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Taylor Lorenz / New York Times:
Creators are monetizing through hyper-specific revenue streams like NewNew, which lets fans pay to vote to control a creator's day-to-day decisions — Digital stars are coming up with new ways to make money. Yet fans still hold the power. — A rash of new start-ups are making it easier …
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Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: Why does @TaylorLorenz's new story fill me with dread? https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: “Sure, it's fun to control a famous influencer or celebrity, but it's honestly just as entertaining to control someone you go to school with, or your boyfriend's ex-girlfriend” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Emily Dreyfuss / @emilydreyfuss: The benefits of offloading every decision to strangers: absolves you of responsibility and makes you rich. Honestly, sounds momentarily freeing. https://twitter.com/...
Arielle Pardes / @pardesoteric: This latest @TaylorLorenz story, about the lengths creators will go to sell themselves online, is amazing. It reminds me of an older story, about a man who used the internet to sell control of his life, much like the 15-year-old quoted here. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kendall Ostrow / @kendallostrow: If you want to know where Celebrity culture is headed, track the creator economy. What digital creators are doing today, Hollywood stars will be doing in a few months (or years). These aren't fads or trends. This is the future of the talent business. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sara Luterman / @slooterman: Calling this “late capitalism” is optimistic, because the operative assumption is that something better comes after. https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Felder / @jessefelder: 'NewNew, a start-up in Los Angeles, describes its product as creating a “human stock market.” On the app, fans pay to vote in polls to control some of a creator's day-to-day decisions.' https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brooke Hammerling / @brooke: I don't know. If someone wants to pay me to decide how I dress I feel like this would help me a lot because I'm so lazy I just wear leggings and sweatshirts so if someone pays me and then tells me what to wear I'm in. 😎 https://twitter.com/...
Josh Elman / @joshelman: The great shift to see here is how fans are paying for entertainment directly to the celebrities and influencers they like https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kilar / @jasonkilar: Interesting dive into the creator economy. Thank you @TaylorLorenz. The creator economy is changing so fast and in ways that I think are ultimately productive. https://twitter.com/...
@pfpicardi: Endlessly fascinated by Taylor's pieces but DAMN this one is a doozy. It's like we are all Sims??? https://twitter.com/...
Zack Honarvar / @zackhonarvar: Creators aren't just creative with their content — they're also innovative in their approach to building revenue streams. This does a great job highlighting these new business models and showcasing the limitations that exist in order for creators to go completely direct to fan. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Rosenberg / @heyrosenberg: One of the best articles on how creators monetize. Taylor is also a good follow for all this stuff. https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Annemarie Navar-Gill / @annienavar: This is dystopian, distressing, and I have so many questions about the types of and uses for the data generated in such an absolute hellscape https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: “We're building an economy of attention where you purchase moments in other people's lives, and we take it a step further by allowing and enabling people to control those moments.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Next up: People being paid by their “fans” to lose weight, gain weight, etc. https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: What's interesting to me is that creators I spoke to found monetizing daily aspects of their lives LESS stressful than doing ad deals. It's way easier to charge $ for stuff ur already doing (hanging w/ friends, eating lunch) than having to produce sponcon https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ryan Broderick / @broderick: This is just the plot of the movie Gamer https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Harris / @itskyleharris: This is exactly why I'm cutting out all social media. This company NewNew is allowing people to basically become real life Sims. It's disgusting and terrifying. Stay of social media, kids.. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: “It doesn't matter how boring you think you are, there's someone out there who would find your life interesting to the point that they're willing to pay.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dr. David Shiffman / @whysharksmatter: I do not count as an influencer other than in a super narrow niche, but if someone wants to pay me money in exchange for them figuring out for me what I'm eating for lunch today, I can think of worse problems. @TaylorLorenz https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: “Sure, it's fun to control a famous influencer or celebrity, but it's honestly just as entertaining to control someone you go to school with, or your boyfriend's ex-girlfriend.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: NEWS: I wrote about all the crazy and inventive ways creators are monetizing, including letting fans pay $$ decide what they wear, who they hang out with, where they go, and what they do https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Sharman / HoldtheFrontPage:
UK's Society of Editors issues a clarification after 200+ journalists of color criticize its denial of Prince Harry's claim that UK media is “bigoted” — The Society of Editors has moved to respond to criticisms from journalists over its defence of the national tabloid press following …
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The Guardian, Press Gazette, @hackneyabbott, paulwiltshireblog, @pressgazette, @archiebland, @vivian, RemoteAccessBar, @archiebland, @mwolferobinson, @davidallengreen, @monisha_rajesh, @meghamohan, @jakubkrupa, @miqdaad, @david_conn, @archiebland, @bizpears, @jeffjarvis, @markpack and HuffPost UK
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette: Bigoted UK press? Guardian and FT editors call for reflection in industry
Diane Abbott MP / @hackneyabbott: Media industry still in denial about institutional racism #blacklivesmatter https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Paulawiltshire / paulwiltshireblog: Defending the vast majority of journalists and journalism means acknowledging that some of what our trade does is unacceptable
@pressgazette: Evening Standard editor Emily Sheffield joins Guardian, FT, i and Huffpost editors to speak out: “We were not consulted about The Society of Editors' statement and it did not reflect our views on these vital issues” https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Archie Bland / @archiebland: Latest on @CharleneWhite stepping down as presenter of Press Awards after Society of Editors suggested racism in media not a thing. A new statement today from board backing off that view did not persuade her that the original remarks could be overlooked: https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Vivian Schiller / @vivian: Too little too late https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Scott-Joynt / RemoteAccessBar: 2021iii10, Wednesday: Will the press ever change?
Archie Bland / @archiebland: Latest on Society of Editors stepping back from claim racism in the media isn't a thing. Some on board still feel it hasn't gone far enough, and considered resigning last night. Others say this is as far as you can go with board consensus required. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Maya Wolfe-Robinson / @mwolferobinson: There are now 236 journalists of colour who have signed this letter in response to the original statement from the Society of Editors https://haroon-siddique.medium.com/ ...
