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Laura Italiano / @italiano_laura:
[Thread] NY Post reporter resigns, saying she was ordered to write an incorrect story that claimed a book by Kamala Harris was included in migrant welcome kits — An announcement: Today I handed in my resignation to my editors at the New York Post.
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Laura Italiano / @italiano_laura: The Kamala Harris story — an incorrect story I was ordered to write and which I failed to push back hard enough against — was my breaking point.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times: New York Post Reporter Who Wrote False Kamala Harris Story Resigns
Paul Farhi / Washington Post: A New York Post story about Kamala Harris triggered conservative outrage. Almost all of it was wrong. Now the reporter has resigned.
Daniel Dale / CNN: New York Post temporarily deletes, then edits false story that claimed Harris' book was given out in migrant ‘welcome kits’
Zeynep Tufekci / @zeynep: Oh my goodness, STOP! That study—a model—did not find that distance offers “no protection”. The model *assumed* the air was continuously and completely mixed in an enclosed space! That's not how real life works. Indoors, air does mix *over time* but also virus loses infectivity. https://twitter.com/...
Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post: No, officials are not handing out Harris's picture book to migrant kids
Daniel Dale / @ddale8: New: The reporter who wrote the false New York Post story about the Harris book tweets that she has resigned from the paper after having been “ordered to write” the inaccurate article. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Dale / @ddale8: The NY Post runs a fictional cover story, creates GOP outrage, gets debunked by the Washington Post, takes story offline for hours, puts story back online with its central allegation removed but no official correction. Story on today in imaginary news: https://www.cnn.com/...
Laura Italiano / New York Post: Kamala isn't at the southern border — but migrant kids are getting Veep's book
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite: JUST IN: NY Post Reporter Who Wrote False Story on Kamala Harris Books Resigns, Says She Was ‘Ordered’ to Write It
Esther Wang / theslot.jezebel.com: The Writer of That Made-Up Kamala Harris Book Story Has Resigned From the New York Post
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast: NY Post Reporter Quits: I Was ‘Ordered’ to Write False Story About Kamala Harris
Lauren Wolfe / @wolfe321: “Editor's note: The original version of this article said migrant kids were getting Harris' book in a welcome kit, but has been updated to note that only one known copy of the book was given to a child.” Aka the story was a total fabrication https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ben Smith / @benyt: On The Post's latest https://twitter.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: Who was the editor who told her to make up the story? How high up does this go? https://twitter.com/...
Sahil Kapur / @sahilkapur: There's a valuable lesson here for reporters: If you're told to write a story you know is false or not up to snuff, push back! You can do that. You owe it to your readers and to yourself—it's your name on the story and you won't escape accountability. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Laura Italiano / @italiano_laura: It's been a privilege to cover the City of New York for its liveliest, wittiest tabloid — a paper filled with reporters and editors I admire deeply and hold as friends. I'm sad to leave.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves / @ilvestoomas: A fake story she was “ordered to write”. RT and Sputnik comes to the US media. https://twitter.com/...
Keith Olbermann / @keitholbermann: Heroism: the @nypost reporter says she was FORCED to write the fabricated “Kamala Harris books given to immigrants” story and has RESIGNED FROM THE MURDOCH SHITSHEET https://twitter.com/...
Jon Campbell / @j0ncampbell: The @nypost's Kamala Harris story is still up (with revisions) Keeping a story live after its author has *denounced it and resigned* might be breaking new ground, ethics-wise, even for a Murdoch outlet https://nypost.com/...
@amy_siskind: Italiano has written for the Post since the 1990s!!!! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Edward-Isaac Dovere / @isaacdovere: in the fall, the New York Post and a number of Republicans were complaining that Facebook was preventing the spread of the Post's Hunter Biden laptop story (Ted Cruz did a whole Trump campaign call on it). Now the Post seems to have prevented the spread of its own cover story: https://twitter.com/...
Karen Tumulty / @ktumulty: From @farhip: “McDaniel's tweet is somewhat ironic. The Washington Post reported this month that the RNC used more than $400,000 in donated funds last year to buy copies of books written by Republican authors, potentially generating royalty payments.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Peter Weber / The Week: New York Post reporter quits over ‘incorrect’ Kamala Harris book story she was ‘ordered to write’
Steve Schale / @steveschale: Things 100% not true: 1. Joe Biden taking away hamburgers. 2. Kamala Harris putting her book in migrant shelters. Things that are 100% true: 1. 200m+ vaccine shots in under 100 days. 2. Nearly 1.4m new jobs in Feb & March. 3. 156 million stimulus checks out the door. https://twitter.com/...
Katelyn Burns / @transscribe: Doing this type of thing, by the way, was Winston Smith's literal job in the records department at the ministry of truth in 1984 https://twitter.com/...
Ed Lavandera / @edlavacnn: This is just so pathetic. https://twitter.com/...
