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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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@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/
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/ ...
Mariam Ahmed / Talking Biz News: BuzzFeed announces layoffs for HuffPost staffers
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?)
Katie Robertson / New York Times: BuzzFeed lays off 47 HuffPost workers weeks after acquisition.
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
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/...
Steven Perlberg / Insider: BuzzFeed is making layoffs at HuffPost weeks after it acquired the company
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.
William Turvill / Press Gazette: Buzzfeed makes Huffpost cuts across US, UK, Canada and Australia three weeks after takeover
@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.”
Todd Spangler / Variety: BuzzFeed Lays Off Dozens of HuffPost Staffers, Site Lost More Than $20M Last Year
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/...
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian: BuzzFeed lays off 47 HuffPost workers less than a month after acquisition
Samantha Beattie / @samantha_kb: I will be publishing my story I was writing this week about climate change... somehow. Maybe on a blog?
Claire Fallon / @claireefallon: well! just found out that after ten years at huffpost, i'm being laid off.
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.
@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
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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”
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/...
Michael Hobbes / @rottenindenmark: I'm Michael Hobbes, I'm no longer a reporter for HuffPost... 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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Carli Velocci / @velocciraptor: Wait, Carli, why is there a journalism to PR pipeline? Why are so many people leaving journalism? 🤔 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/...
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/...
Rebekah Entralgo Fernndez / @rebekahentralgo: Deeply evil. Solidarity with @HuffPostUnion https://m.huffpost.com/...
@psychichealerc: @biettetimmons I think they should open their own online news thing. All of them together.
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/...
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/...
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...
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!
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.
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/...
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/...
@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.
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/...
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/...
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
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/...
Keri Leigh Merritt, Ph.D. / @kerileighmerrit: Just psychologically, downright cruel. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Crecente / @crecenteb: How is it that companies remain so tone deaf about absolutely derailing people's lives? 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/...
Mark Pitcavage / @egavactip: There are some good reporters there. :( 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/...
Dave Jamieson / @jamieson: This bargaining unit used to have over 250 members. https://twitter.com/...
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/...
Ruth Ben-Ghiat / @ruthbenghiat: Solidarity with all of these wonderful journalists. 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/...
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
Openly Black Studs Twerkel / @thewayoftheid: Didn't HuffPo Canada just unionize? Huh. Interesting. https://twitter.com/...
Donie O'Sullivan / @donie: This is high on the fucked-up scale. https://twitter.com/...
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/...
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
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/...
Alex Kotch / @alexkotch: How is Buzzfeed any better than a private equity vulture firm? 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/...
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.
Andrew Hill / @andrewhhill: @PsychicHealerC @biettetimmons A la defector
@samthielman: oh that's right. that's why I haven't been applying for staff jobs https://twitter.com/...
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/...
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/...
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.
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/...
Michael Calderone / @mlcalderone: Incredible amount of talent heading out the door. https://twitter.com/...
Erin Strout / @erinstrout: Cruel. https://twitter.com/...
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.
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/...
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
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/...
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/...
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 💪
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/...
Sarah Jones / @onesarahjones: just thinking about the amount of time it took Jonah Peretti to recognize his staff union. no reason
@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.
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/...
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/...
Kaz Weida / @kazweida: This is unconscionable. There's no need to inflict this kind of suffering. 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/ ...
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/...
Anne T. Donahue / @annetdonahue: This is so fucking disrespectful and disgusting. I'm appalled and absolutely not shocked. https://twitter.com/...
Anna Silman / @annaesilman: @peretti you'll pay for our mandatory government hotel quarantine back in canada right?
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/...
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.
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.
@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.
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/...
Joe Berkowitz / @joeberkowitz: Working in digital media always feels a hair's breadth away from a blood bath. This blows. https://twitter.com/...
Jessica Schulberg / @jessicaschulb: i'm not unit chair (we don't have one) but yes this is legit! https://twitter.com/...
@latguild: This is awful news. Solidarity with our colleagues at @HuffPost, who deserve better. 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/...
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/...
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/...
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!
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/...
Jill Krajewski / @jillkrajewski: huffpost canada workers unionized last month. this is so sad. 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/...
