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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Trump's Justice Department secretly obtained phone records for three WaPo reporters over reporting they did in mid-2017 on Russia's role in the 2016 election — The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post journalists' phone records and tried to obtain their email records …
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Chris Young / The Reporters Committee …: Reporters Committee statement on report that Trump Justice Department secretly obtained journalists' phone records
Edward Helmore / The Guardian: Trump DoJ seized Washington Post reporters' phone records, paper says
@emptywheel: Trump seized the phone records of 3 WaPo reporters. The seizure STARTED 3 days after they reported on Carter Page's FISA. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: The revelation about Trump's DOJ seizing WaPo reporter phone records is on the front pages of both WaPo and the NYT today https://twitter.com/...
Tim O'Donnell / The Week: 10 things you need to know today: May 8, 2021
John W. Dean / @johnwdean: Way beyond Nixon at his worst: Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Post reporters' phone records! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Michael McFaul / @mcfaul: What? This is very scary. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Goldman / New York Times: Justice Dept. Seized Washington Post's Phone Records
Elaine Shannon / @elaineshannondc: Both parties hate leaks and snoop on reporters. Good there's now strong encryption and burner phones. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Edward-Isaac Dovere / @isaacdovere: “It is rare for the Justice Department to use subpoenas to get records of reporters in leak investigations, and such moves must be approved by the attorney general.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ken Klippenstein / @kenklippenstein: Trump admin referred a record number of leaks for criminal investigation, per DOJ documents I obtained under FOIA: https://theintercept.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner: Does “it” mean they were sought in 2020? Obtained in 2020? Both? The story also leaves unclear whether whichever of those it was (were?) happened under Barr, or after, under Rosen?
Jason Leopold / @jasonleopold: “there was no private meeting, ” Sarah Flores said Again, if that is the case this can't be considered a leak? https://twitter.com/...
RFE / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: U.S. Government Seized Phone Data Of Journalists Who Wrote About Trump Campaign's Russia Ties
Cheri Jacobus / @cherijacobus: Trump had my email hacked in 2016 after I filed a defamation lawsuit against him. He'd had me “catfished” in 2015 to get personal info. Had one of his law firms investigate/spy on me. It's no secret Trump does this. So why are we suddenly shocked to learn he spied on reporters? https://twitter.com/...
Chad Livengood / @chadlivengood: WaPo: “The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post journalists' phone records and tried to obtain their email records over reporting they did in the early months of the Trump administration on Russia's role in the 2016 election.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Bradley P. Moss / @bradmossesq: Here we go again https://twitter.com/...
@rcfp: .@rcfp Executive Director Bruce Brown said, “Whenever the government seeks to obtain records of journalists' communications, it raises serious First Amendment concerns because it interferes with the free flow of information to the public.” Full statement: https://www.rcfp.org/... https://twitter.com/...
@harrisonjaime: .@GOPChairwoman I know you love talking about integrity... thoughts? https://twitter.com/...
John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton: This does not make it better. Despite this statement, I'd like to believe that current Justice Department leadership is taking a step back to consider how much our democracy can be damaged by obsessive leak chasing... ...and how they would like to be remembered by history. https://twitter.com/...
Ken Klippenstein / @kenklippenstein: Anyway use Signal. When it gets subpoenaed, this is all the data they have to disclose. (Source: https://signal.org/...) https://twitter.com/...
Nick Ochsner / @nickochsnerwbtv: Feds seizing reporters' phone records was wrong when the Obama DOJ did it and equally wrong when the Trump DOJ did it. What's most troubling is a judge authorized seizing the WaPo reporters' records. https://twitter.com/...
Alexandra Chalupa / @alexandrachalup: We were “way beyond Nixon” when the Republican Party conspired with the Kremlin to install a criminal regime with the help of Russian intelligence operatives and threatened to destroy the United States. Mass deaths and devastation were the result. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: WaPo: “We are deeply troubled by this use of government power to seek access to the communications of journalists. The Department of Justice should immediately make clear its reasons for this intrusion into the activities of reporters doing their jobs...” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jason Leopold / @jasonleopold: AND here's Flores in an email describing the Kislyak/Sessions meeting as debunked! So if not true how could it be a leak? https://twitter.com/...
Levi Fishman / @levifishman: The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained reporters' phone records and the Biden Justice Department defended the activities? Cool. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Gabriel Snyder / @gabrielsnyder: the fragility of democratic norms seems to be the underlying theme of these kinds of reports https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jason Leopold / @jasonleopold: Sarah Flores responded to at least two dozen reporters by saying the Sessions/Kislyak meeting during 2016 campaign never happened and I have every single email. So if this is one of the stories that served as the basis for seizing WaPo phone records does it mean it's true? https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: Huh. And I'd been led to understand the Trump team was a bunch of civil libertarians crusading against the Deep State. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Justin Amash / @justinamash: Trump & Co. feigned outrage over FISA while engaging in the same abuses and reauthorizing every aspect of the police state that landed on Donald Trump's desk for a signature. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner: So, unless I read this wrong, some timing elements here are left out or left intentionally vague: https://twitter.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: The seized records - a process that must be approved by the AG - were from 2017. They were sought last year, when Barr was AG. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ken Klippenstein / @kenklippenstein: The prosecution of media leaks is a bipartisan scandal. Leaks referred to DOJ for criminal investigation (by fiscal year): 2009: 44 2010: 33 2011: 41 2012: 46 2013: 55 2014: 41 2015: 18 2016: 38 2017: 120 2018: 88 2019: 71 2020: 55 https://theintercept.com/...
Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner: * The story addresses “toll records ... from April 15, 2017 to July 31, 2017” * ... “obtained” by the “Trump Justice Department.” * Reporters informed of this in a May 3 letter signed by current DOJ officials (ie, Biden DOJ). When were they sought? When obtained? Unclear: https://twitter.com/...
Matt Fuller / @mepfuller: This whole thing is gross and a good question is why the Biden Justice Department is defending it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner: Also, regardless of the answers to those questions, it's very weird how the Post leans in hard to this being a Trump-era happening — both in the headline and the lede — when the story itself quotes Biden DOJ folks defending the move. And not good that Garland's DOJ is doing so. https://twitter.com/...
Dillon Rosenblatt / @dillonreedrose: This is such a gross overreach of a government entity. https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: So, what you're saying is that Trump and the ‘Deep State’ worked *together* to undermine the First Amendment? Wonder how rightwingers feel about that... https://twitter.com/...
