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David Brooks resigns from Aspen but will remain a volunteer at a project there; NYT to add disclosures about the relationship to his past and future columns — David Brooks has resigned from his position at the Aspen Institute following reporting by BuzzFeed News about conflicts of interest between …
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Craig Silverman / Nuzzel: NYT Columnist David Brooks Resigns From Nonprofit After More Evidence Of Conflicts Emerges
Marc Tracy / New York Times: The Times Is Adding Disclosures About David Brooks's Outside Work to His Columns
Paul Farhi / Washington Post: New York Times columnist Brooks resigns from think tank amid conflict-of-interest controversy
Ryan Mac / @rmac18: David Brooks just resigned from his Aspen Institute think tank job after @CraigSilverman and I found further conflicts of interest. Among them, he told people on a national tv news program to join Nextdooor after the company had funded his project. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Craig Silverman / @craigsilverman: NEW: On @pbsnewshour David Brooks addressed our reporting about Weave, its funding & lack of disclosure. He made at least two false statements incl. claiming Facebook funding was publicly disclosed. It wasn't until we reported it. I'll explain, you watch: https://www.youtube.com/...
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation: David Brooks addresses the Weave controversy
Willard Foxton Todd / @willardfoxton: NYT is currently having a scandal because a columnist didn't declare cash from a social media firm (Brooks & Nextdoor) Deplorable but like, literally *miles* from “used position as media correspondent to smear rape victims of the *terror group* I secretly support” https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Still trying to understand how an NYT columnist writes essentially PR content for Facebook and it's not disclosed to his readers https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@gerryconway: Wouldn't it be more ethical to simply stop publishing his columns? His willingness to play these games (and previously conceal them) undercuts any confidence a reader might have in his opinions and perspective. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@rmac18: This needs to be said given @nytdavidbrooks and @JudyWoodruff went on @NewsHour and framed our reporting, which asked him for comment multiple times, as coming from disgruntled critics. Until now, I've paid very little attention to Brooks' work. I don't care about his views.
Ali Gharib / @ali_gharib: David Brooks failed in basic journalistic disclosure, repeatedly pumped companies that donated to a paid gig for himself, then lied about it on national television. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Refracted Josh Shahryar / @jshahryar: Reminder that Lauren Wolfe was fires by NYT for a tweet expressing relief at peaceful transition of power. https://twitter.com/...
Julia B. Chan / @juliachanb: It's the perception of conflict, bad ethics and general shadiness for me. You know who could've helped him think though the decision of taking on a side hustle like this? His editors. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Borzou Daragahi / @borzou: Lucky for David he only drew a salary never got “chills” from the oligarch-funded reputation laundering scheme that he was fluffing up https://www.nytimes.com/...
Gregg Carlstrom / @glcarlstrom: In the year 2050 everyone in American journalism will either work for the New York Times or work for other outlets covering the personnel dramas and ethical lapses at the New York Times https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Eli Valley / @elivalley: How has NYT not fired him (plus every other “lifetime-tenure columnist") yet https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Craig Silverman / @craigsilverman: Glad the Times published a story on David Brooks resigning from his Aspen Institute gig. It's awkward but necessary. One note about this passage: there is no dispute that Aspen did not publicly disclose all donors. Just look at their website. Brooks lied. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mike / @blurstofmikes: Imagine thinking people wanted you to resign from the *think tank* https://twitter.com/...
Robert McCartney / @mccartneywp: Shameful: David Brooks claims falsely that everything about his paid arrangement with Facebook was public — except he didn't bother telling his NY Times readers about it, while shilling for the project. NYT won't say why it approved such secrecy and conflict-of-interest in past. https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Here's my latest newsletter featuring “NYT Columnist David Brooks Resigns From Nonprofit After More Evidence Of...” https://nuzzel.com/...
Michael R. Strain / @michaelrstrain: It seems to me that @nytdavidbrooks did nothing wrong. His column clearly disclosed that he is working at Weave. The Aspen Institute has lots of donors, & Brooks was not involved in fundraising. Brooks didn't get paid by Facebook. What is the problem? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Erica C. Barnett / @ericacbarnett: Appending a perplexing “disclosure” of “volunteer” work is almost worse than the years of nondisclosure when Brooks was getting paid, because it implies an extreme level of transparency where quite the opposite has been the case. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@ijbailey: It is kind of astonishing that Brooks could do all of this and seemingly receive a slap on the wrist from NYT. None of us is perfect. But this is a pretty large ethical breach in journalism, one that's so obvious it's hard to imagine that he felt comfortable with it. https://twitter.com/...
Danielle Tcholakian / @danielleiat: endlessly weird to me how The NY Times Opinion page is apparently a Supreme Court-style lifetime appointment? Cycle some of these cranks out, my dudes https://twitter.com/...
Craig Silverman / @craigsilverman: Washington Post also has a story up about Brooks resigning from his paid gig at Aspen. It makes it very clear that Brooks lied last night on @NewsHour, which I think is important. Given a chance to address our reporting publicly, he lied. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Myerson Katz / @katzonearth: Sorry to prolong the Times HR Twitter but how is this not a series of fireable offenses by David Brooks? https://twitter.com/...
Eoin Higgins / @eoinhiggins_: This is barely anything but it's certainly more than @NYMag requires when @jonathanchait writes about education. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rachel E. Greenspan / @rach_greenspan: such incredible reporting this week from @CraigSilverman and @RMac18. wow. read this thread if you missed their 5000 scoops about NYT's david brooks' conflicts of interest: https://twitter.com/...
