.org/...
Donie O'Sullivan / @donie: The @internetarchive doesn't get enough love for being such a fantastic resource and organization. https://twitter.com/...
Parker Higgins / @xor: This is an impressive effort. Internet Archive links are definitely used to circumvent platform-level content notices, and this work should help close that loophole. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Hall / @mhall119: In the future, the Internet Archive is going to be the primary source for much of the history that gets told about our time. Time to donate to then again. https://twitter.com/...
Cindy Otis / @cindyotis_: Great to see, as people often link to an archived page to spread false claims. https://twitter.com/...
Cristina Tardguila / @ctardaguila: Great work, @waybackmachine. Congratulations, @factchecknet's members. We are stronger when we work together! 👏👏👏 https://blog.archive.org/...
Nathaniel Gleicher / @ngleicher: Great to see @internetarchive providing fact checks and context — especially highlighting web pages that were part of IO campaigns (h/t @Graphika_NYC). Integrating context like this around the internet helps ensure public debate is resilient, authentic, and informed. Well done! https://twitter.com/...
Renee DiResta / @noupside: This is attracting some twitter outrage this morning, suggesting it's “editorializing” that the archive is appending a banner that some sites were fact-checked or were linked to front operations. The perception that contextualizing is a form of censorship seems to be increasing. https://twitter.com/...
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: The @internetarchive is adding fact checks to some archived pages. “As a library, our intention is to provide access to source material that might otherwise disappear but doing so with context prominently displayed.” https://blog.archive.org/... @internetarchive
@balajis: More 1984 every day. Thankfully we have decentralized storage systems coming online just as the older systems get Orwellian. Not just blockchains, but IPFS, CRDTs, https://gun.eco/, and other dweb tech. Plus older but still important tools like git, BitTorrent, etc. https://twitter.com/...
Skepticalifornia / @skepticaliblog: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right” —1984 https://twitter.com/...
Ray Serrato / @raymserrato: This is a good step given recent research by @mitchaiet that shows how the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has sometimes been “weaponized to propagate and preserve health misinformation” circulating on social media platforms. https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Seth Cotlar / @sethcotlar: Wanna see something depressing as hell? Read the replies to this tweet by the Internet Archive. https://twitter.com/...
Laura Weffer / Poynter: How FactChat members are preparing for Election Day
New York Times:
How publishing houses are increasingly making senior-level hires and structural changes to improve diversity, like Hachette's newly launched imprint Legacy Lit — The push in book publishing for more authors and workers of color hasn't abated, and companies are increasingly making lasting changes to the way they do business.
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@nytimesbooks, @fredtjoseph, @msshanitarenee, @xanalter, @maritzamoulite, @newblackman, @hachetteus and Publishers Weekly
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@nytimesbooks: “I've seen Black voices become a trend, and I've seen the trend die,” Krishan Trotman said. She is starting a new Hachette imprint, Legacy Lit, focused on books by writers of color. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Frederick Joseph / @fredtjoseph: The publishing industry needs more editors like this. The lack of opportunity for non-white writers is a joke. https://twitter.com/...
Shanita Hubbard / @msshanitarenee: This is my book editor. She's the reason I chose Hachette publishing. I'm proud she selected my book to be part of her new imprint called Legacy Lit. She chose “Legacy” as the name because she believes in the impact of our books. I'm honored . https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alexandra Alter / @xanalter: Lots of big new hires and new imprints in publishing lately. Aminda Marqués González, executive editor of The Miami Herald, is joining Simon & Schuster as a VP and executive editor, and Krishan Trotman is starting her own imprint at Hachette, Legacy Lit. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Maritza Moulite / @maritzamoulite: “I've worked in publishing for more than 15 years, and I've seen Black voices become a trend, and I've seen the trend die,” Ms. Trotman said. “We should not have to wait for a moment in the country like George Floyd to wake everybody up ...” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mark Anthony Neal / @newblackman: 'The push in book publishing for more authors and workers of color hasn't abated, and companies are increasingly making lasting changes to the way they do business.' ‘There Are Tons of Brown Faces Missing’: Publishers Step Up Diversity Efforts https://www.nytimes.com/...
@hachetteus: We're proud to share the news of Hachette Book Group's newest imprint, Legacy Lit! Congratulations to new VP and Publisher @KrishanTrotman...we can't wait for what's to come! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ed Nawotka / Publishers Weekly: Hachette Launches BIPOC Imprint: Legacy Lit
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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The Intercept, Boing Boing, @ggreenwald, @ryantate, @richard_landes, Mediaite, @alexadobrien, @niemanlab, @ggreenwald, emptywheel, @ggreenwald, @pbmcbeth, @rezaaslan, @amyargetsinger, @jslez, @annaholmes, @annaholmes, @annaholmes, @shujaxhaider, @petersterne, @petersterne, @bgrueskin, @bgrueskin, @dankennedy_nu, @bgrueskin, @intelligencer, @justinjm1, @plitter, @sulliview, @mathewi, @bgrueskin, @bgrueskin and New Republic
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Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: I appreciate my former colleagues who have spoken out with threads like this. Takes a lot of courage & integrity to do so in a profession where jobs were already disappearing en masse pre-pandemic. Mass job loss is an under-discussed factor fostering journalistic group-think: https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Tate / @ryantate: This is contrary to my six years editing and working with @ggreenwald. He didn't equate editing with censorship, was reasonable, gracious. His broad freedom to express opinions was embraced as an asset as was cofounders' separation from daily management. https://nymag.com/...
Richard Landes / @richard_landes: that's job description for journalist? “I'm frankly surprised that he lasted as long as he did, bc he's clearly not a team player,” Intercept's Hodge said. “He's not somebody who can submerge himself in an organization and be part of a larger whole.” https://nymag.com/...
KJ Edelman / Mediaite: Intercept Founding Editor Jeremy Scahill Calls Greenwald's Attacks ‘Over the Top, Unnecessary, and Unjust’
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: 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/ ...
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/...
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
@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/...
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/...
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/...
Jacob Silverman / New Republic: Glenn Greenwald Throws a Fit
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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@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/...
@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/...
@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/...