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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Mitch McConnell has moved to end debate on a Trump nominee that would deadlock FCC when Biden takes office and for months after, setting up a vote next week — Cloture motion could end debate and advance nominee to Senate vote next week. — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) …
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New York Times, Washington Post, Mediaite, @karlbode, @karlbode, @karlbode and Reuters
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Peter Baker / New York Times: Trump's Final Days of Rage and Denial
Washington Post: Just 27 congressional Republicans acknowledge Biden's win, Washington Post survey finds
Caleb Howe / Mediaite: Trump Snarks at WaPo Reporting Only 25 Republicans in Congress Say Biden Won: ‘Surprised There Are So Many’
Karl Bode / @karlbode: Aside from the core policy wonks working hard to delay or shift the vote here, there's very few Democrats making any meaningful noise about the fact the GOP is preparing to cripple the nation's top telecommunications regulator, for potentially years.
Karl Bode / @karlbode: McConnell's (read: AT&T and Comcast's) quest to appoint an unqualified nitwit to the FCC then mire the agency in gridlock by blocking Biden from appointing a new boss will take another step forward next week: https://www.reuters.com/...
Karl Bode / @karlbode: The GOP is pandering big telecom, which is terrified the FCC will restore the agency's consumer protection authority (and net neutrality). So they're pretending they're doing this to prevent “billions in economic damage,” which is gibberish and bullshit. https://arstechnica.com/... https://twitter.com/...
David Shepardson / Reuters: U.S. Senate set to vote on Trump FCC nominee as soon as next week
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Matt Negrin / Washington Post:
TV news networks, which have been slow to adapt to an era filled with bad faith, should use a litmus test for Republican guests: ask them whether Joe Biden won
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Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “Even NPR - which has been one of the most egregious abusers of false equivalence - is no longer treating Trump's lying as a matter of debate.” https://presswatchers.org/... Too little, too late is @froomkin's verdict.
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch: AP, NPR and others suddenly sounding all tough on Trump, but it's too little and too late
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian: Just 26 of 249 Republicans in Congress willing to say Trump lost, survey finds
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: The @nytimes's decision to publish a headline about Trump's “ploy to subvert the election” emboldened even the meekest reality-based news organizations to “take sides” for the truth: https://presswatchers.org/...
Eric Boehlert / @ericboehlert: Dec 2020 and press is finally standing up to Trump it's like a parody https://twitter.com/...
@mattnegrin: My proposal for a new media rule: Rapid bad-faith tests for Republicans 1. At the start of every interview, ask “Do you acknowledge Biden is president-elect?” 2. If they don't say yes, end the interview to stop the spread of misinformation 3. That's it https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Gabriel Snyder / @gabrielsnyder: A litmus test for TV bookings, a modest proposal from @MattNegrin https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Joshua Klein / Breitbart: WaPo: Media Must Shun Republicans Who Don't Accept Biden as ‘President-Elect’
Andrew Feinberg / @andrewfeinberg: It's a sad commentary on the clubby, closed, perpetually incestuously internally-hiring or poaching DC news world that @MattNegrin, a producer for a comedy show (albeit a news-y one), has to be the one to state what should be glaringly obvious. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Debra Messing / @debramessing: This PROPOSAL is SOUND, warranted & would ACTIVELY PROTECT our country. Thoughts? @cnn @msnbc @ABCPolitics @cbsnews @ABCPolitics @FoxNews @chucktodd @andersoncooper @AriMelber @ErinBurnett @katytur @DeadlineWH @jaketapper @thereidout @chrislhayes https://twitter.com/...
Yashar Ali / @yashar: The incorrigible @MattNegrin has proposed a simple test... When cable shows have a guest on the first thing they should ask is this: “Do you acknowledge that Biden won the election and that he is president-elect?” If they say “no,” kick the guest off https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@mattnegrin: If any Republican doesn't respond to the first question with “Joe Biden,” they should never be allowed to appear in print or on air ever again. They're lying, acting in bad faith, and can't be trusted to be reliable on any subject. https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Hugh Hewitt routinely asks his guests whether Alger Hiss was a spy (he was) - updated suggestion from Daily Show exec https://twitter.com/...
Elie Mystal / @elienyc: YES. JUST DO THIS. Ask the Republican you insist on having on if they acknowledge the results of the election, and if they say “no” CUT THEIR DAMN MIC. THE END. https://twitter.com/...
Matt McDermott / @mattmfm: This is the defining litmus test for Republicans: admit reality or lose your media coverage. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: Good idea! (Heads up, @chucktodd.) More questions: Is there widespread voter fraud in the USA? https://www.nybooks.com/... Are human actions causing the Earth's climate to warm? https://globalchange.gov/ Have vaccines helped us suppress polio, smallpox, measles, mumps & rubella? https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: ENDORSE https://twitter.com/...
Manisha Krishnan / VICE:
Canada's Global News radio host Supriya Dwivedi quits, alleges colleagues' on-air racist narratives led to threats against her; Global News is “taking action” — An email to staff said the company is in the midst of an “internal reflection” regarding systemic racism but didn't provide many details about what that means.
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icfj.org, Toronto Star, VICE, @manishakrishnan, @jane_gerster, AllAccess.com, @chadloder and The Hamilton Spectator
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icfj.org: Survey of 1,210 women journalists: 20% report being targets of offline abuse they think was connected to online attacks; 73% say they've experienced the latter
Barry Francis / Toronto Star: Sad day when someone as talented as Supriya Dwivedi is driven off the air
Manisha Krishnan / VICE: Prominent Global News Host Quits Alleging On-Air Climate Increased Racist Threats
@manishakrishnan: new: @globalnews told staff it is in the midst of an “internal reflection” on systemic racism following @supriyadwivedi's resignation—but provided almost no details about what that means: https://www.vice.com/...
