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Kerry Flynn / CNN:
New York Times admits workplace issues, particularly around the treatment of Black and Latino employees, in a new report following an eight-month investigation — New York (CNN Business)The New York Times (NYT) is admitting its own workplace issues, particularly around the treatment of Black …
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The New York Times Company: A Call to Action — Building a Culture that Works for All of Us — Explore the Report
Katie Robertson / New York Times: New York Times Calls for Workplace Changes in Diversity Report
Jim Tankersley / @jimtankersley: A frank report from the NYT, my employer, on how it has fallen short in supporting employees of color and elevating them to top jobs. It includes a goal to increase Black and Latino representation in leadership by 50 percent by 2025: https://www.nytco.com/...
@kerrymflynn: News: The New York Times is admitting its own workplace issues, particularly around the treatment of Black and Latino employees, in a new report. I spoke with @carolynryan, one of the Times leaders tasked last June with investigating the culture https://www.cnn.com/...
@nytimes: Top New York Times executives said in a note to the staff on Wednesday that they were committed to bringing about sweeping, fundamental changes to its workplace culture in an effort to make the newsroom and other Times divisions more diverse and inclusive. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Flood / Fox News: New York Times to make ‘fundamental changes’ to workplace culture after probe of diversity, inclusion
Mara Gay / @maragay: “For over a century and a half, The New York Times has succeeded in part by recognizing when it needed to change. This is such a moment.” https://www.nytco.com/...
Matt Stevens / @bymattstevens: Breaking my “never tweet” rule to say I am proud to work at a place that would produce this. There have been stumbles, for sure. But I've never seen so many unspoken things about a newsroom written out so explicitly — in a newsroom memo no less! https://www.nytco.com/...
@kerrymflynn: I encourage you to read the whole report, titled “A Call to Action”: https://www.nytco.com/... As @carolynryan to me, “This is a big step. But it's really the beginning of changing our culture, and that will go on for years and years.”
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: NYT vows to create “a more diverse and inclusive newsroom” and provide “a truer, richer, and more textured portrayal of the world.” Bravo. Fine words. May I suggest a little external oversight just to make sure you deliver? https://twitter.com/...
Emma Carew Grovum / @emmacarew: The Times has a HUGE opportunity to get something right here. There's a lot that could go wrong here. I hope they're actually willing to invest the real dollars it's going to take to make real change. Also recognizing that REMOVING bad actors MUST be part of the solution. https://twitter.com/...
Yvonne Ndege / @yvonnendege: Excellent. Well done @nytimes https://twitter.com/...
@kerrymflynn: In addition to the culture study, Times leaders listed plans and commitments. Among them: - Increase the percentage of Black and Latino staffers in leadership by 50% by the end of 2025 - Factoring in diversity, equity and inclusion to manager compensation https://www.cnn.com/...
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: NY Times Releases ‘Uncomfortable’ Diversity Report: ‘We Cannot Accept This’
Emma Carew Grovum / @emmacarew: NYT concludes: “People of color — and particularly women of color — remain notably underrepresented in leadership. And the company's focus has primarily been on building a more diverse staff, with less attention to building a more inclusive culture.” https://www.nytco.com/...
Elana Zak / @elanazak: New NYT workplace report: Many Asian-American women at the news org are “feeling invisible and unseen — to the point of being regularly called by the name of a different colleague of the same race, something other people of color described as well.” https://www.cnn.com/...
Jim Tankersley / @jimtankersley: A few trolls have suggested I should quit to balance the numbers. That's the zero-sum lie that white men have been peddling forever. There's clear evidence it's wrong: Opening opportunities to all helps companies (and economies) grow faster, creating more opportunity for all. https://twitter.com/...
Allana Akhtar / Insider: The New York Times released a damning diversity report that found its newsroom a ‘difficult place to work’ for people of color
Cristina Silva / @cristymsilva: This is white supremacy: “There are hiring managers who use terms like ‘diversity hire’ and view hiring people of color to be a hassle in getting the best.” https://www.nytco.com/...
Venessa Wong / @venessawong: Invisibility is a REAL part of the Asian experience in America; people need to acknowledge this is wrong. “Asian-American women [at NYT] said they were often 'invisible and unseen...regularly called by the name of a different colleague of the same race” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Fenit Nirappil / @fenitn: Glad to see how much this report emphasizes addresses the role of editors in fostering a welcoming environment. Shouldn't have had to endure editors who felt safe bullying and berating POC and women employees and making us question whether we belong https://twitter.com/...
Robyn O'Brien / @robynobrienusa: As @ArlanWasHere says, “It's About Damn Time.” https://twitter.com/...
Katie Robertson / @katie_robertson: The @nytimes has released a report calling for sweeping changes to its culture to make it more inclusive and diverse: “The Times is a difficult environment for many of our colleagues, from a wide range of backgrounds.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Andrea Gonzlez-Ramrez / @andreagonram: “Diversity is not in tension with our journalistic mission: Instead, it helps us find the truth and more fully understand the world.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: From the outside, this seems impressively introspective and boldly validates the things people of color have been voicing about their newsrooms for decades https://www.nytco.com/...
@journalistslike: Diversity also means not just hiring students from the usual colleges. Give the kids from state college a chance. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Yang / @originalspin: The @nytimes says it intends to make sweeping changes after an internal report showed employees of color experienced a very different reality from white employees Let's hope they live up to that vow. But also: Everything the Times found happens everywhere https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@kerrymflynn: There are many alarming details, but this graf really stood out: “We heard from many Asian-American women, for example, about feeling invisible and unseen — to the point of being regularly called by the name of a different colleague of the same race...” https://www.cnn.com/...
Ben Casselman / @bencasselman: “The Times is a difficult environment for many of our colleagues, from a wide range of backgrounds... But it is particularly true for people of color, many of whom described unsettling and sometimes painful day-to-day workplace experiences.” https://www.nytco.com/...
Stacy-Marie Ishmael / @s_m_i: Can confirm I've seen this play out in company after company, and it is enraging. https://twitter.com/...
