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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Substack strikes deals with trans writers, amid claims it supports allegedly anti-trans writers and is a kind of lucrative off ramp for “cancel culture” victims — A company that makes it easy to charge for newsletters has captivated an anxious industry because it embodies larger forces and contradictions.
Discussion:
Nieman Lab, @benyt, @katienotopoulos, The Guardian, Mediaite, Where's Your Ed At, @hunterw, @anthony, @benyt, @ezraklein, Politico, @ezraklein, @davewiner, @kittypurrzog, @mccarthyryanj, @caseynewton, @crtejada, @seamushughes, @mattyglesias, @karaswisher, @athertonkd, One Man & His Blog, @dlind, @clairlemon, @sethamandel, @nicktagliaferro, @harrysiegel, @ggreenwald, @katienotopoulos, @taylorlorenz, Boing Boing, Connecting Thoughts, Quorum, @mattyglesias, @wolfejosh, @jamesfdennin, @jordanzakarin, @espiers, @espiers, @chrisalbon, @joshsternberg, @espiers, @lwoodhouse, @dnvolz, @lindseyadler, @benjamingoggin, @alicefromqueens, @lisatozzi, @eisingerj, @will_bunch, @bernybelvedere, @davidsirota, @jmrivera02, @davidgross_man, @taylorlorenz, @digiphile, @joshconstine, @parkermolloy, @waxpancake, @nytimes, Inkcap, @nbashaw, @karaswisher, @emilygould, @noonanjo, @sorayaroberts, @mathewi, @sarthakgh, @blgtylr, @bro_pair, @davidyelland, @lukeplunkett, @ggreenwald, @oneunderscore__, Sunday Snapshots, bookforum.com, The Wazzock's Review and Wild West, more at Techmeme »
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: Gawker stalker: The news-and-gossip site that helped define the modern content web is coming back to life
Katie Notopoulos / @katienotopoulos: If you are spending MORE than this, I want to talk to you for a story. Who is the biggest substack paypig???? https://twitter.com/...
Justine Landis-Hanley / The Guardian: ABC says 75% of complaints about Prince Philip coverage related to interruption of TV drama Vera
Marisa Sarnoff / Mediaite: Gawker is Getting Another Re-Launch, Under a Former Gawker Editor
Hunter Walker / @hunterw: As @benyt notes, I am taking my talents over to Substack ... https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Anthony DeRosa / @anthony: The real news here isn't Substack but that Gawker is returning, under @leahfinnegan https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ezra Klein / @ezraklein: It's not an accident that round 7,000 of this discourse was kicked off by a @benyt piece in the Times. That piece wouldn't have been such a focal point if he'd sent it out as a newsletter. What's that worth to Ben? I dunno, but something. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ezra Klein / @ezraklein: Substack/Ghost/etc are a pretty straightforward tradeoff. Institutions bring advantages and disadvantages. For writers with large, loyal audiences, you make less money than if you directly monetize your audience, but you get more audience, resources, editing, legal help, etc.
Dave Winer / @davewiner: Someday users of network services, having been burned by lock-in before, will only choose a service when they're sure there's a way out. https://twitter.com/...
Katie Herzog / @kittypurrzog: To protest the fact that Substack is paying these people I don't like over a half million dollars I'm moving Moose Nuggets to Ghost unless they also pay me a half million dollars https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ryan McCarthy / @mccarthyryanj: The first piece to suggest that Substack's software is already a quickly becoming a commodity. Very curious what else they end up offering to justify taking a 10% cut of writer revenue. Still strikes me as an odd pricing structure for software https://www.nytimes.com/...
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: A little news about @platformer phase 2, from @benyt. I'll have more to say in tomorrow's (free!) edition ☺️ https://twitter.com/...
Carlos Tejada / @crtejada: “I turned down an offer of an advance well above my Times salary, in part because of the editing and the platform The Times gives me, and in part because I didn't think I'd make it back — media types often overvalue media writers.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Seamus Hughes / @seamushughes: Pacer substack once a week which roundups every story missed on federal court records? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: I'm still mad about Yglesias https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: I am unduly excited by this @leahfinnegan situation https://twitter.com/...
Kelsey D. Atherton / @athertonkd: this is a super-weird way to frame “a writer banned by multiple platforms uses Substack to publish his harassment campaigns, against Substack's terms of service” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Adam Tinworth / One Man & His Blog: How newsletters will inevitably change media and the power of journalists
Dara Lind / @dlind: Reading this is the first time I've felt a sense of FOMO about the new wave of creator-driven journalism. But I need us to have more honest conversations about how to support the kind of work that doesn't lend itself to communitas. https://warzel.substack.com/ ...
Seth Mandel / @sethamandel: The migration to substack is real, ppl dropping spots at NYT for it https://twitter.com/...
@nicktagliaferro: Peter Thiel's assistants scurrying frantically to find enough sacrifices to calm their master in the wake of this news https://twitter.com/...
Harry Siegel / @harrysiegel: What man said to the universe in 1899 and to venture capital in 2021. h/t @benyt https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Among the many interesting points about Substack in @benyt's article — including why it's such a threat to corporate journalists — is the fact that it's now offering prominent trans writers huge advances beyond what they earn, and they're taking them. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Katie Notopoulos / @katienotopoulos: Ben's dedication to slipping in scoops to parenthetical is truly something https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: “The biggest threat to Substack is unlikely to be the Twitter-centric political battles among some of its writers. The real threat is competing platforms with a different model.” https://t.co/...
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing: Substack, Ghost and the revenge of the bloggers
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: Love @benyt's penchant for dropping unrelated scoops midway through his columns. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Josh Wolfe / @wolfejosh: My unbundled NYT subscription on SubStack of dearly departed writers is getting more expensive than my NYT subscription.
James Dennin / @jamesfdennin: One thing I really like about this piece aside from the handful of good people getting paid is coining “confrontational libertarian” in describing glenn greenwald, which is maybe the best and most printable euphemism for “huge asshole” I've ever heard https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jordan Zakarin / @jordanzakarin: Prediction: Whichever newsletter platform makes it easiest to transport subscription and payment aspects from Substack will win out. I have hundreds of paid subscribers on Substack, too many to risk screwing up a transfer, so I'm a little stuck. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: Btw, this week's newsletter is a kind of navel gazing piece about Substack and where I think they might be disrupted themselves, with secondary bundling. (The downside of my own Subtack is that sometimes the things that interest me are of interest to 0.00035 of my readership.) https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: I know this is not @benyt's intent, but this column kind of demonstrates why “cancel culture”, as deployed by the people who whine the most about it, is meaningless: https://www.nytimes.com/...
@chrisalbon: 2011: A generation of bloggers become journalists. 2021: A generation of journalists become bloggers. https://twitter.com/...
@joshsternberg: “media types often overvalue media writers.” — the truest sentence. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: I predict they'll be re-bundled somewhere. https://twitter.com/...
Leighton Akira Woodhouse / @lwoodhouse: I thought the new Gawker was Teen Vogue https://twitter.com/...
Dustin Volz / @dnvolz: it will be interesting to see how long it takes for these views to remain tenable on substack, as every other profit-seeking platform has had to eventually reckon with extremist voices and adopt content moderation https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Lindsey Adler / @lindseyadler: If you ever wonder why every journalist on this website seems completely out of their minds at all times, it's because our stupid industry works like this. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Benjamin Goggin / @benjamingoggin: This will be the third effort from Bustle to relaunch Gawker. The first ended when staff quit over qualms with leadership in Jan 2019. The second ended in July 2019 when Bustle laid off the new staff they hired to oversee a relaunch. https://twitter.com/...
@alicefromqueens: Rumors that the new Gawker offered me a job are true. It is not—repeat: NOT— true that I have accepted it. Yet. https://twitter.com/...