@davidallengreen: Many stupid things in law and media are described as ‘robust’ https://twitter.com/...
Monisha Rajesh / @monisha_rajesh: I signed. No more gaslighting. https://twitter.com/...
Megha Mohan / @meghamohan: Great to see @EditorsUK board refuting idiotic statement made by executive director that there was no bigotry in the British media. More than 160 journalists of colour have called his statement proof of “an institution & an industry in denial”. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Jakub Krupa / @jakubkrupa: “The Society of Editors has said a statement it issued saying there was no racism in the British media failed to reflect reality, and stepped back from its defence of the coverage of the Duchess of Sussex after members of the board threatened to resign.” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Miqdaad Versi / @miqdaad: More than 160 journalists of colour from across the British media have described a claim by the Society of Editors that racism was never a factor in coverage of the Duchess of Sussex as “laughable” proof of “an institution and an industry in denial”. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
David Conn / @david_conn: Society of Editors has now revised its statement that racism played no part in the Meghan coverage, after protests from many journalists of colour, some editors, and senior people on its board. Report by @archiebland. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Archie Bland / @archiebland: 167 journalists of colour sign letter saying the Society of Editors' statement that there's no racism in the British media is ‘laughable’, Guardian and FT eds @KathViner and @khalafroula also disagree, and board member says ‘tone deaf’: https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Elizabeth Pears / @bizpears: Completely support this. The Society of Editors does not speak for me. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Classic reflexive racist defensiveness. Step 1: “Us, racist? Why, no, let us tell you how not racist we are.” Step 2, below: “Uh, yes, but we do have a lot of work to do.” Step 3, coming: “Watch us fix this because we have the power to fix everything. We will start a committee.” https://twitter.com/...
Mark Pack / @markpack: It's hard not to wonder if the chief of the Society of Editors perhaps doesn't actually read any newspapers when he comes out with stuff like this... https://twitter.com/...
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Sarah Turnnidge / HuffPost UK:
ITV news anchor Charlene White quits as host of National Press Awards following the Society of Editors' widely ridiculed claim that the UK media is “not racist” — Exclusive: Loose Women panellist calls out media organisation for its assertion that the UK press is “not racist”.
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Charlene White / @charlenewhite: Yep, that's right... https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ ...
J. Clara Chan / The Wrap: Will UK Tabloids Face a Reckoning Over Meghan Markle Coverage?
David Lammy / @davidlammy: Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Thank you @CharleneWhite 👏🏿👏🏿 👏🏿 https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ ...
Stan Collymore / @stancollymore: Another fine broadcaster and journalist taking a stand as she always does. Bravo @CharleneWhite 🙌🏽 https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: Charlene White Quits As Host Of Press Awards Over Society Of Editors' Racism Statement | HuffPost Life >> meanwhile back in the UK... https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ ...
Afua Hirsch / @afuahirsch: What solidarity looks like https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ ... @CharleneWhite 🔥
Stephen Bush / @stephenkb: Excellent and brave statement by @CharleneWhite: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ ...
@pressgazette: New: ITV's Charlene White has quit as host of @EditorsUK Press Awards being held virtually on 31 March. She says it needs a host “whose views align with yours: that the UK press is the one institution in the entire country who has a perfect record on race” https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ ...
Maya Wolfe-Robinson / @mwolferobinson: “Here's the thing. I only work with organisations who practise what they preach. My time is precious, so I'd rather not waste it.” https://twitter.com/...
Henry Mance / @henrymance: “I only work with organisations who practise what they preach.” https://twitter.com/...
Andrea Byrne / @andreabyrnetv: There is a lot of talk on here this morning about freedom of speech, but not much about due impartiality and the Ofcom code. For those that don't know, news programmes in the UK are regulated by this code.
Georgie Bingham / @georgiebingham: Well done you. Nothing gets done about the ‘nothing to see here’ attitude until people take physical steps to highlight it. https://twitter.com/...
Jess Brammar / @jessbrammar: “I'm not yr personal Google. I am a Black woman who has consistently stood up for what she believes in, irrespective of impact it wd have on my career.” @CharleneWhite quits as host of Society of Editors' Press Awards with an explosive statement https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ ...
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Jennifer Lyons, NewsNation VP of news, has resigned effective immediately, the third top editor to quit as some staff complain of the network's rightward shift — The highest ranking editor at NewsNation, a newcomer to cable news that markets itself has delivering “straight-ahead, unbiased news reporting,” has resigned.
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The Desk, TVSpy, Robert Feder, @rebeccaaguilar, @katie_robertson, @jeremyadamross, @kirkjim12, @robertfeder, @mattlindner, Chicago Tribune, The Hill and Daily Herald
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Matthew Keys / The Desk: Another news executive departs NewsNation, exposing further rifts at Nexstar's news channel
A.J. Katz / TVSpy: Nexstar Media's NewsNation Sees 3 Top Editorial Execs Resign, Including VP of News
Rebecca Aguilar / @rebeccaaguilar: Another news exec walks out on @NewsNation. @nytimes investigation revealed top execs wanted to turn it into a conservative news station by hiring former @FoxNews exec. This is BAD PR for @NexstarNetwork #journalism https://www.robertfeder.com/ ...
Katie Robertson / @katie_robertson: NEW: A third top editor has left NewsNation and the company's CEO defended the program in a meeting today after our report on the staff tumult. Of Bill Shine, he said: “Why would we not avail ourselves of his expertise?” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeremy Ross / @jeremyadamross: This is bad. Jen is fantastic. News VP Jennifer Lyons quits NewsNation - Robert Feder https://www.robertfeder.com/ ...
Jim Kirk / @kirkjim12: Will be hard to recover from this. @WGNJen is A top-flight TV news executive. News VP Jennifer Lyons quits NewsNation - Robert Feder https://www.robertfeder.com/ ...