Millie Tran / @millie: “Asian-American women said they were often ‘invisible and unseen — to the point of being regularly called by the name of a different colleague of the same race, something other people of color described as well.’” Unfortunately, this happens everywhere. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kim Severson / @kimseverson: “We will continue to cover the world without fear or favor and portray the world as it is, not as we wish it to be. Making the Times experience better for colleagues of color will make The Times better for everyone.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast: NY Times Admits Newsroom Is ‘Difficult Environment’ for Staffers of Color
Cindy Gallop / @cindygallop: Hello, ad and every other industry. THIS is what you have to do. DO THE FUCKING WORK. AND SPEND THE FUCKING MONEY. It's time for, to quote the @nytimes, ‘SWEEPING CHANGE’ + ‘the most substantial investment The Times has ever made of time, money and energy’ https://www.nytco.com/...
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: “'That's not Timesean' can be used to exclude”: The New York Times gives the big report treatment to enacting “sweeping” cultural change
Cristina Silva / @cristymsilva: It seems no Latinos were involved in making this report and Latinos are barely mentioned in it. @NAHJ https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: News flash: Apparently the New York Times' in-depth eight-month internal investigation has discovered the existence of a “star culture”! https://www.cnn.com/...
Nisha Chittal / @nishachittal: “Black employees, and Black women in particular, rated the company lower across nearly all categories of our 2020 employee survey, with the lowest scores around fairness and inclusion.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: The New York Times studied its workplace problems. New report out. “Our current culture and systems are not enabling our workforce to thrive and do its best work. [This] is particularly true for people of color.” https://www.nytco.com/...
Stephanie M. Lee / @stephaniemlee: *raises hand* https://twitter.com/...
Maira Garcia / @mairalg: This is an important step in the right direction and I look forward to working alongside my colleagues to make our workplace diverse and equitable for all. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Here's a thread with the main findings from the New York Times study of its own workplace culture, plus some comments from one of the authors of the report. https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: Black women give the lowest scores, Asian women are misidentified both @opennews and @aaja published things to this effect last year . So many colleagues said this ... but they keep reporting this and then doing little and gaslighting so.... https://twitter.com/...
Ceylan Yeginsu / @ceylanwrites: “Our newsroom is not diverse enough, which reduces our capacity to spot stories others are missing and to add nuance and insight to our coverage of every community. We do not adequately empower the talent we have to shape our coverage” https://www.nytco.com/...
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Washington Post led all news organizations at the Polk Awards with four prizes; half of all Polk Awards were for reporting related to the pandemic — The Washington Post led all news organizations, with four prizes. The infectious-disease reporter Helen Branswell, of Stat …
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@polkawards: Polk Award for Science Reporting: Ed Yong of the Atlantic for his clear and insightful analysis of the spread of Covid and the failed efforts to bring it under control. @Edyong209
Long Island University: LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES 73RD ANNUAL GEORGE POLK AWARDS IN JOURNALISM
@polkawards: Polk Award for Business Reporting: Ryan Mac and Craig Silverman of BuzzFeed for a series demonstrating how Facebook exposes the public to disinformation, fraud and violence. @RMac18 @Craigsilverman
@polkawards: Polk Award for Financial Reporting: Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and Mike McIntire of The New York Times for accessing and analyzing a trove of Donald Trump's income tax information, providing insight into why he went to great lengths to hide it from the public view.
@polkawards: Polk Award for Public Service: Helen Branswell of STAT for relentlessly covering all aspects of the pandemic through works dating back as early as Dec. 31, 2019 that became required reading for medical experts. @HelenBranswell
Craig Silverman / @craigsilverman: Totally shocked by this, and thrilled for the @BuzzFeedNews team. huge thanks to @RMac18 for being an amazing reporting parter and to @JohnPaczkowski @mat and eveyone who worked on these stories with us. https://twitter.com/...
Drew Sullivan / @drewoccrp: Congratulations to our partners at @FbdnStories and dozens of other media in Mexico and around the world for our joint project winning the George Polk award. We looked at the murder of a Proceso reporter Regina Martinez and how officials blamed a fall guy https://www.liu.edu/...
Kavita Patel M.D. / @kavitapmd: Couldn't agree more - I went to 11 years of postgraduate medical education and I learn more from @edyong209 in one article - well deserved https://twitter.com/...
A.J. Katz / TVNewser: CNN Correspondent David Culver, Producer Yong Xiong, Photojournalist Natalie Thomas Win Polk Award for Foreign Reporting
@cnnpr: Congrats to CNN's @David_Culver @Yongxiong2008 @NatalieReuters for winning the Polk Award for Foreign Reporting on the Covid-19 outbreak in China. This is the first time in the 73-year history of the @PolkAwards that Foreign Reporting went to a TV report. https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Laurie Garrett / @laurie_garrett: It's my honor to celebrate great science & #COVID19 journalism, moderating the @PolkAwards — winners were just announced and it's an awesome group. Congratulations to @HelenBranswell @edyong209 David Culver, Yong Xiong & all the winners! 👏🏽👏🏿 👏🏻 https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Peter Lattman / @peterlattman: Congrats to all the winners, especially @EdYong209. (Ed, I hope you realize that awards coming out of Long Island are the best awards.) Here's one piece of many, “How the Pandemic Defeated America.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Peter Jamison / @petejamison: Huge congrats to my colleague @ianshapira, winner of a Polk award for his relentless reporting on racism at the Virginia Military Institute. It is no exaggeration to say his reporting changed the course of this institution's history. https://twitter.com/...
@polkawards: Polk Award for Military Reporting: Matthias Gafni, Joe Garofoli and Tal Kopan of the San Francisco Chronicle for disclosing the Pentagon's punishment of Navy Captain Brett Crozier, who sought to evacuate 5,000 sailors aboard the USS Theordore Roosevelt to protect them from Covid.
Bob Wachter / @bob_wachter: Richly deserved! https://twitter.com/...
Meghana Keshavan / @megkesh: Very very very proud of @HelenBranswell for receiving the Polk public service award for her relentless and incredible Covid-19 coverage. It's an honor to work with you, truly. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mat Honan / @mat: Incredibly proud to work with this team. Ryan and Craig's reporting Facebook has been truly exceptional. More to come. https://twitter.com/...
Marina Koren / @marinakoren: Ed is a freaking powerhouse and I'm so damn happy for him. When I first started out in science reporting, we went for coffee and he said, “never let fear stop you from writing.” I think about that a lot. Thank you for inspiring us all, @edyong209. https://twitter.com/...
Ken Bensinger / @kenbensinger: Hugely deserved recognition to @RMac18 and @CraigSilverman for their relentless, fierce reporting on one of the most important stories of our era. https://twitter.com/...