Lisa Tozzi / @lisatozzi: I literally said whoa! several times while reading this. 🍨 https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Eisinger / @eisingerj: 90% was so incomprehensible in might as well have been in Aramaic. I pity anyone who doesn't actually live or breathe this stuff. But I'm pretty sure I didn't miss that there was no reference to any of these mighty thinkers breaking any piece of news or holding power to account. https://twitter.com/...
@will_bunch: The @benyt story on Substack is good, as expected, yet doesn't answer my biggest ?s, — a) What happens to legacy newsrooms if they're seen only as brief pit stops on the road to $$$ b) How many subscriptions before normal people are tapped out? 10? 20? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Berny Belvedere / @bernybelvedere: Looks like Arc didn't make the cut for this NYT Substack write-up. That's fine. 150 years from now, the Times will issue a big fat correction saying, “We're sorry to Arc for not including them and bow in abject shame before their omnipresent rule.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Sirota / @davidsirota: For those reading @benyt's piece that mentions the @DailyPoster - yes, we are finalizing some very big plans. We will have some news soon. Subscribe here to help us get there - we're almost there: https://www.dailyposter.com/ ... https://www.nytimes.com/...
Joshua Rivera / @jmrivera02: an under-discussed aspect of the substack thing is that writers deeply want to be cool https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Grossman / @davidgross_man: a fun thing about this article is that one of the journalists mentioned within was fired after 11 incidents of plagiarism and you could never guess which one! the future of journalism https://www.nytimes.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: “This new ability of individuals to make a living directly from their audiences isn't just transforming journalism....Substack embodies this cultural shift, but it's riding the wave, not creating it.” https://t.co/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: “This new ability of individuals to make a living directly from their audiences isn't just transforming journalism. This power shift is a major headache for big institutions. Substack embodies this...shift, but it's riding the wave, not creating it”—@benyt https://www.nytimes.com/...
Josh Constine / @joshconstine: This is when journalists going indie goes from being a “fascinating trend” to firmly being an existential crisis for publications. Turns out, like record labels, they were keeping most of the profits earned by their star creators. https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: Taylor, yesterday one of the “Pro” writers over there offered a “solution” to “the trans question.” Not sure “awesome” is the word I'd go with to describe genocidal hatemongering, but ok. https://twitter.com/...
Andy Baio / @waxpancake: Buried in @benyt's new article about Substack is this little parenthetical. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@nytimes: “The story of Substack, the company, is interesting and, of course, meaningful to its investors. But the shift in power toward individual writers and direct payments has broader implications,” our media columnist @benyt writes. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nathan Baschez / @nbashaw: Good coverage of Substack Pro by the one and only @benyt https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: .@benyt: Substack has captivated an anxious industry becuz it embodies larger forces & contradictions. For one, the new media economy promises both to make some writers rich & to turn others into the content-creation equivalent of Uber drivers https://www.nytimes.com/...
Emily Gould / @emilygould: as someone who has had a Wordpress blog, a blog job, two “editorial” jobs at startups that were going to reinvent/disrupt some aspect of traditional publishing, an app, a Kickstarted website, a Tumblr, a tinyletter and a substack my insight is that (falls over, dies of old age)
Soraya Roberts / @sorayaroberts: this is the most important part of the substack article — that someone said no and why. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Something I find depressing is that most of the big-name Substacks are pure opinion. There are exceptions of course (Judd Legum, Casey Newton) but I would love to see more newsletters that do real journalism. And I say this as a former opinion columnist https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh: ""The mindshare Substack has in media right now is insane," said @CaseyNewton, who left The Verge to start a newsletter on Substack called Platformer. Substack, he said, has become a target for “a lot of people to project their anxieties."" https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brandon / @blgtylr: Calcs out, everyone. I love it when media, mess, and math connect. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dan O'Sullivan / @bro_pair: *meadow soprano voice* The mafia just brings certain modes of conflict resolution from all the way back in the old country. From the poverty of the Mezzogiorno... https://twitter.com/...
David Yelland / @davidyelland: Journalism dead? No way. @FT, @thesundaytimes will win awards for Cameron/Greensill and @nytimes reports on what @SubstackInc means for talented writers. https://twitter.com/...
Luke Plunkett / @lukeplunkett: get absolutely fucked https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: That the NYT & @benyt are transphobic in general, or that this article is in particular is, is facially laughable. It's good to remember how some people casually and recklessly hurl this accusation, or weaponize it to smear people or just for fun: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: Charlie is wonderful and I'm excited for his new project. https://twitter.com/...
Sidhartha Jha / Sunday Snapshots: The Hedgehog and the Fox — Greetings from Washington, D.C.! — The days are long and the weeks are short.
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Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain:
Charlie Warzel announces he is leaving NYT Opinion to launch a new Substack called Galaxy Brain, aiming to forge a deeper relationship with readers — Why I'm leaving (The) New York (Times). — 3 hr ago — Hello! Hi! I have a new job — you're looking at it. Welcome to Galaxy Brain, my humble internet outpost.
Discussion:
@cwarzel, Nieman Lab, @apompliano, @tomgara, @lukeoneil47, @jayrosen_nyu, @rachaelrad, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @joannastern, @anniemurphypaul, Garbage Day, @caitleg, @annehelen, @joshconstine, @chrismessina, @chrislhayes, @jamesrbuk, @kimzetter, @sewellchan, @ljin18, Today in Tabs, @cwarzel, @cwarzel, @chriscillizza, @janecoaston, @soledadobrien, @glennf, @briancgrubb, @__aston__ and @slpng_giants
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Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: Since I've been scooped by @benyt... it's personal news time. Starting tomorrow, I'm leaving the New York Times and going independent. A full-time newsletter where I'm gonna get weird. I am absolutely terrified and excited. Welcome to Galaxy Brain! https://warzel.substack.com/ ...
Brad Esposito / Nieman Lab: “Maybe the kind of reform that we want comes from creators being like, 'I'm done'”
Pomp / @apompliano: Just read @cwarzel's piece on why he is leaving NYT to go independent. Not sure why, but this part really hit home. Just a guy standing in front of the internet asking us to pay him for his work. Well, I'm subscribing. You can too here: https://warzel.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Tom Gara / @tomgara: Has been true for a while that its become so much easier & cheaper to start your own thing, find your audience/customers, actually make money from it etc, but feels like a) it hit a critical mass over the last couple years and b) got supercharged by COVID supercharging everything https://twitter.com/...
Luke / @lukeoneil47: Have long thought legacy media should just let their talent cook. More than just a home for people “asking the trans question” all the good people on Substack say they never got to write the weird interesting stuff they always wanted. How many have to say that before they get it? https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: This is @cwarzel, who went Substack today, on writing for the New York Times. “A huge chunk of my readers on a given story were there because they wanted to use what I'd written — usually just the headline — as ammunition in a culture war battle.” https://warzel.substack.com/ ...
Rachael Horwitz / @rachaelrad: “What I love about the internet — and what keeps me writing about it — is how, if you're thoughtful and intentional and don't compromise your principles, you actually can forge a meaningful connection with other people.” https://warzel.substack.com/ ...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Going to miss @cwarzel dearly but glad we're all still colleagues on the internet https://warzel.substack.com/ ...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: This is awesome https://t.co/... https://twitter.com/...
Joanna Stern / @joannastern: Soon half of my old media paycheck will go to great writers and their Substacks. https://twitter.com/...
Annie Murphy Paul / @anniemurphypaul: I've never heard anyone say this, and I totally agree. “What I love about the internet is how, if you're thoughtful and intentional and don't compromise your principles, you actually can forge a meaningful connection with other people.” @cwarzel https://warzel.substack.com/ ...
Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: 🎶 Staring at the blank page before you 🎶
@caitleg: I have always been more than a little baffled that leadership at outlets like NYT and Washington Post haven't figured out how deeply problematic it is that people write headlines and tweets about controversial articles, seemingly without ever reading those articles. https://twitter.com/...
Anne Helen Petersen / @annehelen: You should read Charlie's thought process on this — and, of course, subscribe!! https://twitter.com/...
Josh Constine / @joshconstine: Mr. @cwarzel is irreplaceable for the NYT - a technology philosopher with a loyal fan base that's probably as excited as I am to see him “get weird” beyond the word count and objectivity restrictions. https://warzel.substack.com/ ...
@chrismessina: Leaving media institutions and going independent seems to have an R₀ greater than COVID... It's the #SubstackEffect! @tshovers just left @danprimack's @AxiosReCap and someone else just left another big tech podcast in the last week... (Couldn't find the reference). https://twitter.com/...
James Ball / @jamesrbuk: I have quite mixed feelings on this but it's the most interesting Substack/Substack-adjacent journalistic experiment I've seen yet (the thread has details) and has multiple people who are well worth reading and listening to involved. So it's well worth watching... https://twitter.com/...
Kim Zetter / @kimzetter: Other writers/pubs on SideChannel are: Platformer @CaseyNewton https://platformer.news/ Galaxy Brain @cwarzel https://warzel.substack.com/ ... Newcomer @EricNewcomer https://www.newcomer.co/ Hot Pod @nwquah https://hotpodnews.com/ Culture Study @annehelen https://annehelen.substack.com/
Sewell Chan / @sewellchan: “After a decade of writing mostly for the internet, I've grown increasingly exhausted by the notion of Chasing Audience™ or pinning every single story to a specific, perpetually-closing window of the news cycle.” @cwarzel: https://warzel.substack.com/ ...
Li Jin / @ljin18: apparently i have this effect on journalists where after they talk to me once they decide to quit their jobs and join the ~passion economy~ congrats @cwarzel!! https://twitter.com/...
Rusty Foster / Today in Tabs: April of the Pigs — “Word up!” It is I, the Gray Lady, with a “shoutout” to all my pay pigs.
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: for those who were blissfully not online on sunday evening...i have some news! taking a pretty big leap here and id be absolutely thrilled of you join me (more in the thread below!!) https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: I should also say that...if you want to cook up some weird, fun projects/partnerships/whatever. I made this decision because I love to try new things and figure out different ways to tell big stories. my email is firstlast at gmail. get in touch!! https://twitter.com/...
Chris Cillizza / @chriscillizza: I just bought an annual subscription to @cwarzel's new “Galaxy Brain” Substack. Charlie is one of the smartest people writing about the intersection of technology, the Internet and media in the country. You should subscribe! https://warzel.substack.com/ ...
Jane Coaston / @janecoaston: I have finished booing lustily at this news and now will subscribe to Charlie's Substack. https://twitter.com/...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: Why the headlines matter. https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Fleishman / @glennf: This reminds me so much of the blogging days, but with a reasonable top tranche of people legitimately earning 100x what they would have in, say, 2005. This chart from that era is very useful: https://www.sifry.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brian Grubb / @briancgrubb: i'm excited about charlie getting weird because charlie wrote one of the most important pieces in internet history https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Aston Motes / @__aston__: Every top writer is leaving the big media companies to go indie. Now just waiting for the same thing to happen at the major record labels... https://twitter.com/...
@slpng_giants: .@cwarzel is required reading for anyone who is terrified about and/or curious about and/or furious about the state of play in technology and all of the ways we interact with it. What he and the other hi-quality journos are doing with this effort should be really interesting. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Grothaus / Fast Company:
Bustle Digital Group confirms it is reviving Gawker under former Gawker writer Leah Finnegan — Over the weekend The New York Times published an interesting read by Ben Smith on the rise of Substack and its effect on the publishing industry. Yet buried deep in the piece was another little gem …
Discussion:
MediaPost, @leahfinnegan, @chaykak, @petersterne, @mcoatney, @keithpandolfi, @thousandfabrics, @kod, @leboism, @laurkrouse, @imjasondiamond, @stevekovach, @neontaster, The Wrap and @alexweprin
Discussion:
Ray Schultz / MediaPost: Gawker Is Returning With Leah Finnegan As Editor
Leah Finnegan / @leahfinnegan: the rumors are true.. https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Chayka / @chaykak: Gawker had something right that you give a bunch of writers as long a leash and as little intervention as possible, and sell the ads. Prob would have killed with member subscriptions; now Defector is one of the biggest indie subscription sites https://twitter.com/...
@petersterne: @espiers And Nick was “intensely relaxed” about the prospect of Gawker writers unionizing. The big Q I think is what Bryan wants — is he really committed to reviving the anarchic spirit of Gawker, or does he just want to create a Bustle Digital Group site with a Gawker dot com URL?
Mark Coatney / @mcoatney: Re the @benyt Gawker reboot news: Be careful. My theory is that this whole accursed timeline is a branch from a rupture that occurred on 8/22/16 when Gawker shut down. Who knows what will happen if we restart it?
Keith Pandolfi / @keithpandolfi: Am I the only one who doesn't feel a pressing need for Gawker's return?
Kevin O'Donnell / @kod: i still sometimes robotically type gawker dot com into my browser yay https://twitter.com/...
David Lebo / @leboism: It's worth remembering that Gawker was a bad website. They were unjustly taken down by a vindictive billionaire ghoul, yes, but also: it was a skeevy, combative website that tried to play dumb while actively hurting people https://twitter.com/...
Lauren Krouse / @laurkrouse: Ooooh, the many, many times my partner has said, “That sounds like a Gawker piece. But there's no Gawker. We need Gawker.” https://twitter.com/...
Jason Diamond / @imjasondiamond: I know the last attempt to reboot Gawker was an absolute flaming mess, but I'm pretty excited for this. Getting somebody who was involved with the old site and also the executive editor at The Outline is good. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Kovach / @stevekovach: For real this time? https://twitter.com/...
Noam Blum / @neontaster: The snider cut. https://twitter.com/...
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: Gawker Is Set for Relaunch - Again
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Vox Media says it's buying Cafe Studios Inc., which publishes podcasts including one hosted by ex-US attorney Preet Bharara; Café Studios will remain as a brand — Bharara, a former Manhattan U.S. attorney, will join Vox Media as a host and creative director
Discussion:
Hollywood Reporter, Vox Media, Variety, New York Post, @matthewkeyslive, @jayshams, @nishatjaan, The Hill, @mtmoe1, @karaswisher, @ashleyrcarman, @jason, @nwquah, @alissamarie, @preetbharara, @jbenton, @preetbharara, @yashar, @joycewhitevance, @akruglov, RAIN News, @mtmoe1, The Wrap and MediaPost
Discussion:
Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter: Vox Media Buying Preet Bharara's Cafe Studios
Todd Spangler / Variety: Vox Media Acquires Preet Bharara's Podcast Company
Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: Vox Media to acquire Cafe Studios Inc, the podcast company that helped Preet Bharara transition from a U.S. Attorney into a virtue signaler. https://www.wsj.com/...
Jacob Shamsian / @jayshams: Still blows my mind that Preet Bharara decided to be a podcast mogul instead of a Democratic political superstar or the mayor of NYC https://www.wsj.com/...
Nishat Kurwa / @nishatjaan: “I want to do things of quality in this space like I did in the law,” (Bharara) said. “And we felt that Vox Media was the best fit for that.” https://twitter.com/...
