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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo News:
Sources: Fox agreed to a 7-figure payout to Seth Rich's family in a deal made in time for Fox News President Jay Wallace and Sean Hannity to avoid depositions — WASHINGTON — Just as star anchor Sean Hannity and other high-profile Fox News figures were due to be deposed about their promotion …
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Bradley P. Moss / @bradmossesq: Makes sense. No way they wanted to let Hannity get deposed. https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: “Legal sources tell Yahoo News that the settlement includes a lucrative seven figure payment to the Rich family consistent with the size of payouts Fox News and related corporate entities have made in other cases that have brought them negative publicity.” https://news.yahoo.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: The late Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes (falsely) claimed it never had to correct a story. Now Fox has settled a suit for falsely accusing a slain DNC staffer of leaking Dem emails to Wikileaks in 2016. It still hasn't publicly apologized. My NPR story https://www.npr.org/...
Peter Weber / The Week: Trump's staffers are reportedly now avoiding him to stay out of legal jeopardy
Mike Butcher / @mikebutcher: Fox News has quietly paid a huge sum to settle a lawsuit over a bogus conspiracy story that Russia hacked the DNC and passed the party's emails to WikiLeaks. Story was totally fabricated and yet aided Trump's election. https://news.yahoo.com/... More here: https://www.yahoo.com/...
Michael Isikoff / @isikoff: Fox News agreed to a seven-figure payout to the parents of Seth Rich thereby avoiding scheduled depositions of Sean Hannity and @FoxNews president Jay Wallace https://news.yahoo.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: “ Fox News arranged to delay any announcement until this week — three weeks after the presidential election.” https://twitter.com/...
Rat King / @mikeisaac: funny how the only time Fox News and Hannity arent willing to spin baseless, unhinged narratives to the public is when theyre under oath in federal court https://news.yahoo.com/...
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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Fox News has settled a suit by the family of DNC staff member Seth Rich, over a 2017 story that claimed Rich had leaked DNC emails to WikiLeaks before his death — Fox News has settled a lawsuit filed by the family of Seth Rich, the former Democratic National Committee staffer who was at the center …
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David Folkenflik / NPR: Fox News Settles With Seth Rich's Parents For False Story Claiming Clinton Leaks
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: @willsommer But let's be clear about all this: Fox News's propagation of this conspiracy theory was one of the most heinous acts in media of the 21st Century. The fact that they fought the Riches in court for more than two years is an outrage of comparable magnitude.
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: @willsommer I've long been interested in what happened to the reporter on that Seth Rich story — Malia Zimmerman, who remained employed at Fox News but apparently stopped doing stories: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Fox News says she's no longer with the network.
Peter Weber / The Week: Fox News settles lawsuit with Seth Rich's parents over false story tied to his murder
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: No public apology. https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: The Daily Beast's @willsommer reported this fall that Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs were scheduled to give depositions in the case. I've asked Fox News whether those proceeded. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Here's a statement from Fox News on the matter: “We are pleased with the resolution of the claims and hope this enables Mr. and Mrs. Rich to find a small degree of peace and solace moving forward.”
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Joel Rich told me in Aug 2017 that Fox News story was “almost as bad for us as when we first learned of Seth's death” Mary Rich: This whole blown-up BS has taken the eye off the ball. [It] buckles me to my knees that they've damaged so much of trying to find who his murderer is.
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: @Isikoff and Yahoo News report Fox paid seven figures to settle lawsuit over bogus Seth Rich conspiracy story https://news.yahoo.com/...
Erik Wemple / Washington Post: Fox News settles suit with parents of Seth Rich for promoting heinous conspiracy theory
Colin Kalmbacher / Law & Crime: Fox News Settles Seth Rich Lawsuit Before Sean Hannity Deposition Could Spill Out into Court
Jacob Shamsian / Business Insider: Fox News settled a lawsuit with Seth Rich's parents, who sued the network after it spread conspiracy theories about the Democratic staffer who was shot and killed in 2016
Oliver Darcy / CNN: Fox News settles lawsuit with family of Seth Rich
Jemima McEvoy / Forbes: Fox News Settles Years-Long Lawsuit Over Seth Rich Murder Conspiracy Theories
Ashley Gold / Axios:
YouTube says it barred OANN from posting videos for a week and demonetized its content following a video promoting a phony cure for COVID-19 — YouTube has barred One America News Network from posting new videos for a week and stripped it of its ability to make money off existing content …
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / Context is King: This is not Censorship — Take it from someone who was born in a country with censorship …
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: YouTube suspends OANN for allegedly peddling fake COVID-19 cures
Evelyn Douek / @evelyndouek: YouTube's policy on COVID misinfo is extremely clear (announced belatedly, but clear). This is why clear policies matter. https://twitter.com/...
Naveed Jamali / @naveedajamali: There is very much a danger when disinformation is dressed up as legit news, all while making money over playing to inherent bias and racism. Demand better. https://www.axios.com/...
Roger McNamee / @moonalice: YT seldom does the right thing. On the rare occasions when it does so, the action is always too little, too late. h/t: @JaneLytv https://twitter.com/...
Noah Smith / @noahpinion: OANN is not going to replace Fox, folks. It's just not going to get the respect Fox got. It'll still be able to get somewhat of an audience, but it'll be much more marginalized. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Lupica / @mikelupica: OAS. One America Sewer. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Gray / @emtgray: @evelyndouek Demonetizing OANN seems likely to result in a successful “Get Susan Wojcicki to the Hill” challenge, given how we got multiple Senate hearings after temporary restrictions on the NY Post Hunter Biden article. It is good seeing clear policies enacted and enforced, though.
Nandini Jammi / @nandoodles: Monetization should be a privilege, not the default. https://twitter.com/...
@adl: While it is commendable that YouTube took action here, it's unclear why this is the channel's first strike. OANN has been involved in spreading electoral misinformation since at least early Nov. & this limited ban on posting new content is insufficient. https://www.axios.com/...
Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg: YouTube puts OANN in the penalty box for a week. This is just theater. https://www.axios.com/...
Jane Lytvynenko / @janelytv: 20 days after the election, impeccable timing. https://twitter.com/...
Nandini Jammi / @nandoodles: The brand safety bar is on the floor. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Edison Hayden / @michaelehayden: YouTube demonetizing OANN is a start but the network can still spread lies on cable. OANN employs at least one far-right extremist in Jack Posobiec and a number of crackpots who are objectively not reporters. https://www.axios.com/...
Randi Weingarten / @rweingarten: Good. Glad to see YouTube stepping up against disinformation. https://www.axios.com/...
