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Donald G. McNeil Jr / Medium:
Donald McNeil writes a four-part rebuttal to the allegations against him, says what happened to him is “a series of misunderstandings and blunders” — On February 5 this year, one week after an article about me appeared in the Daily Beast, The New York Times announced that I would be leaving.
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Donald G. McNeil Jr / Medium: NYTimes Peru N-Word, Part Two: What Happened January 28?
Anna Merlan / @annamerlan: This is a good demonstration of three principles: 1. Everyone needs an editor, both for length and to tell you when you're doing a spot of unconscious bias 2. Posting Your Side of the Story on Medium should require a 72 hour waiting period https://twitter.com/...
Donald G. McNeil Jr / Medium: NYTimes Peru N-Word, Part Three: What Happened in the 2019 Investigation?
Marisa Sarnoff / Mediaite: Former NY Times Reporter Donald McNeil Slams the Paper in Four-Part Post About His Departure Following Racism Allegations
Donald G. McNeil Jr / Medium: NYTimes Peru N-Word, Part Four: What Happened in Peru?
Drew Holden / @drewholden360: A master class in speaking power to truth from Baquet and @nytimes https://twitter.com/...
Rosie Gray / @rosiegray: It's hard to come away from Donald McNeil's account here with anything but a dim view of how the NYT handled this. The didn't let him tell his side of the story and immediately went into PR crisis mode w/o discerning the truth of what happened https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ...
Alex Leo / @alexmleo: I'm not very interested in rehashing this again but it has a clear message: When one person or group says another person said cartoonishly ridiculous things it's best we hear what the person has to say and not just treat it as fact https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg: Don McNeil takes to Medium: “I chose this route so I can control at least one part of the narrative: my own.” https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ...
Matt Welch / @mattwelch: My God, the institutional wrestling over an “apology” in this account: https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ...
Kim Zetter / @kimzetter: NYTimes reporter Don McNeil, who left the paper last month after info about his behavior on a Times trip to Peru went public, tells his side of the story: https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ...
Ben Smith / @benyt: Donald McNeil, who had declined to talk in detail to me and other reporters til he was out of the Times, offers his account of “misunderstandings and blunders” https://rsci.app.link/...
Adam Kredo / @kredo0: 🔥 Reporters “make America what it is — without a free press, democracy dies. But we're still jackals. We can befriend you for years, and then bite off your arm just as you're offering us a treat. We can't help it. It's the nature of the job.” https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ...
Will Saletan / @saletan: Re 2nd allegation: McNeil writes, “I certainly never said ‘racism is over.’” https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ... Re 3rd allegation: “I was never asked if I believed in white privilege.” Having “lived in South Africa... I have a clearer idea... of white privilege.” /6 https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: “I'm not just quitting like this.” Donald McNeil, the 45-year veteran of the New York Times who resigned last month following a controversy over the n-word on a Peru trip, has written a four-part rebuttal to all the allegations against him. Part One: https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ...
@samthielman: Man this is all really discouraging and it sounds a lot like senior management at the Times knows exactly how to push the buttons on public sentiment—and on Baquet—to get people they don't like shoved out. Also a *reporter* has “lost the newsroom?” Come ON https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Anyone who formed opinions about the Donald McNeil episode - his 45-year career was ended by rich teenagers' complaints - should read his 4-part explanation. Among other things, it shows how misleading it is when stories are told with only one side heard: https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ...
Rabbi Josh Yuter / @jyuter: This is brutal. I think it parallels universities and there's a fair amount of reaping what they've sown. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Serwer / @adamserwer: Reading this, not only do I think McNeil should not have been forced out, but the reasons he was seem to have been misapprehended by many people publicly arguing about it https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ...
Michael Malice / @michaelmalice: “It's not my fault I'm reprehensible, it's the job's fault!” The dying fox asked the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: “I couldn't help it. It's in my nature.” https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Fox News: Ousted New York Times reporter Donald McNeil slams newspaper's leadership, culture in scathing essay
Will Saletan / @saletan: McNeil also posts a shorter version from his 1/28/21 draft email: “A student asked me if I thought her high school's administration was right to suspend a classmate of hers for using the word...I said 'Did she actually call someone a ‘(offending word’?” /4 https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / Washington Post: 'I'm not just quitting like this': Donald McNeil responds to New York Times controversy
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: Ousted NY Times Reporter Donald McNeil Jr. Speaks Out: 'I've Been a Jackal Circled by Jackals'
Michael Tracey / @mtracey: Donald McNeil's account of his NYT ordeal is somehow even worse than you would have assumed. Always assume the absolute worst when it comes to the crippling cowardice of media institutions https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Lia Eustachewich / New York Post: Ex-Times reporter Donald McNeil says he was intimidated into resigning over N-word controversy
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Here is Donald McNeil's take. There's no excuse for his use of the N word, and I find some of his views offensive. But it definitely reinforces my feeling that we should worry more about assholes in glass offices than about assholes in the newsroom. https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ...