Marty Moe / @mtmoe1: Cafe's expert voices on law, policy, and business, including @preetbharara and @AnneMilgram, join top Vox Media audio talent like Sean @sean rameswaram, Decoder's Nilay Patel (@reckless), and Pivot co-hosts @KaraSwisher and @Profgalloway. https://www.voxmedia.com/... via @voxmedia
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: So excited for @PreetBharara to join @voxmedia — pro tip: essentially do not take your twitter selfie cues from @profgalloway https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Carman / @ashleyrcarman: here's the press release. most interesting is that cafe offers paid monthly podcast subscriptions and vox is going to “explore” membership options https://www.voxmedia.com/...
@jason: Congrats to my pal @Bankoff on acquiring one of the four podcast I actually pay for! Well done @PreetBharara! Jim is a great steward of brands 👏👏👏 https://twitter.com/...
Alissa Wilkinson / @alissamarie: I assume this means I can Slack my grammar pedantry to @PreetBharara now instead of putting it out here on main https://twitter.com/...
Preet Bharara / @preetbharara: I can't express how excited I am to bring @TamaraSepper & the whole Cafe team to @voxmedia under the leadership of @Bankoff & @mtmoe1. Special shout out to my brother @vinitbharara for taking a chance and making all of this happen. 🙏🙏 https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: One for photojournalism academics: Compare/contrast how two @voxmedia @Bankoff acquisitions were photographed. WSJ's Bankoff/Bharara looks like the opening spread of an Esquire feature. NYT's Bankoff/Wasserstein looked like it was from the weddings page. https://t.co/... https://twitter.com/...
Preet Bharara / @preetbharara: Some infrastructure news: https://twitter.com/...
Yashar Ali / @yashar: NEWS Vox Media said it is acquiring Cafe Studios Inc., publisher of a popular podcast hosted by former Manhattan U.S. attorney @PreetBharara, part of a bid to expand its growing audio business. @BenMullin scoops https://www.wsj.com/...
Joyce Alene / @joycewhitevance: Former Manhattan U.S. attorney Preet Bharara's Cafe Studios (where I have the honor of writing a monthly column) has been acquired by Vox media, in a move the signals how important & popular the podcasts Preet has created are. https://www.wsj.com/...
Alex Kruglov / @akruglov: Smart buy for @voxdotcom. @PreetBharara and his brother have built something special. It folds nicely into what @Bankoff and crew are cooking up. Let's see if this all gets SPAC'd. I'm sure @pkafka and @danprimack will have something to say on the matter. https://twitter.com/...
Brad Hill / RAIN News: Vox Media acquires Preet Bharara's Cafe Media
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is in early stages of developing a product that combines an Apple TV with a HomePod speaker and has a FaceTime camera and smart home functions — - Company also exploring Amazon-like speaker with iPad as screen — Apple has trailed Amazon, Google in the connected home market
Discussion:
Victoria Song / Gizmodo: Apple, Combining a TV Box and Smart Speakers Isn't Going to Fix Your Smart Home Woes
Mark Gurman / @markgurman: News story: Apple is working on a new flagship smart home device — a combo Apple TV box and HomePod with a camera. Plus, a a HomePod with an iPad attached by robotic arm, similar to the Amazon Echo Show, also being explored. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Bloomberg: Apple Working on New Apple TV With Integrated HomePod Speaker and FaceTime Camera
Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: Apple TV with camera and built-in HomePod speaker reportedly in the works
David Pierce / @pierce: Apple TV + HomePod + Camera for video calling on your TV is a thing a LOT of people might actually want, as long as it's not $500 https://twitter.com/...
Steve Moser / @stevemoser: When I found the camera framework references in tvOS I thought that was for a nest hub competitor but an Apple TV set top box that can do video conferencing sounds interesting. Microsoft had something similar when Xbox Kinect was a thing but this rumor includes a smart speaker.🤔 https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Baumgartner / Light Reading: Apple pursuing Apple TV-HomePod combo - report
Adrian Weckler / @adrianweckler: If they do it well, potentially a big seller. https://twitter.com/...
Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken: The tech industry has been trying to turn the TV into a videoconferencing machine forever—some of you will even remember Cisco's Ume—but it hasn't really stuck. I think the idea still has tons of untapped potential. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Apple said to be developing Apple TV/HomePod combo and iPad-like smart speaker display
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: Apple Building TV With Built-In Camera, Speaker: Report
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
In a letter, Lachlan Murdoch dismisses ADL complaint and claims a review of Tucker Carlson's comments found Carlson “decried and rejected replacement theory” — New York (CNN Business)Fox Corporation chief executive Lachlan Murdoch dismissed the Anti-Defamation League's demand …
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@adl: “How can they countenance their network being used to mainstream the most violent and toxic ideas?” @JGreenblattADL makes clear with @BrianStelter: @FoxNews can no longer tolerate @TuckerCarlson's embrace of white supremacist ideals. https://twitter.com/...
Roco Rocha / @rochadietz: Great rebuttal: @JGreenblattADL to FOX @TuckerCarlson use of the white nationalist conspiracy theory “the great replacement”. Knowledge of these white power dog whistles helps counter their normalization. This dangerous race-baiting extreme rhetoric fuels hatred & violence. https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: A decade ago, when late Fox News chief Roger Ailes called two top NPR execs Nazis (both Jewish), Ailes sort of apologized - not to them, but to then ADL chief Abe Foxman. Ailes is gone. The concerns resurface. https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Eric Boehlert / @ericboehlert: he's an awful, awful person; https://www.cnn.com/...
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: Like clockwork, the Murdochs emerge to say that Tucker did nothing wrong (by lying about what he said). https://www.cnn.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Vivian Schiller / @vivian: It's heartening to see @JGreenblattADL and the @ADL take a principled stand. Especially since Greenblatt's predecessor, Abe Foxman, was the ultimate Fox News apologist. https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: News: In a letter to ADL, Lachlan Murdoch dismissed the demand Fox fire Tucker Carlson. Murdoch indicated a “full review” of Carlson's comments found no wrongdoing & noted ADL once honored his father. ADL responds it “would not” honor Rupert Murdoch today. https://www.cnn.com/...
Philip Bump / @pbump: Went through letters written by Tucker Carlson's immigrant greatx3-grandfather to point out how views of immigrants change over time — and within families. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Philip Bump / @pbump: About Tucker Carlson, “replacement” theory — and his great-...great-grandfather, immigrant Cesar Lombardi. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
W. Kamau Bell / @wkamaubell: Tucker Carlson done been a white supremacist and he also done been every white supremacist's favorite mouthpiece. Anybody saying differently is only revealing themselves as a white supremacist. Thank you for coming to my tweet.
Alex Howard / @digiphile: This week, @TuckerCarlson was more explicit on air about “replacement.” White nationalists celebrated mainstreaming the theory. A racist dog whistle became a bullhorn. In this thread, @JYSexton unpacks the history of “America First.” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mike Fleming Jr / Deadline:
Will Smith says his film Emancipation will not shoot in Georgia due to the state's new voting law; Apple bought the film last June for a reported $130M — Said star Will Smith and director Antoine Fuqua: “At this moment in time, the Nation is coming to terms with its history and is attempting …
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Brent Lang / Variety: Will Smith, Antoine Fuqua Won't Shoot ‘Emancipation’ in Georgia Because of Voting Restrictions
Chelsey Cox / USA Today: Georgia voting law explained: Here's what to know about the state's new election rules
Nicole Sperling / New York Times: Will Smith's production pulls out of Georgia, citing the state's voting law.