James LaPorta / @jimlaporta: WTF!!!! This is like what happened in 2013 when DoJ secretly obtained @AP phone records. https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Well said. This is deeply disturbing from an administration made clear before they were even in charge that they were hostile to a free and plural press. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Leopold / @jasonleopold: Via my #FOIA: Here's former DOJ spox Sarah Flores providing a reporter a comment on deep background about whether Jeff Sessions met with Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. WaPo said today their 2017 story on this mtg may have lead DOJ to seize reporters' phone records https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: DOJ must say “when prosecutors seized these records, why it is only now notifying the Post, and on what basis [it] decided to forgo the presumption of advance notification under its own guidelines,” says @rcfp https://www.rcfp.org/...
Seung Min Kim / @seungminkim: “The Department of Justice should immediately make clear its reasons for this intrusion into the activities of reporters doing their jobs, an activity protected under the First Amendment.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
WomenForBidenHarris / @women4biden: This sounds very legal and very cool, as the former guy used to say. https://twitter.com/...
Tal Axelrod / The Hill: Democrats, activists blast Trump DOJ effort to get journalists' phone records
Nathan Place / The Independent: Trump Justice Department monitored Washington Post reporters' phone calls in 2017
Andrew Beaujon / @abeaujon:
Washingtonian editorial staff won't publish today after their CEO implied in a WaPo op-ed that management should categorize remote staff as contractors — As members of the Washingtonian editorial staff, we want our CEO to understand the risks of not valuing our labor. We are dismayed by Cathy Merrill's public threat to our livelihoods. We will not be publishing today.
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Cathy Merrill / Washington Post: As a CEO, I worry about the erosion of office culture with more remote work
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: It's not their job to buy you cake
Benjamin Armbruster / @benjaminja: .@washingtonian editorial staff respond in unison to CEO Cathy Merrill's WaPo op-ed (via @MarisaKashino) https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: I have now written an OP-ED: It's Not Their Job To Buy You Cake https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Sopan Deb / @sopandeb: I am *floored* by this op-ed by a media CEO. But the particularly awful part is the second screenshot here. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Dave Jamieson / @jamieson: The CEO of @washingtonian media has taken to the op-ed page of the Washington Post to threaten her own employees. This is a stunning essay from the boss. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@jhweissmann: Lol, WaPo gave the owner of Washingtonian a platform to just threaten her staff with completely transparent labor law violations gtfo lady https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Wendi C. Thomas / @wendi_c_thomas: It needed to be said and @laurahazardowen said it: It's not their job to buy you cake https://www.niemanlab.org/... via @NiemanLab @washingtonian
Andrew Beaujon / @abeaujon: I really appreciated this @laurahazardowen piece, which notes how women tend to end up with “non-promotable tasks https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Adriana Lacy / @adriana_lacy: “Working remotely for the last year has revealed just how much of office culture is accidental, arbitrary, and sexist. yep. I'd also add in racist, too. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Yoshi Yoshitani / @yoshisquared: This is so funny (not) because the argument for hiring someone full time is that then you don't have to pay them x1.5 for overtime. 🙄 Anyway, just another reminder that companies are always looking out for themselves so it's important you look out for yourself too https://twitter.com/...
Molly Priddy / @mollypriddy: “20 percent of this job is being my friend at the office and if you don't do it i will take your healthcare” https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: New from me: I spoke to some staffers at the Washingtonian about that threatening sounding op-ed about working from home. Spoiler: many of them *want* to go back to the office in some form. They just want some say in the process. And some respect. https://warzel.substack.com/ ...
Jessica Grose / @jessgrose: Co-sign everything in this piece by @laurahazardowen https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Benjamin Freed / @brfreed: For a time the magazine prided itself on the fact that it was one of the first in D.C. to pay its interns...local minimum wage with no benefits or time off. Interns in both editorial and sales/marketing were also required to work company events, and there are stories. https://twitter.com/...
Seung Min Kim / @seungminkim: For too long, informal mentoring, “inclusion” responsibilities + requests or requirements to provide diverse job candidate lists or check articles for racism have been foisted off on journalists of color, who are never paid/recognized for their extra work. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Noam Blum / @neontaster: Tweeting in unison is creepy even if the reason for it is positive. The lack of individualism in this kind of uniform collective action never sits right with me. Also I can't imagine having a job where you wake up to an op-ed by your boss basically shitting on you in public. https://twitter.com/...
Roslyn Talusan / @roslyntalusan: threatening to reclassify an employee as a contractor because remote workers don't “drive office culture” (🥴🥴🥴) publicly and in writing is a fascinating tactic https://twitter.com/...
Elahe Izadi / @elaheizadi: “I feel really humiliated,” said one Washingtonian staffer about their CEO's op-ed. “People I respect in the media industry and beyond came to me and were really shocked that this is where I'm working.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: journalists of color, particularly, have been expected, over and over & across companies, to mentor/"help" find “diverse candidates"/give feedback on content without being paid extra for it https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Soren Bowie / @soren_ltd: Rad to see the curtain pulled back and finally know that your health insurance is dependent on singing happy birthday to Deb. https://twitter.com/...
Nisha Chittal / @nishachittal: “Much of the “office culture” that eroded during the pandemic was not built intentionally or thoughtfully. It hasn't benefited everyone equally... Once we acknowledge that, we can think about building the kinds of places where people really want to work.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Noah Lanard / @nlanard: Washingtonian's CEO harps on workplace culture and threatens employees who don't want to go back to the office. In 2017, she paid me and other interns minimum wage, offered no healthcare for full-time work, and gave zero paid time off. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jamison Foser / @jamisonfoser: if you can't write a simple op-ed without causing a full staff revolt, perhaps you should not be the CEO of a magazine https://twitter.com/...
@thepacketrat: This is some Condé Nast level plutocratic evil right here. Whoops did I say that out loud. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: I predict that by the time the staff does reappear in the @washingtonian office, they'll be wearing the union label.
Ella Dawson / @brosandprose: Cathy Merrill, CEO of Washingtonian Media, needs to resign. Publicly threatening in an op-ed to downgrade your full-time employees to contractors, cutting their health insurance in the process, if they don't come back to the office displays staggering cruelty and bad judgment. https://twitter.com/...
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy / @profciara: “It's not a coincidence that these nice little office “extras” — the things you'll rarely see listed in a journalism job description because historically nobody has considered them worth paying for — disproportionately fall to women.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: This reminds me of my first week or two as the editor of the NY Observer: Jared Kushner, who visited the office once in a blue moon, & never went downstairs to the bullpen, demanded to know why half the reporters were missing at 10AM on a weekday. Answer: they were out reporting. https://twitter.com/...
Thomas Hogglestock / @tjhogglestock: Seems like Cathy Merrill had nothing to worry about. Her staff have the camaraderie thing nailed down, even while working from home. https://twitter.com/...
Courtney Milan / @courtneymilan: Just saying the quiet part in a loud enough format that can be easily attached to a labor lawsuit about being miss classified as a non-employee. https://twitter.com/...