Jane Gerster / @jane_gerster: Dwivedi said after going public, she's received “dozens and dozens” of messages from former and current Corus employees who said they've raised similar complaints internally, to no avail. https://www.vice.com/... #cdnmedia
AllAccess.com: Supriya Dwivedi Exits CFMJ (Global News Radio 640)/Toronto, Files Complaint Alleging Company Failed To Enforce Standards Against Misinformation
Chad Loder / @chadloder: Dwivedi quit because she alleged @globalnews refused to do anything about the “false narratives about refugees, Muslims, Sikhs, and other targeted groups” being spread by her talk radio colleagues. She received a deluge of hate, including rape threats directed at her baby. https://twitter.com/...
Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
ICE has issued a subpoena demanding BuzzFeed News identify its sources for emails sent to ICE attorneys; EIC “emphatically rejects” requests for source info — “This is embarrassing for ICE,” the former acting director of the agency said. “When you're trying to intimidate the press, you cross a line.”
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@felixsalmon, @tomnamako, @julibriskman, @hshaban, @bartongellman, @paulszoldra, @goldengateblond, @jameeljaffer, @shaneferro, @shaneferro, @kylegriffin1, @peretti, @alt_uscis, @45thabsurdist, @mattkatz00, @aurabogado, @aurabogado, @bradmossesq, @brittny_mejia, @schoofsfeed, @rmac18, @pebonilla, @brfreed, @mariasacchetti, @lailalalami, @tierney_megan, @marioboonetv, @shaneferro, @shaneferro, @tomnamako, @haleaziz, @tomnamako, @haleaziz, @haleaziz, @henryjgomez, @aflores, @arawnsley, @anaceballos_, @jimneff4, @hannahd15, @sikhprof, @byrontau, @seamushughes, @oneunderscore__, @dlind and The Wrap
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Felix Salmon / @felixsalmon: Someone at ICE thought it would make sense not only to subpoena BuzzFeed asking them to reveal confidential sources, but also to ~request~ that they not report on the subpoena. Lol. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Tom Namako / @tomnamako: It has been one (1) day since the Trump administration demanded we keep quiet about its subpoena trying to force us to reveal sources and we went ahead and publicized it anyway: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Juli Briskman / @julibriskman: Crossing the line once again. @BuzzFeed well within its rights to ignore such subpoena. This administration has egregiously attempted to intimidate and belittle the press making it even more crucial to have a fully functioning free fourth estate. #1A https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: BuzzFeed News Editor-in-Chief Mark Schoofs: “We do not confirm or discuss confidential sources, and this subpoena is an outrageous overreach by the federal government. It's fundamentally at odds with the US Constitution and will not have any impact on our journalism.” https://twitter.com/...
Barton Gellman / @bartongellman: ICE is not subject to the DOJ guidelines on news media investigations. https://twitter.com/...
Paul Szoldra / @paulszoldra: “You are requested not to disclose the existence of this summons for an indefinite period of time. Any such disclosure will impede this investigation and thereby interfere with the enforcement of federal law.” Request denied. Sincerely, @BuzzFeed https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Shauna / @goldengateblond: and ICE said “thou shalt not reveal the existence of this subpoena” and Buzzfeed said “lo, bite me” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Jameel Jaffer / @jameeljaffer: ICE's “request” that Buzzfeed not disclose that ICE served it with this subpoena is an additional and independent First Amendment violation. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Shane / @shaneferro: This is bad and, as someone pointed out in the story, embarrassing for ICE. But it's also important to note that this is NOT a subpoena signed by a judge, it's a scare tactic https://twitter.com/...
Shane / @shaneferro: A weird legal thing that I think is not well explained in the media is that there are different kinds of subpoenas. Ones that are signed by a judge are serious and you have to comply. Ones that are not... eh, well, let's just say that *I* have subpoena power
Kyle Griffin / @kylegriffin1: ICE is trying to force BuzzFeed News to divulge its sources. “This is embarrassing for ICE,” the former acting director of the agency said. “When you're trying to intimidate the press, you cross a line.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Jonah Peretti / @peretti: ICE Is Trying To Force BuzzFeed News To Divulge Its Sources https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... via @haleaziz https://twitter.com/...
ALT-immigration / @alt_uscis: Welcome to the club https://twitter.com/...
@45thabsurdist: Alternate headline, translated for our readers in 2008: “Popular internet listicle outlet subpoenaed by the Bureau of Orphan Creation, Involuntary Hysterectomy Task Force, and the Racial Profiling and Ethnic Hygiene Administration” https://twitter.com/...
Matt Katz / @mattkatz00: Solidarity with @Haleaziz, a tremendous journalist/scoop machine, as he stares down an unacceptable subpoena from ICE https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Aura Bogado / @aurabogado: ICE's attempt to try to come after @Haleaziz for doing his job and practicing press freedoms feels reckless. To try to get him to be silent about the fact the agency even issued a subpoena is such a dangerous reach. Looking forward to reading the OIG report about this next year.
Aura Bogado / @aurabogado: ICE subpoenas for agency sources and tells BuzzFeed it wasn't allow to even “disclose the existence of this summons for an indefinite period of time,” suggesting/threatening obstruction of justice charges for doing so. @Haleaziz does the right thing, protects agency sources: https://twitter.com/...
Bradley P. Moss / @bradmossesq: What on earth does ICE think it is doing? https://twitter.com/...
Brittny Mejia / @brittny_mejia: Uhhhh meanwhile FOIA requests to ICE can go unanswered for years... https://twitter.com/...
