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Caleb Ecarma / Vanity Fair:
Sources: Biden deputy press sec T.J. Ducklo threatened Politico's Tara Palmeri after finding out she was reporting on his relationship with an Axios journalist — Deputy press secretary TJ Ducklo lashed out at journalist Tara Palmeri, spurring conversations between Politico's brass and the White House …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post: White House suspends senior press aide accused of threatening reporter
Jake Lahut / Insider: The White House's suspension of Deputy Press Secretary TJ Ducklo falls short of Biden's promise to fire anyone who treats colleagues with disrespect
Wesley / @wesleylowery: For the record: if we're talking off the record and you begin threatening me we are no longer talking off the record
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian: The White House Response to the TJ Ducklo Story Should Remind Reporters: Press Staff Are Not Your Friends.
Lauren Egan / NBC News: White House deputy press secretary suspended after allegations of verbally harassing a reporter
Caleb Ecarma / @calebecarma: scoop by me: WH comms aide TJ Ducklo threatened to “destroy” Politico's Tara Palmeri for reporting on his relationship with an Axios reporter and accused her of just being “jealous” of his girlfriend. Jen Psaki and Kate Bedingfield then defended him https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Samson Amore / The Wrap: Journalists Fume Over White House Press Aide TJ Ducklo's Suspension: ‘He Needs to Be Fired’
Oliver Darcy / CNN: White House suspends deputy press secretary for one week for threatening reporter over story about him
Bob Cronin / Newser: Biden Press Aide Suspended Over Threat
Josh Feldman / Mediaite: Psaki Confronted By Reporters Over TJ Ducklo: ‘How Can You Keep This Person’ When He ‘Made Such Sexist Comments?’
Israel Salas-Rodriguez / The Sun: Who is TJ Ducklo dating?
Jeva Lange / The Week: The daily gossip: Justin Timberlake apologizes, Jared Leto insists he never gave Margot Robbie a dead rat, and more
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: Imagine the (justifiable) reaction if someone working at the Trump White House had done this https://twitter.com/...
Rebecca Morin / USA Today: White House deputy press secretary suspended for 1 week after threatening reporter over story
David Rutz / Fox News: Biden press aide suspended after report he threatened, demeaned female reporter
Dan Kois / Slate: Just Fire TJ Ducklo!
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: There will be Q's about this at today's @PressSec briefing, and rightly so: https://twitter.com/...
Steadman&trade / @asteadwesley: you don't say stuff like this overnight, you do it because the behavior has been tolerated and even encouraged. too many press aides think off the record is grounds for disrespect https://twitter.com/...
Mikael Thalen / The Daily Dot: After press aide suspended for harassment, Biden's old ‘fire you on the spot’ quote comes back
@gormogons: GP Don't forget that the White House knew this occurred for several weeks and only suspended Mr. Ducklo when his behavior leaked. https://twitter.com/...
Christopher Hong / @chrishongtu: Terrible treatment of the media has always been, and always will be, a bipartisan problem. https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Southpaw / @nycsouthpaw: “Off the record, I will destroy you.” https://www.vanityfair.com/... https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: If confirmed, this would not build back better Biden WH-press relations VF reports that WH deputy press secy @TDucklo threatened @tarapalmeri as she reported on his relationship w a reporter - and made vile & misogynistic remarks to boot 👇🏼 https://twitter.com/...
Piers Morgan / @piersmorgan: First test of President Biden's zero tolerance policy on this kind of behaviour.... https://twitter.com/...
Jake Tapper / @jaketapper: What's described in here is misogynistic, deranged, and absolutely unacceptable behavior. @tarapalmeri was doing her job. https://twitter.com/...
James Ball / @jamesrbuk: This is well, well beyond the bounds of okay. And no-one should try to let the behaviour of the last administration change what's within the boundaries for this one. https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Byron York / @byronyork: How a Biden press aide dealt with a reporter pursuing an uncomfortable story: ‘I will destroy you.’ From @VanityFair: https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Matt Whitlock / @mattdizwhitlock: “If you ever work with me and I hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I will fire you on the spot. No ifs, ands or buts.” -President Biden https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: Also: when I was still a full time working journo, nothing motivated me more than a hostile subject or source threatening to destroy and / or ruin me. This does not have the effect on journalists that people think it will. https://twitter.com/...
@charles_gaba: Ugh. From the story, it sounds like @TDucklo isn't denying the conversation or what he said. Unless there's some other factor to this, he should step down today. https://twitter.com/...
@zachdespart: Glad the White House suspended him but if anyone ever talks to my female colleagues like this they can go to hell. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Michael Garcia / @ericmgarcia: The really noxious thing here is that it looks like Ducklo went after Palmeri even though she wasn't the reporter pursuing the story. That just reeks of misogyny. https://twitter.com/...
Gabe Fleisher / @wakeup2politics: Two examples of male operatives attacking female reporters, surfacing within 24 hours of each other. As @espiers writes here, this kind of stuff does not often end up reflecting well on the operative! https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Rodericka Applewhaite / @rodericka: If someone in Trump's orbit talked to a reporter like this we would call for their head and they would deserve it. Let's not excuse stoops to their level just because the previous administration maintained a standard of classlessness. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Politico staffers are outraged about @PressSec's solution here: “It feels like she is punishing us more than him,” one tells me, noting the outlet will lose access to one of the highest ranking White House comms officials. https://www.cnn.com/...
