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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 — As Hussman School of Journalism and Media faculty, we are stunned at the failure to award tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones …
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Mariel Padilla / The 19th: UNC won't offer tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones after wave of conservative criticism
Amanda Holpuch / The Guardian: Protests after North Carolina university denies tenure to 1619 Project journalist
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.
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation: UNC's board of trustees needs to grant tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones today
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.
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/...
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
Rebecca Onion / Slate: The Real Reason UNC-Chapel Hill Is Withholding Tenure From Nikole Hannah-Jones
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/...
@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/...
Kyle Ingram / North Carolina: UNC-Chapel Hill Faculty Members Demand Hannah-Jones Be Appointed to Tenured Position
@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/...
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.*
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.
Chuck Hobbs / Hobbservation Point: Born to Battle Bigotry
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/ ...
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/...
@superchunk: Wow the same @UNC that fought removal of a racist statue is still doing racist things? 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/...
@joyannreid: Pulitzer, Peabody, MacArthur ... no tenure? Make that make sense, @UNC. 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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/ ...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Daryle Lamont Jenkins / @dlamontjenkins: Damned curious how this board came to this decision. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@tiffanydcross: I swear. Racism is exhausting. They've tried EVERYTHING. And still we rise. 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.
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/ ...
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/...
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/...
Charles P. Pierce / @charlesppierce: Somebody wake up Sully and Bari Weiss and tell them ti get on this. https://twitter.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/ ...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Here is a statement of journalism faculty across the country in protest of the UNC Board of Governors' refusal to grant tenure to @nhannahjones. (If you are a journalism prof and would like to sign, leave a comment and you will be added.) https://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/ ...
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Over 100 journalism faculty from across the US protest UNC's declining of tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones, calling the move “blatant partisanship and racism” — We, the undersigned journalism faculty from across the United States, write to protest the action of the University …
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@nhannahjones, @ruthesamuel, @sivavaid, @jeffjarvis, @johnrobinson, @jayrosen_nyu, @sistertoldjah and @billadairduke
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Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: I've been staying off of here today, but just know I see you all and I am grateful.
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/...
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/...
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/...
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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
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
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/ ...
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/...
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/...
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/ ...
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/...
Adam Serwer / @adamserwer: This left wing political correctness is getting out of control https://www.ncpolicywatch.com/ ... https://twitter.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/...
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.
Kate Murphy / Raleigh News & Observer: Why didn't Nikole Hannah-Jones get tenure at UNC Chapel Hill? | Raleigh News & Observer
Tom Jones / Poynter: A look inside the controversy involving UNC and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones
Adam Steinbaugh / FIRE: FIRE statement on UNC trustees' alleged nixing of tenure for ‘1619 Project’ creator
Jeffrey Billman / PRIMER: UNC-CH Trustees Cancel “1619” Creator
Mike Ogle / Stone Walls: Nikole Hannah-Jones & Benjamin Hedrick
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/ ...
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/...
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/...
Eric Boehlert / PRESS RUN: Now Politico's just making stuff up
@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
John L. Dorman / Insider: 1619 Project creator Nikole Hannah-Jones has tenure offer revoked by UNC: report
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.”
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/...
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
Tom Foreman Jr / Associated Press: Report: Tenure offer revoked from slavery project journalist
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/...
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/...
Aris Folley / The Hill: Journalists decry UNC-Chapel Hill decision to deny Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure
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/...
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.
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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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/...
American Press Institute: Need to Know: May 20, 2021 — OFF THE TOP — You might have heard: Axios is growing …
Ken Meyer / Mediaite: Fox Frenemies Geraldo Rivera, Leo Terrell Team Up to Bash Chicago Mayor Over ‘Racist’ POC Media Rules
Becky Vevea / WBEZ Chicago: For Mid-Term Mark, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Says She'll Only Talk To Reporters Of Color
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/...
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.
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.
Richard Grenell / @richardgrenell: Condemn racism no matter where it's found. 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/ ...
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/...
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/ ...
@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/...
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/ ...
Tucker Carlson / Fox News: Equity is racism, bigotry, prejudice, and hatred
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, TechCrunch, @sarafischer, Vox, help.twitter.com, CNBC, @verified, @wexler and @alexweprin, more at Techmeme »
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Sara Fischer / Axios: Twitter says anyone can now apply to have a verified account
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Twitter opens account verification applications to the public under new guidelines
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: There are about 360,000 verified accounts on Twitter today https://www.axios.com/...
Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: Twitter is finally verifying people again
help.twitter.com: About verified accounts — Important: Users may now apply for verification by going to their Settings > Request Verification.
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Twitter reopens its verification process for first time since 2017
@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 👇
Nu Wexler / @wexler: Nobody is happier about this announcement than Twitter employees themselves. https://blog.twitter.com/...
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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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, The Wrap, @davidmackau, @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/ ...
Samson Amore / The Wrap: Fox Corp Boss Lachlan Murdoch Says Tucker Carlson's Vaccine Misinformation Is ‘Brave’
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/...
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, Digital Music News, @francoolivera and @nwquah, more at Techmeme »
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Sitemanager / Storytel: Storytel partnering with Spotify - making audiobooks even more accessible for Storytel customers
Dylan Smith / Digital Music News: Spotify Users Spot Hi-Fi Icon On iOS Following Lossless-Audio Announcements From Amazon Music, Apple Music
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/ ...
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Axios plans to launch local newsletters in eight more cities by the end of 2021, with a goal of expanding to 50 total by the end of 2022 — In the past quarter-century of the media industry's transition from the printed page to the digital space, there's been no category more vexing than local news.
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Editor and Publisher, @ssavitsky, @seangriffey, @ted_williams, @ted_williams, @ssavitsky, @ted_williams and @ted_williams
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Jane Elizabeth / Editor and Publisher: How Local News Organizations are Taking Steps to Recover from a Year of Trauma
Shane Savitsky / @ssavitsky: The word is out! Axios Local is coming to 8 more cities this year: Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Columbus, Dallas, D.C., Nashville, and Philly (!!). If you know great people who love and relentlessly cover their hometowns, @djtweets wants to meet them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Sean Griffey / @seangriffey: I've found the Axios local push to be fascinating. It doesn't look like it from the stories but I've wondered if they were quietly setting up a franchise model. Build the system and ultimately license the Axios name in local markets. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ted Williams / @ted_williams: EXPANSION: By the end of 2021 @axios Local will be in 14 total markets — including Nashville, Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Chicago, D.C., Philly, and Columbus 🚀
Ted Williams / @ted_williams: Our plan is simple, we're going to hire the best reporters in each market and focus on providing a daily newsletter that gets readers smarter, faster on news that matters.
Shane Savitsky / @ssavitsky: We launched Local at the end of January, and the response in our first group of cities has been amazing. @ted_williams has the numbers: https://twitter.com/...
Ted Williams / @ted_williams: On the revenue side, @axioscharlotte alone is on pace to do well over $2M in revenue this year and has been profitable for 5 years, never needing more than the initial $50k put into the business. We're grounded in reality and deeply understand the unit economics on a city level.
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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Brian Lowry / CNN:
CBS, ABC, NBC, and Fox will debut just a dozen new series in total this fall as crime procedurals dominate; NBC and Fox's lineups won't have any sitcoms — Paula Newsome as Maxine Roby, Jorja Fox as Sara Sidle, Matt Lauria as Joshua Folsom, and Jay Lee in ‘CSI: Vegas’ (Sonja Flemming/CBS)
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Tim Baysinger / The Wrap: Why Broadcast TV Is Betting Big on Franchises Like ‘NCIS,’ ‘Law & Order’ and ‘CSI’
Wayne Friedman / MediaPost: CBS Still Tops In Prime Time, Adds 4 Shows For Fall
Amanda Ripley / The Atlantic:
While local TV news is trusted more than any other medium, popularity is waning; E.W. Scripps is one broadcaster trying out different story topics and lengths — One morning a few years ago, Amanda Patten, 26, invited five strangers into her home in Cincinnati. She cleared the toys off of the couch and offered everyone a seat.
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Elahe Izadi / @elaheizadi: Really fascinating story by @amandaripley about the movement to fix local TV news, moving away from sensationalism and “If it bleeds, it leads” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Mario Sevilla / @mariosevilla: Grateful for being part of this research & the opportunity to hear firsthand from our community about what is wrong with the news. Our team was fortunate to have had this insight ahead of 2020's turbulence; their voice was our compass. The work is far from done... #journalism https://twitter.com/...
