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Sources: Chris Cuomo took part in Governor Cuomo's strategy sessions on how to respond to harassment allegations; CNN says his involvement was a mistake — CNN anchor Chris Cuomo advised his brother, New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, and senior members of the governor's staff on how to respond …
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Josh Dawsey / @jdawsey1: NEW: CNN anchor Chris Cuomo took part in a series of strategy calls with his brother and his brother's staff on how the governor should respond to misconduct allegations. Network says he shouldn't have participated and won't going forward. w/@sarahellison: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times: CNN's Chris Cuomo Advised Gov. Cuomo, Raising Ethics Questions
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News: Women's group UltraViolet calls on CNN to suspend Chris Cuomo, investigate network's coverage of NY governor
Thomas Moore / The Hill: Chris Cuomo advised brother Andrew Cuomo on handling sexual misconduct allegations
Caleb Howe / Mediaite: Journalists Outraged By Report Chris Cuomo Advised Brother Andrew on Scandals
Oliver Darcy / CNN: CNN says it was ‘inappropriate’ for Chris Cuomo to participate in strategy sessions advising brother on sexual harassment allegations
Jake Lahut / Insider: CNN's Chris Cuomo helped his brother NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo with ‘strategy calls’ to craft his response to sexual-harassment allegations: WaPo
Jimmy Vielkind / Wall Street Journal: Criminal Probe of Andrew Cuomo Administration Broadens to Covid-19 Testing Issues
Brian Steinberg / Variety: CNN Won't Discipline Chris Cuomo After He Aided His Brother, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Amid Harassment Accusations
A.J. Katz / TVNewser: Chris Cuomo Helped Advise Gov. Andrew Cuomo on How to Respond to Sexual Harassment Allegations
Gene Park / @genepark: Chris Cuomo faces no penalties by CNN despite having engaged in an easily-fireable and inexcusable offense. The actual ethical rules of journalism don't matter when you're popular enough. When you're a star, you can get away with anything. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo: CNN's Chris Cuomo Coached NY Guv. Brother On Handling Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Andrew Feinberg / @andrewfeinberg: How many non-ethically-challenged journalists could CNN hire using Chris Cuomo's $6,000,000/year salary? This would be a fireable offense in many newsrooms. https://twitter.com/...
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: CNN's Chris Cuomo Advised Brother Andrew on How to Handle Sexual Harassment Accusations
Gabrielle Fonrouge / New York Post: Journalists slam Chris Cuomo for advising Andrew on sex harass claims
Andrew Feinberg / @andrewfeinberg: Look, I get that it's normal to want to be there for family. But there's a difference between supporting your brother and participating in DAMAGE CONTROL STRATEGY CALLS WITH HIS STAFF WHEN YOU'RE A F*CKING JOURNALIST EMPLOYED BY A NETWORK THAT COVERS HIM.
Dilan Esper / Dilan's Newsletter: About Those Cuomos — CNN is apparently pissed that Chris Cuomo, its star anchor …
Demetri Kofinas / @kofinas: Q: Why did neither @ChrisCuomo or @CNN never inform his viewers that their lead anchor took part in strategy calls advising his brother, NY governor @andrewcuomo, on how to respond to sexual harassment allegations? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Karol Markowicz / @karol: So the thing is that Chris Cuomo *did* cover his brother at a very important time. His softball interviews, and the softball intvws of his CNN coworkers, were deeply inappropriate and helped cover up Gov. Cuomo's misdeeds. All of CNN complicit in this. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Feinberg / @andrewfeinberg: Yeah, I'm still pissed. This is what happens when someone has never actually had to apply for a job because he's the sort of person for whom positions are created, then posted to fulfill legal requirements after management offers it to him. Pathetic. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Chad Hartman / @chadhartmanshow: It's simple, you can't do this, he knows and so does CNN, he should be fired. https://twitter.com/...
@omarsrashad: Chris Cuomo will always be a reminder for me that I shouldn't feel like an imposter in journalism because at the very least I'd never do THAT. And each time his name comes up it's always a new “that.” https://twitter.com/...
Johana Bhuiyan / @jmbooyah: Black and brown reporters are being pulled off assignments bc we're too biased to cover our own communities but ok. https://twitter.com/...
John Johnson / Newser: CNN Calls Chris Cuomo's Advice to Andrew Inappropriate
Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter: CNN Acknowledges “Inappropriate” Conversations Between Chris Cuomo and His Governor Brother
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: Even more than a norm, it's an *ethical requirement* for journalists to stay out of politics in any official capacity. Chris Cuomo officially advising his brother is not a violation of norms, it's a violation of ethics. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Simmons / @sarahsimmonstv: This is so damaging to the members of the true Journalism profession. Massive conflict of interest. NEVER, EVER should this happen. Makes me sick https://twitter.com/...
Dan Nguyen / @dancow: “Chris Cuomo was among the governor's relatives who gained special access to state-administered coronavirus tests last year” — this is just a footnote in the article b/c the Cuomo bros have too many other ethical violations to cover https://twitter.com/...
James Queally / @jamesqueallylat: “The network said Cuomo will not be disciplined.” I'm sorry ... what? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jerry Iannelli / @jerryiannelli: It's so ridiculously insulting that Chris Cuomo can get away with this while other news outlets are barring people with lived experience from covering sexual assault, police, etc https://twitter.com/...
Bradley P. Moss / @bradmossesq: Why won't the MSM cover this scandal? Oh wait, this is the MSM again with the scoop. https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: CNN's @ChrisCuomo: 1) Repeatedly used CNN's airwaves to create hagiography for his own brother at the time his brother was concealing and lying about COVID deaths. 2) Received special COVID treatment from his brother, who abused state resources to provide it. 3) Did this: https://twitter.com/...
Dennis DiClaudio / @dennisdiclaudio: No love for the Cuomos, but didn't he refrain from reporting on this story? I remember people getting mad over that. https://twitter.com/...
Ron T. Kim / @rontkim: If the Cuomo brothers had an ounce of integrity, they would apologize, step down from their powerful positions, and face the consequences of their unethical, corrupt, and illegal actions. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Caruso / @jaycaruso: .@ChrisCuomo on March 1st: “Obviously I am aware of what is going on with my brother. And obviously, I cannot cover it because he is my brother. Now, of course, CNN has to cover it. They have covered it extensively and they will continue to do so.” They missed this part... https://twitter.com/...
Lyndsey D'Arcangelo / @darcangel21: This is a major conflict of interest and CNN is like, “he won't do it again.” https://twitter.com/...
Tsar Becket Adams / @becketadams: fascinating stuff, considering Chris Cuomo said in March: “Obviously, I'm aware of what's going on with my brother. Obviously, I cannot cover it because he is my brother.” https://twitter.com/...
The Verge:
Twitter is rolling out its new verification program, with revamped categories that include activists and journalists; applications will be reviewed by humans — It also previewed potential changes coming to profiles — Twitter is relaunching its public verification program, allowing anyone to apply for a coveted blue check mark.
