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Zoe Schiffer / The Verge:
Netflix fires a leader of the trans employee resource group who was organizing a walkout, for allegedly leaking metrics related to the Dave Chappelle special — The company suspects they leaked metrics about the Dave Chappelle special to the press — Netflix has fired a leader …
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety: Australian Comedian Hannah Gadsby Slams Ted Sarandos After Being Referenced in Dave Chappelle Memo
Brigid Kennedy / The Week: Netflix reportedly fired an organizer of trans employee walkout sparked by Dave Chappelle controversy
Edward Ongweso Jr / @bigblackjacobin: Labor law & enforcement is such that even though it is almost certain that the firing was retaliation, they will likely beat any legal challenge (or view the consequences of losing in court as substantially smaller than failing to scare/crush/punish organizing) https://twitter.com/...
@aguirreryan: “The Closer” cost almost 3 million more than Squid Game, literally HOW https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dave Temkin / @dtemkin: You actually have lost the plot, Netflix. The level that they cover for their executives while throwing a black, trans employee under the bus is in many ways, not surprising. https://www.theverge.com/...
Kathryn VanArendonk / @kvanaren: once again congrats to netflix on the TRULY stellar PR work here https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Philip Lewis / @phil_lewis_: Netflix has fired the organizer of the upcoming employee walkout on October 20 The employee, who is Black and pregnant, was encouraging employees and allies to walk out of work in protest of Netflix's handling of the Dave Chappelle special https://www.theverge.com/...
Sydney Bauer / @femme_thoughts: Genuinely didn't think things could have gotten worse at netflix, but it has: https://www.theverge.com/...
Jackie Torrens / @jackietorrens: “The employee, who is Black and currently pregnant, asked not to be named for fear of online harassment. They have been encouraging trans employees and allies to walk out of work in protest of Netflix's handling of the Dave Chappelle special The Closer.” https://www.theverge.com/...
Jeet Heer / @heerjeet: there's an entire cohort of writers who have made it their career to avoid talk about the power dynamics on this issue (while pandering to those who have power). https://twitter.com/...
@rlyeh: I want to say some things about the Netflix mess, but it will run long because staying in my lane will be tricky. 1/
@rlyeh: Absolutely nothing your trans employees do right now to criticize management and the company internally or publicly will do nearly as much damage to Netflix (as a company or brand) as penalizing (officially or not) them for doing so. 12/
Kyle Turner / Mic: Netflix's queer Twitter channel reveals the impossibility of corporate authenticity
@rlyeh: If someone leaks a document relevant to this, ignore it. If someone talks to the press, ignore it. Because you're not getting rid of troublemakers. You're creating a company that regards the people who care about Netflix and what it's like to work there as troublemakers. 13/
PoliMath / @politicalmath: If they fired her for her activism, I would be very much in her corner But (if reports are correct) she was fired for sharing internal Netflix data, which they are *famously* closed about https://twitter.com/...
@rlyeh: The suspension/reinstatement of one trans employee is a very bad sign for all Netflix employees. I can't say where, but I've seen this movie before. Unless management puts the brakes on right now, it's going to start a multi-year cascade of interactions with no good end. 9/
Wagatwe Wan-spooky / @wagatwe: Bigots profit while everyone else pays the price. https://twitter.com/...
Ina Fried / @inafried: Thoughts on the Netflix-Chappelle situation from Hannah Gadsby. https://variety.com/...
Brianna Provenzano / Gizmodo: Netflix Has Fired a Pregnant Organizer of the Trans Employee Walkout
Edward Ongweso Jr / @bigblackjacobin: For most Silicon Valley firms, this calculation makes sense. Letting workers have the ability to veto managerial decisions is dangerous, it cultivates the sense that their workplaces are democracies, instead of an enlightened but absolutist space where orders come from the top
Jon Blistein / Rolling Stone: Netflix Employee Organizing Chappelle Walkout Fired for Leaking Info to Press
@earth_woman1: Wow, @netflix, you fired a black, trans, pregnant person for basically no reason other than you could do it to intimidate your staff from ever speaking out against bigotry. https://www.theverge.com/...
