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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the Athletic is in merger talks with Axios, with a long-term plan of adding other digital subscription-based publishers — Deal would be part of plan to create larger company with a portfolio of digital-media publishers — Sports-media outlet the Athletic is in merger talks …
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Ben Mullin / @benmullin: Scoop: Axios is in talks to merge with The Athletic, part of a larger plan that could include going public via SPAC. The plan is to build a portfolio company that consolidates high-quality publishers https://www.wsj.com/...
Thomas Moore / The Hill: Axios and the Athletic talking merger
Kate Duffy / Insider: Media startup Axios is reportedly in merger talks with sports-media outlet The Athletic, and the combined company could go public
Marc Normandin / @marc_normandin: My first thought for any merger these days is “how many jobs will this cost” https://twitter.com/...
Eva Mathews / Reuters: Media firms Athletic and Axios in merger talks - WSJ
Rani Molla / Vox: Even WeWork is going public thanks to SPACs
Darin Gantt / @daringantt: Always thought there was a market for a product which combined a collection of in-depth reporting about topics of local interest such as government, education, health, sports, food, and the arts. Maybe they'd deliver it to my house every morning and I could take it to the can. https://twitter.com/...
James Surowiecki / @jamessurowiecki: Don't go public! Investors in public companies don't just want steady profits. They want steady profit *growth*, which if you're a serious journalistic enterprise is basically impossible to deliver with any consistency. https://twitter.com/...
Wolfgang Blau / @wblau: I find this a much more promising configuration than the Buzzfeed-HuffPo one. In a post-scale advertising world, what matters are high-quality global niche plays that can share their middle- and back-office cost with each other more than their audiences. https://twitter.com/...
Jessica Lessin / @jessicalessin: Fun times in the media business. Some businesses going to shift focus to scale. The most important thing is just to focus on growth. https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Only two ways to make money — one is unbundling and the other is bundling https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Scale is a goal but not a solution. Sometimes, it just multiplies problems. Smart folk here working with innovative new models, so I'll root for them. Eager to hear more about the rationale. https://www.wsj.com/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: I should caveat — unless the Group Nine SPAC IS the eventual SPAC that does the rollup here!
Mark Di Stefano / @markdistef: We're putting the newspaper back together! https://twitter.com/...
Jim Waterson / @jimwaterson: Three bullet points on US Senate filibusters followed by a 10,000 word longread on a long-forgotten Southend United footballer sounds like a media company with a future. https://twitter.com/...
@kerrymflynn: @digitalshields Yah it's so interesting to me that they're completely different Biz models!! Like nearly in all-in on one. Doesn't mean Athletic couldn't introduce ads and Axios couldn't start charging for more offerings. Just curious if it could ever mean Axios newsletters going paid 👀
@rafat: Interesting. Advertising + Subscription strength in each of those, under one roof. One is profitable, one isn't. https://twitter.com/...
Noam Blum / @neontaster: Magic 8 ball says a bunch of people bout to be laid off. https://twitter.com/...
Jake Sherman / @jakesherman: Wow. Fascinating and great idea. https://www.wsj.com/...
Robert P. Baird / @bobbybaird: Oddly unmentioned in this story: Axios and The Athletic both count the Emerson Collective (i.e., Laurene Powell Jobs) as a minority owner. https://twitter.com/...
Martin Sfp Bryant / @martinsfp: Merits or otherwise of a SPAC aside, Axios and the Athletic is a good combo. https://twitter.com/...
Colleen Long / Associated Press:
Dominion Voting Systems files a $1.6B defamation suit against Fox News for alleging it rigged the 2020 election — WASHINGTON (AP) — Dominion Voting Systems on Friday filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, arguing the cable news giant falsely claimed in an effort …
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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post: Fox News sued by Dominion Voting for $1.6 billion over election fraud claims
Brian Steinberg / Variety: Dominion Voting Systems Files $1.6 Billion Defamation Lawsuit Against Fox News
Insider: Dominion files $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News over election conspiracy theories
Oriana Gonzalez / Axios: Dominion files $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News
Tom Porter / Insider: Laura Ingraham cut Trump off when he tried to repeat false claims the election was stolen, as Fox News faces defamation lawsuits
Jordan Williams / The Hill: Dominion files $1.6B suit against Fox News over election fraud claims
Oliver Darcy / CNN: Dominion Voting Systems sues Fox News for defamation
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite: BREAKING: Dominion Sues Fox News For $1.6 Billion Over 2020 Election ‘Lies’
Susan Heavey / Reuters: Dominion Voting Systems sues Fox News for $1.6 billion over election claims: AP
Thom Geier / The Wrap: Fox News Slapped With $1.6 Billion Defamation Suit by Dominion Voting Systems
Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo: Dominion Slaps Fox News With $1.6 Billion Defamation Suit
@thedailybeast: “They are already back on top,” noted a Fox News insider. “They'll settle for like $200 million—about two months profit. They know they can now weather this too. The evil empire.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Fox News reply to $1.6B Dominion lawsuit over false election claims: “FOX News Media is proud of our 2020 election coverage, which stands in the highest tradition of American journalism, and will vigorously defend against this baseless lawsuit in court.”
Joyce Alene / @joycewhitevance: Dominion will have to prove Fox defamed then with “actual malice,” that Fox knew that the reporting was false or acted with reckless disregard to its truth. Should be interesting since Sidney Powell says everyone should have known her stories weren' true. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Laurence Tribe / @tribelaw: Fox News will no doubt claim the 1st Amendment gives it an impenetrable shield against liability for defaming Dominion with claims it had to know were fake. But that shield isn't as absolute as Fox might wish. This will be an important case to watch. . . https://www.axios.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: And scene. Here is my Sway podcast with the Dominion Voting CEO talking about his plans to do just this: https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Keith Olbermann / @keitholbermann: BREAKING: Between this suit and the similar one from Smartmatic, the anti-democracy lying of Fox News could cost Rupert Murdoch and his minions $4,300,000,000. It's a start #BuryFoxNews https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Colleen Long / The Colorado Sun: Denver-based Dominion Voting sues Fox News for $1.6B over 2020 election claims
Brendan Morrow / The Week: Dominion sues Fox News for $1.6 billion over ‘false story of election fraud’
Jim Bazn / @jamesbazan: Fox had already established it had the right to lie to viewers. Can Fox also defame for profit? “'This was a conscious, knowing business decision to endorse and repeat and broadcast these lies in order to keep its viewership,' said attorney Justin Nelson, of Susman Godfrey.” https://twitter.com/...