Robert Feder / @robertfeder: This just in: Resignation of News VP Jennifer Lyons @WGNJen culminates exodus of top news management from @NewsNationNow: https://www.robertfeder.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Matt Lindner / @mattlindner: This New York Times story about NewsNation isn't a surprise to anyone who has regularly been reading @RobertFeder. Still, yikes. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune: Jennifer Lyons, VP of news at NewsNation, quits struggling Chicago-based cable news network
Thomas Moore / The Hill: Cable news startup NewsNation loses third top journalist
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Court dismisses a defamation suit brought by Trump's campaign against NYT for 2019 op-ed that claimed a quid pro quo existed between Trump and Russian officials — A New York State judge ruled that the opinion essay at the center of the suit was constitutionally protected speech.
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New York Daily News, Media Nation, The Hill, MediaPost, @sduncovered, Hollywood Reporter, @oliverdarcy, @mmcintire, Law & Crime and Forbes
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Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News: New York Supreme Court tosses Trump defamation lawsuit against NYT
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation: The Trump campaign lost its libel suit because it really did collude with Russia
Mychael Schnell / The Hill: State court tosses Trump defamation suit against NYT
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: Court Dismisses Trump Campaign's Defamation Suit Against NY Times
Matthew T. Hall / @sduncovered: Trump loses again in court, this time in a constitutionally protected speech case that went the media's way. Good. https://twitter.com/...
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: Donald Trump Loses Libel Suit Against N.Y. Times
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “We should not tolerate libel suits that are brought by people in power intending to silence and intimidate those who scrutinize them...” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mike McIntire / @mmcintire: “We should not tolerate libel suits that are brought by people in power intending to silence and intimidate those who scrutinize them” — David McCraw https://www.nytimes.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube says more than 120M Americans streamed YouTube and YouTube TV on their TVs in December 2020, up from 100M in March 2020 — YouTube is again touting the living-room TV as the fastest-growing screen in its device matrix, angling to get more advertisers to spend money on the platform.
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Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost: YouTube's Mohan Touts Trends Redefining Video Ads, Surges On CTV At IAB's ILM
Mollie Cahillane / Adweek: YouTube, Already a Connected TV Titan, Looks to Grow Even Further
Brian Albert / The Keyword: As CTV viewership surges, YouTube is people's Main Stream
Bloomberg:
Bipartisan group of US lawmakers re-introduce a bill that will let news organizations negotiate collectively with Google, Facebook, and others — - News media could band together under bill to bargain with tech — Australia law marked a major victory for news publishers
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Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost: U.S. To Introduce Bill Making Google, Facebook Pay For Publishers' Content
Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:
BuzzFeed announces layoffs at HuffPost, affecting 47 US employees, three weeks after acquiring the site from Verizon Media; HuffPost Canada will close — BuzzFeed acquired HuffPost from Verizon Media in February. — BuzzFeed announced layoffs for the HuffPost newsroom on Tuesday …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo: On HuffPost's Layoffs — According to press reports, HuffPost, which was recently acquired by Buzzfeed …
@huffpostunion: Today, we learned that 33 of our unit members — nearly 30% of our unit — are being laid off. Our union's statement: “We are devastated and infuriated, particularly after an exhausting year of covering a pandemic and working from home.” (1/x) https://twitter.com/...
Samantha Beattie / @samantha_kb: Without telling us they've shut down our site. https://twitter.com/...
Jenna Amatulli / @ohheyjenna: A thread of incomparable reporters laid off from HuffPost today who you, an esteemed media organization, should scoop up immediately: 1/
American Press Institute: Need to Know: March 10, 2021 — OFF THE TOP — You might have heard: The truth is paywalled …
Steven Perlberg / @perlberg: Layoffs hitting HuffPost today, weeks after it was acquired by BuzzFeed: - 47 staffers in the US - exec editor Hillary Frey and international exec editor Louise Roug have decided to leave - closing HuffPost Canada - consultations on slimming down UK/ Aus https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Katie Robertson / New York Times: BuzzFeed lays off 47 HuffPost workers weeks after acquisition.
Emma Gray / @emmaladyrose: Today I got laid off at HuffPost, after a decade of work I am so incredibly proud of. I am one of 47 of my deeply, beautifully, funny and talented and wonderful and kind colleagues who lost their jobs today. I'm the most sad that we can't all hug each other. (Also... hire me?)
Sebastian Murdock / @sebastianmurdoc: there's simply no way our new corporate overlords could ever be THAT evil I said two hours ago like a dipshit https://twitter.com/...
Ron Nurwisah / @boyreporter: A hard tweet to write. I'm one of the journalists affected by the HuffPost layoffs. Want to give a 👏 to everyone who helped build @HuffPostCanada especially @yumke who hired me. And a 🙌 to @gabigailgilliam @MikeElliotBarry and the rest of my team for being so amazing in 2020
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian: BuzzFeed lays off 47 HuffPost workers less than a month after acquisition
Jon Schwarz / @schwarz: The layoffs at HuffPost are terrible. But this was baked in when the company was founded with money from venture capitalists and private equity. That's why it got sold to AOL, and then Verizon. Journalism was never profitable in the past, it isn't now, and it never will be.
@huffpostunion: (2/x) “This is also happening less than a month after HuffPost was acquired by BuzzFeed. We never got a fair shot to prove our worth.”
Kelsey Mckinney / @mckinneykelsey: every single media layoff story is as disgusting and predictably inhumane as you expect it to be and yet every single time i am shocked https://defector.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Steven Perlberg / Insider: BuzzFeed is making layoffs at HuffPost weeks after it acquired the company
Tom Jones / Poynter: Piers Morgan walks off then walks away
Jennifer Bendery / @jbendery: Still processing how painful today was for HuffPost. Some exceptional reporters and editors, not to mention exceptional people, are now on the market. Hire them. https://twitter.com/...
Taryn Finley / @_tarynitup: Extremely frustrated, saddened and disappointed to see so many of my talented HuffPost colleagues laid off today. They have taught me so much and it has been such a joy to work alongside them. Hire them. And unionize your newsrooms. I can't stress that enough. https://twitter.com/...