Mark Schoofs / @schoofsfeed: ICE is trying to force BuzzFeed News to divulge its sources though a subpoena. Let me be clear: We emphatically reject any requests for information about possible sources and methods of our reporting. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... @haleaziz @BuzzFeedNews
Ryan Mac / @rmac18: It sucks getting subpoenaed as a reporter, but if you're going to try to intimidate us, you're going to need to try harder. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Peter Bonilla / @pebonilla: ICE: “You are requested not to disclose the existence of this summons for an indefinite period of time.” Buzzfeed: GFY. https://twitter.com/...
Benjamin Freed / @brfreed: BuzzFeed rightly and promptly told ICE to get rekt https://twitter.com/...
Maria Sacchetti / @mariasacchetti: So, the agency that won't tell the public who it arrests or fulfill FOIAs is attempting to force a reporter to reveal sources. ICE involved Homeland Security Investigations in this—where agents wanted to split (Repost w/link) https://www.google.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Laila Lalami / @lailalalami: This is pure intimidation. We need immigration reporters like Hamed now more than ever. https://twitter.com/...
Tierney Sneed / @tierney_megan: wow. Outrageous. https://twitter.com/...
@marioboonetv: Somebody at .@ICEgov has to know they can't win this battle: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Shane / @shaneferro: The subpoena power is pretty broad but I'm still unsure how shaking down Buzzfeed for its sources falls under enforcing the INA https://www.law.cornell.edu/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Shane / @shaneferro: As the subpoena itself says, the only thing that can happen if you ignore an ICE subpoena is that ICE then can go to a federal judge and whine that you ignored the subpoena and ask the judge to hold a hearing, and... good luck with that on this one
Tom Namako / @tomnamako: “BuzzFeed News emphatically rejects any requests for information about possible sources and methods of our reporting,” said Editor-in-Chief @SchoofsFeed. .....
Hamed Aleaziz / @haleaziz: “This is embarrassing for ICE. I think it is a weak effort to intimidate the press,” said John Sandweg, former acting director of the agency. “When you're trying to intimidate the press, you cross a line. It is something that the agency should never do.”
Tom Namako / @tomnamako: “We do not confirm or discuss confidential sources, and this subpoena is an outrageous overreach by the federal government. It's fundamentally at odds with the US Constitution and will not have any impact on our journalism,” Schoofs added.
Hamed Aleaziz / @haleaziz: “You are requested not to disclose the existence of this summons for an indefinite period of time. Any such disclosure will impede this investigation and thereby interfere with the enforcement of federal law,” it also states.
Hamed Aleaziz / @haleaziz: The subpoena appears to be an escalation of the Trump administration's efforts to track down the identities of people who provide information to news outlets.
Henry J. Gomez / @henryjgomez: “This is embarrassing for ICE. I think it is a weak effort to intimidate the press,” said John Sandweg, former acting director of the agency. “When you're trying to intimidate the press, you cross a line. It is something that the agency should never do.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Adolfo Flores / @aflores: ICE investigators issued a subpoena this week demanding @BuzzFeedNews identify its sources, an escalation of the Trump administration's efforts to track down the identities of people who provide information to reporters like @Haleaziz. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Adam Rawnsley / @arawnsley: Such a lame effort to whine and cry and stamp their feet to look tough. All the legal weight of children's letters to Santa https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Ana Ceballos / @anaceballos_: “This is embarrassing for ICE,” the former acting director of the agency said. “When you're trying to intimidate the press, you cross a line.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Jim Neff / @jimneff4: This won't stand. @rcfp ICE Is Trying To Force BuzzFeed News To Divulge Its Sources https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Hannah Ryan / @hannahd15: I so look up to @Haleaziz and his revelatory immigration reporting in the US. Not surprised ICE is aggravated that he keeps getting scoops exposing their wrongdoing — but this is an unacceptable way to intimidate a reporter. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Simran Jeet Singh / @sikhprof: “ICE investigators issued a subpoena this week demanding BuzzFeed News identify its sources — an extraordinary attempt by the government to interfere with a news outlet acting under the protections of the First Amendment.” -@Haleaziz https://buzzfeednews.com/...
Byron Tau / @byrontau: ICE subpoenas BuzzFeed, demanding the news outlet turn over information about its sources in one of the most brazen attempts in recent memory of a government agency trying to force the press to divulge sources. BuzzFeed says it will not comply. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Seamus Hughes / @seamushughes: ICE: Buzzfeed, we request you don't reveal the existence of the subpoena against your journalist. Buzzfeed: https://twitter.com/...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: Hamed is a tremendous reporter and this is an unambiguous assault on the free press by the U.S. government. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Dara Lind / @dlind: This isn't okay or cool! https://twitter.com/...
J. Clara Chan / The Wrap: BuzzFeed News Subpoenaed by ICE in Attempt to Uncover Sources
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Tribune Publishing, part-owned by Alden Global Capital, is closing the Hartford Courant's newsroom on Dec. 27; journalists will work remotely into 2021 — The Hartford Courant, the Connecticut newspaper that has been in print since 1764, when it chronicled the locals' dissatisfaction with British rule …
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@courantguild, @alecmacgillis, @picardonhealth, @lizbowie, @rachaelpacella, @mcallguild, @pdavis_llc, @frankiegrazie6, @davidjlynch, @boston1775, @bjbetheltweets, @allyjarmanning, @ctblogger, @mattlesser, @bretteats, @andrewdasnyt, @dennishousetv, @senblumenthal, @mayorbronin, @vdelatorre, @samstein, @bruceputterman, @davidchang, @xshularx, @mmcintire, @kgmcwilliams, @hayley__harding, @i_m_m, @tomkrazit, @matt_velazquez, @saragregory, @edokeefe, @repjohnlarson, @bookgirl96, @courantguild, @mcfarland_shawn, @brian_donlon, @tomforemancnn, @courantguild, @katie_robertson, @wolfe321 and The Hill
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@courantguild: Today is a sad day in The Hartford Courant's history. We were just told @tribpub will close our Broad Street office, with no plan to find us a new one. We are indefinitely without an office.