Susan Ferrechio / @susanferrechio: I've experienced this kind of crap from “aides” and “officials.” Believe me, THEY MEAN IT. “I Will Destroy You”: Biden Aide Threatened a Politico Reporter Pursuing a Story on His Relationship https://www.vanityfair.com/... via @VanityFair
Connie Schultz / @connieschultz: I may have some thoughts about this. In summary, disclose, disclose, disclose — and be transparent in your efforts to avoid ethical conflicts. Also, never threaten journalists. It seldom goes the way you planned. https://twitter.com/...
Alyssa Farah / @alyssafarah: Yikes. This is wildly unprofessional & deeply misogynistic. No woman should be subjected to this kind of bullying and berating on the job. Also, @tarapalmeri is a pro. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Sternberg / The Media Nut: New administration, same bare-knuckle press tactics
Jerry Dunleavy / @jerrydunleavy: How it started vs. How it's going https://people.com/... https://www.vanityfair.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Reza Aslan / @rezaaslan: Fire him now https://twitter.com/...
Caroline Anderegg / @cfanderegg: What I can't get over: his female bosses giving him a gentle slap on the wrist for berating and harassing another woman. And y'all wonder why we roll our eyes when women on the Left lecture us about having the moral high ground. https://twitter.com/...
Lissandra Villa / @lissandravilla: There's always a way to make a bad story worse, and speaking so inappropriately to a reporter, is one: https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Meghan McCain / @meghanmccain: I cannot tell you how angry misogynists who speak this way towards women makes me - this is disgusting, blatant sexism and it's beneath the Biden administration. @tarapalmeri is one of the best journalists out there and deserves better than this. https://twitter.com/...
Haley Byrd Wilt / @byrdinator: Can you imagine saying this to someone unironically and thinking it is a normal, well adjusted thing to do as part of your job https://www.vanityfair.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kai Ryssdal / @kairyssdal: Soon to be Former WH Deputy Press Sec'y, I'll wager... https://twitter.com/...
Kenneth P. Vogel / @kenvogel: Having been on the receiving end of aggressive (& personal) pushback from BIDEN press team, I can tell you it's not fun, but this seems like another level entirely. https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Glenn Kessler / @glennkesslerwp: Possibly a firing offense but at the very least it looks like someone should be reassigned from ever dealing with reporters. Curious to see how this WH handles this. https://twitter.com/...
Noah Kulwin / @nkulw: Don't even think the inauguration had even happened yet when a WH reporter told me that Biden ppl were far more privately aggressive w press than Trump https://twitter.com/...
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing: White House aide threatens reporter: “I will destroy you”
Katie Glueck / @katieglueck: “instead of calling the male reporter who initially contacted,” per the story https://www.vanityfair.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Not even a month into the Biden Administration and a very senior WH official is explicitly threatening a reporter and subjecting her to degrading, misogynistic abuse for trying to do her job as a reporter. Democracy dies in darkness. https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Ryan McCarthy / @mccarthyryanj: Biden WH: so that conversation in which a male aide threatened to “destroy” a female Politico reporter, called her “jealous” and made misogynist comments? That was off the record. Unbelievable stuff. https://www.vanityfair.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Eoin Higgins / @eoinhiggins_: Hey @PressSec has @tducklo46 been fired yet, and if not, why not? https://www.vanityfair.com/... https://twitter.com/...
EdAsante / @edasante77: For the record I don't want the guy fired. It's just amusing these standards Biden and the Left put up as some sort of cudgel against Republicans that end up ensnaring themselves.
Ada Chvez / @aidachavez: I love how Axios pulled a reporter off the White House beat because she's dating a Biden press secretary, and instead assigned her to cover progressives in Congress and the Vice President — subjects that famously have nothing to do with the President. https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: 👇 Off the record is an *agreement* between a source and a reporter, not something a source can just demand. It's not a magic word. And if you threaten a reporter, your OTR privileges are moot. https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Koster / The Big Lead: White House Deputy Press Secretary TJ Ducklo Suspended One Week Without Pay for Confrontation with Reporter
Steven Nelson / New York Post: WH spokesman threatened reporter for piece on relationship with journo: report
Erik Wemple / Washington Post: Politico loses scoop to People
Brad Reed / Raw Story: Biden press aide went on sexist tirade against reporter in unhinged phone call: report
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: “Axios has allowed one of its reporters to continue to write about Joe Biden after she disclosed in November that she is dating his transition spokesman and now White House deputy press secretary, TJ DUCKLO.” The result: https://www.politico.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Christopher J. Scalia / @cjscalia: Not surprising that a reporter and a deputy press secretary are so good at PR: The night before Politico runs its story, they manage to have People run a glowing profile about how squeaky clean they are. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Missed news on relationship between WH spox @TDucklo & Axios' @alexi Told bosses in Nov; she asked for new beat. Per Politico: Since then McCammond still did some Biden-Harris reporting w/no disclosure to public. I think of VandeHei as drawing lines; That's on Axios. https://twitter.com/...
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Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy:
Jen Psaki says T.J. Ducklo has been placed on a one-week suspension without pay and will no longer be assigned to work with any Politico reporters — TJ Ducklo has been placed on a one-week suspension without pay, @PressSec says. https://twitter.com/...