Leia Idliby / Mediaite: Will Smith's Slavery-Era Drama Becomes First Production to Pull Out of Georgia Over State's Voting Law
Grace Kay / Insider: Will Smith's Apple film ‘Emancipation’ pulled production from Georgia due to its voting restrictions
Blue Telusma / TheGrio: Will Smith, Antoine Fuqua move ‘Emancipation’ shoot out of Georgia due to voting laws
Jon Blistein / Rolling Stone: Will Smith Pulls ‘Emancipation’ Production From Georgia in Protest of New Voting Law
Ethan Anderton / /Film: Antoine Fuqua and Will Smith Pull ‘Emancipation’ Production from Georgia Due to New Voting Restrictions
Nicholas Reimann / Forbes: Will Smith Movie ‘Emancipation’ Leaving Georgia Over Voting Restrictions—See Full Boycott List
Charles Barfield / The Playlist: Will Smith & Antoine Fuqua Move ‘Emancipation’ Production Out Of Georgia After New Voting Laws Pass
Alex McLevy / The A.V. Club: Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua's Emancipation will no longer film in Georgia following voting restrictions
Ethan Bearman / @ethanbearman: 🚨Georgia is paying 💰 the price for voter suppression. Apple's “Emancipation” won't be filming in Georgia. https://deadline.com/...
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
Vice launches an affiliate vertical called Rec Room, after a post during its six month trial led to more than 600 sales with a conversion rate of 9% — Refinery29 set the example for what a successful commerce strategy looks like at Vice Media. With that inherited foundation …
Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News:
Reporting on tech from India “feels like having a front-row seat to the country's rapid slide into authoritarianism”, as Big Tech companies remain silent — I love writing about tech. But covering how a Hindu nationalist government is using it to destroy a secular democracy isn't what I signed up for.
Discussion:
@beingmirchi, @nehapoonia, The India Cable, @nilanjanaroy, @roopalisriv, @deblebrown, @reckless, @sbengali, @pranavdixit, @shivamshankars, @carolecadwalla and TechCrunch
Discussion:
Varun Mirchandani / @beingmirchi: “I can't remember a time when simply existing in this country was so Stressful”. This piece by @PranavDixit is sooooo spot on!! Even if you're not in tech media, or any media for that matter, I urge you to go ahead and give it a read! https://twitter.com/...
Neha Poonia / @nehapoonia: It's not easy being a journalist in India- most news days are unending cycles of doom & gloom. But @PranavDixit's piece here speaks for so many of us who're struggling to come to terms with the steady erosion of democracy we're reporting on everyday https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Siddharth Varadarajan / The India Cable: The India Cable: More Vaccines Ahead, But After The Peak; India is Rafalized
Nilanjana Roy / @nilanjanaroy: “Writing about technology from India now feels like having a front-row seat to the country's rapid slide into authoritarianism.” “Unless the courts step in, our internet is now in shackles.” @PranavDixit's powerful essay, on the speed of darkness: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Roopali Srivastava / @roopalisriv: “I can't remember a time when simply existing in this country was so stressful...Seriously, how is everyone..coping with the constant glut of bad news every single day?” - @PranavDixit anguished words in this brilliant essay speak for many of us, not just those in media... https://twitter.com/...
Deborah Brown / @deblebrown: Read this brave & painful piece from @PranavDixit on reporting on tech as India's democracy unraveled. His point that technology can't be separated from the broader political (& economic) environment is a crucial reminder for digital rights advocates, tech journalists, etc https://twitter.com/...
Nilay Patel / @reckless: This is a powerful, beautiful, heartbreaking piece from @PranavDixit https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Shashank Bengali / @sbengali: “For years, I tried to live in the comforting fiction that what was happening in India and what was happening in the world of tech were separate things — but that isn't true anymore.” A searingly personal essay from @PranavDixit https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
@pranavdixit: I love tech. But over the last few years, writing about it from India has meant having front-row seats to an unspooling democracy. It's been scary and stressful, and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it, so I wrote a personal essay about it. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
Shivam Shankar Singh / @shivamshankars: Brilliantly written! Initially, few saw the dystopia being created around us. More see it more clearly everyday. The consequences are dire, and there's honestly very little one can do. The constant stress of an upcoming train wreck is a feeling I'm sure many can relate to. https://twitter.com/...
Youkyung Lee / Bloomberg:
Kakao Entertainment, the digital comic and movie unit of South Korean mobile giant Kakao, says it is considering a US IPO, seeking a valuation of $17.8B+ — - Kakao's digital comics arm seeks more than $17.8 billion value — KakaoBank and Kakao Pay are other Kakao units that could list
Daniel Tilles / Notes From Poland:
Polish court suspends state oil giant Orlen's purchase of hundreds of local media outlets, as it considers competition watchdog's authorization of the takeover — A court in Poland has suspended the purchase of hundreds of local newspapers and websites by state oil giant Orlen.
Discussion:
IPI / @globalfreemedia: #Poland: In a significant ruling for #mediafreedom, a court ruled today that purchase of newspaper group @Polska_Press by state-owned refiner PKN Orlen should be suspended, presenting a major obstacle for PiS' strategy for media capture & ‘repolonisation’ https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@notesfrompoland: A court in Poland has suspended state oil giant Orlen's purchase of hundreds of local media outlets following an appeal by human rights commissioner @Adbodnar. Bodnar warns that the takeover could “transform the free press...into propaganda bulletins” https://notesfrompoland.com/ ...
Wall Street Journal:
Erroneously unredacted court docs reveal Google ran a secret program called “Project Bernanke” that used past bid data to boost its win rate in ad auctions — Program used past bid data to boost tech giant's win rate in advertising auctions, according to court filing
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MediaPost, MarTech Today, @lebassett, Ad Age, @swodinsky, @tkawaja, @can, New York Post, Gizmodo, @repkenbuck, @doctorow, @keachhagey, The Verge, @robpegoraro, @neil_irwin, @humblestudent, @nycmikehenry, @modestproposal1, Engadget, Insider, @aaronwall, @jason_kint, AppleInsider, @domdelport, @pernillet, @hatr, @paulnemitz, @ryanjtracy, @jeffhorwitz, @wsj, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @jason_kint and @benmullin
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Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost: Project Bernanke Is Not Google's First Secret
Laura Bassett / @lebassett: In case you missed this infuriating story over the weekend: Google got caught running a secret project to rig ad auctions in their favor, which basically stole money from news publishers. Code name “Project Bernanke” https://www.wsj.com/...
Alexandra Jardine / Ad Age: Google's ‘Project Bernanke’ accused of unfair advantage in digital ad buying: Monday Wake-Up Call
Shoshana Wodinsky / @swodinsky: mfw watching reporters try parsing apart the difference b/w ad exchanges, ad networks n ad auctions while reading the latest in the texas v google case https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Terence Kawaja / @tkawaja: I'm shocked, shocked to learn Google preferences their own media with bid stream data from ad auctions. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Bovard / New York Post: News media suffering the brunt of tech titan's greed
Jody Serrano / Gizmodo: Google Used a Secret Program Called ‘Project Bernanke’ to Benefit Clients Using Its Ad-Buying System
Congressman Ken Buck / @repkenbuck: Google is once again accused of anticompetitive behavior in the advertising space. Congress must act to address their abuse of power. https://www.wsj.com/...
Cory Doctorow / @doctorow: Though Google insists that this was just an industry practice, the leaked document reveals that Google kept this a secret from publishers. Its internal presentations claim that they made $230m in 2013 alone from this practice. https://www.wsj.com/... 28/
@keachhagey: Google accidentally reveals the existence of “Project Bernanke,” a program using past bid data to boost Google's win rate in auctions, in court filing filing in Texas antitrust suit. w/ @JeffHorwitz https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Kim Lyons / The Verge: Google reportedly ran secret ‘Project Bernanke’ that boosted its own ad-buying system over competitors
Rob Pegoraro / @robpegoraro: 1) How long would a stock exchange stay in business if it employed its own brokers and self-dealt as the Texas lawsuit alleges? 2) How did the WSJ reporters not try to get a comment out of Ben Bernanke about having this secret project named after him? https://www.wsj.com/...