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Twitter, Axios, Nieman Lab, ScreenRant, @sarafischer, @anildash, @alexweprin, help.twitter.com, TechCrunch, @luca, @manishm, @larakate, Vox, @durvidimel, @verified, @noahpinion, @clairewillett, @wexler, @mathewi and CNBC, more at Techmeme »
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Sara Fischer / Axios: Twitter says anyone can now apply to have a verified account
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab: Twitter relieves current and former employees of annoying DMs by relaunching its verification process
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: There are about 360,000 verified accounts on Twitter today https://www.axios.com/...
Anil Dash / @anildash: One of the questions I've most liked asking folks who insist I help them get verified (something I do not, and gave never, have any power over) is “what does the check mark represent to you?” Answers are always interesting. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Weprin / @alexweprin: The fact that verified accounts make up about 0.1% of Twitter users, but they flood so many people's timelines really underscored how Twitter has a hardcore group of power users, and a vast audience of consumers. https://twitter.com/...
help.twitter.com: About verified accounts — Important: Users may now apply for verification by going to their Settings > Request Verification.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Twitter opens account verification applications to the public under new guidelines
Luca Hammer / @luca: You can get verified on Twitter once again. If you fit one of these groups - Government - Companies, brands and organizations - News organizations and journalists - Entertainment - Sports and gaming - Activists, organizers, other influential individuals https://blog.twitter.com/...
Manish Maheshwari / @manishm: Self-serve verify. No bitcoins needed. Not kidding. @verified https://blog.twitter.com/...
Lara Cohen / @larakate: I love you. But please don't ask me to get verified. Do it your dang self https://blog.twitter.com/...
Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: Twitter is finally verifying people again
David ImeI / @durvidimel: Honestly I just want the @davidimel handle that has been suspended for *checks calendar* 𝟔 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝐒 https://twitter.com/...
@verified: Check out more on our improved verification policy, the lowdown on the new application, and what we're working on next: https://blog.twitter.com/... And if you're planning to apply, follow this thread for what you need to know about our eligibility criteria 👇
Claire Willett / @clairewillett: MY DAY HAS FINALLY COME https://twitter.com/...
Nu Wexler / @wexler: Nobody is happier about this announcement than Twitter employees themselves. https://blog.twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Guess I'm going to have to shut down my “Sure, I can totally get you verified” payment program https://www.theverge.com/...
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Twitter reopens its verification process for first time since 2017
Associated Press:
The Knight Foundation, which funds the UNC professorship offered to Nikole Hannah-Jones, is urging the university to reconsider its decision to deny her tenure — CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — The foundation that funds the University of North Carolina professorship offered to investigative …
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Over 200 journalism faculty from across the US protest UNC's declining of tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones, calling the move “blatant partisanship and racism”
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@ryandenos, @nhannahjones, @jeffjarvis, @johnrobinson, @sistertoldjah, @sivavaid, @jayrosen_nyu, @ruthesamuel, @billadairduke and @jeffjarvis
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Ryan D. Enos / @ryandenos: Many colleagues have spoken eloquently about the dangers posed by the denial of tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones. I agree with all of these. I sincerely hope that we will remember these principles when faced with a choice to defend speech with which we disagree.
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: I've been staying off of here today, but just know I see you all and I am grateful.
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: I just got carpal tunnel in the good cause of adding scores more signatures to this letter of protest for the administration of UNC. Journalism profs: Tweet or DM me and I'll add you. https://link.medium.com/...
John Robinson / @johnrobinson: Thanks, Jeff and the hundreds of signatories here. Now we eagerly await the UNC-CH board's explanation of how -somehow - it is the one upholding the school's academic integrity or some such. If the board actually explains. https://twitter.com/...
Sister Toldjah / @sistertoldjah: 🙄 https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan / @sivavaid: Statement of Protest to the UNC Board of Trustees by @jeffjarvis and a lot of journalism professors (including me). https://link.medium.com/...
Ruth Etiesit Samuel / @ruthesamuel: “We, the undersigned journalism faculty from across the United States, write to protest the action of the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees in declining to grant tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones at UNC-Chapel Hill's Hussman School of Journalism and Media.” National. https://twitter.com/...
Hussman Faculty / Medium:
About 40 members of UNC's journalism school faculty sign a letter demanding tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones as Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism
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The 19th, Faculty Governance, NABJ, The Wrap, @jelani9, @sullydish, @jelani9, @shannimcg, @kat__stafford, @marissaaevans, @drallirich, @danikathleen, @dorothy4nabj, @ruthesamuel, @chronicle, @kreissdaniel, The Guardian, Today in Tabs, @joyannreid, Slate, @thefireorg, @ijbailey, @jelani9, @lpolgreen, @wendi_c_thomas, @vanityfair, @shannimcg, @davidgura, @amzam, Media Nation, Hobbservation Point, @jesslahey, @jmarkockerbloom, Columbia Journalism Review, @jayrosen_nyu, @superchunk, @charlesppierce, @mgerrydoyle, @bakerdphd, @adriana_lacy, @govhowarddean, @haleyosomething, @dlamontjenkins, @itslizhannah, @zeynep, @wkamaubell, @kreissdaniel, North Carolina, @joyannreid, @laurenwilliams, @ummodern, @emarvelous, @reghud, @amandadeibert, @tiffanydcross, @karaswisher, @dfreelon, @chadheartwood, bookforum.com, @abigaildisney, @deborahblum, @shiplives, @albertocairo, @albertocairo, @kate_sheppard, @vekstra, @vekstra, @mharrisperry, @melaniesill, @creynoldsnc, @rtburg, @acrostical, @jsbrennen, @sethnoar, @dvshah, @markcoddington, @jayrosen_nyu, @chanders, @chanders, @mkramer, @kreissdaniel and The Hill
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Mariel Padilla / The 19th: UNC won't offer tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones after wave of conservative criticism
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: NABJ ‘Disappointed’ in UNC-Chapel Hill Not Giving Nikole Hannah-Jones Tenure
Jelani Cobb / @jelani9: It should also be pointed out that this is not simply about NHJ or even the 1619 Project but the spear's tip of a broader assault on academic freedom — the attacks on Critical Race Theory and antiracism are part of this. It may silence and intimidate young untenured scholars.
Andrew Sullivan / @sullydish: I agree. The faculty should decide. But this is not a huge scandal or a cancellation it seems to me. https://twitter.com/...
Jelani Cobb / @jelani9: The UNC BoT decision to deny tenure to Nikole Hannah Jones is wildly intimidating to junior scholars working on topics of race without the protection of tenure. This is about the freedom to produce critical scholarship in an alleged democratic society.