Joan Walsh / @joanwalsh: I can't believe David Brooks still has a job at the Times. https://twitter.com/...
King Kaufman / @king_kaufman: “Brooks's behavior raises thorny ethical issues for the Times.” No it doesn't. The ethical issues couldn't be more clear. Whatever the Times is wrestling with here, it isn't ethics. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Staci D Kramer / @sdkstl: Disconcerting (to put it mildly) that David Brooks' previous @nytopinion editors didn't see this as a conflict or as a relationship worth disclosing to readers. Maybe worth @katiekings taking a look to see what else was approved and undisclosed. https://twitter.com/...
Ron Rosenbaum / @ronrosenbaum1: >@nytimes quick to fire young woman whose sin was saying she got “chills” on seeing threat to democracy finally over. YET does nothing after getting evidence of clear unethical behavior by insipid pet columnist DAVID BROOKS: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Wendy Kloiber / @wendykloiber: Lauren Wolfe was fired by the @nytimes for tweeting “Chills” when she saw Biden's plane land on Inauguration Day. I would like to subscribe to the Times. They keep making it impossible. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel W. Drezner / @dandrezner: This story shows how the pen can be sharper than the sword. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
@blackamazon: His nest egg is just how big? The trust is just how gone ? And how much was he given that wasn't provided to young POC and other initiatives while they “worked this out” https://twitter.com/...
Julia Carrie Wong / @juliacarriew: my dude resigned from the wrong job https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: This series of reports by BuzzFeed on David Brooks is a damning expose of undisclosed conflicts-of-interest. But the NYT continues to treat it — not as a serious ethical breach — but as something that can be cleaned up with a few disclosures https://twitter.com/...
David Gura / @davidgura: David Brooks, who is fond of opining on ethics, behaves unethically. The New York Times will continue to pay Brooks to opine on ethics. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Mat Honan / @mat: Brooks also falsely stated that “the Aspen Institute is completely transparent about who the donors are, and so we released the donors.” Ultimately, the Aspen Institute didn't release its 2018 figures until asked by BuzzFeed News.
Mat Honan / @mat: Over the past 24 hours, BuzzFeed News discovered new evidence of potential conflicts. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
@exavierpope: “'She said [David]Brooks resigned his position at Aspen and will remain a volunteer for the project, called Weave. 'Going forward The Times will disclose this unpaid relationship'l - Was there a buyout of David Brooks? Because I doubt he just chose to stop receiving checks https://twitter.com/...
Philip Gourevitch / @pgourevitch: Isn't the compromised work he should resign from the print and broadcast news gigs - not his private sector racket? https://twitter.com/...
Craig Silverman / @craigsilverman: We just updated our story about David Brooks resigning from the Aspen Institute with the full list of funders for the project he led there. It includes billionaires, financiers, and companies Allstate, Facebook, M&T Bank, Walmart, and Nextdoor. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Craig Silverman / @craigsilverman: BREAKING: David Brooks has resigned from his position at the Aspen Institute following our reporting — and new revelations — about conflicts of interest between the star NYT columnist and funders of a program he led for the think tank: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Alan Rusbridger / The Guardian:
Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger apologizes to Maíria Cahill for a 2014 Greenslade piece, says he's “let down” by Greenslade's silence on IRA sympathies — This newspaper's former media commentator should have been transparent about his sympathies
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Alan Rusbridger / @arusbridger: On the Guardian, Ireland, peace and transparency. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Piers Morgan / @piersmorgan: For 30yrs, the Guardian let its media commentator ‘Professor’ @GreensladeR take the high moral ground against journalists. Yet the whole time, the cowardly hypocrite was a secret supporter of the IRA & its murderous terror campaign. Shameful & disgusting. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ ... https://twitter.com/...
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BBC:
The Guardian apologizes to Irish pol Máiría Cahill for a story casting doubt on her rape claims, written in 2014 by Roy Greenslade, who secretly backed the IRA
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Michael Dickson / @michaeldickson: Roy Greenslade was also a signatory to the shameful letter denigrating Jewish students and supporting the Professor at the heart of the Antisemitism crisis at Bristol University, Prof. David Miller who is also published in.. The Guardian. https://twitter.com/...
@guardianopinion: Roy Greenslade's support for the IRA and the difficult questions it raises | Alan Rusbridger https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Piers Morgan / @piersmorgan: BREAKING: Former @guardian editor Alan Rusbridger issues public apology for allowing his long-time IRA terror-loving media pundit Roy Greenslade to shamefully smear an IRA rape victim in the paper. The scandal grows. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Freedland / @freedland: “I will make no apologies for the Guardian's role in, correctly, believing that peace was possible at a time when many not only doubted it but worked actively to frustrate the attempts to achieve it.” @arusbridger on Ireland, the Guardian & Roy Greenslade https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Mark Little / @marklittlenews: “There was no “republican cell” pulling editorial strings. We did journalism. And, in the end, we were right: peace was possible.” https://twitter.com/...