@nytimes: Google Podcasts is distinct among major platforms in its tolerance of white supremacists, pro-Nazi groups and conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones. The company says it does not want to limit what users can find. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Shira Ovide / @shiraovide: sending this straight to @evelyndouek for content moderation watch. https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Jolly / @davidjollyfl: An incredibly consequential legal case for modern media. https://apnews.com/...
@mmfa: We've compiled instances of Fox News figures echoing Sidney Powell's false claims about Dominion and the 2020 election here: https://www.mediamatters.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
S.V. Dte / @svdate: What is the cost/benefit analysis on this? Did Fox make at least $1.6 billion more in ad revenue by spreading Trump's election lies? https://apnews.com/...
Dennis Herring / @dcherring: How quickly will FOX settle? https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post:
At Biden's first press conference, no reporters asked about the pandemic; he was asked at least 10 times about the surge of migrants at the US-Mexico border — President Biden began his first White House news conference by practically inviting reporters to ask him about the major story of the past year.
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Columbia Journalism Review, Press Watch, @sbg1, @sulliview, ABC News, CNN, @laurie_garrett, @connieschultz, @froomkin, @dassakaye, @benlabolt, @brfreed, @danahoule, @sammy_roth, @froomkin, @arrianna_planey, @biannagolodryga, @d_holli, @elongreen, @jayrosen_nyu, @drericding, @jetjocko, @sullivanamy, @jamesfallows, @drvolts and Jezebel
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Dan Froomkin / Press Watch: At Biden's first news conference, it wasn't the president who was out of touch
Susan Glasser / @sbg1: The failure to ask a single question about COVID is remarkable. By any standards, a fail.
@sulliview: Hundreds of Americans died of Covid today — but not a single reporter at Biden's first presidential conference asked about the pandemic. Good look by @farhip and @ElaheIzadi https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
CNN: The limits of journalism... This week I've been thinking about the power of journalism, but also the limitations.
Laurie Garrett / @laurie_garrett: I agree @sbg1 ! The @WhiteHouse press corps behavior & questions were lunacy. Hey Guys — there's a #COVID19 #pandemic going on! And you're asking about #MitchMcConnell & 2024 elections. Shame! https://twitter.com/...
Connie Schultz / @connieschultz: So many Americans noticed this. I've been hearing from them non-stop since this news conference ended. After a year of fear, suffering and loss, they feel invisible. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: “Other critiques of the questions was more overwrought,” writes @AaronBlake (no copyeditors at WaPo anymore?) potentially referring to mine. I disagree! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... You tell me: https://presswatchers.org/...
Dalia Dassa Kaye / @dassakaye: This is truly embarrassing. https://twitter.com/...
Ben LaBolt / @benlabolt: This is the news coming out of the press conference https://twitter.com/...
Benjamin Freed / @brfreed: The bar for today's press conference was set so low. And the White House reporters still missed it anyway. https://twitter.com/...
Dana Houle / @danahoule: Why I had zero patience for all the journalists complaining Biden hadn't had a press conference. Theoretically press conferences are valuable. But in reality reporters almost always engage in (often nitwitted) frivolity. Biggest issue facing HUMANITY doesn't interest them https://twitter.com/...
Sammy Roth / @sammy_roth: The fact that not a single member of the White House press corps asked about climate change — while two of them asked about the 2024 election — really says it all. https://presswatchers.org/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Biden essentially fact-checked @yamiche, @kwelkernbc and @nancycordes. It's supposed to be the other way around. https://presswatchers.org/...
Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD / @arrianna_planey: Pandemic's not over, y'all https://twitter.com/...
Bianna Golodryga / @biannagolodryga: Especially striking given that Biden's initial response to other policy questions made clear that his top priority now is COVID. https://twitter.com/...
Darryl Holliday / @d_holli: National media is tired of itself https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Elon Green / @elongreen: Just remember these clowns the next time they complain about a lack of press conferences https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “After four years of the media desperately needing to reality-check the president (and often failing), now the president was the one talking about things that mattered and marveling at not one but two reporters asking about the 2024 election.” https://presswatchers.org/...
Eric Feigl-Ding / @drericding: Zero questions about the pandemic in the middle of a pandemic is quite mind-bending. Many agree this is ridiculous. #COVID19 is still surging worldwide and countries are clamoring for vaccines loans from America. We cannot ignore the global crisis even if our deaths dropping. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Rogers / @jetjocko: Can't believe this sentiment now extends over two presidencies, but: Please send science reporters to the briefings. https://twitter.com/...
Amy Sullivan / @sullivanamy: Resolved: the WH press corps is a concept that needs to be either completely reimagined or discarded. https://twitter.com/...
James Fallows / @jamesfallows: Very good column by @froomkin, about very disspiriting train of questions from WH press. (Remember last week when the countdown clock was days until Biden “dared” to face the press. Jeesh.) https://presswatchers.org/...
Substack Blog:
Substack offers further clarity on its content moderation guidelines, detailing its stance on harassment, doxxing, hate, and more — In December, we published a statement about our philosophy on content moderation. In the time since, content moderation policies across all platforms have become only more consequential and debated.