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/...
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/ ...
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
Ryan Phillips / The Big Lead: BuzzFeed Slashes Jobs at HuffPost, Lays Off 47 Staffers
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
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/...
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/ ...
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/ ...
@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/...
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/...
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/ ...
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/ ...
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/...
Josh Mankiewicz / @joshmankiewicz: Reporter, writer, interviewer. One of the greats. RIP https://www.washingtonpost.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/...
Bret Israel / @bretisrael: Fine newsman with sense of humor drier than a martini 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/...
@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/...
Antonio Ferme / Variety: Roger Mudd, Veteran CBS and NBC News Correspondent, Dies at 93
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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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/ ...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Jeremy Ross / @jeremyadamross: This is bad. Jen is fantastic. News VP Jennifer Lyons quits NewsNation - Robert Feder https://www.robertfeder.com/ ...
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune: Jennifer Lyons, VP of news at NewsNation, quits struggling Chicago-based cable news network
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/ ...
Thomas Moore / The Hill: Cable news startup NewsNation loses third top journalist
Scott Jones / FTVLive: The Mess That is News Nation
Oliver Willis / @owillis: bill shine = “news” shit show. every time. his last big innovation was those weird direct-to-camera videos trump shot at the white house. didn't really work, but he tried. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Fox + Sinclair + WGN: the growing threat of right-wing media. Journalists Rebel at NewsNation, a Newcomer in Cable News https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rusty / @fka_tabs: Lol when Americans say “unbiased” we mean “tells me what I already know is true” https://twitter.com/...
Alex Weprin / @alexweprin: I still remember the CEO of Al Jazeera America giving me a tour of their expensive NYC studios and newsroom, telling us about the many studies they did about Americans desperate for an unbiased cable news channel. They tell pollsters they want it, but that's not what they watch! https://twitter.com/...
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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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/...
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime: Judge Throws Out Trump Campaign's Defamation Lawsuit Against New York Times Over Russia ‘Quid Pro Quo’ Op-Ed
Mychael Schnell / The Hill: State court tosses Trump defamation suit against NYT
Davey Alba / New York Times:
Research shows Epoch Media's ties to over a dozen sites pushing misleading information, even as social media companies take steps to limit misinformation — The company's ties to more than a dozen sites illustrate how conservative media companies are branching out after Facebook and Twitter began stiffer policing of false information.
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@dmccabe, @nytimesbusiness, @daveyalba, @daveyalba, @jordanliles, @columbiajournma, @cademetz, @daveyalba, @daveyalba and @daveyalba
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David McCabe / @dmccabe: “Epoch Media appears to be ‘anticipating a move by the bigger companies to push them off the more mainstream platforms,’ said Joan Donovan, the research director of Harvard University's Shorenstein Center” https://www.nytimes.com/... via @daveyalba
@nytimesbusiness: Epoch Media appears to be “anticipating a move by the bigger companies to push them off the more mainstream platforms,” said the research director of Harvard University's Shorenstein Center. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Davey Alba / @daveyalba: New: We found a network of websites linked to The Epoch Times—including, intriguingly, a bunch of sites set up as social media networks—showing how far right media orgs are casting a wider net in the face of crackdowns by mainstream platforms. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Davey Alba / @daveyalba: Youmaker is the biggest of the three; it draws 1.5M unique visitors/month. It powers the video backend on The Epoch Times website & also uses Google ads, which run ahead of videos. YouTube, meanwhile, had recently taken action against Epoch properties https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jordan Liles / @jordanliles: @daveyalba @BostonJoan These Epoch folks keep going and going, don't they? Here's more on our original investigation of The BL that led to its demise. 55 million followers and $9.5 million dollars in advertising spend. Facebook chose the Friday before Christmas for its removal. https://twitter.com/...