Kurzius / DCist: After Washingtonian CEO's ‘Public Threat,’ Editorial Staffers Aren't Publishing Today
Scott Bixby / @scottbix: Merrill's op-ed is a barely-veiled threat against healthcare coverage, 401k benefits and PTO for remote workers. Good on @washingtonian staff for taking those threats seriously. https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: @cwarzel I also disagree with the conclusions, but I think it's valuable for workers to know these sentiments are out there. A lot of bosses feel this way!
Jess Goodwin / @thejessgoodwin: I mean I would think that if an employer is saving money on things like office space and parking fees they wouldn't need to also take away their employees' benefits 🤨 https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@sorayamcdonald: This is not “office culture;” it's one woman holding benefits hostage under the guise of “who will teach the children how to be good obsequious little workers” FOH. The woman who wrote this sounds like a nightmare https://twitter.com/...
Jess Zimmerman / @j_zimms: Let it never be said that op-eds don't create change https://twitter.com/...
Dave Jamieson / @jamieson: Having representatives and lawyers helps, but this is a good reminder that employees do not need a union to act as one https://twitter.com/...
Michael de la Merced / @m_delamerced: This is probably not the reaction that Merrill wanted to get from this https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: And good for them. That first day back at the office is going to be mighty awk. https://twitter.com/...
@kendrawrites: The office environments that are most militaristic about employees returning to in office employment have IME toxic work cultures that are hard to maintain at a distance https://twitter.com/...
Mary Tyler March / @mtmarch: lol so the inability to curate an office birthday celebration should be grounds for converting full-time employees — who are probably doing work well beyond their compensation — to contractors without benefits? incredible https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: “We have a healthy office culture right now which is why I am publicly threatening the jobs of my employees.”
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: Great take on why the staff of Washingtonian should unionize from **checks notes** the CEO of Washingtonian. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Dave Jamieson / HuffPost: Washingtonian CEO's Ominous Op-Ed Leads To Staff Revolt
Thomas Moore / The Hill: Washingtonian CEO apologizes after staffers strike over op-ed on remote work
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times: Column: Employers, governors push myth that unemployment checks keep lazy workers home
Micah L. Sifry / The Connector: The Hybrid Workplace is Here to Stay: Work Has to Evolve
Gillian Friedman / New York Times: Washingtonian staff protests C.E.O.'s article on remote work by refusing to publish.
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: Boy do I disagree with this op-ed about the risks of not returning to the office (one of which is just...i, the ceo, just might make you a contractor instead of an employee!) https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
In an email, Washingtonian CEO apologized to magazine staff for her WaPo op-ed, assuring them there would be no changes to benefits or employee status — The D.C. magazine's staff revolted on Friday after their owner wrote an op-ed suggesting remote workers could be penalized—a “public threat to our livelihoods,” employees said.
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Jill Geisler / @jillgeisler: “I am sorry IF” is an apology eraser. The op-ed lacked evidence that she solicited input her from own staff about their remote work & culture. These are important conversations everywhere today and the best leaders are listening to learn, rather than lecturing to alarm. https://twitter.com/...
Emily Ladau / @emily_ladau: The disingenuous backpedaling in the @washingtonian's CEO is just as appalling as her op-ed. So much wrong with this, not the least of which is the blatant ableism and lack of caring about putting in effort to foster an inclusive, accommodating workplace. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Hillary Kelly / @hillarykelly: Weird, because when I went to the CFO, seven months pregnant and asking for a more appropriate maternity leave policy on par with the industry, I was called “silly” right in front of HR and nobody did anything about it. (I quit.) https://twitter.com/...
Jessica Taylor / @jessicataylor: If anything, this past year has proven so many jobs absolutely can be done remotely https://twitter.com/...
Adam Smith / @asmith83: just absolutely baffled by the strategy of publishing a weird oped about your HR theories in place of holding a staff meeting https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Jason Scott / @textfiles: And no doubt there's a bloodbath that's going to come As she takes remote workers and says “yeah you're done” And she wants to be known as a smart CEO https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Pam Chvotkin / @reddusfoximus: I can't stand PR statements like these. The wording in the op-Ed was pretty clear. The fact that her words needed a follow up with a, “I didn't mean to offend you, but...sorry that you were” statement is forced and inauthentic. Only responding because of the backlash. https://twitter.com/...
Maria Konnikova / @mkonnikova: The phrase “workplace culture” is one of the main reasons I've chosen to be self-employed for the last 10+ years. The other is “face time” (of the non-iPhone variety). So much toxicity in outdated ways of looking at what it means to be productive and valuable. https://twitter.com/...
Morgan Jerkins / @morganjerkins: There are going to be many upheavals and reconsiderations towards what we consider “workplace culture” to be and that's a good thing. It's a brand new day out here. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Peter Clines / @peterclines: ...claiming her column's intent was simply to convey how worried she and other CEOs were about “preserving the cultures we built up in our offices.” As someone who used to regularly pull 70+ hour weeks, I have many thoughts on “workplace culture”... https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: Remember that executives should always have to live under the threat of overthrow. There is no other way to make them remember the humanity of workers. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
@thetomzone: great argument for why this is the perfect time for Washingtonian staff to begin a union drive https://twitter.com/...
@phbehnken: What a fool she is! As a retired long-time freelancer, I can tell you I devoted much more time to my work from home than I ever did in any office setting. No birthday parties, long lunches, watercooler chats, gossip, backstabbing, etc. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... via @thedailybeast
Kaila Philo / @kailaphilo: Fun fact: Since Cathy Merrill only offered minimum wage to editorial fellows in 2018, I had to commute for 3 hours a day to and from Baltimore, including on days we had to work events, because I couldn't afford DC rent.
@phbehnken: @mediagazer @beyerstein @maxwelltani What a fool! She could lose her best writers over this, for good reason. Writers don't need daily, 8-hour face time. As retired long-time freelance, I can tell you I did my best work from home, w/o office distractions/politics or a commute. Plus, I cld work at night, if I wanted.
Jared Holt / @jaredlholt: I am also sorry if the words I write in major national newspapers give the impression I mean those words https://twitter.com/...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: I love an 'I'm sorry if you were offended' non-apology apology. Whew. I feel badly for those who work there. https://twitter.com/...
David Lim / @davidalim: “I am sorry if the op-ed made it appear like anything else.” 🤔🤔🤔 https://twitter.com/...
Yashar Ali / @yashar: “I'm sorry if the op-Ed made it appear like anything else.” Good god. https://twitter.com/...