Alec MacGillis / @alecmacgillis: The largest newspaper in Connecticut, in the state capital, no longer has a newsroom. https://twitter.com/...
Andr Picard / @picardonhealth: “For all we know at this moment, the plan is for us to be remote forever” — The @HartfordCourant's newsroom is closing down, and other newspapers🗞️may follow suit, by @katie_robertson https://www.nytimes.com/... via @nytimes @charlesornstein #journalism #PandemicJournalism
@lizbowie: The Baltimore Sun is now one of the last @TribPub papers with a physical newsroom. Are we next? @TribPub has $90 million in cash on hand, no debt and is profitable, yet they will close the Hartford Courant's newsroom. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rachael Pacella / @rachaelpacella: Tribune was wrong for taking the Annapolis newsroom away from shooting survivors who never wavered in the face of immense grief and trauma. It makes me sick to think of more cuts. https://twitter.com/...
@mcallguild: Our company @tribpub thinks it's just fine to run a newspaper out of people's homes. That's because their focus is cash extraction, the hallmark of Alden Global Capital. #savelocalnews https://twitter.com/...
Phil Davis / @pdavis_llc: Tribune's a wealth management company that also employees journalists, at this point. https://twitter.com/...
Frankie Graziano / @frankiegrazie6: These guys won't get something that I daydream about on a daily basis — getting to see my co-workers IRL when this is all over — is gross. I'm sorry to my brothers and sisters at the Courant. @CourantGuild https://twitter.com/...
David J. Lynch / @davidjlynch: I grew up reading this paper. Eventually, knew a few good journalists who worked there. I believe it laid claim to being the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States. Sad day. https://twitter.com/...
J. L. Bell / @boston1775: The Hartford Courant began as a weekly titled the Connecticut Courant in 1764. The first publisher was Thomas Green, from the large Green family of printers. https://twitter.com/...
BJ Bethel / @bjbetheltweets: Local journalism is in the ICU. Despite the heroic efforts of local reporters. https://twitter.com/...
Ally Jarmanning / @allyjarmanning: I learned how to be a reporter by eavesdropping on colleagues' interviews and getting tips from my desk mates who overheard what I was working on. How will our next generation of reporters learn without a newsroom? https://twitter.com/...
Alfonso Robinson / @ctblogger: This is disgraceful! All I want for X-mas is for @tribpub to sell @hartfordcourant to someone who respects journalism. https://twitter.com/...
Sen. Matt Lesser / @mattlesser: What a travesty. The hedge fund owner of @tribpub is obviously not fit to own a newspaper. We need local news, now more than ever. https://twitter.com/...
Brett Anderson / @bretteats: Shocking - if not surprising - journalism news: the newspaper in the capital city of one of the country's richest states doesn't have a newsroom anymore. ht @CKummer https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Das / @andrewdasnyt: Took a field trip to this building in elementary school. Got my first byline in it in college. What a terrible, sad day for an institution that's older than the United States. https://twitter.com/...
Dennis House / @dennishousetv: Saddened to hear this. I've had many friends at the @hartfordcourant over the years and I feel for them tonight https://www.google.com/...
Richard Blumenthal / @senblumenthal: A gut punch for the employees & readers of America's oldest newspaper. Community outrage, or a new owner, need to keep it the HARTFORD Courant. https://twitter.com/...
Luke Bronin / @mayorbronin: My thoughts on the announcement today about the @hartfordcourant newsroom/HQ: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Vanessa de la Torre / @vdelatorre: In the Hartford Courant newsroom, reporting on a charter school scandal in 2014. The shredded paper I hauled from front curb of charter HQ... Editor was getaway driver. #newsroomnostalgia https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Sam Stein / @samstein: the country's oldest newspaper in continuous publication has literally no home. https://twitter.com/...
Bruce Putterman / @bruceputterman: We grieve with our colleagues at @hartfordcourant, and hope Alden finds its way to understanding the value of place and physical connection as key to innovation and growth. https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Chang / @davidchang: First Hartford let the Whalers leave, then they shut down the Jai Alai, then this... https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Shular / @xshularx: Vulture capital parasites are intentionally killing America's oldest continuously published newspaper https://twitter.com/...
Mike McIntire / @mmcintire: This is criminal. I worked there for 10 years and can't believe it's come to this for the country's oldest continuously published newspaper. https://twitter.com/...
Kathleen McWilliams / @kgmcwilliams: This is devastating news for our city's paper and the reporters covering our communities. A new low for the absolutely shameful leadership @tribpub (and that's not saying much). https://twitter.com/...
Hayley Harding / @hayley__harding: I will forever remember the Broad Street office as the place where I got to file a story and then walk past the presses printing it an hour later. Thinking about my friends in Hartford who, like so many papers around the country, have lost their home base. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ian MacDougall / @i_m_m: This is the end game for the hedge funds/PE firms that are buying up local and regional papers: after bleeding them dry, unload the often valuable real estate they own. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Krazit / @tomkrazit: I knew what I wanted to do with my life around the age of 12 after spending a night during a school break watching my dad and his colleagues put out a paper in that building. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Velazquez / @matt_velazquez: This is decidedly quite bad and I don't like it at all. https://twitter.com/...
Sara Gregory / @saragregory: Tribune started 2020 by closing @virginianpilot's newsroom, shutdown five others mid-year and is ending it by closing @hartfordcourant's. Banner year for our hedge fund owners. Bad news for our communities. https://twitter.com/...