Jolenta Greenberg / @jolentag: Methinks the lady doth protest too much. Sad that practicing empathy seems so hard for so many journalists... They'd have to resign and apologize wayyyy less if they worked on that. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Cernovich / @cernovich: The gas lighting, the abuse, it goes all the way to the top of the New York Times. These are sociopaths. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Gene Park / @genepark: This is a lot of words to say “I don't think I'm racist even though dozens of colleagues and even the guy who sat behind me now says I say racist stuff all the time” https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Donald G. McNeil Jr. broke his silence on Monday, leveling criticism against some of The New York Times' top brass and offering his own explanation for the events that ended his decades-long career at the paper. https://www.cnn.com/...
Alex Griswold / @hashtaggriswold: NYT staff “used the same word exactly the same way when asking me if I had used the word” is basically all you need to know https://twitter.com/...
Paul Blest / @pblest: “NYTimes Peru N-Word, Part One: Introduction” is the best Medium headline I've seen since “On Becoming Anti-Bernie” (42 min read)
Batya Ungar-Sargon / @bungarsargon: Donald McNeil's report of what actually went down @nytimes is worse than I expected. “You've lost the newsroom,” executive editor Dean Baquet told him when asking him to resign, as though he were a politician who's lost the vote instead of a damn reporter. https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Will Saletan / @saletan: Another version, written 1/28/21: “I was asked if I believed in systemic racism. I answered words to the effect of: 'Yeah, of course, but tell me which system we're talking about. The U.S. military? The L.A.P.D.? The [NY] Times? They're all different.'” /9 https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ...
Tom McCarthy / The Guardian: Reporter says New York Times panicked over alleged racism case that led to his resignation
Jesse Singal / @jessesingal: Donald McNeil Jr.'s account of what happened is quite damning for the Times. He was prepared to provide the Beast all sorts of important details that would have at the very least complicated its storyline, but his bosses forbade him from doing so. https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Bethany S. Mandel / @bethanyshondark: I've had a lot of bosses in my life and I cannot fathom one letting other staff make hiring and firing decisions like this. https://twitter.com/...
Conor Friedersdorf / @conor64: It is infuriating that the New York Times, an institution that is supposed to be committed to *telling the public the truth* above all else, would've left us all extremely underinformed, at best, had the employee they forced out not published this. https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Former NYT reporter Don McNeil posts his detailed account of what he said in Peru in 2019 that led to his resignation under pressure... and what NYT news execs said after the Daily Beast's story https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ...
Jay Caruso / @jaycaruso: This is an astounding read by Donald McNeil about the events surrounding his ouster from the New York Times: “...you've lost the newsroom. A lot of your colleagues are hurt.” Good God, we're a nation of toddlers. https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ...
Nancy Rommelmann / @nancyromm: “I used to love working here. Now I'm so discouraged. Such a mean, spiteful, vengeful place where everyone is looking over his/her shoulder.” From Part 3 of Donald McNeil Jr.'s essay about his being frog-marched out of the @nyt. Start with Part 1 https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ...
Zara Rahim / @zararahim: white men will quite literally write a four part self published internet refutation about how them saying a racist slur doesn't mean they're racist instead of simply...shutting up. https://twitter.com/...
James Ball / @jamesrbuk: Part one: 12 minute read Part two: 18 minute read Part three: *28 minute read* Everyone needs an editor. https://twitter.com/...
Sonny Bunch / @sonnybunch: The NYT sounds like an amazingly terrible place to work. Good lord. https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ...
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: Donald McNeil, the former NYT reporter, has published his account of what happened. It is deeply triggering to any woman and BIPOC manager, because he repeatedly tries to steamroll and ignore women who are in charge. The details are also...really bad. https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ...
The Daily Beast: Ex-NY Times Reporter Finally Speaks Out, Disputes Student Claims, Calls Himself ‘Jackal Circled by Jackals’
Andy Kroll / @andykroll: Don McNeil, the former veteran NYT health reporter, tells his side of the story (at length). I've read it. I don't think he should've been forced out. And after glimpsing the well-documented internal workings of @nytimes here, I fear for a paper I love. https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Brian Welk / The Wrap:
At the Golden Globes, celebs including host Tina Fey point out that none of the ~90 journalists comprising the Hollywood Foreign Press Association are Black — It's not uncommon for awards winners to get political in their speeches, but this year a lot of presenters and winners took swipes …
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Ava DuVernay / @ava: Old news. New energy. #TimesUpGlobes https://twitter.com/...