Keri Leigh Merritt, Ph.D. / @kerileighmerrit: Just psychologically, downright cruel. https://twitter.com/...
Jacob Soboroff / @jacobsoboroff: Seconding this, and pulling for my former colleagues and friends at @HuffPost after this absolutely crappy news. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Barro / @jbarro: 47 layoffs might save about $4 million, before restructuring costs and lost revenue from reduced editorial product. Peretti said he wants to break even this year instead of losing $20 million. That math does not seem to pencil, unless there's a big strategy to grow revenue. https://twitter.com/...
Donie O'Sullivan / @donie: This is high on the fucked-up scale. https://twitter.com/...
@sulliview: Tons of talent among those being laid off at HuffPost. I hope every hiring news org is taking a hard look. And I'm so sorry to hear this gutting news, especially after so much good work in the past year. https://twitter.com/...
@cmclymer: I cannot recommend enough that news outlets hire @emmaladyrose. The influence of her reporting on a variety of topics over the past decade has been simply extraordinary. She's a fair and incredibly talented journalist. Any outlet would be lucky to have her. https://twitter.com/...
David Infante / Fingers: Media industry still butt; bar-tab Venmo still deficient
Kim Bhasin / @kimbhasin: BuzzFeed laid off many of the longest-tenured staff at HuffPost. They stayed through all the regimes and created something great despite the endless BS. People like @emmaladyrose, @EmilyRPeck, @rklein90, @quasimado, @ClaireEFallon & @RealGirlProject - They built that newsroom. https://twitter.com/...
Samantha Beattie / @samantha_kb: I will be publishing my story I was writing this week about climate change... somehow. Maybe on a blog?
Jo Yurcaba / @joyurcaba: Solidarity to all the incredible HuffPost reporters/editors laid off today (as someone who was laid off a month into the pandemic). If you have any LGBTQ+ pitches, I'd be happy to consider them - email is in my bio.
Sarah Miller / @sarahmillerdc: Mergers and layoffs go hand-in-hand, and not just in media. Under previous antitrust regimes, layoffs were just another “efficiency.” With a merger boom just over the horizon, the connection between M&A and layoffs needs to be part of the conversation. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jesse Winter / @jwints: Shuttering newsrooms on the heels of a union push that sought basic respect and support for journalists should be illegal. Instead it's all too familiar https://twitter.com/...
Maham Abedi / @mahamabedi: HuffPost Canada was home to some of the brightest, kindest and most passionate journalists in our country and they simply deserve better. I have no doubt they'll find it. Forever grateful to them and for the newsroom that took a chance on me seven years ago. It's a sad day. https://twitter.com/...
Sara B. / @sara_bee: Although HuffPost has struggled financially for several years, some staffers criticized the lack of resources expended to promote the site and its content under Verizon Media. “We never got a fair shot to prove our worth,” the union said. https://www.huffpost.com/...
Claire Fallon / @claireefallon: well! just found out that after ten years at huffpost, i'm being laid off.
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: “there is one CEO who for years has utterly failed to both run a profitable company and treat his employees with even a modicum of human dignity when he is forced to throw their lives in the trash on a yearly basis. That man is Jonah Peretti” https://discourseblog.com/...
Ryan McCarthy / @mccarthyryanj: Newsrooms lost ~17k jobs last year. This, after 10+ years of working through cuts and consolidation, 2 recessions and a pandemic. That this many talented journalists could be out of work is a market failure. The industry has to do better for its workers. Hire them: https://twitter.com/...
Mariam Ahmed / Talking Biz News: BuzzFeed announces layoffs for HuffPost staffers
Maya Kosoff / @mekosoff: sometimes i miss working in journalism full time but then a media company seems to deliberately choose the cruelest, most stress-inducing way to lay off several dozen people and my nostalgia evaporates https://twitter.com/...
Sara Nelson / @flyingwithsara: Devastating. And we stand with you, @HuffPostUnion. But no doubt the union made even the worst conditions better for the people doing to the work at @HuffPost. And the union fights on. #1u https://twitter.com/...
Alex Berg / @itsalexberg: This is devastating. HuffPosters have done such amazing work over the years and deserve so much better after a year of working through a pandemic. https://twitter.com/...
Ariel Edwards-Levy / @aedwardslevy: After nine years at HuffPost, I am unfortunately saying goodbye to my incredible colleagues. I'm so proud of the work we've done. If you're looking to hire someone who loves writing about public opinion, good data and awful puns, please get in touch.
Jessica Schulberg / @jessicaschulb: i'm absolutely shaking with rage - this is a bloodbath and we've been at buzzfeed for less than a month. we don't even have an EIC yet. there was no effort to work with the union to avoid/mitigate job loss during a pandemic https://twitter.com/...
Jack Crosbie / @jscros: here's a blog about the people in charge, and specifically one guy who keeps finding new ways to fuck up https://discourseblog.com/...
Anna Silman / @annaesilman: @peretti you'll pay for our mandatory government hotel quarantine back in canada right?
Anna Silman / @annaesilman: now instead of taking his first vacation in a year because, lol, spr!ngisH3re!, he'll be on the phone to immigration lawyers seeing if he can stay in the country that has been our home for almost a decade.
Anna Silman / @annaesilman: after a hellish year spent reporting on the front lines of a pandemic, my partner and i were looking forward to things finally getting a little brighter over the next few months. plus, after giving 7 years of his life to huffpo, they were finally going to get him his green card!
Anna Silman / @annaesilman: in addition to every other entirely fucked up thing, huffpo laid off several international employees who depend on the company for their visa — during a pandemic, with no warning. this is tantamount to destroying not just someone's livelihood but their whole life. i am livid.
Kim Bhasin / @kimbhasin: BuzzFeed made its layoffs a live reality show reveal. Staff were told 47 of them would be laid off, but they'd have to wait to find out if they were included. If they didn't receive an email by 1 pm then their jobs were safe. https://defector.com/...
