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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.
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.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times: New York Post Reporter Who Wrote False Kamala Harris Story Resigns
Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post: No, officials are not handing out Harris's picture book to migrant kids
Daniel Dale / CNN: New York Post temporarily deletes, then edits false story that claimed Harris' book was given out in migrant ‘welcome kits’
Laura Italiano / New York Post: Kamala isn't at the southern border — but migrant kids are getting Veep's book
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/...
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast: NY Post Reporter Quits: I Was ‘Ordered’ to Write False Story About Kamala Harris
Bruce C.T. Wright / NewsOne: NY Post Reporter Behind Fake Story About Kamala Harris Quits, Claims She Was ‘Ordered To Write’ Lies
Laura Belmonte / The Full Belmonte: The Full Belmonte, 4/28/21 — WASHINGTON (AP) — “President Joe Biden is putting …
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.
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Eliza Relman / Insider: New York Post reporter resigns, saying she was ‘ordered’ to write ‘incorrect’ story on Kamala Harris' book at a migrant shelter
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/...
Caleb Ecarma / Vanity Fair: Meat, Math, and Migrants: The Right-Wing Bulls—t Cycle Is Kicking Into Overdrive
Jordan Williams / The Hill: Reporter resigns from NY Post over Harris book story
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite: JUST IN: NY Post Reporter Who Wrote False Story on Kamala Harris Books Resigns, Says She Was ‘Ordered’ to Write It
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/...
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
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.
Todd Spangler / Variety: Joe Rogan Anti-Vax Comments Create New Headache for Spotify
Ashley Carman / The Verge: Spotify is okay with Joe Rogan telling 21-year-olds not to get vaccinated
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/...
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/ ...
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/...
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 — Audio-streaming platform warns of uncertain growth as newer markets endure a surge in coronavirus cases
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Michael Grothaus / Fast Company: Spotify Q1 2021: COVID at-home streaming boosts premium subscribers to 158 million
@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.”
Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
YouTube ad revenue topped $6B in Q1, up 50% from the same quarter a year ago — That is up from $4 billion in the same quarter of last year, a 50 percent year-over-year growth rate. — YouTube continues to grow at a torrid pace, with any sign of pandemic slowdown seemingly behind it.
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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
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.
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/ ...
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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.
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, Red, White and Brown, The India Cable, Scroll.in, @navathakuria, @elisewho, @mumbaipressclub, @thequint, @ishaan_jhavs, @diplopundit, @anandwrites, @nsmlive, @maddow, @gilkumar, @elisewho, @therockyfiles, @adrijac, @ishaan_jhavs, @annemariebridy, @ignatiuspost, @aakar__patel, @epigiri, @sandygrains, @paldhous, @jodixu, @jon_allsop, Gizmodo, Scroll.in, The Atlantic and Scroll.in
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Vignesh Ramachandran / Red, White and Brown: The diaspora on edge — Journalist S. Mitra Kalita put it well: — S. Mitra Kalita @mitrakalita
Siddharth Varadarajan / The India Cable: The India Cable: Death Toll Crosses 2 Lakh; Delhi Dog Crematorium Will Serve Humans
Scroll.in: Covid: Journalist Siddique Kappan to be shifted to hospital in Delhi for treatment, directs SC
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/...
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/...
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/...
Rachel Maddow / @maddow: Veteran NYT reporter Jeffrey Gettleman's reflections here are required reading. 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/...
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
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Scroll.in: Treatment meted out to Siddique Kappan in UP 'should stir nation's conscience': Editors Guild
Vidya Krishnan / The Atlantic: India Is What Happens When Rich People Do Nothing
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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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/...
Travis / @travisshreffler: The only thing keeping Twitch free of the cult that is Qanon and the site being known as a right-wing haven is Twitch's ability to enforce its community guidelines so we're screwed https://twitter.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/...
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
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/...
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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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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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Kathleen Kingsbury / New York Times:
NYT says it is retiring the term “Op-Ed”; editorials will still be called editorials, but articles written by outside writers will be called “Guest Essays”
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Dalit Shalom / NYT Open: How We Redesigned the New York Times Opinion Essay
Ryan Lawler / Scrawler: In the future, every bank will be a neobank
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/...
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/...
Margaret Renkl / @margaretrenkl: Things will look a little different at @nytopinion now, but I've been an essayist all along, and I'm grateful for the chance to keep being one. https://www.nytco.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/...
Ben Tapeworm / ben tapeworm's almanac: April 2021: vol. IV
Ben Smith / @benyt: Fascinating history of the NYT op-Ed page by @MichaelSocolow 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
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Having done informal surveys over the years, I'm willing to bet a large majority of people still think the “Op” in “Op-Ed” stands for “Opinion” rather than “Opposite,” so probably a good idea to lose it anyway https://twitter.com/...