Shannon McGregor, PhD / @shannimcg: Failure to tenure Hannah-Jones in her role as Knight Chair in Race & Investigative Journalism is a departure from UNC's traditional process, breaks precedent w/ previous tenured full prof appointments of Knight chairs, & undermines the university's plan to prioritize diversity
Kat Stafford / @kat__stafford: “The failure to offer Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure with her appointment as a Knight Chair is the latest in the history of unfair treatment of Black women in academia, who are often denied promotion despite exceptional work.” -via @NABJ https://nabjonline.org/...
Marissa / @marissaaevans: “If the speculations are true, then we denounce any decision to deny a distinguished journalist tenure because she simply did her job by reporting facts about slavery in America.” Let's go @NABJ 🔥 https://twitter.com/...
Allissa V. Richardson, Ph.D. / @drallirich: Thank you @NABJ for taking up this important fight. I stand with @nhannahjones and with all Black journalists who have had to endure immense pain simply for telling the truth. https://twitter.com/...
Danielle Kilgo, Ph.D. / @danikathleen: Thank you @NABJ for standing up for Hannah-Jones and all Black women academics. Her fight is our fight. https://twitter.com/...
Dorothy Tucker / @dorothy4nabj: “NABJ has reached out to the university to determine their reason for failing to grant tenure to Nikole.” Read our full statement here: https://nabjonline.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Ruth Etiesit Samuel / @ruthesamuel: “The university would be sending a message to its students that it does not support press freedom and that seeking the truth and reporting it is not a pillar it believes should be a part of our profession, and that the work of Black journalists...is unmerited.” https://twitter.com/...
@chronicle: UNC called Nikole Hannah-Jones “one of the country's leading voices in journalism” and offered her a job. Then it denied her the tenured status it had granted her predecessors. https://www.chronicle.com/...
Daniel Kreiss / @kreissdaniel: People watching this space about @nhannahjones: It was deliberate that our @UNCHussman statement was general about the university's “leadership” and did not name any specific body as being responsible. https://indyweek.com/...
Amanda Holpuch / The Guardian: Protests after North Carolina university denies tenure to 1619 Project journalist
Rusty Foster / Today in Tabs: The Birds and the Bees — Yesterday was unusually befouled by hate-reads so let's …
@joyannreid: Universities should not be denying tenure based on right wing sensitivities to the uncomfortable truths of history. That just goes flat out against the supposed goals of a university education. This is just dead wrong. https://19thnews.org/...
Rebecca Onion / Slate: The Real Reason UNC-Chapel Hill Is Withholding Tenure From Nikole Hannah-Jones
@thefireorg: Our statement on the reports that @nhannahjones was denied tenure at @UNC for viewpoint discriminatory reasons. https://www.thefire.org/... @adamsteinbaugh https://twitter.com/...
@ijbailey: The right is using a distorted-conjured up boogeyman they've deemed “critical race theory” to squash speech they don't like, by law and political pressure on every level. And on days like this, the silence of those who have made “cancel culture” their top concern is deafening. https://twitter.com/...
Jelani Cobb / @jelani9: The UNC decision to deny tenure to Nikole Hannah Jones is obscene. Tenure exists precisely to protect faculty from this kind of politicized decision-making. We need to compare the credentials of people who *did*get tenure this year if a Pulitzer & MacArthur winner did not.
Lydia Polgreen / @lpolgreen: The thing that's wild about the Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure thing is that based on her *pre* 1619 work alone she would be an incredible candidate for a tenured journalism position. She has been dropping instant classics of investigative journalism for *years.*
Wendi C. Thomas / @wendi_c_thomas: As @RevDrBarber said: You know how powerful you are by how hard they try to fight you. https://twitter.com/...
@vanityfair: UNC's decision to deny Nikole Hannah-Jones a tenured professorship—seemingly due to conservative backlash—sent shockwaves throughout the journalism community. https://vntyfr.com/UR6CJfz
Shannon McGregor, PhD / @shannimcg: 40 @UNCHussman faculty & more than 50 other UNC faculty & Hussman grad students have signed our statement calling on @UNC to tenure @nhannahjones as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism https://hussmanfaculty.medium.com/ ...
David Gura / @davidgura: After an exhaustive process, UNC's faculty recommended @nhannahjones receive tenure. Its board of trustees rejected that recommendation. Today, faculty chair @MimiVChapman addressed members of the board directly. Here are her remarks, in full: https://facultygov.unc.edu/...
Amanda Zamora / @amzam: Seriously hope this fires up an army of reporters digging into governance of public universities across this country. https://slate.com/...
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation: UNC's board of trustees needs to grant tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones today
Chuck Hobbs / Hobbservation Point: Born to Battle Bigotry
Jessica Lahey / @jesslahey: Beautifully articulated, @MimiVChapman. “Faculty Chair Remarks to the UNC-CH Board of Trustees” on their ignorant and cowardly decision to deny Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure despite faculty endorsement. https://facultygov.unc.edu/...
John Mark Ockerbloom / @jmarkockerbloom: UNC Faculty Chair to Board: “I am inviting you to trust us in the exhaustive work that we do to make tenure recommendations. For me, I would choose to be your partner... but partnership requires respect and at this moment, the faculty is not feeling that.” https://facultygov.unc.edu/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “To take this decision is to say to the faculty—intentionally or not—that our expertise, our judgement, our devotion to this institution, and indeed our time is not something you value.” —Chair of UNC faculty (all faculty, all fields) to Board of Trustees. https://facultygov.unc.edu/...
@superchunk: Wow the same @UNC that fought removal of a racist statue is still doing racist things? https://twitter.com/...
Charles P. Pierce / @charlesppierce: Somebody wake up Sully and Bari Weiss and tell them ti get on this. https://twitter.com/...
Gerry Doyle / @mgerrydoyle: that's because cancel-culture warriors like weiss, taibbi, tracey, greenwald, et al are not arguing in good faith https://twitter.com/...
Dominique Baker / @bakerdphd: How do you have a serious conversation with untenured scholars at UNC about their prospects for getting tenure when they conduct research on “controversial” topics? Will their tenure get overturned as well? https://twitter.com/...
Adriana Lacy / @adriana_lacy: Thinking about this a lot. I want my phd one day and I want to teach. But when I hear stories like what's happening with NHJ and the countless tenure horror stories I've heard from my Black professors, it's so disheartening https://twitter.com/...
Howard Dean / @govhowarddean: This is a real blow to a great University. I predict they will have trouble getting their first choice for Moorhead Scholars as a result. And I have no doubt that the professor will be offered tenure at a higher status university. https://twitter.com/...
Haley O'Shaughnessy / @haleyosomething: the myth of american exceptionalism depends on discrediting and hiding people for telling the truth about its history and current inequity but her project has already proven to be so important that i'm sure years from now its initial reception will be whitewashed. this is awful https://twitter.com/...
Daryle Lamont Jenkins / @dlamontjenkins: Damned curious how this board came to this decision. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Liz Hannah / @itslizhannah: The Board of Trustees at UNC needs to rectify this immediately. @nhannahjones has more than earned tenure and denying her this because of conservative backlash is the antithesis of what UNC stands for. https://twitter.com/...