Elaine Byrne / @elainebyrne: Alan Rusbridger on the solid reporting by the Guardian during the Northern Ireland conflict. On Roy Greenslade: “I am sincerely sorry to Maíria Cahill, both for the article and for the upset it must have caused her.” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: I'm"not alone among his former editors[in]feeling let down by Greenslade for leaving it until his retirement to place on public record his sympathies for the armed struggle" @arusbridger says. “But I will make no apologies for[believing]peace was possible” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Piers Morgan / @piersmorgan: Wow. Greenslade smeared a rape victim in his Guardian column, to appease his IRA terror heroes. This is turning into one of Fleet Street's worst ever scandals. Yet still the paper's fearless columnists stay silent... and his long-time Editor @arusbridger feigns ignorance. https://twitter.com/...
Ann Travers / @anntravers6: Just how could he not have known ? It was obvious to us , IRA victims. https://twitter.com/...
Emily Kate / @bucketsof_rain: Poor Alan. Knows everything except the one thing that everyone knew. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/...
Ann Travers / @anntravers6: This is great . Now @GuardianComms can you issue an apology to the IRA victims whom your employee Roy Greenslade insulted, hurt and traumatised by justifying their loved ones murder while justifying the IRA. Thank you. https://twitter.com/...
Stephen Nolan / @stephennolan: Breaking : The Editor in Chief of the Guardian Katharine Viner has issued an apology to Maria Cahill stating “I can only apologise again that Roy Greenslade's article was not handled appropriately in the first place.”
Guardian Comms / @guardiancomms: @StephenNolan Hi @StephenNolan - just to let you know The Guardian's readers' editor has published an update on the original article concerned, which you can read here: https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Matthew Moore / The Times: Ex-Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger claims ignorance of Roy Greenslade's IRA support
Bloomberg:
Sources: CNN and NYT are collaborating on a multipart documentary series about Rupert Murdoch, with a goal of releasing it in 2022 — CNN and the New York Times are collaborating on a multipart documentary series about Rupert Murdoch, according to people familiar with the matter …
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A.J. Katz / TVNewser: Report: CNN, New York Times to Team Up on Docuseries About Rupert Murdoch and His Media Empire
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: The project started with the NYT Magazine story about Murdoch, written by @jimrutenberg and @jonathanmahler. They are involved in the series. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
@business: Two of Rupert Mudoch's biggest competitors have teamed up to tell his story https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Good. It is time that media turn its attention to the cancer within, Murdoch. I wish, too, that the BBC's series would come to US screens. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Jack Shafer / Politico: The incredible shrinking Fox News
Jacob L. Nelson / Nieman Lab:
News orgs' focus on audience engagement exposes journalists to abusive comments from readers, an aggravation compounded by a lack of guidance on how to respond — They're just telling them, 'You suck and you're ugly and you're biased and your hair sucks.'"
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NCA / @natcomm: Many news outlets are taking audience participation and feedback seriously. In @ConversationUS, @Cronkite_ASU Prof @jnelz argues that this engagement can have a downside: “dark participation” or the abuse of journalists through social media. https://theconversation.com/ ... #news #media
Henrik Ornebring / @henrikornebring: Today's good read - worth a look if you're interested in “audience engagement” in journalism and what it means https://twitter.com/...
@conversationus: Engaging with readers allows journalists to better understand their communities, but on the other hand, some in the public can be cruel (by @JNelz of @ASU) https://theconversation.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@niemanlab: “They're not reaching out to these people with story ideas. They're just telling them, 'You suck and you're ugly and you're biased.'” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Jane Singer / @janebsinger: At its best, engagement shows audiences that journalists are real people who work hard to provide trustworthy info. But as new book @jnelz shows, sometimes user ‘input’ is more about telling journalists they're ugly, biased and have bad hair. https://www.niemanlab.org/... @NiemanLab
@niemanreports: “They're not reaching out to these people with story ideas. They're just telling them, 'You suck and you're ugly and you're biased.'” From @niemanlab: Audience engagement sometimes leaves journalists feeling worse about their readers than they did before. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
@localnewsini: @jnelz, who interviewed Chicago Tribune journalists for his book “Imagined Audiences: How Journalists Perceive and Pursue the Public,” writes: “Audience engagement sometimes leaves journalists feeling worse about their readers than they did before.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
@spj_tweets: “As newsrooms continue the difficult work of deciding how best to restore the public's trust in their reporting, they would do well to consider not just the opportunities that audience engagement presents, but its risks and challenges as well.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
@niemanlab: Audience engagement guidance is informal, often coming after the fact. After sending one “smart-ass” reply, one columnist got an email from their editor: “Please don't pick fights with the readers.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Coral by / @coralproject: Audience engagement is important. But asking journalists to engage without training or strategy can be opening them up to abuse, says @jnelz https://www.niemanlab.org/... We completely agree. Some guidance here: https://guides.coralproject.net/ ...
American Press Institute: Need to Know: March 5, 2021 — OFF THE TOP — You might have heard: In a 2020 survey …
Michael Socolow / @michaelsocolow: Excellent @jnelz piece in @ConversationUS on how journalists can be set up for abuse when their employers push (without clarity) for social media engagement. Anybody who's spent time on @twitter has seen this first-hand. Glad to see it discussed here. https://theconversation.com/ ...
Pat Saperstein / Variety:
In an Instagram post, HFPA commits to making “transformational” reforms, including hiring an independent diversity expert to consult on its membership policies — The Hollywood Foreign Press Association issued a statement on Instagram Saturday evening, promising “transformational change” …
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@variety: Time's Up has responded to the HFPA's commitment to reform the organization, saying “The right words are not enough. The clock is ticking” https://variety.com/...