Michael Schneider / Variety: Golden Globes Producers Explain Those Zoom Rooms, Catherine O'Hara's Gag and More Behind the Scenes Details (EXCLUSIVE)
Deadline: HFPA Scorched By SAG-AFTRA, DGA, GLAAD Over Lack Of Black Members As Outrage Grows; Group Promises To Address On Golden Globes Tonight - Update
Josh Feldman / Mediaite: WATCH: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler Call Out HFPA for Having No Black Members in Golden Globes Opener
Angelique Jackson / Chicago Tribune: Hollywood Foreign Press Association addresses absence of Black members during Golden Globes broadcast
Ethan Anderton / /Film: The Morning Watch: 2021 Golden Globes Highlights Bring Laughs, Tears & Technical Gaffes
Roxie Pell / ScreenRant: Golden Globes: Fey & Poehler Call Out HFPA's Lack Of Diversity In Monologue
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: Golden Globes: Netflix Dominates; Streamers Take Most TV Wins
Ethan Alter / Yahoo Entertainment: Golden Globes 2021: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler call out the HFPA's lack of Black members in divisive opening
Halle Kiefer / Vulture: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Open Golden Globes by Zinging HFPA's Lack of Black Members
R. Thomas Umstead / nexttv.com: HFPA Addresses Diversity Controversy During Golden Globes Ceremony
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Streaming services dominated the Golden Globes; Netflix was the biggest winner with four awards and Apple TV+ picked up its first Golden Globe for Ted Lasso — The Golden Globes kicked off the 2021 awards season with a few awkward moments, including a buggy telecast, acceptance speeches …
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Maane Khatchatourian / Variety: Golden Globes 2021: The Full Winners List
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times: Audience for Golden Globes ceremony will hit an all-time low for NBC
Rebecca Sun / Hollywood Reporter: Golden Globes Winners Mark Diversity Milestones While HFPA's Response to Inclusion Criticism Remains Milquetoast
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Instagram launches Live Rooms for live broadcasts with up to four creators, up from two, and says it will roll out new audio features in coming months — Instagram today announced it's adding a much-requested feature to its app with the launch of “Live Rooms,” which allow up to four people to broadcast live together at the same time.
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Angelica Nwandu / Instagram: Doubling Up on Instagram Live with Live Rooms
@mosseri: It's a party 🎉 Today we're rolling out a way for up to four people to go Live together. Get more details: https://about.instagram.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@instagram: Live Rooms has entered that chat 👀 Today we're rolling out a way for you + three other people to go Live together and do your thing 🗣🤩 💥 https://about.instagram.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Bearden / @aaronbearden93: It's becoming so exhausting keeping up with the 8,000 different engagement platforms on like 6 social media apps https://twitter.com/...
Cameron Pollack / @kcallop: They'll really do anything but make Instagram better for normal people https://twitter.com/...
Turner Novak / @turnernovak: Instagram launches “live rooms”. Up to 4 accounts can broadcast video at once. IG continues into “video, beauty, visual” when TikTok (irony, imperfection), Clubhouse (audio only), Snap (close friends), etc go in different directions. signals to me IG's hyper-focused on shopping https://twitter.com/...
@mrbrown: “Once purchased, the badges appear next to a fan's name throughout the live video, helping them to stand out in the comments and unlock other special features, like placement on the creator's list of badge holders and access to a special heart.” Siam Diu? https://techcrunch.com/...
@morningbrew: You can only count on a few things in this world: Death, taxes, and Instagram copying features from other social media companies https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Russell / @kylebrussell: This isn't group facetime This is video clubhouse https://twitter.com/...
Josh Constine / @joshconstine: Instagram's new Group “Live Rooms” will help creators: -Grow via cross-promo -Go Live with no script, spontaneously collaborating on content -Monetize by selling badges that raise fans' visibility to all speakers -Bring the Clubhouse experience to IG. Audio Live Rooms are coming! https://twitter.com/...
David Cohen / Adweek: Instagram Opens the Door to Live Rooms
Steven Bartlett / @stevebartlettsc: *INSTAGRAM UPDATE - LIVE ROOMS* I thought we were all suffering with zoom fatigue... ? An obvious and natural extension but don't see it stealing much attention from Clubhouse either. Is it one step forward two steps back? https://twitter.com/...
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: Four person live video rooms on Instagram. Do they shut the video off and make it clubhouse next? https://twitter.com/...
Dave McClure / @davemcclure: Facebook dips toe in the water to compete with #Clubhouse via #LiveRooms on #Instagram https://twitter.com/...
Sam Sheffer / @samsheffer: facetime has entered the chat 📱 today we're rolling out a way for you + your grandmother, math teacher, and childhood best friend to group facetime and sing kumbaya ⬆️ 🎉⭐️ https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Carman / The Verge: Instagram's new Live Rooms feature lets up to four people go live at once
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: It's funny to me how social platforms that leaned hard into sophisticated video features now have to go build the low-tech audio chat stuff that people actually want https://twitter.com/...
Allie Wassum / @social_allie: Tell me you're out of touch with user needs without telling me you're out of touch with user needs.... https://twitter.com/...