Discussion:
The Miscellanies, @adders, @adders, @alexhibbert, @adders, @aaronhuertas, @guillermokrh, @ggreenwald, @kirkegaardemil, @guillermokrh, @adders, @ggreenwald, @jer_diamond, @mathewi, @adders and The Wazzock's Review
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Raf Noboa y Rivera / The Miscellanies: The sunshine of humanity, or the shadow of bigotry
Adam Tinworth / @adders: Looks like @SubstackInc is having to refine/restate its content moderation policy again: https://blog.substack.com/... The reason seems pretty clear: Graham Linehan (aka Glinner) set up shop there after he was removed from most other platforms.
Adam Tinworth / @adders: The only surprise, really, is how long this storm has taken to break over Substack. I first posted about how his presence there would eventually become an issue for the company six months ago: https://onemanandhisblog.com/ ...
Alex Hibbert / @alexhibbert: I've held off committing time to Substack before seeing how its policies play out. Here it is: https://blog.substack.com/...? Why, @SubstackInc, is your policy to disallow content that attacks opt-in membership of religions? All the other characteristics on that list are immutable.
Adam Tinworth / @adders: This is (understandably) causing a lot of tension: https://grace.substack.com/...
Aaron Huertas / @aaronhuertas: Seems like a relatively broad definition of “hate” from Substack here, which they may not have actually intended. Of course, culture warrior types repeatedly reframe hateful speech as criticizing “ideas” or “ideologies.” https://blog.substack.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Guillermo Rojas Hernandez / @guillermokrh: @SubstackInc So, this seems like Substack is opening the door to defamation of private citizens being allowed on Substack. The question of whether Substack is a publisher becomes important for liability, because if Substack can't be sued for defamation, the newsletter author can be sued.
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: @KirkegaardEmil Maybe, but the proof is in the pudding, and the person targeted by the censors has been kicked off virtually every other platform yet remains on Substack, so we'll see.
Emil O W Kirkegaard / @kirkegaardemil: Looks decidedly non-robust to me, especially the hate clause. These are weasel clauses that always end up being used. So I am not really apt to change my negative predictions on long-term viability of this platform for #freethought. The only line to do draw is legal or not. https://twitter.com/...
Guillermo Rojas Hernandez / @guillermokrh: @SubstackInc For Substack readers & operators of a newsletter, here is a good article on the history of libel & defamation laws in the US. Towards the end, they talk about the important Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. (1974) case: https://mtsu.edu/...
Adam Tinworth / @adders: And some people have already exited Substack as a result: https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/ ... (Off to @Ghost in this case)
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Good, clear, defiant statement from Substack about recent censorship demands: making clear what is and is not “harassment” & “hate speech,” defending the right to express unpopular opinions, and emphasizing they will not make decisions from public demands https://blog.substack.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@jer_diamond: This is a lot of words for @SubstackInc to say “We're still not telling you who our Pro writers are.” https://blog.substack.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Gotta give Substack some credit for leaving comments open on this post about its moderation policies: https://blog.substack.com/...
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Substack is only a “scam” in the same way that modern media is, where star pundits profit and talented reporters go underemployed
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@sacca, Link Molto Belli, @radiofreetom, @slooterman, Paul Constant Is Reading …, Foggy Outline, @espiers, bookforum.com, @emilybell, @pbump, @amywestervelt, @zachwritesstuff, @ginamizell, @alexmcdaniel, @claireefallon, @kantrowitz, @augustjpollak, @mcmansionhell, @marisa_ingemi, @jason, @tnwhiskeywoman, @ericlevitz, @thrasherxy, @edroso, @kyleaglaser, @jilliancyork, @annehelen, @jilliancyork, @delia_cai, @lizzieohreally, @lizzieohreally, @davidfolkenflik, @stevemullis, @mollywood, @mollywood, @caseyjohnston, @mollywood, @caseyjohnston, @sacca, @mollywood, @sacca, @cameronwilson, @thrasherxy, @jowrotethis, @sethwemerson, @goldietaylor, @lindseyadler, @davegershgorn, @howelloneill, @milehighrobert, @hannahrkeyser, @patrick_hruby, @davidubben, @benpopper, @rachelmetz and @adavidhalejoint
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@sacca: Even if the Substack/newsletter economics are a wash, a lot of reporters will make the jump just so they don't have to deal with their shitty editors. (Employed journalists: Be sure to switch to your burner account before hearting this.)
Pietro Minto / Link Molto Belli: Link Molto Belli e Substack
Tom Nichols / @radiofreetom: If you're one of the many younger people all bitched out about how unfair the world is because no one's paying you to be a writer, @EricLevitz has some tough love that you need to read here: https://nymag.com/...
Sara Luterman / @slooterman: Editors make my writing tighter, more compelling, more comprehensible to a general audience, and harder to argue against. I am baffled by all of these dudes who feel like they're “oppressed” by editors. https://twitter.com/...
Paul Constant / Paul Constant Is Reading in Seattle: Sorry, Substack — I've been double-posting my monthly newsletters, sending from both Substack and Revue simultaneously.
Matt Boothman / Foggy Outline: A note from backstage — All right, luvvies? My next newsletter isn't due for another couple of weeks …
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: If anything, I'd say Substack exposes the people whose editors have been doing a lot of heavy lifting this whole time. https://twitter.com/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: In my limited experience reporters who think their editors are shitty are those most in need of editing. Even shitty editing tends to improve their copy https://twitter.com/...
Philip Bump / @pbump: Say you don't know anything about journalism without saying you don't know anything about journalism. https://twitter.com/...
Amy Westervelt / @amywestervelt: The individual superstar brand thing is the measure of success. So if you don't want to do that, if you stick to the work, it's possible, but you'll never make as much money. And you'll routinely have your work cribbed by the people who focus on brand-building.
Zachary Siegel / @zachwritesstuff: My editors are mostly very thoughtful and work hard to make my work better. This notion that we loathe our editors is weird. https://twitter.com/...