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Jen Psaki / @presssec: With the approval of the White House Chief of Staff, he has been placed on a one-week suspension without pay. In addition, when he returns, he will no longer be assigned to work with any reporters at Politico.
Jen Psaki / @presssec: TJ Ducklo has apologized to the reporter, with whom he had a heated conversation about his personal life. He is the first to acknowledge this is not the standard of behavior set out by the President.
@kerrymflynn: This was sexual harassment. The consequence from his employer: A one-week suspension https://www.vanityfair.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Rudy Takala / Mediaite: Psaki Confronted About Biden Urging Senators to ‘Stand Up’ at Trump Trial, Won't Say if President Wants Them to Convict
Jake Lahut / Insider: White House Deputy Press Secretary TJ Ducklo suspended after reportedly threatening to ‘destroy’ a Politico reporter
David Boroff / The Sun: When did TJ Ducklo have cancer?
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: White House Deputy Press Secretary TJ Ducklo Suspended After Accusation of Threat to Reporter
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: The note from Ducklo to Palmeri: “Last night on the phone with you I lost my temper in a way that was unprofessional, and I apologize for that. I should have done a better job at keeping my emotions in check during our conversation. It won't happen again.” https://www.cnn.com/...
Michael Ruiz / Fox News: White House aide remains employed after allegedly demeaning reporter, despite Biden warning of firing
Abby D. Phillip / @abbydphillip: Keep in mind the WH has known about this since January. https://twitter.com/...
Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona: This is, of course, not what Biden promised just three weeks ago. He said specifically at that time he would fire “on the spot” anyone who treats “another colleague with disrespect” or talks “down to someone — no ifs, and or buts.” https://twitter.com/...
Jim Rooney / @roon0292: TJ has stage 4 cancer. While what he did is inexcusable, firing him now would basically be a death sentence. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Krakauer / @stevekrak: So Ducklo is banned from working with any reporters at Politico, because of his misogynistic insults aimed at a Politico reporter, but he can still work with reporters at Axios, where his girlfriend is employed as a reporter covering the VP. https://twitter.com/...
Kathryn Krawczyk / The Week: After paying opioid settlements, big pharma companies plan to get an estimated $1 billion in tax deductions
Chris Cillizza / @chriscillizza: One week? Didn't Biden say he had a “zero tolerance” policy for this sort of behavior. https://twitter.com/...
Space Lazar Wolf / @nathanwurtzel: So it appears there are ifs ands or buts. FWIW, I never believed him. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Therriault / @therriaultphd: He literally has one job, which is to maintain healthy and productive relationships with the press, and he's clearly incapable of doing that. There are many better people for that job, and they deserve a first chance far more than he deserves another one. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Feinberg / @andrewfeinberg: One of your deputies went on a screaming tirade at me in front of a bunch of reporters and staffers in the lower press office because he didn't like my answer to a survey question about your boss calling reporters “the enemy of the people.” You did nothing about it. Sit down. https://twitter.com/...
Sean Spicer / @seanspicer: Did he see this? “I am not joking when I say this: If you are ever working with me and I hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I promise you I will fire you on the spot. No ifs, ands, or buts,” President Biden https://twitter.com/...
Jen Psaki / @presssec: In addition to his initial apology, he has sent the reporter a personal note expressing his profound regret.
Jake Tapper / @jaketapper: President Biden on Jan 20: “I'm not joking when I say this: If you ever work with me and I hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, I will fire you on the spot. No ifs, ands or buts.” President Biden on Feb 12: https://twitter.com/...
Hans Mahncke / @hansmahncke: Turns out this was just virtue signaling bluster. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jake Tapper / @jaketapper: Btw this isn't just a violation of the Biden pledge, or his broader promise of decency. I've had verbal fights with press secretaries for more than 20 years and no one has ever spoken to me like this. It's misogyny and emblematic of the double standard women reporters face. https://twitter.com/...
Mathieu Rosemain / Reuters:
Settlement agreements for the copyright dispute between French media and Google show Google will pay $22M annually in total to 121 publications for three years — PARIS (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google has agreed to pay $76 million over three years to a group of French news publishers …
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Simon Robinson / @iron_emu: Exclusive: Google's $76 million deal with French publishers leaves many outlets infuriated. Fees range from $1.3 million for Le Monde at the top of the list to $13,741 for local publisher La Voix de la Haute Marne. https://www.reuters.com/...
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
An independent review links The Philadelphia Inquirer's predominantly white newsroom to its news coverage overrepresenting white people, especially white men — The Philadelphia Inquirer has an overwhelmingly white newsroom and fails to retain journalists of color, resulting in news coverage …
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Andrea Wenzel / Poynter: A Philadelphia Inquirer headline sparked outrage — and a newsroom audit. Here's what it found.
@tauhidchappell: I've got a lot of thoughts on the Inquirer diversity & equity audit. I'll speak in due time. For now, read the audit. Black journalists & JOCs been saying this for decades. Decades. No one listened. No power was removed and shifted. Complicity abound. https://www.poynter.org/...
Andree Lau / @alau2: “It's extremely common to hear editors say, 'Sure, but the reader's not going to understand that.'” They would then have to unpack what they meant by “the reader” and how this imagined reader tended to be white, older and suburban. https://www.poynter.org/...