Anuradha SenGupta / @anuradhasays: That's after they told her they won't publish: https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / Washington Post: Washingtonian staffers orchestrate work stoppage over CEO's ‘public threat to our livelihoods’
Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: Finally.... a weapon to surpass Groverhaus
Jim Tankersley / New York Times: Biden and Republicans Spar Over Unemployment After Weak Jobs Report
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: It's not their job to buy your cake
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Google adds YouTube TV to the main YouTube app on Roku devices and says it is securing “free streaming devices” for customers in case talks with Roku fail — It's also securing ‘free streaming devices’ for customers in case talks with Roku completely fall apart
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Chris Welch / @chriswelch: NEW: Roku calls Google “an unchecked monopolist” after Google said it would integrate YouTube TV into the main YouTube app on Roku's platform. I'm in the process of updating our story. https://www.theverge.com/... Roku's full statement: https://twitter.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety: After Roku Pulls YouTube TV, YouTube Will Add Ability to Access Live-TV Service From Main App
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: Roku spox regarding the latest move by Google: “Google has continued its practice of blatantly leveraging its YouTube monopoly to force an independent company into an agreement that is both bad for consumers and bad for fair competition” https://variety.com/...
@thestreamable: In a statement on Google adding YouTube TV to the YouTube App, Roku calls Google an “unchecked monopolist bent on crushing fair competition and harming consumer choice.” They have not yet removed the app however. https://thestreamable.com/... $GOOG $ROKU
Shira Ovide / @shiraovide: Streaming TV distribution is all very, very broken. It's like we decided to take the worst of the gatekeeper-controlled smartphone app system AND the worst of the cable TV system. https://twitter.com/...
Dave Zatz / @davezatz: Roku's ‘juggernaut as victim’ airing of the grievances is as tired as it is amusing. “UNECHECKED MONOPOLIST [HELL] BENT ON CRUSHING [OUR POOR LITTLE PURPLE STREAMER]” (Also, is it Attorneys General or Attorney Generals? Hm.) https://twitter.com/...
Neal Mohan / @nealmohan: We're introducing a new feature that lets you access @YouTubeTV from the @YouTube app. This feature will be available to all @YouTubeTV members on Roku over the next few days, making it easier to enjoy the content you love... https://blog.youtube/... https://twitter.com/...
Jason Wilson / @jason_a_w: I am done with YouTube TV! I may even just get cable again at this point https://twitter.com/...
@pcmag: In a blog post about the YouTube TV fight, Google mentions that a Roku deal to carry the free YouTube app expires in December. Current tensions between the two parties may make renegotiations tough. https://www.pcmag.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: This is absolutely hilarious. https://variety.com/...
Tom Warren / @tomwarren: I'm old enough to remember Google getting rather upset with Microsoft when it went rogue and made its own YouTube app for Windows Phone 🥴 https://twitter.com/...
Nilay Patel / @reckless: Short version: we are not dumb enough to disable the entire YouTube app https://twitter.com/...
Nilay Patel / @reckless: A hotfix to circumvent a platform restriction you say https://www.theverge.com/...
Steve Kovach / @stevekovach: Ugh: They wrote “Attorney Generals” not “Attorneys General” https://twitter.com/...
Shoshana Wodinsky / Gizmodo: YouTube Found the Pettiest Loophole in Its Battle Against Roku
Jeff Baumgartner / Light Reading: YouTube TV creates new workaround as Roku standoff continues
Katie Canales / Insider: Roku called Google an ‘unchecked monopolist’ after the company added YouTube TV into its main YouTube app on the streaming platform's channel store
Jason Gurwin / The Streamable: Roku Calls Google an ‘Unchecked Monopolist’ in Move to Circumvent Roku Channel Store with YouTube TV
Brandon Russell / XDA Developers: Google pushes back against Roku and puts YouTube TV in the YouTube app
Matthew Keys / The Desk: YouTube TV channels integrated into YouTube app on Roku
Philip Palermo / Cord Cutters News: (Update: Roku Responds) As Talks With Roku Continue, Google Adds YouTube TV Workaround to YouTube App
Bloomberg:
LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong says journalism needs government help, Big Tech should pay for content, and he's undecided on which Tribune bid to support — - Patrick Soon-Shiong says tech giants should pay for articles — He's also No. 2 investor in Tribune, which is weighing bids
Discussion:
Diane Haithman / The Wrap: ‘Government Needs to Step in’ to Save Newspapers, Los Angeles Times Owner Says
Nick Turner / @newsynick: .@latimes owner Patrick Soon-Shiong says newspapers may need government aid: “I'm not asking the government to do anything drastic, but they have to step in and find a way to support the viability of this whole industry.” https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @Yueqi_Yang @gerryfsmith
Matt Welch / @mattwelch: Hard pass: “I'm not asking the government to do anything drastic, but they have to step in and find a way to support the viability of this whole industry,” says LAT owner. Or else we risk “destroying, frankly, democracy, in the long run.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Flurry analysis: just 4% of iPhone users in the US and 12% worldwide have so far actively chosen to opt into app tracking after the rollout of iOS 14.5 — An early look at an ongoing analysis of Apple's App Tracking Transparency suggests that the vast majority of iPhone users …
Discussion:
Flurry Blog, Nieman Lab, Insider, Ars Technica, Fast Company, @robinberjon, @phyllisstein, @benlovejoy, @wolfiechristl, @flyosity, Gizmodo, @yangcliu, @rustybrick, @jason_kint, Forbes, TNW, 9to5Mac and AppleInsider, more at Techmeme »
Discussion:
Edanilo / Flurry Blog: Daily iOS 14.5 Opt-in Rate
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: It turns out no one wants to be tracked all across their iPhones by Facebook (or anyone else)
Insider: Apple's privacy changes are already causing chaos in mobile advertising, with developers reporting tiny user opt-in rates and falling ad prices
Robin Berjon / @robinberjon: One thing that's particularly interesting here is that it provides a statistical baseline: if you are getting opt-ins significantly higher than this, you're probably using a dark pattern. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel P. Shannon / @phyllisstein: “The challenge for the personalized ads market will be significant if the first two weeks [of iOS 14 app tracking opt-outs] end up reflecting a long-term trend.” https://www.macrumors.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Wolfie Christl / @wolfiechristl: Verizon's Flurry, who claims to harvest data from thousands of apps across 2 billion mobile devices, also found a 4% opt-in rate, at least in the US #apple #att Put differently, 96% don't want to be tracked. The ‘worldwide’ opt-in rate is 11%, though (?) https://www.flurry.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mike Rundle / @flyosity: lol facebook https://twitter.com/...
Alyse Stanley / Gizmodo: Too Bad, Zuck: Just 4% of U.S. iPhone Users Let Apps Track Them After iOS Update
Yang / @yangcliu: Opt out ratio high. Game companies with large loyal following and community (non reliant on UA) will have a huge advantage, such as supercell, in this new era https://www.macrumors.com/...
Barry Schwartz / @rustybrick: How can this not impact Facebook and Google ads? https://twitter.com/...