Subrahmanyam Kvj / @sub8u: Clubhouse + Video + monetization options on day 1. “The battle between every startup and incumbent comes down to whether the startup gets distribution before the incumbent gets innovation” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Vishal Shah / @vishalshahis: Ever wanted to go Live with more than one other person? It's happening 🌟 Today we're rolling out Live Rooms, a way for up to four people to go Live. Hopefully this gives creators a chance to have even more meaningful convos and break out on Instagram. https://about.instagram.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Erick Schonfeld / @erickschonfeld: Chatroulette 2.0 https://twitter.com/...
Fred Ryan / Washington Post:
Washington Post Publisher and CEO Fred Ryan calls on Biden to honor his campaign promise to hold MbS accountable and not give him a “one free murder” pass — Opinion by Fred Ryan — Fred Ryan is the publisher of The Washington Post. — President Biden is facing …
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Amanda Macias / CNBC: White House defends decision not to punish Saudi crown prince, says U.S. does not sanction foreign leaders
John Haltiwanger / Insider: The White House says it never wants an assassination like Khashoggi's again, but won't punish MBS for ordering the killing
@spj_tweets: “To the contrary, it is an essential time to show the world that enduring American values matter more than commercial and diplomatic short-term opportunities — and bring justice for Jamal.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Rudy Takala / Mediaite: Khashoggi's Fiancé Calls for Biden to Sanction MBS: Refusal Would ‘Endanger Us All’
Jim Geraghty / @jimgeraghty: Well, it's safe to say the Biden administration's attempt to finesse the MBS issue is not generating the loud applause they were hoping for: https://www.newyorker.com/... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Kenneth Roth / @kenroth: Does Biden really want to signal to US allies that they get a “one free murder” pass? Time for real accountability for what now the US government admits was the Saudi crown prince's responsibility for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Hansler / @jmhansler: .@kylieatwood: Will MBS be given a waiver to visit the US? Will he be able to come to the US at all? @StateDeptSpox: “As we have said, we are not in a position to detail the names of those who are subject to the Khashoggi ban, or other potential remedial measures...
Greg Miller / @gregpmiller: As a candidate, Biden vowed to make Saudi Crown Prince “pay the price” for killing Khashoggi, and to treat Saudi Arabia as “the pariah that they are.” Biden is failing to follow through, writes Post publisher Fred Ryan. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: “How can we be a credible champion of human rights when we demand accountability in one country & are willing to look the other way in another?” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... We can't. But the world knows the US has allied itself with kings in the Middle East for decades because of oil
Hatice Cengiz / @mercan_resifi: To the contrary, it is an essential time to show the world that enduring American values matter more than commercial and diplomatic short-term opportunitie. By #Fred_Ryan @washingtonpost https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@walidalhathloul: “There is no legal, moral or logical reason to apply sanctions to the lower-level players in this conspiracy, who were following orders, while letting the criminal mastermind get away without consequence.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Carin Jodha Fischer / @carin__fischer: “American voters took Biden at his word that he would reestablish the United States as a champion of human rights and not allow exceptions based on personal relationships or strategic needs of the moment.” @POTUS @SecBlinken https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Dan Zak / @mrdanzak: The publisher of The Washington Post: “It appears as though under the Biden administration, despots who offer momentarily strategic value to the United States might be given a ‘one free murder’ pass.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Kellyanne Conway / @kellyannepolls: .@washingtonpost Publisher confronts Biden: “Friends and foes around the world are carefully monitoring his actions, judging the strength of his convictions & calculating the circumstances where expedience may cause him to waiver & abandon our values.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Tim O'Donnell / The Week: Wealthy alumni demand University of Texas defy ‘cancel culture’ and defend racist school song
Michael Isikoff / @isikoff: In wake of Khashoggi disclosures, 9/11 families appeal to Biden to declassify key FBI docs on suspected Saudi links to terror plot that Barr & Grenell declared a “state secret” whose release would injure national security. https://news.yahoo.com/...
@washpostpr: Washington Post Publisher & CEO Fred Ryan penned a new op-ed in @PostOpinions today calling for the Biden White House to show strength in its response to Saudi Arabia following the release of the CIA intel report on the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Anita Kumar / @anitakumar01: Fred Ryan, publisher and CEO of the @washingtonpost, has penned an op-ed critical of the Biden administration's response to the assessment of Saudi Crown Prince's involvement in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Vera Bergengruen / @verambergen: Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan: “The man whom Biden described as a ‘pariah’ is about to escape personal liability for a murder he ordered as we offer diplomatic-speak about ‘recalibration’ rather than insist on accountability.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku says it's acquiring Nielsen's Advanced Video Advertising business, positioning itself to offer a fully addressable advertising solution for TV programmers — Under the agreement, announced Monday, Roku will obtain Nielsen's video automatic content recognition (ACR) technology and dynamic ad insertion …
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Mollie Cahillane / Adweek: Roku Buys Nielsen's Advanced Video Advertising Business, Accelerating DAI Capabilities
Sara Fischer / Axios: Roku to acquire Nielsen's advanced TV advertising division
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV: Roku to Acquire Nielsen's Advanced TV as a New Era for National Addressable TV Advertising Dawns
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: also under the deal: Roku's nearly 100 million smart TVs and other devices will be pulled into the Nielsen One proposed cross-media currency spanning streaming and traditional TV https://variety.com/...