Neil Irwin / @neil_irwin: But why is it nicknamed for a former Federal Reserve chair who, to the best of my knowledge, has never done work on auction theory or anything similar? I WANT TO KNOW! https://www.wsj.com/...
Mike Henry / @nycmikehenry: Awesome reporting by @WSJ @keachhagey @JeffHorwitz “This week's filing, viewed by The Wall Street Journal, wasn't properly redacted when uploaded to the court's public docket.” Google's Secret ‘Project Bernanke’ Revealed in Texas Antitrust Case https://www.wsj.com/...
Modest Proposal / @modestproposal1: So many questions. Does Google have other projects named after economists or only Fed chiefs? Was someone internally like “anticompetitive bidding advantage goes brrr” so let's name it after Bernanke? https://twitter.com/...
Lauren Johnson / Insider: 1.3 million Clubhouse users' data was reportedly leaked
@aaronwall: https://www.wsj.com/... “Google for years operated a secret program that used data from past bids in the company's digital advertising exchange to allegedly give its own ad-buying system an advantage over competitors” they actually named their theft program #ProjectBernake
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Actually, one bitter comment. “Project Bernanke,” “Jedi Blue,” et al, these are all cute project code names but behind these hundreds of millions is enough $$$ to fund all of the journalists that lost their jobs in 2020. So everyone should be infuriated. /5
Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: Google gamed its ad auction system to favor its own ads, generated $213 million
Dominique Delport / @domdelport: Must Read. How duopoly behaved sometimes as a mob with your marketing $. Very insightful : @Google's Secret ‘Project Bernanke’ and ‘BlueJedi’ secret deal with @Facebook Revealed in Texas Antitrust Case - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/...
Pernille Tranberg / @pernillet: Controlling the platform & competing w its users is a bad cocktail: Google operated a secret program that used data from past bids in the company's digital advertising exchange to allegedly give its own ad-buying system an advantage, acc to court papers https://www.wsj.com/...
Hakan / @hatr: „Google's use of bidding information, Texas alleges, amounted to insider trading in digital-ad markets." via @fubits https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Paul Nemitz / @paulnemitz: How #Google drains #press' revenue : With „Google's use of bidding information ... in digital-ad markets... about what other ad buyers were willing to pay ...it could ... pay #publishers less on its winning bids." #DSA #DMA #Insidertrading #ads https://www.wsj.com/...
Ryan Tracy / @ryanjtracy: In some instances “we're on both the buy side and the sell side,” Google chief economist Hal Varian said in 2019. Asked how the company managed those roles, Mr. Varian said the topic was “too detailed for the audience, and me.” https://www.wsj.com/...
Jeff Horwitz / @jeffhorwitz: New from @keachhagey and me: A secret Google program nicknamed “Project Bernanke” used the company's proprietary ad exchange data to give its systems a leg up on competitors. We know this because Google's lawyers committed an OG Adobe PDF redaction error. https://www.wsj.com/...
@wsj: Google for years operated a secret program that used data from past bids in the company's digital advertising exchange to allegedly give its own ad-buying system an advantage over competitors, court documents show https://www.wsj.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: this lede. you really couldn't make this up. Google confirming a secret code name of “Project Bernanke” for what @matthewstoller described as “a scheme engineered by Google in which had one arm of its ad business front-running trades for ad inventory.” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: WSJ also reports that Google confirmed the existence of the deal with Facebook. Signed by Sandberg and including how the two companies would act if investigated. This matching of audiences appears to be new and seems like privacy circumvention to me. /3 https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: last comment, this amuses me. I wonder if this is the UK ISBA study. It was super good but it also found over 10% of revenue couldn't even be traced. It also showed Google participating, and of course maximizing profit, on the buying, selling and transacting. Insider trading. /4 https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: 😂 , Google, a company with more lawyers, lobbyists, communications people and money than anyone made a clerical error and leaked out sensitive information about its alleged collusion and bid rigging. /1 https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: This is consistent with the antitrust charges in the complaint and now appears to be confirmed by Google in its *supposed to be* redacted filing. Hard to understand how it's not trading on inside information. There is a nice illustration why it's problematic in the complaint. /2 https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Kulish / New York Times:
Across the US, billionaires have decided that a newspaper is an essential part of the civic fabric and are buying local papers, often with mixed results — Billionaires aren't usually cast as saviors of democracy. But one way they are winning plaudits for civic-minded endeavors is by funding the Fourth Estate.
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Ned Berke / @nberke: What's the fastest way to become a millionaire? Be a billionaire and buy a newspaper. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Stephanie Lulay / @slulay2: Are billionaires the saviors the news needs? Counterpoint: I worked for a newsroom owned by a billionaire ... until he decided he was losing too much cash + didn't want to deal w/ a union. He shuttered our newsroom overnight, putting 115 ppl out of work. https://www.nytimes.com/...
American Press Institute: Need to Know: April 12, 2021 — Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism
Tom Jones / Poynter: 3 don't-miss media stories from the weekend
Judy Trinh / @judyatrinh: Wondering what billionaire will step up to prop up newspapers in Canada...#journalism https://www.nytimes.com/...
James Pindell / @jamespindell: “And after a somewhat rockier start, experts said that Mr. Henry and his wife, Linda Pizzuti Henry, the chief executive officer of Boston Globe Media Partners, have gone a long way toward restoring that paper as well.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Edward Russell / @byerussell: “American democracy is sailing through choppy waters, and they've decided to buy a newspaper instead of a yacht.” Billionaires are saving some American dailies, but while better than hedge funds they're not always panaceas for local news. @nkulish https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael Zimbalist / @zimbalist: Hat tip to @JimFriedlich for the kicker that turned into the headline for this very timely article about billionaires buying newspapers. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mark DeSaulnier / @repdesaulnier: With the rapid disappearance of local newspapers across the country, experts emphasize that “the future of journalism lies in new forms of journalism, often as nonprofits.” #SaveLocalNews @NKulish https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matthew Rosenberg / @allmattnyt: Billionaires aren't exactly popular these days. But, as @nkulish reports, “One arena in which the billionaires can still win plaudits as civic-minded saviors is buying the metropolitan daily newspaper.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Andrew Pantazi / @apantazi: I wish this story had quotes from workers at any of these newspapers. https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Here's my latest newsletter featuring “Inside the Fight for the Future of The Wall Street Journal” https://nuzzel.com/...
Austin Bogues / @austinbogues: “It's not just, go find yourself a rich guy. It's the right rich person. There are lots of people with lots of money. A lot of them shouldn't run newspaper companies,” said Ann Marie Lipinski curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tim Franklin / @timafranklin: “American democracy is sailing through choppy waters, and they've decided to buy a newspaper instead of a yacht,” @JimFriedlich of @lenfestinst says of the trend of ultra rich buying struggling local news orgs. https://www.nytimes.com/...
M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler: “The great fear of every billionaire is that by owning a newspaper they will become a millionaire.” 📰💸 https://www.nytimes.com/...
Damon Kiesow / @dkiesow: The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world that local news media do not need local control. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@pastryplate: They're no saving a democracy... they are shaping a culture. It's the long game that only billionaires can afford. Let's see what newspapers are like in ten years... bet they'll mirror capitalist values even more... guess where unions will be... https://twitter.com/...
Sewell Chan / @sewellchan: “They've decided to buy a newspaper instead of a yacht.” A look at affluent owners who swooped in to rescue newspapers from rapacious chains. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “The advantage of a local owner who cares about the community is that they in theory can give you runway and also say, 'Operate at break-even on a cash-flow basis and you're good.'” That captures why billionaires buying newspapers is sometimes welcomed. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ben Estes / @benestes: One of the problems with newspapers these days is that they're still called newspapers https://www.nytimes.com/...