Ed O'Keefe / @edokeefe: Connecticut's largest newspaper is now without a newsroom. Are we okay with things like this happening in city after city across the country? https://twitter.com/...
Rep. John Larson / @repjohnlarson: I hope @tribpub reverses this decision. https://larson.house.gov/... https://twitter.com/...
Kathleen Schmidt / @bookgirl96: This is very bad. https://twitter.com/...
@courantguild: Via @nytimes: The Hartford Courant, the Connecticut newspaper that has been in print since 1764, when it chronicled the locals' dissatisfaction with British rule, is the latest daily that will try to cover the news without a newsroom. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Shawn McFarland / @mcfarland_shawn: “We've been in that office for decades. We all value having the physical space, we value each other's company,” said @AlexPutterman. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Donlon / @brian_donlon: If anyone cares about the future of news read this piece about these giants of #journalism - Alden Globa Capital — and their approach to news. It is enough to make you sick https://www.vanityfair.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Tom Foreman / @tomforemancnn: Books will be written one day about how business folks grappled with the idea of folks working from home during this period and beyond - for good and for bad. https://twitter.com/...
@courantguild: This is what happens when hedge funds own newspapers. It's why we need new ownership immediately. Please visit https://saveourcourant.org/.
Katie Robertson / @katie_robertson: The Hartford Courant told staff today their office would be shut permanently from Dec 27. One reporter said: “For all we know at this moment, the plan is for us to be remote forever.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lauren Wolfe / @wolfe321: Another media hit: The closing of the @hartfordcourant's physical newsroom was “a decision about real estate needs amid a difficult and challenging time on both the public health and economic fronts.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Celine Castronuovo / The Hill: Connecticut's largest newspaper loses its newsroom
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Inside WarnerMedia's transition to streaming: current and former execs say it was marred by rushed decision making, culture clashes, HBO brand confusion, more — - CNBC spoke with more than a dozen former and current WarnerMedia executives to gauge how John Stankey and Jason Kilar are progressing with HBO Max.
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@sherman4949, @sherman4949, @ryanlcooper, @mattrosoff, @matthewstoller, @samuelaadams, @carnage4life, @d_kompare, @jayrosen_nyu, @sherman4949, @jordannovet, @timhanlon, @jayrosen_nyu, @carlquintanilla, @media_evan, @jyarow, @megancgraham, @sherman4949, @sherman4949, @rozzy, @deepbagchee, @stevekopack, CNET and MediaPost, more at Techmeme »
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Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: Will AT&T turn WarnerMedia into a new Netflix? Or has buying Time Warner turned into a “making lemonade from lemons” situation? I spent the past two months talking to more than a dozen present and recently departed executives: https://www.cnbc.com/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: I spoke with more than a dozen current and recently departed WarnerMedia execs about what's been going on there over the past couple years. Here are their thoughts — and some new details about HBO Max, brand confusion, culture clash and strategic haggling https://www.cnbc.com/...
Ryan Cooper / @ryanlcooper: “ultra-rich glib MBA idiot unsatisfied with mere billions in profit tries clumsy imitation of market leader, steps on own dick” is like 75 percent of business now https://www.cnbc.com/...
Matt Rosoff / @mattrosoff: Reading @sherman4949's reporting on HBO, I can't help but think how things would be different if the US government hadn't held up ATT/Time-Warner. Imagine HBO Max launching before Disney+. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller: If Judge Leon hadn't allowed AT&T to buy Time Warner, think of all the things we wouldn't be able to enjoy that the combined entity has brought us, like layoffs, the destruction of HBO, record corporate debt, and more layoffs. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Sam Adams / @samuelaadams: every company becoming a tech company is going to be absolutely fucking ruinous for art https://twitter.com/...
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: This story of HBO's CEO suggesting AT&T give HBO more money to buy content and double down on dual cable & HBO Go strategy being ignored so AT&T could launch the confusing HBO Max product to compete with Netflix is classic value destruction by acquisition. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Derek Kompare / @d_kompare: Fantastic dive from @sherman4949 into the strains in the relationships between AT&T, Warner Media, and HBO. This was always going to be a prickly marriage. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: @sherman4949 Amazed at the stupidity of that HBO plan, but my favorite part of the article was the Stephenson gibberish. That is mediaspeak gold.
Jordan Novet / @jordannovet: have had zero interest in watching anything on HBO Max. solid reporting on what's been going on at AT&T from @sherman4949 https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@timhanlon: “AT&T is trading near a 10-year low. Meanwhile Verizon, AT&T's closest competitor, is trading near an all-time high. The most glaring difference between the[m]? Verizon didn't spend $170B buying Time Warner & DirecTV in the past 5 years.” (RT @sherman4949) https://www.cnbc.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: I was shocked to learn from this article that AT&T plans to put ads into its movies and TV series on HBO Max. https://www.cnbc.com/... That would be the end of my relationship with HBO.
Carl Quintanilla / @carlquintanilla: “Alhough Stankey was new to media, he suffered the same disease as every other media executive: Netflix envy.” A richly-reported piece on Warner's ambitions for @HBO. $T https://twitter.com/...
Evan DeSimone / @media_evan: Couple interesting tidbits from the Warner Media overhaul. https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jay Yarow / @jyarow: Draftkings was interested in buying Bleacher Report from WarnerMedia https://www.cnbc.com/...
Meg Graham / @megancgraham: “...former executives point to Stankey's push to add advertising to HBO Max, slated for [Q2 2021], as potentially ruinous... ‘If HBO stood for anything, it was making a product for the customer, not the advertiser,’” Story by @sherman4949 https://www.cnbc.com/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: Another detail — The Bleacher Report executive team was hoping WarnerMedia would sell Bleacher Report to DraftKings in May/June when DraftKings expressed interest in buying it. But AT&T never seriously considered a deal. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: One of my favorite details in here — there has been internal discussion (though nothing actively planned) to change the HBO Max name, either internationally or globally. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Osborn / @rozzy: Genuinely curious how such a well-reported piece isn't behind a paywall https://twitter.com/...