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: For Nielsen, the deal marks its exit from the video ad-tech business https://variety.com/...
Tim Baysinger / The Wrap: Roku Buys Nielsen's Addressable TV Advertising Business
Ryan Joe / AdExchanger: Roku Acquires Video Ad Tech From Nielsen - And Nielsen Gets Insights On Roku Users
Julia Alexander / The Verge: Roku's advertising ambitions just got even bigger with new Nielsen deal
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
How Marty Baron and Jeff Bezos remade The Washington Post from a paper “for Washingtonians” into a global publication with almost 3M digital subscribers — The celebrated editor is ending his tenure at the helm of a very different newspaper than the one he originally signed on to run.
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Emily Rauhala / @emilyrauhala: So grateful for Great Men 🤢 https://twitter.com/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: If you're going to send me a push alert for a piece about how your own retiring editor “saved” journalism, you should get the basic facts right. A few notes on these graphs https://twitter.com/...
@itsjhyphenm: Tempted to make this my header image on my profile, just to gaslight myself https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post: Marty Baron, Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump and the eight years that reshaped The Washington Post — and journalism
Kainaz Amaria / @kainazamaria: Imagine having the opportunity to nearly double your news staff and your diversity numbers look like this when you leave. 🤔 https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kayla Epstein / @kaylaepstein: WaPo's renaissance was due in large - uncredited - part to the audience, graphics, data, newsletter, video, etc teams, which are dominated by talented women, POC, and LGBTQ staff. Yet their brilliance is rarely cited in these glowing success stories about the Post. https://twitter.com/...
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: Thread worth reading. We've been seeing numbers like this in big newsrooms — 70% to 98% white — for decades. https://twitter.com/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: Anyway, it's understandable that when a major, and important, journalistic figure retires the coverage in totality is positive. But the coverage of this retirement — from the post and everyone else — has been pure propaganda. He hasn't been asked a single meaningful question
Paul Kane / @pkcapitol: My fav @PostBaron story. His very 1st WaPo day was almost total failure: Jan. 2, 2013, every IT system crashed - no email, no publishing, no phone lines. In Capitol @loriamontgomery & me couldn't reach editors. Disaster. Until Marty took charge ... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Kayla Epstein / @kaylaepstein: The online headline wasn't framed the same way as the print version but still only gives passing credit to these journalists. This isn't to dismiss Baron and Bezos, who made enormous contributions. But just to say share the credit around a little bit https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kayla Epstein / @kaylaepstein: It's also not fair to only get Big Mad at NYT for this. Most of the stories this week have made the same mistake. Including the Post's own story, where the only (brief) mention of social media at the Post is framed as an opposition force to Baron https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Margarita Noriega / @margarita: sadly, this print headline is real and as such is a very real tell. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Grim / @ryangrim: Nice cameo here from Fred Ryan who, before this, served as Ronald Reagan's chief of staff. https://twitter.com/...
Kainaz Amaria / @kainazamaria: When reporters only consider bottom lines, subscription and awards as indicators of success they dismiss structural inequities that have been allowed to THRIVE under one “leader” after another. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
David Axelrod / @davidaxelrod: One of the great editors of his generation retires today. Marty Baron of the @washingtonpost has led 3 major news orgs & transformed the Post into a digital power without compromising the mission, values & ethics he championed in every newsroom he's run. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Christopher Ingraham / @_cingraham: This x 1,000 https://twitter.com/...
Ellen K. Pao / @ekp: the NY Times isn't content with gaslighting its own employees and has expanded to The Washington Post https://twitter.com/...
Lauren Dobson-Hughes / @ldobsonhughes: The article literally describes the work of two women https://twitter.com/...
Karen Tumulty / @ktumulty: Worth noting that the publisher who recruited and hired @PostBaron was Katharine Weymouth. @weymouthk https://twitter.com/...
Tara Parker-Pope / @taraparkerpope: The women of the Washington Post would like to have a word. https://twitter.com/...
Stacy-Marie Ishmael / @s_m_i: Love to constantly be reminded of how often being a woman in media is an exercise in watching men in media erase your work in real time (Image shows a screenshot of a story from the New York Times written by Marc Tracy. The headline is “The Men Who Remade The Washington Post") https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Bowers / @jeremybowers: This does not represent my understanding of how The Post was remade. I cannot imagine the current Post without @katdowns and @WapoEngineering's Vidya Viswanathan, among several others. https://twitter.com/...
Anthony DeRosa / @anthony: “plenty was innovative, such as an online section devoted to breaking news continuously, a team focused on how best to deliver Post journalism and a section covering video games & e-sports. ("A lot of it got replicated by @nytimes," Mr. Baron said archly.) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dave Levinthal / @davelevinthal: Stunning paragraph from deep within the @washingtonpost's farewell 1A to @PostBaron. https://twitter.com/...