Evann Gastaldo / Newser: YouTube Cracks Down on Right-Wing Channel OANN
W. Jeffrey Brown / @wjeffreybrown: OANN is not a legitimate news org. They could have been, but chose not to be. YouTube temporarily suspends, demonetizes OANN https://www.axios.com/...
Rick Hasen / @rickhasen: But YouTube is fine to allow the posting of false and dangerous content about fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Let's not forget. Shame on @google. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: The bad Section 230 takes are following fast on the news of this... https://twitter.com/...
Ketan Joshi / @ketanj0: Why is it that companies like Youtube, Facebook etc have massive blindspots (not even spots, really) for most misinformation except for medical stuff? Is it because it's (or it used to be) the less politicised science? https://twitter.com/...
Jamison Foser / @jamisonfoser: Lol 1 week that'll teach them https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Senate Democrats ask YouTube CEO to remove election misinformation ahead of Georgia runoff
Allum Bokhari / Breitbart: YouTube Blacklists One America News Over Coronavirus Coverage
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Daily Crunch: Twitter will bring back verification
Katie Canales / Business Insider: YouTube just suspended OANN after it said the conservative media outlet promoted a fake cure for COVID-19
Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: YouTube, under pressure over election falsehoods, suspends OAN for Covid-19 misinformation.
Leia Idliby / Mediaite: YouTube Temporarily Bans, Demonetizes OAN For Pushing Coronavirus Misinformation
Todd Spangler / Variety: YouTube Suspends Far-Right News Network OANN Account for One Week, Citing COVID Misinformation
Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill: YouTube temporarily suspends OANN account after spreading coronavirus misinformation
Brendan Morrow / The Week: YouTube temporarily suspends pro-Trump One America News over COVID-19 misinformation
Adi Robertson / The Verge: YouTube suspends One America News for one week after it promoted a fake COVID-19 cure
Bruce Golding / New York Post: YouTube reportedly suspends OANN over COVID-19 ‘cure’ video
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The Daily Beast:
OANN host Christina Bobb has been helping Trump's legal team in its effort to overturn the election results, and she has not disclosed this work on her show — Cable-news host Christina Bobb, a lawyer by trade, is actively working with Trump's counsel as it seeks to overturn the 2020 election.
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Matthew Sheffield / @mattsheffield: Yet another example of how right wing media is literally working for Republicans: An OAN “reporter” has been giving Trump legal advice on his sore loser lawsuits https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
@rolandsmartin: This means she is prepping her resume for a job at @FoxNews. Who also did this? @IngrahamAngle @SeanHannity @LouDobbs @PeteHegseth @JudgeJeanine @TuckerCarlson Did I miss anyone? https://twitter.com/...
Asawin Suebsaeng / @swin24: the OAN host “'Christina is an attorney and has helped with some legal work in her personal capacity and not on behalf of OAN,' Jenna Ellis, a senior legal adviser to Trump and his 2020 campaign, told The Daily Beast on Monday afternoon.” https://twitter.com/...
Brian Heater / TechCrunch: YouTube suspends and demonetizes One America News Network over COVID-19 video
Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: YouTube suspends OANN for a week after it posted fake Covid-19 cure
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian: Fox News' Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson distance themselves from Trump
John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Trump Fears His Campaign Legal Team Is Composed of ‘Fools That Are Making Him Look Bad’
Brian Stelter / CNN: Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham start to adjust to the reality of a Biden presidency
New York Times:
Sources: after the election, Zuckerberg agreed to temporarily tweak Facebook's algorithm to make authoritative news like CNN and NYT appear more prominently — Employees and executives are battling over how to reduce misinformation and hate speech without hurting the company's bottom line.
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Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: A few days after the election, amid a flood of misinformation, Facebook dialed up a publisher quality score known as NEQ to make authoritative news more prominent. Now, employees wonder if the “nicer news feed” can stay. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix: Facebook developed but did not implement tools for reducing disinformation and “hate bait” content because it determined the measures mostly impacted right wing users and publishers, reducing engagement, report @kevinroose, @MikeIsaac and @sheeraf: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: New by me, @MikeIsaac and @sheeraf: a post-election look inside Facebook, where internal battles are raging about how to balance the sometimes-incompatible goals of growth and goodness. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Facebook engineers proposed a feature to notify users when they had shared false news items. “But that was vetoed by policy executives who feared it would disproportionately show notifications to people who shared false news from right-wing websites.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: Critical phrase ‘a few days AFTER the election.....’ extraordinary https://twitter.com/...
Timothy B. Lee / @binarybits: According to the NYT, Facebook knows perfectly well how to slow the spread of misinformation on its platform. It has mostly chosen not to do so because the company is run by a sociopath. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Tara McGowan / @taraemcg: 🚨 @Facebook has the ability to up-rank factual news over disinfo + HADN'T ACTIVATED IT 🤬🚨 “Days after the election, Zuckerberg agreed to increase the weight that FB's algorithm gave to NEQ scores to make sure authoritative news appeared more prominently"https://www.nytimes.com/ ...
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing: After election, Zuckerberg flipped “secret switch” to favor credible news outlets there
Ben Shapiro / @benshapiro: This is the game. And if social media — the place Americans turned if they were dissatisfied with the monolithic Left-wing legacy media — wish to act as bullhorns for the legacy media and to suppress legacy media competitors, social media deserve what they get.
Henno / @jrhennessy: “i feel bad for our country, but this is tremendous content” as platform policy https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Marshall Steinbaum / @econ_marshall: Every tech platform has set out to show why we regulated the industries they each “disrupted” with regulatory arbitrage in the first place. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller: Zuckerberg tried to show his worth to Trump by promoting his content and downgrading Democrat-leaning content. Now he's doing the opposite. Enough. Break up Facebook already. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Feldman / BNet: lightning round! — Look, I'm already doing a controlled slide into the holiday weekend …
Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie: Hahaha, this explains a few things https://twitter.com/...
Nate Silver / @natesilver538: One thing that's striking here is the extent to which Facebook is maximizing for short-term, measurable gains as opposed to long-term brand equity. A better news feed could result in more trust from readers, more partnerships with news organizations, higher internal morale, etc. https://twitter.com/...
Julia Carrie Wong / @juliacarriew: It's almost like Facebook is ... bad ... for the world ... https://twitter.com/...
Abigail Spanberger Stan / @notcapnamerica: Facebook is hurting Democracy and they need to be regulated. https://twitter.com/...
Jan Richards / @mrsroadshow: @kevinroose @NiemanLab Astounding that it is even a debate, whether to be less divisive, more truthful. Article has many valuable details, including...
Jan Richards / @mrsroadshow: @kevinroose @NiemanLab “Guy Rosen, a Facebook executive who oversees the integrity division that is in charge of cleaning up the platform, said on a call with reporters last week that the changes were always meant to be temporary. ‘There has never been a plan to make these permanent,’ he said.”