Gina Mizell / @ginamizell: Actually, the WORST thing about writing my Substack newsletter was NOT having an editor. They make a writer's work better. Period. https://twitter.com/...
Alex McDaniel / @alexmcdaniel: editors aren't the problem. their bosses are. https://twitter.com/...
Claire Fallon / @claireefallon: yes, it's true, i started a substack because i hated* my shitty editors** *got laid off from **increasingly rare media job https://twitter.com/...
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: We're still talking about this? https://twitter.com/...
August J. Pollak / @augustjpollak: The collapse of every publication in this country over the last 30 years can be directly traced to the vain, impatient gluttony of venture capitalists, so naturally venture capitalists have concluded the problem with journalism isn't about money, there's just too many editors https://twitter.com/...
Kate Wagner / @mcmansionhell: uh I started a substack bc what I wanted to write wasn't profitable from a conventional sports journalism perspective. I wish to Christ that that publication had an editor too. https://twitter.com/...
Marisa Ingemi / @marisa_ingemi: as a freelancer my favorite part is working with so many great editors and learning from them. as journalists we would not grow or improve without the tireless work of editors. https://twitter.com/...
@jason: This is an incorrect take Substack allows you to own the emails & the Stripe relationship with your readers so u can leave the platform ANY TIME & take your entire business with you! Substack has ZERO recourse to keep you on the platform if you want to pay 99% less on @Ghost! https://twitter.com/...
Eric Levitz / @ericlevitz: Between 2008 and 2019, the number of newsroom jobs in the United States fell by 26,000, according to the Pew Research Center. Over that same period, roughly 50,000 journalism majors were graduating into the U.S. labor market every year. https://nymag.com/...
Dr. Steven W. Thrasher / @thrasherxy: “Be your own boss!” they said about every industry, as they controlled all the means of production and asked you now to also forfeit the legal protections and social safety net of being an actual employee
Roy Edroso / @edroso: @thrasherxy Me, I'm Substacking because The Man can't deal with my realness. https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Glaser / @kyleaglaser: Like any profession, there are good editors and bad editors. That said, their importance cannot be understated. They improve your work, inspire story ideas, help you when you're stuck and make the final product shine. If anything, our industry needs more editors, not fewer. https://twitter.com/...
Jillian C. York / @jilliancyork: As a pretty in-demand (these days) writer, I couldn't possibly disagree more—I love my editors. If anything, it'd be to escape the drudgery of invoicing, but my writing would be the worse for it. https://twitter.com/...
Anne Helen Petersen / @annehelen: For every Greenwald or Taibbi there are ten freelancers who couldn't pay bills on $400 (high end!) for a reported piece, whose beats are considered too niche, etc etc
Jillian C. York / @jilliancyork: Can we stop being precious about what Substack, etc are going to create? They're going to create BLOGGERS, remember those? We were annoying. Some of us went mainstream, some of us went full circle to Substack, some of us still blog. Everything old is new again.
Lizzie O'Leary / @lizzieohreally: @sacca One of the biggest issues is honestly that two thirds of the ad dollars go to FB and Google. This is not about small ball quibbles over headlines. It's a much more existential question. The industry, save a few standouts, is in crisis.
Lizzie O'Leary / @lizzieohreally: @sacca No. That's really not how it works. Also not sure what you mean about “results.” Dumb stories? Not really, no. This is a very good overview of the economics here. https://www.brookings.edu/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: We all need editors. Also, don't believe the economics would be even a wash for vast majority of journalists. That said - anyone wants to make the jump, should! https://twitter.com/...
Steve Mullis / @stevemullis: @sacca @caseyjohnston @mollywood Who are you talking about? I feel your narrative is built off of some very specific examples but I don't know what those examples are. And if the examples are the high-profile folks who left for substack b/c of “shitty editors,” they aren't really emblematic of the industry.
Molly Wood / @mollywood: @sacca Respectfully, I'm gonna heart all the journalists in the comments defending our editors. We all know who made us better at our jobs. The executives? Burner time.
Molly Wood / @mollywood: @sacca Burner-approaching comment but erm I did leave a “best” paper for public media ... for ... reasons ...
Casey Johnston / @caseyjohnston: @mollywood @sacca the way media companies are run as businesses and the fact that they've been cannibalized and undermined by tech companies are the problems, not editors
Molly Wood / @mollywood: @sacca @caseyjohnston That doesn't always lead to the best decisions. We didn't start “engagement” as a metric, but here we are competing on that metric, and trying to figure out a better one. But “journalists who left for substack to have more opinions” isn't a reliable marker for overall health.
Casey Johnston / @caseyjohnston: @sacca @mollywood i mean if you are saying editors are one step closer to being on the hook for executing the publication's aims then i guess we agree!! but they sure don't set the agenda, and as a writer i would agree with others replying that “editor” isn't one to one with “shitty person”
@sacca: @mollywood I hear you. What's changed is how those jobs have merged. Even (especially?) at the “best” papers. Sure there are editors who counsel/nurture. But when the piece gets run through the grinder? Both sides-ism isn't a reporter's instinct. Bleeds/leads isn't how writers write.
Molly Wood / @mollywood: @sacca @caseyjohnston Still maybe an oversimplification. If you mean “executive editor” and you mean a specific paper, then maybe. But even so you're still going to find that we'll defend editors to the death. It's a deeply thankless job. And this business is tough and trying to survive.
@sacca: @caseyjohnston @mollywood I don't disagree except that the editor's job is more a part of, or maybe consequence of, the business/company than ever.
@cameronwilson: my favourite thing is venture capitalists pontificating about how journalism should work, fundamentally misunderstanding the industry, but also knowing that they're just going to keep spending millions of dollars to shape it that way regardless :)
Dr. Steven W. Thrasher / @thrasherxy: This is a major goal of Substack: “disrupt” the concept of a journalist as a “job” with “colleagues” and a “union” and a “pension” and “healthcare,” and to be replaced by the Avon/Uber/Cutco model of everyone going it alone, w/o the burden of “editors” or “health insurance” https://twitter.com/...