The Guardian: New York Post reporter quits citing pressure to write incorrect story about Kamala Harris
Glenn Kessler / @glennkesslerwp: Fact checks get results —> https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Boxer / @sarah_boxer: NYP writer says she was “ordered to write” the egregiously false story abt VP's book at the border, & she's resigning after failing to push back enough. More here : https://www.cnn.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Lynn V / @lynnv378: “I was just following orders” kinda sounds familiar if you look back at history. I won't applaud this resignation. You shoulda resigned BEFORE you wrote your bullshit piece. Your resignation does not matter nor does that fact checks. What made the most impact was your article. https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Rupert Murdoch is such a persistently incompetent purveyor of malevolent nonsense: A New York Post story about Kamala Harris triggered conservative outrage. Almost all of it was wrong. Now the repo... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: To complete the fraud cycle the @nypost reporter then quits in shame, says she was forced to write an inaccurate story and failed to push back hard enough. https://twitter.com/... And there's a briefing room episode too. https://twitter.com/...
Dave Weigel / @daveweigel: To own the libs, you must first learn how to own yourself. https://twitter.com/...
Bradley P. Moss / @bradmossesq: .@GOPChairwoman feel free to apologize any time now https://twitter.com/...
Mark Jacob / @markjacob16: We have to stop treating Murdoch's NY Post and Fox News as news outlets when they're actually propaganda machines producing constant lies. https://twitter.com/...
Julin Castro / @juliancastro: Right wing disinformation is rampant online and is too often amplified by “news” outlets like Fox and the New York Post. Newsrooms should be driven by journalists seeking the truth, not editors pushing specious gossip for clicks. https://twitter.com/...
Peter Jukes / @peterjukes: The sad reality of today is — to be a proper journalist and source of information, you have to spend half your time fighting fake journalism and disinformation https://twitter.com/...
Laura Belmonte / The Full Belmonte: The Full Belmonte, 4/28/21 — WASHINGTON (AP) — “President Joe Biden is putting …
Michael Harriot / @michaelharriot: I wanna know about the other straws https://twitter.com/...
Sal Rizzo / @rizzotk: Our original fact check debunking this false storyline has been updated throughout the day to note all the half-corrections, article removals and restorations, and a reporter's resignation https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Angelo Carusone / @goangelo: Reporter who wrote the story. Note that she indicates she was forced to do it. The Murdochs operate a misinformation machine. https://twitter.com/...
Keith Olbermann / @keitholbermann: I've done smaller versions of this in the past (also involving Murdoch) and would note she must have done this fully aware that Murdoch will now sick his remaining leeches at the @nypost @foxnews etc on her. I cannot applaud her act loudly enough. https://twitter.com/...
Bruce C.T. Wright / NewsOne: NY Post Reporter Behind Fake Story About Kamala Harris Quits, Claims She Was ‘Ordered To Write’ Lies
Tom Watson / @tomwatson: Former New York Post reporters who have moved on to greener pastures owe us an explanation of their early years. What were they asked to do? What did they do? What was acceptable? How has the Murdoch Way influenced their journalism? This is the time.
Jon Cooper / @joncoopertweets: The New York Post temporarily deleted, and then edited and republished, a debunked article that falsely claimed that copies of VP Kamala Harris' book were being included in “welcome kits” given to migrant children at a shelter in Long Beach, California. https://www.cnn.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: The Murdoch family's media empire injects poison into our civic ecosystem every day. This is by design. https://twitter.com/...
Evann Gastaldo / Newser: NY Post Reporter Who Wrote Fake ‘Kam On In’ Story Is Out
Rich Azzopardi / @richazzopardi: I wish @Italiano_Laura nothing but the best, but cc: everyone who's been defending the @nypost's agenda-based trash bag coverage. https://twitter.com/...
Scary Lawyerguy / @scarylawyerguy: If you're wondering whether right wing media still has the ability to stoke fake controversies, a *single book* donated during a book drive was turned into EVERY MIGRANT CHILD GETS A GIFT COPY OF HARRIS'S BOOK and put on the front page of NY Post & amplified by Fox News et al. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Kaplan / @alkapdc: This false claim about Harris and her book has earned more than 300,000 views on YouTube, where several of the videos pushing the false claim have ads (including a video from Fox News), meaning YouTube made money off of the false claim. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jared Holt / @jaredlholt: Between this and the lie that Biden is coming for hamburgers, it's becoming undeniably evident that the GOP is treating blatant disinformation as fair-game politics. It has for a long time, to varying degrees, but it really is front and center right now. https://twitter.com/...
Dave Weigel / @daveweigel: Definitely saw people who should know better RTing this story, which never made sense. The feds have been scrambling to find places to keep migrants and... they have a copy of this book ready for each minor? Come on https://twitter.com/...
Fred Wellman / @fpwellman: It's a propaganda machine. Single picture of a donated book in Long Beach leads to New York Post article..leads to Fox amplification to Republican pile on...and IT'S ALL FAKE. This is a modern disinformation process that the Nazis and Soviets would have envied in its efficiency. https://twitter.com/...
Eliza Relman / Insider: New York Post reporter resigns, saying she was ‘ordered’ to write ‘incorrect’ story on Kamala Harris' book at a migrant shelter
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Spotify says podcast listening hit an all-time high in Q1, crediting The Joe Rogan Experience; Spotify had 2.6M podcasts at end of Q1, up from 2.2M in Q4 2020 — Spotify reported results for the first quarter of 2021 in line with expectations, with total revenue up 16% — helped by 46% uptick in ad sales.
