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Israeli airstrike destroys a high-rise in Gaza City that housed offices of AP and Al-Jazeera, after the military warned people to evacuate the building — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike on Saturday targeted and destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices …
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Virginia Pietromarchi / Al Jazeera: Israeli air raid flattens Gaza building housing Al Jazeera: Live
Lauren Easton / The Definitive Source: AP statement on destruction of Gaza bureau
Jen Psaki / @presssec: We have communicated directly to the Israelis that ensuring the safety and security of journalists and independent media is a paramount responsibility.
New York Times: As fighting intensifies, Israel strikes a Gaza building that hosts The A.P. and other news outlets.
Manori Ravindran / Variety: Israel Airstrikes Destroy Associated Press and Al Jazeera Bureaus in Gaza
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite: READ Internal Associated Press Memo On Gaza Bureau Air Strike: ‘An Incredibly Disturbing Development’
John Eggerton / nexttv.com: Israeli Strikes Level AP, Al Jazeera Offices in Gaza
Jordan Williams / The Hill: Press advocates condemn Israeli missile strike on media building
Julie Pace / @jpacedc: So stunned. Our @AP bureau in Gaza has been destroyed by an Israeli airstrike. https://apnews.com/...
Steve Herman / @w7voa: Full statement of @AP president. https://twitter.com/...
Associated Press: Israeli airstrike destroys a high-rise in Gaza City that housed offices of AP and Al-Jazeera, after the military warned people to evacuate the building
Wesley / @wesleylowery: Yesterday: the AP is one of the only outlets that doesn't uncritically report Israeli military spin/misinformation. Today: the AP's office in Gaza is destroyed by an Israeli air strike https://twitter.com/...
Al Jazeera English / @ajenglish: ⭕ LIVE footage of the moment an Israeli air raid bombed the offices of Al Jazeera and The Associated Press in Gaza City ⬇️ 🔴 LIVE updates: https://www.aljazeera.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Connor Perrett / Insider: White House says it ‘communicated directly’ to Israelis that safety of journalists in Gaza is ‘paramount’ after media building was bombed
The Times of Israel: Netanyahu assures Biden that Israel is seeking to limit Gaza civilian casualties
@cbsnews: Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus says 2,800 rockets have been fired toward Israel, 430 of which “fell short inside the Gaza Strip and caused damage and casualties.” More than 20 people have been killed or injured by those rockets, he says https://www.cbsnews.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Darby / @brandondarby: Imagine if you didn't try to manipulate people by leaving out the allegation that Hamas was utilizing the building and using the press orgs as cover. Come on, man. Stay honest. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah El Deeb / @seldeeb: We've heard it many times before: no place is safe in #gaza. @ap reporter @faresakram, a resident of Gaza, lost father, land and family to previous #israel strikes. Today he lost the last place he felt safe. The office. READ hère https://apnews.com/...
John Johnson / Newser: Israeli Airstrikes Hit Building Housing Associated Press
Linda Sarsour / @lsarsour: What about the killing of entire Palestinian families, including babies? Is that not important to you? https://twitter.com/...
Adam H. Johnson / @adamjohnsonnyc: Seems like this'd be a good opportunity for western journalists to absolutely not center themselves & their clique but instead use this moment to note the real victims are the millions of dispossessed Palestinians & spare us another round of Threats to Free Speech navel-gazing https://twitter.com/...
Andrea Mitchell / @mitchellreports: The US is responding to Israel bombing a media. Yoking housing AP, Al Jazeera and other international outlets. The IDF says it headquartered Hamas military intelligence using media as Homan shields. Administration officials are expressing concern. More to come https://twitter.com/...
John M. Donnelly / @johnmdonnelly: NEW: Our @PressClubDC and @NPCInstitute joint statement calling for a halt to a pattern of Israeli military strikes on buildings in Gaza that house news organizations such as @AP and @AlJazeera https://www.press.org/...
Oliver Holmes / The Guardian: Israel warplanes target Gaza as army says rockets fired ‘non-stop’ over southern border
CNN: At least 10 Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers in violent confrontations in West Bank, as Gaza rocket fire enters fifth day
Thom Geier / The Wrap: Israeli Airstrike Destroys Gaza Building Housing Al-Jazeera, Associated Press (Video)
Edward Snowden / @snowden: Israel just intentionally destroyed press offices in Gaza, giving only one hour's warning. Associated Press President “horrified that the Israeli military would target and destroy news organizations in Gaza.” Imagine this was your home: https://apnews.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Eileen AJ Connelly / New York Post: Israeli airstrike takes out building that houses news outlets in Gaza
Ian Johnston / The Independent: Israel strike destroys AP and Al-Jazeera building offices in the Gaza Strip
Agence France-Presse: Man killed by rocket in Ramat Gan; PM to Biden: Doing best not to harm civilians
Dov Lieber / Wall Street Journal: Israeli Airstrike Demolishes Gaza Tower Housing Associated Press, Al Jazeera Offices
Gautam Chikermane / @gchikermane: How to destroy a building without hurting the people — give an hour's evacuation notice https://twitter.com/...
Rania Khalek / @raniakhalek: Surprised the NYT didn't find a way to add an Israeli justification in this headline, like Israeli missile “clashes” with media outlets. https://twitter.com/...