@jowrotethis: I love my editors. I know that's not the case everywhere but I just want to shout out the hardworking, wise, great editors out there. They exist! And are very necessary! https://twitter.com/...
Seth Emerson / @sethwemerson: I know very few if any writers who don't want an editor. We need the editing. We need the feedback. We need smart people to bounce story ideas off, to prevent us from pursuing and posting bad stories, and to make our good stories even better. https://twitter.com/...
Lindsey Adler / @lindseyadler: Editors are the line of defense between raw work and readers. They see a story forensically after you've completely lost track of what it says. My editor basically serves as the bumpers that keep me on track. Writers who hate editors are self-important buffoons. https://twitter.com/...
Dave Gershgorn / @davegershgorn: agree, all my editor ever wants is pictures of spiderman and its absolutely unacceptable https://twitter.com/...
Patrick Howell O'Neill / @howelloneill: journalism without strong editors is so, so much worse https://twitter.com/...
Robert Sanchez / @milehighrobert: The journalists I've known who think their copy doesn't need to be touched (or thought through better) are usually the worst journalists, BTW. https://twitter.com/...
Hannah Keyser / @hannahrkeyser: that's what they always say about working in journalism: that full-time employment is burden people are eagerly opting out of to go it alone. https://twitter.com/...
@patrick_hruby: Putting aside this foolishness about editors, almost no *reporters* are going to voluntarily leave the relative handful of remaining reporting jobs for newsletters. The economics don't work! https://twitter.com/...
David Ubben / @davidubben: I'm sure some writers feel this way. Show me a writer who thinks they would be better off without editors and I'll show you a writer who's deeply immature and overconfident. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Popper / @benpopper: I miss having an editor TBH. Not a shitty one, but the good ones push you to pursue better pieces, abandon stale ones, and craft something great. Plus, they make you seem like a great writer and rarely get a byline! https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Metz / @rachelmetz: wow, no. nope nope. i have worked with some bad editors, but i have mostly worked with great editors (and occasionally amazing editors) who make my reporting sharper, my storytelling smoother, and my mistakes fewer(er). it's a difficult job and i detest this type of criticism. https://twitter.com/...
J. Clara Chan / The Wrap:
The Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune had a $50M drop in revenue in 2020, according to the president of the newspapers' parent company — The Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune lost “north of $50 million” in revenue in 2020, company leadership told staffers at an all-hands meeting on Thursday.
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Matt Karolian / @mkarolian: Transforming a legacy media company into a modern one is one of the hardest jobs there is https://www.thewrap.com/...
Sharon Waxman / @sharonwaxman: Major scoop by @jclarachan who has audio and graphic of $50 million loss at the LA Times in 2020. Disturbing for the future of a paper LA badly needs. https://www.thewrap.com/...
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Interviews with 14 current and former Medium employees portray a dysfunctional company; sources say Medium has 700K paid subs, suggesting $35M+ in revenue — I. — Last week, a partnerships manager at Medium working with the White House found that there was a strange problem with the platform …
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Jacob Silverman / @silvermanjacob: imagine punting on 700k subscribers because it doesn't represent google-worthy scale https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Tom Jones / Poynter: How did Joe Biden and the media do in Biden's first press conference as president?
Amanda Katz / The Interpreter: If you don't fit in your pants, f*** the pants
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: Ultimately, staffers I spoke with wished Williams would take responsibility for his stop-start flirtations with journalism, and acknowledge where he himself had fallen short. https://twitter.com/...
Felix Salmon / @felixsalmon: @CaseyNewton Casey, are you saying here that Medium has at this point burned through all of the $132m and then some? https://twitter.com/...
Ahmed Al Omran / @ahmed: Medium's original journalism was not converting free readers to paid subscribers. Surprisingly, what seemed to convert readers most reliably were random stories on the digital content farm that had sprung up around its high-gloss publications https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Jacob Bacharach / @jakebackpack: A $35M print/online media company could employ 350 people at $75K per year, spend 10% on occupancy and general admin, $4M on travel, advertising, etc., and *still* turn a $1.25M profit!
Jacob Bacharach / @jakebackpack: I'd argue and say, what's wrong with an idea for a $50M regional enterprise with steady margins?
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: There's a strong norm against journalists caring about journalism business models, but in this day and age you owe it to yourself to understand how your employer makes money (or hopes to) and how your work figures into that.
Barry Petchesky / @barry: This just keeps making me madder. I think the main reason Defector has been successful so far is that our standards for success are “pay for itself and its employees, not make a billion dollars.” https://twitter.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: The thing is, Medium isn't a bad business. It has more than 700,000 paid subscriptions, I'm told, putting it on track for more than $35 million in revenue. That's pretty healthy for a media company. It's just not a great tech business. Especially if you co-founded Twitter. https://twitter.com/...
Jane Friedman / @janefriedman: Must-read piece on the “technology product” of Medium: “Medium's original journalism was meant to give shape & prestige to an essentially random collection of writing.” This is what investors spent $132m on, last funded in 2016 (!): https://www.theverge.com/... by @CaseyNewton
Aleksander Chan / @aleksnotalex: “scale” has poisoned all of our media owners into thinking $35m in revenue isn't “enough,” even though it would pay hundreds of people living wages and benefits. everything has to be an empire or it's nothing at all. what medium has done (again) is shameful https://twitter.com/...
Jacob Bacharach / @jakebackpack: I've written about this before: the financialized mindset has essentially eliminated the idea of the successful mid-sized enterprise from the American business vernacular. When I was in B-school, for example, all our projects were basically, “Come up with a $1B idea.” https://twitter.com/...
Rebecca Klein / @rklein90: When you dig deeper into so many of these media stories you find that the company actually is making money, just some dude wants more, more, more https://www.theverge.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: And here it is: my best effort to understand what happened after Medium invested millions in its latest embrace of original journalism, only to begin pulling back when Ev Williams didn't like what he saw. https://www.theverge.com/...