Jane Lytvynenko / @janelytv: LOOK AT OUR NERDS GO!!!!!!! 🚀 https://twitter.com/...
Peter Baker / @peterbakernyt: Congratulations to @russbuettner @susannecraig and @mmcintire on winning the Polk Award for their remarkable revelations about Trump's taxes as well as to our old friend @elisaslow who won for his gripping covid oral history. @marcatracy https://www.nytimes.com/...
Laurie Hertzel / @stribbooks: immensely proud of my colleagues at @StarTribune for winning a George Polk Award for coverage of the death of George Floyd. the exemplary work of @StribJany is singled out for high praise, though the award is for the whole newsroom. https://liu.edu/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: Incredibly well-earned https://twitter.com/...
Celine Castronuovo / The Hill: George Polk Awards recognize pandemic reporters
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: This is so well deserved. Amazing work on disinformation and more by @RMac18 @CraigSilverman (and many of their BuzzFeed colleauges including @JaneLytv @PranavDixit and more). https://twitter.com/...
@startribune: The Star Tribune has been honored with a prestigious George Polk Award for its coverage of the death of #GeorgeFloyd and its aftermath. https://www.startribune.com/ ...
Roger McNamee / @moonalice: .@BuzzFeedNews' @RMac18 and @CraigSilverman win a well deserved Polk Award for their groundbreaking reporting on FB. Congratulations!!!! The entire tech team at Buzzfeed News is amazing. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Zeleny / @jeffzeleny: Huge congrats to @David_Culver and the @CNN team for winning the prestigious Polk Award for their outstanding reporting from Wuhan one year ago. https://twitter.com/...
Luke Timmerman / @ldtimmerman: So much excellent journalism recognized today with Polk Awards. Congrats to @HelenBranswell @edyong209 @ddiamond in health & science. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Take a moment to appreciate some of the finest investigative and enterprising reporting that gained attention and achieved results in 2020. The @polkawards winners: https://liu.edu/...
Matt Mittenthal / @mattmittenthal: last Polk award for @BuzzFeedNews was in 2018 for @MelissaDSegura's series on a Chicago cop who framed dozens for murder. 10 have since been exonerated https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Eric Feigl-Ding / @drericding: HEARTY CONGRATS to my favorite reporter @ddiamond for winning the @PolkAwards for: exposing Trump WH'a interference of CDC scientific guidelines, Trump efforts to slow #COVID19 testing, ignore Obama pandemic playbook, & Caputo's muzzling of CDC reports!!! https://www.liu.edu/... https://twitter.com/...
Garrett Haake / @garretthaake: There really is no one who wrote and reported with more clarity on COVID, from the beginning of the crisis. Well-deserved. https://twitter.com/...
Rebecca Lavoie / @reblavoie: The Atlantic got it right from the very start. Last winter, when many of my colleagues didn't believe this was going to be a big thing, I shared this reporting all the time - and it all bore out. https://twitter.com/...
Helen Branswell / @helenbranswell: .@edyong209 has done extraordinary work on the #Covid19 pandemic. So richly deserved. https://twitter.com/...
Marc Tracy / @marcatracy: Eight of the Polk Awards went to journalism about the pandemic. And four of the Polk Awards went to The Washington Post. Congrats to all the winners! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Trapper Byrne / @trapperbyrne: Hugely deserved recognition for groundbreaking work by @mgafni @joegarofoli and @TalKopan. https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Emanuele Capobianco / @ecapobianco: Congratulations to @HelenBranswell and @edyong209 for the recognition of their outstanding coverage of the #Covid19 pandemic. Your distinct & balanced voices have been safely guiding many against the surrounding cacophony. Bravo and a big thank you to both. @IFRC https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: helps that ryan and craig are really wonderful humans & colleagues but also their work has — i think uniquely — helped us all understand how facebook is making (or not making) its most consequential content decisions. it's just deeply sourced & well contextualized. so valuable. https://twitter.com/...
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus / @drtedros: Congratulations @HelenBranswell. Well deserved. https://twitter.com/...
@polkawards: Polk Award for Local Reporting: The staff of the Minneapolis Star Tribune for coverage of the death of George Floyd and its aftermath, starting with deadline work by police reporter Libor Jany, and articles exploring the police precinct's unsavory history. @StribJany
Helen Branswell / @helenbranswell: It is the thrill of a lifetime to be recognized in the company of the amazing journalists honored in this year's #PolkAwards. Congratulations to all — such extraordinary journalism. And thanks, all, for the kudos. My heart is overflowing. https://www.liu.edu/...
Nikki Usher / @nikkiusher: So well-deserved. I was waiting for a major prize to recognize “tech” journalism https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Milliner / The Streamable:
ViacomCBS says paid streaming subs for Showtime and CBS All Access climbed to 19.2M in Q4, up from 17.9M in Q3; Pluto TV hit 43M global MAUs, up from 36M in Q3 — Ahead of the official launch of Paramount Plus, ViacomCBS announced where they stand in the world of streaming ahead of the transition.
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A.J. Katz / TVNewser: 60 Minutes+, a Streaming Version of 60 Minutes, Will Launch March 4 on Paramount+
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost: ViacomCBS' Q4 Gets Boost From Streamer Ads, Overall Revs Hits $3.5 Million
Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap: Paramount, EPIX Expand TV/Streaming Partnership
Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed: 🚨🚨🚨 Appears @paramountplus may have just cut the affiliates out of the base tier of Paramount+ $VIAC @ViacomCBS #ViacomStreamingEvent The base ad-supported tier at $4.99/month will NOT include linear TV, but will include NFL Games Will the affiliates be okay with this??? https://twitter.com/...
Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed: Shocked #ViacomStreamingEvent did not lead with @Nickelodeon — kids/family content appears to be the most compelling “what's new” to @paramountplus and most likely to build long-term, low-churn subs $VIAC — @BrianRobbinsTV is so good https://twitter.com/...
Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed: Rugrats are back!!! This might be the biggest content news from #viacomstreamingevent @paramountplus $VIAC https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Steven Zeitchik / @zeitchikwapo: ViacomCBS chief Bob Bakish offers a succinct reason why Paramount Plus can win big in the streaming wars. “We know how to make hits.” (Looking at CBS, MTV and Paramount over the last 20 years he ain't wrong.)
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Bakish says Pluto TV is on “its way to being a billion dollar business and it's not going to stop there.” I do love Pluto TV for my Degrassi watches, so he's got me there.
Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed: Similar to Lachlan Murdoch comments about @Tubi — ViacomCBS CEO Bakish says @PlutoTV is on track to be a billion dollar biz (assume he means revenues, which is in line with Tubi comments in intermediate-term) $VIAC FAST/AVOD — growing rapidly (but still dwarfed by SVOD)
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Bakish says 36 original series from “different genre lanes” and a “few special” movies coming to Paramount+. Paramount+ will have “more than 5,000 of reality hits.” Will debut a new reality series “every single month in 2021.” Now onto kids programming. Remember Nickelodeon?
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: “Every major streaming service has had a monster hit from one of our studios,” says ViacomCBS chief Bob Bakish. Oddly, not sure that's a boast these days.
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ViacomCBS beat estimates with Q4 revenue of $6.9B; global streaming and digital video revenue rose 71% YoY to $888M, while theatrical revenue fell 97% to $4M — ViacomCBS topped Wall Street analysts' expectations for its fourth-quarter results, reporting diluted earnings per share of $1.04 …
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Tim Baysinger / The Wrap: ViacomCBS Touts Streaming Growth Ahead of Paramount+ Launch
Richard Lawler / Engadget: Paramount+ will cost $5 per month with ads, or $10 without
Nick Clegg / About Facebook:
Facebook defends its stance in Australia, says it invested $600M since 2018 to support the news industry and plans at least $1B more over the next three years — Last week, in a move that will have felt abrupt and dramatic to many, Facebook announced it was stopping the sharing of news on its service in Australia.
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Alex Hern / The World Is Yours*: news hokey-cokey — Facebook's week of dancing the hokey-cokey - it put the news tab in …
Todd Spangler / Variety: Facebook Exec Defends Australia News Blackout as ‘Legally Necessary,’ Claims Company Will Pay $1B to News Orgs Over Three Years
Jonathan Snyder / The Daily Caller: Facebook Promises To Invest $1 Billion In News Industry After Standoff With Australian Government
Oscar Williams-Grut / @oscarwgrut: Yes, because you go to the car for the radio and then the car is full of adverts, which used to be on the radio https://twitter.com/...
Nick Clegg / @nick_clegg: The internet needs new rules that work for everyone, not just for big media corporations. By updating internet regulation, we can preserve what's best about it — the freedom of people to express themselves and entrepreneurs to build new things. https://about.fb.com/...
Nick Statt / The Verge: Facebook will match Google's $1 billion news investment after Australia showdown
Mark Scott / @markscott82: FWIW, @Facebook's Nick Clegg just put out a rebuttal on why FB took down & then reinstated news in Australia amid Big Tech spat https://about.fb.com/...
Rory Cellan-Jones / @ruskin147: “It's like forcing car makers to fund radio stations because people might listen to them in the car — and letting the stations set the price” - Facebook's Nick Clegg comes out punching on Australia's media law. https://about.fb.com/...
Ben Wright / @_benwright_: Most people don't get into their car in order to listen to the radio. And companies don't pay car manufacturers to advertise on the stations. Apart from that, this analogy from Clegg is spot on. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Mandese / MediaPost: The ‘Real Story’ Behind Facebook's Australian News Blackout, According To Facebook
Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post: Australian lawmakers push ahead with news law after Facebook concessions
Luke Bailey / @imbadatlife: seems like clickbait https://twitter.com/...
Evelyn Douek / @evelyndouek: Facebook, too, is tired of all the fake news (an apology for blocking emergency services would've been nice imho) https://twitter.com/...
James Titcomb / @jamestitcomb: Remember when the car industry spent years courting radio stations and got broadcasters to shift their entire business model to cars and said it wanted to be “everyone's personalised radio station”? No? https://twitter.com/...
Filip Wallberg / @fiwa: “Fewer than one post in every 25 in your News Feed will contain a link to a news story, and many users say they would like to see even less news and political content.” https://about.fb.com/...
Donie O'Sullivan / @donie: Facebook seems to think having Nick Clegg front its arguments like this is a... good thing. https://about.fb.com/...
Drew Olanoff / @yoda: want to know how to avoid coming off as verbose and pretentious with BS spin like this? you write a “here's what's happening” as it's happening. not something like this after message massage and mopup. https://about.fb.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: FB exec @nick_clegg's version of the Australian/Murdoch saga: The Real Story of What Happened With News on Facebook in Australia - About Facebook https://about.fb.com/...
Carole Cadwalladr / @carolecadwalla: Ha! Facebook so spectacularly miscalculated last week that Nick Clegg has been forced to go full Breitbart ‘The Real Story of What Happened with News on Facebook in Australia’ 😂 https://twitter.com/...
@fboversight: And here's @nick_clegg proving again he is literally living in 2003: “The internet needs new rules that work for everyone, not just for big media corporations.” https://about.fb.com/...
Tamsin Shaw / @professorshaw: “It's like forcing car makers to fund radio stations because people might listen to them in the car — and letting the stations set the price.” I'm a bit tired but to me it seems more like maybe making radio stations pay royalties to songwriters...? https://about.fb.com/...
Katie Collins / @katiecollins: Lots in this post by Nick Clegg about what FB has done for publishers, but it somehow manages to overlook the role FB played in gutting the news industry during the pivot to video when it inflated its statistics in presentations to those same publishers https://about.fb.com/...
@blackamazon: Me while everyone makes sure to ignore people of color or Facebook's racism even though it's the one thing they are sensitive about They just whole sale spin lying about destabilizing information https://twitter.com/...
Alex Barker / Financial Times: Facebook pledges to pay $1bn for news
Rahul Matthan / Ex Machina: The Big Tech + Media Bargain
Amy Kroin / Free Press: Cutting Deals with Big Tech Won't Save Journalism Amy Kroin Mon, 02/22/2021 - 17:19
Trevor Scott / Tidefall Notes: Facebook vs Australia
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Australia says Facebook agreed to reinstate news content in Australia in the coming days after the government promised amendments to its proposed media bill
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The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, @kantrowitz, Gizmodo, The Nation, The Wrap, Politico, @mikeisaac, New York Times, @fbnewsroom, @zsk, @mathewi, @jason_kint, Mehdeeka, @rasmus_kleis, @braveheartsinc, @robpegoraro, @likebutterfield, @nytimesworld, @yathinkn, @yathinkn, @slpng_giants, @profcarroll, @jason_kint, @caseynewton, Substack, Breitbart and Beyond Search
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Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: BREAKING: “We're restoring news on Facebook in Australia in the coming days” says Facebook VP of global news partnerships @campbell_brown. Full statement: https://twitter.com/...