Tess Owen / @misstessowen: “We are shocked... that the Israeli military would target and destroy the building housing AP's bureau and other news organizations in Gaza. They have long known the location of our bureau and knew journalists were there. We received a warning that the building would be hit. ” https://twitter.com/...
Arsen Ostrovsky / @ostrov_a: Of course @KenRoth @hrw omit that this building housed Hamas terrorists and weapons, from which they were used as launching pads to fire rockets at #Israel. That makes it legitimate military target under international law. Even still, Israel gave ample notice in advance. https://twitter.com/...
@jongambrellap: From latest @AP story: “For 15 years, the AP's top-floor office and roof terrace were a prime location for covering Israel's conflicts with #Gaza's Hamas rulers, including wars in 2009 and 2014.”
Wesley / @wesleylowery: AP: “We narrowly avoided a terrible loss of life. A dozen AP journalists and freelancers were inside the building and thankfully we were able to evacuate them in time. The world will know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today” https://apnews.com/...
@nytimes: Breaking News: Israel destroyed a high-rise tower in Gaza City that housed media outlets including the Associated Press and Al Jazeera. Here's the latest. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tim O'Donnell / The Week: Palestinian politician skeptical of Biden envoy's chances of securing cease-fire between Israel, Hamas
Yarden golan / @golan_yarden: @jpaceDC @AP @jpaceDC Julie, you must know better than this. Your colleagues there know exactly who operated from this building, and why they decided to work from there, using AP as human shield. Ignoring it doesn't serve you.
Kenneth Roth / @kenroth: Today “an Israeli airstrike destroyed a prominent high-rise building in Gaza City that housed media outlets including” @AP & @AlJazeera. “It followed an Israeli airstrike overnight that killed at least 10 members of single family in a refugee camp in Gaza” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jerry Dunleavy / @jerrydunleavy: The IDF says that the building housing the AP and other outlets also “contained Hamas military intelligence assets.” Is the IDF right or wrong about this? Seems relevant. https://twitter.com/...
Al Jazeera English / @ajenglish: “I have been working here for 11 years. I have been covering many events from this building ... now everything, in two seconds, just vanished.” - Al Jazeera's Safwat al-Kahlout. Israel bombs offices of Al Jazeera and AP news agency. 🔴 LIVE updates: https://www.aljazeera.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Al Jazeera English / @ajenglish: Latest updates: May 15 Israel's bombardment in #Gaza continued for a fifth consecutive day, with Israeli air raids hitting a refugee camp where several Palestinians, including children, were killed. Follow this thread for the latest https://www.aljazeera.com/... ⤵ https://twitter.com/...
Margaret Brennan / @margbrennan: “They have long known the location of our bureau & knew journalists were there. We received a warning that the building would be hit.....This is an incredibly disturbing development.... The world will know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today.” -AP https://twitter.com/...
Dana Loesch / @dloesch: We're all shocked and horrified that they would have offices in a building with Hamas. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Crawford / @alexcrawfordsky: ‘The world will know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today’ - AP Definitive Source | AP statement on destruction of Gaza bureau #Gaza #bombing https://blog.ap.org/...
Rana Ayyub / @ranaayyub: Hello @JoeBiden , this must be Israel's right to defend itself by bombing media houses ? https://twitter.com/...
Piers Morgan / @piersmorgan: This is absolutely appalling. 👇👇 https://twitter.com/...
Liam Allen-Miller / @rssliam: Absolutely fucking deranged. Literally silencing the press with lethal violence. https://twitter.com/...
Dillon Rosenblatt / @dillonreedrose: “They have long known the location of our bureau and knew journalists were there. ... The world will know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today.” https://twitter.com/...
@ap: AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt says he's “shocked and horrified that the Israeli military would target and destroy the building housing AP's bureau and other news organizations in Gaza.” Pruitt says AP is seeking information from the Israeli government. https://apne.ws/Li8Hj4Q
Stephen L. Miller / @redsteeze: Find office space that isn't also rented by Hamas. Pretty simple. https://twitter.com/...
Staci D Kramer / @sdkstl: >>We narrowly avoided a terrible loss of life. A dozen AP journalists + freelancers were inside the building and thankfully we were able to evacuate them in time. The world will know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today.<< (IDF gave hour's notice.) https://twitter.com/...
John Smith / @harryslaststand: If you want to commit war crimes, you remove or hobble the news media that might try to report on it. #AlJazeera #Gaza_Under_Attack https://twitter.com/...
Ian Phillips / @phillipsian: The building housing the AP office in Gaza — an unbeatable, high-rise vantage point to cover conflict — has been intentionally destroyed in an Israeli airstrike. Read the reaction of our CEO and President: https://apnews.com/...
@jasonrantz: AP can be shocked all they want. The building was said to house military equipment. They were all warned ahead of time of the strike. If you're upset the military apparatus won't be used to murder Jews, that's on you. https://twitter.com/...
Umer Ali / @iamumer1: This is the third building housing local and international media organizations destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. @pressfreedom earlier condemned the “utterly unacceptable” bombing of buildings that housed several media outlets: https://cpj.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Alastair McAlpine / @alastairmca30: Just a reminder: attacking journalists is a war crime. (Yes, they were warned, so no one died, but this was clearly an assault on the press). https://twitter.com/...