@bad_dominicana: what happened to freedom of speech? it only applies to wealthy cis hetero males? how curious! https://twitter.com/...
@rlyeh: Netflix's position content on the screen doesn't have real-world impact is hopelessly unsupported by both history and studies. Criticizing and mocking marginalized groups in media is a cornerstone of hate. There's good evidence it reduces friction for violence. 4/
Dr. Pete Meyers / @dr_pete: Netflix needs a new leadership team, and they need it yesterday. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Redmond / UPROXX: Netflix Has Fired The Organizer Of A Trans Employee Walkout That Was Sparked By The Dave Chappelle Controversy
@rlyeh: This cascade will sour the best parts of your company culture and erode employee pride in working there. They won't wear your company swag as much and they won't talk glowingly about their employer, even if they love their job. 10/
William Hughes / The A.V. Club: Netflix fires organizer of upcoming trans walkout for allegedly leaking data
Mel Woods / @intothemelwoods: Good lord. The hole Netflix leadership is digging itself into truly knows no limit to how deep it can get. https://www.theverge.com/...
@hologramvin: its important to note with this just happening that a) the white trans employees have been able to somewhat speak publicly on this, b) the person who was *actually fired* now is a Black trans person who had not spoken publicly on it at all! https://www.theverge.com/...
@worthless_bums: “All these white people are going around talking to the press and speaking publicly on Twitter and the only person who gets fired is the Black person who was quiet the entire time,” says a former employee in an interview with The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Naima Cochrane / @naima: Tell me again about “cancel culture” https://twitter.com/...
Philip Lewis / @phil_lewis_: “The employee was terminated on suspicion of leaking metrics to the press related to the Dave Chappelle special.” https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Eric Harvey / @ericdharvey: I don't know anything about anything but $24 million for a stand-special seems like a lot https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Laura Hautala / CNET: Amid Chappelle controversy, Netflix reportedly fires employee who helped plan walkout
John Koblin / @koblin: Hannah Gadsby calls Netflix an “amoral algorithm cult.” Ted Sarandos fielded several tough questions at an emotional virtual town hall. A staffer is fired for leaking to the press. Friday at Netflix: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Merchant / @bcmerchant: Yep. Our labor laws are so weak that even though this is as blatant an example of retaliation as you're ever likely to see, the best the fired worker can likely hope for from a wrongful termination suit is, like, restored back pay. No incentive for Netflix not to crush them https://twitter.com/...
Akilah Hughes / @akilahobviously: This is really proving Dave's point about censorship, just in the real way and not his scaredy brain way. https://twitter.com/...
Big Relly / @awkward_duck: If there ever was such a thing as ‘cancel culture’ it doesn't seem to be getting who y'all say it does. https://twitter.com/...
Francis Agustin / Insider: Netflix fires the organizer of a trans employee walkout
Ashley Yates / @brownblaze: “All these white people are going around talking to the press and speaking publicly on Twitter and the only person who gets fired is the Black person who was quiet the entire time,” says a former employee in an interview with The Verge." https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Lattanzio / IndieWire: Netflix Fires Employee for Leaking Confidential Data About Dave Chappelle Special ‘The Closer’
Sonia Saraiya / Vanity Fair: Why Is Netflix Gaslighting Us About Dave Chappelle's Transphobic Special?
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Leaked Netflix documents of metrics evaluating shows indicate $24.1M spent on Chappelle's The Closer vs. $21.4M on Squid Game — The company is dealing with an internal outcry unprecedented in its history. — Netflix Inc. employees raised concerns about offensive material in Dave Chappelle's …
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Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Was able to see a few pages back when I was a reporter, and it truly is a wild amount of data that any and every employee has access to. It's surprising there aren't more leaks all things considered. Those data points are as complex as they are simplified in presentable form.