Whitney Kimball / Gizmodo: Facebook Told Us to Suck It, for a Change
Jeet Heer / The Nation: Facebook Remains a Threat to Democracy
Rat King / @mikeisaac: this is a stalling tactic for both sides. Amendment to Australian bill gives AU Govt and Facebook two months to negotiate the final outcome. In the meantime, Facebook agreed to restore news links throughout Australia. story with @damiencave https://www.nytimes.com/...
@fbnewsroom: Update: We're pleased that we've been able to reach an agreement with the Australian government and appreciate the constructive discussions we've had with Treasurer Frydenberg and Minister Fletcher over the past week. Read our full statement. https://about.fb.com/...
Zoe Kleinman / @zsk: I have a feeling this is not the end of this particular drama. https://www.bbc.co.uk/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: From the sounds of it, Facebook reversed its ban because the Australian government promised that if it cut enough side deals with publishers, the law would no longer apply https://www.bbc.co.uk/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Statement from me on the late-night announcement between the Australian government and Facebook. More here... https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kayla Medica / Mehdeeka: The elephant in the room — Mehdeeka covers B2B, SaaS, and startup/tech marketing.
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: If focus is on helping small+local publishers hope that will be taken into account? In designating platforms under revised 🇦🇺 code authorities to consider whether company “made a significant contribution[by]reaching commercial deals with media businesses” https://www.ft.com/...
Bravehearts / @braveheartsinc: Australian news coming back on Facebook - Brilliant news for all the Not for Profits who've been struggling in the wake. https://www.news.com.au/... via @newscomauHQ
Rob Pegoraro / @robpegoraro: Lots to parse in this statement from Facebook about news in Australia, but focus on “allow us to support the publishers we choose to” and “we will retain the ability to decide if news appears on Facebook so that we won't automatically be subject to a forced negotiation.” https://twitter.com/...
@likebutterfield: to be clear, Facebook is consistently making micro-decisions about what content is shown in our feeds. this decision in australia was just an algorithm adjustment with a brighter light shining on it 🔦 https://twitter.com/...
@nytimesworld: The Australian government added amendments to its proposed news media code, including a two-month mediation period, giving the two sides more time to negotiate https://www.nytimes.com/...
@yathinkn: Yeah... nah... “...we will retain the ability to decide if news appears on Facebook so that we won't automatically be subject to a forced negotiation...” https://twitter.com/... Nice try though lolz https://twitter.com/...
@yathinkn: “...we will retain the ability to decide if news appears on Facebook so that we won't automatically be subject to a forced negotiation...” So not really the “backflip” being crowed by many journos at all, more what FB told the Senate hearing in the first place 🙄 https://twitter.com/...
@slpng_giants: News is back for Australia. Nothing was really decided. Whatever happens, @facebook was large enough to likely negotiate its own legislation. Breaking apart Facebook is absolutely essential to reining in their power and control. https://twitter.com/...
David Carroll / @profcarroll: Bargaining about bargaining. I mean it's a start. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: ok, here is a good report on it. NYT reporter in Australia who has covered better than most (did I mention he's in Australia?) 2 month window allowing FB to save face after it's chaos move last week that killed any remaining trust there so spin, spin. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: Looks like Australia caved to Facebook after less than a week https://twitter.com/...
Dave Pell / Substack: Olympic Flame Throwers
Simon Kent / Breitbart: Big Tech Backflip: Facebook Drops Australian News Ban, Bows to Government Regulation
Stephen E. Arnold / Beyond Search: Facebook Demonstrates It Is More Powerful Than a Single Country
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Facebook's Australia news ban shows tech giants don't mind giving up money to appease regulators and business, but will not give up control over platforms
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@oz_f, @jbenton, @jayrosen_nyu, @johnbattelle, @mattnavarra, The Guardian, @sana_jamal, @greenj, @coopesdetat, @jrhennessy, @jeffjarvis, @oz_f, @mrdenmore, @rklein90, @tupp_ed, @martinsfp, @digiphile, @lindamottram, @fraying, Mediaite, The Drum, Slate, MediaPost, The Ethical Reckoner, Gizmodo and What's New in Publishing
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Osman Faruqi / @oz_f: Ignore basically all the commentary from Australia on this issue. The think thanks and media lobbyists here got crushed, but they obviously won't acknowledge it. This piece from Norman Lab gets to the heart of it. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: New by me —> Understanding the Facebook/Australia deal through “The Usual Suspects”: “They realized that, to be in power, you didn't need guns or money or even numbers. You just needed the will to do what the other guy wouldn't.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: If you've been following what's going on in Australia between Facebook and the government there, this is an excellent column by @jbenton. I recommend it. https://www.niemanlab.org/... Facebook, he says, pulled a Keyser Söze' move.
John Battelle / @johnbattelle: It pains me to think of the celebrations happening at FB HQ around how they played Australia. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra: 😬 This metaphor to explain Facebook banning news content on its platform in Australia... Full article: https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Michelle Meagher / The Guardian: Australia's move to tame Facebook and Google is just the start of a global battle
Sana Jamal / @sana_jamal: 'Facebook got everything it wanted out of Australia by being willing to do what the other guy wouldn't.' Brilliant analogy by @jbenton on Facebook-Australia news deal https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Jonathan Green / @greenj: this is worth a read ... https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Amy Coopes / @coopesdetat: “A bad company facing bad regulations distills down to pure power, and by shooting the hostages, Facebook made it very clear where that still lies” A great read https://twitter.com/...
Henno / @jrhennessy: good take, but a) forcing this kind of deal is basically what the big boys wanted from the beginning and b) i don't think it'll be a global deterrent to others trying it on https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: True: “The money is not and has never been the issue here. Facebook & Google are both perfectly willing to throw money at publishers to hold off regulation. (I wouldn't be surprised if there's a petty cash drawer... labeled Hush Money For Publishers.)” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Osman Faruqi / @oz_f: Didn't think it was possibly to get more cynical about the industry here, but watching media outlets interview their own executives to try and push through this code... can hardly whinge about the lack of trust from the audience anymore.
Mr Denmore / @mrdenmore: If you want to understand the power dynamics in the Facebook-News Corp death battle, read this. https://twitter.com/...