Seung Min Kim / @seungminkim: “As communicators, we were remarkably terrible at communicating our role in this democracy. And it was unfathomable to me.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Sadly lacking any real acknowledgement by either the author or the subject of how much much more WaPo could have been and done with a bolder leader or even just a better listener. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: I spent 1997-2003, 3 of those years as editor of the website, telling them to “accept the gift”, and 2004-2009, as White House Watch columnist, showing them how. So forgive me if I resent the revisionism that no one had thought of this until @JeffBezos https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
N. Ram / @nramind: A good, instructive but no-frills read: “Marty Baron, Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump and the eight years that reshaped The Washington Post — and journalism”: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Gene Park / @genepark: pretty cool to see the only 2 teams I've been on at WaPo both get mentioned in the NYT piece of our innovation overhaul https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dan Zak / @mrdanzak: The New York Times “can be the U.S. Army, and we can be the Special Forces,” he said. “And you know, the Special Forces can win the war.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Michael Kruse / @michaelkruse: “Would we have generated the subscriptions we did without Donald Trump? Probably not, to be honest,” says @PostBaron. “But I think it's largely now a result of people recognizing that there needs to be a vigorous press in this country ...” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Robert Fife / @robertfife: Well worth the read this morning: Marty Baron, Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump and the eight years that reshaped The Washington Post — and journalism https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@washpostlife: “We're not at war. We're at work.” Executive Editor @PostBaron retires today after eights years at The @WashingtonPost. @SarahEllison writes what shaped his tenure: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ....
Lynda Robinson / @wplyndarobinson: When Bezos bought The Post, Baron was contemplating having to cut at least 50 newsroom jobs in the coming year, he recalled. Via @sarahellison https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Carlos Lozada / @carloslozadawp: On his last day at the @washingtonpost, outgoing executive editor @PostBaron makes A1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Lauren Johnson / Insider: Walmart is looking for a new ad agency
Raju Narisetti / @raju: The @IndianExpress also has its own Marty Baron interview: 'Getting at the truth requires hard work... but there is such a thing as the truth. It's not just a matter of opinion, not about who has the biggest megaphone' https://indianexpress.com/...
Liz Mathew / @mathewliz: There will always be people at both sides..It's always at the margins that you're not going to convince everybody, you are not going to get 100%.The question is can you get another 10%,15 or20%? Marty Baron in an interview with @anantgoenka @IndianExpress https://indianexpress.com/...
Digbijay Mishra / @digbijaymishra1: Several interesting takeaways from this @PostBaron interview, especially on billionaires owing media platforms like The Post and why it may or may not work in the rest of the world. https://indianexpress.com/...
Rahul Tripathi / @rahultripathi: There is something called objective fact and objective reality. Our job is to get at that, to publish that as best as we can, and not to be deterred, not to be pressured, not to be distracted: @washingtonpost editor @PostBaron . https://indianexpress.com/...
Ben Welsh / @palewire: It's worth noting the numbers. @washingtonpost is headed upward despite its print numbers totally tanking. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
P Vaidyanathan Iyer / @iyervaidy: The very first principle on the wall when you walk into @washingtonpost newsroom: “To tell the truth as nearly as the truth may be ascertained.” Much to imbibe in this interview with @PostBaron @IndianExpress @anantgoenka https://twitter.com/...
David Sanger / @sangernyt: A fascinating piece on an editor's journey remaking a great newspaper for the digital age. I feel lucky to have worked with Marty when he was at the Times and I've been an admirer of his judgment and news instincts since. Eager to see his next act. https://twitter.com/...
Ashish Khetan / @aashishkhetan: .@PostBaron makes a very important point: “It's important that journalists who are participating in social media exercise restraint in the same way that they would if they were publishing it in our publication online or in print.” https://indianexpress.com/...
M K Venu / @mkvenu1: Many parallels with Indian situation here! READ: Marty Baron interview: ‘There is such a thing as the truth’ https://indianexpress.com/... Shared by The IndianExpress iOS App. Click here to download https://indianexpress.page.link/ ...
Nikhil Wagle / @waglenikhil: Marty Baron interview: 'Getting at the truth requires hard work... but there is such a thing as the truth. It's not just a matter of opinion, not about who has the biggest megaphone' | The Indian Express https://indianexpress.com/...