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Alex Paterson / @alexpattyy: Spotify's Joe Rogan encourages “healthy” young people not to get a coronavirus vaccine. His show is Spotify's most popular podcast. “If you're like 21 years old, and you say to me, should I get vaccinated? I'll go no.” https://twitter.com/...
Alex Paterson / Media Matters for America: Spotify's Joe Rogan encourages “healthy” 21-year-olds not to get a coronavirus vaccine
Todd Spangler / Variety: Joe Rogan Anti-Vax Comments About Young People Create New Headache for Spotify
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: Fauci: Joe Rogan's COVID-19 comments ‘incorrect’
Ashley Carman / The Verge: Spotify is okay with Joe Rogan telling 21-year-olds not to get vaccinated
Ryan Parker / Hollywood Reporter: Joe Rogan's Recommendation Young Healthy People Skip COVID-19 Vaccine “Incorrect,” Says Fauci
Grace Dean / Insider: Joe Rogan said on his podcast that healthy young people should avoid COVID-19 vaccines. Spotify reportedly has no plans to remove the episode.
@kerrymflynn: I guess this response could make some sense if Spotify didn't name drop Joe Rogan multiple times in its earning release and earnings call Like ok... you have 8 million creators but you continue to prop up this one and talk about how great + important he is to your investors https://twitter.com/...
Brendan Morrow / The Week: Fauci urges young people to ignore Joe Rogan's ‘incorrect’ vaccine advice
Aaron Weiss / @aweiss: I spent 5 days in the hospital and am still on supplemental oxygen because of COVID. I may have permanent lung scarring. @Spotify is trying to kill people with dangerous disinformation. They need to fire Joe Rogan immediately. /cc @slpng_giants https://twitter.com/...
Ketan Joshi / @ketanj0: Joe Rogan is a physical manifestation of every single ‘rationalist’ that has pivoted to being wildly anti-science just to own the left https://www.mediamatters.org/ ...
Ashley Carman / @ashleyrcarman: a source close to the rogan situation says the episode in which he says he wouldn't advise a healthy 21-year-old to get vaccinated was left up because it isn't explicitly anti-vax and he doesn't make a call to action https://www.theverge.com/...
Noah Smith / Noahpinion: The vaccine insurrection — The U.S. vaccine rollout, which was world-beating up until …
Donie O'Sullivan / @donie: How it started // How it's going Spotify did PR *a few weeks ago* about “vaccine playlists” to encourage people to get their shot. Today, Spotify's top star Joe Rogan told young people not to get vaccinated. https://newsroom.spotify.com/ ...
Dan Seifert / @dcseifert: a reminder that Spotify raised its prices just yesterday, which in turn fund garbage like this https://www.theverge.com/...
@amy_siskind: I hope we see lawsuits against @FoxNews by parents whose kids get harassed for wearing masks because of Tucker Carlson, and against @Spotify from parents whose sons end up in the hospital because Joe Rogan told them not to get vaccinated.
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Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify reports Q1 profit of €23M, up from €1M a year earlier, revenue of €2.15B, up 16% YoY, 356M MAUs, up 24% YoY, and 158M paid subscribers, up 21% YoY
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Michael Grothaus / Fast Company: Spotify Q1 2021: COVID at-home streaming boosts premium subscribers to 158 million
@kerrymflynn: Q: How will Spotify continue to grow post-pandemic? “I think it really just comes down to creating compelling content.” - Ek “Having Spotify on as many devices as possible has allowed us to be successful no matter how and where and when you're using audio content. ” - Vogel
@kerrymflynn: Q: Locker Room strategy? “The number one question creatives are asking us is helped me connect with my fans in more ways. So we view live as the opportunity for creating new and meaningful ways to connect creators and fans.” - Ek
@kerrymflynn: Q: Expect competitors to match your price increases in US + UK “That was never a deciding factor... We've been improving the proposition, both in terms of better personalization, better features, but obviously expanding the content library significantly with podcasting...” - Ek
@kerrymflynn: Q: Facebook partnership and Car Thing “These are obviously two very different partnerships, but they fall under the same strategy for us which is ubiquity... Generally speaking, when you reduce the friction for consumers, you tend to see great results.” - Ek
@kerrymflynn: Q: Why reduce full year MAU guidance but maintain your full year premium subscriber outlook “When we started the year we did say we expected some greater variability within some of our metrics.. the fact that the subs ever came in better than expected is really positive for us”
Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: Spotify paying subscribers hit 158M as Apple remains quiet on Apple Music subs
Sara Fischer / Axios: Spotify reports strong Q1 revenue growth
@kerrymflynn: In Q1'21 report, Spotify $SPOT teases the future of Locker Room app “We intend to give professional athletes, writers, musicians, songwriters, podcasters, and other global voices opportunities to host real-time discussions, debates, ask me anything (AMA) sessions, and more.”
Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
YouTube is on pace to book between $29B and $30B in revenue in 2021, equaling Netflix's expected revenue of $29.7B for the year — - YouTube is on pace to bring in annual revenue comparable to Netflix's. — The Google-owned video platform is seeing a rise in more traditional television advertisers.
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Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: YouTube is on track to make $29B-$30B this year. Netflix is expected to make about $29.7B this year. This is bonkers for a company Google bought for $1.65B which everyone thought was overpaying for a lawsuit magnet with no potential revenue streams. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Carl Quintanilla / @carlquintanilla: “If its current growth trajectory continues, YouTube will book between $29 billion and $30 billion in revenue this year. Netflix is expected to report $29.7 billion ..” (via @jenn_elias) $GOOGL @CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/...
Evan DeSimone / @mediaevan: YouTube is the largest video platform in the world. It's on track to eclipse Netflix in revenue. Susan Wojcicki has still never testified before Congress about YouTube's recommendation algorithms or its content moderation policy. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Steven Spencer / @sspencer_smb: Google bought YouTube in 2006 for $1.65bln. $GOOGL $NFLX https://twitter.com/...
Meg Graham / @megancgraham: YouTube is already the world's largest online video platform. If it keeps on growing the way it has the last several quarters, it could also match Netflix in revenues by year's end, @jenn_elias writes: https://www.cnbc.com/...
Adam Singer / @adamsinger: Never waivered on my take that if YouTube were stand alone co they'd be more valuable than NFLX. This isn't even a hard one been saying it for many years (https://twitter.com/...). Content, quality, product, accessibility, community etc all so much better. YT is infrastructure. https://twitter.com/...
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Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
YouTube ad revenue topped $6B in Q1, up 50% from the same quarter a year ago
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Todd Spangler / Variety: YouTube Ad Revenue Soars 49% in Q1 to $6 Billion, Alphabet Blows Past Wall Street Forecasts
Sean Burch / The Wrap: YouTube's Q1 Ad Revenue Surged 50% to $6 Billion
Mayank Sharma / TechRadar: Google Cloud sees huge surge in business despite overall loss
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: on the Q1 earnings call, Sundar Pichai called out the dramatic growth of YouTube Shorts — a TikTok-like short-form video feature — which had 6.5 billion daily billion views in March, up from 3.5 billion at the end of 2020 https://variety.com/...
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / @ashkan: AVOD beast YouTube revenues will surpass SVOD behemoth Netflix. https://www.mediagazer.com/... Reminder why YouTube = Revolutionary vs Netflix = Evolutionary: https://contextisking.com/...
Alex Weprin / @alexweprin: Don't look now but YouTube is on track to have about $25 billion in revenue this year. That's as much as Netflix had last year. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Daniel Kelley / @danieljkelley: So crazy that in 2021 we still don't know: 1. How many there are of most things on any digital platform 2. Whether anything platforms are doing is working https://twitter.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Nice little year over year bump for YouTube's ad business, too. Going from $4.04 to $6.01 billion y/y. Which of course if part of Google's Services business — that went from $38.2 billion to $51.2 billion (rounded up) y/y. lol.
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists in India are dealing with life-threatening assignments amid a COVID-19 surge as they also face eroding freedoms for the press — More than a year into the global pandemic, the coronavirus has exploded across India. The spread has been fueled, in part, by possible new variants …
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New York Times, The Atlantic, New York Times, newslaundry.com, @navathakuria, @elisewho, @mumbaipressclub, @thequint, @ishaan_jhavs, @diplopundit, @nsmlive, Red, White and Brown, Scroll.in, @maddow, @elisewho, The India Cable, @therockyfiles, @ishaan_jhavs, @annemariebridy, @ignatiuspost, @aakar__patel, @anandwrites, @gilkumar, @adrijac, @epigiri, @sandygrains, @paldhous, @jodixu, @jon_allsop, Gizmodo, Scroll.in and Scroll.in
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Vidya Krishnan / The Atlantic: India Is What Happens When Rich People Do Nothing
Sameer Yasir / New York Times: As Covid-19 Cases Rise in India, Oxygen Becomes Scarce
Ayush Tiwari / newslaundry.com: DD's pandemic mantra: Messiah Modi will save India
Nava Thakuria / @navathakuria: @Jon_Allsop @CJR So far, at least 1188 journalists died of Covid-19 in 76 countries, the 20 most affected countries: Brazil 181, Peru 140, India 109, Mexico 106, Italy 52, Bangladesh 51, etc https://pressemblem.ch/...
Elise Hu / @elisewho: @gettleman “As a foreign correspondent for nearly 20 years, I've covered combat zones, been kidnapped in Iraq and been thrown in jail in more than a few places. This is unsettling in a different way ... and if we do get sick, where will we go?”
Mumbai Press Club / @mumbaipressclub: Mumbai Press Club statement on the brutal treatment meted out to Siddiq Kappan, a journalist from Kerala, in a hospital in Mathura, where he was admitted as a Covid patient. https://twitter.com/...
@thequint: LIVE | Mumbai Press Club issued a statement asking for the release of journalist #SiddiqueKappan. The Press Club of India & Editor's Guild had also issued statements after news of Kappan having tested #COVID positive were reported. Follow for updates: https://www.thequint.com/...