Zeynep Tufekci / @zeynep: @sullydish The faculty *had* decided. The University had also decided. It got overruled at the university system level, which, as far as I remember, does not have a recent precedent. This is more like the Queen of England deciding she doesn't like a local election result and overturning it.
W. Kamau Bell / @wkamaubell: UNC-CH: “What are your qualifications for tenure?” Nikole Hannah-Jones: “I have a MacArthur Fellowship AKA a genius grant.” UNC-CH: “What else?” NHJ: “A Pulitzer. The highest award for journalism.” UNC-Chapel Hill: “Hmmm... Let me talk to my manager & see what I can do.” https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Kreiss / @kreissdaniel: Maybe you should let the faculty decide whether it is a “huge scandal.” We are overwhelmingly clear that it is: https://hussmanfaculty.medium.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Ingram / North Carolina: UNC-Chapel Hill Faculty Members Demand Hannah-Jones Be Appointed to Tenured Position
@joyannreid: Pulitzer, Peabody, MacArthur ... no tenure? Make that make sense, @UNC. https://twitter.com/...
Lauren Williams / @laurenwilliams: I'd love for someone to quiz the board of trustees on the 1619 project just to see how they'd fare. https://twitter.com/...
@ummodern: While we are on this topic, remember that pro-Israeli Zionist groups and donors have tried to deny tenure or fire pro-Palestinian scholars. This happened both to Edward Said, Nadia Abu Al Haj & Joseph Massad at Columbia, though failed. In the case of @stevesalaita they succeeded https://twitter.com/...
Errin Haines / @emarvelous: Despite approval from faculty and the tenure committee, @nhannahjones will be the first Knight Chair professor at UNC to be denied tenure by the board of trustees. https://19thnews.org/...
Reginald Hudlin / @reghud: I can't wait to see what universities will jump on this opportunity to have her at their school. https://twitter.com/...
@tiffanydcross: I swear. Racism is exhausting. They've tried EVERYTHING. And still we rise. https://twitter.com/...
Deen Freelon / @dfreelon: Not sure how they fumbled the most slam-dunk tenure case in our department's history, but here we are. https://hussmanfaculty.medium.com/ ...
Chad / @chadheartwood: Incredibly proud of @UNCHussman faculty for standing in solidarity with @nhannahjones! And unbelievably disappointed in this institution. Our statement: https://hussmanfaculty.medium.com/ ...
Abigail Disney / @abigaildisney: Oh. And.... https://twitter.com/...
Deborah Blum / @deborahblum: Did ‘conservative ire’ keep journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones from getting tenure at UNC? https://www.newsobserver.com/ ...
Matt Shipman / @shiplives: TL;DR: yes. https://twitter.com/...
Alberto Cairo / @albertocairo: Same here: https://twitter.com/...
Alberto Cairo / @albertocairo: (Continued) As I know I have conservative followers who object to the 1619 project: Yes, I agree; there are genuine objections to its premises and conclusions. But that's a bullshit excuse for not granting tenure when tenure is 1,000% deserved.
Kate Sheppard / @kate_sheppard: I signed this letter but will go farther — not granting tenure to @nhannahjones is entirely based on racist, reactionary and anti-academic-freedom ideology at the highest levels. https://hussmanfaculty.medium.com/ ...
Tori Smith Ekstrand / @vekstra: Does not the UNC system remember this case? https://centerforacademicfreedom.org/ ...
Tori Smith Ekstrand / @vekstra: A reminder to the BOT and the UNC system that the 4th Circuit stands firmly behind academic freedom. @JoekillianPW @DeanSusanKing https://www.aaup.org/...
Melissa Harris-Perry / @mharrisperry: Sigh—I'll be thrilled to have @nhannahjones just up the road, but this tenure battle is ridiculous. Don't let anyone suggest tenure doesn't matter. They wouldn't police it like this If it weren't. https://www.ncpolicywatch.com/ ...
Melanie Sill / @melaniesill: Yes — this language and misinfo are being spread by white right-leaning groups and being waved around in local and state education discussion - bogeyman is right word, and fearmongering too https://twitter.com/...
Christina Reynolds / @creynoldsnc: This @UNCHussman alum agrees with the faculty and Dean King on how bad this decision by the UNC Board of Trustees is. For a party that complains a lot about cancel culture, opposing tenure to a Pulitzer winning qualified journalist is a clear demonstration of their hypocrisy. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Thornburg / @rtburg: By all objective measures, her 18 years of reporting at the highest levels merits tenure for @nhannahjones at @unc. We have no explanation for the reason she is not arriving with tenure. https://hussmanfaculty.medium.com/ ...
Allison C. Rost / @acrostical: Mad respect for the folks in Carroll Hall for responding with this: https://hussmanfaculty.medium.com/ ....
Scott Babwah Brennen / @jsbrennen: UNC must grant the brilliant @nhannahjones tenure with her appointment to @UNCHussman. This is a clearly racist decision by the BOT. As a 2X Carolina alumnus, I am embarrassed. https://hussmanfaculty.medium.com/ ...
Seth Noar / @sethnoar: Very disturbed about this development in our hiring of esteemed journalist @nhannahjones. UNC needs to make this right. Our faculty statement on this below. https://hussmanfaculty.medium.com/ ...
Dhavan Shah / @dvshah: Share my colleagues at UNC's sense of outrage at this terrible decision. UNC leadership failed it own distinguished alum. https://hussmanfaculty.medium.com/ ...
Mark Coddington / @markcoddington: The refusal to grant Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure at UNC on a nakedly political basis is indeed stunning. https://hussmanfaculty.medium.com/ ... The implications for academic freedom are deeply troubling, regardless of your political leanings.
@chanders: Furthermore, I fully agree with @kate_sheppard: not granting tenure to @nhannahjones is entirely based on racist, reactionary and anti-academic-freedom ideology at the highest levels.
@chanders: Although I no longer work and teach in the US, the existence of tenure there, & the values of academic freedom tenure embodies, are some of American academia's greatest strengths. @nhannahjones should be granted tenure with her @UNCHussman appointment. https://hussmanfaculty.medium.com/ ...
Melody Joy Kramer / @mkramer: “The failure to offer Hannah-Jones tenure with her appointment as a Knight chair unfairly moves the goalposts and violates long-standing norms and established processes relating to tenure and promotion at UNC Chapel Hill.” https://hussmanfaculty.medium.com/ ...
NC Policy Watch:
UNC backs down from offering Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure, instead offering a fixed five-year contract, after conservatives object to her work on The 1619 Project
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Katie Robertson / New York Times: Nikole Hannah-Jones Denied Tenure at University of North Carolina
Leia Idliby / Mediaite: National Association of Black Journalists Condemns UNC Decision to Deny Nikole Hannah-Jones Tenure
Tom Jones / Poynter: A look inside the controversy involving UNC and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones
Andy Thomason / @arthomason: Wow. UNC wanted to give Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure but the Board of Trustees refused to approve it, according to @NCPolicyWatch: https://www.ncpolicywatch.com/ ...