@theatlantic: “Today, no national news source is trusted by more than half of American adults. We have no common-ground truth, and that fracture runs like a spider crack through the foundation of the country,” @amandaripley writes: https://on.theatln.tc/9n9BgMz
Sarah Quinlan / @sarahmquinlan: 👀 “Americans who turn to local TV, radio, or newspapers for political news tend to have more accurate perceptions of people w/different political views than do those who rely mostly on The New York Times or Fox News, according to research by @MiC_Global.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Holly Edgell / @hollyedgell: Go Scripps! Love the deep listening approach. “The goal was to fix TV news.... It's on us. We still have tremendous reach. We have a choice: We can fan the flames, or we can help to calm and heal.” @seanmclnews https://twitter.com/...
@ewscrippsco: .@TheAtlantic goes behind the scenes of @EWScrippsCo's efforts to rebuild and restore trust in local news. Read more from @amandaripley: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
American Press Institute: Need to Know: May 19, 2021 — OFF THE TOP — You might have heard: Pew research finds …
David Wickert / @dwickert: “The goal was to fix TV news. It's on us. We still have tremendous reach. We have a choice: We can fan the flames, or we can help to calm and heal.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Will James / @otherwilljames: “She was looking for connection and understanding, but what she found felt cartoonish and alarmist, which made her distrust it.” The costs of trying to trick people into consuming news. @amandaripley is always fascinating to read. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Amanda Ripley / @amandaripley: If any news format can restore a shared sense of reality in the U.S., it might be local TV news (which more Americans trust—still—than any other news source). But it will have to get much better, very quickly... https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
MarieTargonskiOBrien / @marietargonskio: “Again and again, people said they wanted something else ... craved a deeper look, one that captured their community in full, not just in shards. They wanted longer stories with more context. They made fun of phony news anchors.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “National news outlets and social media have gotten a lot of attention for contributing to mistrust and disinformation, but local TV news is no less complicit...” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Chris Seper / @chrisseper: It's rare @EWScrippsCo let's someone behind the curtain like we did with @TheAtlantic. Worth the read. A great piece. I was lucky to take part in the listening tours. It transformed our company & our journalism for the better. More. To. Come! #GiveLight https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Amanda Ripley / @amandaripley: In March 2020, audiences for local TV news spiked nationwide, with 8 out of 10 Americans watching on a weekly basis, @SmithGeiger found. But the more time people spent consuming traditional news, the more mental distress they experienced. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Raleigh News & Observer:
Two USA Today Network journalists were arrested in NC while covering a protest of the lack of criminal charges in the death of Andrew Brown Jr., then released — Several people, 2 journalists arrested in Elizabeth City during Andrew Brown protests — Several people were arrested …
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William Ramsey / @wmramsey: Our reporters were arrested tonight in #ElizabethCity NC while doing their First Amendment jobs. @yanonaga98 @alisonjc2. I'm incredulous. Watched it live. No explanation for this.
Ashad Hajela / @ashad_hajela: They arrested two reporters with yellow vests saying “news media” in big letters ON CAMERA https://twitter.com/...
Josh Shaffer / @joshshaffer08: Pasquotank sheriff's deputies have been threatening to do this for weeks. https://twitter.com/...
William Ramsey / @wmramsey: This amazing duo has traveled countless miles on foot in the last few weeks with protestors, law enforcement, interviewing families. They get it, what this job takes. Being taken into custody by police will not stop them from doing their jobs for readers.
Jonathan Jones / @jonesjd: Two reporters for @USAToday network newspaper @NewsLeaderNOW were arrested in Elizabeth City tonight while covering protests over killing of #AndrewBrownJr You can see arrests at approx 40 minutes in this video. Law enforcement in Pasquotank is only throwing fuel on a fire. https://twitter.com/...
William Ramsey / @wmramsey: We need accountability from public officials, from political leaders in #ElizabethCity for this disregard for the importance of journalism and the tricky work reporters face in the streets trying to be the eyes and ears. A&A were documenting protestor arrests at the time.
William Ramsey / @wmramsey: Through the help of friends in NC, the reporters have now been released, I'm told. I've not spoken to them yet. The issue of interference remains and it's happening beyond #ElizabethCity.
@robyntomlin: Unacceptable! Two journalists wearing florescent “News Media” vests were detained in Elizabeth City for doing their jobs covering #andrewbrown protest. Local officials there have repeatedly promised that journalists would not be arrested. #FirstAmendment https://twitter.com/...
Shawn Utley / The Madison Leader Gazette: Several people, 2 journalists arrested in Elizabeth City during Andrew Brown protests
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