Be A King / @berniceking: “The world will know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today.” https://apnews.com/...
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David M. Halbfinger / New York Times:
IDF spokesman is suspected of misleading the international press on a ground invasion in Gaza to dupe Hamas, which was mistakenly reported by NYT and others — A spokesman led the international media to believe that Israeli forces had entered Gaza. They hadn't. But the army wanted Hamas to think they had.
Discussion:
@davidgura, @jvplive, @sasapetricic, Associated Press, @maxblumenthal, @sameralatrush, @janearraf, @markberman, @saimamohsin, @digiphile, @danaafana, @therealestspoon, @naveedajamali, @sameralatrush, @evanlaksmana, @janinedigi, @mazdaki, @hichamyezza, @multied, @eylonalevy, @dellcam, @wesleylowery, @aaschapiro, @pseudocia, @yousefmunayyer, @eliothiggins, @sameralatrush, @jonathancohn, @theblahdalia, @froomkin, @nytimes, @lukeisamazing, @davidgura, @halbfinger, @danaelkurd, @lisang, @mariambarghouti, Insider, @sameralatrush, @bbcjonsopel, @qifanabki, @chrstphr_woody, @scottdetrow, The Wrap, The Week, The Guardian, Common Dreams, The Daily Beast and New York Post
Discussion:
David Gura / @davidgura: “Several international news organizations ... alerted readers worldwide that a Gaza incursion or invasion was underway, a major escalation of Israeli-Palestinian hostilities. Within hours, those reports were all corrected: No invasion had taken place.” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@jvplive: “The incorrect announcement had actually been part of an elaborate deception. The intent was to dupe Hamas fighters into thinking that an invasion had begun and to respond in ways that would expose far greater numbers of them to...a devastatingly lethal Israeli attack.” https://twitter.com/...
@sasapetricic: ‘No accident but part of an elaborate deception’: Israeli military misleads foreign media in English to draw out Gaza enemy, then brags about the strategy in Hebrew. Not the best way to get the foreign media to trust anything you say https://www.nytimes.com/...
Max Blumenthal / @maxblumenthal: Netanyahu's Arabic language spokesman @ofirgendelman has been adding to his long record of posting fake videos to justify targeting civilians in Gaza. Funny how the disinformation warriors at @DFRLab have nothing to say about this. https://electronicintifada.net/ ... via @TamaraINassar
Samer Al-Atrush / @sameralatrush: As @EgyptDefReview points out, Qassam sources kept denying an incursion in real time to several media outlets. So presumably they had their own line of information aside from what a spox told English language media
Jane Arraf / @janearraf: How Israel used US and other foreign press in its psyops/information ops campaign re Gaza: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mark Berman / @markberman: Numerous int'l media outlets asked the spokesman “whether they had been turned into accessories to the military, why it had taken hours for the invasion report to be reversed, and how they would be able to trust the military's statements going forward” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Saima Mohsin / @saimamohsin: More on that purported ground invasion I was tweeting about Turns out Israel & the IDF used the media & lied to the press Extraordinary breach of trust for all - spox, media & public https://twitter.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: The Israeli military disinformed international news outlets so they'd deceive fighters in Gaza: https://www.nytimes.com/... “Israeli officials insisted that the call be held off the record, but a @NYTimes reporter who did not join the call obtained a recording...from another news org” https://twitter.com/...
Dana Afana / @danaafana: One of the most sophisticated military forces “accidentally” misled some of the most reputable news organizations. Source range is important. https://twitter.com/...
@therealestspoon: Lying to the free and independent press jeopardizes the lives of millions of people in Gaza. They live in an open-air prison, occupied by Israel, and the threat of invasion only adds to the terror of the airstrikes, destroyed homes. and dead children. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Naveed Jamali / @naveedajamali: I'm disappointed that the @idf was telling press (including us) things they knew to be untrue as part of a military disinformation operation. The @idf has a long way to go in repairing that trust with me and other journalists and outlets. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Samer Al-Atrush / @sameralatrush: It could very well have been a ruse and deliberate, but one would expect the ultra paranoid Hamas not to take their battle field info from WSJ and AFP—many right away doubted there were ground troops and reported that.
Evan A. Laksmana / @evanlaksmana: “Disinformation experts worry that in such a charged atmosphere, the effect of all that false information — some of it purposeful, some accidental — is potentially deadly, worsening tensions between Israelis and Palestinians at a critical time.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Janine di Giovanni / @janinedigi: So now the #IDF turns journalists into accessories of war. Then they bomb the @AP HQ in #Gaza. Is the int'l community going to stand up for anything? @CPJMENA @pressfreedom https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mohammad Taqi / @mazdaki: .@nytimes report on #IDF using @Twitter as a deception tool in its war on #Palestine: “The intent was to dupe #Hamas fighters into thinking that an invasion had begun and to respond in ways that would expose far greater numbers of them” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Hicham Yezza / @hichamyezza: So Israel lied to international media & used them to gain military advantage. This may be a significant moment in the history of I/P media coverage. Whatever their politics, journalists *really* hate being publicly treated, and made to look, like idiots. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Marc Schulman / @multied: @davidgura @lrozen @NPR @DanielEstrin I can say with absolute certainty it was deliberate obfuscation, the reporters should have been more careful they jumped to conclusions that they should not have. https://twitter.com/...