M.A. Columbia Journ / @columbiajournma: For @nytimes, @ColumbiaJournMA alum @daveyalba (MA Science '13) writes that Epoch Media's ties to more than a dozen sites illustrate how conservative media companies are branching out after Facebook and Twitter began stiffer policing of false information. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Cade Metz / @cademetz: “The websites illustrate how conservative media organizations that spread misleading information, facing crackdowns by the largest social networks, are casting a wider net to reach online audiences.” @daveyalba on Epoch, telling it like it is, as usual: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Davey Alba / @daveyalba: The websites include Youmaker (video platform that looks like YouTube), Sagebook (a cross between Twitter/FB; now dead but on Internet Archive), and a right-wing news aggregator called Right on Times. Plus a handful of other news sites. Full list here: https://docs.google.com/...
Davey Alba / @daveyalba: TL;DR Always listen to @BostonJoan, whose take is smart and correct on these things. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Davey Alba / @daveyalba: Why does this matter? Epoch has a track record of cloaking ties to websites and information operations that have been linked to its empire. It also outright denies the links when asked, in spite of technical info that platforms like Facebook can see. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
David Zurawik / Baltimore Sun:
A media critic who defended Fox News under Obama now says Fox is an admitted political tool and no longer deserves media perks like a seat in the WH press room — The dangerously anti-democratic behavior of former President Donald Trump and the slavish endorsement of it by Fox News …
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Scott Nover / @scottnover: Governments shouldn't determine what is or isn't a valid news organization. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Schultz / @ericschultz: there's going to be a growing conversation around reclassifying Fox as political propaganda. https://twitter.com/...
David Zurawik / @davidzurawik: Fox News embraces being a political tool and should be treated as such | COMMENTARY https://www.baltimoresun.com/ ...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: A media critic who defended Fox on free press grounds when the Obama Administration wanted to treat the network as the opposition says that since then Fox has betrayed the country and First Amendment values— and no longer deserves the respect he gave then. https://www.baltimoresun.com/ ...
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Twitter says Spaces, its social audio feature, will eventually allow hosts to natively record conversations, setting it up to be a direct funnel to podcasting — Turn them into podcasts — Twitter's social audio feature Spaces continues to expand its test group, but currently if you miss a live session …
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@mattnavarra: “...If you think that the conversation was worth playing back, you ought to be able to do that” - @kayvz. Head of Product, Twitter https://www.theverge.com/...
Ashley Carman / @ashleyrcarman: .@kayvz tells @reckless that twitter will eventually let people natively record spaces. sounds like a funnel to podcasting! and that's similar to the mark cuban / falon fatemi app fireside, which lets people record and also (soon) distribute over RSS https://www.theverge.com/...
José Adorno / 9to5Mac: Twitter exec addresses new Super Follow feature and sharing a 30% cut with Apple
Maria Halkias / Dallas Morning News:
Belo Corporation is seeking shareholder approval for a reverse stock split and a name change to DallasNews Corporation, as A.H. Belo was a Confederate colonel — A. H. Belo Corporation cites its founder's ties to the Confederate Army. — The parent company of The Dallas Morning News …
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Dave Lieber / @davelieber: Very proud of my company, the oldest continuously operating business in Texas, changing its legacy name from AH Belo (who was a Confederate colonel, to DallasNews Corp. https://www.dallasnews.com/...
@niemanlab: The company will ask shareholders in May to approve changing its name to DallasNews Corporation. A. H. Belo was a colonel in the Confederate Army before buying the newspaper company that traces its roots to 1842. https://www.dallasnews.com/...
Jerry Hawkins / @jerryleads: It's always a good thing to move on from the Confederacy, parent co. of @dallasnews. More of this, including apologizing & reckoning with your racist history. Dallas Morning News parent company seeks name change to 'embrace social justice movement https://www.dallasnews.com/...
Mike Orren / @mikeorren: Good context on history of company. Our CEO is descended from G.B. Dealey, who bought the company from Belo: https://www.dallasnews.com/...
Paul O'Donnell / @paul_o_donnell: Pretty big move by @dallasnews' parent company. Our company traces its roots to 1842. https://www.dallasnews.com/...
Kyle Arnold / @kylelarnold: The @dallasnews parent company changes name to DallasNews Corp. from A.H. Belo, a former Confederate officer. ..."we must collectively support our readers, our employees & our fellow citizens by embracing the social justice movement underway in America." https://www.dallasnews.com/...
