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The Daily Beast:
Teen Vogue's new EIC Alexi McCammond, who was meant to start in the coming days, will no longer be joining the publication — The Condé-owned outlet's new editor has exited the job just days before she was set to take on the gig. … Just days before she was set to begin the job …
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Alexi McCammond / @alexi: Hey there: I've decided to part ways with Condé Nast. Here is my statement about why - https://twitter.com/...
Katie Robertson / New York Times: Teen Vogue Editor Resigns After Fury Over Racist Tweets
Ryan Grim / @ryangrim: The staff of Teen Vogue successfully blocked an extremely well qualified Black woman from becoming its next editor in chief over tweets from when she was a teen that she apologized for years ago. https://twitter.com/...
Tiana Lowe / @tianathefirst: Teen Vogue was invented by a woman who reignited the fur industry, blocked black people from the most important fashion covers and newsrooms in the country, and coronates the de facto American aristocracy. Alexi McCammond is not problematic. Vogue is. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ ...
Astead / @asteadwesley: conde nast/wintour could've sought full staff buy in in advance of the EIC announcement. that carelessness makes me feel bad for Teen Vogue staff, and for Alexi. both deserved an institution that treated them better https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lindsay Weinberg / E! Online: Teen Vogue Editor in Chief Alexi McCammond Resigns After Offensive Tweets Resurface
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post: Alexi McCammond won't take Teen Vogue job after criticism of old anti-Asian tweets
Isaac Saul / @ike_saul: This is so sad. Alexi is a great journalist who tweeted shitty things when *she was 17 years old* — and has spent the decade since building a body of work that shows who she really is. Reporters and progressives alike need to start thinking about how to let ppl grow. https://twitter.com/...
Malcolm Gladwell / @gladwell: I'm curious to know what the new age cut-off is for “youthful indiscretions.” https://twitter.com/...
@slate: This was a questionable hire, even before the offensive old tweets resurfaced. https://slate.com/...
Alex Griswold / @hashtaggriswold: Alexi McCammond is out at Teen Vogue, over tweets that were publicly available and she had already apologized for, and that she was asked about again during the interview process, and for which she apologized, again, upon being publicly named https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Tim Marchman / @timmarchman: She was not “extremely well qualified” unless you're using a standard that holds the editorship of Teen Vogue to be so insignificant that one wouldn't need to have had prior experience as an editor to hold the position, which would be telling. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Krakauer / @stevekrak: Really solid work by The Daily Beast and the children that make up the Teen Vogue staff to block a young, Black, female journalist from ascending to an editor position... https://twitter.com/...
Michael Brendan Dougherty / @michaelbd: I like the subtle Doublespeak nature of believing a brand called Vogue is about the marginalized. https://twitter.com/...
Openly Black Studs Twerkel / @thewayoftheid: Do I believe she's still catching wreck over what happened with her boyfriend, the WH and Politico? Absolutely. But she gave folks ammo with those silly ass tweets. The game is the game.
Jonathan Chait / @jonathanchait: I continue to believe that “anti-racist” norms are being enforced in elite spaces in ways that do not actually advance the cause of opposing racism. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Saltzstein / @dansaltzstein: @ryangrim All else aside, how is someone without editing experience “extremely qualified” to be an EIC?
Jonathan Swan / @jonathanvswan: I've worked with @alexi for four years. I know her well and can say this unequivocally: The idea she is racist is absurd. Where the hell are we as an industry if we cannot accept a person's sincere and repeated apologies for tweets when they were a teenager? https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Reese / @offbeatorbit: Why does her being Black matter in this scenario? As if TV has never had a black EIC before dhdkdhdkdkdjz https://twitter.com/...
Michael Tracey / @mtracey: Suggestion: do not pursue employment in any conventional sectors of the online media industry unless you are willing to tolerate enormous amounts of psychic dread https://twitter.com/...
Allegra Frank / @legsfrank: i wrote about, among other issues, the exhausting illegitimacy of “i was young and stupid” as an excuse for your prejudiced social media history https://slate.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: Hail the glorious victory of antiracism. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Corey Richardson / @vexedinthecity: This is bullshit. Losing a job as an adult over some shit you tweeted as a kid isn't how people learn their lessons nor is is fair atonement for her past wrongs. Best of luck out there, but this shit didn't help anyone, really. https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Thrasher / @thrasherxy: This is incorrect, and there is a kind of race making happening when someone who has never been an editor is called “extremely well qualified.” & as much as I love worker power, she didn't quit over the staff uprising, but after advertisers pulled out. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Hemingway / @heminator: Totally agree, but worth noting had she taken the job at Teen Vogue she would have been editing a bunch of articles endorsing said puritan panics. https://twitter.com/...
Emily Zanotti / @emzanotti: But how do you square a publication that (ostensibly) treats 17 year olds as developed enough to engage on complex political topics (and in eclectic sex practices) with saying a 17 year old isn't fully developed on the subject of racial equity? https://twitter.com/...
Julia Carrie Wong / @juliacarriew: they gonna do anything about the editor who commissioned this or just stay focused on a teenager's tweets? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: Aside from the tweets, I think it's pretty unusual to hire someone who's never edited anything before as the EIC of a large national magazine. She had political reporting chops but generally you have to have *some* editing experience to be “well qualified”. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Nichols / @radiofreetom: Yet another day I am grateful that social media didn't exist until I was already in middle age. https://twitter.com/...
Charles C. W. Cooke / @charlescwcooke: Absolutely preposterous. There's no reason whatsoever why silly things a person said ten years ago—when she was seventeen—should prompt this reaction or this outcome. This isn't “accountability”; it's a puritan panic that leaves no space for growth. https://twitter.com/...
Tim Marchman / @timmarchman: I'd also question the assumption that the Teen Vogue staff is so unsophisticated as to be incapable of contextualizing old tweets and more concerned with them than with having someone who'd never edited running their newsroom.
Zara Rahim / @zararahim: It is truly so easy to not tweet that someone facing consequences for racist opinions is dumb, especially when those opinions were harmful to an entire community, a community that is going through a lot of pain...yet here...we are. https://twitter.com/...
Catherine Garcia / The Week: Teen Vogue's new editor in chief resigns after past anti-Asian tweets resurface
Dana Loesch / Dana Loesch's Chapter and Verse: I Can't Celebrate Cancel Culture, Even When It's The Left Eating Their Own
Elizabeth Bruenig / @ebruenig: seems somewhat strange that we have developed this (accurate) reading of racism, misogyny, etc as structural phenomena — and we know that teenagers aren't fully formed moral agents — but we punish adults for teenage mistakes reflecting a sick culture. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matthew Zeitlin / @mattzeitlin: some european publications — the guardian, le monde — formally involve their staff in picking the editor in chief, would be an interesting model for american ones to adopt as opposed to the more...ad hoc....way newsroom influence the selection or removal of their bosses
Steve Krakauer / @stevekrak: Outrageous. What a shitty time to be a young journalist. https://twitter.com/...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: NEW: Alexi McCammond is out at Teen Vogue, will not be joining as EIC. Story w/@LachCartwright https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Abby D. Phillip / @abbydphillip: I know @alexi and she's obviously not who she was when she wrote those tweets. I'm sorry to see that she won't be moving forward in this position. It's beyond fair to demand true remorse and accountability, but Alexi demonstrated those things and I wish she'd been given a chance. https://twitter.com/...