Ishaan Jhaveri / @ishaan_jhavs: This brought me to tears https://www.cjr.org/...
@diplopundit: “There's no way of knowing if my two kids, wife or I will be among those who get a mild case and then bounce back to good health, or if we will get really sick. And if we do get really sick, where will we go? ICUs are full. Gates to many hospitals have been closed.” https://twitter.com/...
N.S. Madhavan / @nsmlive: In this video Rahul Easwar advises Siddique Kappan's wife, among other things, a) try to get the case posted in Justice Chadrachud's bench and b) get a Brahmin lawyer. This casteist aspersion on the SC is sheer contempt of court. Anyone listening? https://www.youtube.com/...
Vignesh Ramachandran / Red, White and Brown: The diaspora on edge — Journalist S. Mitra Kalita put it well: — S. Mitra Kalita @mitrakalita
Scroll.in: Covid: Journalist Siddique Kappan to be shifted to hospital in Delhi for treatment, directs SC
Rachel Maddow / @maddow: Veteran NYT reporter Jeffrey Gettleman's reflections here are required reading. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Elise Hu / @elisewho: “The positivity rate hit a staggering 36 percent — meaning more than one out of three people tested were infected. A month ago, it was less than 3 percent.” This @gettleman dispatch from New Dehli is a must read. So raw, so real https://www.nytimes.com/... & the photos laid me flat
Siddharth Varadarajan / The India Cable: The India Cable: Death Toll Crosses 2 Lakh; Delhi Dog Crematorium Will Serve Humans
Rocky Kistner / @therockyfiles: Journalists are dying too: “Vinay Srivastava, a journalist in Lucknow...came down with COVID symptoms, but couldn't get a test or medical care. In an appeal for help, he tweeted his declining oxygen levels and tagged local officials. He died ten days ago” https://www.cjr.org/...
Ishaan Jhaveri / @ishaan_jhavs: https://twitter.com/...
Annemarie Bridy / @annemariebridy: India is trying to suppress social media platforms. The U.S. should stand up for them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
David Ignatius / @ignatiuspost: Extraordinary personal chronicle by @gettleman from inside the Covid volcano in India. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Anand Giridharadas / @anandwrites: “I'm sitting in my apartment waiting to catch the disease. That's what it feels like right now in New Delhi with the world's worst coronavirus crisis advancing around us. It is out there, I am in here, and I feel like it's only a matter of time.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Gilles Verniers / @gilkumar: This is astonishing. Journalists are the reason we know anything at all about what is happening, against all manners of obstacles. In solidarity. https://twitter.com/...
Adrija Chatterjee / @adrijac: They were mostly reporters, camera persons, field journalists who ensured uninterrupted flow of news. They didn't have the safety of shiny studios. Heart broken. https://twitter.com/...
Dr Giridhara R Babu / @epigiri: Just like health workers, #journalists have covered the #covid19 response. They are at the front end witnessing and covering all the sadness and grief. Salutes to all of them. https://twitter.com/...
Sandhya Ramesh / @sandygrains: More than a hundred journalists have died of COVID in India in total, with forty-five of those deaths coming in the last two weeks. https://www.cjr.org/...
Peter Aldhous / @paldhous: India's journalists are striving to tell the truth about the nation's #COVID19 crisis. Some of them are dying of the disease. https://www.cjr.org/... via @cjr
Jodi Xu Klein / @jodixu: In reporting India's virus surge, media should avoid treating it “as a sad event in a distant land, as international-aid stories often become, and treat it instead as part of an interconnected, global story that we are all still living,” says @Jon_Allsop https://www.cjr.org/...
Jon Allsop / @jon_allsop: The COVID devastation in India is yet another crisis for the country's besieged press. Official data is unreliable. Politicians are lashing out at negative coverage and social posts. And by one count, 45 journalists have died in 2 weeks. Me for @CJR: https://www.cjr.org/...
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Discovery reports Q1 revenue of $2.79B, up 4% YoY, with net income down 63% to $144M, and it now has 15M paying subscribers worldwide to its DTC services — Discovery revealed the big challenge behind getting involved in the media industry's streaming wars: A new broadband hub can bring …
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Wayne Friedman / MediaPost: Discovery's Ad Sales In Line With Expectations, Net Income Down 63%
Derek Walborn / The Streamable: Discovery Surpasses 15 Million Streaming Subscribers, Adding 10 Million So Far in 2021
Jess Barnes / Cord Cutters News: Discovery Has Reached 15 Million Subscribers Across Its Streaming Portfolio
Marisa Sarnoff / Mediaite:
Report: CNN has opened an internal investigation into workplace culture and treatment of women at CNN Business — CNN Business has launched an internal investigation into the treatment of women and workplace culture, according to a report Tuesday from Business Insider.