@nytopinion: Today, after more than 50 years, we're retiring the term “Op-Ed.” “Terms like ‘Op-Ed’ are, by their nature, clubby newspaper jargon,” explains our Opinion editor, @katiekings. We're striving to be more inclusive in how we explain our work. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Elise Hu / @elisewho: Really glad to see this. NYT is retiring the outdated term “op-ed” bc straight news pieces don't live in a fixed spot for editorials to be “opposite” of anymore. Gonna call “op-eds” what they are — guest essays — instead https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: No more Op-Eds at the NYT: “Editorials will still be called editorials, but the articles written by outside writers will be known going forward as ‘Guest Essays,’ a title that will appear prominently above the headline.” I think this is a big improvement. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Seeing very mixed reactions to this, but it's the right move. Almost no one outside of the journalism world actually knows what “op-ed” really means, and it has resulted in significant confusion. https://twitter.com/...
Amy Widdowson / The Morning Missive: Currently Taking Votes For Which Weekly Bouquet Of Flowers I Should Get For My Reading Nook. PSA: If You Say Carnations, You Are 100 Percent Chaotic Evil.
American Press Institute: Need to Know: April 27, 2021 — OFF THE TOP — You might have heard: According to our 2018 survey …
bookforum.com: Danielle Evans wins the Joyce Carol Oates Prize; the “New York Times” retires the term “op-ed”
@newslitproject: 1/ Being able to tell the difference between news & opinion is an absolute must to be news-literate. Steps like this are also helpful to readers 👇🏾 #NewsLiteracy https://www.nytimes.com/...
Amanda Katz / @katzish: This seems like a good move. Regular people are really confused about the difference between a news piece (including analysis that can be opinion-y), a Times editorial, and an outside opinion piece. https://twitter.com/...
@revkin: Bravo, @nytopinion crew, for this particularly: “We want not only individual essays to have intention, but also the collective report itself to have intention.” Too often in the past, sharp-edged op-eds seemed dropped into the public pool to splash more than drive discourse. https://twitter.com/...
Mcc / @mcclure111: For a long time, the NYT has been about high quality, important journalism mixed with some of the worst and most harmful writing on the planet in their op ed section. They're now trying to erase the difference, now calling their op eds “guest essays”. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ariel Edwards-Levy / @aedwardslevy: op-eds, you've been chop-ed https://twitter.com/...
Harry Siegel / @harrysiegel: I've been explaining for YEARS to my students, who aren't mostly print natives, that Op-Ed stands for “opposite the editorials”—and then explaining what an editorial is and why. Op-Ed is a term that's outlived its use—and I suspect that editorials are next. https://twitter.com/...
Jody Avirgan / @jodyavirgan: Fascinating. I really do think that product changes that are realistic about the way media is consumed today, rather than beholden to tradition or convention, can go a long way. https://twitter.com/...
Adriana Lacy / @adriana_lacy: NYT is retiring the word Op-Ed. All publishers should do the same. It's confusing, it's antiquated and most importantly, in the digital world, no one is reading these essays opposite of the editorial page! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: Can't believe they left “Guessays” just sitting there on the table tbqh https://twitter.com/...
Cliff Levy / @cliffordlevy: BIG NYT CHANGE: The first Op-Ed page in The New York Times greeted the world on Sept. 21, 1970. Now, The Times is retiring the designation “Op-Ed.” Our opinion editor @katiekings explains why. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Hank Stuever / @hankstuever: An article, an editorial, an op-ed, a column, a review, a story, and my personal favorite from readers, “your little write-up in the paper.” Nobody knows the terms anymore, but we used to. Now? Content. It's all just content. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Clara Jeffery / @clarajeffery: Simple change, which brings a lot of clarity to most readers. Not that there still won't be controversies about selection but... https://twitter.com/...
David Beard / @dabeard: Op-Ed, the term that in newspaper-only days meant “opposite the editorial page,” has died a natural death, @nytopinion announced. It was 50. It is survived by the straight-up, different-font, platform-agnostic “Opinion.” https://www.nytimes.com/... @katiekings @rubinafillion
Dave Levinthal / @davelevinthal: Oh, there will be op-eds about this. https://twitter.com/...
Harry Siegel / @harrysiegel: As a former editorial writer and op-ed editor and now the opinion editor for the Daily Beast and a columnist (another print term) for the Daily News, I'd argue that “editorial” is also jargon—a term and a type of writing that no longer makes sense it its own right if it ever did https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: NYT opinions folks are tossing the term “Op-Eds,” which makes sense. They are replacing it with “Guest Essays,” which sounds like something that comes from the hotel industry: https://www.nytimes.com/...