David French / @davidafrench: The level of intolerance is unsustainable. This trend will come to an end. It's too unjust. It's too absurd. The only question is how many careers and reputations must be wrongly trashed and destroyed before this trend fades into shameful oblivion. https://twitter.com/...
Christie D'Zurilla / Los Angeles Times: Teen Vogue's incoming editor, Alexi McCammond, resigns over racist-tweet fallout
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: This made me sad and frustrated. Surely we can see the difference between active, current racists and bigots and people who said things long ago that they already sincerely apologized for? Have we lost all sense of proportion? And which of us hasn't said or done things we regret? https://twitter.com/...
Bob Cronin / Newser: Outcry Over Tweets Ends Hiring at Teen Vogue
Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner: If Teen Vogue staffers want to prove their wokeness, they should quit their classist company
Seth Mandel / @sethamandel: Pre-firing her for teen tweets she apologized for several times is garbage, but doing it now as reporters are connecting it to a racist murder spree in Atlanta is beyond tactless. Infuriating to watch coward employers reinforce twitter's ‘people are disposable’ attitude. https://twitter.com/...
Evette Dionne / @freeblackgirl: Alexi is extremely well qualified—just not for this specific job. She has never been a fashion editor and was hired as the top editor at a fashion magazine. I was a very young EIC too (28), so there is always some hedging about being too young. But that is not the case here. https://twitter.com/...
Openly Black Studs Twerkel / @thewayoftheid: On behalf of Black women, “Nah.” This ain't it. https://twitter.com/...
Nellie Bowles / @nelliebowles: An industry now largely run by a movement of moralizing scolds who've (magic! it's true!) never been teenagers. As someone who was an idiot teenager, I can only look in awe at these perfect beings, sprung into the world fully formed like Athena herself. https://twitter.com/...
Kurt Bardella / @kurtbardella: 1000% agree https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: Update: An MSNBC source says that Alexi McCammond asked to end her contributor contract with MSNBC in February, before the news broke that she was joining Teen Vogue.
Dr. Thrasher / @thrasherxy: WELP. ~EVERYTHING~ abt this hire was wrong. Teen Vogue had become a space for deep work critical of capitalism, race & gender. McCammond: —Was WAY too close to the WH/DNC —Had never been an editor?! —Had a poor racial *analysis* + anti-Asian writing —Staff didn't want her https://twitter.com/...
Dan Saltzstein / @dansaltzstein: @ryangrim In fairness, @benyt has noted that David Remnick (NYer), Jeffrey Goldberg (Atlantic) and Ben himself (Buzzfeed) didn't have significant editing experience before taking over their EIC roles. Still not sure she was “extremely well qualified” but point taken.
Max Berger / @maxberger: It's unfortunate what happened to @alexi. She is a fantastic journalist who took responsibility for mistakes she made when she was a teenager. She will no doubt continue doing good work. But we need a new way to deal with public utterances from a generation who grew up online. https://twitter.com/...
Sophia A. Nelson / @iamsophianelson: This is NOT RIGHT. We have got to STOP doing this to good people because of old blog posts, old tweets, old Facebook posts, old college drunken videos, etc. We are fallible human beings. We get it wrong—who is able to throw stones? @CondeNast @TeenVogue this is not good. https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: Another recent change: Alexi McCammond is no longer an MSNBC contributor https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Claire Lehmann / @clairlemon: So grateful to @j4mi3p @jonkay @SwipeWright @toadmeister for not axing me due to my lowbrow tweets 🙏 https://twitter.com/...
Hillel Neuer / @hillelneuer: When the revolution devours its own: March 5: Condé Nast names Alexi McCammond, a 27-year-old African-American journalist, as editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue. March 18: Condé Nast fires her over racist & homophobic tweets she posted a decade ago as a teen. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dr. Thrasher / @thrasherxy: 13. So, Wintour has a history of sidelining and tokenizing women of color. She made a poor hire, putting the hire (who, having never edited, should never have been there) and the staff in a terrible place. We are made by our histories & present.
Max Boot / @maxboot: I just wrote in @PostOpinions that the rightist obsession with “cancel culture” is overblown and over the top (https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...), but there is no question, as I also noted, that there are some leftist excesses too. This looks like one of those. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Miller / @matthewamiller: There is a legitimate debate to be had about how to judge people for actions in the past, to what extent they grow, etc. But I would hope we could all agree that judging adults in professional settings for what they did as a teenager is ridiculous. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Sternberg / The Media Nut: A fast rise and a faster fall
Robyn Urback / @robynurback: She wrote those tweets 10 years ago, when she was a teenager. As I wrote in a column last week, if she had committed a violent crime instead, she'd be out of prison, off parole, and the progressive view would be not to judge her by her past https://www.theglobeandmail.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Zara Rahim / @zararahim: “When she was a teenager” is a hilarious argument in a tweet about.... Teen....Vogue 🥴
Jason Colavito / @jasoncolavito: Regardless of the new editor's qualifications, or lack thereof, I am uncomfortable with spending so much time litigating tweets made a decade ago by a teenager, or sending her through a second full year of public apologies for them. https://slate.com/...
Nick Gillespie / @nickgillespie: More proof that woke #cancelculture is simply fire-and-brimstone Christianity minus any concept of forgiveness or salvation. Just eternal damnation. What a horrible theology. Conde Nast must be a horrible place to work from any perpsective. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Tyler McCall / @eiffeltyler: This is so rough. I maintain none of this had to be this way if Condé had any sense whatsoever. https://twitter.com/...
Tim Pool / @timcast: Apologizing doesn't change what she said it just means she admits she did it and is now being held accountable for her actions, for the rest of her life She apologized before but it doesn't matter. This is proof apologizing doesn't work https://twitter.com/...
@ronmwangaguhung: @mediagazer A very substantive conversation could have been had in the pages of Teen Vogue over racism, over what can and should not be said on social media, on taking responsibility for ones actions, on “doing the work” — but, alas
Eoin Higgins / @eoinhiggins_: Unsurprising, not sure how she was going to be able to manage that newsroom https://twitter.com/...
Luke Rosiak / @lukerosiak: Psst... they don't *really* believe in “restorative justice.” https://twitter.com/...
Travis Akers / @travisakers: #BREAKING: Alexi McCammond is out as editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue after backlash over racist tweets about Asians https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Matt Welch / @mattwelch: Whose lives were improved by this episode? Whose journalism? https://twitter.com/...
Amanda Carpenter / @amandacarpenter: This reflects much more poorly on Teen Vogue than @alexi https://twitter.com/...
Edward-Isaac Dovere / @isaacdovere: the standard being set here is that a few comments as a teenager which have been recanted, deleted and apologized for multiple times should nonetheless define a person's career https://www.nytimes.com/...