Sree Sreenivasan / Sree's Sunday Note: SUNDAY NOTE: In praise of the journalism holding Big Tech accountable
Max Boot / @maxboot: Kudos to the @nytimes for running a great tribute to a tough competitor—@washingtonpost under @PostBaron and @JeffBezos. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brit Hume / @brithume: Interesting account of how the Washington Post went from being principally a local print paper to a digital national paper. Left out of this story is anything about how the Post, already liberal, went left. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Marc Tracy / @marcatracy: Marty Baron signed up to edit one Washington Post. He ended up editing a very different one. My story in advance of his final day as executive editor (tomorrow) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sushant Singh / @sushantsin: The internet demolished media's traditional business models, Mr. Bezos explained in the interview, “but it does bring one huge gift, and you have to maximize your usage of that new gift, which is that it provides almost free global distribution.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Marc Lacey / @marclacey: “At one point, I was mourning the passing of journalism as it had once been,” he said, “but I got over that and decided that we just have to figure out how to make the best of it.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@tuthanhha: A bit of inside-baseball for obit writers and aficionados: This NYT profile of Marty Baron not only interviews former Washington Post publisher Donald E. Graham but also the journalist who wrote Graham's pre-written obit. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Marc Fisher / @mffisher: Marty Baron: “At one point, I was mourning the passing of journalism as it had once been, but I got over that and decided that we just have to figure out how to make the best of it.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Profile of Discovery+, which has hit 12M paid subscriptions globally and offers a reality TV-focused catalog with 55K episodes, rivaling Netflix in sheer volume — Discovery's new app has taken off largely because viewers love watching people fix houses, tour diners and bicker about their relationships.
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@benyt, @loudmouthjulia, The Verge, @alexweprin, @richlightshed, @jacobkornbluh, @magalidmathias, @mbgelman, @loudmouthjulia, @nytimes, @felixsalmon and @dangillmor
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Ben Smith / @benyt: Forget ‘Succession.’ You Can Watch ‘90 Day Fiancé’ for 100 Hours Straight. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Would be remiss to not link out on Twitter (it's also in the story!) @benyt great piece on Discovery+ that went up last night. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Julia Alexander / The Verge: Discovery Plus is the perfect background noise streaming service
Alex Weprin / @alexweprin: Fun fact: Ted Turner tried to merge CNN and Discovery back in 1988. “They just belong together” Turner told Discovery founder John Hendricks, per Hendricks' autobiography. https://twitter.com/...
Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed: Nailed it @benyt “Whether Discovery+ is another move to make the company more attractive for a giant to swallow before the bottom really falls out of the U.S. cable biz or whether the company's current high stock price will prompt...to acquire other biz” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jacob Kornbluh / @jacobkornbluh: Glad to see the mishpucha is growing... https://www.nytimes.com/...
@magalidmathias: I'm not surprised by the 9 figures https://twitter.com/... i guess Netflix also paid very very well https://twitter.com/...
Micah Gelman / @mbgelman: A few thoughts as someone who was @Discovery for a few years during the early part of the streaming explosion. For a time I was the only person in the company working to build a domestic steaming service. 1/ https://twitter.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: NEW: I wrote about Discovery+ being the only streaming service that plays in my apartment from 8am til about 6pm, because it's waiting room television. It's ambient TV. It is the definition of “no thoughts, head empty” background noise and it's become a perfect work companion. https://twitter.com/...
@nytimes: Is Discovery+ the most successful new entrant in the “streaming wars?” Our media columnist @benyt writes about the app, which boasts 55,000 episodes and 12 million paid subscriptions. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Felix Salmon / @felixsalmon: In case you were worried how Harry and Meghan were going to make ends meet now that they're not being paid by HM the Q, @benyt pegs the value of their TV deal at “nine figures” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: Wow, what a revealing column by @benyt on how one of the winners in the “streaming wars” should actually (this is my take, not his) be called “Voyeur+” https://www.nytimes.com/... (If watching this garbage is how Americans are spending their time, no wonder we're in trouble.)
Charles Riley / CNN:
Axel Springer says it won't join Facebook News when it launches in Germany in May, due to “inappropriately low remuneration” offered for journalistic content — London (CNN Business)Facebook is launching its news product in Germany without media giant Axel Springer …
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Facebook, Reuters, Reuters, @jason_kint, @torstenbeeck, @rasmus_kleis, @oliverdarcy, @sofus_d, @wblau and @mattnavarra
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Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Hat tip to Axel Springer for recognizing Facebook and Google's attempts to silence scrutiny, undermine copyright and new laws. The duopoly is attempting this by throwing publishers a few hundred million per year of hush money out of their $275B empires which is frankly offensive. https://twitter.com/...
Torsten Beeck / @torstenbeeck: Facebook News coming to Germany in May 2021. Huge investment in media industry and 30+ partners in already! 🎉 https://www.facebook.com/...
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: Facebook News launching in Germany in May. Der Spiegel, FAZ and others signed up, Axel Springer not among launch partners (Perhaps worth noting Spiegel, FAZ were also among those who didn't join Springer-led coalition VGMedia against Google back in 2014?) https://www.reuters.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “We consider the efforts of several platforms to become news brands themselves while at the same time compensating some publishers with inappropriately low remuneration for their content as problematic.” https://www.cnn.com/...
Jesper Doub / @sofus_d: We keep investing. Facebook News is coming to Germany. Read the full announcement here: https://facebook.com/... Next up, we are working on bringing Facebook News and other investments in the news industry to more European and global markets.