Rebecca Klein / @rklein90: Kinda of jarring to read Campbell Brown's quotes here — founder of a small, digital news outlet — clearly arguing against the best interest of publishers https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Simon McGarr / @tupp_ed: Readers of The Gist will recognise this collapse by the Australian Government and news industry, as I predicted it two days ago. >> “Facebook got everything it wanted out of Australia by being willing to do what the other guy wouldn't” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Martin Sfp Bryant / @martinsfp: “In Australia, Facebook just shot the hostages. (Metaphorically, of course.)” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: “The mandatory arbitration that was the key to Australia's proposed new law has been reduced to a matter of theory. @Facebook can now decide to offer different publishers whatever amount it wants, including nothing at all, without risk of penalty.” In FB v AU, the nation blinked https://twitter.com/...
Linda Mottram / @lindamottram: “In Australia, Facebook just shot the hostages.” This could be the best piece yet on FB's deal with Australia. https://www.niemanlab.org/... via @NiemanLab
Derek Powazek / @fraying: This is really good. The Facebook/Australia thing is all about power. https://twitter.com/...
Rudy Takala / Mediaite: Facebook to Allow Australian News Back on Platform After Government Concedes Profit-Sharing Fight
Rachel Withers / Slate: Australia's Wondrous Time Without News on Facebook Is About to End
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: Facebook Drops Australian News Ban, Negotiates Payments, After Law Amendments
Australian Financial Review:
Kerry Stokes' Seven West Media announces it has signed a letter of intent to provide news to Facebook; sources say Nine and News Corp deals are expected soon
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Christopher Warren / Crikey: Diversity hit between the eyes as old media pockets about 90% of big tech cash
Michael Pascoe / The New Daily: Josh Frydenberg sure got Zucker punched in this tech-giant fist fight
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: “Facebook may lock in deals with Nine, News Corp Australia and Seven West Media in the coming days”, biggest incumbent legacy publishers, @FinancialReview reports, after gov says will take into account"commercial agreements with local media" in designation https://www.afr.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: and here is @FinancialReview which has been covering these developments around the ACCC report, code and now law super well the last few years. Good report, too. https://www.afr.com/...
@orskov: According to the Australian Financial Review, Facebook's decision to enter into negotiations with Australian media groups means that more than $200 million a year might ultimately be injected into local journalism by Facebook and Google https://www.afr.com/...
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: Facebook will restore news sharing in Australia, at least for now
New York Magazine:
First Look Media says it didn't fire Laura Poitras but chose not to renew her contract because she had been “inactive” for 2+ years, amid a fight about layoffs — When Laura Poitras co-founded First Look Media with Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill in 2013, the venture had immediate prestige …
Caithlin Mercer / Reuters Institute:
Sinead Boucher, the CEO of New Zealand's largest newspaper group Stuff, says traffic has not significantly dipped since leaving Facebook and trust is higher — Caithlin Mercer — Sinead Boucher is the CEO of Stuff, New Zealand's number one-ranking news and media site.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Institute for Nonprofit News says it helped convert five newsrooms to non-profit status last year and membership grew 28% to 309 non-profit journalism groups — The trend is continuing into 2021.
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@ralstonreports, American Press Institute, @jkealing, MediaPost, @inn, @springer, @raju and @emilyroseman1
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Jon Ralston / @ralstonreports: “Pandemic drives nonprofit media boom” You don't say? https://www.axios.com/...
American Press Institute: Need to Know: February 24, 2021 — OFF THE TOP — You might have heard: For local nonprofit news …
Jonathan Kealing / @jkealing: Thanks to @sarafischer for featuring @INN in her newsletter today. Nonprofit news is expanding rapidly, and we're here to help. https://www.axios.com/...
@inn: Thank you to @sarafischer at @axios for spreading the word about nonprofit news! We're proud that our membership grew a record 28% membership growth last year. Coming up this year: More resources to support the growth of the field. https://www.axios.com/...
Andrew Springer / @springer: Nonprofit news outlets are becoming a very important part of our newseco system. Fulfilling the mission & serving the public > making stockholder rich. It's why I'm launching @NoticeNews as a nonprofit! (via @sarafischer) https://www.axios.com/...
Des Moines Register:
Des Moines Register reporter arrested while covering a protest last spring will stand trial starting March 8; she faces 30 days in jail if convicted — Editorial: The pending charges against a Register reporter who was arrested while covering a social justice protest last spring are a clear infringement on the freedom of the press.
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@kyletekautz, @josh_mandelbaum, @gagemiskimen, @johnbridges, @draperrobert, @jeremyjojola, @gftribune, @h250u, @jaylencavil, @atompkins, @usatodayopinion, @dmregister, @enjus, @geostanley and @amalienash
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Kyl / @kyletekautz: “For journalists, the most dangerous place in America is at a protest” - relevant to our class discussions on the 1st amendment #pols116 https://twitter.com/...
Josh Mandelbaum / @josh_mandelbaum: I've said it before and I'll say it again, these charges should be dropped. Once we learned that she was a reporter on assignment that should have been sufficient to drop the charges. https://twitter.com/...
Gage Miskimen / @gagemiskimen: “If convicted, she'll have a criminal record and faces possible penalties of 30 days in jail and a fine of $625 for each offense.” ... for doing her job and reporting what was happening. https://twitter.com/...
John Bridges / @johnbridges: “When reporters are arrested, assaulted or otherwise prevented from doing their jobs, it's not an attack on just a single journalist or a media company. It's an attack on everyone's rights to be informed and to hold those in power accountable for their actions.” https://twitter.com/...
Robert Draper / @draperrobert: It's hard to avoid the conclusion that the DA here has it in for the Des Moines Register reporter, who had every right to cover the protest where she was tear-gassed & arrested: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/ ...
Jeremy Jojola / @jeremyjojola: This editorial says the arresting officer didn't turn on body camera, as required by department policy. https://twitter.com/...
@gftribune: OPINION: That reporter Andrea Sahouri's trial is happening at all is a violation of free press rights and a miscarriage of justice. https://www.desmoinesregister.com/ ...
@h250u: We watched this arrest happen in real time and it was complete bullshit and infuriating. Ms. Sahouri was well out of the way and the officers should have known better. Polk County should know better than to move forward on this. https://twitter.com/...