Eylon Levy / @eylonalevy: “The target audience are hopefully the dead terrorists that are now lying inside the tunnel. What the I.D.F. wanted to create was a situation where they went down into the tunnels so that we could attack them.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dell Cameron / @dellcam: What other state lies have we printed, is the question you should be asking https://twitter.com/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: uncritically reporting information provided by the government without independent confirmation is not journalism — this was one of the specific issues Lippman's independent “objectivity” was supposed to address https://www.nytimes.com/...
Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro: It's being widely reported in the Israeli press that the Israeli army intentionally lied to international news outlets, saying a ground invasion of Gaza was imminent as part of a disinformation campaign to trick Hamas into exposing its fighters. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lizard / @pseudocia: wait so their tweet was just a straight up lie? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Yousef Munayyer / @yousefmunayyer: The joke is on you. The Israeli Military lies to the press all the time. Start from the presumption that they are lying and indepently verify. If you can't, don't report it.That's your job as reporters. https://twitter.com/...
Eliot Higgins / @eliothiggins: And they now expect us to believe them about the building that was just destroyed by their missiles? - A Press Corps Deceived, and the Gaza Invasion That Wasn't https://www.nytimes.com/...
Samer Al-Atrush / @sameralatrush: The funny thing is Hamas is much more likely to following Israeli press than Western press for information, and every other Israeli journo and outlet was running denials right away.
@jonathancohn: IDF to the English-speaking press: “Whoops, what we told you was a mistake. Our bad!” IDF to the Hebrew-speaking press: “We intentionally lied to them.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dalia / @theblahdalia: tl;dr israel purposefully lied that they invaded Gaza by land so that Hamas fighters would congregate underground by border & be wiped out. that's why 160 fighter jets indiscriminately dropped 450 missiles in less than 1 hour yesterday. media manipulation to commit war crimes. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: So any statement from the Israeli military should henceforth be considered presumptively untrue until proven to be true. Y'all are with me, right? https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimes: Israel's military said it accidentally led the global media to believe that Israeli forces had entered Gaza early Friday. But hours later, local media reported that the incorrect announcement was no accident — the army was trying to dupe Hamas fighters. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@lukeisamazing: if I were a journalist with the NYT, I would simply quit so as to not have my name associated with an org that's clearly aiding and abetting war crimes https://twitter.com/...
David Gura / @davidgura: This is ... quite a story: https://twitter.com/...
David Halbfinger / @halbfinger: “It's a very dangerous place for the I.D.F. to be, suspected of misleading the international press,” said Amos Harel of Haaretz. “Foreign journalists are on both sides of the fence, and it could be dangerous for them if they're suspected of being used.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lisa Goldman / @lisang: Absolutely outrageous. https://twitter.com/...
Julian Kossoff / Insider: Israel accused of tricking major news outlets into reporting a fake Gaza invasion to lure Hamas fighters into tunnels that were targeted for massive airstrikes
Samer Al-Atrush / @sameralatrush: This is all possible of course. A counter argument, and plausible too, is it was a screw up by a spokesman that some are now presenting as a brilliant ruse. https://twitter.com/...
Jon Sopel / @bbcjonsopel: Fascinating and deeply troubling. War reporting is dangerous enough without one side thinking we are the tool of the other @IDF https://www.nytimes.com/...
Elias Muhanna / @qifanabki: Between yesterday's misinformation campaign and today's bombing campaign, most journalists in the region must be livid. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Chris / @chrstphr_woody: I can't believe the Israeli military would tell a lie https://www.nytimes.com/...
Scott Detrow / @scottdetrow: “If they used us, it's unacceptable. And if not, then what's the story — and why is the Israeli media widely reporting that we were duped?” - @DanielEstrin https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rosemary Rossi / The Wrap: Israeli Media Says Military Planted False Story About Gaza Invasion
The Daily Beast: Gaza Residents ‘Run From Their Homes’ as Israel Pounds Tunnel Network After an IDF Ground Forces Bluff
Jorge Fitz-Gibbon / New York Post: Israel launches ground attack in Gaza as conflict escalates
Committee to Protect Journalists:
IDF destroyed two buildings in Gaza City housing 12+ media outlets; IDF says the buildings were targeted as sites of Hamas' intelligence and military offices — New York, May 13, 2021 - Israeli forces must refrain from bombing media outlets, and should ensure that journalists can work safely …
Discussion:
Al Jazeera, @mtracey, @richardgrenell, @bendepear, @emilygorcenski, @briannawu, @winter, @ase, @gregpinelo, @agnescallamard, @shahidforchange and Columbia Journalism Review
Discussion:
Michael Tracey / @mtracey: Do any of the US pundits who had paroxysms every time Trump tweeted something mean about Jim Acosta or Don Lemon have concern that the Israeli military, underwritten by US taxpayers, flattened an entire building that houses international media outlets? https://cpj.org/...