Todd Lighty / @toddlighty: Not local grandees in Chicago. Instead a Swiss billionaire living in Wyoming has stepped up. “From Utah to Minnesota and from Long Island to the Berkshires, local grandees have decided that a newspaper is an essential part of the civic fabric.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Frances Dinkelspiel / @frannydink: Great article, partly about why journalism is a public good that needs donations and philanthropic dollars to succeed. Donate please to your local paper ( including @berkeleyside and @oaklandside )to help. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ann Marie Lipinski / @amlwhere: “We've long accepted that we have no museums or opera houses without philanthropic support. I think journalism deserves the same consideration.” @nkulish talks with me and others about this pivotal moment for newspaper ownership. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Lyman / @lyman_brian: Good piece, though it's interesting that national newspapers look at “local journalism” through the prism of regional papers, with far more resources than most publications have. https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Skok / @dskok: “I think philosophically, we've long accepted that we have no museums or opera houses without philanthropic support,” said @AMLwhere. “I think journalism deserves the same consideration.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Andria Krewson / @underoak: “There are lots of people with lots of money. A lot of them shouldn't run newspaper companies. ... Sam Zell is Exhibit A. So be careful who you ask.” - Ann Marie Lipinski, curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lenfest Institute / @lenfestinst: The @PhillyInquirer was donated to The Lenfest Institute “to maintain editorial independence and maximum flexibility to run as a business while also encouraging philanthropic support.” Thoughtful @nytimes look at philanthropy in news https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ty McCormick / @tymccormick: “I think philosophically, we've long accepted that we have no museums or opera houses without philanthropic support...I think journalism deserves the same consideration.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “From Utah to Minnesota and from Long Island to the Berkshires, local grandees have decided that a newspaper is an essential part of the civic fabric. Their track records as owners are somewhat mixed, but mixed in this case is better than the alternative.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Bainum had a side arrangement with Alden CEO Heath Freeman to buy Baltimore Sun, but made his own Tribune bid after suspecting Alden changed terms
Discussion:
@jayrosen_nyu, @katerinareports, @timafranklin, @jowens510, @bangebguild, @stevedaniels27, @bgrueskin, @justingeorge, @roncharles, @ltaford and @lalpert1
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Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “When a mine is tapped out, they'll start pulling out the pillars of coal they left behind to hold the roof up. They'll get that last bit of coal out, but then the roof collapses.” An image used in this report to describe how hedge funds treat newspapers. https://www.wsj.com/...
Katerina Ang / @katerinareports: Lots of talented media reporters dropping Succession season 3 scripts today... https://www.wsj.com/...
Tim Franklin / @timafranklin: This captures the behind-the-scenes drama of the battle for Tribune — with the future of an iconic company and perhaps the direction of local news in America hanging in the balance. https://www.wsj.com/...
Jeremy C. Owens / @jowens510: How are we as an American people allowing this to happen to one of our most important local institutions? When will a Silicon Valley billionaire step up like in Baltimore (!) and Chicago? https://www.wsj.com/... #SaveLocalJournalism https://twitter.com/...
Bang-Eb Guild / @bangebguild: Neil Chase, former executive editor of Alden's @mercnews and @EastBayTimes until 2018, said he once provided a presentation to @MediaNewsGroup COO “explaining methods to boost digital subscribers, but when the meeting ended, the executive left the report lying on the table.” https://twitter.com/...
Steve Daniels / @stevedaniels27: It's a day of deep dives into dramas happening in the news world. Buried in this story is news that Swiss billionaire Wyss, if he wins @chicagotribune, plans to convert it to a non-profit. What would the colonel say?? https://www.wsj.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: It would be quite a moment if Patrick Soon-Shiong, the savior of the LATimes, is the one to let Tribune papers fall into the clutches of Alden Capital. Via @lalpert1 https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Justin George / @justingeorge: Thankful to Stewart Bainum, who recognizes newspapers' important role in society, for standing up against Heath Freeman & the Alden hedge fund, whose track record has been to scavenge & plunder as much profit out of newspapers rather than reinvesting in them. Free the Sun! https://twitter.com/...
Ron Charles / @roncharles: “Whether the decline of this once-towering American newspaper chain accelerates rapidly or is meaningfully reversed will be determined in the next few weeks.” https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Edmund Lee / New York Times:
Inside a power struggle at WSJ between editor Matt Murray and publisher Almar Latour over how the paper should remake itself to attract new digital readers — A special team led by a high-level manager says Rupert Murdoch's paper must evolve to survive. But a rivalry between editor and publisher stands in the way.
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Media Nation, @edmundlee, @dmitryshishkin, @jbarro, @margotpatrick, Poynter, @ronlieber, Columbia Journalism Review, @raju, @jayrosen_nyu, @danielleiat, @nickkristof, @samhaselby, @briannawu, @knottmatthew, @mylesudland, Sree's Sunday Note, @niubi, @markberman, @davecbenoit, @karaswisher, @karaswisher, @fvogelstein, @jayrosen_nyu, @janemayernyer, @matthewstoller, @ryanchittum, @sdkstl, @tonyromm, @fenitn, @kvox, @janebsinger, @jenrossa, @jswatz, @moorehn, @krmaher, @adrianweckler, @sherman4949, @nytimes, @picardonhealth, @andreasharsono, @brianstelter, @bradleyhope, @bradleyhope and @tomgara
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Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: .@WSJ is one of the nation's great papers. @rupertmurdoch considers it the crown jewel of his empire. Most of its readers are older white men, and it needs to evolve if it's going to survive. But a rivalry between the editor & publisher stands in the way. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dmitry Shishkin / @dmitryshishkin: 2 things to say about this feature on @WSJ ongoing digital transformation. The winner there is undoubtedly impressive @louisestory, whose Medium posts about content, product and data alignment, execution + strategy are second to none in our industry. 1/2 https://www.nytimes.com/...
Josh Barro / @jbarro: The idea that the Wall Street Journal should try to be more like The New York Times — or that it should publish more of the same “social justice” framed content that is everywhere for free — seem like terrible business ideas. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Margot Patrick / @margotpatrick: Tfw your front page story is art in a NYT article but your name is all blurry https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Tom Jones / Poynter: Calls for Fox News to fire Tucker Carlson grow louder The Anti-Defamation League has called for Carlson to be fired after he brought up on air the white supremacist ‘replacement’ theory.
Ron Lieber / @ronlieber: This story is so good, and the leaked internal report is popcorn city. The WSJ at its best deserves way, way more readers — especially in personal finance and higher ed coverage. The below is in part about the things that stand in the way. https://twitter.com/...
Raju Narisetti / @raju: Who is named and not cited as having specifically declined to comment is often a good clue for who talked for these internecine media articles, and good hidden context for underlying leak motives: @nytimes on “Inside” the Fight for the Future of @wsj https://www.nytimes.com/...?
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: On finishing this article https://www.nytimes.com/... a thought I had was this: One of the consequences of never admitting that even when excellent your news coverage has a built-in POV — a view from somewhere — is that when that POV has to evolve and change you are at a loss.
Danielle Tcholakian / @danielleiat: a good number of stories in this piece on WSJ, but in particular I clocked how there are a great deal of blustery men being blustery and then one lone woman attempting to gently coax said men into being reasonable https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nicholas Kristof / @nickkristof: Interesting piece: “Inside the Fight for the Future of The Wall Street Journal” https://www.nytimes.com/... My own advise to the WSJ would be: Listen to @louisestory. She's an excellent journalist who knows her stuff.
Sam Haselby / @samhaselby: At one point, for several years, I fell for the demography argument, that changing demographics would bring more liberal values. But no one who has been paying attention over the last several years can still believe in any simple relationship between demography and values. https://twitter.com/...