The Daily Free Press:
Unpaid, long hours at student newspapers are deterrents for low-income students and POC, perpetuating the cycle of poor minority representation in newsrooms — As with many other demanding extracurriculars, committing to your student news organization means having journalism assignments sprawled across …
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Poynter, @krixiasinq, @jtmstream, @niemanlab, @stefanoschen, @danamo, @hbottemiller, @aaja, @mariemyungoklee, @parker_purifoy, @samanthajgross, @trevorhughes, @edmundlee, @stephennellis, @dailyfreepress, @doristruong, @namshine, @angela_y_yang, @eliothiggins, @rasmus_kleis, @michellemanafy, @julie_madsen_, @not_gabriela, @anniekate28, @haleylerner, @ethan4books, @isabelcowens, @dailyfreepress, @_abbyneff, @natalierbett, @kamirieck, @thenewsan, @thefilmgoer, @crebsemily, @meghanbobrowsky, @_kerijohnson, @saba_h, @mariekshan and @kerrymflynn
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Krixia Subingsubing / @krixiasinq: I know the journalism industry was not built for me. I also know I want to be part of its evolution. When I'm at the end of my career, my greatest hope is to say goodbye to a newsroom full of people who genuinely relate to the gamut of their readers. https://www.poynter.org/...
JournalismThtMatters / @jtmstream: Reporter from a low-income, working-class background tells her story to illustrate significant barriers to entry in the news industry. https://www.poynter.org/... via @Poynter @SPLC
@niemanlab: “Making the field more accessible will not only help more readers, viewers and listeners feel represented, but it may save an unstable, beleaguered industry.” https://www.poynter.org/...
Stefanos Chen / @stefanoschen: Great essay that really highlights all the hurdles lower-income students face when entering journalism. Our newsrooms need to reflect these experiences https://twitter.com/...
Danyel Smith / @danamo: this is def to be read https://twitter.com/...
Helena Bottemiller Evich / @hbottemiller: 100% this: “To move toward more equitable newsrooms, employers who have the means must offer only paid internships, and recruiters must invest in applicants from community colleges and lesser-known state schools because a shiny brand name is not the best determinant of ability.” https://twitter.com/...
@aaja: “I know the journalism industry was not built for me. Because of this, I also know I want to be part of its evolution.” by @Angela_Y_Yang for @Poynter Read: https://www.poynter.org/...
@mariemyungoklee: to read + contemplate; I am not low income + the way I did my unpaid journalism internship was when I was doing a summer internship at a NYC bank that was nearby ! The journo one thus was secondary — https://twitter.com/...
Parker Purifoy / @parker_purifoy: “The lack of pay and long hours can be a major deterrent for low-income students and students of color, perpetuating the cycle of little to no minority representation and leadership in newsrooms.” https://twitter.com/...
Samantha J. Gross / @samanthajgross: Really strong editorial today from @dailyfreepress. I think often of the privilege I had to work at the FreeP for years (full-time, unpaid) to get the experience that propelled me into my career. It's problematic, and it comes from the journalism industry.https://dailyfreepress.com/ ...
Trevor Hughes / @trevorhughes: Accurate. “This constant working is normalized and often glorified in the industry, but it shouldn't be.” I remember losing friends and relationships over my commitment to the @dailyfreepress, and sadly that ethos carried into my professional career for YEARS. https://twitter.com/...
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: “I'm a young reporter from a low-income, working-class background. Sometimes, I ask myself why I'm still charging so eagerly into an industry that seems intent on pushing me away,” @Angela_Y_Yang writes in this must-read essay: https://www.poynter.org/...
Stephen Nellis / @stephennellis: I hope editors in every elite newsroom reads this piece by @Angela_Y_Yang. This is still the most pressing issue in journalism - the job requires a fancy degree and accepting low/no pay to get a foothold, which screens for wealth and reproduces wealth inequality across media. https://twitter.com/...
@dailyfreepress: We are proud of @Angela_Y_Yang as always and grateful for the sacrifices our staff often make for the sake of independent student journalism https://twitter.com/...
Doris N. Truong / @doristruong: Read this by @Angela_Y_Yang. Her experience is not uncommon for journalists or the people we cover. And she's absolutely right: Interns must be paid, and someone's school doesn't determine their potential. https://www.poynter.org/...
Nam Kiwanuka / @namshine: “In the wake of proliferating misinformation, a free press provides a public service that's more important than ever, yet newsrooms across the country fail to represent the people they cover.” https://twitter.com/...
Angela Yang / @angela_y_yang: The journalism industry is rife with barriers to entry from the start. I come from a family that lives below the U.S. poverty line and know firsthand how inaccessible the field can be. So, I wrote about it for @Poynter. https://twitter.com/...
Eliot Higgins / @eliothiggins: One of the reasons I was very impressed to hear about the work of @studentvieworg, and why I think teaching online open source investigation skills to younger people to focus on local issues and connecting them to our community could be so valuable. https://twitter.com/...
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: “Journalism's high barriers to entry drive out talent from marginalized groups at a time when the field can least afford it” @Angela_Y_Yang writes, “systemic issues are prevalent in every white-collar field, but they harm journalism perhaps more than most” https://www.poynter.org/...