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 …
James Cridland / Podnews podcasting news:
Apple Podcasts will drop the word “subscribe” in iOS 14.5, substituting the word “follow”; research shows “subscribe” signals a cost for some non-listeners — Visit https://podnews.net/update/follow-not- subscribe for all the links, and to get our newsletter.
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Casey Newton / @caseynewton: 47 percent of people think ‘subscribing’ to a podcast will cost money, so Apple is changing the verb from ‘subscribe’ to ‘follow’ in iOS 14.5. Wild! https://podnews.net/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: “Subscribe to my podcast” “Subscribe to Netflix” “Subscribe to my Twitch channel” “Subscribe to my Substack” Half of these are paid, half of these are free,* and we're using the same word for it all. Can we do: •join: free •follow: free •sign up: paid •subscribe: paid https://twitter.com/...
Nick Seaver / @npseaver: FORTY-SEVEN PERCENT??? https://twitter.com/...
Scott Porch / @scottporch: @CaseyNewton I suspect Apple is making the change because it plans to launch paid podcast subscriptions later this year.
@chrisbrandrick: I don't like this change, as although not the always the case (Hi YouTube) I've come to think of Follow to mean: 'I'll see some of their stuff' versus Subscribe being 'I'll see everything'. https://twitter.com/...
John Thrasher / @jthrasher: I can't tell you how many times people have asked me how much it costs to listen to the shows I've hosted over the years. This is a welcomed change I had never realized we needed in the podcasting community! https://twitter.com/...
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Apple adopting the word ‘follow’ for podcasts as users associate ‘subscribe’ with paid content
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: @josephpalbanese i suspect the industry will absolutely follow here (and I guess Spotify is already doing this?)
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: This news comes just in time for Twitter to introduce paid Super Follows and once again throw the world into chaos
Phill Brown / @escapingbrown: Pretty big pod news to affect all makers - semantics matter: https://twitter.com/...
Steve Randall / @steverandalluk: This makes sense. The word ‘subscribe’ was always a bit odd as it suggests payment. ‘Follow’ is widely used on social media so standardising the terms is a positive for the podcasting world. https://twitter.com/...
Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple Podcasts App Lets Users ‘Follow’ New Content Instead of ‘Subscribe’ in iOS 14.5
Evo Terra / Podcast Pontifications In Your Inbox: Follow This: Apple Podcasts Is Killing The Subscribe Button
Tom Webster / I Hear Things: Subscription Confusion, Resolved
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Piers Morgan to leave ITV's Good Morning Britain after blowback on his comments about Meghan Markle; Ofcom launches probe of the comments after 41K+ complained — Ofcom launches investigation into Monday's episode after receiving more than 40,000 complaints
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Variety, ITV, @emilybell, Variety, Deadline, Insider, @jaketapper, @andrewturmer, @karnythia, @petertimmins3, @briancathcart, @jamessurowiecki, @jaketapper, @wraggem, @stancollymore, @wraggem, @cmclymer, @tom_read, @andrewturmer, Breitbart, Hollywood Reporter, NBC News, Al Jazeera, Variety, WGN-TV and Boing Boing
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety: U.K. Media Regulator, Which is Investigating ‘Good Morning Britain’ Episode, Promises to Make Decisions ‘Without Fear or Favor’
Emily Bell / @emilybell: Context for US media columnists for the storm-off of Piers Morgan from a popular morning show in the UK. Britain follows the US in many things - including two new right wing news channels: GB News and News UK (Murdoch-owned Fox lite) .. timing seems more than coincidental
Manori Ravindran / Variety: Piers Morgan Quits ‘Good Morning Britain’ Following Meghan Markle Comments
Jake Kanter / Deadline: Piers Morgan Quits ‘Good Morning Britain’ After Meghan Markle Suicide Comments — Update
Ashley Collman / Insider: Piers Morgan quit ‘Good Morning Britain’ after his bosses told him to apologize on air for his Meghan Markle comments, reports say
Jake Tapper / @jaketapper: This is what happens when you live in a country where there is no First amendment. Insanity: Variety: 'U.K. media regulator Ofcom launched an investigation after more than 41,000 people complained about Piers Morgan's comments on Meghan Markle.' https://variety.com/...