Kaz Weida / @kazweida: This is unconscionable. There's no need to inflict this kind of suffering. https://twitter.com/...
Anne T. Donahue / @annetdonahue: This is so fucking disrespectful and disgusting. I'm appalled and absolutely not shocked. https://twitter.com/...
Erin Strout / @erinstrout: Cruel. https://twitter.com/...
Penny Riordan / @pennyriordan1: @boyreporter @HuffPostCanada @yumke @gabigailgilliam @MikeElliotBarry I've been there twice, after both Patch/AOL and GateHouse/Gannett. You'll find somewhere amazing to land, no doubt. But first, take a break, get some rest, and take some time!
Andrew Losowsky / @losowsky: If you want an expert on social, email, audience - Ron is your man. This is a rare opportunity to pick up one of the best. https://twitter.com/...
Tim Carney / @tpcarney: I have been reading “The Price of Peace” by @zachdcarter. It's been an education, yes, but it's been a joy. Zach is an excellent writer who grips you with his storytelling prose. HuffPo let him go today, so buy his book. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/ ...
Emily Dreyfuss / @emilydreyfuss: Anyway, I want to say “hire all the talented journalists who got laid off today!” But our industry is so imperiled, as are so many others, that what we really need is a much broader restructuring of our priorities as a society
Emily Dreyfuss / @emilydreyfuss: People working to help others, with a sense of purpose and mission, so often are the least valued by our capitalist system. Doctors might appear to be the exception, but...
Sebastian Murdock / @sebastianmurdoc: as an aside, in the future maybe don't have the password to your massive layoff blindside meeting be a variation of “spring is here”
Rebekah Entralgo Fernndez / @rebekahentralgo: Deeply evil. Solidarity with @HuffPostUnion https://m.huffpost.com/...
Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner: For more on this really awful news, BuzzFeed cut roughly a third of the HuffPost newsroom, per this: https://www.huffpost.com/...
Ed Zitron / @edzitron: if this is about buzzfeed not having the profits to sustain huffpo, then perhaps they shouldn't have acquired them in the first place
Jesse Raub / @jesseraub: @edzitron i'm pretty sure the losses are related to HuffPost only and he's saying that the meager profits at BuzzFeed can't cover those HuffPost losses, technically. still extremely monstrous and horrible.
Max Burns / @themaxburns: My heart goes out to the 47 fantastic reporters and producers laid off from Huffington Post today. It's a brutal time for a brutal industry, so please consider hiring some of these great voices. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Pitcavage / @egavactip: There are some good reporters there. :( https://twitter.com/...
Ruth Ben-Ghiat / @ruthbenghiat: Solidarity with all of these wonderful journalists. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Serwer / @adamserwer: A shame to see so many great reporters laid off. There's a tremendous amount of talent on this list. https://twitter.com/...
Anthony DeRosa / @anthony: 47 people laid off today from @HuffPost Take a look at some of the names in the thread, a lot of talent that could help improve your newsrooms.... https://twitter.com/...
Carli Velocci / @velocciraptor: Wait, Carli, why is there a journalism to PR pipeline? Why are so many people leaving journalism? 🤔 https://twitter.com/...
Michael Hobbes / @rottenindenmark: I don't want anyone to feel obligated to support the podcasts because of this. I'm lucky to have side projects to fall back on but a lot of people who just lost their jobs don't have that safety net. I'll add more links later but for now buy them a beer! https://twitter.com/...
Michael Hobbes / @rottenindenmark: I'm Michael Hobbes, I'm no longer a reporter for HuffPost... https://twitter.com/...
Eric Michael Garcia / @ericmgarcia: I am just going to say, when I was a nobody college student who was visiting D.C. for my spring break, @jeffyoung invited me to the HuffPost D.C. office and treated me as an equal. This is absolute bullshit. https://twitter.com/...
Nora Biette-Timmons / @biettetimmons: I'm collecting money for those who want to buy laid off HuffPost journalists a beer or seven. Get me on Venmo @ Nora-Biette-Timmons
@psychichealerc: @biettetimmons I think they should open their own online news thing. All of them together.
Andrew Hill / @andrewhhill: @PsychicHealerC @biettetimmons A la defector
Eric Michael Garcia / @ericmgarcia: I am but a humble country reporter who doesn't understand business. But it seems to me that vulture corporations hollowing out publications of their best reporters is an incredibly short-sighted move. Good journalism begets eyeballs that beget money.
Jessica Schulberg / @jessicaschulb: i'm not unit chair (we don't have one) but yes this is legit! https://twitter.com/...
@huffpostcaunion: We have been told this decision was made before our organizing effort and is not linked to our unionizing. Still, it is even more devastating in the wake of the hope and optimism we had following a strong union drive.
@huffpostcaunion: Today is a sad day. This morning, we found out that BuzzFeed will be shutting down operations of HuffPost Canada and Quebec next week. All of our staff are now out of a job.
@huffpostcaunion: HuffPost Canada consistently punched above our weight and did vital, important journalism in Canada. We stand in solidarity with our colleagues in the U.S. and the U.K. who are experiencing layoffs of their own. It is a sad day for journalism.
Michael Calderone / @mlcalderone: Incredible amount of talent heading out the door. https://twitter.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: Really bummed to hear about the BuzzFeed / HuffPo layoffs. If you've been affected and want to chat about building a career in journalism on your own terms, my DMs are open 💪
@latguild: This is awful news. Solidarity with our colleagues at @HuffPost, who deserve better. https://twitter.com/...
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: Breaking my Twitter fast in solidarity with my colleagues at @HuffPostUnion unceremoniously laid off today. If you know of open news positions, please post below. If there is a way @IBWellsSociety can help, please reach out to me directly. https://twitter.com/...
Alexander Kaufman / @alexckaufman: Nauseating. Some of the best people in the business — some of the closest and most impressive friends I've made as an adult — just lost their jobs and a secure paycheck in a time of economic upheaval. HuffPost will be weaker without them. I envy the newsrooms that hire them. https://twitter.com/...