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Steven Perlberg / Insider: CNN Business has launched an internal investigation into the treatment of female employees
A.J. Katz / TVNewser: CNN Business Launches Internal Investigation Into Treatment of Female Staffers, Workplace Culture
Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona: “I've found there to be a lack of transparency in how to get promoted or how to appear on TV. I get the feeling the company wants to keep as many people as possible at a low pay grade or stay in a certain box and that has led to women not being supported,” a female staffer said. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Juang / Ad Age:
TV consortium OpenAP debuts OpenID, a new identifier to help brands target audiences across both linear and digital TV — OpenID is a step in moving TV advertising to ID-based targeting — TV consortium OpenAP is looking to do what it's done for standardizing audience segments …
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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: OpenAP Launches Data Tool Meant to Streamline TV Ad Buying
Rbr-Tvbr / Radio & Television Business Report: Linear, Digital Audience Resolution? A New OpenAP Product Solves It
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost: Advanced Ad Platform OpenAP Starts Linear TV And Digital Identifier, OpenID
Ryan Joe / AdExchanger: OpenAP Releases Identifier So Advertisers Can Buy And Measure Across Linear And Digital
Brian Steinberg / Variety: TV Networks Line Up Behind Open AP's New Audience-Segment ID in Weeks Before TV Upfront
Michael J. Socolow / Reason:
A history of NYT's “op-eds”, born in 1970 to highlight voices outside of the newspaper, and why NYT occasionally publishes offensive and even vile essays — When you're a kid, you love the comics. A few years later, you read the sports or the style section first.
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Kathleen Kingsbury / @katiekings: The first Op-Ed page in The New York Times greeted the world on Sept. 21, 1970. Today, more than 50 years later, we at @nytopinion are retiring the name “Op-Ed.” As the Opinion editor, I'd like to tell you why. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dalit Shalom / NYT Open: How We Redesigned the New York Times Opinion Essay
Heidi Legg / @heidilegg: Great read @MichaelSocolow. Can't believe I was born alongside NYT OpEd! “It attempted to render the bitter divisions of the 1960s in text and image on newsprint. It emerged during an era of remarkable innovation and experimentation in U.S. media. https://reason.com/... @reason
Laura Helmuth / @laurahelmuth: “It is a shame that we run so much junk by the famous.” Fascinating obit for the op-ed & how Tupac Shakur's mother almost worked for the New York Times & what could have been https://reason.com/... By @MichaelSocolow on @reason
Aman Batheja / @amanbatheja: “Yes: Tupac Shakur's ‘Dear Mama’ came tantalizingly close to working for the New York Times op-ed page” https://reason.com/...
Daniel Lippman / @dlippman: “'Diversity of opinion is the lifeblood of democracy,' [the late Times editorial page editor John Oakes] said. ‘The minute we begin to insist that everyone think the same way we think, our democratic way of life is in danger.’” https://reason.com/...
David Pogue / @pogue: The @NYTimes is retiring the term “op-ed.” I never realized it means “Opposite the Editorial page”... I assumed it was “Opinion/Editorial!” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nick Confessore / @nickconfessore: Long before Tom Cotton and Vladimir Putin, the oped page published Black Panther Fred Hampton's posthumous call for armed revolution in the U.S. and a defense of Pol Pot. (!) https://reason.com/...
Yinka Adegoke / @yinkawrites: This 1971 description by a New York Times editor is incredible especially when you consider how many US newsrooms still need this person... https://twitter.com/...
Nick Confessore / @nickconfessore: This is a very interesting, mildly critical, history in @reason of the Times oped page — of how and why it occasionally published “unquestionably offensive, dehumanizing, and even occasionally vile” essays. https://reason.com/...
Penny Kittle / @pennykittle: I loved this explanation of what “guest essay” will mean for the @nytimes moving forward. This is what essays are meant to be...conversations. Opportunities. https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Such a great @MichaelSocolow piece on the NYT and the half-century experiment of the op-ed page, as it moves to “guest essays” https://reason.com/...
Jesse Holcomb / @jesseholcomb: amazing exchange w/ Walker Percy in this fascinating brief history of the op-ed, by @MichaelSocolow https://reason.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: “Publishing offensive commentary these days is not simply seen as inflammatory in the old sense; many people consider it intentionally malicious, if not felonious.” — Via @MichaelSocolow, as the NYT moves from ‘op-eds’ to ‘guest essays’ https://reason.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: Fascinating history of the NYT op-Ed page by @MichaelSocolow https://reason.com/...
Michael Socolow / @michaelsocolow: If I ran @nytimes I'd fire every house columnist - even the ones I like - and run nothing but Op-Eds contributed by outsiders. And I wouldn't publish “junk by the famous.” That's why I'd never be a successful Opinion Editor. https://reason.com/...
Michael Socolow / @michaelsocolow: I penned an elegy for my favorite newspaper feature - one that never actually existed. Definitely the first thing I've ever written that brings Afeni Shakur, Walker Percy and Noam Chomsky together in one place. https://reason.com/...
Michael Socolow / @michaelsocolow: @davidfolkenflik @BGrueskin @katiekings Had a blast writing an elegy for a newspaper feature that never actually existed. I do think @katiekings is an outstanding opinion editor & creative innovator in tradition of Oakes. It's not her fault she can't fire all the columnists. https://reason.com/...