Brianna Wu / @briannawu: I subscribe to @wsj, and I love it. This is my opinion as a “younger reader,” by their standards. More investigative work on corporate corruption like Theranos, less right wing crazy town on the op-ed page. It's truly an embarrassment. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matthew Knott / @knottmatthew: Lots of fun detail in here https://twitter.com/...
Myles Udland / @mylesudland: “Woke” basically has no meaning anymore except to identify the user as kind of an asshole. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Sree Sreenivasan / Sree's Sunday Note: SUNDAY NOTE: Cancel culture is not a serious issue
Bill Bishop / @niubi: “The Journal got digital publishing right before anyone else. It was one of the few news organizations to charge readers for online access starting in 1996”. Hahaha, far from it, thankfully, otherwise they wouldn't have paid 500M+ for MarketWatch in 2004 https://twitter.com/...
Mark Berman / @markberman: I always want to hear people who say stuff like this expand a little on what they mean, I just wanna hear em clearly elucidate their thought process here https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dave Benoit / @davecbenoit: I would like to clarify something here in this NYT story ... WSJ reporters know how to rotate a PDF. Ok great, thanks. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: I will never forget the endless and braindead meetings in the 1990s and early 2000s about “how we get young people to read the print paper.” https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Great piece by @edmundlee on RupeWorld which gives me the digital deja vu shakes. Sound familiar @waltmossberg ?: Inside the Fight for the Future of The Wall Street Journal - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/...
Fred Vogelstein / @fvogelstein: This made me wonder how the pre-Murdoch @wsj would fare today. It looked at business expansively and creatively. I loved it. @rupertmurdoch's goal was to make it narrower. And now that seems to be its biggest problem. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Anyone who pays attention to the news industry's struggles to adapt and survive is required to read and study this article. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jane Mayer / @janemayernyer: “They hate each other” — (said of the publisher and editor of the Wall Street Journal- where Rupert Murdoch's high-school-aged daughter is suggesting new content) via @NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller: “The Journal of the future, they say, must pay more attention to social media trends and cover racial disparities in health care, for example, as aggressively as it pursues corporate mergers.” Yes because mergers have nothing to do with racial disparities in health care. jfc. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Chittum / @ryanchittum: Oh, FFS. The stupidest goddamn thing the Wall Street Journal could do is try to follow the Times and WaPo (even AP!) and become successor ideology/partisan organs. The WSJ plays it more fairly than any paper in the country. Preserve that at all costs. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Staci D Kramer / @sdkstl: From the thread 🤦♀️ >>A senior editor said he was worried the paper might be sued if it came out that its reporters were passing over white people to quote Black people.<< https://twitter.com/...
Tony Romm / @tonyromm: “The No. 1 reason we lose subscribers is they die,” goes a joke shared by some Journal editors. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Fenit Nirappil / @fenitn: It gets lost that woke means awoken to the realities of racism and injustice in society. When journalists use woke in a derogatory context, they are betraying a biased perspective that ignores inconvenient facts https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@kvox: This wow story is halfway to being a new season of Succession. Must-read for news nerds. https://twitter.com/...
Jane Singer / @janebsinger: WSJ is a media rarity: a newspaper making serious money. Its digital business model was decades ahead of the curve. Yet its culture is deeply change-resistant. Now a team of internal innovators is battling for an overhaul aimed at diversifying readership. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jennifer Rossa / @jenrossa: My takeaway is that maybe men should listen to women. https://twitter.com/...
John Schwartz / @jswatz: “A few people on the business side and some top editors who had seen the analysis by Ms. Story's team dismissed it as a ‘woke’ strategy, given its emphasis on appealing to underrepresented readers, the people said.” @edmundlee w/the telling detail https://www.nytimes.com/...
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: This story reminds me of something that another senior reporter told me when I joined the WSJ. We were in the elevator and I said something like “I've learned something about the culture here...” and he said, “....is it that everyone hates each other?” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Katherine Maher / @krmaher: “We have a broad cultural fear of change and we overweight the possibility of alienating some readers, compared to our opportunity cost of not changing and growing.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Adrian Weckler / @adrianweckler: Depressing and noteworthy that only 3 have properly, sustainably gone digital in a market as big and advanced as the US https://twitter.com/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: Palace intrigue at a top newspaper? Must be an @edmundlee joint. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimes: As the U.S. population grows more racially diverse, older white men still make up the largest chunk of The Wall Street Journal's readership. Some newsroom employees say change is crucial to the paper's survival, but executives aren't convinced. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Andr Picard / @picardonhealth: Inside the Fight for the Future of The Wall Street Journal @WSJ. Rupert Murdoch's paper must evolve to survive. But a rivalry between editor and publisher stands in the way, by @edmundlee https://www.nytimes.com/... via @nytimes #journalism
Andreas Harsono / @andreasharsono: The Wall Street Journal is a rarity in 21st-century media: a newspaper that makes money. But the U.S. population is growing more racially diverse, older white men still make up the largest chunk of its readership, with retirees a close second https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: >> @edmundlee's big look at Murdoch's WSJ, “The Content Review,” and why “the impasse over the report has led to a divided newsroom...” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Bradley Hope / @bradleyhope: That leaked presentation was embarrassing in the newsroom for its utter lack of interesting or original ideas. It was clear they had no connection whatsoever to the journalism underway at the WSJ.
Bradley Hope / @bradleyhope: What this story missed entirely is what the WSJ reporters thought of the “ideas” coming out of the “innovation” group. They surely weren't about increasing and highlighting the @WSJ's tremendous enterprise journalism https://www.nytimes.com/...
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Edmund Lee / New York Times:
A look at WSJ's internal study, The Content Review, which recommended ways for WSJ to attract new readers, specifically, women, POC, and younger professionals
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@edmundlee, @derjarjour, @edmundlee, @jbflint, @tomnamako, @cristymsilva, @cristymsilva, @cristymsilva, @tomcritchlow, @edmundlee, @edmundlee, @edmundlee, @edmundlee, @edmundlee and @edmundlee
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Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: Of the lead stories The Journal runs, few, if any focus on race or gender, or feature “real people”: https://twitter.com/...
Michal Jarjour / @derjarjour: This story is really interesting but also so depressingly non-surprising. Two dudes who can't get over themselves, hurting growth along the way. https://twitter.com/...
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: The @wsj audit that has caused so much consternation (and that has been kept hidden from most of its own newsroom) is called The Content Review. You may have seen a version of it on BuzzFeed, but what follows are excerpts few have seen before: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Joe Flint / @jbflint: To paraphrase Barry Zuckercorn, it's a really big document. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Namako / @tomnamako: (Sorry guys) “In October, a pared-down version of The Content Review was leaked to BuzzFeed News, which included a link to the document as a sideways scan. (Staffers, eager to read the report, had to turn their heads 90 degrees.)” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://www.nytimes.com/...
Cristina Silva / @cristymsilva: The report found that over a three-month period, of the 108 lead stories it published “only one had race as the main topic.” It added: “None had gender as the main topic, and none had L.G.B.T.Q.-specific issues as the main topic of the story. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Cristina Silva / @cristymsilva: “many of our stories do not have human protagonists. But when they did, we found that 13 percent were people of color.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Cristina Silva / @cristymsilva: We need more audits so we can truly understand how awful, classist, xenophobic, sexist, homophobic and racist our coverage is. And then make sweeping changes. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Critchlow / @tomcritchlow: Love seeing real work documents like this. Gives you a reference point for doing this kind of work as a consultant... https://twitter.com/...
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: Churn rate: https://twitter.com/...
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: The Journal's own newsroom's perceptions on how the paper covers race: https://twitter.com/...
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: Recommendations on what The Journal should stop doing: https://twitter.com/...
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: Some details on where WSJ subscribers are coming from: https://twitter.com/...
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