Richard Grenell / @richardgrenell: The @AP pays rent to the anonymous owner of the high rise that housed terrorists. Why is @jpaceDC and the AP hiding the name of the owner of a front company for Hamas? Release the name. It's a crime to give money to Hamas linked individuals. https://home.treasury.gov/... https://twitter.com/...
Ben de Pear / @bendepear: This is a building I & many other journalists have used in order to gather & report in Gaza- targeting it if deliberate is an attack on the press & media freedom & the ability to try & report the truth. We stand with colleagues from @AP & @AlJazeera & all journalists on all sides https://twitter.com/...
Emily G / @emilygorcenski: This action has no legitimacy under any possible framing. https://twitter.com/...
Brianna Wu / @briannawu: Fact: Attacking journalists constitutes a war crime, as defined by the Geneva Conventions and additional Protocol I. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Alex Winter / @winter: A heartbreaking act of cruelty and silencing of the press. I hope the global journalism community condemns this act. https://twitter.com/...
@ase: They don't want the world to see their dehumanization of Palestinians, their terrorizing attacks. Israel blocks journalists on the ground as Palestinians are silenced online too. https://twitter.com/...
Greg Pinelo / @gregpinelo: Targeting journalists prevents reporting of what Netanyahu is doing. Do any U.S. and European news outlets have reporters actually on the ground in Gaza? Or are they all in Israel? https://cpj.org/... via @CPJMENA
Agnes Callamard / @agnescallamard: Media under attack. Allegations they are deliberately targeted. https://twitter.com/...
Shahid Buttar / @shahidforchange: This is an attack not only on Gaza & Palestine, but also freedom of the press, and the world's right to know the facts. https://twitter.com/...
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review: A tragic week in Palestine
Jack Crosbie / Discourse Blog:
In internal meeting, CEO Meredith Levien defended NYT's refusal to voluntarily recognize The NYT Tech Guild, saying its members are tech people, not journalists — In a meeting with staffers, Meredith Levien had several reasons for why she's fighting her paper's newest organizing effort.
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@jscros, @jscros, @derekwillis, @demarko, @hodgesmr, @sarambsimon, @ckolderup, @marybeth_sb, @dansinker, @cooperlund, @wolfewylie, @brandonetc, @lalasoo, @shdwbxng, @hbwhbwhbw, @jonathanvanasco, @adriana_lacy, @cwarzel, @swodinsky, @athertonkd, @xoxogossipgita and @dancow
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Jack Crosbie / @jscros: Here's direct quotes from NYT CEO Meredith Levien at an all-hands meeting yesterday explaining why her tech employees don't deserve union recognition: because they're not journalists, and because some of them still “need more information.” https://discourseblog.com/...
Jack Crosbie / @jscros: personally i don't understand why the specific labor someone performs would change their right to collective bargaining but then again i'm not the CEO of the new york times https://discourseblog.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Derek Willis / @derekwillis: Fun fact: during most of my time at the NYT I was technically a business-side employee. https://twitter.com/...
@demarko: Say it with me: the reason all the anti-union points sound familiar is because there are no new anti-union points. The @NYTGuildTech has a majority, they're prepared to show it https://discourseblog.com/...
Sara Simon / @sarambsimon: true story: meredith's assistant once reached out bc she wanted to tell me just how impressed meredith had been with a piece of journalism that i, then working as a nyt software engineer, had produced. said it had helped meredith prepare for a panel she was moderating. neat! https://twitter.com/...
Casey / @ckolderup: *sweating* tech workers shouldn't unionize because... uh... *looks around room, sees a journalist* they're not journalists https://twitter.com/...
Marybeth Seitz-Brown / @marybeth_sb: fun fact: you do not need to be a journalist to deserve a union! https://twitter.com/...
@dansinker: I've worked with technologists at the New York Times across multiple departments at many levels for *years* and I can say that they absolutely are journalists. Go on strike. https://twitter.com/...
Cooper Lund / @cooperlund: The biggest indicator that you need a union will always be your boss saying you don't need one https://twitter.com/...
@wolfewylie: As a unionized tech worker at a news organization, I can say without hesitation or reservation: we are journalists. https://twitter.com/...
Soo Youn / @lalasoo: For absolutely no reason, I am reminded of the Friends' episode when Joey insulted the soap opera writers. https://twitter.com/...
Hannah Bloch-Wehba / @hbwhbwhbw: I thought the NYT was a tech company? https://www.theinformation.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Vanasco / @jonathanvanasco: At multiple round-tables and conferences, I cringed when the NYT's CTO/VP Engineering/etc gloated and boasted about how they did not have recruiting issues and were able to underpay their tech workers because of the prestige factor in working at their organization. It is rotten. https://twitter.com/...
Adriana Lacy / @adriana_lacy: nyt's decision to not recognize the tech union is very corny. solidarity!! https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: i am curious how she thinks Times journalism finds it's way to and stays up on the internet? honestly outrageous given how much the paper has benefitted from (and how much nyt journalists' work benefits) from the paper's excellent technical infrastructure. https://twitter.com/...
Shoshana Wodinsky / @swodinsky: what the fuck. what the fuck. what the fuck. https://twitter.com/...
Kelsey D. Atherton / @athertonkd: PMseething over here https://twitter.com/...