Victoria Lewis / WPTV:
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis barred local media on Thursday from attending the signing of a voting restriction bill; the event was a “Fox News exclusive” — Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed Florida's elections reform bill into law. DeSantis signed SB90, which includes restrictions …
Discussion:
@stevebousquet, Tampa Bay Times, CNBC, Detroit Free Press, WPEC, HuffPost, Truthout, Tampa Bay Times, @scontorno, Washington Post, Common Dreams, Law & Crime, @svdate, @dcherring, Columbia Journalism Review, Washington Post, Media Matters for America, Poynter, The Hill, Newser, Jezebel, @annaforflorida, @jonathanchait, @servethe901, @maggienyt, @ariberman, @timothypmurphy, @kevinmkruse, @jamessurowiecki, @wptv, Politico, Vanity Fair, Slate, Mother Jones, CNN, Washington Post, ABC News, VICE and Mediaite
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Steve Bousquet / @stevebousquet: NEW: News media is barred from entry at Gov. Ron DeSantis' signing of controversial elections bill, SB 90. DeSantis spokeswoman Taryn Fenske says bill signing is a “Fox exclusive” https://twitter.com/...
Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times: Fox News didn't ask for an exclusive on DeSantis bill signing, network says
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: GOP Gov. DeSantis signs Florida election law while shutting out all media but Fox News
Judith Browne Dianis / Detroit Free Press: Why Florida Gov. DeSantis signed voting rights restriction on Fox News
John O'Brien / WPEC: First Amendment advocates denounce Gov. DeSantis' decision to bar media from bill signing
Ja'han Jones / HuffPost: Florida Governor ‘Happy’ He Gave Fox Exclusive Access To Voter-Suppression Bill Signing
Sharon Zhang / Truthout: Florida's DeSantis Bars All Media Except Fox at Voter Suppression Bill Signing
Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times: Did DeSantis violate First Amendment with Fox News-only bill signing?
Steve Contorno / @scontorno: UPDATE: Fox News now says they didn't know DeSantis planned a bill signing for today. They booked him on Fox & Friends for an interview and the event was sprung on them. https://www.tampabay.com/...
Philip Bump / Washington Post: DeSantis enacts voting restrictions touted by Fox News with only Fox News in the room
Julia Conley / Common Dreams: Watchdog Demands Records on DeSantis' Voter Suppression ‘Publicity Stunt’ on Fox News
Colin Kalmbacher / Law & Crime: ‘Deplorable’: Advocacy Group Demands ‘All Records’ on Fox News Exclusive Showing Ron DeSantis Signing ‘Voter Suppression’ Bill
S.V. Dte / @svdate: It is not just an exclusive. It is literally an official government act being turned into a DeSantis campaign event. https://twitter.com/...
Dennis Foxmania Herring / @dcherring: Who needs state-run media when you've got FOX? https://twitter.com/...
Bobby Lewis / Media Matters for America: Florida governor banned reporters from a bill signing to give Fox & Friends “exclusive” coverage
Tom Jones / Poynter: The cozy relationship between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Fox News is on full display
Max Greenwood / The Hill: Media shut out of DeSantis elections bill signing
Bob Cronin / Newser: Fox Says It Didn't Know What DeSantis Was Doing
Ashley Reese / Jezebel: Fox News Claims Even They Didn't Know Gov. Ron DeSantis Was Gonna Do All That
Rep. Anna V. Eskamani / @annaforflorida: Governor DeSantis is signing a voter suppression bill but it's a “Fox exclusive” so other media can't come in. This was never about policy, it was always about making it harder for ppl to vote while catering to a hyper-conservative base of voters. Floridians deserve better! https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Chait / @jonathanchait: A “news organization” that gets exclusive rights to cover official government business is the definition of state television https://twitter.com/...
Allan Creasy / @servethe901: Looks like DeSantis wants to exclude reporters as much as voters. https://twitter.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: Can't say I've ever heard of an act like a bill signing being treated like a commodity to trade with Fox https://twitter.com/...
Ari Berman / @ariberman: DeSantis is signing bill to roll back voting access after Dems used vote by mail more than Republicans for first time in state history & won't even let media other than Fox cover it. Democracy literally dying in the dark https://twitter.com/...
Tim Murphy / @timothypmurphy: in the current republican ecosystem turning the curtailing of voting rights into a “Fox exclusive” is almost as important as the curtailing of voting rights itself https://twitter.com/...
Kevin M. Kruse / @kevinmkruse: Well, voter suppression sort of *is* their thing. https://twitter.com/...
James Surowiecki / @jamessurowiecki: How is it possibly constitutional to only allow one handpicked news outlet to cover an official govt event? This is not a DeSantis campaign event - he's on govt time and getting paid govt money. https://twitter.com/...
@wptv: .@WPTV and other news media will not be allowed inside as Gov. #DeSantis is expected to sign the elections bill. The event is being called “a Fox News exclusive.” Read more: https://www.wptv.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Gary Fineout / Politico: DeSantis gives Fox ‘exclusive’ of him signing election bill
Elliot Hannon / Slate: Florida Is the Latest GOP-Run State to Enact a New Law Making It Harder to Vote
Inae Oh / Mother Jones: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Signs a Voter Suppression Bill, and Fox News Has the Only Camera
Kelly Mena / CNN: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs restrictive voting bill
Washington Post: Florida's DeSantis signs new voting restrictions into law, making the state the latest to add hurdles to the voting process
Quinn Scanlan / ABC News: GOP Gov. DeSantis signs Florida election bill into law amid new controversy
Dominic Patten / Deadline:
In a letter, Ted Sarandos says Netflix is “stopping any activities” with HFPA until more meaningful reforms are made, after HFPA members approved an overhaul — EXCLUSIVE: As the beleaguered Hollywood Foreign Press Association pledges to reform itself, Netflix has declared …
Discussion:
Marc Malkin / Variety: HFPA Members Approve Sweeping Overhaul for Embattled Golden Globes Group (EXCLUSIVE)
Scott Feinberg / Hollywood Reporter: Golden Globes: Time's Up, PR Firms Say HFPA Has Not Gone Far Enough With Proposed Reforms
Scott Feinberg / Hollywood Reporter: Golden Globes: Netflix “Stopping Any Activities” with HFPA Unless and Until Further Reforms Are Made
Bad Robot / @bad_robot: “Netflix and many of the talent and creators we work with cannot ignore the HFPA's collective failure to address these crucial issues with urgency and rigor.” - Ted Sarandos Huge kudos to @Netflix for leading the way! https://deadline.com/...
Scott Menzel / @scottdmenzel: Why doesn't Hollywood just cut ties with the HFPA already? Anything they do now is only being done to salvage their reputation and keep money in their pockets. If they actually cared about having black members they would have had them in their organization long before now. https://twitter.com/...