@petersterne: NYT is renaming “op-eds” to “guest essays,” which seems like a smart change. Calling it a “guest essay” makes the relationship between the op-ed writer and the publication much more clear. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Berman / @markberman: the NYT is abandoning the term “op-ed,” which is, hilariously, a phrase that originates from things appearing opposite the editorial page in print https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tony Fratto / @tonyfratto: I doubt very much that this will spare @nytimes from criticism when it offers its platform to amplify rangy views. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Friedman / @mattfrieds: The term “op-ed” came from the two-page opinion spread that existed in most newspapers 20+ years ago. Submitted pieces ran opposite the editorial page. Readers understood that staffers wrote the left-hand pieces & guests wrote the right-hand pieces. That has gotten totally lost. https://twitter.com/...
Carl Quintanilla / @carlquintanilla: “.. in the words of John B. Oakes, a long-ago predecessor of mine who drove the creation of Op-Ed, ‘Diversity of opinion is the lifeblood of democracy. ... The minute we begin to insist that everyone think the same way we think, our democratic way of life is in danger.’” https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: The obvious next step: Briefly explaining why this guest was given a megaphone for this essay. See: https://presswatchers.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Sister Toldjah Le Pew / @sistertoldjah: Will the “straight news” pieces at the NYT now be referred to as “op/eds”? Because I think that would be a big improvement. https://twitter.com/...
Kathleen Kingsbury / @katiekings: The Op-Ed page and the term itself are increasingly a throwback from an older age and a print newspaper design. We don't like jargon in our articles; we don't want it above them, either. We are striving to be more inclusive in explaining how and why we do our work.
Kathleen Kingsbury / @katiekings: That's why we'll be introducing a new term to our pages. Editorials will still be called editorials, but outside contributors' pieces in @nytopinion will be known going forward as “Guest Essays,” a title that will appear above the headline.
Kathleen Kingsbury / @katiekings: Impulses that made Op-Ed successful 50 years ago are still in play. It's a space where voices can be heard + respected, where ideas can linger, to be given serious consideration In that spirit, I'm pleased to share our new roster of contributing writers https://www.nytco.com/...
Max Boot / @maxboot: I agree that “op-ed” makes no literal sense in the digital world (there is nothing to be “opposite” of) but, as a former op-ed editor, I lament the loss of this hallowed term. I suppose if anyone has the right to retire it, however, it's the newspaper that invented it. https://twitter.com/...
Elana Zak / @elanazak: After 50 years, @nytopinion is retiring the phrase Op-Ed in favor of the term Guest Essays. “We don't like jargon in our articles; we don't want it above them, either,” explains @katiekings. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alastair Coote / @_alastair: “Hence the new Guest Essay label. Readers immediately grasped this term during research sessions and intuitively understood what it said about the relationship between the writer and The Times.” User research: not just for testing out your new UI! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jay Owens / @hautepop: The New York Times is retiring the old print media term “op-ed” (which never actually stood for “opinion editorial” btw, much as it seems to) - in favour of “Guest Essays” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Annemarie Dooling / @travelinganna: “In the digital world, in which millions of Times subscribers absorb the paper's journalism online, there is no geographical “Op-Ed,” just as there is no geographical “Ed” for Op-Ed to be opposite to” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jill Filipovic / @jillfilipovic: There are people on here who are going to be mad / annoyed about this, and I can already predict who they are, but what I don't yet know is how they're going to justify being mad about this: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rubina Madan Fillion / @rubinafillion: Most @nytopinion readers don't realize that Op-Ed stands for “opposite the editorial page.” Today we're retiring the term. We're also launching a new design to further highlight the differences between Opinion and news. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Penny Riordan / @pennyriordan1: “Terms like Op-Ed are, by their nature, clubby newspaper jargon...” and readers “immediately grasped” the new label of Guest Essay. 👏👏Bravo NYT for finally making this change! 👏👏And I hope other newspapers do as well: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: In which @katiekings wisely kills the “op-ed.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Andrew Beaujon / @abeaujon: NYT retires the term “Op Ed,” will call them “Guest Essays” instead https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: FWIW, sources tell me a change like this has been contemplated since the James Bennet fiasco last summer. https://twitter.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: 🚨 NEW from @nytimes Opinion Editor @katiekings —NYT retiring the term *Op-Ed* —Term no longer relevant in digital world —Editorials will still be called editorials, but the articles written by outside writers will be known going forward as “Guest Essays” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Bob Cronin / Newser: ‘Op-Ed’ Loses Its Place at Times
Jackson O'Bryan / New York Post: The New York Times is retiring the word ‘op-ed’
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Meadowlark Media, led by ESPN vets Dan Le Batard and John Skipper, signs a distribution deal with DraftKings, one of its investors; sources: deal's worth $50M+ — Digital sports entertainment and gaming company pushes further into media realm with $50 million deal
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Ben Strauss / Washington Post: DraftKings buys rights to Dan Le Batard's radio show as sports betting company expands media footprint
Tom Jones / Poynter: Here we go again: Tucker Carlson says something controversial while Fox News sits back and watches
Adam Levitan / @adamlevitan: 3 years, $50M for Dan Le Batard podcast. My god. #howrich. https://www.wsj.com/...