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: the “nicer news feed” https://twitter.com/...
Josh Hawley / @hawleymo: .@Facebook throttling conservative outlets to decrease their readership ... #BigTech wants to control all news in America and soon will if we don't stop them https://twitter.com/...
@nytimes: When Facebook asked its users to assess the value of the content they were seeing on its platform, many of them said the most visible posts were more likely to be “bad for the world” — a finding that some employees said alarmed them. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ellen K. Pao / @ekp: Advertisers should refuse to buy Facebook ads shown next to “bad for the world” content, especially since Facebook has a whole metric that measures it https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Reese Jones / @politicussarah: Facebook policy execs thought combatting hate bait would disproportionately target conservatives. Because it would. And what does that say. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Hern / @alexhern: Something I think is under-discussed is how America's toxic politics harms the rest of the world through nonsense like this. https://twitter.com/...
Caleb Ecarma / Vanity Fair: Facebook's Post-Election Tweaks Show Zuckerberg Can Curb Misinformation if He Wants
Ellen K. Pao / @ekp: We always knew it was possible to combat hate and misinformation—nowhere near as hard as Facebook made it seem. Now we know that Facebook actually has built a whole set of tolls for dealing with hate and misinformation but chooses not to use it https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: Facebook employees also developed a slate of tools to combat misinformation and “hate bait.” But they ran into opposition from policy executives who feared they would disproportionately impact conservatives. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Zeitlin / @mattzeitlin: Facebook essentially uses disparate impact analysis for adjustments to the news feed with conservatives as a protected class https://twitter.com/...
Megan Squire / @megansquire0: 3 new admissions from FB here: (a) FB admits they have a problem, names it “hate bait” (b) They know how to identify toxic comments AND the pages & posts that are boosted by them but choose not to act (c) Toxic pages & posts are primarily right-leaning https://www.nytimes.com/...
Adam Serwer / @adamserwer: Perfectly happy to throttle traffic to liberal outlets for being liberal though. So it's not that they are trying to be neutral. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Lehrich / @jesselehrich: .@Facebook built tools to ‘correct the record’ on misinfo & limit ‘hate bait’ — but leadership nixed both to avoid angering the right. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Lehrich / @jesselehrich: it's not that building a less toxic platform is impossible — it's just that it's not quite as profitable. so democracy suffers, genocide is incited in Myanmar, etc. https://twitter.com/...
Sheera Frenkel / @sheeraf: NEW- Remember after the election when Facebook's newsfeed suddenly seemed... nicer? That was no accident. It was Facebook cranking the levers and showing us what NewsFeed could look like if they tweaked their algorithms. Story with @kevinroose @MikeIsaac https://www.nytimes.com/...
Cat Zakrzewski / @cat_zakrzewski: This article raises the key question: Why isn't Facebook penalizing repeat purveyors of misinformation? The company did not comment when @sheeraf asked. https://twitter.com/...
Adam / @adamspechtacles: Facebook will always be fundamentally broken as long as it refuses to even acknowledge that disinformation is a politically asymmetric problem. You can't fix a damn thing without first recognizing the unique and tremendous reach of right-wing disinfo. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lindsey Barrett / @lam_barrett: and there ya go https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Hauser / @jeffhauser: I wonder what role Facebook's Regulatory Policy Director played in this? https://twitter.com/...
Zephyr Teachout / @zephyrteachout: Our communications infrastructure should not be controlled by a profit making company whose business model is promoting addictive, conflict maximizing , heartbeat raising content. There's no solution that doesn't go to the heart of the biz model. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Melissa Jo Peltier / @melissajpeltier: There's a reason those are the organizations & personalities it would most effect. https://twitter.com/...
Yael Eisenstat / @yaeleisenstat: “The company's aspirations of improving the world are often at odds with its desire for dominance.” As I've repeatedly said since leaving Facebook: as long as there are no laws compelling them to protect democracy, FB Execs will choose growth & power. 1/2 https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nxthompson: Outside observers since 2015: Facebook needs to build better algorithmic tools to fight hate and boost quality. If not, democracy is in trouble! Facebook, Nov 2020: OK we have them. But we're not sure we want to use them. 🤷♂️ https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mark Little / @marklittlenews: In which we glimpse “a vision of what a calmer, less divisive Facebook might look like” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Shira Ovide / @shiraovide: This is QUITE a story about Facebook experimenting with de-emphasizing posts that users had considered “bad for the world” or “hate bait” and the internal divisions that followed. A zinger by @kevinroose, @MikeIsaac & @sheeraf https://www.nytimes.com/...
Peter Himler / @peterhimler: “But that was vetoed by policy executives who feared it would disproportionately show notifications to people who shared false news from right-wing websites, according to two people familiar with the conversations.” https://www.nytimes.com/... $FB #misinformation
Allum Bokhari / Breitbart: Facebook Suppressed Breitbart, Promoted CNN, Following Election
Sean Burch / The Wrap: Zuckerberg Changed Facebook Algorithm to Highlight CNN, The New York Times Post-Election
Nick Statt / The Verge: Facebook tweaked the News Feed to highlight more mainstream news sources for the election
Brendan Morrow / The Week: Facebook employees reportedly argue for making post-election ‘calmer, less divisive’ news feed permanent
John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Facebook Still Ruled by Sociopaths, News at 11
Isobel Asher Hamilton / Business Insider: Mark Zuckerberg reportedly signed off on a Facebook algorithm change that favored established news sites and made feeds ‘nicer’ after the election
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
ViacomCBS to sell publisher Simon & Schuster to Bertelsmann, owner of Penguin Random House, for $2.175B in cash — Bertelsmann, owner of publishing giant Penguin Random House, was seen as a logical contender for Simon & Schuster. ViacomCBS announced its intent to sell the publishing arm …
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Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: Penguin Random House to Buy Simon & Schuster From ViacomCBS in $2.2 Billion Deal
Financial Times: Sources: Bertelsmann is the top bidder for ViacomCBS' Simon & Schuster, offering more than $2B; a deal would make Bertelsmann the world's biggest book publisher
Mark Sweney / @marksweney: Bertelsmann, the parent company of the world's biggest book publisher Penguin Random House, has struck a $2.17bn deal to buy rival Simon & Schuster. Paid significantly more than expected in an auction that included News Corp, owner of HarperCollins
Hunter Walker / @hunterw: I am no expert on publishing, but I suspect this is bad news for authors - and culture https://twitter.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: ViacomCBS to sell Simon & Schuster to Penguin Random House for $2.175 billion in cash https://www.axios.com/...