Meryl Kornfield / @merylkornfield: “Reporter after reporter shared stories of feeling that they had to change how they pitched, framed, or made style choices within a story to make the story legible to an assumed white reader.” https://www.poynter.org/...
@tauhidchappell: “Company & newsroom leadership declined interview requests through a spokesperson” Let's make one thing clear: You can't call yourself an antiracist institution & decline to comment on something like this, full stop. Own up, be transparent & accountable https://www.inquirer.com/...
Stephanie Farr / @farfarraway: The incredible @anna_orso & @JeseniaDeMoyaC had the very difficult assignment of writing about an audit of our newsroom & this is the response our leaders gave them. “Company and newsroom leadership declined interview requests through a spokesperson.” https://www.inquirer.com/...
Billy Penn / @billy_penn: After the Inquirer's “Buildings Matter, Too” headline sparked controversy, a newsroom audit found 90% of the paper's stories include at least one white voice and most are written for a white audience https://www.poynter.org/...
Jillian Bauer-Reese / @thesmallpicture: Grateful for the opportunity to be involved in this project, co-led by @andreawenzel and the late @BryanKMonroe. https://twitter.com/...
@elaijuh: “The Philadelphia Inquirer has an overwhelmingly white newsroom and fails to retain journalists of color, resulting in news coverage that overrepresents people who are white and male, an independent review released this week found.” https://www.inquirer.com/...
@kerrymflynn: Important read on the newsroom audit of The Philadelphia Inquirer “...to push beyond good intentions, to stop defaulting to whiteness, and to implement the systems and structures needed to build more inclusive and equitable newsrooms...” https://www.poynter.org/...
Jacob Nelson / @jnelz: The recommendations are also great — specific, constructive, and (at least from my likely naive perspective) actionable. @andreawenzel charts a clear path that all newsrooms would do well to follow. https://twitter.com/...
Anna Orso / @anna_orso: The report describes a newsroom that has for decades allowed racism, discrimination, and cultural incompetency, resulting in lopsided coverage of the city it serves. Top management declined to be interviewed for this story. https://www.inquirer.com/...
Jacob Nelson / @jnelz: One point that especially stood out to me: the relationship between who reports and edits a story, the assumptions those journalists have about the people they believe will read the story, and the effects of those assumptions on the way the story gets told. https://twitter.com/...
Vanessa Maria Graber / @newsjawn: @TempleUniv researchers confirmed what we already knew to be true: the Philadelphia Inquirer excludes Black and Brown people from the newsroom and its content...in a city that is majority POC. @NahjPhilly statement is forthcoming. #institutionalracism https://www.poynter.org/...
Diane Mastrull / @dmastrull: As we lose another Black journalist today...@TempleUniv audit finds @PhillyInquirer has overwhelmingly white newsroom and its coverage underrepresents people of color...All of it, including pay inequity, must end NOW! https://www.inquirer.com/...
Jessica Calefati / @calefati: Speaking in confidence, some of my white colleagues criticized the movement started by journalists of color to rid @PhillyInquirer newsroom of systemic racism. We have a loooong way to go. Here's more on where we're at right now. @Poynter https://www.poynter.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Andrea Wenzel / @andreawenzel: After months of looking at nearly 3000 stories + 46 interviews, our @TUKleincollege team shares lessons learned from our experience looking at diversity & inclusion at the @PhillyInquirer https://www.poynter.org/...
JeseniaDeMoyaCorrea / @jeseniademoyac: A diversity and inclusion audit commissioned by @PhillyInquirer found that out of 14,000 people featured in a sample of 3,000 articles, photos & videos between Aug. 2019 & July 2020, about a quarter were Black, 3% were Latinx, and less than 2% were Asian. https://www.inquirer.com/...
Jacob Nelson / @jnelz: This audit of the @PhillyInquirer by @andreawenzel in @Poynter is so well done, and a great example of journalism researchers working not just to study newsrooms, but improve them as well. https://www.poynter.org/...
Amy S. Rosenberg / @amysrosenberg: “The audit found dramatic gender imbalance in The Inquirer's coverage. More than 3/4of the 14,000 people featured in content were male. Six people, or 0.1%, were nonbinary or genderqueer. Out of all race & gender identities, Black women accounted for 4.7%. https://www.inquirer.com/...
Ernest Owens / @mrernestowens: “Ernest Owens, president of the @PABJ, said while the result of the audit “comes as a surprise to no one,” the data was still “disappointing, infuriating, and insulting.” He added: “there needs to be some resignations.” https://www.inquirer.com/...
@hanaatameez: Damn how do you not answer reporter questions from within your own company https://www.inquirer.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@poynter: Last June, after the killing of George Floyd, the Inquirer ran an article titled “Buildings Matter, Too.” The incident led the Inquirer to undertake a major diversity, equity, and inclusion initiative involving nearly 60 members of the newsroom. https://www.poynter.org/...
Ashley Alvarado / @ashleyalvarado: “'Good intentions aren't enough, + there needs to be a way to explicitly talk about race,' @andreawenzel said, 'because if it's not talked about directly, then the default is an assumption of whiteness + that we're writing our stories for white readers.'” https://www.inquirer.com/...
@resolvephilly: We don't have perfect newsrooms and we don't have full diversity, equity, and inclusion in almost any organization. That said, we have to fight to do much better than where we are. This piece from our colleague @andreawenzel shows a path. https://www.poynter.org/...