Savannah Walsh / Vanity Fair: Netflix Fires Employee for Leaking Information About Dave Chappelle Specials
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Great, detailed report on the issues inside Netflix. Also looks at the numerous data points Netflix uses, including impact, to determine whether a title is successful or not. Netflix title pages contain tons of valuable metrics used to look at key, specific success indicators. https://twitter.com/...
@nataliegroman: Wait, so Inside only cost $3.9 Million? Like ostensibly the most important piece of art to come out of COVID, had 1/5 of the talent budget with so much more to say and so much more production value? What the hell is goin on over there? https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix Fires Employee for Sharing Confidential Data About Dave Chappelle Stand-Up Special Outside the Company
Rat King / @mikeisaac: extremely rare leak of internal metrics from Netflix, which is currently in turmoil over the decision to air the new Chappelle special fascinating definitions of value via @Lucas_Shaw https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Emily Schienvar / Out of Scope: Out of Scope Issue 37: Merch Drops Gone Wild
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: Particularly interesting that Netflix has a methodology to calculate how much value they make per standup specials versus cost. Dave Chappelle's “Sticks & Stones” cost $23.6M and $19.4M in impact value. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Brenden Gallagher / @brendengallager: Another of the many great arguments why “internal metrics” (we used to call them ratings) should be transparent. https://twitter.com/...
J.D. Smith / blacktechdaily.com: Netflix fired the employee who organized a walkout in solidarity with trans workers
Jed I. Goodman / @jedigoodman: “Netflix spent $24.1 million on the “The Closer,” slightly more than the $23.6 million it paid for Chappelle's 2019 special, “Sticks & Stones.” “The nine-episode “Squid Game,” which delivered the best debut in Netflix history, cost $21.4 million.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Abby Monteil / Decider: Netflix Reportedly Fires Organizer of Trans Employee Walkout for Leaking Financial Data
Ghostopher Wraith / @itsmechriswade: “[Netflix] also evaluates its programs by “efficiency,” which balances a show's reach with its price-tag. On that scale, Chappelle's [Sticks & Stones] scored 0.8 — less than the break-even score of 1.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Andy Chalk / PC Gamer: Netflix boss claims violent videogames prove Dave Chappelle's latest standup special is harmless
Jessica Conditt / Engadget: Netflix fires employee for leaking data about controversial Dave Chappelle special
Nardine Saad / Los Angeles Times: Netflix fires employee for leaking ‘sensitive’ information about Chappelle special
Kara Swisher / New York Times: Chappelle's Netflix Show Just Isn't Funny
Tim Baysinger / The Wrap: Netflix Fires Employee for Leaking Financial Info on Dave Chappelle's ‘Sticks & Stones’ Special
Dominic Patten / Deadline: Dave Chappelle ‘Closer’ Controversy Blast Radius Grows As Netflix Pink Slips Dismayed Staffer Over Leak
Andrew Limbong / NPR: Netflix fires employee as internal conflicts over latest Dave Chappelle special grow
Travis Clark / Insider: Comedian Hannah Gadsby tore into Netflix's ‘amoral algorithm cult’ after its co-CEO defended releasing Chappelle's new special
Paul Sacca / TheBlaze: Netflix fires organizer of trans employee walkout over leak of confidential data related to Dave Chappelle's special
Angela Watercutter / Wired: Dave Chappelle and the Problem of Popularity
David Pierce / Protocol: Tech's big bad morale problem
Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal:
Axel Springer CEO details plans for Politico, including expanding staff from 900 to 1,000, publishing in several languages, and eventually adding a paywall — Axel Springer, whose $1 billion acquisition of Politico is expected to close next week, also eyes foreign-language editions
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@mattdpearce, @tysonbrody, @armandondk, @mcbyrne, @mattdpearce, @mikertrice, @tomwrightasia, @sewellchan, @drewsav, @kendrawrites, @lisamccray, @evanasmith, @laurawags, @laurawags, @jimwaterson, @keitholbermann, @evale72, @jamespindell, @adriana_lacy, @jonbernhardt, @timmarchman and @richardgrenell
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Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce: They should teach these three paragraphs in journalism school. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Tyson Brody / @tysonbrody: what if you built the whole plane out of politico pro https://twitter.com/...