Michelle Manafy / @michellemanafy: Journalism is a public service. So why doesn't it represent the public? For aspiring journalists from low-income backgrounds, systemic industry barriers compound from the start. @Angela_Y_Yang @Poynter https://www.poynter.org/...
Julie Madsen / @julie_madsen_: absolutely loved this piece!! back when I was an assist ed, I barely had time to eat my freaking lunch between classes, editing, and my campus job. It was my entire life. (1/2) https://twitter.com/...
Gabby Velasquez / @not_gabriela: Very brave and mature perspective to take on this problem. One of the first lessons I had to learn in the workplace after college was that you NEED to have work/life balance in order to stay in this industry long-term. https://twitter.com/...
Annelise Wells / @anniekate28: this is so important - please give it a read. as a news editor and eventual editor-in-chief of a college paper, i barely ate anything, slept ~5 hours if i was lucky, and was still taking 13-17 credits while earning very little for my 50+ hours of work. (1/2) https://twitter.com/...
Haley Lerner / @haleylerner: I love @dailyfreepress with all my heart — but the strain my time in editorial positions took on my mental & physical health was immense. Today's editorial from our eboard highlights how the toxicity of the journalism industry starts in college newsrooms. https://dailyfreepress.com/...
@ethan4books: This! My year in management for a student newspaper ruined my mental and physical health and almost pushed me out of the industry completely https://twitter.com/...
Isabel / @isabelcowens: Yes!! SO glad we are talking about this. If we want to improve student newsrooms for future editors we need to stop glorifying exhaustion and stress and be honest about our own experiences https://twitter.com/...
@dailyfreepress: EDITORIAL | Student newspapers are a vital institution on college campuses, but they still fall victim to the failures of the journalism industry — further perpetuating inaccessibility and toxicity. https://dailyfreepress.com/...
Abby Neff / @_abbyneff: Wow. My eyes filled with tears while reading this. Thank you @haleylerner for articulating that toxic habits often start in campus newsrooms. https://twitter.com/...
Natalie Bettendorf / @natalierbett: Student journalists (past and present): @eileentoh_ and I are looking to speak with you about emotional/mental burnout in your newsrooms. We're assembling an online mental health toolkit geared towards college journalists! Please DM us if you have thoughts or stories to share https://twitter.com/...
Kami Rieck / @kamirieck: While serving as an editor at my student newspaper, I had to work an extra job at the library to pay my tuition bill. Yet I was told, “You do not get special treatment.” I hope this editorial actually marks a good faith towards change. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Susan Gonzalez / @thenewsan: I vividly remember putting the college paper to bed while I was sick with pneumonia b/c I was taught that you just have to do this job for the ~love of it~ no matter the price. I now realize how toxic that advice is. We need to do better for the next gen of journalists. 👇 https://twitter.com/...
Matt Brennan / @thefilmgoer: I remember wearing early mornings, late nights, and lunches in the Daily Trojan office as a badge of honor when I was an editor. If I'd had @dailyfreepress' prescience, I might've realized it was the the start of a long, thorny relationship to (over)work. https://dailyfreepress.com/...
Emily Crebs / @crebsemily: This is a must-read editorial. Thank you @dailyfreepress for verbalizing the student journalism struggle so well. https://twitter.com/...
Meghan Bobrowsky / @meghanbobrowsky: I don't think I've ever been more exhausted in my life than when I was editor-in-chief of @TSLnews. College journalists do amazing work on top of going to school full-time. But it definitely takes a toll on your health. A must-read from @haleylerner and @dailyfreepress https://twitter.com/...
Keri Johnson / @_kerijohnson: “The lack of pay and long hours can be a major deterrent for low-income students and students of color, perpetuating the cycle of little to no minority representation and leadership in newsrooms. It takes a certain privilege or sacrifice ... to work for school newspapers.” https://twitter.com/...
Saba Hamedy / @saba_h: I love the FreeP but it def. took a mental+physical toll. I sometimes slept in newsroom to avoid walking alone @ 2 a.m when we finished.Please consider donating to @dailyfreepress Editors' Equity Fund, which gives editors reimbursements for basic expenses they incur on the job. https://twitter.com/...
Feven Merid / Columbia Journalism Review:
Profile of Marc Lacey, who runs NYT's Live coverage, a constantly updating stream of news as stories break; he holds a prominent spot among NYT Black leaders — In recent weeks, ever since Marc Lacey started running the Live platform at the New York Times, Sandy, his labradoodle, has been getting more walks.
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@cjr, @simonowens, @kerrymflynn, @cjr, @cjr, @marclacey and The New York Times Company, Thanks:@fevenmerid
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@cjr: Marc Lacey talks running NYT Live, diversifying the paper's staff, and feeling like an air traffic controller: https://www.cjr.org/...
Simon Owens / @simonowens: The New York Times has invested a lot of resources into what is essentially live blogging — getting breaking news up onto the website before it's fully formed and reported out. https://www.cjr.org/...
@kerrymflynn: Obsessed with this lede by @FevenMerid Since taking over NYT's Live news section, @marclacey walks his dog a lot more Great development for Sandy, the labradoodle 🐕❤️ https://www.cjr.org/...
@cjr: .@marclacey: “I've worked on past efforts to diversify the Times, and this one seems different in that we're being frank about where we are and laying out specific plans.” https://www.cjr.org/...
@cjr: .@FevenMerid talks with @marclacey on running NYT Live, diversifying the paper's staff, and feeling like an air traffic controller https://www.cjr.org/...