Wajahat Ali / @wajahatali: This is dumb. These were tweets over a decade ago, when she was a teenager, and since then she has apologized and changed. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Meg Z / @bymeg: the thing is............. besides the racist tweets...... she wasn't qualified for the role? like at all????????? so I didn't understand this COMMITMENT TO THE BIT...... like was she worth the strife? https://twitter.com/...
Joan Summers / Jezebel: Teen Vogue Editor Resigns Before First Day of Work Over Past Racist and Homophobic Tweets
Priya Elan / The Guardian: Teen Vogue's new editor resigns over past anti-Asian and homophobic tweets
Tatiana Tenreyro / The A.V. Club: Alexi McCammond steps down as Teen Vogue editor-in-chief after backlash for anti-Asian tweets
@l0g1c9uy: This is an article from slate today, it's about the EIC at Teen Vogue who's under fire for 10yo tweets from when she was a teenager. It doesnt come out and say there's no path to forgiveness, it just rejects all available options and offers no alternatives https://slate.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Katie Benner / @ktbenner: While homophobic and racist social media pats have gotten all the attention, more than anything this is a @CondeNast Anna Wintour management debacle that set someone up to fail https://slate.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Allana Akhtar / Insider: Teen Vogue's incoming editor-in-chief has resigned after old anti-Asian tweets sparked a staff backlash
J. Clara Chan / The Wrap: Teen Vogue Editor Alexi McCammond Resigns After Backlash Over Racist Tweets
Todd Spangler / Variety: Teen Vogue Editor Alexi McCammond Quits Over Past Racist Tweets
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
NYT plans to give up control of its 77K-member NYT Cooking private Facebook group and hand the group over to volunteer moderators from its community — “I blame people who fight over brands of mayonnaise.” — “How many goddamn posts do we need to see of people's first Le Creuset? Seriously.”
Discussion:
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Erin Biba / @erinbiba: The NYTimes has lost all control over the Cooking Community Facebook group they created and so instead of moderating it they've decided to completely abandon the 77,000 member group to its own recognizance and take their name off of it. Which is somehow absolutely hilarious to me
Ben Smith / @benyt: @silviakillings @erinbiba @SamSifton But the Times was paying people to moderate it — and that's “a Times employee moderating comments for fb rather than working for the Times.” A chapter in the shift toward a biz that revolves around converting subs. Sorry, I was hoping it was about peas and guacamole too.
@blk_amanda: As someone who has moderated social media for businesses in the past, and does it now for fun for groups... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Erin Biba / @erinbiba: I mean I don't know where the fuck the NYTimes ever thought it could get away with having 77,000 people in a group with only four moderators who only checked in during their off hours while also working full time at the Times but this disaster was basically inevitable.
Ben Smith / @benyt: @silviakillings @erinbiba @SamSifton I should say @SamSifton had only good things to say about the group and wishes its moderators well etc.
@juliareinstein: @benyt @silviakillings @erinbiba @SamSifton the people have spoken and they want me as moderator. it is time for a peaceful transfer of power https://twitter.com/...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: “How many goddamn posts do we need to see of people's first Le Creuset? Seriously.” @nytimes is giving up on its 77,000-member NYT Cooking Community Facebook group. What happens next? https://www.niemanlab.org/...
@brosandprose: Community management is a complicated skill. Too many brands and publishers have demanded that their social teams start facebook groups, set growth of members as the only goal, and not bothered to dedicated resources and staffing. Chaotic groups like this are the result. https://twitter.com/...
Tracey Taylor / @tktaylor: @erinbiba Serious question: How would you have handled it differently? I'd love to hear suggestions/elegant solutions for publishers on how to wind down or otherwise handle FB groups that have become unwieldy/unmanageable.
@kerrymflynn: ^ So yep, per NYT's @SamSifton via @benyt: NYT views favoring its owned & operated properties, not working for Facebook, as a reason to abandon its NYT Cooking Community Facebook Group https://twitter.com/...
Michael Hobbes / @rottenindenmark: We need a YouTube channel exclusively dedicated to Facebook Groups drama https://twitter.com/...
Delia Cai / @delia_cai: @benyt @silviakillings @erinbiba @SamSifton guys if you don't want it....can we have it
Ivan De Luce / The Business of Business: Lord of the Fries: Why The New York Times is abandoning its 77,000-member ‘Cooking’ Facebook group
Amanda O / @colorcodedlife: Sounds exactly like what happened with the Skimmbassador group, but it took far less people before it went to hell. The racists and Karen's ruined it and theskimm sat by and let it happen. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Beutler / @brianbeutler: There sure do seem to be a lot of people (from tech execs to moderators) manning the boundaries of social media who realize that the best thing we could do for the world is literally turn the platforms off, but few with the mix of nerve and proper incentives to do it. https://twitter.com/...
Tiago Dias / @tiagodf: It's “nearly impossible to moderate one the size of a small city. As it turns out, it's a full-time job — likely more than one — and one the Times no longer wants to do.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Nisha Chittal / @nishachittal: So rare to see this reality acknowledged: “It is very, very hard to meaningfully moderate a big Facebook group, perhaps nearly impossible to moderate one the size of a small city. As it turns out, it's a full-time job — likely more than one” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: The @NYTimes could have built a social network around subscriber profiles (Remember Times People?), invested in a commenting system & building communities: https://mashable.com/... What @NYTFood did: built up a Facebook Group, & left it: https://twitter.com/... Notable context: https://twitter.com/...
@carolsott: I had to laugh when my friend Linda sent this to me. The most insufferable group I've ever seen. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
CNBC:
NFL finalizes an 11-year media rights deal, with Amazon Prime Video as exclusive partner for Thursday Night Football; sources: Amazon is paying about $1B/year — - The new agreement runs through 2033 and will feature two Super Bowls returning to Disney's ABC network channel.
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Jason Lynch / Adweek: NFL Sets Huge New TV Deals With CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN/ABC and Amazon Prime Video
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal: NFL's Media Deals Bring Thursday Football to Amazon, Super Bowl to ABC
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost: NFL Strikes $100B Media Rights Deal, Amazon Gets ‘Thursday Night Football’
Tim Baysinger / The Wrap: NFL TV Rights Shakeup: ABC Gets Super Bowls, ‘Thursday Night Football’ Moves to Amazon Exclusively
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: The NFL has a deal! Scoops here: *Amazon gets full exclusivity for $1b per year (as CNBC had reported) *NBCU paying about $2b for Sunday Night Football *ViacomCBS paying $2.1b for AFC *Fox paying $2.2b for NFC *Disney paying abt $2.7b for ESPN/ABC https://www.cnbc.com/...
ViacomCBS Press Express: VIACOMCBS AND NFL REACH NEW LONG-TERM MULTIPLATFORM RIGHTS AGREEMENT THROUGH THE 2033 SEASON
Jakegellerman / NBC Sports Pressbox: NBCUNIVERSAL AND NFL REACH 11-YEAR EXTENSION & EXPANSION FOR SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL, PRIMETIME TV'S #1 SHOW
Brian Steinberg / Variety: NFL Strikes New Rights Pacts: Fox Cedes Thursdays to Amazon, ABC Gains Super Bowl Slot
Joe Flint / @jbflint: New Amazon deal for Thursday Night Football is for 15 games per-season and valued at around $1 billion, per-sources. That's four more games than Fox had. Amazon could get package as early as next season and in 2023 for sure. https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Joseph Choi / The Hill: NFL reaches 11-year media deal with Amazon, TV networks
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: I'm told Disney is getting a boatload of new stuff for its $ — 6 new games, 3 ABC Monday Night Football games, an exclusive ESPN+ international game (which starts in 2022, a year before the rest of the deal kicks in), the right to simulcast ESPN and ABC games on ESPN+.... https://twitter.com/...