Dominic Patten / @deadlinedominic: EXCLU: #GoldenGlobes organizers see @netflix cut ties unless real reform of #HFPA occurs. There are currently ZERO Black members of influential Hollywood group https://deadline.com/...
Robert Daniels / @812filmreviews: Woah!! Absolutely seismic. https://twitter.com/...
Piya Sinha-Roy / @piyasroy: We've always known that the HFPA would never change unless studios and networks stop giving them money and access. This is a huge move from Netflix to force the organization to do better... question remains, is it enough? 🤷🏽♀ ️ https://twitter.com/...
Dominic Patten / @deadlinedominic: UPDATE: #HFPA responds to @netflix halting relationship with Golden Globes group unless real reform is enacted “We hear your concerns about the changes our association needs to make & want to assure you that we are working diligently on all of them” https://deadline.com/...
Tyler Sonnemaker / Insider: Netflix cuts ties with Hollywood Foreign Press Association as co-CEO Ted Sarandos blasts group over diversity and inclusion
@erickweber: HFPA is legit on the ropes, not certain of their contract situation with NBC but there's a very real opportunity for another organization to take their primetime spot away https://twitter.com/...
Carina Adly Mackenzie / @cadlymack: I just love Netflix a whole lot. (Except still mad about ODAAT but other than that) https://twitter.com/...
Ava DuVernay / @ava: “Netflix and many of the talent and creators we work with cannot ignore the HFPA's collective failure to address these crucial issues with urgency and rigor.” - Ted Sarandos Damn. This is a big deal. Props to @Netflix for being first to take a stand. https://deadline.com/...
Shonda Rhimes / @shondarhimes: Once again, Netflix shows how it can and should be done. This is how to be the change. https://deadline.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Filing: Roku paid $97.8M in cash for This Old House Ventures, the media company behind the home-improvement TV show that Roku acquired in March — Roku paid $97.8 million in cash for This Old House Ventures, the home-improvement media company whose shows include “This Old House” and “Ask This Old House.”
Discussion:
Default / SEC.gov: Form 10-Q — UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, DC 20549 FORM 10-Q …
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: In its 10-Q filing, Roku did not disclose what it paid for Quibi. In Q1, Roku added $97.5M in content assets to its balance sheet as non-current assets “primarily driven by content acquired from Quibi and This Old House,” it said in the filing. https://variety.com/...
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku beats estimates, with a Q1 net income of $76.3M on revenue of $574.2M, up 79% YoY; new active accounts grew 2.4M, reaching 53.6M, up 35% YoY; stock up ~7%
Discussion:
Roku, IGN India, Forbes, The Wrap, The PARQOR Substack, MediaPost, Ad Age and FierceVideo
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Julia Alexander / IGN India: YouTube Tries to One Up Roku Amidst Public Battle
Sergei Klebnikov / Forbes: Roku's Billionaire Founder Gains $645 Million After Stock Surge
Sean Burch / The Wrap: YouTube TV Workaround Added as Roku Dispute Drags On
Andrew A Rosen / The PARQOR Substack: Mic Drop #28: ViacomCBS wins with Sports, Kids and Pluto TV in Q1 2021
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Source: stars of A Quiet Place Part II, whose pay is tied to box office performance, are in a dispute with Paramount over plans to stream early on Paramount+ — The studio is shortening the film's theatrical run, threatening their potential payday — Paramount Pictures is in a pay dispute …
Discussion:
@akstanwyck, /Film, @krolljvar, @newsynick, @mattbelloni, ScreenRant, Just Jared, IndieWire, @lucas_shaw, The Playlist and Observer
Discussion:
Anne Thompson / @akstanwyck: There's a difference between day and date and 45 days, no? https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Ben Pearson / /Film: John Krasinski and Emily Blunt Battling Paramount Over ‘A Quiet Place Part II’ Paydays
Justin Kroll / @krolljvar: Good story but love the “shortchanged” part especially since Blunt got close to $15 mill upfront and John almost 10 before the cameras even started rolling. Not really surprised since Denzel got his usual $20 mill and still demanded a backend check when LITTE THINGS headed to Max https://twitter.com/...
Nick Turner / @newsynick: With the theatrical window shrinking to 45 days (or less), the way Hollywood compensates its stars is going to have to change. A pay dispute over “A Quiet Place Part II” gives a peek into that. https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @Lucas_Shaw
Matthew Belloni / @mattbelloni: This is happening all over town (one lawyer told me it's his hottest business), making the bad short-term economics of streaming even worse for studios. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Cooper Hood / ScreenRant: Quiet Place 2 Stars Battling Studio Over Pay Due to Shortened Theatrical Run
Just Jared: Emily Blunt & John Krasinski Are Reportedly In a Money Dispute with Paramount Over ‘A Quiet Place Part II’
Zack Sharf / IndieWire: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski Ask Paramount for Money After ‘Quiet Place 2’ Window Shortened — Report
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Hollywood's big push into streaming continues to cause problems with talent. The latest example: A Quiet Place 2 https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Sara Fischer / Axios:
YouTube to spend $7M on two year-long journalism programs: one for independent journalists who want to start channels, another to help digital-first newsrooms — YouTube is spending $7 million to fund two new programs to help journalists looking to build an audience on YouTube, executives tell Axios.
Discussion:
Yahoo News, Tubefilter, @nealmohan, @fordfischer, Reclaim The Net and Talking Biz News
Discussion:
Sara Fischer / Yahoo News: YouTube spending $7 million on 2 new journalism programs
James Hale / Tubefilter: YouTube Spending $7 Million To Help Independent Journalists, Newsrooms Start Their Own Channels
Neal Mohan / @nealmohan: News is a critical reason why viewers come to @YouTube everyday. Today we are rolling out two new journalism programs to support independent reporters & digital native newsrooms. More from @sarafischer @axios here... https://www.axios.com/...
Ford Fischer / @fordfischer: On YouTube I've been fully demonetized (and remonetized) twice, had six raw videos deleted by the platform in the year 2021 alone, and had to sit out a week long suspension. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Christina Maas / Reclaim The Net: YouTube to start giving grants to select journalists
Mariam Ahmed / Talking Biz News: YouTube to invest in two new journalism projects
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Tribune Publishing Q1: net income of $6.1M on revenue of $173.6M; ad revenue fell 26.4% YoY, compensation expenses fell 35.8% YoY, and cash balance was $250.7M — Tribune Publishing posted a first-quarter profit but canceled its earnings call, citing the imminent completion of a deal to take the newspaper giant private.
Discussion:
@mcallguild: Alden has clearly been driving the bus since the very beginning. They have engineered a takeover since then too. Shareholders and the value of the company are completely irrelevant as they try to ram through their takeover https://twitter.com/...