Pamela Paul / @pamelapaulnyt: Two publishing giants are joining forces as PRH buys S&S. @xanalter and @edmundlee report. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Shaun David Hutchinson / @shauniedarko: This won't be good for authors. https://twitter.com/...
Bourree Lam / @bourreelam: I remember the amount of name speculation during the Penguin and Random House merger. Now they may buy Simon & Schuster https://twitter.com/...
Rebecca Fishbein / @bfishbfish: And then there were the (Big) Four https://www.cnbc.com/...
Bradford Pearson / @bradfordpearson: “Proceeds from the deal will be put toward ViacomCBS's streaming business” was a real gut punch of a sentence. https://www.cnbc.com/...
@ibjiyongi: The consolidation is terrible but I'm relieved to see it went to PR and not to News Corp, which is how things were looking last week https://www.cnbc.com/...
Zoe Whittall / @zoewhittall: Wow, so there are now only two major corporate publishers in Canada now. https://twitter.com/...
Silvia Killingsworth / @silviakillings: penguin random schuster? https://twitter.com/...
Brian Steinberg / @bristei: Just in: .@ViacomCBS strikes deal to sell publisher Simon & Schuster to Bertelsmann's Penguin Random House for $2.175B
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: Penguin Random House wins auction for Simon & Schuster and will now be the first megapublisher https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “Simon & Schuster will continue to be managed as a separate publishing unit,” per the press release - and CEO Jonathan Karp and COO/CFO Dennis Eulau “will continue at the helm of the publishing house.” (Full disclosure: S&S published my recent work https://t.co/....)
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: ViacomCBS is officially selling Simon & Schuster to Penguin Random House - “the outcome of a highly competitive auction that attracted interest from buyers around the world,” the company says. The deal will take effect next year.
Harold Maass / The Week: The daily business briefing: November 25, 2020
Nabila Ahmed / Bloomberg: ViacomCBS Near Sale of Simon & Schuster to Bertelsmann
Jackson Howard / @jaxxonhoward: lmao happy thanksgiving publishing people so grateful https://twitter.com/...
@kosokojackson: Shouldn't this violate monopoly rules? Like shouldn't someone step in? https://twitter.com/...
Anna Nicolaou / @annaknicolaou: NEW from the team: a person close to Murdoch said he was not willing to top Bertelsmann, as he is convinced the deal will face significant regulatory hurdles https://www.ft.com/...
Ben Mullin / @benmullin: The largest book publisher in the world is about to buy the third-largest: https://www.wsj.com/...
Seth Fishman / @sethasfishman: I like PRH and the people working there and the books my clients publish there (including my own) but am none too pleased about PRHS. Nothing like one company having a dominant market share to give authors a fair shake at lack of options. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Foxe / @steve_foxe: I remember being at RH when the Penguin merger happened and we joked about how fun and funny it would be to get renamed Penguin House, but now instead of funny this is just frightening. Love these companies and working for them, but hate to see this kind of media consolidation. https://twitter.com/...
Penny Moore / @literarypenny: For those of you who don't understand what it means if Berstelsmann buys S&S, it'd mean that PRH and S&S would be under the same parent company. Meaning they'd control a 1/3rd of the market. This is bad for authors and agents, possibly publishing staff if they consolidate. 😕 https://twitter.com/...
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: WaPo is nearing 3M digital subscribers, up 50% YoY; NYT has tripled digital-only subscribers since 2016 to 6.1M — The New York Times and The Washington Post have very different strategies for building the subscription news company of the future. — The big picture …
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Brian Morrissey / The Rebooting: Houses of brands — Welcome to a Thanksgiving week edition of The Rebooting.
Lauren Harris / Columbia Journalism Review: “I thought you'd go down with the ship:” Why one reporter chose a buyout after twenty years
Annemarie Bridy / @annemariebridy: This milestone makes it worth repeating that the crisis in journalism is not evenly distributed and that we should be focusing on how to find a more sustainable business model for local journalism than classified advertising was. https://twitter.com/...
Elana Zak / @elanazak: Phenomenal subscription growth by WaPo and NYT. But this is what's key 👉👉👉"Much of the Post's growth is attributed to back-end technology investments supported by The Post's owner Jeff Bezos." https://www.axios.com/...
Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg: People always forget WaPo is not a national newspaper. NYT has a decades-long advantage in national branding (& nat'l advertisers). WaPo, however, thru Arc and Zeus, has a tech pipeline connecting regional outlets. 2 very diff stories. https://www.axios.com/...
Nathan Wurtzel / @nathanwurtzel: It's true. You only need 1% of the country to make major profits. That is what FOX News Channel, etc. learned. Do we get any news? Nope. We get biased entertainfo and opinions we already agree with. https://twitter.com/...
Subrahmanyam Kvj / @sub8u: And here I was thinking that acquiring customers is maybe, just a wee bit, more work than upgrading back-end tech....¯\_(ツ)_/ ¯ https://www.axios.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mike Brest / @mikebrestdc: The @nytimes and the @washingtonpost have tripled their digital subscriptions since 2016. It's be fascinating to see what the Biden administration will do for clicks/subscriptions/ad revenue throughout the media landscape. via @sarafischer of @axios https://www.axios.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Interesting look at the difference between the NYT's star approach and the Post's ecosystem strategy — interesting to think what the latter could do with single sign-on and bundled subscriptions to places that use its Zeus and Arc ad and content platforms https://www.axios.com/...
Lucia Moses / Business Insider: Change in media company leadership is in the air
Lou / @dubois: It is terrific to see paid digital subs rising at this rate for NYT and WaPo. Sadly, third place is far behind. Local journalism needs support now more than ever. #goodjournalismisnotfree https://www.axios.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: 🗞Trump bump: NYT, WaPo digital subscriptions tripled since 2016 - Sources say Post nearing 3 million digital subscribers - The Times now has 6 million+ - Post investing heavily in tech, software - Times investing in big-name talent, brand building https://www.axios.com/...
Joseph Lichterman / @ylichterman: this is so important for local news orgs: “research shows shiny objects (original content, hot talent, discounts, etc.) tend to get people to sign-up, and that functionality and lots of content options keeps them from leaving.” https://www.axios.com/...