Mark Dubowitz / @mdubowitz: This is fitting since they rarely run an op-ed that is “opposite the editorial.” More papers should do this to promote discussion and debate. Alas... https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation: By dropping the phrase ‘op-ed,’ The New York Times strikes a blow for clarity
Kellen Browning / New York Times:
Twitch has grown in popularity among QAnon adherents and far-right influencers, making it easy for streamers to make money while spreading conspiracy theories — QAnon adherents and other far-right influencers are making thousands of dollars broadcasting election and vaccine conspiracy theories on the streaming site.
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Kellen Browning / @kellen_browning: At least 20 far-right streamers have joined Twitch since last fall, and some of the most successful have gotten viewers to pay them $5, $10 or $25 per month to support them. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “QAnon adherents and other far-right influencers are making thousands of dollars broadcasting election and vaccine conspiracy theories on [Twitch],” @Kellen_Browning reports. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rita Katz / @rita_katz: Important piece by @Kellen_Browning: Twitch is helping far-right conspiracy theorists make money. More, it's just one (albeit a major one) of many more, which either facilitate donations or link to donation pages. StopTheSteal, QAnon, and the like are a full-blown industry. https://twitter.com/...
Joan Donovan, PhD / @bostonjoan: The hits don't stop today. Disinformation is an industry built on the open design of social media products. Monetize all the things is no way to do business. Extremists Find a Financial Lifeline on Twitch https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kellen Browning / @kellen_browning: In some streams, they spread debunked falsehoods about the 2020 election. In others, they question whether vaccines are being used to surveil people or suggest children are being killed so people can “harvest” a chemical compound from them. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kellen Browning / @kellen_browning: NEW: Kicked off Twitter and YouTube after a clampdown on misinfo and hate speech, far-right influencers & QAnon members have congregated on Twitch, where they are making thousands of $$ broadcasting election and vaccine conspiracy theories. My latest: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Angela Fu / Poynter:
NewsGuild study of 14 unionized Gannett newsrooms finds ~$10K median wage gap between men and women and a ~$5K wage gap between POC journalists and white ones — The median salary for women of color was $15,727 less than the median salary for white men. — The median salaries of women …
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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab: “Punched-in-the-gut feeling”: A Gannett union study shows major gender and racial pay gaps in 14 of its newsrooms
Kerry Flynn / CNN: 'Don't use my skin for your diversity': Labor union blasts newsrooms for underpaying women and people of color
American Press Institute: Need to Know: April 28, 2021 — OFF THE TOP — You might have heard: Unions push …
@kerrymflynn: .@Gannett is underpaying women and journalists of color, according to a @newsguild pay equity study. At @azcentral, women's median pay was $29,700 less than their male counterparts. Journalists of color earned $25,100 less than their White colleagues https://www.cnn.com/...
Lauren Harris / Columbia Journalism Review: The local news crisis is a labor story
Shondiin Silversmith / @diinsilversmith: The time I've been with The Arizona Republic I knew I wasn't being paid enough but discussions of raises were always glazed over. I looked past it because I love the work I do. But seeing that it's nearly 30k less than many in the newsroom is a slap on the face. I am worth more. https://twitter.com/...
David Dorsey / @davidadorsey: For the few of us left in the world of newspapers, we love the job a lot more than it loves us back. That's why we're still here. We will keep trying to inform despite all the nonsense behind the scenes and the lack of business innovation to support us scribes. https://twitter.com/...
Dafna Linzer / @dafnalinzer: “women at Gannett earned $9,845 less than the median salary of men, which comes in at $57,235. That gap grows to $15,727 for non-White women as compared to White men, who make $58,386, according to the study.” https://twitter.com/...
Elana Zak / @elanazak: At the Arizona Republic, women make $29,700 less than their male counterparts. Journalists of color earn $25,100 less than their White colleagues. Underpaying women and POC is a trend at Gannett papers, @kerrymflynn reports. https://www.cnn.com/...
Katherine Fitzgerald / @kfitz134: We cannot cover Arizona without @DiinSilversmith's reporting on the Indigenous Affairs beat, which she built. That @Gannett highlights her work when it's convenient while drastically underpaying her behind the scenes is so shameful. https://twitter.com/...
Seung Min Kim / @seungminkim: “I remember the punched-in-the-gut feeling I had the moment I learned that a young male reporter with just a few years of experience had nearly the exact same salary that I had, despite my two decades as a working journalist.” https://www.cnn.com/...
Lily Altavena / @lilyalta: It's hard to describe what it's like to read this when, for years, we were told at The AZ Republic that there were no pay disparities, despite the fact that we asked the company for proof and received none, despite learning men with less experience were making more https://twitter.com/...
Victoria Guida / @vtg2: “The study found women who worked at Gannett for least 30 years earned $27,026 less than the median pay for male colleagues with similar tenure. Journalists of color earned $5,246 less than the median salary of White staffers, who make $53,252 a year.” https://twitter.com/...
Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce: Just going to cite this forever: @NewsGuild looked at pay data from Gannett newsrooms and found that pay disparities for women/people of color were dramatically lower in the newsrooms that have union contracts. These are workers ***at the same company*** https://www.poynter.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Sammy Roth / @sammy_roth: Really disappointing to see @Gannett deny it has a pay equity problem rather than pledge to work with NewsGuild to fix it. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Brett Kelman / @brettkelman: I've spent my entire career with Gannett. I am still here because I earnestly believe in what this company can accomplish. But now, as I read about this gender and racial pay disparity, I must face an unnerving reality: I have benefited from it. https://www.poynter.org/...
Victoria Steele / @victorialsteele: That “punched in the gut” feeling at the Arizona Republic newspaper in Phoenix where they're experiencing a mass exodus of employees who are female and people of color. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Kainaz Amaria / @kainazamaria: The median full-time salary for women in fall 2020 was $47,390, while the median for men was $57,235, a pay gap of $9,845. Journalists of color earned a median salary of $48,006, or $5,246 lower than the median salary for white journalists, $53,252. https://www.poynter.org/...
Ann Marie Lipinski / @amlwhere: These are not small gaps. Women of color made 27% less than white men. At The Arizona Republic, women's median salary 61% of what men made, costing them nearly $30k in yearly earnings; median for employees of color 63% that of white workers. https://www.niemanlab.org/... @HanaaTameez
@hanaatameez: Hard to pinpoint what single-most offensive part of this story is, but this email signature from Gannett's Chief People Officer is easily top 5 https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Seyma Bayram / @seymabayram0: My newsroom didn't participate in this study. But I stand in solidarity with my colleagues across Gannett and with all journalists. Pay inequities and unlivable wages persist throughout this field regardless of business model (for-profit, nonprofit, etc.) https://www.niemanlab.org/...
E.J. Montini / @ejmontini: It's simple, really. Good journalists believe in upholding standards of fairness and accountability. Better journalists, like these, apply those standards to their own house. @RebekahLSanders https://www.poynter.org/...
Carrie Levine / @levinecarrie: This found such a huge pay gap for experienced women reporters. Really striking. https://twitter.com/...
Caitlin Cruz / @caitlinrcruz: A @Gannett spox called the data used to create this study “outdated.” It's from fall 2020. https://www.poynter.org/...
Emily Hopkins / @indyemapolis: In August, a powerful lobbyist attacked my data analysis and demanded a retraction of our story. My editor vehemently defended me. Now the company is attempting to discredit its own journalists without providing any proof that we got it wrong. Deja vu. https://twitter.com/...
Laurie Roberts / @laurieroberts: NewsGuild study of 14 unionized Gannett newsrooms, including The Arizona Republic, finds the median salaries of women and people of color was at least $5,000 less than those of their male and white colleagues. https://www.poynter.org/...
Gwen Aviles / @gwenfaviles: “The median FT salary for women in fall '20 was $47,390 [$9,845 less than men's]...The median salary for WOC was $15,727 less than that of white men.” Yet another example of the journalism industry's refusal to reckon with how it perpetuates gender inequality & white supremacy. https://twitter.com/...
Marc Morehouse / @marcmorehouse: Newspaper editors will tell you you're not in it for the money, it's a calling. They are generally useless turds. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Fowler / @fowlersarah: “The median salary for women of color was $15,727 less than that of white men, and women with at least 30 years of experience at Gannett papers had a median salary that was $27,026 less than their male peers.” https://www.poynter.org/...
@yesyoureracist: I never worked for a Gannett shop when I was in journalism, but I did work for a non-union TV station and can still remember our shock when my colleague and I discovered I made 20% more than her even though she was on-air and I wasn't. We both left soon after. https://twitter.com/...
Natalia Contreras / @nataliaecg: IndyStar is part of this study. @Gannett is calling it ‘misleading and outdated.’ Young journalists have left our newsroom, many others with institutional knowledge took buyouts. You have the pay data. @indynewsguild is here asking once again that you release it. https://twitter.com/...
Thomas Moore / The Hill: Gannett underpays women and women of color: union study
Shen Lu / Protocol:
Profile of Chinese AI-driven aggregator News Break, which says it has 45M MAUs and is finding success in the US through a sharp focus on local news — TikTok isn't the only hit U.S. app with roots in China. — It's the most downloaded news app in the world — and the content it carries is entirely local.
New York Times:
Simon & Schuster, which sources say signed Kellyanne Conway, became a test case for how publishers are trying to draw a line over who is acceptable to publish — Kellyanne Conway, Mike Pence and William Barr have book deals. That is raising new challenges for publishers trying …
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Anjali Enjeti / @anjalienjeti: S & S holds tight to the antiquated & dangerous belief that violent extremists deserve to publish memoirs—a subgenre that humanizes authors. Fascists should only have books written about them by those critical of their role in fascism. This is not hard. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Hari Kunzru / @harikunzru: If Simon & Schuster want to publish KellyAnne Conway, I suppose there's nothing to stop them, but they should be held to strict @NewYorker fact-checking standards. How much market is there for Conservative haiku? https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Corn / @davidcorndc: Of course, it may be hard to find alternative-fact-checkers to vet the manuscript. https://twitter.com/...
David Corn / @davidcorndc: What's the problem? As long as they label it “fiction.” https://twitter.com/...
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