Paul Volpe / Politico:
Why WaPo likely looked outside its own ranks to hire a female EIC, including a shrinking newsroom before Bezos' takeover, plus structural and cultural issues — When the Washington Post on Tuesday named Sally Buzbee of the Associated Press as its next executive editor—the first woman to have the role …
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Liz Seymour / @lizseymour: “The editor of Features is a woman” is me and I was not contacted or asked to comment. I am very proud of my career at The Washington Post and the many great women editors I've worked with and mentored consistently over the years. https://www.politico.com/...
Emily Ingram / @emilyingram: Very true of my experience as well. While at the Post, I can point to 4 particular women who were integral in teaching me key skills or making space for me to tackle new projects. All 4 went onto leadership roles at other newsrooms. https://twitter.com/...
Alyssa Rosenberg / @alyssarosenberg: Interesting that this piece on women at the @washingtonpost says barely a word about @PostOpinions, which is chock-full of amazing women, many of whom have been hired and promoted during my seven years there. https://www.politico.com/...
EverQueen Mason / @everdeenmason: I asked questions about how we define and implement objectivity and how my objective truth didn't match a white man's and they told me I should consider if journalism is for me 🤷🏾♀ ️ https://twitter.com/...
Jon Fortt / @jonfortt: This isn't just a WaPo issue. Media orgs talk a big game about diversity. But look at who gets elevated and consulted in their core strategic areas. https://www.politico.com/...
S. Mitra Kalita / @mitrakalita: Perhaps you look back on photos like this now and realize ... the very thing we been seeing, living and fighting our whole careers. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Pam Maples / @pamaples: And the “missing generation” also went missing from a lot of other newsrooms not as high profile as the Post. https://www.politico.com/...
Liz Sly / @lizsly: On the lack of opportunities for women for career advancement past a certain point at the Washington Post, which explains why the newspaper had to look outside the paper to hire the first woman editor. By @pvolpe https://www.politico.com/...
Kat Chow / @katchow: “Every one of us wanted to move up, but there was no chance.” https://twitter.com/...
Somini Sengupta / @sominisengupta: “Many of the paper's star women reporters and editors over the past 20 years simply lacked a path forward.” (This is true in other news organizations...) https://www.politico.com/...
Brigid Schulte / @brigidschulte: THIS is a must read @SallyBuzbee - Blazing Stars ... Just Disappeared': The Missing Generation of Women at the Washington Post https://www.politico.com/... via @politico @pvolpe. Imperative to create pathways for opportunity beyond what we saw as “the white male escalator to success”
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “A reporter writing a story about Donald Trump's White House would often be running it up a chain of five white men.” The Missing Generation of Women at the Washington Post. https://www.politico.com/...
@blackamazon: Again the person most likely to have left journalism was a Black woman 25-44 https://twitter.com/...
Laura J. Nelson / @laura_nelson: “When I was thinking of leaving I imagined what the next two to five years would look like ... and there was a limited set of possibilities.” Phew, this piece: https://www.politico.com/...
Neena Satija / @neenareports: “Virtually every major coverage area for which the Post is known has a man at its helm, including national, politics, foreign, local, investigations, national security, sports, Outlook, and health and science.” https://www.politico.com/...
Katie Mettler / @kemettler: This is bleak, and makes me so grateful for my band of women friends and mentors. “Several editors made the same point: The sense was that very few women were going to rise into the upper ranks, so women felt pitted against each other for top jobs.” https://www.politico.com/...
Daniel Lippman / @dlippman: “Former Post editor Susan Glasser recounted an interaction with Bradlee ... 'Ben Bradlee, the legendary former editor of the Post, came up to me at a party. I hear you're going to get the national job, he said to me. “Do you have the balls for it?"' https://www.politico.com/...
Alex Sujong Laughlin / @alexlaughs: This rings so true. Nearly all the women I admired or worked with at the Post have moved on to leadership roles at other organizations. https://www.politico.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Stacy-Marie Ishmael / @s_m_i: There's a quote in this story that there are women who aren't as “supportive” as other male editors and https://www.politico.com/...
Erin Banco / @erinbanco: “This isn't just a recent issue: business, politics, national, local and Outlook haven't had a woman in charge in more than a decade. The foreign desk and editorial page haven't been led by a woman for more than 20 years.” via @pvolpe https://www.politico.com/...
Emma Carew Grovum / @emmacarew: This is an important read, not because of the details from inside WaPo, but for the entire industry to consider how we groom and develop succession plans and candidates—and do so with diversity and belonging in mind. https://www.politico.com/...
Mara Snchez Dez / @mimapamundi: “The Post's executive leadership pipeline has long been so male-dominated that, according to interviews with staffers and other press accounts, there were no women internally who were considered leading candidates to be the next executive editor” https://www.politico.com/...
Miriam Elder / @miriamelder: whew https://www.politico.com/...
Neena Satija / @neenareports: “The excuse that there is no pipeline is no excuse. You have to create the pipeline.” Great piece from @pvolpe https://www.politico.com/...
Paul Volpe / @pvolpe: The pipeline problem for women at the Post is cultural and goes back 20+ years: the product of a newsroom dominated by men, where women lacked mentors, support, encouragement to go after top jobs. https://www.politico.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “The Post's executive leadership pipeline has long been so male dominated that, according to interviews with staffers and other press accounts, there were no women internally who were considered leading candidates to be the next executive editor.” https://www.politico.com/...