Jess Bravin / @jessbravin: “Transforming the expense side of our business is translating into solid performance.” https://twitter.com/...
Todd Lighty / @toddlighty: Is this some sort of joke from @tribpub's CEO Terry Jimenez? He says, “thoughtful newsroom investments have positioned us for a sustainable and optimistic future.” Investments? You whacked staff, cut pay and benefits, and cover news on the cheap. https://investor.tribpub.com/ ...
Em Holter / @emholternews: A lot of amazing reporters lost for that 36% payroll reduction. Glad profits are more important than people's livelihoods and the communities we represent. https://twitter.com/...
Rick Edmonds / Poynter: How much is Tribune Publishing worth? Is Alden getting a steal of a deal at $630 million?
American Press Institute: Need to Know: May 7, 2021 — OFF THE TOP — You might have heard: The information demands …
Sara Gregory / @saragregory: Your regular reminder that @tribpub was profitable before it/Alden started cutting — notably thru payroll (buyouts, attrition & furloughs) but also reneging on leases & shutting down newsrooms. It's been Alden's playbook from day 1 —precisely why we oppose their full ownership. https://twitter.com/...
Jim Friedlich / @jimfriedlich: @lalpert1 From last night's Chicago community meeting about Alden and @tribpub https://twitter.com/...
Jim Friedlich / @jimfriedlich: 2/ @davidaxelrod: “When I was covering City Hall (for @chicagotribune) I knew management had my back if the story was righteous. I'm afraid this crowd (Alden) won't do that. I stand with you,” he said addressing the journalists and communities of Chicago...
Jim Friedlich / @jimfriedlich: 3/ Fifty-six Chicago Tribune journalists have been sacked since January 2020 under Alden's influence, reports the @ChiNewsGuild. @davidaxelrod: “Tribune Tower where I worked is now condominiums. The Chicago @Suntimes building is now @Trump Tower...”
Jim Friedlich / @jimfriedlich: 1/ “We know what Alden is. They are SCAVENGERS.” @davvidaxelrod told a gathering of @chicagotribune reporters & community activists tonight. The former @tribpub political reporter & @BarackObama official: “I can't imagine a great city like Chicago won't have a great newspaper...”
Lukas I. Alpert / @lalpert1: In Tribune Publishing's earnings today, the company says it cut operating expenses by over $100 million since the 1st quarter last year. Of that, $35 million came from payroll, a 36% reduction. Sort of feels like Alden has been running the place all along https://investor.tribpub.com/ ...
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Washington Post:
While Alden pledged $375M in cash for Tribune, one clause would let Alden finance the cash with debt or equity financing, possibly raising Tribune's debt burden
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Evan DeSimone / @mediaevan: We should ban debt-financed acquisitions of businesses like newspapers (and hospitals) that are deemed to serve the public interest. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Lenfest Institute / @lenfestinst: This is why local newspapers need responsible local ownership that values community-focused journalism https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Ellison / @sarahellison: What's in the fine print in Alden's offer to takeover Tribune? The great @jocwapo and I found some risk hiding in plain sight https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: The business of hedge funds is, essentially, looting. Read this: https://twitter.com/...
Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal: I once worked for a company who got sold and the new owners did exactly this. It totally destroyed the company. https://twitter.com/...
Sara Gregory / @saragregory: VOTE NO. It's the only reasonable vote if you care about local journalism and democracy. https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer W. Sheehan / @jenwsheehan: “They haven't got the money they're claiming to have.” Alden is lying again. #savelocalnews https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Whet Moser / @whet: “The board of directors should have known to investigate and confirm the financial resources of a prospective buyer that would be paying all equity cash. The fact that they didn't is frankly stunning.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Amy Argetsinger / @amyargetsinger: For those who care about local newspapers, a stunning and sobering story about Tribune from @sarahellison and @jocwapo https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Matt Laslo / @mattlaslo: Maybe hedge funds are really bad at owning newspapers? https://twitter.com/...
Josh Noel / @hopnotes: “The board of directors should have known to investigate and confirm the financial resources of a prospective buyer that would be paying all equity cash. The fact that they didn't is frankly stunning.” Alden Global Capital has no business buying the Chicago Tribune or @tribpub. https://twitter.com/...
John Annese / @johnannese: Sure looks like Alden Global Capital — whose co-founder Randall Smith bought 16 (!) Palm Beach mansions — wants to saddle Tribune with $375 million in debt and strip its newspapers like the Daily News for parts. Fancy mansions don't come cheap, I guess. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@mcallguild: Alden has mislead everyone, including shareholders, about how they will ACTUALLY do this sale. They will shovel debt on top of us so they can bleed out the profits. This after they claimed to have all cash to do the deal. #savelocalnews https://twitter.com/...
Stephen Brown / @ppvsrb: “Alden is still on the hook for the $375 million commitment, which means Tribune's shareholders (and board members) will be taken care of, even if its employees and readers are not.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jeff Cercone / @cerconejeff: The devil is at our door and, as one would expect of the devil, isn't being honest about his intentions. @tribpub shareholders, vote no on Alden's plan to destroy this company. https://twitter.com/...
Elahe Izadi / @elaheizadi: “The real tragedy at the end of the day is that no one showed up to buy these things. ... There was no one in Chicago. All these stand-up, wealthy people in Chicago, and no one showed up,” he said. “Very disappointing.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@os_guild: 🧐 Alden vowed to provide $375 million to acquire @tribpub, but experts told @washingtonpost that the hedge fund has “already signaled that it plans to saddle Tribune with debt that could further hollow out the company, and it may not have $375 million available to begin with.” https://twitter.com/...
Esther Crawford / Twitter:
Twitter introduces Tip Jar, allowing everyone using Twitter in English to send tips, and a limited group, including journalists and experts, to accept tips — We $ee you - sharing your PayPal link after your Tweet goes viral, adding your $Cashtag to your profile so people can support your work …
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@twitter, @racheltobac, @kayvz, @twittersupport, Cryptobeat Newsletter, Wired, Gizmodo, Today in Digital Marketing, MacRumors, @taylorlorenz, Tubefilter, @racheltobac, Protocol, ScreenRant, Liberty's Highlights, Variety, New York Post, @caseyjohnston, @tahk0, @lollardfish, @blackamazon, @sacramentokings, @racheltobac, @darrenrovell, @racheltobac, @racheltobac, @susanlitv, @wbm312, @its_willyu, @michellehux, @mark_t_gray, @chrisdancy, @jaylabrenae, @nonlinearnotes, @elizableu, 90 Second News, @slpng_giants, @kurtisconner, @luulubuu, @thisisnfts, @kozza, @lfc_rv, @chuckwendig, @jack, @jayjurden, @prsarahevans, @tomwarren, MediaNama, dexerto.com, musically.com, Transistori, The Verge, Whats New On The Net Podcast, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, CNBC and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
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@twitter: show your love, leave a tip now testing Tip Jar, a new way to give and receive money on Twitter 💸 more coming soon... https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Tobac / @racheltobac: Huge heads up on PayPal Twitter Tip Jar. If you send a person a tip using PayPal, when the receiver opens up the receipt from the tip you sent, they get your *address*. Just tested to confirm by tipping @yashar on Twitter w/ PayPal and he did in fact get my address I tipped him. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kayvon Beykpour / @kayvz: @RachelTobac @yashar this is a good catch, thank you. we can't control the revealing of the address on Paypal's side but we will add a warning for people giving tips via Paypal so that they are aware of this.