Nick Anderson / Washington Post: UNC faculty upset that prizewinning 1619 Project journalist won't have tenure when she starts teaching at Chapel Hill
Alex Kotch / @alexkotch: This was the doing of the right-wing UNC Board of Governors (and megadonor Art Pope, a member), which the legislatures appoints. “Cancel culture is bad except when the person I'm canceling doesn't support white supremacy.” https://www.ncpolicywatch.com/ ...
Yamiche Alcindor / @yamiche: UNC's decision to deny tenure to @nhannahjones is absurd & a reminder of how hard some work to deny the hard truth that is Nikole's life work & the 1619 Project. She is a Pulitzer Prizer winner & a MacArthur genius. What more needs to be said? Read: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeffrey Sachs / @jeffreyasachs: Briefly breaking my Twitter fast because there's a lot of context to this @nhannahjones story that people should be aware of. Namely, the degree of absolute unhinged-ness within the UNC Board of Governors. https://www.ncpolicywatch.com/ ...
John Eligon / @jeligon: Telling the truth about racism always inspires backlash. This absurd decision speaks to the profound power of Nikole's work. https://twitter.com/...
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair: “An Embarrassment”: Did Conservatives Bully UNC into Stripping Nikole Hannah-Jones's Tenure?
Josie Duffy Rice / @jduffyrice: truly shameful. “Hannah-Jones submitted a package King said was as well reviewed as any King had ever seen.” https://www.ncpolicywatch.com/ ...
Jemele Hill / @jemelehill: This is weak as fuck UNC. Absolutely spineless. But these are the entities that come running to the conversation about how to be good allies. https://twitter.com/...
Jeffrey Billman / PRIMER: UNC-CH Trustees Cancel “1619” Creator
Cristina Jimnez / @crisalexjimenez: The decision by #UNC to deny @nhannahjones tenure after racist criticism from the right is shameful. It's clear which side #UNC is picking. Standing in solidarity w/ my friend and fellow MacArthur fellow Nikole. #UNC the world is watching! https://www.nytimes.com/... #TeamNikole
Cynthia Nixon / @cynthianixon: Nikole Hannah-Jones: -Pulitzer Prize -MacArthur Fellow -UNC Master's in Journalism -Approved for tenure by J-school Dean and Faculty UNC Board of Trustees: “She's unqualified.” Something is rotten in the state of North Carolina https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mike Ogle / Stone Walls: Nikole Hannah-Jones & Benjamin Hedrick
@teonbrooks: What a sad day for NC. What a shameful silencing from the Board of Trustees. This is part of a concerted effort ever since NC State Legislature became Republican-led in 2010 for the first time since 1898. Stripped the gains NC has been painstakingly making over the past decades https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Alter / @jonathanalter: You don't have to love everything about the 1619 Project to agree with @jelani9. The fig leaf that Jones is “outside academia” is pathetic.The Knight chair is supposed to be for journalists, not narrow academics. This is so transparently political that my guess is it won't stand. https://twitter.com/...
@amy_siskind: UNC denied tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones, author of the 1619 project after conservative complaints. This is so incredibly wrong. And after all their whining about so-called cancel culture! https://www.ncpolicywatch.com/ ...
Mara Gay / @maragay: When we say you have to be twice as good and even then it often isn't enough, this is what we mean. https://19thnews.org/...
Daniel Torday / @danieltorday: The very concept of tenure arose in the late 19th century to protect professors' academic freedom from capricious political decisions of exactly this kind. Every principled academic organization & dept in America should be preparing a statement on their boycott of UNC. https://twitter.com/...
Jeryl Bier / PLURIBUS: E-Pluribus | May 20, 2021 — A round up of the latest and best writing and musings …
Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN: Now Politico's just making stuff up
Adam Serwer / @adamserwer: This left wing political correctness is getting out of control https://www.ncpolicywatch.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Andy Thomason / @arthomason: In all the coverage of Nikole Hannah-Jones' tenure denial today, there was one name I kept expecting to see but didn't: Sonja Haynes Stone. (thread) https://twitter.com/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: it's hard to see UNC's decision to deny tenure to Nikole Hannah Jones as anything other than an attack on press freedom — she is being penalized for producing journalism that powerful people do not like and have worked for years to silence.
Justin Wolfers / @justinwolfers: Cancel culture getting out of hand when a Pulitzer Prize winning MacArthur Genius who reached the top levels of journalism won't be getting tenure at a journalism school because political backlash to her work makes her too controversial. https://www.ncpolicywatch.com/ ...
@4evernevertrump: 4 of 13 members of the UNC Board of Trustees are directly chosen by the North Carolina's GOP legislature. 8 more trustees are chosen by the voting members of the Board of Governors... who are all chosen by the GOP legislature. https://twitter.com/...
Abigail Disney / @abigaildisney: UNC Board of Trustees. Hmmmmmmmm....... https://bot.unc.edu/ https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Mansa Keita / @rasmansa: Everyone is at least admitting it was a purely political decision. There are some excellent African-Americans in academia being denied tenure for daring to speak on things that make some people uncomfortable. https://twitter.com/...
Itai Sher / @itaisher: This is a threat to academic freedom. Granting of tenure should never be subject to political tests or political pressure. https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Jorge J Rodrguez V / @jjrodv: If a Pulitzer, Peabody, and MacArthur can't get you Tenure........ Again, I maintain that tenure as presently conceived has to be reconsidered.... https://twitter.com/...
Sam Seder / @samseder: Does someone have the number for the Cancel Culture Police? PW special report: After conservative criticism, UNC backs down from offering acclaimed journalist tenured position http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/ ... #ncpol via @ncpolicywatch
Chuck Tryon / @chutry: I don't want to hear any conservatives mention cancel culture ever again. The eminent historian @nhannahjones was determined to qualify for tenure by her colleagues, but the politicized NC BOG overturned that. https://twitter.com/...
@amandaannklein: In what UNIVERSE does a Pulitzer Prize/MacArthur Awarded Assistant Professor NOT get tenure? (A racist one) https://twitter.com/...
@gothamgirlblue: Bari Weiss, Andrew Sullivan et al won't be found anywhere near this academic free speech issue because it was never about the right to debate ideas but the right to be pro-eugenics https://twitter.com/...
Mitch Landrieu / @mitchlandrieu: This is just really bad. Shameful in so many ways. You guys should hang your heads. https://twitter.com/...
@exavierpope: “The board reviews and approves tenure applications. It chose not to take action on approving Hannah-Jones's tenure. 'I'm not sure why and I'm not sure if that's ever happened before,' King said” - Racism is a disease https://twitter.com/...
Melody Joy Kramer / @mkramer: “The national politicization of universities, journalism, and the social sciences undermines the integrity of and academic freedom within the whole University of North Carolina system.”