Julia Alexander / IGN:
Nickelodeon is a primary reason people are signing up for and watching streaming service Paramount+, says ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish — Nickelodeon is key to Paramount+'s success — Between 2010 and 2020, Nickelodeon lost more than 60% of its audience. — Snapped up by Netflix, YouTube …
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@ign: Nickelodeon has gone from dwindling relevancy in the streaming age to Paramount+'s key to the future. https://www.ign.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dani Michaeli / @danimichaeli1: Excellent column: “Companies look at a few key streaming metrics: what leads to people signing up (growth), what are people watching (engagement/usage), and what's preventing them from canceling (retention). Kids content, if done properly, helps accomplish all three.” https://twitter.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: (Also, please know I always want to talk about Nickelodeon, specifically mid-'90s to late '00s Nickelodeon. I love Disney and Cartoon Network very much, but I was absolutely a Nickelodeon person. Currently, and always, watching 👇🏻👇🏻) https://twitter.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: I'm a diehard Nickelodeon fan (as many people here know). I've desperately wanted Viacom (now ViacomCBS) to figure out how to properly use and treat its Nickelodeon library and slate. Paramount+ feels like that, but it's up to ViacomCBS to not fuck up. For example: Netflix. https://twitter.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Nickelodeon & Disney are both generational networks. They serve an audience from 25 years ago, 15 years ago, five years ago, and now. There's no reason that Nickelodeon can't become what it was in the early '00s again. It just needs: a) a more concise strategy b) a new medium https://twitter.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: NEW: This week's column is all about Nickelodeon. Just a few years ago, ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish referred to Nick as a work in progress. Now, Bakish said Nickelodeon was driving significant Paramount+ subscribers, key to its future. I'm not surprised. https://www.ign.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Jason Kilar says he expects no long-term negative effects of releasing 2021 movies on HBO Max; sources: Warner Bros. paid $200M+ to appease talent — WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar fired the streaming service's top brass, blew up the movie business and angered Hollywood royalty. He says it's a recipe for success.
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Joe Flint / @jbflint: Thanks @brianstelter for nice plug in Reliable Sources newsletter: — This, by Joe Flint, is the deepest profile of WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar anyone has done. To borrow Kilar's phrase: “Sounds juicy...” (WSJ) https://www.wsj.com/...
Brooks Barnes / @brooksbarnesnyt: Warners paid $200M to miffed talent/agents after its infamous abrupt shift of movies to HBO Max @jbflint reports in a Kilar profile https://www.wsj.com/...
@wsj: In his first year running WarnerMedia, Jason Kilar fired HBO Max's top brass, blew up the movie business and angered Hollywood royalty. It's been a crash course in entertainment-industry politics. https://www.wsj.com/...
Drew FitzGerald / @drewfitzgerald: This @JBFlint piece on @jasonkilar covers pretty much everything about the past year at WarnerMedia, from the early purge of top executives to the payoff from Project Popcorn. Read it. https://www.wsj.com/...
Martin Peers / The Information: The Real Cost of Amazon Prime
Ben Munson / FierceVideo:
TiVo buys MobiTV's assets for $18.5M, including its live and on-demand video delivery offerings to launch app-based streaming TV services — TiVo emerged as the winner on day 2 of an auction for MobiTV's assets after fending off several raised bids from Amino in conjunction with Roku and RPX, a patent portfolio company.
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Dave Zatz / @davezatz: @mediagazer How much of that cash was freed up through layoffs? https://zatznotfunny.com/...
Jeff Baumgartner / Light Reading: TiVo wins MobiTV auction with bid of $18.5M
Erik Gruenwedel / Media Play News: TiVo Wins MobiTV Bankruptcy Asset Auction, Beating Roku, Others
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: TiVo To Acquire MobiTV For $18.5 Million
Reggie Ugwu / New York Times:
A look at Spotify-exclusive “music and talk” podcasts, which let hosts avoid music licensing fees and fair-use legal fights via free access to Spotify catalog — Music-filled — and Spotify-exclusive — shows like “Black Girl Songbook” and “60 Songs That Explain the '90s” dance around copyright constraints.
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Tunde St. Matthew-Daniel / @producertd: Inspiring to witness what @danamo, @harvilla and our @ringer team have done with this format. Going for the 3-peat with @SheaSerrano & @brandonjinx 😤 https://twitter.com/...
@nytimesmusic: “Black Girl Songbook” is one of several music-focused podcasts that uses a format Spotify calls “shows with music” or “music and talk” that allows creators to incorporate full songs from the service's vast catalog into their podcasts free of charge. https://www.nytimes.com/...
J. Williams / @donthatebehated: “When Smith was conceiving of “Black Girl Songbook,” she wanted to create a platform that celebrated and uplifted artists, particularly the overlooked or underappreciated.” @danamo #BlackGirlSongbook https://www.nytimes.com/...
Danyel Smith / @danamo: just — wild 🙏🏽 https://twitter.com/...