Pablo Andreu / Adweek: Medium's Anti-Ad Stance Continues to Fail
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: scale obsession has ruined so many things! https://twitter.com/...
Gady Epstein / @gadyepstein: So Ev's brilliant plan in 2020 was to copy the Forbes of 2010 https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: A tech company is not like an editorial company. They are different creatures. The way they create value will not align. Doesn't matter how many editorial people a tech company hires. Eventually it will get down to the business of paying for fewer of them. https://www.theverge.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: This is just superb by @CaseyNewton on the sitch at this tiresome platform pretending to be a real media company for far too long. Just call it Demand Media 2 and be done with it: The mess at Medium - Platformer https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Hamza Shaban / @hshaban: It's as if business people fixated on gargantuan scale and Facebook-like profits should not be in charge of journalism outlets: https://twitter.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: @felixsalmon I believe so yes
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: @felixsalmon I guess I meant, you could theoretically build a healthy business from a base of $35M in recurring revenue
Felix Salmon / @felixsalmon: @CaseyNewton I mean, that's a shit ton of losses! Revenues alone don't make you “pretty healthy” unless you have some kind of path to profitability
Craig Mod / @craigmod: Am I being nuts or is 700k paying subscribers pretty impressive for a publisher with no singular prestige publication? (for comparison — nytimes has about 7.5M subs ... but also price paid per sub much higher than medium — ~$17/mo vs $5/mo for medium) https://www.theverge.com/...
Mat Honan / @mat: Great look into the (most-recent) Medium fiasco from Casey: https://twitter.com/...
Clara Jeffery / @clarajeffery: “Like Blogger and Twitter before it, Medium will bet on unpaid labor and algorithms.” https://www.theverge.com/...
Anthony DeRosa / @anthony: “Hits would be made either because we managed to get a prime spot on Google or because something made it big on Facebook,” https://www.theverge.com/...
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: Good reporting and context on the Medium voluntary buyouts by @CaseyNewton https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Teddy Schleifer / @teddyschleifer: If Ev Williams was going to fund Medium himself, might as well have incorporated Medium as a nonprofit. He could've secured himself a nice tax deduction!
Teddy Schleifer / @teddyschleifer: This situation is a bit different from the other cut-backs we've seen recently, but it's another example of billionaire funders showing that they are not the saviors for media companies that are losing money. https://twitter.com/...
Nilay Patel / @reckless: Big @CaseyNewton on what happened at Medium - copublished with @platformer because the future of the media is always just finding new and better ways to collaborate and reach audiences! https://www.theverge.com/...
Amanda Katz / @katzish: Also this reporting by @CaseyNewton is excellent and I have no idea how he did it so fast, do read https://www.google.com/...
James Ball / @jamesrbuk: Venture capitalism and journalism are fundamentally incompatible. It will be better for both when we accept that. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Weinman / @sarahw: “At a certain point you're not nimble and iterating. You're just floundering and failing to follow through and execute.” https://www.theverge.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: To wit, so much about this Medium news sucks. https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Noah Berlatsky / @nberlat: this is all depressing. https://www.theverge.com/...
Alicia Kennedy / @aliciakennedy: ...this is why a bunch of editors and writers now have to find something else to do https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Chayka / @chaykak: “what once had been publications are now likely better thought of as topic pages.” @CaseyNewton on Medium https://www.theverge.com/...
Matt Weinberger / @gamoid: It's cool that the only two outcomes are “one billion daily active users” or “it's garbage, trash it” https://twitter.com/...
Alex Heath / @alexeheath: Medium has over 700,000 paying subs, netting out to roughly $35 million in yearly revenue, reports @CaseyNewton. And CEO Ev Williams has been personally funding the company since its last VC round in 2016 https://twitter.com/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: Feel enormously sorry for the people losing jobs at Medium, and particularly sorry that @ozm is effected - some of the best independent technology coverage out there. @WillOremus and team really deserve better https://www.theverge.com/...
Anne Helen Petersen / @annehelen: Just bleak, bleak shit from @CaseyNewton on the End of Medium: III https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Kim Zetter / @kimzetter: This is really sad. Medium amassed a collection of top-notch editors and writers, only to have the rug pulled out from under them. Here's a great piece from @CaseyNewton giving the backstory on the demise of Medium's editorial experiment https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Noah Shachtman / @noahshachtman: the juiciest thing you'll read all night: @CaseyNewton on the (latest) clusterfuck at medium https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Aaron Huertas / @aaronhuertas: good lord, just make it a unionized non-profit and go start a new business https://www.platformer.news/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Katie Drummond / @katiedrumm: Ev Williams should be so ashamed of himself. https://www.platformer.news/ ...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: It's notoriously difficult to earn a profit from journalism. But the billionaire Williams started to give up barely a year in. Random user-generated posts turned into hits by Google were a more reliable source of revenue. And so it was time to downsize. Again. https://twitter.com/...
Casey Johnston / @caseyjohnston: What a lede by all time goat @CaseyNewton https://www.platformer.news/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: @ryanlawler this is .......... an excellent question lol
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: The story starts in a strange place: with President Joe Biden's official Medium account being served porn recommendations. Highbrow mixed with lowbrow; unpredictable algorithms at work. Medium in a nutshell. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Lawler / @ryanlawler: @CaseyNewton Is the implication that the new owner of the POTUS account was being served recommendations meant for the previous tenant?
Andréa López / @bluechoochoo: Anyway @CaseyNewton did an awesome job on that Medium article. A lot of people transitioned from journalist to pundit when they went the indie newsletter route. But he keeps getting us new interesting info.
@choire: It's easy to think of Medium as a failed series of journalism companies, and that's true, but it's also a failed series of technology companies. https://www.theverge.com/...