Allan Walsh / @walsha: Quite amazing really where NFL owners are celebrating $100 billion in media deals, NFL player salaries were cut and contracts are not guaranteed. https://twitter.com/...
Nick Harris / @sportingintel: Premier League earns £3bn a year from all broadcasting, home & overseas rights. Qs grow over future value of live sport yet NFL sign new 11-yr contracts worth £7bn+ a year, domestic only! Huge increase. $1bn a year from Amazon alone! https://www.cnbc.com/...
Heath Cline / @heathradio: Sorry, this must be a mistake. I was informed numerous times over the last few years that no one is watching the NFL anymore and they would be suffering great financial pain because of it. https://twitter.com/...
John Ourand / @ourand_sbj: The NFL will pull in $10 billion per year - a stunning number - from the media deals it that it makes official today. Here's SBJ's story: https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/ ...
Joe Flint / @jbflint: New NFL deals are valued at more than $100 billion over 11 years and include Amazon landing Thursday Night Footbal. ESPN and ABC score big as well with Super Bowls, more MNF games and another playoff game. https://www.wsj.com/...
D. Orlando Ledbetter / @dorlandoajc: Why is there a salary cap on how much the players can make? https://twitter.com/...
Chad Graff / @chadgraff: This is why teams are comfortable backloading contracts this year. (Or in the Vikings' case, take on dead money via voidable years.)The salary cap is expected to go way up in the coming years. https://twitter.com/...
Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed: WATERSHED MOMENT FOR STREAMING MEDIA AMAZON GETS ALL OF THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL 🏈🏈🏈 https://twitter.com/...
Joe Flint / @jbflint: Asked @nflcommish if this was likely his last NFL rights deal cycle. “You bet your ass,” he responded. https://www.wsj.com/...
Tyler Lauletta / Insider: The NFL has a new $105 billion TV deal and Amazon Prime and Disney are the big winners
Andrew Bucholtz / Awful Announcing: NFL completes network/Amazon rights deals through 2033, bringing in $10 billion per year along the way
Carol Roth / @caroljsroth: NFL's new media rights deal could be worth more than $100 billion— content, especially live sports— is king... https://www.cnbc.com/...
Bucci Mane / @buccigross: 10 BILLION A YEAR. TEN. 312 Million a team per year. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Kovach / @stevekovach: Gonna be so many “buy now!” buttons on commercials during the Amazon NFL streams. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter: NFL Inks Rich New TV Deals With Disney, Fox, NBCUniversal, ViacomCBS and Amazon
Greta Bjornson / Decider: ‘Thursday Night Football’ Heads to Amazon in Exclusive Deal
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: For Amazon, it gets a sure thing in the NFL that it can't replicate by throwing $ at scripts and hoping they succeed. Then again, Amazon is paying $1 billion per year for its package. Double then again, $1b isn't much to Amazon. Story with @JabariJYoung https://www.cnbc.com/...
Matthew Belloni / @mattbelloni: Truly the last hurrah for linear TV.... https://twitter.com/...
Carl Quintanilla / @carlquintanilla: “Combined, the 11-year deals are valued at more than $100 billion, according to people familiar with the agreements. The league secured a combined average increase of 75% to 80% in fees from its media partners, one of the people said.” @WSJ https://www.wsj.com/...
Christopher Coleman / @ccoleman: Prepare for an ADDITIONAL charge for Amazon Prime Video. This + the Middle Earth series just about guarantees it. https://twitter.com/...
Martin Peers / The Information: The Briefing: Big Entertainment's High-Risk NFL Deals
Jane Coaston / @janecoaston: Every year there's some “the NFL is falling apart!” narrative and the league just brings in more cash. https://twitter.com/...
Jon Lafayette / nexttv.com: NFL Signs 11-Year TV Deals With Current Networks and Amazon
Owen Poindexter / Front Office Sports: NFL Locks In $113 Billion in Media Rights
Thanks:@mattrosoff
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
The price for Quartz' story-as-an-NFT reaches ~$1,800, with time left for more bids; the stunt also shows how journalism's value is divorced from market price — This is one of the eternal truisms of journalism: The value of news as a product only rarely lines up with what the market will pay for it.
Discussion:
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: This post has *everything*: — Monet's “Le déjeuner sur l'herbe” — “Turn that Veblen bad into a Veblen good?” — capitalist decadence at a fall-of-Rome scale — n00bmind, jarzod, and zonted https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
OANN broadcast and tweeted the email and cell phone number of a NYT journalist reporting on the network; the tweet, up for about six hours, has now been deleted — More than four hours had passed after Twitter was informed on Wednesday that a far-right news network had used its platform …
Discussion:
@dellcam, @wiczipedia, @thekenyeung, @donie, @slpng_giants, @moorehn, @dellcam, @donie, @dellcam and @dellcam
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Dell Cameron / @dellcam: An account w/ 1.5 million users tweeted a link to a journalist's cellphone number. I've been emailing @Twitter for over an hour about it. No response from the company. cc @TwitterSafety Just remembering the time it acted on this quickly (when it wasn't a journalist's number): https://twitter.com/...
Nina Jankowicz / @wiczipedia: A friend of mine was doxed this week; Twitter did nothing in response because her private information was linked to, not shared directly on the platform. Twitter can't force this info to be removed, but they *can* refuse to allow it to be amplified on their service. For shame. https://twitter.com/...
Ken Yeung / @thekenyeung: What even does being safe on the internet mean anymore? https://gizmodo.com/...
Donie O'Sullivan / @donie: Also wild. https://twitter.com/...
@slpng_giants: How is this not doxxing, @TwitterSafety? This clearly violates your Terms of Service - and it's unimaginably dangerous to boot! https://twitter.com/...
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: Doxxing is supposed to be against Twitter rules. @TwitterSafety what's up with y'all lately, is the department on vacation? https://twitter.com/...
Dell Cameron / @dellcam: “This tweet violated the Twitter Rules” and is now gone. https://gizmodo.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Donie O'Sullivan / @donie: Pretty wild. https://twitter.com/...
Dell Cameron / @dellcam: @JFA_USA @donie It was just deleted https://twitter.com/...
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Facebook's newsletter tool will let it help people monetize their Facebook Pages and show it can support a different kind of publishing amid legal scrutiny — Today let's talk about platforms' growing interest in building newsletter tools — and whether Facebook, against all conventional wisdom, might have an opportunity there.
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Annalee Newitz / The Hypothesis:
Substack's decision to pay some to write on the platform is an editorial one as it chooses what writing to support; its secrecy is a breach of journalism ethics
Discussion:
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@annaleen: Here's why Substack's scam worked so well. They paid a secret group of writers to make newsletters seem lucrative. In my newsletter this week, I talk about how it all happened, and why I'm out. https://thehypothesis.substack.com/ ...