Damon K / @dada_drummer: I am glad the creators of these podcasts can use songs in full BUT this is yet another example of Spotify eliminating income streams for artists (licensing for podcast) while using their work to drive traffic exclusively to the platform - at $0.0038 per stream #JusticeAtSpotify https://twitter.com/...
Justin Tinsley / @justintinsley: Love me some @danamo! https://twitter.com/...
Danyel Smith / @danamo: floored, flabbergasted, and forever grateful 🙏🏽 #BlackGirlSongbook is a dream come true for me. it's a place where black women in music receive the credit — the flowers — we are due 🌸🌹🌻🌼 https://twitter.com/...
Felicia Pride / @feliciapride: You betta be shining in the @nytimesmusic @danamo. This smile and glow made my morning. Love to see it! https://twitter.com/...
Logan Murdock / @loganmmurdock: GO HEAD @danamo & @harvilla !!!! https://twitter.com/...
Lydia Polgreen / @lpolgreen: Damn check out that GLOW from @danamo! If you haven't listened to her show Black Girl Songbook you are missing out. https://twitter.com/...
@ringer: Listen and follow to all of our music podcasts below! 60 Songs That Explain the '90s: https://therin.gr/50LWxLM Black Girl Songbook: https://therin.gr/XXVhBAp The Ringer Music Show: https://therin.gr/eDLEZ9b No Skips: https://therin.gr/UCHOjeQ https://twitter.com/...
Issie Lapowsky / Protocol:
A new Biden executive order revokes a Trump-era EO that targeted protections for social media platforms and asked the FCC to conduct a review of Section 230 — President Biden revoked the Trump-era executive order on “preventing online censorship,” which a source told Protocol last summer …
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The White House: Executive Order on the Revocation of Certain Presidential Actions and Technical Amendment
@aclu: This is a move in the right direction to protect our ability to create, communicate, and express ourselves online. https://www.aclu.org/...
David Greene / @davidgreene: We explained, in great detail, why the EO was unconstitutional back in May when it was issued. https://www.eff.org/...
Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky: No surprise here, but Biden has revoked Trump's social media executive order which a source told us last year had been “rammed through” in retaliation for Twitter's fact-checking labels on Trump's tweets. https://www.protocol.com/...
@cendemtech: 🚨 BREAKING: @CenDemTech welcomes @POTUS' decision today to revoke the Trump Administration's unconstitutional EO 13925 regarding social media. The EO was an effort to chill online speech & interfere with efforts to fight election #disinformation: https://cdt.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Evan Greer / @evan_greer: That's a fairly generous way of describing an executive order that blatantly violated the first amendment and would have attempted to put federal agencies in charge of dictating content moderation policies if it survived a court challenge; which it wouldn't have https://twitter.com/...
John Hendel / @johnhendel: President Biden just revoked the Trump administration's “Preventing Online Censorship” executive order from last summer, which had directed the FCC and FTC to take aim at his social media speech concerns https://twitter.com/...
Jameel Jaffer / @jameeljaffer: Biden revokes Trump Executive Order on social media. The order was flagrantly unconstitutional, as @CenDemTech argued. https://twitter.com/...
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Les Moonves and ViacomCBS settle dispute over his payout; a contractor will pay a sum to Moonves, which he'll donate to charity, and $120M reverts to ViacomCBS — Broadcasting giant CBS and former Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves, who was ousted from the company in 2018 …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety: CBS, Leslie Moonves Resolve Dispute Over $120 Million in Severance
Alex Sherman / CNBC: Former CBS CEO Les Moonves drops legal pursuit to get $120 million in severance pay
Meg James / @megjameslat: Breaking: CBS and former CEO Leslie Moonves settle their dispute over Moonves' 2018 exit package.
Bob Cronin / Newser: Moonves, CBS End $120M Fight
Tim Baysinger / The Wrap: CBS Settles $120 Million Severance Dispute With Leslie Moonves
Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post: Les Moonves waves goodbye to $120M exit package, ViacomCBS says
RFE / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
RFE/RL's bank accounts in Russia have been frozen; Russia's media monitor has imposed fines on the news outlet for failing to label itself as a foreign agent — RFE/RL's bank accounts in Russia have been frozen following a visit by court bailiffs to the U.S. agency's Moscow bureau.
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Alex Gladstein / @gladstein: Hey @RFERL team, you could probably benefit from a censorship-resistant @BtcpayServer to continue to collect funds or donations from around the world in the face of this persecution. We'd be happy to help you set one up! https://twitter.com/...
Peter R Roach / @roachaugustine: @lawyer4laws @LeaderMcConnell As Old Bill Clinton used to say, “because I can ” This is the Vladimir Editon https://www.rferl.org/...
Damelya Aitkhozhina / @damelya_hrw: Also today, Russia's court bailiffs service have initiated enforcement proceedings vs Radio Liberty Russian branch over unpaid fines accrued for refusing to comply with “foreign agents” labeling requirements The total amount of fines vs RFE/RL is ~$1mln https://www.rferl.org/...
Anne Applebaum / @anneapplebaum: Huge escalation from the Russian authorities, who are now openly trying to shut down @RFERL, one of the largest networks of independent journalists in Russia. This radio/TV/video service was invited to Moscow by Boris Yeltsin, as a gesture marking the end of the Cold War https://twitter.com/...
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