Marc Lacey / @marclacey: Although this team will help the newsroom with live coverage, here's a little secret: everyone at The Times is a member of the Live Team. Covering breaking news as it's happening is becoming a fundamental part of our DNA.
Thanks:@fevenmerid
Tom Stites / Nonprofit Quarterly:
Reader-owned news co-ops like The Devil Strip in Akron, OH, offer a chance of success for local news sites in places where existing approaches struggle or fail — It's a perfect civic storm: Our battered democracy is as fragile as it has been since the Civil War, trust in crucial institutions is in tatters …
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Larry Kaplan / @kaplanlarry: Why building a more democratic #economy matters to America's #nonprofits & the continued growth of community-based #journalism cooperatives — 2 trend pieces from Nonprofit Quarterly: https://ow.ly/... https://ow.ly/...
Tom Stites / @tomstites: The case for the news co-ops that democracy needs to ensure informed electorates in news desert communities. Thanks to #Nonprofitquarterly for inviting me to write it! https://nonprofitquarterly.org/ ...
Nonprofit Quarterly / @npquarterly: “In an era of rampant distrust, journalism needs this. Democracy needs this.” How digital news co-ops are the future: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/ ...
Michael Anderson / @npmichael: So interesting and exciting! A New Business Model Emerges: Meet the Digital News Co-op - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly https://nonprofitquarterly.org/ ...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: Baffling that more local news startups haven't adopted the co-operative model. Here's @tomstites — who knows more about this than anyone — with the goods on why they should, in “A New Business Model Emerges: Meet the Digital News Co-op” — https://nonprofitquarterly.org/ ...
Lauren Harris / Columbia Journalism Review:
Since March 2020, when the Tow Center started tracking newsroom cutbacks due to COVID-19, 66 outlets have shut down and the shift away from print accelerated — In March of 2020, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism began tracking newsroom cutbacks in the wake of the pandemic.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post: The media plays a crucial role in battling vaccine misinformation. But here's what not to do.
@sulliview: Playing ‘whack a mole’ with every crazy vaccine myth is counterproductive. My column on best (and worst) practices for media in the vaccine rollout. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
David M. Perry / @lollardfish: “The more you say some outrageous thing is not true — ‘No, Bill Gates is not microchipping you!’ — the more you give people the key words” that will send them down the social media rabbit hole of misinformation, she told me. “You're giving it oxygen.” https://twitter.com/...
Timothy Caulfield / @caulfieldtim: #Ugh: “Our data demonstrate that Donald Trump, before his profile was suspended, was the main driver of vaccine misinformation on Twitter.” “The anti-vaccination #infodemic on social media: https://dx.plos.org/... by @fedgermani et al. HT @CANImmunize #ScienceUpFist!
Vivian Schiller / @vivian: Another must-read from @Sulliview. And if you want more, here's my Friday piece in @CJR with top ten list for news organizations on reporting vaccine narratives. Informed by both public health and mis/disinfo experts. https://cjr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Alan C. Miller / @alanmillernlp: The news media can help combat vaccine hesitancy by “relentlessly providing accurate, nuanced information and answering questions straightforwardly,” @Sulliview writes. It should not spend “too much energy debunking myths” about the vaccines. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Arielle Zionts / @ajzionts: We need to find a solution to papers shutting down or shriveling to their former selves. This is horrible for communities and accountability. https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Dawes / @nicdawes: A map of eroding information infrastructure https://www.cjr.org/...
EJ Dionne / @ejdionne: “There are no precise figures tallying the number of media layoffs, but the New York Times offered an ‘imperfect, but good estimate’ that as many as 37,000 media workers may have experienced layoffs, furloughs, or lost pay amid the pandemic.” https://twitter.com/...
@niemanlab: The tracker's map tells part of the story of journalism's ongoing crisis: an upheaval that hurt newsrooms, journalists, and—by straining journalism's margins—the communities that those newsrooms and journalists are charged to serve. https://www.cjr.org/...
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Bloomberg Media is adding paid tiers to its free virtual events, with features like networking opportunities, book talks, and trial subscriptions — Like many publishers, Bloomberg Media had to adapt its events business by pivoting to putting on virtual events last year, when the pandemic brought an end to in-person gatherings.
Discussion:
@niemanlab: Bloomberg Media's freemium model for events is an opportunity to bring audiences closer to Bloomberg's content, journalists and stories — virtually right now, but eventually in-person too. https://digiday.com/...
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
The Marshall Project is testing allowing readers to send articles to people in prison by mail, postage paid, in partnership with nonprofit Ameelio — We all know the traditional social share buttons — email this, tweet that, etc. — but The Marshall Project has a new one at the top of their most recent article.
Discussion:
Kevin O'Keefe / @kevinokeefe: The @MarshallProj, a nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system is experimenting with snail mail to reach incarcerated people in addition to all of its digital channels. https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Ameelio / @teamameelio: Very excited to launch our partnership with @MarshallProj, connecting incarcerated people with News Inside. Read here from @SarahScire @NiemanLab https://www.niemanlab.org/...