@twittersupport: Now you can do more to support the many amazing voices who add to the conversation on Twitter — send them tips. You can send someone a tip through several payment services by tapping the new Tip Jar icon on their profile, testing on Android and iOS. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Barrett / Wired: Twitter's Tip Jar Privacy Fiasco Was Entirely Avoidable
Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo: If You Use Twitter's New Tip Jar Feature, Make Sure You Don't Accidentally Send People Your Address
Tod Maffin / Today in Digital Marketing: They Grow Up So Fast These Days 👶🏻
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Twitter introduces a “tip jar” on user profiles which allows the following services" Bandcamp, Cash App, Patreon, PayPal, Venmo. Twitter takes no cut. On Android, tips can also be sent within Spaces. https://blog.twitter.com/...
Geoff Weiss / Tubefilter: Twitter Will Now Enable Select Creators, Journalists, And Nonprofits To Accept Tips
Rachel Tobac / @racheltobac: Current Twitter Tip Jar warnings focus on tip receiver set up flow and the risk of “revealing real name” (should also include email address risk). Would love to also see a warning at time of giving for tipper that indicates risk of revealing address when using PayPal in Tip Jar. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: Twitter Tip Jar's PayPal integration exposes addresses, emails
Liberty / Liberty's Highlights: 126: Constellation Software Annual Meeting, Signal's Banned Facebook Ads, Twitter Tip Jar, Daniel Ek, Youtube's Custom Silicon, Value Wins, and Nature is Metal
Hannah Sparks / New York Post: What is Twitter's new ‘Tip Jar’ and how does it work?
Casey Johnston / @caseyjohnston: i take my lack of tip jar to mean i'm not adding to the conversation https://twitter.com/...
David M. Perry / @lollardfish: I see a lot of skepticism, but as a freelancer putting together an income through a lot of small revenue streams, I am wildly in favor of this and want to be added to the program ASAP. https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: This habit of only answering product questions from certain folks especially around safety is part of the damn problem https://twitter.com/...
Sacramento Kings / @sacramentokings: Remember when all you said we should get raises? Well.... https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Tobac / @racheltobac: Thank you @Twitter @kayvz for paying attention, welcoming security researcher's feedback, and taking responsibility to take steps to warn and protect your users within an hour of me releasing these findings (even though you don't control PayPal's address leaking flow). https://twitter.com/...
Darren Rovell / @darrenrovell: We want an edit button... We want premium tools... We want an easier way to upload longer video... Twitter ⬇️ https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Tobac / @racheltobac: This is EXACTLY what I was concerned to test when Twitter announced Tip Jar. PayPal needs to make it crystal clear which data is given to money receivers and stop sharing that data, & Twitter needs to educate users who don't realize what info tip receivers get when using PayPal. https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Tobac / @racheltobac: Above you can see the receipt @yashar sent me when I did this test with him. Be careful using PayPal Twitter Tip Jar — this is a hallmark of PayPal rather than Twitter of course but it impacts Twitter users who may not know that their address is leaked by PayPal to tip receivers.
Whitney Merrill / @wbm312: On Tip Jar privacy and PayPal: Chatted with the lovely head of privacy at Twitter, and they're working on making this more clear in the UI, since it's just the way PayPal works and not something Twitter can control. https://twitter.com/...
@its_willyu: For those that want to use the Twitter Tip Jar, be careful what service you sign up with! It seems like Venmo (which PayPal owns) doesn't share this info in a transaction, but if there are any issues like this for it, please call it out and I will RT ASAP. https://twitter.com/...
Lauren Chanel / @michellehux: tip jar through paypal takes 33%? and... gives your home address to the person you tip? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mark Gray / @mark_t_gray: Worth noting that Apple says that devs “may” use in-app purchases for tipping, so Twitter may not be violating Apple's rules But with App Store, you never really know. https://developer.apple.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@chrisdancy: It took a decade but I was right. #tipjar https://blog.twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mama Jay / @jaylabrenae: I love this because when I donate to GoFundMes I always add extra cash since I know they take a percentage! https://twitter.com/...
Jason / @nonlinearnotes: twitter is gonna look a lot more like onlyfans very soon https://twitter.com/...
Eliza / @elizableu: Can you please remove 💯% of the child porn from Twitter? https://twitter.com/...
90 Second News: ⏱All chips, no dip — Good morning everyone, and congrats on making it to Friday! You did it!
@slpng_giants: This right here is what incentivizes the very worst behavior on social platforms. Sure, some good people with good content will earn some cash, but mostly what it will do is inspire users to get more extreme and pump out more disinformation to get more engagement and more tips. https://twitter.com/...
Kurtis Conner / @kurtisconner: gonna end every tweet of mine with “will delete for $100” 🤑 https://twitter.com/...
@kozza: Jack, Imma send you a dollar. After you get it, go on and hit me back with something. Then I do the same. Tip Jar Tennis https://twitter.com/...
Roopa / @lfc_rv: I really don't understand why anyone would want to tip someone for their tweets 😂 https://twitter.com/...
May Murden / @jayjurden: People are about to get even more insufferable on here https://blog.twitter.com/...
Tom Warren / @tomwarren: time to start paying for all my terrible tweets guys 💰 https://twitter.com/...
Sarvesh Mathi / MediaNama: Twitter launches new tipping feature, but privacy concerns loom
Robert / Transistori: Googlen tiedonkeräysilmoitus, Twitter tippaaminen ja Tencentin pelisijoitukset
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Twitter is testing a new Tip Jar feature for sending money to your favorite accounts
Sorab Ghaswalla / Whats New On The Net Podcast: Twitter introduces the “Tip Jar”. And,Google will verify those who have 2-step verification on
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Twitter begins rolling out new ‘Tip Jar’ feature for paying other users directly
Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Twitter Tip Jar lets you pay people for good tweetin'
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Twitter introduces Tip Jar, allowing users to send money to their favorite tweeters
Karissa Bell / Engadget: Twitter makes in-app tipping official with ‘Tip Jar’
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