Dave Jamieson / @jamieson: This bargaining unit used to have over 250 members. https://twitter.com/...
Jenna Wortham / @jennydeluxe: the continued gutting of the media is so devastating and hunger gamesian; solidarity to huffpo journos and their efforts to unionize to prevent this *exact* thing from happening https://twitter.com/...
Andrea Gonzlez-Ramrez / @andreagonram: will media companies ever learn how NOT to lay people off in the cruelest way possible https://defector.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Manny / @mannyfidel: huffington post employees had to type “spring is here” to get into a meeting where they were told that they were fired https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Kaplan / @sarahkaplan48: Buzzfeed acquired HuffPo just a couple of months ago. It's enraging to see vital news organizations bought up and gutted before they even have a chance to prove their value. And we can't even blame Alden for this one. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg: The decision to lay off people should be the last resort, a brutal decision that should weigh on those who have to tell people they've lost their livelihood and not turned into a game. Why would anyone want to work at a place that treats people like this? https://defector.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Alex Kotch / @alexkotch: How is Buzzfeed any better than a private equity vulture firm? https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Rivera / @jmrivera02: there's a baseline way to do this humanely, and it's a choice to be this fucking disgusting when firing people for reasons that are almost always bullshit https://twitter.com/...
Eric Geller / @ericgeller: Every depraved psychopath responsible for this should be permanently excommunicated from this industry. Don't know if this was an executive-level thing or an HR department thing, but whoever it is, they lack even a shred of humanity. https://twitter.com/...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: A HuffPost staffer and union member tells Defector: “...the fucked-up way that they announced this notwithstanding, this is a just bloodbath for an award-winning international newsroom full of absolutely stellar journalists who didn't deserve this.” https://defector.com/...
Female Body Respector / @theepicdept: Capitalism rocks. Just the most efficient system where news media all combines into one amorphous blob while people just keep losing their jobs https://twitter.com/...
Andy Campbell / @andybcampbell: It's another godawful day for journalism. 47 HuffPost workers in the U.S. will lose their jobs today. https://www.huffpost.com/...
@kerrymflynn: I interned at HuffPost in 2015 and I'm seeing on my TL so many of the incredibly talented people I worked with, the people who really helped build the site what it is today — focused on deeply reported, impactful, accountability journalism — have been let go. So awful
Michael / @unprovoked_: @thewayoftheid I wonder if this management style is something Peretti learned from Andrew Breitbart when they all were co-founding the Huffington Post.
Kelsey Mckinney / @mckinneykelsey: we have lost hundreds of talented good journalists because of greed and a lack of imagination. we have a whole generation who have spent their whole working life worried and knowing that one day it will be their turn. What a fucking mess
Jill Krajewski / @jillkrajewski: huffpost canada workers unionized last month. this is so sad. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Jones / @onesarahjones: just thinking about the amount of time it took Jonah Peretti to recognize his staff union. no reason
Edward Ongweso Jr / @bigblackjacobin: the version of my thoughts that doesn't break TOS is that this is disgusting bullshit and it never seems to fucking end in this industry https://twitter.com/...
Brian Crecente / @crecenteb: How is it that companies remain so tone deaf about absolutely derailing people's lives? https://twitter.com/...
@samthielman: oh that's right. that's why I haven't been applying for staff jobs https://twitter.com/...
Steve Herman / @w7voa: Nearly 50 @HuffPost US staffers, including eight managers, losing their jobs and various international offices of the online news site “winding down.” https://defector.com/...
David McCabe / @dmccabe: The HuffPost newsroom is full of aggressive reporters and editors who are simultaneously some of the kindest people in the business. Outlets would be well-served by hiring the folks who are losing their jobs today. https://twitter.com/...
Julia Reinstein / @juliareinstein: The HuffPost team is so great and talented and they'd been so excited to keep doing outstanding journalism and prove their worth to BuzzFeed. I am so deeply sad that so many of them will never be given the chance. https://twitter.com/...
Addy Baird / @addysbaird: Just awful, awful news for everyone. The cherry on top, though: HuffPost Canada unionzed just last month. They were the only branch of HuffPost entirely shut down. https://twitter.com/...
Openly Black Studs Twerkel / @thewayoftheid: Didn't HuffPo Canada just unionize? Huh. Interesting. https://twitter.com/...
@harringtonbecca: Gutted to hear about the HuffPost layoffs. Talented writers + editors, get in touch! rharrington at insider dot com. We have lots of cool open positions - also happy to connect you with the hiring manager(s) if it's not on my team: https://www.linkedin.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Joe Berkowitz / @joeberkowitz: Working in digital media always feels a hair's breadth away from a blood bath. This blows. https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: In November, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah @peretti promised that he wouldn't cut BuzzFeed staff after buying HuffPost. Wouldn't make same promise re HuffPost. https://podcasts.apple.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Laura Wagner / @laurawags: According to a recording of the all-hands call obtained by Defector, Peretti told staffers that if they “don't receive an email” by 1:00 p.m. EDT then their jobs are safe. The password to join the call was “spr!ngisH3r3.” https://defector.com/...
@scaachi: Cuts this deep are brutal in any context but I would love if my company stopped wedging cutesy nonsense like this into an already unbearable process. https://twitter.com/...
Samantha Tomaszewski / @managewski: i am so heartbroken and devastated and angry for my huffpost colleagues https://twitter.com/...
Francis Whittaker / @frittaker: I see Jonah is still chasing that “fast-track to profitability” four years after he used the exact same doublespeak to justify cutting the jobs of me and dozens of my colleagues https://www.huffpost.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@kerrymflynn: BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti also announced the company is closing HuffPost Canada. All staff there are being let go, affecting 23 employees
@huffpostunion: (3/x) “These layoffs reiterate the importance of forming a union and advocating for our colleagues. We are glad that we are protected by a collective bargaining agreement and that our colleagues will receive severance.”