Adam Conover / @adamconover: .@annaleen on Substack's scammy business practices: despite claiming that “any writer can make a living on Substack”, they were secretly paying large amounts of VC money to an undisclosed list of writers in order to make them look like organic successes. https://thehypothesis.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Mike Monteiro / @monteiro: ...and if you want more detail about Substack's garbagefire, @annaleen makes the case very well here. (But honestly “they write paychecks to terfs and nazis” should be all you need.) https://thehypothesis.substack.com/ ...
Erika Bakse / @erikabakse: @gaileyfrey That's so awesome that https://ghost.io/ is helping you migrate!
Kat Kourbeti / honest to blog: #12: quarantine life, year 1
Meg Conley / @_megconley: @annehelen There've been some real problems. AND. They need a real PR team which they probably don't have being a startup. There's so much good content on the platform from so many expansive people and I don't know Substack keeps failing to highlight THEM.
Andrew Liptak / @andrewliptak: What's notable here is that Gailey was one of the folks that Substack picked for its Bridge mentorship program. https://twitter.com/...
Kelsey D. Atherton / @athertonkd: “So Substack has an editorial policy, but no accountability. And they have terms of service, but no enforcement. If you listen to Hamish, they don't even hire writers! They just give money to people who write things that happen to be on Substack.” https://thehypothesis.substack.com/ ...
James Surowiecki / @jamessurowiecki: If a publishing house gives a writer an advance, that does not make the writer an employee of the publisher. So it makes no sense to call people to whom Substack is fronting money “staff writers,” particularly given that it exercises no editorial control. https://thehypothesis.substack.com/ ...
Noah Berlatsky / @nberlat: so this letter makes me feel like there are definite advantages to being too stodgy to be an early adopter and too much of a nobody to get offers from new platforms. https://thehypothesis.substack.com/ ...
Anne Helen Petersen / @annehelen: This is something that is absolutely getting lost in this conversation — which is a very important one. Substack has bungled the messaging at every turn. They missed an opportunity to come down very clearly on hate speech on the platform.
@kottke: “Substack's business is a scam. They claim to offer writers a level playing field for making a living, and instead they pay an elite, secret group of writers to be on the platform and make newsletter writing appear to be more lucrative than it is.” https://thehypothesis.substack.com/ ...
Berny Belvedere / @bernybelvedere: Legitimately one of the dumbest posts I've read. Lord have mercy. https://thehypothesis.substack.com/ ...
@imgarysuarez: Worth a read if you're following the Substack scandal. https://thehypothesis.substack.com/ ...
John Scalzi / @scalzi: It's never too late to go back to the blogs, people. https://thehypothesis.substack.com/ ...
Berny Belvedere / @bernybelvedere: Ah, yes, the devilish scam of luring Matthew Yglesias via a sensible business proposition and meanwhile all I get is their platform and monetization tools merely free of charge. Absolute bastards.
Andrea Blythe / @andreablythe: @gaileyfrey I'm planning to make a move away from Substack as well for all the reasons you mention.
Oliver Burkeman / @oliverburkeman: The logic here strikes me as tortured. I think Substack just saw a gap in the market, created by rapid recent ideological narrowing in existing media leaving large audiences underserved, and decided to capitalize on it. https://thehypothesis.substack.com/ ...
Anne Helen Petersen / @annehelen: They have also missed an opportunity to highlight all of the people they've given money to who are not Greenwald et. al. *through their public fellowship programs.* This is not private information. It is all right here: https://on.substack.com/...
@blackamazon: THIS and Substack did this while openly antagonizing populations It decided to defend “not having censorship” while it did It started mentor ship programs on “building audience ” While these folks were paid other wise to be comfortable https://twitter.com/...
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: A challenge for Substack over the next year is proving that writers can make money on the platform who aren't subsidized by the company. YouTube, Patreon & OnlyFans pulled this off while Medium did not. Is a journalism based creator class a mirage? https://thehypothesis.substack.com/ ...
Anne Helen Petersen / @annehelen: I am going to continue to pressure Substack to do better on all of these fronts, from recruitment to hate speech and anti-trans rhetoric in particular. But if you keep focusing *exclusively* on these dudes you're eclipsing all of the other work.
Conor Davidsen / @_cvd: @kottke That this is a Substack post is possibly the most meta thing I've ever seen.
@can: every reasonably popular substack should claim to be getting paid and thus force the company's hand to actually disclose the full list https://thehypothesis.substack.com/ ...
Anne Helen Petersen / @annehelen: Substack recruited me and gave me an advance based on my unpaid newsletter subscribers and my open rate. They had an idea of what my subscriber income would be, and they offered significantly less. In other words: people who take the advances make significantly less money
Benedict Evans / @benedictevans: I don't understand the criticism that Substack can only make you money if you already spent a long time building a big audience that will pay for your stuff. Isn't that just ‘media’? You need a lot of work and a lot of Luck and no publisher/platform/tool can do that for you
Brady Dale / @bradydale: @benedictevans @jjaron If you're a writer and you saw Taibbi and Yglesias go on Substack and thought: “Yeah I'll probably get the same results” you have larger problems Which is another way of saying: yeah it's a tough slog but those of us in the biz also get that
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: Fwiw, I think the “Substack is a scam” discourse is a bit overblown, They do not pay me, never offered, but I decided to set up a business there because I liked the economics and opportunity. So far, so good.
Darrin Hawe / @digifiend: @karaswisher @Annaleen So @analeen uses substack as a mass mailer (which it seems to do well), states that income stream isn't the goal of use, then isn't happy that potential readership growth isn't likely due to lack of transparency. If fulfilling it's intended use, I'm not seeing the problem.
Jefferson Simon / @jefferson1simon: @karaswisher @Annaleen Disagree with this article. And Substack had been pretty open about paying some of the writers.
Sarah Gailey / Stone Soup: We Are A Snail — I would say it's time for us to go, but we aren't really going anywhere.
Tony Haile / @arctictony: Whatever your position on this, feels like Twitter acquired @revue at the right time. They have a viable competitor to Substack with better distribution and none of the moral quandary. https://twitter.com/...
Felicia Day / Felicitations!: Felicitations Newsletter #5 — Someone called me a “boomer” last week on Twitch. — a) I am NOT A BOOMER.
Ria Elciario / légumes all day: On Substack — Substack pays some writers a salary through an exclusive program called Substack Pro.
Wes Burdine / @mnnicefc: I mean, could also just do a blogspot and throw a venmo link at the bottom. https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald: VIDEO: With Katie Herzog on the Expansion of LGBTQ Identity and How it is Wielded in Political Discourse
Katharina Borchert / @lyssaslounge: It never ends well when platforms want to play #publisher but don't want to be treated like publishers. Maybe chat with the wonderful @GabrielBerlin and try @joinsteadyEN instead? #substack #newsletter #publishing https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: It'd be nice to see all those who are paid in broad daylight, so those strivers on the platform can see it all. Pretending you are not a paid edit operation when you are seems shabby at the very least. I thought @Annaleen kind of nailed it here: https://thehypothesis.substack.com/ ...