Ellie Rushing / @ellierushing: “Taken together, the report describes a newsroom that has for decades allowed racism, discrimination, and cultural incompetency within its walls — an internal culture that many say foments unfair coverage of communities of color.” https://www.inquirer.com/...
Rachel Molenda / @rachelmolenda: An audit by @templeUniv found white guys get the vast majority of coverage at @PhillyInquirer. We also heard our colleagues of color feel they have to act as translators to their white editors, are not free to question editors & fear speaking up. https://www.inquirer.com/...
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Michael Pack cited security concerns for not extending J-1 visas, but a memo shows the rationale was to prioritize jobs for US citizens, which VOA does anyway — Nabila Ganinda was awaiting a green light from the U.S. Agency for Global Media. — The agency had hired Ganinda …
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David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Trump officials cited security in killing visas for dozens of VOA foreign journalists. Privately, officials invoked Trump-like rhetoric to proclaim need to preserve jobs for Americans - a tough charge for a network in 47 languages My latest NPR story https://www.npr.org/...
Liz Dye / @5dollarfeminist: The absolute chaos they're having to clean up at the VOA — it's just shocking. https://www.npr.org/...
Nina Jankowicz / @wiczipedia: This is obscene. The credibility of USAGM outlets is dependent on hiring journalists from the countries they cover, not blasting out poorly translated propaganda because of a misplaced prejudice about hiring “temporary workers.” https://twitter.com/...
Matt Boxer / @mattboxer94: So they wanted to kill Voice of America. Thank god Trump lost is all I can say https://twitter.com/...
@thisiswenhao: “I was crying in front of my bosses,” Ganinda told NPR from Indonesia. “My chief was fighting for me to stay there. But I don't know — what was my mistake? Like, what have I done that they do that?” -The answer is simply being a foreigner. https://www.npr.org/...
James Palmer / @beijingpalmer: vile. absolutely vile. a deliberate attempt to sabotage a great American institution with global reach. https://twitter.com/...
Kim Andrew Elliott / @kaedotcom: “The Oct. 18 memo sent by [Pack's chief of staff, Emily Newman] ... said that Pack would soon receive a recommendation that the agency terminate its involvement in the J-1 visa program altogether.” #USAGM https://www.npr.org/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Trump appointee Michael Pack had basically pocketed VOA's requests for J-1 visa extensions for months. In October, Pack's chief of staff sent him a memo that led him to formally deny the request for the Indonesian journalist Nabila Ganinda. Security was listed as 7th cause. https://twitter.com/...
Margaret Barthel / DCist:
An independent journalist is suing Washington, DC, police over his arrest at a racial justice protest and their withholding his cameras and phone for 10 weeks — Local independent journalist and documentarian Kian Kelley-Chung was one of more than 40 people arrested by the Metropolitan Police Department …
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Grayson Clary / @graysonclary: @margaretbarthel I might've missed it in the body of the article, but do you have a link to the complaint?
Margaret Barthel / @margaretbarthel: @GraysonClary Sure! https://www.courtlistener.com/ ...
Jenny Gathright / @jennygathright: It took Kian Kelley-Chung 10 weeks to get his camera and video equipment back from MPD last year, and now he's suing. Read this story from @margaretbarthel on an independent journalist documenting the movement while Black https://dcist.com/...
@blackhousenew: Powerful story about one of the most talented photojournalist of the movement. @uncleiso's fight with MPD continues and should be a call to action for all. #FreePress #WakandaForever https://twitter.com/...
Ford Fischer / @fordfischer: It is absolutely unacceptable and a direct, seditious, and intentional assault against the constitution when police officers arrest press and confiscate their equipment for no crime. @uncleiso was arrested, released without charges, and his camera wasn't returned for months. https://twitter.com/...
Kian / @uncleiso: Thank you so much for taking the time to interview me and write this piece. Attacks on press are attacks on accountability. The 1st Amendment is 1st for a reason. #ProtectThePress https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth A. Harris / New York Times:
Most major publishing houses now insist on morality clauses in book contracts as social media has made it possible to unravel a reputation overnight — Morals clauses are despised by many authors and agents, but big publishers insist that they need a way out if a writer's reputation takes a nosedive.
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@nytmedia: Morals clauses are widely used in book deals, but some authors and literary agents say they set up the publisher as judge, jury, executioner and beneficiary https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimesbooks: When Simon & Schuster dropped Josh Hawley's book, there were cries of censorship and cancel culture. But the way the publisher backed out of the deal got relatively little attention. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Josef Adalian / Vulture:
Seeking to avoid churn, new streamers like HBO Max and Paramount+ are offering attractive deals in exchange for long-term commitment — This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture's newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today!
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Frank Pallotta / CNN: Streaming is still a good deal, but it's starting to get pricey
Aliya S. King / LEVEL:
Roundtable interview with hip-hop journalists who wrote for Vibe, XXL, and The Source in the '90s and early '00s on their turn from journalism to movies and TV — Some of the genre's best and brightest come together to talk about why they made the transition from rap magazines to TV and movies—and how
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Carlito Rodriguez / @carlitomachete: Brain cells were lit ideas start to hit next the formation of words that fit... Big love to @aliyasking + @JermaineHall two of my all time favs, for letting me say a few things about a few things. #HipHop Pa Siempre https://level.medium.com/...