Sam Stein / @samstein: Huffpost, where I grew up professionally and to which i will forever have a deep emotional connection, is laying off 47 journalists today. I'm devastated for thse folks. https://www.huffpost.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: This is awful https://twitter.com/...
@dlberes: Feeling sick hearing about the staggering amount of talent being let go from HuffPost today. One of the best working experiences of my life. Amazing, gifted people. Please feel free to reach out to me via DM or damon@medium.com — we might be able to work together.
Emma Roller / @emmaroller: Jonah Peretti can S my D https://www.huffpost.com/...
Craig Silverman / @craigsilverman: The loss of @HuffPostCanada and @HuffPostQuebec is a huge blow to an already beaten down news industry in Canada. I'm devastated by this decision. https://twitter.com/...
Kerry Flynn / CNN: BuzzFeed lays off 70 HuffPost staffers in massive ‘restructure’ less than a month after acquisition
Shirley Chan / @shrlychn: having been involved in 2 layoffs and witnessing a total of 4 in this industry by the time I was 25, my heart goes out to my @HuffPost colleagues https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: Here is the story about Jeff Zucker joining the board of “Group Nine Acquisition Corp., the blank-check company looking to roll up other digital businesses with Group Nine Media”: https://variety.com/... And here's the story about today's layoffs: https://www.huffpost.com/...
Steven Perlberg / @perlberg: HuffPost's losses exceeded $20 million last year and would be similar this year without action, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti said in a meeting announcing the layoffs https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Jessica Floyd / TheGrio: Layoffs follow BuzzFeed's acquisition of HuffPost
Lucia Moses / Insider: Layoffs hit HuffPost
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post: BuzzFeed takes buzzsaw to newly acquired HuffPost
Jack Crosbie / Discourse Blog: Please, Fuck Off: BuzzFeed Sociopath Jonah Peretti
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: BuzzFeed Cuts 47 HuffPost Jobs After Acquisition
Mychael Schnell / The Hill: HuffPost laying off 47 after acquisition by Buzzfeed
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Longtime CBS News political correspondent Roger Mudd dies at 93 — Roger Mudd, a longtime CBS News political correspondent who reported on the Pentagon's profligate spending, whose interview with Edward M. Kennedy ended the senator's White House prospects and who briefly shared the anchor job …
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Robert D. McFadden / New York Times: Roger Mudd, Anchorman Who Stumped a Kennedy, Is Dead at 93
Bob Pickard / @bobpickard: This sad milestone a reminder of Mudd's legendary media interview encounter with Ted Kennedy which changed campaign history. Avoiding a ‘Roger Mudd moment’ is a key reason why interviewees need to be prepared, know why they are there, what to communicate: https://www.youtube.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@rasmussen_poll: R.I.P. Roger Mudd, rightful heir & successor to chair at The Evening News with Walter Cronkite. It was not to be. A good backgrounder in here from executive well known to us who reluctantly made the decision to appoint someone else. https://www.amazon.com/... https://twitter.com/...
King / @ebjunkies: Really sorry to see this. Some of the Mudds are dear family friends. Mr. Mudd would always have family & friends over for their annual Mudd Bowl Thanksgiving flag football game. I often talk about how I can't read a defense in these games when I play QB. Legend. RIP sir. 🙏 https://twitter.com/...
Joe Trippi / @joetrippi: I was a volunteer driver in Sen. Kennedy's motorcade the day the Mudd interview aired. Driving for CBS Reporter Susan Spencer and crew. Roger Mudd was more than a great anchor. He was a great reporter. That day changed my life. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mike Barnicle / @mikebarnicle: A very good man. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tom Sietsema / @tomsietsema: Years ago, I got a restaurant question via email from a Roger Mudd and I had to ask, “Are you THE Roger Mudd?” He replied, “Well, I *used* to be THE Roger Mudd. Now, I'm just hungry.” https://twitter.com/...
John Ziegler / @zigmanfreud: Interestingly, Roger Mudd was also a distant relative of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was famously implicated in the Lincoln Assassination (later pardoned) and who is the source for the phrase “your name is Mudd.” #RIP https://twitter.com/...
Brian Murphy / @murphmedia_: We've lost another journalism titan. A pro's pro who held the powerful accountable and wasn't afraid to call out the corporate bullshit of television news. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Lenore Riegel / @lenoreriegel: We sadly bid farewell to Roger Mudd, probing journalist & news anchor and descendant of the infamous Dr. Mudd. The Riegels knew him personally as one of the most intelligent students whom my kids' grandfather, Prof. O.W. Riegel, mentored at W&L University. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Bill Cameron / @billjcameron: I always remember how particularly proud Washington reporter #RogerMudd was that nobody could tell whether he was a Democrat or a Republican. How times change. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Varad Mehta / @varadmehta: He put one of many stakes in Ted Kennedy's presidential ambitions in the 1980 election. I only remember him from his NBC days, though. RIP. https://twitter.com/...
Brian McClung / @bmcclung: Sad to hear of Roger Mudd's passing. I was lucky to take a class from him in college (it was the only class I never skipped). As a @CBSNews alum he was thrilled when I got my 1st job, in the newsroom @WCCO. A great journalist & a class act. #RIPRogerMudd https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Bret Israel / @bretisrael: Fine newsman with sense of humor drier than a martini https://twitter.com/...
Josh Mankiewicz / @joshmankiewicz: Reporter, writer, interviewer. One of the greats. RIP https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@wa_cwc: We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Roger Mudd, legendary journalist and grandfather of our union sibling @ddumemma. 🌺 Our elders are precious and to lose one is a tremendous loss to our community. https://twitter.com/...
Mark S. Zaid / @markszaidesq: RIP #RogerMudd He died just one day after the 152nd anniversary of the release from prison of his distant relative Dr. #SamuelMudd, who was tied to the conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln. Roger's career was obviously far more notable! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@ddumemma: We had a special bond. I loved calling Rog w/ the inside scoop on the campaign trail. He mailed my every newspaper article that mentioned my candidates. When you're a campaign worker & Roger Mudd is your grandad, you make sure all your candidates have a worthy reason of running. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
John Thorn / @thorn_john: Fine obituary by @MattSchudel of the great Roger Mudd, with whom I did a baseball program in 1984 or so, at NBC. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Steven Portnoy / @stevenportnoy: A distinguished practitioner of Washington journalism, who covered the most important events of the second half of the 20th century for @CBSNews and @NBCNews. https://twitter.com/...