@davewiner: Substack's scam is common tech industry practice. https://thehypothesis.substack.com/ ...
Maddie Stone / @themadstone: Why hand selecting paid writers for your platform and refusing to divulge their identities is absolutely making editorial decisions, and pretty shitty ones at that. Read the entire thing 👇🏼 https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: I'm not for or against Substack (though I don't intend to use it), but this piece from @annaleenewitz is harsh about, among other things, the platform's lack of transparency. https://thehypothesis.substack.com/ ...
Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review: Facebook goes after Substack
Kirsten Han / we, the citizens: We, The Citizens is moving house!
Craig Calcaterra / Cup of Coffee: Cup of Coffee: March 18, 2021
Grace Robertson / Grace on Football: Barcelona, and football, vote for nostalgia
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Substack has lost several writers who say they are concerned about editorial impartiality and whether the service is paying transphobic writers
Discussion:
GEN, @markstenberg3, The Supercreator, @gabemschneider, @hamishmckenzie, @mathewi, @caseynewton, @knowtheory, @jason, @emorwee, @xlorentzen, @espiers, @s_m_i, @s_m_i, @kittypurrzog, @kittypurrzog, @themadstone, @amywestervelt, @bafeldman, @kittypurrzog, @anildash, @tante, @sadydoyle, @mathewi, @kerrymflynn, @adweek, @sadydoyle, @aliciakennedy, @mathewi and Sub Pub
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Jude Ellison Sady Doyle / GEN: Substack Is Not a Neutral Platform
Mark Stenberg / @markstenberg3: The unveiling of Substack Pro has led to several high-profile departures from the platform. “Once you start deciding which writers deserve advances and which of them don't, what you have is a publisher that makes editorial choices,” @sadydoyle said. https://www.adweek.com/...
Michael Jones / The Supercreator: This one's for the girls — I give Facebook a hard time because their growth …
Gabe Schneider / @gabemschneider: “Substack's laissez-faire approach to bigoted speech is not uncommon for tech startups ... but we have seen it play out too many times not to know where it leads.” https://gen.medium.com/...
Hamish McKenzie / @hamishmckenzie: Here's Substack's statement about recent questions and misconceptions around the Substack Pro program: https://blog.substack.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Substack founders: “The small number of writers who have chosen to share their deals has created a distorted perception of the overall makeup of the group, leading to incorrect inferences about Substack's business strategy” https://blog.substack.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: Substack's new post on its Pros program articulates the company's values much better than previous efforts, I think. Worth a read https://blog.substack.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ted Han / @knowtheory: It's super weird to run an Op-Ed platform & then be like “oh but we're not going to tell you who we're supporting.” You're literally subsidizing specific content/writers. You may justify it as a growth play to capture certain audiences, but it's still a subsidy. https://twitter.com/...
@jason: It's impossible to run a platform on the internet anymore! Apparently, @SubstackInc's admission they pay advances to writers, including on the right (like @bariweiss @ggreenwald @sullydish), has lead the left to flee the platform! & the right can't write for the @nytimes!
Emily Atkin / @emorwee: Update: Substack says writers fees are *not* actually funding the pro program. Still plan to have a convo, but this seems like an important clarification. https://blog.substack.com/...
Christian Lorentzen / @xlorentzen: @espiers @felixsalmon I have no idea who that is. I don't really see the obsession with Substack advances. A writer I think is a hack with bad politics is getting paid a lot and being read by shithead dumbasses = COMPLETELY NORMAL STATE OF AFFAIRS THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF WRITERS BEING PAID.
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: @xlorentzen @felixsalmon Because they're making editorial decisions and they claim they're not. And when they're only doing thirty deals and a lot of them are for $250k that's significant
Stacy-Marie Ishmael / @s_m_i: among the several reasons I am switching newsletter providers is because I am super sick of people who operate from positions of power and privilege in media and technology making marginalized people out to be “unreasonable” while building their ecosystems on their work
Stacy-Marie Ishmael / @s_m_i: it is a wild thing* to watch folks repeatedly ignore folks from underrepresented groups painstakingly laying out the risks of certain product and editorial decisions. And then wait for how they will handwave away the inevitable harms that follow. *it is a day ending in y
Katie Herzog / @kittypurrzog: I would never try to get someone fired or deplatformed (unlike Jude Doyle) but the fact that Doyle spreads misinformation and actively smears journalists and hasn't been run out of the media yet really tells you something
Katie Herzog / @kittypurrzog: Two things. One, I don't spread transphobia through my work and Jude Doyle offers absolutely no evidence that I do. And two, my Substack is about dog testicles. https://twitter.com/...
Maddie Stone / @themadstone: I'm super bummed with the recent Substack developments! If you need a catch-up... https://gen.medium.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Amy Westervelt / @amywestervelt: Here's one of the Substack founders in response to people saying “hey, maybe don't use my labor to fund people who don't think I deserve human rights.” Really says it all (h/t @themadstone) https://twitter.com/...
Brian Feldman / @bafeldman: unfortunately i have written about s*bsta*k but NOT before writing about #thecumpipe https://bnet.substack.com/...
Katie Herzog / @kittypurrzog: Someone needs to tell Jude Doyle that Jesse Singal is also on Medium https://gen.medium.com/...
Anil Dash / @anildash: @mathewi @fka_tabs @mathowie Also worth noting Medium has quietly done a really good job of reducing the amount of dangerous content & misinformation on the platform. Far better than Twitter, and of course better than Facebook.
@tante: Substack is turning out to be an ideological shit show of racists, TERFs and other shitbags. https://twitter.com/...
Jude Ellison S. Doyle / @sadydoyle: Here's me, on the growing network of Substack TERFs, the people who stand to be harmed or killed by them, and the long, depressing history of tech companies allowing hate groups to flourish and obtain power under cover of “free speech:” https://gen.medium.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: @fka_tabs @mathowie A friend said anyone who is thinking about leaving Substack because of who they give a platform to might want to take a close look at who Facebook gives a platform to 😬
@kerrymflynn: “Substack disclaims all responsibility for shaping the discourse around trans people, saying it does not make ‘editorial decisions.’ ... Determining which writers deserve advances is an editorial decision.” - @sadydoyle https://gen.medium.com/...
@adweek: Substack lost several high-profile writers in recent days after announcing Substack Pro, which offers financial incentives to lure writers to the platform, including some whose politics have been condemned by marginalized communities. https://www.adweek.com/...
Jude Ellison S. Doyle / @sadydoyle: Spoke a little with AdWeek for this article on leaving the platform. https://www.adweek.com/...
Alicia Kennedy / @aliciakennedy: I talked to @MarkStenberg3 for this piece. Doing further research is deterring me from moving, because the podcast function in Substack is one my subscribers rely on—but I'm looking. Hoping collective action can push them toward accountability. https://www.adweek.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: https://twitter.com/...