Andrew Turmer / @andrewturmer: @LucasAlmond2 @JamesSurowiecki @tom_read @jaketapper Remarkable to see so many people fail to understand what an independent regulator is. Regulators aren't the government. Why can't those outside of the UK understand this? It's not that hard.
Openly Black Mikki Kendall / @karnythia: The First Amendment doesn't protect people from employer consequences for misconduct. You should know that. https://twitter.com/...
Pete Timmins / @petertimmins3: Ofcom investigating GMB over Piers Morgans comments about Sussexes Good. About time the bully got his comeuppance. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Brian Cathcart / @briancathcart: The departure of Piers Morgan from ITV, welcome and overdue though it is, is no remedy for the racism and thuggery of the UK corporate press, for which the papers and the Society of Editors are not sorry.
James Surowiecki / @jamessurowiecki: @AndrewTurmer @LucasAlmond2 @tom_read @jaketapper If a regulator is established by the government, and has its powers and its remit defined by the government, it's a government agency.
Jake Tapper / @jaketapper: And the notion that OFCAM is in no way part of the UK government? Cmon. Empowered by government, board members named by government,... https://twitter.com/...
Alex Wragge-Morley / @wraggem: @jaketapper As for OFCOM - you're right that its relationship to the government is ambiguous. The acronym used to describe such organizations in the UK is QUANGO - Quasi non-Governmental Organization. Their independence varies from organization to organization.
Stan Collymore / @stancollymore: PS, here's your first amendment right in action and your abject and utter national failure to have standards of discourse on television news and radio. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Alex Wragge-Morley / @wraggem: @jaketapper Not sure this is really a freedom of speech issue though. Piers Morgan can say whatever he wants. The question is about whether he can say whatever he wants on broadcast TV.
@cmclymer: @jaketapper Yes, much better to have a media apparatus subject to the control of corporate owners that decide who is and isn't worthy of having a voice based on the owner's politics and interests, even if that means silencing victims of real harm that's been done. C'mon, Jake.
Tom Read / @tom_read: @jaketapper No Jake, unlike in your country, we have actual standards for broadcasters, and consequences for those that fail to meet them.
Andrew Turmer / @andrewturmer: @JamesSurowiecki @LucasAlmond2 @tom_read @jaketapper It's an independent regulator. Why not just accept that people in the UK who have experience of how OFCOM works know more about it than you? You have gone on a crusade to embarrass yourself tonight and refuse to acknowledge that you might be wrong. It's weird.
Kurt Zindulka / Breitbart: Piers Morgan Quits Breakfast TV Show Good Morning Britain Amid Woke Royals Row
Alex Ritman / Hollywood Reporter: Piers Morgan Being Investigated by U.K. Regulator Ofcom Over Meghan Markle Comments
Doha Madani / NBC News: Piers Morgan to leave ‘Good Morning Britain’ after 41,000 complaints over Meghan remarks
Kerry Flynn / CNN:
Staff in newsrooms owned by billionaires say the owners alleviate pressures of being a part of a publicly traded company or a hedge fund but are “not a panacea” — New York (CNN Business)Not all rich people spend their money on space travel and charities. Some also want to own media companies.
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Michelle Manafy / @michellemanafy: A rich owner does not necessarily transform a newsroom into a journalism utopia and there's always the risk that their wealthy patron could grow bored of their “hobby” and/or expect it to make real money @kerrymflynn @CNN https://www.cnn.com/...
Alexa Philippou / @alexaphilippou: I spoke with @kerrymflynn about why @CourantGuild thinks local ownership is the best path forward for The Courant — *not* a hedge fund that prioritizes profit margins over journalism: https://www.cnn.com/...
@kerrymflynn: ✨ The through line ✨ Rich owners tend to alleviate the pressures that come with being a part of a publicly traded company or a hedge fund seeking high profit margins. But they do not necessarily transform a newsroom into a journalism utopia. https://www.cnn.com/...
@kerrymflynn: Hi, I wrote about wealthy media owners. After news broke about Stewart Bainum Jr. buying The Baltimore Sun, I wanted to check in about the status of other media companies owned by rich people. Here's some of what's unfolded in those newsrooms: https://www.cnn.com/...
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