Kate Murphy / Raleigh News & Observer: Why didn't Nikole Hannah-Jones get tenure at UNC Chapel Hill? | Raleigh News & Observer
Adam Steinbaugh / FIRE: FIRE statement on UNC trustees' alleged nixing of tenure for ‘1619 Project’ creator
Chris Taylor / @chrisjudetaylor: Kinda feel like the protections of tenure are especially important for a journalist whose work has been targeted by right-wing campaigns and state legislatures https://twitter.com/...
@claudiaalick: White domination is maintained by denying legitimacy to black scholarship. By spending large amounts of money to force unnatural decisions that maintain white domination. https://twitter.com/...
Christina Reynolds / @creynoldsnc: Such a bad move by the UNC BOT. Nikole Hannah-Jones is a talented journalist who is a huge asset to the school. The Hussman school, the chancellor and the faculty all supported her tenure. https://twitter.com/...
@scottmgreer: Another day where libs get to pretend they suffer oppression from America's famously reactionary universities. https://twitter.com/...
@wajahatali: Republicans who are obsessed with cancel culture pressured UNC to take away @nhannahjones's tenure position. Read that again. They're trying to cancel 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory because, of course, the Confederacy has to be great again. http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/ ... #ncpol
Dr. Kevin Wright / @kevinmawright: As a UNC alumni, this is infuriating. Their board of trustees is an embarrassment that appears to prioritize upholding white supremacy (see also, the decisions regarding “silent Sam"), rather than bringing the university into the 21st century https://twitter.com/...
John L. Dorman / Insider: 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones has tenure offer revoked by UNC: report
Alberto Cairo / @albertocairo: UNC was home for years, and it's great to have @nhannahjones as a fellow Knight Chair. The excuses for not giving her tenure are bullshit https://ncpolicywatch.com/... A reactionary, authoritarian, anti-intellectual uprising is at war with academia. This is just the latest skirmish
Clint Smith / @clintsmithiii: This is just such so cowardly. “Last summer, Hannah-Jones went through the rigorous tenure process at UNC, King said. Hannah-Jones submitted a package King said was as well reviewed as any King had ever seen.” https://www.ncpolicywatch.com/ ...
Andrew Losowsky / @losowsky: The Board of Trustees at @UNC “for the first time anyone can remember” has overruled a tenure vote from faculty and the chancellor - because it's @nhannahjones. The politics of power are about keeping certain kinds of people in their place. I'm furious. https://www.ncpolicywatch.com/ ...
Nick Confessore / @nickconfessore: “Our university is a place for the free flow of ideas, for different ideologies, for people who everyone might not agree with and whose work might not please everyone.” — UNC student body president @lamarrichards_ https://www.ncpolicywatch.com/ ...
Skullsinthestars / @drskyskull: To be clear, the board of Trustees at @unc overruled the Chancellor and all the faculty on the tenured appointment. It is a garbage decision by the board based on cynical right-wing politics. https://twitter.com/...
Henry Farrell / @henryfarrell: 2. First - the Board has substantially damaged the university's ability to attract good professors. If you are a young professor, and you are lucky enough that you can choose among a couple of tenure track jobs, you are going to be less likely to want to go to to UNC.
Henry Farrell / @henryfarrell: 1. Some repercussions from this that may not be obvious to non-academics. This is going to be a very big blow to the University of North Carolina. Universities live in a reputation system - and UNC has just taken a big hit to its credibility. https://twitter.com/...
Henry Farrell / @henryfarrell: 7. Finally, UNC's ability to raise money from foundations has been gravely harmed. The Knight Foundation, which funded this chair, is likely to be very unhappy. And other potential donors are going to wonder what will happen to their gifts under a politicized board.
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: So much for campus speech, and academic freedom: after going through a standard tenure review process, UNC trustees overturn tenured offer to Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Award winner. https://www.ncpolicywatch.com/ ...
Sopan Deb / @sopandeb: “That's a departure from the school's usual practice.” https://www.ncpolicywatch.com/ ...
@joyannreid: So cancel culture and collegiate institutions shutting down debate, amirite? This fear of history among so many conservatives tells you everything you need to know about what they think education is for: to indoctrinate ppl w/ their version of rose colored America, not to educate https://twitter.com/...
Ryan L. Nave / @rlnave: Of course universities are political institutions—in many cases, the most powerful in states—but if any department should resist this sort of thing it's a School of Journalism https://twitter.com/...
Eric Boehlert / @ericboehlert: paging @bariweiss i'm sure she can't sleep, she's so upset abt this..... https://twitter.com/...
Tom Foreman Jr / Associated Press: Report: Tenure offer revoked from slavery project journalist
Andy Bechtel / @andybechtel: This is disappointing, but I'm glad that Nikole Hannah-Jones will still join @UNCHussman on a 5-year appointment. One student told me: “I will literally fall down the stairs of Carroll Hall to be in her class.” https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: UNC trustees decide that Nicole Hannah-Jones won't be immediately eligible for tenure after all; instead she'll get a 5-year contract as a professor of the practice, with possible tenure thereafter. JSchool dean says the decision “will have a chilling effect.” h/t@ijbailey https://twitter.com/...
Jacob Rubashkin / @jacobrubashkin: Left-wing campus cancel culture is out of control https://www.ncpolicywatch.com/ ...
Celeste Headlee / @celesteheadlee: So, UNC bows to pressure from conservatives angry because the 1619 Project accurately portrays US history, and changes its plan to give @nhannahjones tenure. Board member: “This is a very political thing.” https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: But how we underresource and remove Black women from conversations isn't systemic and political? Okay https://twitter.com/...
David Rothschild / @davmicrot: For every Republican denied a nice pay day to spread right-wing misinformation at a university, a professor is fired, department budget slashed, entire educational system threatened for their teaching. Cancel culture is real: Republicans use government to stifle free speech. https://twitter.com/...
Stephen Owens / @stephenjowens_: I'm so tired of this. @nhannahjones is a thoughtful, intelligent and immensely talented writer. She holds a mirror up to our country and gets punished when we don't like what we see. I would be lucky to have 1/10th of her integrity. https://twitter.com/...
Henry Gargan / @hgargan: Pretty fucking embarrassing https://twitter.com/...
Mindy McAdams / @macloo: Objecting “to her work on The 1619 Project” is racist, pure and simple. Racist. Call it what it is. https://www.ncpolicywatch.com/ ...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: This is appalling. The UNC board has violated principles of academic freedom and exposed its racist roots as an institution. PW special report: After conservative criticism, UNC backs down from offering acclaimed journalist tenured position http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/ ... #ncpol
Michael Socolow / @michaelsocolow: Bizarre. She went through the tenure process- and was recommended- last year. The Chancellor wanted her tenured, and proposed it. The Board said “no” for political reasons. If this doesn't prove the need to retain tenure as protection against partisan politics - what does? https://twitter.com/...