Deep Bagchee / @deepbagchee: The thesis was right, John Stankey & @ATT leadership were early to streaming... yet it has failed to deliver on the promise. Great piece by @sherman4949. The brands sure are confusing: HBO Go, HBO Max, HBO Now, AT&T Now, DirecTV Now!! https://www.cnbc.com/...
Steve Kopack / @stevekopack: AT&T's “HBO Max experiment isn't going particularly well so far. Only 8.6 million people have signed up to activate the service since it launched in May. Compare this to Disney, which has signed up 73.7 million people for Disney+ in less than a year.” https://www.cnbc.com/...
Joan E. Solsman / CNET: HBO Max will stream Matrix 4, Dune, all Warner Bros. 2021 movies same day as theaters
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Peter White / Deadline:
HBO Max Global head Andy Forssell says the service will expand to Latin America in mid-year 2021 and then Europe in 2021's second half; goal is 190 countries — HBO Max is looking to make original DC Comics-based content outside of the U.S. for the first time.
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The Playlist, @richardlnewby, @cbnostalgia, LABS English, The Streamable, Broadband TV News, PR Newswire and CNBC
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Charles Barfield / The Playlist: WarnerMedia CEO Says Controversial HBO Max/WB Release Strategy “The Right Thing To Do” For Fans, Theaters & Filmmakers
Richard Newby / @richardlnewby: Yeah, them working on going global was inevitable. Wish it could be sooner for non-U.S. peeps, but it definitely seems like it'll happen later next year. https://twitter.com/...
Comic Book Nostalgia / @cbnostalgia: Smart move..tons of GREAT content coming from both Europe and Asia so why not. Not to mention we can explore some regional heroes never used before. https://deadline.com/...
João Paulo Pimentel / LABS English: Why HBO Max has chosen Latin America as its first market outside the U.S.
Stephanie Sengwe / The Streamable: The Theater Kilar: WarnerMedia CEO Explains Why They Are Bringing New Releases to Streaming
Peter Kafka / Vox:
Q&A with WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar on the logic behind simultaneous release of movies to HBO Max and theaters, economic fallout for talent, and Roku progress
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The Playlist, The Atlantic, @brooksbarnesnyt, Deadline, CNET, @thisgrayarea, @yahoofinance, @tvgrimreaper, Otium, The Verge, @sherman4949, Sparrow One, Light Reading, @indiewire, @loudmouthjulia, @arlolikesmovies, @keithcalder, @jimmaiella, @variety, Deadline, @davidlsims, Polygon, @pkafka, @pkafka, @pkafka, @pkafka, The Verge and Context is King
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Brooks Barnes / @brooksbarnesnyt: Ouch: “Clearly WarnerMedia intends to sacrifice a considerable portion of the profitability of its movie studio, and that of its production partners and filmmakers, to subsidize HBO Max. As for AMC, we will do all in our power to ensure that Warner does not do so at our expense.”
Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline: WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar On How Groundbreaking HBO Max Theatrical Window Strategy Will Optimize Revenues
Joan E. Solsman / CNET: HBO Max exec on Roku deal: 'We'll get it done'
@yahoofinance: AMC starts ‘urgent dialogue’ with Warner Bros over its plan to put all its 2021 movies on HBO Max via @readDanwrite https://finance.yahoo.com/... https://twitter.com/...
TV Grim Reaper / @tvgrimreaper: “The headlines will be the number of new HBO Max subs we get. The amount of money we've lost on our movies by doing this will be impossible for the idiot press to quantify. That's why I'm a genius.” - Jason Kilar [unsaid] https://twitter.com/...
Tiago Campany / Otium: Conectando os pontos #003
Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Hope you weren't planning to watch Wonder Woman 1984 with an HBO Max free trial
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: I spoke with WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar about his huge movie announcement. Well, everyone thinks it's huge except him: https://www.cnbc.com/...
Sparrow Advisers / Sparrow One: Marketing as the harbinger of business agility
Jeff Baumgartner / Light Reading: WarnerMedia's bold movie move will help HBO Max... at a price
@indiewire: @hbomax All 2021 films will follow the #WonderWoman1984 model: Open in theaters and stream for one month on HBO Max at the same time. After streaming, films move exclusively to theaters: https://www.indiewire.com/... Warner Bros. 2021 slate includes #Dune, “The Suicide Squad,” and #Matrix4 https://twitter.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Good convo on the topic. Hoping very smart people can help me out — if the backend deal is something like “we paid large upfront, and that will be shared among talent” how is that comparable to percentage of a movie that generates $800M-$1B+ at box office? https://www.vox.com/...
@arlolikesmovies: No fan of studio execs, but I'm really struggling to understand the ire here (generally, not just from Sims). We're in the middle of an out of control pandemic, with no real end in sight. I would much rather see movies in theaters, but when would that happen safely? 2022? 2023? https://twitter.com/...
Keith Calder / @keithcalder: There are some vague answers in this interview, which is honestly very interesting but also raises more questions for me. Fascinated to see how this all plays out. https://www.vox.com/...
Jim Maiella / @jimmaiella: This @pkafka Q&A with @jasonkilar on the day's big @hbomax news is excellent and worth your time just for a line that should immediately become a staple of communications briefing books everywhere. “I'll answer the question I would have preferred you ask.” https://www.vox.com/...