@jaylencavil: Solidarity with @andreamsahouri. Polk County Attorney John Sarcone needs to drop ALL charges, including protesters. https://twitter.com/...
Al Tompkins / @atompkins: March 8th, DesMoines, a journalist will be put on trial for doing her job during the summer of 2020 protests there. https://www.desmoinesregister.com/ ...
@usatodayopinion: The upcoming trial of a Des Moines Register reporter who was doing her job covering a protest violates the rights of a free press: Editorial https://www.usatoday.com/...
@dmregister: Opinion: Polk County's decision to try a Register reporter is an attack on everyone's rights to be informed and hold government accountable, writes the Register's editorial board. https://www.desmoinesregister.com/ ...
Elliot Njus / @enjus: A @DMRegister reporter who was arrested while covering protests lasts spring faces a trial next month. A Register editorial: “It's an attack on everyone's rights to be informed and to hold those in power accountable for their actions.” https://www.desmoinesregister.com/ ...
George Stanley / @geostanley: Editorial: A reporter was arrested & faces trial for informing citizens about a protest vs police violence. This is America folks, where the 1st Amendment protects both an independent press and protests vs government, so that the citizens stay in charge https://www.jsonline.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube to roll out a “supervised” account option in beta in the coming months in more than 80 countries, aimed at kids that are too old for YouTube Kids — YouTube is launching a PG version of the internet's biggest video service. — A new “supervised” YouTube account option …
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Adweek, YouTube Official Blog, @xpangler, @lucas_shaw, TechCrunch, @xpangler, Engadget, @youtube, CNET and 9to5Google, more at Techmeme »
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David Cohen / Adweek: Not Quite YouTube Kids, Not Quite Full YouTube
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: The new “supervised” YouTube account option is aimed at parents who feel their tweens or teens have outgrown the walled-garden confines of the YouTube Kids app — but aren't yet ready for the weird, wide world of unrestricted YouTube https://variety.com/... via @Variety
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Another twist of the knife in YouTube's ongoing saga to make its website safe for kids. It is introducing a new feature so parents can let kids under 13 watch regular YouTube with restrictions. W/ @NicoAGrant https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: YouTube to launch parental control features for families with tweens and teens
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: .@YouTube is launching a PG version of the internet's biggest video service https://variety.com/...
@youtube: Today, we are announcing a new, supervised experience for parents who have decided their tweens and teens are ready to explore YouTube. More details here: https://blog.youtube/... https://twitter.com/...
Theodore Schleifer / Vox:
Sources: the founder of Acronym, which backs Courier Newsroom, wants to raise $65M to push progressive local news and match the dominance of conservative media — It's called the Project for Good Information, and it raises big questions about the future of the information wars.
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@pareene, @teddyschleifer, @rebekahentralgo, @davidsirota, @baseballcrank, @mattyglesias, @marklittlenews, @ryanlcooper, @timmarchman, @dhh, @davidoatkins, @pattymo, @waywardwinifred, @veryimportant, @waywardwinifred, @caseyjohnston, @andybarr34, @alexsalvinews, @mattcorridoni, @annalecta, @hamiltonnolan, @jackmjenkins, @tmavuram, @bostonjoan, @edburmila, @maustermuhle, @teddyschleifer, @edzitron, @brooklynmarie, @andrewfeinberg, @pareene, @daveweigel, @upine, @brgooley2, @teddyschleifer, @n_dee_eigh, @n_dee_eigh, @voxdotcom, @teddyschleifer and @davidsirota
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@pareene: If a liberal rich person wanted to recreate the messaging success of the right AND save journalism, they'd buy some papers and lose money on them at the rate the Falun Gong loses money on the Epoch Times, instead of introducing new Business Models and giving up after a year
Teddy Schleifer / @teddyschleifer: NEWS — The latest in the information wars. A top Democratic strategist is quietly raising $65 million for a new progressive media play. “Traditional media is failing. Disinformation is flourishing. It's time for a new kind of media.” The first look —> https://www.vox.com/...
Rebekah Entralgo Fernndez / @rebekahentralgo: $65 million? Very cool. All my former coworkers lost their jobs at a progressive newsroom because no one wanted to invest $3 million 👍 https://twitter.com/...
David Sirota / @davidsirota: I've mentioned this to these people for a decade. They don't want to do it. They don't believe in it. They want a politics that's more socially liberal while protecting their wealth. They want nothing to fundamentally change, which is why Biden literally promised them that. https://twitter.com/...
Dan McLaughlin / @baseballcrank: That's also what conservatives should do, but there is typically a much more stringent resistance to sell to conservatives. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: The whole idea of funding a “new progressive media play” seems crazy to me. Buy *existing* newspapers or TV station in swing states or places that matter for the senate. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Little / @marklittlenews: Really can't stress how dangerous it is to try align “clean information” with one political perspective. Far-right groups have been disinformation super spreaders but the virus thrives in any group where faith/ideology/tribe matter more than truth. https://www.vox.com/...
Ryan Cooper / @ryanlcooper: the lady who botched the Iowa caucus and ran HRC's super PAC is apparently getting $65 million from credulous rich liberals to create “progressive local news” https://www.vox.com/...
Tim Marchman / @timmarchman: Last year @annamerlan and I reported on and published an excruciatingly witless memo outlining this person's plans to create a well-funded Democratic propaganda network: https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@dhh: How to fix journalism: Billionaires should just own all the newspapers. https://twitter.com/...
David Atkins / @davidoatkins: I do not understand why this isn't already happening. It's what I would do if I had billions to spare. https://twitter.com/...
Patrick Monahan / @pattymo: Memo to all the big time mondo rich mogul types who absolutely check out my posts: do this please https://twitter.com/...
Fred / @waywardwinifred: The dem donor class badly needs an office of the inspector general to conduct critical investigations into ongoing waste, fraud and abuse. https://twitter.com/...
Patrick Cosmos / @veryimportant: “The dumb idiot from the Mayor Pete Iowa primary app” is here to restore truth https://twitter.com/...
Fred / @waywardwinifred: That Tara sure loves to hit up the donors for the cash monies. https://twitter.com/...
Casey Johnston / @caseyjohnston: Save this tweet for when they pull out after 20 months when it doesn't make a profit and sell it to private equity https://twitter.com/...
Andy Barr / @andybarr34: “Known internally as ‘soak a dumb rich guy’ the project aims to provide a service there is no evidence anyone wants or would do any good.” https://twitter.com/...