Scott Frey / Sub Pub: This Week in Substack / Open Forum (3/18/21)
Sportico:
Sources: entertainment group Endeavor, which owns UFC and talent agency IMG, and which pulled its IPO plans in late 2019, has confidentially filed for a new IPO — Endeavor Group Holdings, the entertainment conglomerate that owns Ultimate Fighting Championship, talent agencies IMG and William Morris …
Discussion:
@fightoracle: It will be interesting what the new S1 says regarding Silver Lake &KKR's ability to trigger a UFC spin off IPO despite being minority partners in UFC. previous S1 said Endeavor didn't control its own destiny in regards to UFC & that Priorities amongst shareholders may not align https://twitter.com/...
Kurt Badenhausen / @kbadenhausen: Endeavor previously sought to go public in 2019, filing to sell 15M shares at $27/share. Details on latest filing aren't known yet. https://twitter.com/...
Dade Hayes / Deadline: Endeavor IPO Plans Are Back On Track - Report
Matt Donnelly / Variety: Endeavor Seeking Second Chance at Public Offering
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Media must stop taking official pronouncements at face value, using phrases like “police said” as shorthand for truth, and train staff to show less credulity — It's inevitable that reporters will have to rely heavily on law enforcement sources in the first hours after a horrific crime.
Discussion:
Poynter, Poynter, @chriscuomo, @lfung, @menendezrand, @markfollman, @s_m_i, @myhlee, @will_bunch, @eugene_scott, @doristruong, @travisbubenik, Insider, @sarahkaplan48, The Nation, @raju, @myhlee, @sulliview, @ibishblog, @kat__stafford, @aaja, @kwameopam, @kylepope, @s_m_i, @annecw, The Week and SPJ News
Discussion:
Doris Truong / Poynter: The rush to report on Atlanta-area shootings amplified bias in news coverage
Christopher C. Cuomo / @chriscuomo: This sheriff said something stupid and may have an animus. Anyone who covers crime (as I have for 20+ years) knows with cops it is always report but verify. (Remember Duke Lacrosse case) but is a blanket bias vs cops the right solution? https://twitter.com/...
Lisa Fung / @lfung: 'Don't take everything from official sources at face value. Interrogate the information before credulously retailing it to your audience. Verify. Corroborate. Include context.' Seems obvious but doesn't always happen. Important insight from @Sulliview https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@menendezrand: 'It's inevitable that reporters rely heavily on law-enforcement in the first hours after a horrific crime. Amid chaos, the police may be the only ones with any hard information. But sometimes their information is flawed reflects a damaging bias.' https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Mark Follman / @markfollman: Safe to say yesterday was ‘a really bad day’ for media covering the immediate aftermath of the mass shooting in Atlanta. As usual, @Sulliview nails it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Stacy-Marie Ishmael / @s_m_i: there are some things white media people prefer to hear from other white media people. something about who gets to be seen as “objective”, etc.
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / @myhlee: How to improve coverage of police statements, per @sulliview: “Don't take everything from official sources at face value. Interrogate the information before credulously retailing it to your audience. Verify. Corroborate. Include context.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@will_bunch: @Sulliview Great column. Last June, I wrote that “police said” are “the two most insidious words in modern journalism” https://www.inquirer.com/...
Eugene Scott / @eugene_scott: Part of doing better is remembering a core tenet of good journalism: Don't take everything from official sources at face value. “Treat the police like any other source, with the same degree of skepticism,” Susan Chira, the editor in chief of the Marshall Project. https://twitter.com/...
Doris N. Truong / @doristruong: Thank you for this, @Sulliview. If I scripted bungle after bungle in news coverage, people would think it was far-fetched. But we saw many mistakes amplified over and over Wed. Are journalists stepping up their skepticism and taking time to do more complete reporting today? https://twitter.com/...
Travis Bubenik / @travisbubenik: “Treat the police like any other source, with the same degree of skepticism.” - so important! https://twitter.com/...
Erin Snodgrass / Insider: Police departments across the US are increasing patrols in Asian communities, but experts say more policing is not the answer
Sarah Kaplan / @sarahkaplan48: “Sometimes their information is flawed. And sometimes the way they tell it reflects a damaging bias.” Essential reading from @Sulliview on why journalists must report police accounts critically and with context https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Raju Narisetti / @raju: this...a conversation among POC in newsrooms for ages ‘Not racially motivated’?: The Atlanta spa shootings show why the media should be wary of initial police statements https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...?
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / @myhlee: “That's been an overdue necessity in covering recent Black Lives Matter protests, and is just as important in covering the Asian American Pacific Islander community. It's happening in many newsrooms, and none too soon.” Always read @Sulliview: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Hussein Ibish / @ibishblog: Insofar as they do, it must https://twitter.com/...
Kat Stafford / @kat__stafford: Evergreen reminder: “... the phrase “police said” is not shorthand for the truth.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@aaja: “Part of it is stepping up training for journalists before the crisis happens so that they are better equipped to cover fast-breaking news without credulously relying on police sources.” by Margaret Sullivan @Sulliview, ft #AAJAFamily @DorisTruong Read: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Kwame Opam / @kwameopam: “The @aaja put out a helpful guide on Wednesday for those covering the shootings: Use careful language, provide context, understand anti-Asian racism, diversify your sources, empower and support the journalists who are part of the Asian and Pacific Islander communities.” https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Pope / @kylepope: Great piece. Here's @alexandrianeas from @CJR on a similar theme https://www.cjr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Stacy-Marie Ishmael / @s_m_i: thinking about black reporters who made this argument in newsrooms and what happened to them today https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Anne Ward / @annecw: @Sulliview His empathy for the man who slaughtered eight people and his lack of empathy for the slaughtered victims were truly stunning. And worse, news media dutifully reported that “police said” it was not racially motivated.
Cory Doctorow / Pluralistic:
Publishers should focus on how Google and Facebook steal via ad fraud and price-rigging rather than on the nonsense idea that snippets and referrals are crimes — More often than not, when I encounter a proposal to address monopoly power, I return to that old Irish joke: “If you wanted to get there, I wouldn't start from here.”
Discussion:
@timkarr, @timkarr, @doctorow, @doctorow, @timkarr, @timkarr, @nonlinear, @jayrosen_nyu, @timkarr, @timkarr, @doctorow, @timkarr and @sherwinarnott
Discussion:
@timkarr: Not according to @Doctorow. “We don't need collective bargaining for media companies: we need collective bargaining for JOURNALISTS,” he wrote. /5 https://pluralistic.net/...
@timkarr: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, whose lobbyists are among the loudest advocates for JCPA, doesn't give two squirts about supporting journalism. Any money coming to the news conglomerate would benefit the Murdochs' bank accounts and not be used to put reporters back on the beat. /6
Cory Doctorow / @doctorow: ETA - If you'd like an unrolled version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on https://pluralistic.net/, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/...