@kerrymflynn: Per @sarafischer, The Washington Post is nearing 3 million digital subscribers: https://www.axios.com/... Unlike publicly traded NYT, WaPo doesn't report numbers every quarter. In Feb, @jbenton asked for the latest since a leaked Dec 2018 memo said 1.5M: https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter says it will relaunch account verifications in early 2021 for news; journalists will need to provide at least three recent bylines in qualifying outlets — Twitter announced today it's planning to relaunch its verification system in 2021, and will now begin the process …
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@twittersupport, Twitter, The Verge, Bloomberg, @karahinesley, @wongmjane, @kayvz, @yashar, @soumyadipta, @aelkus, @ericajoy, @thetorontosix, @jamiesont, @dianelyssa, @caseynewton, @olivebrinker, @mczub, @mantia, @jonworth, @blackamazon, @metaltxt, @aedwardslevy, @jbillinson, @karynspencer, @carnage4life, @iancoldwater, @hypervisible, @ekp, @kerrymflynn, help.twitter.com, ScreenRant, 9to5Mac, The Wrap and NPR, more at Techmeme »
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@twittersupport: We're planning to relaunch verification in 2021, but first we want to hear from you. Help us shape our approach to verification on Twitter by letting us know what you think. Take a look at our draft policy and submit your #VerificationFeedback here: https://blog.twitter.com/...
Makena Kelly / The Verge: Twitter verification will return early next year
Kara Hinesley / @karahinesley: Feedback is a gift 💝 For every person that's sent me an email, DM, reply, text, smoke signal, and carrier pigeon asking for the blue tick, here's your chance to weigh in on the formation of our new verification policy 👇 https://twitter.com/...
Jane Manchun Wong / @wongmjane: Twitter confirmed they're gonna revamp the verification system, at last, 5.5 months after the finding https://twitter.com/...
Kayvon Beykpour / @kayvz: We're planning to relaunch Twitter's verification policy and application process in early 2021. Our goal is to bring clarity to what verification on Twitter means, the criteria we'll use for assessing verification, and how to apply. https://twitter.com/...
Yashar Ali / @yashar: As Twitter relaunches its verification process it also says that it'll be removing verification badges from accounts which repeatedly violate the rules. https://twitter.com/...
@soumyadipta: Twitter to relaunch its verification project where users can apply for a blue tick and modifies policy to include influencers. They will also introduce more user labels (seems like a cue from Parler). Also announces that it might take away some badges too. https://blog.twitter.com/...
@ericajoy: look at twitter, asking for feedback about a policy before implementing it! 👏🏾👏🏾 👏🏾 https://blog.twitter.com/...
Tom Jamieson / @jamiesont: Can I be verified please as I desperately need that momentary endorphin hit to stave off the feelings of emptiness & despair at the core of my being. Cheers! https://twitter.com/...
@dianelyssa: i hope y'all stop verifying candidates for office, until they win. there are so many people who run long-shot campaigns and then use this app and their blue check to sow chaos and build their profile. the “candidate for” label is good enough. https://twitter.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: My feelings about verification are still: - It should have different flavors ("politician," “journalist,” “doctor") - It should be available to all - It is not nearly as complicated as Twitter thinks. Tinder launched verification months ago. Tinder! https://techcrunch.com/...
Olive Rae Brinker / @olivebrinker: is 2021 the year olive becomes a Checkmark https://twitter.com/...
Czub / @mczub: “verification” solely implies that an account is who they claim to be, it shouldn't be artificially restricted especially if it gatekeeps more powerful moderation tools use a different badge for “notable” accounts, make verification easily available to basically everyone https://twitter.com/...
@mantia: Verification should be removed from accounts that continue sendint tweets after the death of that person. If a deceased person's foundation or rights-holder wants to tweet, it should be from a separate account. #VerificationFeedback https://twitter.com/...
Jon Worth / @jonworth: This is interesting, but it still does not really answer: what is verification *for*? I applied years ago - as a blogger, so falling into “Activists, organizers, and other influential individuals” but I'd not be top .1% follower numbers in 🇩🇪 #VerificationFeedback https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: Sooooo rather than create a closed pipeline , at the end of a long , non accessible visual post ? You put forth a hashtag so it can be gamed, rather than a closed form and a preliminary finding with a small focused group https://twitter.com/...
Ariel Edwards-Levy / @aedwardslevy: 4 tier system verification somewhatification notveryfication notatallfication https://twitter.com/...
Josh Billinson / @jbillinson: I think I should get two blue checks https://twitter.com/...
Karyn Spencer / @karynspencer: ✨ for everyone STILL DMing me asking me to help verify them like i didn't leave twitter in 2017 ⬇️ https://twitter.com/...
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: Twitter relaunches verification but hasn't fixed the issue which caused them to pause it in the 1st place. It conflates 1. Notability 2. Authentication Is giving a known racist a blue check an endorsement or proving it's their real account? Not answered. https://blog.twitter.com/...
Ian Coldwater / @iancoldwater: It's interesting that tech isn't a category of accounts considered notable at all 🤔 And with a Wikipedia article as a criteria for “other” notability? That's one way to avoid verifying female engineers I guess https://twitter.com/...
@hypervisible: It says they are gonna rescind some of the blue checks that have been issued, so....it's been fun. 🤣 https://blog.twitter.com/...
Ellen K. Pao / @ekp: I like the fact that Twitter is taking the time to get feedback and going back to fix mistakes. It shows openness to change and improvement https://techcrunch.com/...
@kerrymflynn: Remember THREE YEARS AGO when Twitter paused its verification program? Well, they're really working on it now and want all of our help on how to make verification better. I'll start: All dogs should be verified https://www.theverge.com/...
help.twitter.com: About verified accounts — Important: Please note that our verified account program is currently on hold.
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
TheLi.st, a 10-year-old social network for women cofounded by Rachel Sklar and Glynnis MacNicol, has been sold to New Power Media, headed by Ann Shoket — TheLi.st — an oddly named, 10-year-old social network that has been linking successful women with up and comers — has been sold to New Power Media …
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@rachelsklar: Getting emotional thinking of all the friendships that have sprung from @TheList - it's an incredible group of people I truly love. We built a village of people to look out for each other - and then I became a single mom, and that village was there for me & my kid. ❤️ (2/3)
@rachelsklar: Just feeling lucky and grateful. Also thanks to @glynnmacn & @annshoket for their patience - it turns out Zoom Kindergarten doesn't wait for your acquisition details to be finalized. (Parents everywhere: YOU DON'T SAY.) (3/3)
@rachelsklar: News! @GlynnMacN and I are so happy to share that @AnnShoket is acquiring our company @thelist, via her company, #NewPower media! Thank you @media_ink for this great item. So lucky to have built this with Glynnis over ten years of Gchats, FaceTimes and plates of fries. (1/2) https://twitter.com/...