Dieter Bohn / @backlon: Here's @CaseyNewton on the mess at Medium. It starts with a story about how “'President Joe Biden is Being Served Erotica on https://medium.com/,' the staffer complained in an internal post” and only gets more eye-popping from there. https://www.theverge.com/...
American Press Institute: Need to Know: March 25, 2021 — OFF THE TOP — You might have heard: Negativity …
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Will Oremus / @willoremus:
[Thread] Will Oremus, who has covered platforms, online speech, and tech policy for OneZero, is accepting a buyout from Medium
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Sarah Emerson / @sarahnemerson: As you may know, Medium offered buyouts to all of its editorial staff and my last day will be Friday, April 7. I'll be a free agent after that. https://twitter.com/...
Will Oremus / @willoremus: In @ozm, we built in 2 years a publication we could all be proud of. Did a lot of work we believed in, some that made a real difference, some that was just fun. OneZero went from a dumb name that confused everyone to a dumb name that stood for thoughtful, original tech journalism
Will Oremus / @willoremus: It's been a great ride at @ozm. Could not have asked for a sharper or funner group of journalists to work w/ than @yeahyeahyasmin @SarahNEmerson @SarahFKessler @rachelkalson @PeterSlattery3 @mvzelenks @meganmorrone @emilylmullin @drewcostley @dlberes @davegershgorn & @bcmerchant.
Ken Yeung / @thekenyeung: I'm so sorry, Will. Wishing you the best in the future and reach out if I can help in any way! Someone, please snatch Will up. He's an amazing journalist and worth your investment. https://twitter.com/...
Blake E. Reid / @blakereid: I don't understand anything about what Medium is supposed to be but any company that lets @WillOremus go is doing it wrong https://twitter.com/...
Scott Nover / @scottnover: Will is one of my absolute favorite writers on media and tech. Hiring him should be a no-brainer. https://twitter.com/...
Will Oremus / @willoremus: After April 7, I'll probably take a little time to be a house-husband—while starting to look around for the next employer crazy enough to think critical, careful journalism about tech and society is something worth paying for. My DMs are open.
@revkin: This please, yes. After his hiatus, @WillOremus will be a great catch. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Emerson / @sarahnemerson: I joined @ozm in 2019 and published work I'll be proud of for the rest of my career. Together, we built a scrappy publication from the ground up and never stopped fighting to cover this industry critically and fairly. It took passion, stubbornness, empathy, and risk.
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Will's work is so consistently good and someone whose writing I'll read wherever he goes. Hire him 👇🏻 https://twitter.com/...
Seth Fiegerman / @sfiegerman: One of my favorite tech writers to read. Hire him, people. https://twitter.com/...
Will Oremus / @willoremus: It's sad to know that work was no longer seen as a sound investment for the company, but that's how the journalism business often goes these days. I'm grateful for the time and resources we were afforded, all the same.
Jacob Silverman / @silvermanjacob: Will is great and so are the many journalists leaving Medium. Wishing folks there, at HuffPo, Mel, and elsewhere all the best during a tough couple weeks. https://twitter.com/...
Farhad Manjoo / @fmanjoo: please everyone in journalism: hire Will and everyone else who was doing great work at medium for a fairweather billionaire. @ozm and the others were fantastic publications, this industry sucks, these people are awesome https://twitter.com/...
Eric Holthaus / @ericholthaus: For the past decade, since back when we both worked at @slate, Will has been one of my favorite tech writers. Now's your chance to hire him. He's an irreplaceable fountain of truth in a fast-changing world. https://twitter.com/...
Abby Ohlheiser / @abbyohlheiser: There's a short list of tech reporters whose bylines I will regularly check to make sure I haven't missed anything and Will is one of them hire him https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Lehrich / @jesselehrich: ugh — Will is one of my absolute favorite tech reporters, always putting forward nuanced & insightful analysis on complex topics. https://twitter.com/...
Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
The Kevin Roose column in NYT that was auctioned as an NFT has sold for around $560,000, with proceeds going to NYT's Neediest Cases Fund — How much is an NFT of an article in The Paper of Record worth? — SHARE All sharing options — The New York Times has entered the NFT game …
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Bloomberg, Crypto Art News, @tedgioia, @davedufournba, @fmanjoo, @darrenrovell, @dgardner, New York Times, @revkin, @walsha, @annpettifor, @highkin, @silviakillings, @karlbode, The Hill, @nytimes, Mediaite and Insider
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Ted Gioia / @tedgioia: There's no money in journalism—unless you turn your articles into NFTs. https://twitter.com/...
Dave DuFour / @davedufournba: And this is why we can't possibly raise taxes. https://twitter.com/...
Farhad Manjoo / @fmanjoo: damn why do substack when columns are selling for 500k?? how much could I get for selling a @kevinroose column? https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Darren Rovell / @darrenrovell: Seems about right. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gardner / @dgardner: I'm starting to think this whole NFT thing is Bolshevik agitprop. https://twitter.com/...
Allan Walsh / @walsha: This is not a fad and not going away. NFT's are here to stay. https://twitter.com/...
Ann Pettifor / @annpettifor: Tulips and the South Sea come to mind...The New York Times turned an article about NFTs into an NFT and sold it at auction for about $560,000 https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @luxury
Sean Highkin / @highkin: Who wants to buy my Top Shot story? https://twitter.com/...
Silvia Killingsworth / @silviakillings: I'm going to NFT my consciousness because I no longer want to bear ownership of it https://twitter.com/...
Karl Bode / @karlbode: I can't shake the feeling we're accelerating toward some greedy idiot supernova https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: NYT column sells for more than $500,000 at NFT auction
@nytimes: A column about NFTs written by our tech columnist, @KevinRoose, was turned into an NFT and put up for auction. Today it sold for 350 ETH, or about $560,000, with proceeds going to the Neediest Cases Fund. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
Dozens of journalists at STAT join the Boston Newspaper Guild, which represents Boston Globe employees — Some pretty big news from the Boston Newspaper Guild: “Dozens” of journalists at Stat, the health- and life-sciences digital news organization that's part of Boston Globe Media Partners, are becoming part of the union.