Erik Parker / @erikgparker: Love this talk with my heroes, my homies. All in Motion. @cheo_coker @carlitomachete @selwynhinds @kimosorio1 @lauracheckoway Thanks @aliyasking and @JermaineHall for making this happen. https://level.medium.com/...
Sowmya Krishnamurthy / @sowmyak: I love seeing rap journos living their best second life ... PS. I WISH we were getting $5k for a cover story! https://twitter.com/...
Good Trouble / @jlbarrow: “all of us in New York were fighting for the same $5,000 cover story. And the competition was crazy because it's such a small ecosystem. If you write for Vibe, can't write for The Source... All of us were fighting for the same money.” @cheo_coker https://level.medium.com/...
Gary Suarez / CABBAGES: Irregular Vegetables, Vol. 42
Taylor Lorenz / New York Times:
SAG-AFTRA's agreement to represent social media creators is the latest sign that the business of influence has become a key part of the entertainment industry — SAG-AFTRA has approved a new “influencer agreement.” — Social media creators have a new way to join Hollywood's biggest union.
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Ford Pinto Memes / @jacksonatucker: Joining SAG because a gambling website wanted to use me to promote to minors https://twitter.com/...
@terrygtnguyen: interested to see whether this unionization trend will expand beyond the entertainment space (where there's already so much $$ to be made) to include creators from less lucrative industries (ex: writing) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sag-Aftra / @sagaftra: ICYMI: #sagaftra approved a new #influencer agreement. Read more by @TaylorLorenz https://www.nytimes.com/...
Scott Nover / @scottnover: “A crucial distinction... is that while the union will be able to represent creators in negotiations with the advertising brands, it won't be able to negotiate directly or on an individual basis with the social media platforms themselves.” — @TaylorLorenz https://www.nytimes.com/...
Paul F. Tompkins / @pftompkins: Interested in learning what requirements they have to meet to keep their insurance https://twitter.com/...
@bazineapologist: Hoping this is a bellwether for the industry getting some standards. Maybe all the child laborers being exploited by their parent for views can get some protection next. https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: “I think this just legitimizes and lends a lot of credibility to an industry many have not taken seriously,” said Lindsay Silberman, a lifestyle creator https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC:
Spotify says it is adopting a Work From Anywhere model and will provide co-working space memberships for employees who choose to work remotely — - Spotify is adapting a “Work from Anywhere” model, which will allow employees to choose whether they want to be in the office full time, be at home full time or a combination of the two.
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Gizmodo, Spotify, The Kellington Times, The Verge, @martinsfp, @mmbilal, @lukelango3 and @mgsiegler, more at Techmeme »
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Shoshana Wodinsky / Gizmodo: Spotify's Employees Can Now Work Wherever They'd Like—No Office Required
Jack Kelly / The Kellington Times: Spotify Will Let Employees Work From Anywhere They Do Their Best ‘Thinking And Creating’
Nick Statt / The Verge: Spotify to let employees keep working remotely and now choose what country they work from
Martin Sfp Bryant / @martinsfp: Far from the first company to do this but it's still encouraging to see that big tech companies realise many remote workers can't stand being forced to work at home constantly (when there isn't a pandemic on). https://twitter.com/...
Malika Bilal / @mmbilal: Just gonna shamelessly, non subtly tweet this out into the universe... 🤞🏾 https://twitter.com/...
Luke Lango / @lukelango3: Spotify's “Work From Anywhere” model = the future. In that future, $ZM meetings happen every day, $DOCU digitizes all documents, $TWLO powers all comms, $TEAM empowers collaboration, and $OKTA defends employees. These are permanent changes. Invest in them. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Gabby Miller / Columbia Journalism Review:
Interview with three journalists who created a nonprofit newsroom to fill a void in suburban Chicago left by the closure of 22nd Century Media's 15 newspapers — Since March, the Tow Center has tracked newsroom cutbacks carried out during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Daily Beast:
NYT Opinion editor says it was her decision to spike a Bret Stephens column criticizing Baquet's reasons for firing McNeil, not Sulzberger's as Stephens claims — A top New York Times columnist claims the paper's publisher shelved his opinion column defending Donald McNeil …
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@dylanbyers, @nytimespr, New York Post, Washington Post, @meredithshiner, @dylanbyers, @wesleylowery, @oliverdarcy, Mediaite, The Guardian, Jen the Libertarian, @wesleylowery, @saletan, @billgertz, @sarahscire, @laurahazardowen, @armystrang, @scottshanenyt, @lisang, @davekarpf, @weareyourfek, @jolentag, @jackmurphyrgr, @ranjona, @zaidjilani, @530bruceross, @zaidjilani, @niemanreports, @marlownyc, @jaynordlinger, @davekarpf, @jbenton, @ggreeneva, @dgisserious, @wesleylowery, @dylanbyers, @maxwelltani, @jacobrubashkin and Nieman Lab
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Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: #Scoop: New York Times columnist Bret Stephens says that publisher A.G. Sulzberger “spiked” his column that was supposed to run on Monday morning in which he took issue with NYT's handling of the Donald J. McNeil case (McNeil was ousted for his use of racial slur). Thread....
@nytimespr: In today's State of The Times, an all company meeting for @nytimes employees, our executive editor Dean Baquet clarified some comments from last week. https://twitter.com/...