Summer Delaney / @summer_delaney: Had the honor of not only admiring Roger Mudd as a journalist, but knowing him as a loving grandfather and father to my dearest family friends. We lost an incredible legend today. https://twitter.com/...
Deborah Potter / @dpotternews: Sad to hear this. Among other things, Roger Mudd will be remembered for the simple question he asked that Ted Kennedy couldn't answer. https://twitter.com/...
Antonio Ferme / Variety: Roger Mudd, Veteran CBS and NBC News Correspondent, Dies at 93
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Networks prize advertiser deals that let them move money to streaming or digital inventory, despite cable TV ad CPMs of ~$10-12 vs. streaming CPMs of ~ $20-$30 — The traditional TV advertising business isn't what it used to be. With the erosion of the pay-TV subscriber base and the rise …
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Steve Olson / @steveolson: Here's where I think TV-first advertisers' brains are broken. Why wouldn't that :15 pre-roll ad be just as good as a :15 late night on Saturday? Show me that research. https://digiday.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Yahoo News is outpacing WaPo and others on TikTok, with 1.1M followers, by using a combination of partner footage, original reporting, and humor to deliver news — Picture Yahoo users and you probably envision a group that's older and a bit less digitally savvy than those relying on, say, Google's suite.
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@kerrymflynn: As @SarahScire notes, comments no longer exist on Yahoo News' site. But the newsroom loves to use comments on TikTok “It shows we're humans, we care about their lives, and what's relevant to their lives.” - @juliamunslow https://www.niemanlab.org/...
@kerrymflynn: “On TikTok, we are news for Gen Z delivered by Gen Z from the trusted Yahoo newsroom. What we've been able to do is provide that fact-based news, but inject an element of fun and engagement into it.” - Joanna Lambert, head of consumer at Verizon Media https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Angela Kim / @angelaishere: Yessss! @YahooNews write-up in @NiemanLab. So proud of the team and the amazing work @juliamunslow. (Also, that's my mom on the left in the thumbnail getting her COVID vaccine!!) https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Journalism Festival / @journalismfest: The @YahooNews TikTok account now has 1.1 million followers. Started by a 24-year-old special projects editor, it uses a combination of partner footage, original reporting, and tongue-in-cheek humor to deliver news | @SarahScire via @NiemanLab https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Thomas Colson / Insider:
Interview with GB News CEO Angelos Frangopoulos, who says UK's impartiality rules will not prevent it from becoming the country's first anti-"woke" channel — - Britain's newest TV news channel is causing a major stir in the UK, where broadcast news is required to be strictly impartial.
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Adam Bienkov / @adambienkov: Piers Morgan quits GMB. In other news, GB News' chief exec tells us they will soon announce some “surprising” hires... https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
J. Clara Chan / The Wrap:
Source: Teen Vogue removed an article sponsored by the Saudi Tourism Authority after it was posted to the site on Tuesday in “error” — Teen Vogue removed an article sponsored by the Saudi Tourism Authority after it was posted to the site on Tuesday in “error,” an individual with knowledge of the matter told TheWrap.
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Teen Vogue staffers air concerns over new EIC hire Alexi McCammond in a letter to Condé Nast management about her past anti-Asian and homophobic tweets
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Zaid Jilani / @zaidjilani: How exactly can the New York Times inform its readers about what's happening here without even printing the tweets in question? Readers fill in the blanks I guess? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Josh Barro / @jbarro: There is no requirement that the. NYT share a story about an adult's teenage tweets from the main social account. What is the news value here? https://twitter.com/...
Fashionista: ‘Teen Vogue’ Staff Members Issue Statement Condemning Newly Named Editor-in-Chief's History of Racism [Updated]
Aaron Royce / Daily Front Row: Alexi McCammond Issues Apology As Teen Vogue Staffers Express Concern Over Her Racist Tweets
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: Shared part of this above, but here's the full note @alexi sent to staff https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: Are people seriously suggesting that a young black woman should be fired because of (undeniably racist) tweets she posted a decade ago, as a teenager, that she has already apologized for, a while back? I mean, isn't changing, growing, evolving, regretting, part of being human? https://twitter.com/...
@uhshanti: you're allowed to sincerely apologize for something you said when you were functionally a child if you are genuinely contrite and committed to improve. you can't compare her to Adam Rapoport, a grown man who mismanaged an entire staff and editorial team https://twitter.com/...
Cenk Uygur / @cenkuygur: Did anyone meet with her or did they judge and condemn her sight unseen for what she wrote when she was 17? This isn't about Alexi McCammond, this is about mercilessly judging people before even giving them a chance. Conservatives overhype it but this actually is #CancelCulture. https://twitter.com/...
Seth / @sethisnotmyname: i'm biased because she's my former editor, but if it was wrong to cancel james gunn for tweets he apologized for & deleted years ago, it's wrong to cancel lexi for the same https://twitter.com/...
Katie Robertson / New York Times: Teen Vogue Staff Members Condemn Editor's Decade-Old, Racist Tweets
Michael Cohen / @speechboy71: Going out on a limb here and guessing that the actual tipping point was a 27 year-old with little editing experience becoming their boss https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Scott Nover / @scottnover: If leading a news organization at 27 without much editing experience seemed difficult before, well— McCammond has lost the newsroom before she's even started. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: And here's the note the company says @alexi sent to staff today https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Chantal Fernandez / The Business of Fashion: Teen Vogue Staff Publishes Letter Condemning New Editor in Chief's Past Tweets
Jenn Gidman / Newser: Old Controversy Reemerges for New Teen Vogue Editor
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