@niemanlab: We all know the traditional share buttons — email this, tweet that, etc. — but @MarshallProj has a new one. Send this article to a loved one in prison via snail mail. https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Adriana Lacy / @adriana_lacy: Very smart and cool experiment — The Marshall Project is experimenting with snail mail to reach incarcerated people https://www.niemanlab.org/... via @NiemanLab
Maurice Chammah / @mauricechammah: The latest technological innovation at @MarshallProj is...sending letters in the mail. Because that's often still the only way to share journalism with incarcerated people: https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Nicholas Jackson / @nbj914: You can now send @MarshallProj stories through the mail: https://www.niemanlab.org/.... Another great idea from the Marshall Project, which has done lots of creative distribution, like this print publication specifically for those in prison: https://www.themarshallproject.org/ ....
Jim MacMillan / @jimmacmillan: New social sharing button offers readers the opportunity to “mail this story to your loved one in prison.” The Marshall Project will cover the cost of postage. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
@spj_tweets: “The specifics of this particular experiment also mean...our journalism will come from a trusted source, a loved one outside of prison, which will hopefully make people all the more likely to engage,” @elankiderman noted. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Ariel Goodman / @arielgoodman_: Finally, together w @Nikki_Lew @elankiderman @setarehbaig, we partnered w @teamameelio to create a way for people to send the article to incarcerated loved ones via mail. @MarshallProj covers the cost of postage! Learn more in @NiemanLab @SarahScire https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Emily Lund / @egracelund: “We all know the traditional social share buttons — email this, tweet that, etc. — but The Marshall Project has a new one at the top of their most recent article. Send this article to a loved one in prison via snail mail.” https://www.niemanlab.org/... via @NiemanLab
Leah Todd Lin / @leahktodd: I'm thinking a lot about creative ways people discover #localnews in today's information overload. A new example from @MarshallProj caught my eye. Q's to ask: What am I covering? Who might be interested in this? How could I help that person find my story? https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Marisa Sarnoff / Mediaite:
Nielsen: by the end of February, Newsmax lost 51% of its total day audience since its peak the week of November 16, more than losses at CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News — Following its post-election ratings surge, right-wing network Newsmax has seen its ratings drop, losing more than half of its total …
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@jaspersbeard, @libcajunfishtit, @zaleskiluke, @edbott, @frankconniff, @tommatzzie, @therealhoarse, @joshtpm, @joshtpm, @cablenewswatch, @tvnewshq and The Desk
Discussion:
I Tweet Freely / @jaspersbeard: I'm still amazed that Trump gave his first public speech since Jan 6th last weekend and it barely registered https://twitter.com/...
@libcajunfishtit: This is great news! The deculting begins. Uninformed voters are reverting back to prior disinterested nonvoters as I predicted with my fingers and toes crossed. Now we just need to keep the newly awoken engaged and PUSH. https://twitter.com/...
Luke Zaleski / @zaleskiluke: Were they stolen?!? https://twitter.com/...
Ed Bott / @edbott: You really ... (sorry, I can do this) You really hate to ... (explodes in laughter) ... see it (collapses, crying) https://twitter.com/...
Tom Matzzie / @tommatzzie: Maybe attacking Biden's dog wasn't such a good idea https://twitter.com/...
@therealhoarse: Narcissists only maintain their hold for as long as they can control the flow of information. Trump has no pulpit. He has no microphone. And their is no succession in narcissistic cults. The flock doesn't pass to the next narcissist. It splinters. https://www.mediaite.com/...
Josh Marshall / @joshtpm: More seriously, this seems like a good measure of Trump's declining salience, relevance. Without his Twitter account and presidency, Trump can't keep pushing viewers from Fox to there and absent his berating Fox can get back its sea legs. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Marshall / @joshtpm: It's hard to have a new government to overthrow every few months. https://twitter.com/...
@cablenewswatch: Greg Kelly's ratings are in half... yet Fox News Primetime yesterday did about what The Story with Martha did when Greg was doing over 1M Not much has changed at FNC .... and Gowdy won't be the answer https://twitter.com/...
Katherine Rosman / New York Times:
Mobile payments company Square is buying a “significant majority” stake in music streamer Tidal for $297M; Jay-Z and others bought Tidal in 2015 for $56M — What did Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey talk about when they went yachting around the Hamptons together last summer? Perhaps only Beyoncé knows.
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@avichal, @paulrieckhoff, @jack, On my Om, @om, Medicated Musings, Fintech Today, Ignition Lane's Weekly Wrap, @laurengoode, Trillium, @hackapreneur, Applied Science, @melt_dem, @heminator, @paulbohm, @mcclure111, @victorpopejr, @adamnash, @darkolewis, @pkafka, @jkaraian, @brandonstosuy, Complete Music Update, @markstenberg3, @seyitaylor, @jack, @square, @adamsinger, @cheriehu42 and @pkafka
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Avichal Garg / @avichal: Twitter -> BlueSky Square -> Bitcoin rails + Tidal NFTs @jack's companies are the best positioned of any public companies for the Internet as it will be https://twitter.com/...
Paul Rieckhoff / @paulrieckhoff: This is right. In the end, Dorsey paid to add Jay to his team. Which at $297M, is a bargain. “Why did Jack Dorsey buy Tidal, Jay-Z's failed music service?” https://www.vox.com/... via @pkafka
@jack: Square is acquiring a majority ownership stake in TIDAL through a new joint venture, with the original artists becoming the second largest group of shareholders, and JAY-Z joining the Square board. Why would a music streaming company and a financial services company join forces?!
Om Malik / On my Om: Is Tidal worth Jack?