Bret Stephens / New York Post: Read the column the New York Times didn't want you to read
Washington Post: A star reporter's resignation, a racial slur and a newsroom divided: Inside the fallout at the New York Times
Meredith Shiner / @meredithshiner: Do you know what would help the @nytimes in this case? A PUBLIC EDITOR. Reporters whose beat is “media” are not a public editor. Bret Stephens is not a public editor. Twitter is not a public editor. HIRE A PUBLIC EDITOR, @NYTIMES. https://twitter.com/...
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: Stephens took issue with the fact that NYT Exec Editor Dean Baquet said “We do not tolerate racist language regardless of intent.” “Do any of us want to live in a world, or work in a field, where intent is categorically ruled out as a mitigating factor?” BS asks. “I hope not.”
Wesley / @wesleylowery: what I had heard from a few folks, fwiw, is that Stephens' own editor rejected the column, then he appealed to AG - who sided with the editor (as opposed to Dylan's framing, which makes it sound like the publisher swooped in to kill something he didn't like) https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: New York Times Opinion editor @katiekings responds, telling me, “We kill columns all the time for various reasons. The bar is especially high for columns that could reflect badly on colleagues. And we decided that this column didn't reach that bar.” https://twitter.com/...
Marisa Sarnoff / Mediaite: NY Post Publishes ‘Spiked’ Piece by NY Times Columnist Bret Stephens Calling Out Paper's Stance on Racist Slurs
Miranda Bryant / The Guardian: Spiked New York Times column on reporter's exit published by New York Post
Jen Monroe / Jen the Libertarian: The Disturbing Conversation At The Root Of The Donald McNeil Controversy
Wesley / @wesleylowery: The most wrong take I ever had on this website was that the industry rending of garments over NYT ending the public editor position was overblown https://twitter.com/...
Will Saletan / @saletan: Good thread chronicling today's Stephens-Sulzberger-Baquet episode. https://twitter.com/...
Bill Gertz / @billgertz: The late NYT editor Abe Rosenthal is rolling in his grave https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Scire / @sarahscire: For @niemanlab, I spoke to @katiekings about the changes she's made in her newly-official role, “challenging readers,” and the innovative work @nytopinion is doing in audio, video, and graphics. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: The @nytimes reduced its Opinion output by 25% — and saw pageviews for the section increase, @katiekings tells @SarahScire https://www.niemanlab.org/...
American Propagandist / @armystrang: Imagine what we could get done if Bret Stephens cared as much about elevating minorities as he does about white people being allowed to say the N word https://twitter.com/...
Scott Shane / @scottshanenyt: I wholeheartedly agree (though most of the newsroom is against it). I had some painful tangles with public editors as a reporter before they eliminated the job. But the recent NYT drama has shown how valuable a strong, independent voice inside the company could be. https://twitter.com/...
Lisa Goldman / @lisang: He did the same to me when I emailed him for comment on a piece for The Forward a few years ago. Then he tried to get me “fired,” though the piece was only a minor freelance commission for an honorarium that I might get paid...someday...if I pushed hard. https://twitter.com/...
Dave Karpf / @davekarpf: Should I email Bret Stephens and ask if he has any comments he would like to share with me?
Foster Kamer / @weareyourfek: oh, so they got excellent settlements, cool, cool cool cool cool cool https://twitter.com/...
Jolenta Greenberg / @jolentag: Happy Feb 11 to everyone in news and podcasting who are glad @oliverdarcy is pointing out that the @nytimes seems to need us as their external moral compass... https://www.cnn.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jack Murphy / @jackmurphyrgr: Once you cave in to the mob, you place yourself in the kill zone of a pincer attack coming from both sides from which you will never survive. https://www.cnn.com/...
Ranjona Banerji / @ranjona: All very well to be sanctimonious about yourself and outraged about @nytimes , but where is there any level of transparency within the Indian media? Just look at the @IndiaMeToo movement and how they closed ranks against women who spoke up. https://twitter.com/...
Zaid Jilani / @zaidjilani: @530BruceRoss I think that may be the case but the columnists did all opine on the Tom Cotton/James Bennett stuff, multiple ones did, so I thought maybe there was a policy in place to allow them to do that, was it revoked?
Bruce Ross / @530bruceross: @ZaidJilani Doesn't seem unusual to run it up the food chain when a columnist decides to opine about the newspaper itself.
Zaid Jilani / @zaidjilani: Is it normal for the publisher of the NYT to serve as editor of the columnists? Is that an extraordinary intervention? And if it is normal, what kind of stuff does he normally spike? Are the other columnists just so goody two shoes they don't provoke his interventions? https://twitter.com/...
@niemanreports: “At the core of the divide: What is the best course of action to take when The Times' own reporters stand accused of violating some of the fundamental principles the newspaper champions? ” https://www.cnn.com/...
Marlow Stern / @marlownyc: *but he most certainly would email your boss if you wrote something mean about him https://twitter.com/...
Jay Nordlinger / @jaynordlinger: I wish Bret Stephens could find a paper that would just publish him, come hell or high water. He's one of the best columnists of our age — or any. If I could, I'd award him a second Pulitzer Prize. 1/2 https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Dave Karpf / @davekarpf: This raises an important question that I should phrase as a Twitter poll... https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: bretstephens dot substack dot com https://twitter.com/...