Aris Folley / The Hill: Journalists decry UNC-Chapel Hill decision to deny Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: ‘1619 Project’ Founder Nikole Hannah-Jones Denied Tenure at UNC-Chapel Hill Following Right-Wing Pressure
Jessie Gaynor / Literary Hub: UNC decided not to offer Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure after a conservative freak-out.
Theo Francis / Wall Street Journal:
Filing: Discovery gave CEO David Zaslav 14.8M stock options, valued at ~$190M, the day before the company and AT&T announced the Discovery/WarnerMedia merger — David Zaslav is expected to run the newly combined media firm, and received the award as part of a new employment contract
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Brent Lang / Variety: Discovery Chief David Zaslav Gets $190 Million in Stock Options After Pulling Off WarnerMedia Deal
Theo Francis / @theofrancis: Two from me today, both on Discovery/AT&T/WarnerMedia: Some Discovery investors will get a better deal than others: https://www.wsj.com/... And Discovery gave CEO Zaslav options valued at $190 million with his new employment agreement: https://www.wsj.com/... $DISCA $T @WSJ
CNN:
BBC apologizes after a report finds Martin Bashir used “deceitful” methods to get his interview with Princess Diana and that BBC covered up Bashir's behavior — (CNN)The BBC has offered an unconditional apology after a report found a prominent journalist used “deceitful” …
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Sky News: Martin Bashir's Diana interview: All the key findings from inquiry into landmark BBC Panorama scoop
Tim Davie / bbc.co.uk: BBC publishes Lord Dyson's report
Jane Martinson / The Guardian: Trust is key to BBC's survival - so it must learn from Martin Bashir scandal
Brendan Morrow / The Week: The daily gossip: Prince William shows off his ‘guns’ while getting his jab, Cher is getting a biopic, and more
Corinne Heller / E! Online: Martin Bashir Was “Deceitful” in Securing 1995 Princess Diana Interview, Probe Finds
John Johnson / Newser: Inquiry Confirms BBC Lied to Diana Before Interview
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: BBC Will Return BAFTA for Princess Diana Interview After Inquiry Found Martin Bashir Falsified Docs to Secure Sitdown
Tom Sykes / The Daily Beast: Princess Diana Was Tricked Into Interview by BBC Reporter's ‘Deceptions,’ Report Finds
Eleanor Sly / The Independent: Princess Diana: Martin Bashir responds to inquiry, admitting regret over fake bank statements
Erin Vanderhoof / Vanity Fair: The BBC Apologizes for Martin Bashir's Tactics in His Princess Diana Interview
Daniel Sandford / @bbcdaniels: BBC Director-General, Tim Davie: “Although the report states that Diana, Princess of Wales, was keen on the idea of an interview with the BBC, it is clear that the process for securing the interview fell far short of what audiences have a right to expect.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/...
Stephanie Nolasco / Fox News: Martin Bashir used ‘deceitful behavior’ to secure Princess Diana interview, report says
Insider: The BBC apologizes for covering up ‘deceitful behavior’ used to secure Princess Diana interview
Sara Boboltz / HuffPost: BBC Reporter Martin Bashir Used ‘Deceit’ To Get Princess Diana Interview, Report Finds
Jordan Williams / The Hill: Probe finds BBC used deceitful methods to land Princess Diana interview
Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters:
Spotify partners with Audible rival Storytel, allowing the latter's subscribers to listen to books on Spotify; Storytel has 500K titles and 1.6M subscribers — Swedish audiobook streaming group Storytel (STORYb.ST) has partnered with Spotify (SPOT.N) to allow its subscribers to listen …
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Spotify, TechCrunch, Storytel, @francoolivera, @nwquah, Digital Music News and Engadget, more at Techmeme »
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Sitemanager / Storytel: Storytel partnering with Spotify - making audiobooks even more accessible for Storytel customers
Francisco Olivera / @francoolivera: “It is Spotify's goal to be the singular platform for all audio: music, podcasts, live conversations, and now via this partnership, audiobooks,” https://newsroom.spotify.com/ ...
Nick Quah / @nwquah: the podcast/audiobooks melding together continues https://newsroom.spotify.com/ ...
Dylan Smith / Digital Music News: Spotify Users Spot Hi-Fi Icon On iOS Following Lossless-Audio Announcements From Amazon Music, Apple Music
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Storytel audiobooks are coming to Spotify later this year
Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times:
Open letter expresses concern that the UK government is being advised on the BBC by a panel that meets in secret with no public record of its agenda or advice — More than 120 public figures call for government to be more open about its plans for UK broadcaster
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Tony Ageh Obe / British Broadcasting Challenge: Open Letter — An open letter to the Rt Hon Oliver Dowden CBE MP, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
@financialtimes: More than 120 public figures including actor Steve Coogan have warned that the BBC is facing a ‘severe threat’ from Boris Johnson's government https://www.ft.com/...
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: “The BBC is facing a “severe threat” from Boris Johnson's Conservative government, according to a group of high-profile authors, academics and film producers who claim that ministers are reviewing the future of the UK's national broadcaster in secret.” https://giftarticle.ft.com/...
Alice Yin / Chicago Tribune:
Chicago mayor said she would talk only to reporters of color on one day to confront lack of newsroom diversity; NABJ says it can't support excluding journalists — Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday defended her decision to grant interviews on her two-year anniversary in office only to journalists of color …
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CNN, @maryannahernnbc, WBEZ Chicago, Mediaite, American Press Institute, @royalpratt, NABJ, @chicagosmayor, @royalpratt, @anitakumar01, @ameshiacross, @richardgrenell, @alyalexandraa, @jasonrantz, @toddstarnes, @fenitn, @royalpratt, @sduncovered, @arielfab, @chicagosmayor, Daily Herald, FOX 32 Chicago, Associated Press, Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Sun-Times
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Mary Ann Ahern / @maryannahernnbc: As @chicagosmayor reaches her two year midway point as mayor, her spokeswoman says Lightfoot is granting 1 on 1 interviews - only to Black or Brown journalists https://twitter.com/...
Becky Vevea / WBEZ Chicago: For Mid-Term Mark, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Says She'll Only Talk To Reporters Of Color
Ken Meyer / Mediaite: Fox Frenemies Geraldo Rivera, Leo Terrell Team Up to Bash Chicago Mayor Over ‘Racist’ POC Media Rules
American Press Institute: Need to Know: May 20, 2021 — OFF THE TOP — You might have heard: Axios is growing …
Gregory Pratt / @royalpratt: I am a Latino reporter @chicagotribune whose interview request was granted for today. However, I asked the mayor's office to lift its condition on others and when they said no, we respectfully canceled. Politicians don't get to choose who covers them. https://twitter.com/...
Mayor Lori Lightfoot / @chicagosmayor: I ran to break up the status quo that was failing so many. That isn't just in City Hall. It's a shame that in 2021, the City Hall press corps is overwhelmingly White in a city where more than half of the city identifies as Black, Latino, AAPI or Native American.