@om: Is Tidal worth Jack? Some thoughts on @square buying @TIDAL I am in the “oh really camp” but there is a lot of the acquisition that makes sense. I explain in this blog post. https://om.co/...
Musings / Medicated Musings: 02. Buzz ETF, Jack as a Service, Jay-Z's Big Month, Nick Sleep, more Creator Economy
Ignition Lane / Ignition Lane's Weekly Wrap: Weekly Wrap #38: Jay-Z & Jack, Rocket Lab SPAC and Bond is Back
Lauren Masks Are Goode / @laurengoode: “[It] wouldn't be the first time someone in a boring business has spent a lot of money to sidle up to an entertainment business. In fact, that dynamic is a core feature for Hollywood.” https://www.vox.com/... via @pkafka
Justin Wu / @hackapreneur: Square + Tidal Music = ???? Crypto, NFT, Music play? What's in the works? https://twitter.com/...
Jon Tanners / Applied Science: Applied Science #7: Independent as F*ck
Meltem Demirors / @melt_dem: hova getting orange pilled by Jack is so hella bullish tho https://twitter.com/...
Mark Hemingway / @heminator: Really excited to see what new synergistic ways for artists to be deplatformed they come up with! https://twitter.com/...
Paul Bohm / @paulbohm: With Clubhouse likely introducing micropayments to creators/mods later this year and Square getting serious about creator compensation (Jay-Z on Square board), you can expect big changes in revenue models across all social media. https://twitter.com/...
Mcc / @mcclure111: I switched away from Spotify to TIDAL to avoid funding the company that was funding Joe Rogan, but now TIDAL is owned by Bitcoin freaks or something so uhhhh hm. https://twitter.com/...
Vic / @victorpopejr: Since u finna own a piece of tidal u finna let us put music on our pages? Or like auto play a song when somebody enlarge a tweet ? https://twitter.com/...
Adam Nash / @adamnash: This focus on artists is smart @Square. They are a big enough to confirm the market, just like when Amazon bought Whole Foods. Of course, that ended up confirming the market for @Instacart. Feeling even more bullish about @Milana & the @Stem team now. https://stem.is/ https://twitter.com/...
Lewis Darko / @darkolewis: Everyone is so obsessed with being the biggest name in the game that they forget this guy bought it for $56m and sold for $297m + a board seat at Square. https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Blogged my tweets. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Karaian / @jkaraian: Square is buying a big stake of Tidal for about $300m in cash and stock. The $50m in bitcoin that Square bought in Oct '20 alone is now worth more than $230m, and Square's market cap has grown by $20bn since then, too. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@brandonstosuy: people overcomplicate things. if you just pay the artists, you don't need all these mergers and “north stars” and timelines and “five year plans.” https://twitter.com/...
Andy Malt / Complete Music Update: Jay-Z sells “significant majority” of Tidal to Jack Dorsey's Square
Mark Stenberg / @markstenberg3: this is exciting! the creator economy is arguably helping out a lot of different kinds of creators — writers, podcasters, chefs, sex workers, teachers, etc. — but no one has been able to meaningfully improve the financial fares of musicians maybe this accomplishes that? https://twitter.com/...
@seyitaylor: YES! Asking artists on your app to only make money from streams when you have a direct relationship to their listeners is insane! Glad @jack sees the vision. https://twitter.com/...
@jack: TIDAL started with the idea of honoring artists by being artist-owned and led, focused on an uncompromised experience of the art. It's refreshing and right. The vision only grows stronger as it's matched with more powerful tools for artists, inclusive of new ways of getting paid.
@square: Artists are entrepreneurs, like the sellers we have served since our beginning. Welcome to the team, @TIDAL. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Singer / @adamsinger: This is big news. As I shared with my NFT experiment this week the pain point has always been economics for musicians online suck. They just do. If we want a world with 10x more art (and we do!) we need better incentives. Products that make it easier greatly help us get there. https://twitter.com/...
Cherie Hu / @cheriehu42: one theme of the week is streaming underdogs potentially leading the way for the rest of the music industry in fintech/payment innovation https://twitter.com/...
RELATED:
Protocol:
With Tidal, Square may give artists more control over the revenue streams they create, offer advances, royalty processing, and more traditional label services
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@bossbaeb, @protocol, The Saturday, @gtewallace, @owenthomas, @jank0, @protocol and @protocol
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@bossbaeb: Why did Jack Dorsey buy Tidal, Jay-Z's failed music service? https://www.vox.com/... Well this is super cool. I hope Jack incorporates Tidal into Twitter someday from independent artists
@protocol: After Square announced that it now has a bank, the company then said it was taking a majority stake in Tidal, the music streaming service backed by Jay-Z, for $297 million. *Miley Cyrus voice* what does it MEAN https://www.protocol.com/...
The Saturday: The Saturday - 3/6/21 Edition — I used to lament the fact that markets are closed on weekends …
Greg Wallace / @gtewallace: “If there's a theme around the moves, it's control. Having its own bank gives Square *more purchase* in the financial world.” https://www.protocol.com/... I just started reading @protocol , and not disappointed. I do love me some good turn of phrase
Owen Thomas / @owenthomas: From a new bank charter to a deal with Shawn Carter, @benpimentel, @tomiogeron and @jank0 explain @jack Dorsey's busy week: https://www.protocol.com/...
Janko Roettgers / @jank0: Why Square bought Tidal, and what else @jack has been up to: https://www.protocol.com/...
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