@variety: The HBO Max/theaters model is a “unique one-year plan.” Executives at the company have stressed the initiative isn't expected to continue into 2022 or beyond — it's considered a temporary solution in response to the ongoing global heath crisis https://variety.com/...
Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline: AMC Boss Adam Aron Slams Warner Bros HBO Max 2021 Theatrical Window Concept: Studio Sacrificing “Considerable” Profit
David Sims / @davidlsims: I often wonder if anyone in the movie business actually likes going to the movies https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: No word about what this means for 2022. But impossible to imagine Warners goes back to status quo.
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Biggest takeaway from my interview with WarnerMedia's Jason Kilar about his relationship with the theater biz: He knows the theater biz hates what he's doing and he's doing it anyway. https://www.vox.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Other nuggets: Yes, talent will get a slice of the licensing fee HBO Max is paying Warner Bros. No, it won't the be the same $ they'd get in a pre-pandemic world.
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: You guys had great qs - Thank you! But I could only get to a few - and only got some of the answers. But here you go. Obviously lots of follow up to come. https://www.vox.com/...
Julia Alexander / The Verge: Warner Bros. says it will release every single movie in 2021 simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max in the US and stream them for one month
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / Context is King: The Revenge of Jason Kilar
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
OnlyFans says it will generate $2B+ in sales in 2020, now has 85M users, is adding around 500K users a day, and is paying out $200M+ a month to its 1M+ creators — As Cardi B prepared the release for her new song “WAP,” she checked off all the usual components of her promotional plan …
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@lucas_shaw, @jrichlive, @anshelsag, @mathewi, @enronchairman, @johnjedwards3, @eshap, @lucas_shaw, @lucas_shaw, @yashar, @artjonak and @scottmstedman, more at Techmeme »
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Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: I wrote about the rise of @OnlyFans, a massive media business that wants to shed its reputation for naked women and position itself as the next big social network. https://www.google.com/...
Jeff Richards / @jrichlive: 🧐 Pandemic surges in food delivery, ecommerce, telemedicine, home exercise and... https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Anshel Sag / @anshelsag: This is pretty crazy, but I won't lie I was also expecting it to be making more than $200M/Mo with 85M users https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: OnlyFans is only four years old, and is adding up to 500,000 users a day and paying out more than $200 million a month to its creators https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @business
Kenny Lay / @enronchairman: Interesting Bloomberg article about OnlyFans “OnlyFans has grown into one of the biggest media businesses hiding in plain sight. They have 85 million users, upward of 1 million creators, and will generate +$2B in sales this year, of which it keeps ~20%.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
John J. Edwards III / @johnjedwards3: A service adding as many as 500,000 users a day that you've never heard of, or tell people you've never heard of. https://twitter.com/...
@eshap: “I'd rather be nine people's favorite thing, than a hundred people's ninth favorite thing.” - @titleofshow The exploding trend of Artist To Fan (A2F) content platforms such as @Patreon and @OnlyFans, in a musical theater lyric. https://www.bloombergquint.com/ ...
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Some stats that may surprise you about OnlyFans: > It's paying its creators more than $200M a month and on track for $2B+ in sales this year. > It keeps $400M of that money. > It now has more than 85M users. https://www.google.com/...
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Some facts that may not surprise you about OnlyFans founder Tim Stokely: > His first company was called GlamWorship, and it specialized in “financial domination.” (Google it) > His second site, Customs4U, enabled fans to pay porn stars for custom videos. https://www.google.com/...
Yashar Ali / @yashar: OnlyFans proves the point that sometimes you don't need to be great at something, you just have to be first. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Art Jonak / @artjonak: OnlyFans: • $2+ BILLION in sales in 2020 • 85 MILLION users • Adding 500,000 users A DAY • Pays $200+ MILLION A MONTH to their creators Low friction onboarding + focus on slick UI/IX + user-friendly dashboard = side-hustle economy accelerators https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Scott Stedman / @scottmstedman: Bloomberg quickly touches on Radvinsky's sketchy past but doesn't addresses massive problems with OnlyFans. Dozens of people have told me that they had money stolen, entire account balances siphoned without their knowledge or detailed explanation. https://www.google.com/...
Amaris Castillo / Poynter:
Report: in six countries, including the US, proportion of women journalists has remained flat since 2000 and women are 2x to 6x less likely to be quoted in news — The proportion of women journalists in newsrooms has remained flat since 2000 across all analyzed countries.
Mattie Kahn / Glamour:
Interview with Yamiche Alcindor, the White House correspondent for PBS NewsHour, about covering Trump, writing her memoir, and rejecting “both sides” journalism — The morning I talk to Yamiche Alcindor is like most mornings she's had since she started covering Donald Trump in 2017 …
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@marclacey, @porter_anderson, @jordynjournals, @yamiche, @sominisengupta, @newshour, @itscaitlinhd and @reineayiti
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Marc Lacey / @marclacey: .@Yamiche's inspiring words: “To do work that I can be proud of, that I can look back on when I'm an old woman and say, ‘These were the right stories to be telling in the right moment.’” https://www.glamour.com/...
Porter Anderson / @porter_anderson: Media: @Yamiche to @mattiekahn: “I'm a journalist who has been taught and who has practiced the idea that I'm here to tell the truth, not to just balance both sides, and I don't believe in false equivalencies.” https://www.glamour.com/... @glamourmag https://twitter.com/...
Jordyn Holman / @jordynjournals: “I think journalism is such a mighty service to this country, that I know that there are young people out there who will carry the torch,” @Yamiche says. Trust me, you've inspired so many of us https://www.glamour.com/...
Yamiche Alcindor / @yamiche: Thanks so much @mattiekahn and @glamourmag for giving me the opportunity to share what's driving me during this incredibly challenging year. https://www.glamour.com/...