Alex Salvi / @alexsalvinews: Inside the new $65 million push from progressives to compete with conservative media: It's called the Project for Good Information, and it raises big questions about the future of the information wars. @teddyschleifer https://www.vox.com/...
Matt Corridoni / @mattcorridoni: Meanwhile I'm out here trying to land headlines the old fashioned way... https://twitter.com/...
Anna Massoglia / @annalecta: Memo obtained by @teddyschleifer reveals Democratic strategist behind 501(c)(4) “dark money” group ACRONYM, super PAC PACRONYM, Shadow Inc & Courier media network is creating a news org named “Project for Good Information”—aiming to raise $65M for its 501(c)(3) nonprofit & B Corp https://twitter.com/...
Hamilton Nolan / @hamiltonnolan: There are plenty of existing progressive publications that would put an influx of capital to great use but that wouldn't create income for “democratic strategists” so instead there's this https://www.vox.com/...
Jack Jenkins / @jackmjenkins: I'm old enough to remember when there were 40+ people who tried something like this at a website called ThinkProgress. It had reporters and broke stories and was unionized and editorially independent and everything. Heck, it even had a religion reporter. https://twitter.com/...
Tisya / @tmavuram: Tara McGowan of Iowa caucus infamy should not be raising $65 million to reinvent the wheel on local media. She should not have a job. No one who has repeatedly proven themselves to be terrible at their job should have this many lucrative chances to redeem themselves. https://twitter.com/...
Joan Donovan, PhD / @bostonjoan: This story is so outrageous. So, this outfit, who has basically created fake news, is now planning to gut $65million from donors and for what? 🤦🏻♀️ Meet the Project for Good Information, the left's new $65 million investment in the information wars https://www.vox.com/...
@edburmila: This is 100% correct, except these are people who wouldn't be caught dead in an industry as uncool as local newspapers. Blowing the VC money on the Cool Tech Guy persona is usually the point, not a means to any end. https://twitter.com/...
Martin Austermuhle / @maustermuhle: That's honestly $65 million that could be better used to beef up local media in plenty of communities. https://twitter.com/...
Teddy Schleifer / @teddyschleifer: The details: Democratic strategist Tara McGowan is trying to raise $65 million to back media outlets. It's called the Project for Good Information. $35 million to invest in media companies, including Courier News. $25 million for grants to nonprofits. https://www.vox.com/...
Ed Zitron / @edzitron: The mistake democrats make is thinking that the appropriate response to Breitbart and their ilk is offering “better” information. People aren't visiting these sites because they want the most accurate info. They want to be told stuff that confirms their biases https://twitter.com/...
Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie: Imagine how much good $65m could do for the already existing news industry and all the institutional knowledge you'd get https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Feinberg / @andrewfeinberg: *groan* how about you donors buy some local newspapers instead of trying to start grift-y, low-quality “progressive news” because you think the answer to Democrats' problems is to replicate the ecosystem that ended up spawning QAnon and helping foment a coup attempt. https://twitter.com/...
@pareene: the donor model that fuels the liberal nonprofit world will never work to produce useful journalism https://newrepublic.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dave Weigel / @daveweigel: Some donor does this every few years and it makes no sense when compared to just, like, buying local newspapers so the only news isn't Facebook rumors https://twitter.com/...
@upine: @teddyschleifer @CourierNewsroom @anotheracronym I've been recommending someone start progressive news sites to fight Right Wing lies for some time now. This describes the reasons it needs to be done & describes how I think it could be done effectively. https://upine.medium.com/...
@brgooley2: @davidsirota @TheProspect @dailyposter You should point out that you worked for Think Progess for a short while, and if someone gave The Daily Poster $65 million, you could really expand your organization.
Teddy Schleifer / @teddyschleifer: >@CourierNewsroom, a portfolio of eight different progressive news sites backed largely by @anotheracronym, is about to get bigger. Courier will receive an investment from Good Information, Inc. — the for-profit arm of the Project for Good Information. https://www.vox.com/...
@n_dee_eigh: Like you could probably just do the “local news = blog” thing in 1000 counties across swing states with this kind of money and have much more effect, Christ.
@n_dee_eigh: I'm literally begging you to just buy local media outlets and make them do stories when the government does something good. https://www.vox.com/...
@voxdotcom: A Democratic strategist is planning a $65 million effort to push progressive local news around the US. It's a pricey attempt to match the dominance of right-wing media: https://www.vox.com/...
Teddy Schleifer / @teddyschleifer: The Good Information Project — a 501(c)3 foundation that will have $25 million to award grants to nonprofit media companies — incorporated earlier this month. Here's the filing in Washington DC records. https://www.vox.com/... https://twitter.com/...
David Sirota / @davidsirota: The cool thing is that grassroots-funded outlets like @TheProspect @DailyPoster and others are making impact with far less resources than $65 million. People should pitch in to support grassroots-funded journalism that is not linked to any party machine. https://www.vox.com/...
Anne Davies / The Guardian:
Sky News Australia is garnering millions of views spreading far-right conspiracies, which Alex Jones and others are using as “evidence” from mainstream media — The US conspiracy network Infowars has been banned from most social media platforms, but Alex Jones, its presenter …
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Kevin Rudd / @mrkrudd: Australia's Sky News used to be a curious outpost of the global Murdoch empire. It is now a central force in radicalising Australians and driving our politics to the conspiratorial far-right fringe. #MurdochRoyalCommission is now more urgent than ever. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Quinn Slobodian / @zeithistoriker: Interesting piece by @annefdavies on a news channel picking up market share by going full Alex Jones https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
@stopfundinghate: “The News Corp-owned channel has gone down what appears to be a deliberate path of pandering to the conspiracy-minded... The bite-sized videos carry advertising - & Sky shares the revenue with platforms like YouTube” https://www.theguardian.com/ ... cc @Slpng_Giants_Oz
Journalism Festival / @journalismfest: “For those concerned about the cumulative impact of Fox News in America on the radicalisation of US politics, the same template is being followed with Sky News in Australia. We will see its full impact in a decade's time” says ex PM Kevin Rudd @annefdavies https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal:
Fandom, a site about games, movies, and TV shows, buys UK-based Focus, owner of Fanatical; sources say Fandom is profitable and expects $200M in revenue in 2021 — Entertainment company seeks direct sales to consumers and better appeal to marketers — Fandom Inc., an entertainment company focusing …
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