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Q&A with Newsmax's CEO on conservative media's role in Trump's opinions and in sowing doubt about the election: “At the end of the day, it's great for news” — Even as Fox News acknowledges that Joe Biden is the President-elect, Newsmax Media—a conservative multimedia company …
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@mehdirhasan, @aliciasadowski6, @mehdirhasan, Mediaite, @craigtimes, @justinbaragona, The Dispatch, @chrismegerian, @jamessurowiecki, @jmartnyt, @ichotiner, @intelligencer, @newyorker, @lachlan, @aaronblake, New Republic, @adamweinstein, @cakotz, @kyleorl, @mbaram, @aaronblake, @alexkotch, @ichotiner, @parkermolloy, @sulliview, Forbes and Business Insider
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Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: Me: “Do you feel embarrassed to be running nonsense like [Diamond & Silk] on your network & calling it news?” Chris Ruddy, Newsmax CEO: “We're not saying that is accurate.” Me: “You're not saying your own shows are accurate?” Watch a @MehdiHasanShow clip: https://twitter.com/...
Aliciasadowski / @aliciasadowski6: in an attempt to prove that Trump can bounce back after all hope seems lost, Newsmax anchor Greg Kelly plays the Access Hollywood tape https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: Tonight, Chris Ruddy, Newsmax CEO and close friend of the president, who has been dubbed the ‘Trump whisperer’, joins me on the @MehdiHasanShow to discuss why his network continues to air conspiracy theories about the election. You don't want to miss it. 7pm ET on @peacockTV https://twitter.com/...
Rudy Takala / Mediaite: Newsmax: Friend or Looming Foe to Conservatives?
Craig Pittman / @craigtimes: #Florida man who runs @newsmax says he runs @realDonaldTrump's wild claims of voter fraud for 1 reason: “It's great for news. The news cycle is red-hot, and Newsmax is getting one million people per minute.” https://www.newyorker.com/... via @IChotiner
Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona: Newsmax's entire programming strategy centers on pretending Trump will remain president. The moment they burst that bubble is the moment all their newfound MAGA viewers drop them. They have to keep the fantasy going. https://twitter.com/...
James P. Sutton / The Dispatch: Giving the People What They Want — Many Trump supporters expressed outrage at Fox News …
Chris Megerian / @chrismegerian: Chris Ruddy on the election — “Assuming that Joe Biden is inaugurated President, which every probability study says will be the case . . .” Probability study? https://www.newyorker.com/...
James Surowiecki / @jamessurowiecki: Fascinating interview, both because Ruddy says things you don't expect - we need more immigration; the Electoral College is terrible - and because it's a great example of how not to get Chotiner-ed. Ruddy handles himself so much better than most people Isaac has interviewed. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Martin / @jmartnyt: Pairs nicely w Trump coming out to talk about the Dow https://twitter.com/...
Isaac Chotiner / @ichotiner: New Interview: I talked to Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy about how his company has dealt with election fraud claims, why he doesn't want to become Trump TV, and whether he feels responsibility for misleading his audience. https://www.newyorker.com/...
@intelligencer: “First you rile up your supporters with a series of specious accusations. When the accusations are debunked, you point to the fact your supporters are riled up as proof that something has gone wrong.” @jonathanchait writes https://nymag.com/...
@newyorker: The C.E.O. of the conservative network Newsmax discusses how his company has covered Donald Trump's false claims about voting fraud, and whether he feels any responsibility for misinforming his viewers. https://nyer.cm/3dgPyB4
Lachlan Markay / @lachlan: This from Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy is hilarious. Newsmax—not a corporate PAC, not its execs, the company itself—gave $50k to a pro-Susan Collins super PAC last year as she got frequent and fawning coverage from the outlet. The donation was never disclosed https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Blake / @aaronblake: @IChotiner I mean, this is basically: Q: Shouldn't you actually investigate stuff first? A: Sure, but we can also just throw it out there. And of by the way, look at how great that is for the bottom line!
Alex Shephard / New Republic: How Newsmax Became Trump TV
Adam Weinstein / @adamweinstein: Since I was a kid I've constantly heard the right complain that the MSM is an amoral machine that loves ratings-goosing controversy. And now here's Newsmax's founder, identifying his media concern as an amoral machine that loves ratings-goosing controversy https://www.newyorker.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@cakotz: I didn't know that Newsmax was run by the Whitewater Guy but that in retrospect makes a lot of sense https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Orland / @kyleorl: In some ways I actually respect this more than Fox's pretending to be “fair and balanced” https://twitter.com/...
Marcus Baram / @mbaram: Notice here how Ruddy answers this key question for conservative media, finding a thin wedge between his personal feelings and how his network might cover such a situation. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Blake / @aaronblake: Yeesh. At end of this @IChotiner interview, Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy basically admits that credulously broadcasting speculative voter fraud claims is great for business. https://www.newyorker.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Alex Kotch / @alexkotch: This interview with the head of Newsmax is pretty incredible all they way through (tons of lies, etc.) but this is actually right on: to convince the right to abolish the Electoral College, argue that TX & FL will eventually go blue. https://www.newyorker.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Isaac Chotiner / @ichotiner: New Interview: I talked to Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy about how his network has handled election fraud claims, the possibility of Trump TV, and whether Ruddy feels responsibility for misinforming his viewers. https://www.newyorker.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: This is not something a news organization does: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: The @IChotiner reality check: .... Why Newsmax Supports Trump's False Voter-Fraud Claims https://www.newyorker.com/... via @NewYorker
Can Duruk / Margins:
Substack's value to writers is clear but is a bit muddier for readers, with problems like poor discovery and reliance on email — Hi. It's Can, on Substack about Substack. — It's been around a year and a half since Ranjan and I started this Substack.
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@internetryan: a lot of writers i follow have started writing on substack and it basically has meant i stopped reading their stuff because i already pay for so many subscriptions that that cost about the same and provide more consistent, diverse, and convenient info/entertainment. https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Chayka / @chaykak: .@ReadMargins on how Substack benefits from being early in a newsletter / subscription boom, and how newsletters that launched in the last 1-2 years now benefit as early adopters https://themargins.substack.com/ ...
Mike Dudas / @mdudas: “It was always clear to me that the Web, which started out not with a browser but a browser-editor hybrid (confusingly named WorldWideWeb), was meant for creators. It just was never clear if these creators would ever get paid for their work.” ~ @can https://themargins.substack.com/ ...
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Steven Levy / Wired:
As more writers join Substack, subscription fatigue and the pressure to deliver continuous value to paying readers may push many back to traditional pubs
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@ahoving, @jaredbkeller, @gettingsome, Simon Owens's Tech …, @sandraupson, @lanceulanoff and @ggreenwald
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Allan Hoving / @ahoving: @mediagazer @StevenLevy it's a nice way to give popular writers a severance bonus after they exit their pubs. but it is not a sustainable model.
Jared Keller / @jaredbkeller: Even more reason why we need a New York Review of Substacks https://www.wired.com/...
@gettingsome: “One thing is certain—to keep readers coming back, these newsletter writers must keep delivering tangible value. Otherwise they might wonder why they are paying more than half the standard subscription price of the New York Times for the musings of a single writer.” https://twitter.com/...