Kevin Rector / Los Angeles Times:
An LA Times and a Spectrum News reporter were briefly detained while covering unrest in LA; police said reporters were subject to dispersal orders in the area — Los Angeles Times reporter James Queally was briefly detained by the Los Angeles Police Department as he was covering a protest in Echo Park on Thursday evening.
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Kevin Rector / @kevrector: UPDATED story on @JamesQueallyLAT being detained covering a protest tonight: “I was pretty calm, and they weren't violent or anything, but I was like, ‘Check the credentials, L.A. Times.’ No answer. ‘Check the credentials, L.A. Times.’ No answer.” https://www.latimes.com/...
Seema / @latseema: This is infuriating. Neither @JamesQueallyLAT nor Kate Cagle should have been interrupted while doing their jobs, much less detained. And it makes you wonder what happens to folks without lawyers and status. https://www.latimes.com/...
Ross A. Lincoln / The Wrap: Multiple Journalists Arrested While Covering Protests in Echo Park
Libby Denkmann / LAist: Echo Park Lake Homeless Community Forced Out: What We Know So Far
Steven Waldman / Inside Philanthropy:
Local outlets can make donations a persistent, ongoing revenue stream, alongside subscriptions and advertising, as Report for America host newsrooms have shown — Across philanthropy there's a growing recognition that local journalism has an important role to play in strengthening our communities …
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@localmediarocks, @stevenwaldman, @jenniferpreston, @stevenwaldman, @raju, @mattderienzo, @groundtruth, @emilyroseman1 and @laurenmckown
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Nancy Lane / @localmediarocks: Our 16 lab for journalism funding media partners are on track to raise $2.25 million by 6/30. We can't wait to share best practices. It was great to have @stevenwaldman on our lab call today. @frankwords @joaquinalvarado https://twitter.com/...
Steven Waldman / @stevenwaldman: Common back-handed compliment about nonprofit local news sites: “Theyre doing great work, & philanthropy can bridge the gap—until we figure out a new business model.” But adding philanthropy IS the new business model for local news #3rdRevenueStream https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/ ...
@jenniferpreston: In agreement with @Report4America co-founder @stevenwaldman that contributed revenue is the #3rdRevenueStream for local journalism. https://twitter.com/...
Steven Waldman / @stevenwaldman: I'm going to stop calling donations for local news “philanthropy” and start calling it “the third revenue stream.” Community support—small donations, membership, community foundations etc—can be enduring and reliable. #3rdRevenueStream https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/ ...
Raju Narisetti / @raju: Implied but unsaid here: you need to really build the muscle to turn philanthropy into a recurring revenue stream. It is as vital a core strength, as your newsroom, tech, product or analytics. There is a reason why @ProPublica is miles ahead on this front https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/ ...
Matt DeRienzo / @mattderienzo: For local newsrooms, philanthropy isn't charity, it's revenue. https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/ ... Report For America has shown the way on this, as has @LocalMediaAssoc under @localmediarocks' leadership!
@groundtruth: Philanthropy is sometimes thought of as a temporary fix for journalism's failing business model. @Report4America's @StevenWaldman points to growing evidence that it's a reliable revenue stream more outlets should embrace. https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/ ... via @InsidePhilanthr #100andChange
Emily Roseman / @emilyroseman1: Agreed with @stevenwaldman's thesis here — philanthropy IS a part of the revenue model for high-quality news. @INN's Index report last year found that 48% of total nonprofit news org revenue comes from foundations (https://inn.org/...) https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/ ...
Miles Parks / NPR:
Misleading articles linking vaccines and death are among the most popular vaccine stories online as multiple outlets write about the same small number of deaths — The odds of dying after getting a COVID-19 vaccine are virtually nonexistent. — According to recent data from the Centers …
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American Press Institute: Need to Know: March 26, 2021 — OFF THE TOP — You might have heard: Headlines lacking context …
Alexander / @alexanderrusso: Misleading stories about vaccine deaths going viral may help explain how concerns about teacher deaths and school safety became so dominant. Fixing social media is one solution. Another is limiting the number of misleading stories in the first place. https://www.npr.org/...
E. Rosalie / NOVEL SCIENCE: Threats, Fact-Checks, and Reads #3.25.21
Alexander / @alexanderrusso: The sources of these stories are respectable media outlets like the South Florida Sun Sentinel, whose article on a post-vaccine death was republished in the Chicago Tribune was one of the most-shared that NPR found https://www.npr.org/...
Claire Wardle / @cward1e: The harm done by some of this reporting needs to be understood. Understandable why people would click b/c all of us want to know we'll be safe. But the corrections never get the same engagement. *And* headlines on these types of stories get weaponized by bad actors. https://twitter.com/...
@nprpolitics: A new NPR analysis finds that articles connecting coronavirus vaccines and death have gone viral at a dramatic rate, illustrating a trend in social media misinformation of bad actors turning to cherry-picked truths to drive misleading narratives. https://www.npr.org/...
Amber Naslund / @ambercadabra: This is why it matters when you don't read or think critically and share stuff without verifying it first. https://twitter.com/...
Gary Bennett / @drgarybennett: Facts are [too often] behind paywalls. Lies are free. I'm looking at us, science community. https://twitter.com/...
Clint Watts / @selectedwisdom: “'Lying Through Truth': Misleading Facts Fuel Vaccine Misinformation” - Calamitous messages (Fear-based) have always trended, but implications this time threaten our ability to end the pandemic. https://www.npr.org/...
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Board member of UK's Society of Editors quits, saying she doesn't believe it will ever deliver a clear statement on its views on diversity in UK media — Eleanor Mills resigns over society's failure to rebut its denial of claims about bigotry in media — The organisation representing …
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