Greg Greene / @ggreeneva: Pretty sure the NYT opinion pages have a policy against writers using columns to air squabbles _within_ the opinion team. If the publisher wants to expand that principle to stop the airing of Times dirty laundry in print, I can't see how that should hit Stephens as a surprise. https://twitter.com/...
Danny Gold / @dgisserious: Oh hell yeah let's keep this going. I want to see a long form piece about the internal politics of the NYT and cancel culture blah blah blah in every issue of the 5 remaining magazines in America for the rest of the year. Maybe even some single topic issues? https://twitter.com/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: And now we have the op-Ed editor, on the record, disputing the Bret Stephens/Dylan Byers version of this story https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: So it appears that NYT leadership actually agrees with the thrust of Bret Stephens column. Why didn't they run it? Maybe they didn't want him addressing something in print that they were getting ready to walk back. Waiting on NYT statement.
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: Reached for comment, Stephens said: “I wouldn't even speak to The Daily Beast ever. Bye.” (Is this the “cancel culture” I keep hearing so much about?) https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Jacob Rubashkin / @jacobrubashkin: @grace_panetta Personally I can't wait for the Margaret Sullivan column about the Ben Smith column on the spiked Bret Stephens column.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
In a staff meeting, NYT Executive Editor Dean Baquet retracts a recent statement that the news outlet does not “tolerate racist language regardless of intent”
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Angus Johnston / @studentactivism: Four times. The column used the n-word (in the context of a quote) four times. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Marc Tracy / @marcatracy: Statement from the unit chair of the New York Times union. Key part: As Donald McNeil and Andy Mills both reached settlements with company, Guild was not directly involved; letter from employees was not sent under Guild imprimatur. https://twitter.com/...
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: For the record, I never called for Don McNeil to be further punished nor to resign. I did ask the NYT for transparency. But let's also be clear, there was no need to for Don McNeil to say that word in that context.
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: Of course journalists should, carefully and thoughtfully, use the word IN PRINT if directly quoting someone or an historic text and the word is deemed necessary for the story. That is not what happened with Don McNeil.
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: One can argue whether McNeil should have resigned or not — he was not fired — but one cannot justify using that word in that context or pretend that finding a Black reporter saying it, writing it, is somehow the same as a white person. The history and context matters.
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: To my fellow journalists reporting on this like as simply a case of uniformity or policy, this is a failure. We know the power/impact of words. If we didn't we wouldn't have chosen this profession. You can't write this story & ignore the very thing that makes this word a taboo.
Angus Johnston / @studentactivism: This is really well said, and it reflects the evolution of my own views on the topic. https://twitter.com/...
Gerry Canavan / @gerrycanavan: One of the things my students have taught me in recent years is that my standard for what constitutes “gratuitous” may be far higher than theirs and in fact at this point it may be that all white “mention” of racial slurs is becoming, or already just is, “use.” https://twitter.com/...
Trip Gabriel / @tripgabriel: Dean Baquet addresses Donald McNeil episode on NYT in-house broadcast: “Of course intent matters,” he says, reversing a statement about McNeil earlier from top brass that “We do not tolerate racist language, regardless of intent.” 1/
Trip Gabriel / @tripgabriel: “Look, in our zeal to make a powerful statement about our workplace culture we ham-handedly said something that some of you rightly saw as threatening our journalism. It was an oversimplification of one of the most difficult issues in American life....” 2/
Byron York / @byronyork: Thread. Times management has acted foolishly here. Said clearly they would ‘not tolerate racist language, regardless of intent.’ Have now backtracked to say they *will* tolerate racist language, just that they'll decide when. https://twitter.com/...
Trip Gabriel / @tripgabriel: “...It was a deadline mistake, and I regret it. Of course intent matters when we're talking about language and journalism...The author and his or her history and purpose also matter. The moment matters.” 3/3
Angus Johnston / @studentactivism: I've asked Byers to clarify, but as I read this tweet, it seems that Bret Stephens included an unredacted use of the n-word in his column this week to make a point, and the column got spiked—maybe as a result? https://twitter.com/...
Angus Johnston / @studentactivism: Also, just to reiterate: The reporter at the center of the original scandal, Donald McNeil, WAS NOT FIRED. He was reprimanded privately, and quit when the story became public.
Angus Johnston / @studentactivism: I find that distinction a useful one myself, but here's the thing that folks like Bret need to remember: IT'S NOT A MAGIC WAND.
Angus Johnston / @studentactivism: Stephens and folks like him tend to lean heavily on something called the “use-mention distinction,” which is the principle that using a word yourself isn't the same as quoting someone else using it.
Angus Johnston / @studentactivism: Would Don McNeil have been fired if he hadn't quit? We don't know. Why don't we know? BECAUSE HE QUIT.
Angus Johnston / @studentactivism: It was gratuitous. And the gratuitous use of racial slurs is vile. To put it another way, the gratuitous use of racial slurs is USE. Not “mention,” use.
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: Wemple, spoken like someone who has run a news org: “Straddling the line between public transparency and personnel sensitivity at a place like the New York Times is one of the toughest tasks in media. It's much easier to write about it all.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ross A. Lincoln / The Wrap: NY Post Publishes Bret Stephens' Spiked NYT Column About Reporter Ousted Over N-Word Use
Ben Smith / @benyt: He said this in an internal meeting, which @NYTeileen put on the record, after sending an email criticizing Donald McNeil “regardless of intent.”
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