Simon Owens / Simon Owens's Tech and Media Newsletter: Why the “subscription fatigue” argument is overrated
Sandra Upson / @sandraupson: I look forward to the inevitable day when Substack confronts its scaling problem and offers subscriptions to a bundle of newsletters. It'd be kind of like a publication, but harder to read and a lot more random. https://www.wired.com/...
Lance Ulanoff / @lanceulanoff: .@StevenLevy is spot on regarding the SubStack trend. I would add that I won't pay $100 a year for one writer when I can get hundreds of authors for half the price https://www.wired.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Relatedly: there's suddenly a huge spate of articles about The Substack Craze in media outlets & I'm seeing an oft-repeated myth: that while a journalist can make more money there, your audience size shrinks. That assumption is false.... https://www.wired.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
HuffPost India and HuffPost Brasil shut down today; in internal message, Jonah Peretti says they weren't allowed to take them on for differing legal reasons — HuffPost is becoming part of BuzzFeed, but HuffPost India and HuffPost Brasil will not be making the transition — both sites are shutting down today.
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@amannama, @maxwelltani, @indranibasu88, @adrijabose, @glenngabe, @gopalsathe, @r_gov11, @ranaayyub, @craigsilverman, @felixsalmon, @jessbrammar, @lpolgreen, @nirali_ss, @mnshap, @nicdawes, @nicdawes, @nicdawes, @masalabai and HuffPost
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Aman Sethi / @amannama: HuffPost India has shut down and all of its content seems to have been deleted
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: As part of the HuffPost acquisition, the site's Brazil and India editions have shuttered. Responding to a message in Slack, @peretti addressed the closures. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Indrani Basu / @indranibasu88: Six years ago, almost to the day, I joined what would be the founding team of @HuffPostIndia in New Delhi. We had two weeks to build an entire site. It was a mad ride, with memories for a lifetime. I am grieving this loss with Aman and his team of stellar journalists. https://twitter.com/...
Adrija Bose / @adrijabose: Five years ago, I got to work with the most fantastic team I didn't even dream of & possibly can never dream of. While this is heartbreaking, shout out to my colleagues/friends/family @RohiniChatterji @piyasreedg @betwasharma @aktalkies who did some stellar journalism. https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Gabe / @glenngabe: 75,800 pages indexed, ranking for 269K different queries in India, but POOF, gone (403 response codes - forbidden) -> HuffPost India has shut down and all of its content seems to have been deleted https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Gopal Sathe / @gopalsathe: Since a lot of people are asking me about this — I've been told that the content has not been wiped; it's being migrated and will be available again soon. https://twitter.com/...
Radhika Govindrajan / @r_gov11: Such a tremendous loss. It's sad to see the shrinking of deep, reliable reporting on India. https://twitter.com/...
Rana Ayyub / @ranaayyub: Thoughts with the journalists at @HuffPostIndia . They have been some of the most talented and courageous journalists in the country. Thank you for being a ray of hope in these testing times and wishing you a great future ahead. https://twitter.com/...
Craig Silverman / @craigsilverman: A tremendously sad outcome of BuzzFeed's acquisiton of HuffPost is the closure of HuffPost India and Brazil. https://twitter.com/...
Felix Salmon / @felixsalmon: The cuts begin https://twitter.com/...
Jess Brammar / @jessbrammar: The work of my Indian colleagues was one of the things I felt proudest of in our HuffPost global family, particularly as they covered Modi's India - which sorely needs more journos like them. An insanely talented, tenacious bunch, led by a peerless editor in Aman. A sad day. https://twitter.com/...
Lydia Polgreen / @lpolgreen: We live in an age of hyperbole, but I agree: @Amannama built something extraordinary in @HuffPostIndia and I am so jealous of whoever gets to hire him and his team next. https://twitter.com/...
Nirali Shah / @nirali_ss: I don't think BuzzFeed India would have been anything if we weren't constantly looking over to see what huffpost India was up to. Such good work by so many good people, this is incredibly sad. https://twitter.com/...
Manisha Pande / @mnshap: Quite a sudden exit. What happens to all the stories on the website? I hope they find space on the https://huffpost.com/. People should be able to read them. https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Dawes / @nicdawes: This is such a loss. HuffPost has been home to some superb reporting at a time when independent journalism in India has been under huge pressure. https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Dawes / @nicdawes: I really want to believe that they are going to get this stuff back up, but it is an awful act of contempt to handle the closure of the site this way. And frankly I can't imagine them doing it in the US. https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Dawes / @nicdawes: Right now, all that work has just vanished, an archive replaced by a redirect. Stunningly irresponsible by Huffpost's owners, who have until now protected its role as a home for accountability journalism in India. They need to restore access to the record as soon as possible. https://twitter.com/...
Rituparna Chatterjee / @masalabai: We were the founding batch of editors. Exactly six years ago a bunch of us started working here with big dreams. It feels like a personal loss. All of my bylines, stories I did, wiped out as well. Like I never worked here. Don't know if there's a way to restore those. https://twitter.com/...
Hayley Miller / HuffPost: HuffPost Brasil, HuffPost India Shut Down Amid BuzzFeed Deal
Ruth S. Barrett / Medium:
Ruth Shalit Barrett addresses concerns raised by WaPo's Erik Wemple following the publication and subsequent retraction of an article she wrote for The Atlantic — On October 24th, Erik Wemple of The Washington Post wrote a column criticizing The Atlantic for its decision to publish my article …
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@jdavidsonnyc, @michaelsocolow, @abdallah_fayyad, @karenkho, @shaya_in_la, @lailaalarian, @hannahgais and @erikwemple
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Justin Davidson / @jdavidsonnyc: This amazing paragraph by Ruth Shalit Barrett stands in for a whole political philosophy: Just because I lie all the time doesn't mean what I say isn't true. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Socolow / @michaelsocolow: This is a remarkable dismissal of basic - even foundational - journalism ethics. It's unintentionally revealing of the kind of mindset that sees little wrong with composing fiction and publishing it as fact. https://rlsbarrett.medium.com/ ...
Abdallah Fayyad / @abdallah_fayyad: “[Wemple] raised the question that goes to the heart of any piece of journalism: ‘How much of it is true?’” Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the answer should always be “all of it.” https://twitter.com/...
Doomscrolling Reminder Lady / @karenkho: the journalism errors and ethical lapses Ruth Shalit Barrett defends on Medium would have caused any other journalist of color I know to be shot into the sun
Shaya Tayefe Mohajer / @shaya_in_la: @karenkho The fact that she writes “I signed off on inserting a reference to a person who doesn't exist” and still finds no fault with her work boggles the mind. No shame, no conscience, no ethics.