Gregory Pratt / @royalpratt: In letter to journalists, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said there are no women of color assigned to cover Chicago City Hall. But @WBEZ notes: “Two of the three WBEZ reporters covering City Hall are Hispanic and South Asian women respectively.” https://www.wbez.org/...
Anita Kumar / @anitakumar01: Gregory Pratt, one of few journalists of color in the City Hall press corps, requested the mayor reconsider and grant interviews to all beat reporters and said when her spokesperson declined, Pratt canceled his own interview https://www.wbez.org/...
Ameshia Cross / @ameshiacross: This was a PR stunt gone horribly wrong. First off Lightfoot isn't doing Black or Latino journalists any favors, this move is simply one of a desperate mayor trying to get some goodwill among Black & Brown people. The same Black & Brown people her policies hung out to dry https://twitter.com/...
Richard Grenell / @richardgrenell: Condemn racism no matter where it's found. https://twitter.com/...
Aly Alexandra / @alyalexandraa: She acts like she's so accessible to the press (she's not lol) - if you know how reporting goes in this city, you probably just shook your head like I did. She doesn't take too kindly to anyone who questions her — meaning she regularly accosts them upon being asked uh..anything https://twitter.com/...
@jasonrantz: This is the right move. All reporters should do this. You don't select interviewees on the color of their skin — it's demeaning and, yes, it's racist. https://twitter.com/...
Fenit Nirappil / @fenitn: My favorite j school professor (now dean!) nails it, as usual https://www.chicagotribune.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Gregory Pratt / @royalpratt: A well-done, thoughtful story @byaliceyin: Mayor Lori Lightfoot chooses only reporters of color for interviews ahead of 2-year-anniversary, sparking debate over media diversity and access https://www.chicagotribune.com/ ...
Matthew T. Hall / @sduncovered: So many of us are striving so hard for greater diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging in newsrooms and in the U.S., but @chicagosmayor's approach creates a divide. We at @spj_tweets hope the mayor reconsiders and that the focus on diversity remains. https://www.chicagotribune.com/ ...
Ariel Cheung / @arielfab: .@byaliceyin has one of the best write-ups on a Chicago news item that really nobody seems to be talking about at all today. https://www.chicagotribune.com/ ...
Mayor Lori Lightfoot / @chicagosmayor: This is exactly why I'm being intentional about prioritizing media requests from POC reporters on the occasion of the two-year anniversary of my inauguration as mayor of this great city.
Lucy McNulty / MarketWatch:
LSE, which bought data provider Refinitiv from Reuters in 2018, says Reuters' paywall breaches deal terms; Refinitiv has a $325M/year deal for news from Reuters — A rift between the London Stock Exchange Group and Reuters has opened up over the media company's plans for a new paywall …
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: Reuters plans to put up a paywall. Its largest client wants the site to stay free.
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
A look at big Tribune shareholder Patrick Soon-Shiong's early days as owner of The LA Times, ahead of his vote on Tribune's sale to Alden on Friday — As he geared up for his new sideline as a newspaper publisher, biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong invited four veteran executives …
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@funabiki, @jenwsheehan, @thorntonaustin, @dfmworkers, @latimesfreshink, @sarahellison and @royalpratt
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Jon Funabiki / @funabiki: I'm rooting for Patrick Soon-Shiong as he tries to turn around the @latimes, but the odds are long. On the other hand, he did invent a cure for cancer. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jennifer W. Sheehan / @jenwsheehan: No matter what happens tomorrow, I am so proud of the work our unions did. I have absolutely no regrets. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
John Thornton / @thorntonaustin: Spoiler alert: “I think he's been surprised by how tough the newspaper business is,” Greif added. “It's not susceptible to any easy solutions.” Or, perhaps, any solutions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
DFM Workers / @dfmworkers: This is a CRITICAL moment for local news in the US. Please step up and do the right thing for democracy's future, @DrPatSoonShiong! #SaveLocalNews https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@latimesfreshink: @DrPatSoonShiong spoke w/ @sarahellison about becoming a newspaper owner 3 years ago & what's ahead for @latimes & @sdut. We won't spoil the kicker but, yes, the doc is still be asked to compare saving local news and curing cancer. More in @washingtonpost https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Marisa Sarnoff / Mediaite:
Report: James Murdoch is behind a “whisper campaign” to undermine Lachlan at Fox; Lachlan has been defending Tucker Carlson and calls Fox News “center-right” — James Murdoch, the one-time would-be heir to the Rupert Murdoch media empire and brother to current Fox CEO Lachlan …
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Insider, @oliverdarcy, @jeremymbarr, @eliza_relman, @jeremymbarr, @oliverdarcy, @justinbaragona, @davidmackau, The Wrap, @claireatki and Media Matters for America
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Claire Atkinson / Insider: Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch is pulling all-nighters to prove he is a worthy successor to his father
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Here's Lachlan Murdoch pretending that Tucker Carlson was just innocently citing CDC data when he misrepresented VAERS figures to suggest thousands of people are dying from the Covid vaccines. C'mon. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: It's impossible to overstate how much public relations and marketing benefit Fox got from Trump's occasional attacks on the network. No reason to think Trump did so intentionally, but it worked out extremely well. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Eliza Relman / @eliza_relman: Lachlan Murdoch tells @claireatki Fox News is “right in the middle” (politically) and blames social media for polarization “If Facebook or Twitter...become a bias filter for the facts that we take as truth in the world, I think that's really dangerous.” https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: Did Lachlan Murdoch look into this before he said it? https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Lachlan Murdoch can pretend Fox hasn't caved to Trump all he wants, but that doesn't make it true. Fox 100% catered its programming to him. It was far more critical of Trump in 2016 than today. And it moved to right AGAIN when he scolded after election. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona: Lachlan Murdoch has now shifted from saying Fox News is “center-right” to right in the middle: “In a strange way, if you've got the left and the right criticizing you, you're doing something right. You really are in the middle.” https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
David Mack / @davidmackau: as an australian, he knows this is bullshit. many democrats would probably sit within australia's conservative party. fox has moved everything so far to the right the scales are tilted. https://twitter.com/...
Samson Amore / The Wrap: Fox Corp Boss Lachlan Murdoch Says Tucker Carlson's Vaccine Misinformation Is ‘Brave’
Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:
A group of 108 Hollywood film producers announces its intention to form the Producers Union, a first for the profession, looking for better conditions and pay — A group of 108 Hollywood feature film producers announced Thursday that they intend to form a new Producers' Union to organize …
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Anousha Sakoui / Los Angeles Times: Why Hollywood's producers want their own union as media giants grow
Gene Maddaus / Variety: Film Producers Seek to Unionize to Address Low Pay
Max Sanderson / The Guardian:
The Guardian partners with Google for Auditorial, a storytelling project designed to showcase articles made accessible to blind and low-vision audiences — The Guardian has launched an experimental feature format on World Accessibility Awareness Day, in partnership with Google and the Royal National Institute of Blind People
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