David P. Samson / @davidpsamson: Congrats to all those who get the show. This is just the beginning. The easiest and most definite #waittosee of all time. https://twitter.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety: DraftKings Acquires Rights to Dan Le Batard's Podcasts in Reported $50M Deal
Jay Rigdon / Awful Announcing: DraftKings reaches distribution deal with Meadowlark Media for rights to Dan Le Batard Show podcast
AllAccess.com: Dan Le Batard And John Skipper's Meadowlark Media Inks Distribution/Content/Sponsorship Deal With DraftKings
New York Times:
Norton takes its Philip Roth biography out of print as the author faces claims of sexual assault; Norton also vows to donate to support sex assault survivors — The publisher also said it would make a donation to sexual abuse organizations equal to the advance it paid Blake Bailey, the author accused of sexual assault.
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Katha Pollitt / The Nation: Blake Bailey's Life as a Man
@theatlantic: The publisher W. W. Norton has announced that it will take Blake Bailey's biography of Philip Roth out of print. Judith Shulevitz writes that allegations of sex crimes didn't change her opinion of Bailey's work—"because it's that bad." https://on.theatln.tc/9gTu5Bs
Damon Linker / @damonlinker: Norton (pub of my 2nd book) is taking the Bailey bio of Roth out of print. We live in a cultural world in which people think that inanimate objects possess occult powers requiring them to be expunged when those connected w them are accused of evil deeds. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Walter Shapiro / @mrwaltershapiro: While I am appalled about everything that I have learned about Blake Bailey, I find this decision by Norton to turn the Roth biography into an Un-book horrifying. Will Norton also go house to house searching for contraband copies? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Gideon Rachman / @gideonrachman: So should we take Caravaggio paintings out of art galleries. He was an actual murderer https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Kassel / @matthewkassel: “Norton is permanently putting out of print our editions of ‘Philip Roth: The Biography’ and ‘The Splendid Things We Planned,’ Blake Bailey's 2014 memoir.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jennifer Schuessler / @jennyschuessler: NEW: Publisher is taking Blake Bailey's Philip Roth biography out of print, telling employees it should have done more to investigate a sexual assault allegation it received in 2018. Will also make donation to survivor groups: @xanalter has the scoop https://www.nytimes.com/...
@emilyctamkin: That after this news started coming out I re-read this review we ran of the biography and everything appears in both the same and a slightly dimmer light https://www.newstatesman.com/ ...
Viet Thanh Nguyen / @viet_t_nguyen: Wow. I happen to have a first edition of Blake Bailey's biography of Philip Roth, sent to me by the publisher or his agent. It suddenly became much more valuable for all the wrong reasons. I haven't read the book yet, because 900 pages. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Schneier / @matthewschneier: Norton is pulling Blake Bailey's Roth bio and his own memoir out of print, following allegations of sexual assault by a number of women https://www.nytimes.com/...
Andrew Sullivan / @sullydish: Absurd. Pernicious. Stupid. https://twitter.com/...
Abe Silberstein / @abesilbe: I bought it (pre-ordered, actually) on Kindle. I presume it won't disappear. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alex Shephard / @alex_shephard: “Mr. Bailey will be free to seek publication elsewhere if he chooses” Wow https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sadanand Dhume / @dhume: I thought this might happen. Hope Norton doesn't find a way to delete the book from my Kindle. https://twitter.com/...
Lisa Tozzi / @lisatozzi: “Norton is permanently putting out of print our editions of ‘Philip Roth: The Biography’ and ‘The Splendid Things We Planned,’ Blake Bailey's 2014 memoir. Mr. Bailey will be free to seek publication elsewhere if he chooses,” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Non Podhoretz / @crookedroads770: Can't believe people are calling this censorship like oh no how will I read a book about Philip Roth's inner life, upbringing in New Jersey, relationship with Judaism, or problematic attitudes toward women https://twitter.com/...
Christie D'Zurilla / Los Angeles Times: W.W. Norton will take Blake Bailey books out of print
Judith Shulevitz / The Atlantic: If the Author Is a Bad Person, Does That Change Anything?
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