Laila Al-Arian / @lailaalarian: “The editors of the magazine viewed my inclusion of a nonexistent son as a cardinal lapse and retracted the piece.” Perhaps inventing a fake character might undermine the public's trust in journalism and fuel what are generally baseless “fake news” claims. https://rlsbarrett.medium.com/ ...
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Snap's Spotlight daily payout breaks from TikTok's model, focusing on paying a large number of creators rather than nurturing primarily big-follower accounts — Today, let's talk about the deceptively bold way in which Snapchat has reimagined TikTok as part of its new feature, Spotlight.
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Casey Newton / @caseynewton: What's interesting about Snapchat's Spotlight is that it puts the incentive for making videos at the level of the content, rather than the creator. It feels like a big idea. https://www.platformer.news/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Codyb / @codybrown: It took a very long time to get here but Snapchat joins YouTube in deciding to pay its creators for their vids. Game on https://www.tubefilter.com/...
Zoe Scaman / @zoescaman: What Snap is asking with Spotlight: 1/ Can you build an engine for culture that benefits many thousands of people, rather than a few hundred? 2/ Will people post anonymously, seeking profit over fame? 3/ Is a daily lottery of $1m incentive enough? https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Joshua J. Cohen / @joshuajcohen: The $1 million per day gets divided among the ‘top’ creators based on viewership. It's unclear how that all will actually break down, except to say that we're told top creators every day will see significant 💰. https://www.tubefilter.com/...
Ahmed Al Omran / @ahmed: Instagram mostly knows how to promote influencers; TikTok, on the other hand, spreads dances, sounds, and jokes https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Abby Reutzel / @abbyreutzelwork: “The real opportunity for Snap here isn't that it incubates the next Charli D'Amelio in Spotlight — it's that thousands of creators make real money on the platform, either once or a large handful of times, & we never learn their names at all.” @platformer https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Janira Planes / Truffle Season de Janira Planes: Ejemplos a no seguir — Este post, para todas las personas que estéis viendo la …
Monojoy Bhattacharjee / What's New in Publishing: Snapchat will now pay creators “more than $1 million” a day, for viral posts
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Daily Crunch: Snapchat adds Spotlight
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Snap announces Spotlight, a vertically scrollable TikTok-like feed inside Snapchat, and will pay $1M every day to users who create the top Snaps through 2020
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Digiday, Axios, Vox, @mtzler, @mattnavarra, @lucas_shaw, @alexeheath, Ad Age, Snap Inc., @carnage4life, @ourielohayon, @juliet_shen, @markghuneim, @kwong47, @marklittlenews, @mattnavarra, @lanceulanoff, @garettsloane, @danprimack, @kerrymflynn, @scottbelsky, @sarafischer, contextisking.com, The Week, Garbage Day and BBC
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Tim Peterson / Digiday: 'I don't know if it's ever going to die': Advertisers grapple with the GRP's grip on the TV and streaming ad market
Sara Fischer / Axios: Social media companies all starting to look the same
Rebecca Jennings / Vox: This week in TikTok: Why is everyone so mad at Charli D'Amelio?
Mike Metzler / @mtzler: Snapchat is going to start paying creators similar to the TikTok Creator Program. 1 million dollars a day!!! https://www.snap.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra: Social media companies are all just clones of one another in 2020 https://www.axios.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Why Snap's TikTok clone is actually an original idea. Good thoughts (as always) from @CaseyNewton https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Alex Heath / @alexeheath: Snapchat's TikTok rival “Spotlight” is here. The two are broadly similar but Snap is doing things differently in a few key areas: - No public likes or comments - All submitted videos undergo human review - $1m per day paid to people who post top videos https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Garett Sloane / Ad Age: Snapchat sets sights on TikTok with Spotlight, and retailers prep for bleak Friday: Tuesday Wake-Up Call
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: In the past few months we've seen the homogenization of social apps. LinkedIn & Twitter adding stories. Now Snapchat joins Instagram in adding TikTok style videos. Problem is how we'll now see the same content in all of these apps given sameness of format https://techcrunch.com/...
Ouriel Ohayon / @ourielohayon: Spotlight. great name “Hello, Snapchat, this is Apple legal department” https://twitter.com/...
Juliet Shen / @juliet_shen: - No public comments - Attribution is opt-in - Every snap is moderated https://twitter.com/...
Mark Ghuneim / @markghuneim: The amount of curation left on the floor of all social services - making easy reading for the non user or the proverbial “logged out view” is one of the largest lost opportunity costs on social media. This is super smart! https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Wong / @kwong47: Interesting new initiative by @Snapchat! The competition to attract and support creators 👀👀👀 “Submit your best video Snaps to Spotlight for the opportunity to earn a share of more than $1 million that we're distributing to creators every day!” https://www.snap.com/...
Mark Little / @marklittlenews: “We designed Spotlight to entertain our community while living up to Snapchat values, with our community's well being as a top priority. Spotlight content is moderated and doesn't allow for public comments.” https://twitter.com/...
Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra: Snapchat officially launches its TikTok competitor called Spotlight https://techcrunch.com/... Differences vs. TikTok - No comments section on videos - User profiles kept private by default - Snapchat to split $1m between top Snap creators in Spotlight every day (until end of 2020)
Lance Ulanoff / @lanceulanoff: Is there any platform that does not feel threatened by TikTok? https://techcrunch.com/...
Garett Sloane / @garettsloane: Snapchat finds itself in unfamiliar position: Playing catch up with a younger rival. Typically, Snap is the one innovating, and the rest of the field trying to catch up. Now, it has a TikTok-like section called Spotlight https://adage.com/...
Dan Primack / @danprimack: Snap copying TikTok is pretty rich, given how bent out of shape @evanspiegel got when Facebook/Insta copied Snapchat.
@kerrymflynn: “As an incentive for content creators — and average users — to submit their Snaps for consideration, Snapchat will distribute $1 million each day to those who make the most entertaining Spotlight Snaps. ” - @kyurieff https://www.cnn.com/...
Scott Belsky / @scottbelsky: new social platforms differentiate themselves w/ novel formats (origin story of Pinterest, Snap, TikTok..), and users flock to new forms of creative expression. but innovation today seems more about how dominant platforms can retrofit trending formats.🤔 https://techcrunch.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: Snapchat will moderate all videos within their first 100 views. That initial review process includes both humans and software. All videos must adhere to Snapchat's existing community guidelines and content rules. https://twitter.com/...
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / contextisking.com: Is Snap a Foundational Stock?
Brendan Morrow / The Week: Snapchat to give out $1 million a day to creators of popular videos on its TikTok competitor
Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: THE TIMELINE IS ALL WAKKO. NOTHING ELSE. JUST WAKKO.
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