Cory Doctorow / @doctorow: Publishers are victimized by this fraud. The ad-tech duopoly uses funny accounting to shift billions from publishers of all kind to their own balance sheets (advertisers also suffer, but we're talking publishers at the moment). 4/
@timkarr: Similar to Australia's “bargaining code,” JCPA forces large tech companies & media outlets together to negotiate payments. Though it differs in that it upends long-standing antitrust restrictions so news outlets can collude w/one another to exact payments from tech platforms. /3
@timkarr: The bill, introduced in Congress last week, seeks to make Big Tech companies like Facebook and Google pay U.S. news outlets and broadcasters for linking to their content. /2
Nicholas Frota / @nonlinear: Google and Facebook don't steal from publishers by sending them traffic. Googbook steals from publishers through ad-fraud and price-rigging. https://pluralistic.net/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: This thread about tech platforms and the real reasons the businesses formerly known as newspapers are borked wins my endorsement. https://twitter.com/...
@timkarr: Sponsors of the U.S. bill believe it would “give hardworking local reporters and publishers the helping hand they need.” But would it? /4
@timkarr: The recently introduced Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) is coming under some heavy fire, and deservedly so. /1
Cory Doctorow / @doctorow: The news industry deserves our sympathy for this, but they keep squandering it by saying stupid things like “Google steals from us by linking to our websites.” These stupid things are credulously repeated by both the left- and right-wing press. https://prospect.org/... 5/
Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Australia's Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance will vote in April on whether to withdraw from the Australian Press Council, which has been called ineffective — Meaa president says members ‘dissatisfied’ with Australian Press Council and there should be ‘genuine redress for lapses’ in standards
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Josephine Tovey / @jo_tovey: “For some time, Meaa members have been dissatisfied with the press council over its poor governance standards, lack of transparency in funding, slowness in adjudications and a concern about irregularity in some decisions,” said media president @strom_m https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Grace Pettigrew / @broomstick33: The Australian Press Council is not independent, has proved to be ineffectual, and is largely funded by News Corp, Dr Denis Muller tells the media diversity inquiry https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Dr Jenna Price / @jennaprice: Journalists' union considers pulling out of press watchdog over ineffectiveness - What an excellent idea! Thanks @meadea https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Marcus Strom / @strom_m: Delegates to @withMEAA national media section committee will next month vote whether our union remains in @AusPressCouncil If you're a member we'd like to know your opinion before we decide. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Stephan Salisbury / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
The marble slab engraved with the First Amendment that towered seven stories high at Washington's Newseum will move to Philadelphia's Constitution Center — The Newseum, an interactive museum in Washington, D.C., devoted to journalism, is gone, succumbing to financial woes.
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@mattderienzo, @ksautner, @raju, @kenpaulson1, @jillgeisler, @medialawprof, @christopherterr and The Hill
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Matt DeRienzo / @mattderienzo: The 74-foot high First Amendment etched into marble that was taken down from the old Newseum building will have new life at Philadelphia's National Constitution Center. https://www.inquirer.com/...
@ksautner: I love the Newseum and now to feel like we are bringing a little of the brilliance to PHL! Newseum First Amendment facade moving near Philadelphia's Independence Hall https://www.inquirer.com/...
Raju Narisetti / @raju: Sentimentally glad, even if this is perhaps the least unique aspect of @NewseumED's physical collections: The 50-ton monumental slab once graced the facade of Newseum. Now it will look out over Independence Hall from Constitution Center in Philadelphia https://www.inquirer.com/...?
Ken Paulson / @kenpaulson1: A perfect resolution. @janneuharth @1stforall https://www.inquirer.com/...
Jill Geisler / @jillgeisler: Jan Neuharth, Freedom Forum CEO: “It was important to us to find a location for the tablet where it could be on public display, and where millions of Americans could continue to expand their understanding of and appreciation for our First Amendment freedoms.” https://twitter.com/...
Chip Stewart / @medialawprof: This is great. I love the Constitution Center and it's a perfect place for the First Amendment to be displayed in majestic fashion. https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Spotify launches a site to show how much it pays artists: $5B in 2020, up from $3.3B in 2017, and 13K artists made $50K+ in royalties, up 80% from 2017 — The company's making an effort to be more transparent — Musicians aren't thrilled with Spotify — they say the streaming platform undervalues …
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Daniel Ek / @eldsjal: Since its 2014 low, the music industry has grown by 44%, driven primarily by streaming revenues which increased 500% over this same period. In 2020 alone, Spotify paid $5B+ and makes up about 20% of global recorded music industry revenue, more than any other streaming service. ⬇️ https://twitter.com/...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: There was a time not too long ago when people swore that I was pure evil for suggesting that if the recording industry embraced the internet, instead of fighting it, they could do quite well. Some of those people still think I'm evil. And yet... https://twitter.com/...
Calum Slingerland / Exclaim! Media: Spotify Aims to Increase Transparency with “Loud & Clear” Initiative
Dan Bull / @itsdanbull: I'm a YouTuber who pushes my audience to Spotify at every opportunity... while YouTube's algorithm sunk my channel views, I grew a huge presence on Spotify - which pays 4x as much per stream. 👍 Same time period: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Eric Randolph / Yahoo Finance: Spotify launches site explaining how it pays artists
Daniel Ek / @eldsjal: Today, 57K artists now represent 90% of monthly streams on Spotify — a number that has quadrupled in just six years. This means that the number of the most listened to artists in the world is growing and more diverse. https://twitter.com/...
Bent Stamnes / @gloom303: If you want to see a corporate CEO try to wash their hands of their negative impact on direct artist earnings, look no further than to this thread in which the lying by omission and cherry picking is so heavy it hurts. It's like watching Exxon trying to come off as eco-friendly. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Shecter / @sheckygreen: There are 870 artists who generated over $1MM/year in royalties on @Spotify, and close to 8000 at $100k. Both bigger numbers than one might expect, especially for that top tier. Very interesting slide from Ek's announcement re: transparency around streaming payments. 👀 https://twitter.com/...
Insanul Ahmed / Genius: 870 Artists' Catalogs Generated Over $1 Million In Revenue Through Spotify Streams In 2020
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Constantly criticized for not paying artists, Spotify creates a new website to show that it is paying artists quite a lot. https://twitter.com/...
Vivienne Kelly / The Music Network: Spotify launches Loud & Clear platform to clear up frustration & confusion around artist payments
Axl Rosenberg / MetalSucks: Spotify Aims To Provide Payout Transparency (Kinda) With New Website Loud & Clear
Daniel Ek / @eldsjal: We'll continue to empower the most talented artists in the world to turn their passion into a profession, grow the money paid to rights holders, diversify and expand the number of professional artists succeeding, and propel the music industry forward.
Divya Kala Bhavani / The Hindu: Spotify launches Loud & Clear to shed light on artistes' revenues and streaming stats
Micah Singleton / Billboard: Spotify Has Paid Over $23B to Rights Holders, Launches Website on Artist Payouts
Daniel Ek / @eldsjal: And it's happening. From streaming on Spotify alone, we're seeing growth from artists at all stages of their career: since 2017, the number of artists generating more than $50K/yr is up 80%; more than $100K/yr is up 85%; and more than $1M/year is up 90%. https://twitter.com/...
Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed: Worth noting US music industry revenues are STILL below their peak in 1999 of $14.6 billion — however, growth rates illustrate that could be exceeded in the not too distant future WOULD never have happened without the industry leadership and vision of @spotify's @eldsjal $SPOT https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ethan Millman / Rolling Stone: Spotify Has Heard Artists' Complaints ‘Loud and Clear’
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