Wolfgang Blau / @wblau: Facebook News Germany launches without Axel-Springer (BILD, WELT). Springer spokesman: “Attempts by some platforms on the one hand to position themselves as news media, and on the other to fob off publishers with inadequate remuneration, are problematic” https://www.reuters.com/...
Financial Times:
A look at the coming succession battle at News Corp as Rupert Murdoch turns 90 and sources say James hopes to coordinate with his sisters to reset Fox News — By his own reckoning, Rupert Murdoch was supposed to die a fortnight ago, on a Tuesday afternoon.
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@bydavidcrow, @jeffjarvis, @dylanbyers, @annaknicolaou, @financialtimes, @jyarow, @mattgarrahan, @deepbagchee and @eriqgardner
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David Crow / @bydavidcrow: Terrific, pacy deep dive on what comes next for the Murdochs now that the Disney/21CF deal restrictions have lifted. Required reading for empire watchers by @alexebarker, @annaknicolaou and @JFK_America https://www.ft.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Funny, the list of his accomplishments skips over the RUIN OF DEMOCRACY IN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. And it uses “gift” as a damned verb. Twice. Rupert Murdoch at 90: Fox, succession and ‘one more big play’ https://www.ft.com/... via @financialtimes
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: Incredible numbers here: Fox News “is on track to account for more than 80 per cent of Fox's total operating profits this year, according to MoffettNathanson. Its profit margins are in excess of 50 per cent.” https://www.ft.com/...
Anna Nicolaou / @annaknicolaou: new: this month, a 2-year restriction on asset sales lifts for Fox. the Murdoch inner circle is talking about another bold corporate gambit — such as selling parts of the empire or reuniting others w/ the team @alexebarker & @JFK_America https://www.ft.com/...
@financialtimes: The alternative is to re-engineer Murdoch's corporate interests, from non-core asset sales to recombining parts of Fox with News Corp. Such an option would be seriously considered if his son Lachlan decided he didn't want to run the business any more https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jay Yarow / @jyarow: You don't need a long list of buyers. You only need one buyer. That said, there is a long list out there. Owning Fox News is like owning the Knicks. It's a 1 of 1 asset. https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Garrahan / @mattgarrahan: Rupert Murdoch at 90 and the real life version of Succession. Who will control his empire when he's gone - and could a sale of Fox be on the cards? https://www.ft.com/...
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Sources: George Stephanopoulos and David Muir to split leading breaking news at ABC News, after tensions over “chief anchor” title, which will no longer be used — New York (CNN Business)Earlier this year tensions between ABC News anchors George Stephanopoulos and David Muir boiled …
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Variety, The Wrap, @brianstelter, @hshaban, @thebenbergman, @bobbierman, @bryancurtis, @hshaban, @realjoeypoirier, @oliverdarcy and @jbflint
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Brian Steinberg / Variety: David Muir to Lead Breaking-News Duties at ABC
Ross A. Lincoln / The Wrap: David Muir to Head Up Breaking News Duties for ABC News
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Scoop: Earlier this year Disney exec chairman Bob Iger flew across the country to broker peace at ABC News. Why? Here's my full story... https://www.cnn.com/...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: Fitting that on the same day of actually, unpaid journalism internships are bad, CNN reported on an absurd drama between ABC's David Muir & George Stephanopoulos, which had to be squashed by Disney overlord Bob Iger — millionaires all. What an industry! https://www.cnn.com/...
Ben Bergman / @thebenbergman: A old-school network news power struggle between two guys with nice hair https://www.cnn.com/...
Bob Bierman / @bobbierman: There's something refreshing about this good 'ol fashioned scoop about a talent spat. https://twitter.com/...
Bryan Curtis / @bryancurtis: These kind of anchor dramas over power and titles were once pretty common. Then they kinda disappeared or moved to cable. It's great to have them back. https://twitter.com/...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: Always reassuring to know that the same industry that relies on not paying people or under paying people has an entire strata of superstar journalists who are paid millions of dollars in long term contracts and are housed within entertainment conglomerates https://www.cnn.com/...
Joey Poirier / @realjoeypoirier: Another prime example why national journalism is dead and now we just have only media figures and divas. This is one of many reasons why we got Trump. Bring back real hard hitting reporting. https://twitter.com/...
Skye Witley / Current:
Investigative news nonprofit FairWarning, which published articles in outlets like Mother Jones, has dissolved after tweets about the founder sparked a crisis — FairWarning, a small investigative news nonprofit based in California, dissolved Saturday after a Twitter thread …
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Skye Witley / @skye_witley: In the middle of my reporting on FairWarning's internal crisis sparked by a Twitter thread, the newsroom's board suddenly announced they were dissolving the entire organization. Read more below to find out why. https://current.org/...
Alice Dreger, Ph.D. / @alicedreger: Myron brought vital journalism via FairWarning, and he was a great colleague in our nonprofit journalism work. He deserved more of his board and his colleagues than this. Thank you to @currentpubmedia for bringing the story. https://current.org/... via @currentpubmedia
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