Somini Sengupta / @sominisengupta: Purpose. @Yamiche is so right to remind us to always remember our purpose. https://www.glamour.com/...
@newshour: Our White House correspondent @Yamiche talks about her passion for journalism, covering the Trump administration and more with @mattiekahn of @glamourmag. https://www.glamour.com/...
Caitlin Dickerson / @itscaitlinhd: I love that this piece captures the essence of @Yamiche. TBQH she's the North Star we all need, in journalism and in life. It's a must-read for young journalists, especially. https://www.glamour.com/...
Rgine Jean-Charles / @reineayiti: “I understand what it means to be stereotyped and criminalized just for how you look...I hope that my reporting illuminates some of the flaws that we have in this country, because it comes from a very personal place.” @Yamiche Alcindor | Glamour https://www.glamour.com/...
Newslaundry:
India's Times Group says it will stop the publication of Pune Mirror and will relaunch Mumbai Mirror as a weekly, but both will have a “strong digital presence” — As 2020 draws to a close, the latest casualty in the rampant layoffs and closures in the print media is Mumbai Mirror and Pune Mirror.
Discussion:
IJR, @raju, @alishacoelho, @ranaayyub, @dpanjana, @vijaylokapally, @dire_nair, @nandiniramnath, @jencyjac, @spignal, exchange4media and Scroll.in
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Churumuri / IJR: In the Samir Jain era, the ‘Times Group’ has shut down 26 newspapers and magazines. ‘Mumbai Mirror’ was a death foretold.
Raju Narisetti / @raju: India's largest newspaper conglomerate, Times Group, will stop publication of Pune Mirror and turn its fiesty @MumbaiMirror into a weekly in print. A significant blow to urban, local/community newspaper journalism in Western India. https://www.exchange4media.com/ ... via @e4mtweets
Alisha Coelho / @alishacoelho: Mumbai Mirror is one of the cruelest casualties of 2020. As a journalist, it was the paper that I looked forward to and dreaded the most because of the stories they broke (and in turn, the explanations I'd have to give my editor for missing the scoop).
Rana Ayyub / @ranaayyub: I am going to miss the dogged reporting on local issues and some brilliant writing under the leadership of @writemeenal. Hope these bylines find an alternate space soon. Will miss you Mumbai Mirror
Deepanjana / @dpanjana: Mumbai Mirror shutting down is terrible, terrible news. It's done so many great stories, it didn't hesitate to take a principled stand on so many subjects and quickly became a favourite for city readers. Fingers crossed for everyone in Mirror's team.
Vijay Lokapally / @vijaylokapally: Very sad, disturbing and depressing news. I have so many friends working in these newspapers. How are they going to manage? https://twitter.com/...
Roshni / @dire_nair: Wtaf? This is the only Times publication with a sliver of journalistic integrity. Mumbai Mirror has some badass reporters who break news and write some of the best stories, day after day. Turning it into a weekly is giving it a slow and certain death. https://www.mxmindia.com/...
Nandini Ramnath / @nandiniramnath: The best thing the TOI group ever produced, steered by my first boss and first-class editor @writemeenal. Kudos to her and her wonderful team: Mumbai Mirror and Pune Mirror to stop publication, Times Group says Indian economy in recession https://scroll.in/... via @scroll_in
Jency Jacob / @jencyjac: If there was any reason to continue to subscribe to a TOI paper, it was @MumbaiMirror. News of the Mirror shutting down is a shock. The mirror editions were led by some cool editors and journalists. Will miss the paper and their stories a lot 😞
The Daily Beast:
Fox staffers say Porter Berry, EIC of FoxNews.com and former Hannity producer, has shifted the site's tone to mirror the channel's opinion content — According to insiders, Hannity and the network's right-wing opinion side have managed, as if by proxy, to influence the content of FoxNews.com, the channel's website.
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / Context is King: Serving Two Masters — FOX's identity crisis between its TV positioning and website perspective …
@thedailybeast: Sean Hannity is already one of Fox News' loudest voices. Now, his influence has spread to the once-independent digital news operation, staffers say, and it's largely thanks to a little-known former Hannity producer named Porter Berry. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Noah Shachtman / @noahshachtman: Sean Hannity isn't just something of a shadow White House Chief of. Staff. In many important ways, he's essentially taken over for Roger Ailes at Fox, too. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: Sean Hannity's producer took over Fox's websites in 2018. Staff say he's pushed the sites even further right, and is still informally acting as an informal “shadow” producer for Hannity's show. Our look at Fox News digital EIC Porter Berry: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Alex Norcia / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Enrique Abeyta, a metalhead former hedge fund manager who has bought Revolver, Inked, and The Hard Times, expanding e-commerce with long-term goals — Enrique Abeyta, a former hedge-funder, goes all in on metalhead media — Matt Saincome was used to ignoring people.
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Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Great story on Enrique Abeyta, a former hedge-fund manager and metalhead who started his own stable of media outlets targeted at metal fans https://www.cjr.org/...
Matt Saincome / @mattsaincome: Life is boring without characters. Here's a great article about a deal I did with one of my favorite characters. https://twitter.com/...
@cjr: Enrique Abeyta, a former hedge-funder goes all in on metalhead media: “Everybody wants a bad guy,” he said. He doesn't believe he is one. https://www.cjr.org/...
@cjr: @abestreep @johnmrod @shinheeeee @d_holli @mayabinyam @jnoisecat @Oaklandside @jherrerx @tasneemraja @chameauleon @ruthmargalit @mikerosenwald “At my last firm, they called me the master of the ‘Game of Thrones,’ because...I had a great ability to identify moves in the media space by thinking strategically.” @Alex_Norcia profiles Enrique Abeyta, a heavy-metal hedge-funder turned media-investor https://www.cjr.org/...
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