Armando / @armandondk: This is great news! The less people who see it the better. https://twitter.com/...
@mcbyrne: Wait. We're supposed to pay to read about the tweets @WHCOS likes each day? https://twitter.com/...
@mattdpearce: I think it's good for journalists to have clearly stated values, like supporting life, democracy and equality. We should have a reason for being here and doing all this stuff. But pretending that your values aren't an ideology, like Axel Springer, is just public relations.
Michael R. Trice / @mikertrice: I support this paywall. I have a list of other sites I'd also like paywalled. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Wright / @tomwrightasia: The WSJ is the highest standard of reporting based on facts, staffed by an experienced crew of reporters, many of whom built their skills and reputations over years. https://twitter.com/...
Sewell Chan / @sewellchan: Hard to imagine a media owner in the US saying this: “There will be no restructuring, no synergies, no mergers and no cost-cutting.” https://www.wsj.com/...
@drewsav: Maybe I'm wrong but wasn't Politico's appeal when it launched was that it wasn't like the conventional newspapers? https://twitter.com/...
@kendrawrites: Apparently another news outlets make you sign something attesting you believe in the principles of the fair market which 1. very much a sign of objective journalism 🙄and 2. should be disclosed to their readers https://twitter.com/...
Lisa Snowden / @lisamccray: I have never seen unbiased reporting from Politico. Or any news org really. https://twitter.com/...
Laura Wagner / @laurawags: @TomWrightAsia it's too late in the day to get into my spiel about objectivity but i'm not impugning the reputations of any individual journalists https://twitter.com/...
Laura Wagner / @laurawags: I understand it's the Wall Street Journal but it is flatly insane to let this claim stand in a story in which the CEO says that reporters who don't share certain political and ideological “values” should “not work for” the company. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jim Waterson / @jimwaterson: Axel Springer's boss setting out the values it expects Politico journalists to adhere to when it completes its purchase of the news outlet. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Keith Olbermann / @keitholbermann: Cool. Doesn't he first have to make the content something other than rewritten press releases? https://twitter.com/...
Eddie Vale / @evale72: Expecting unbiased & nonpartisan reporting would appear to be in conflict with demanding your reporters also adhere to the owners positions on a list of specific issues?? https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
James Pindell / @jamespindell: In order words, Politico will complete their transition to being National Journal. https://twitter.com/...
Nathan Bernhardt / @jonbernhardt: going to be very funny when everyone at Politico UK just gets a blanket pass on point the first, which supporting Brexit is in clear violation of. Iron-hard, bedrock principles, except for the carve outs here and here and here and here and well it's just to keep Those Sorts out https://twitter.com/...
Tim Marchman / @timmarchman: Clearly it's important for reporters to be unbiased and nonpartisan and also to be against a mixed economy, putting them substantially to the right of any U.S. politician of any prominence. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Richard Grenell / @richardgrenell: German media company that has complained about the woke state of US media buys @politico. Expect changes. #balance Watch @nytimes & lefty publications complain about Axel Springer's move. Springer demands employees be pro-capitalism & pro-Israel. https://www.wsj.com/...
Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Disney shares briefly rose ~3% on Friday after a Puck report said the company might spin off ESPN; a Disney source later said the story was inaccurate — Shares of Disney jumped as much as 3 percent Friday after a report said the company was considering a spinoff of its ESPN sports networks.
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@cnbcnow, Puck, @sarthakgh, @darrenrovell, @modestproposal1, @dylanbyers, The Streamable, @renan, @jboorstin, @sbjsbd, @larrys32, @seannyberg, @markstonks, @ourand_sbj, Awful Announcing, @mgsiegler, @davidpoland and Barrett Media
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@cnbcnow: After Disney shares jumped to session high on a report that said the company is looking into potentially exploring an ESPN spinoff, a source tells CNBC the report is inaccurate. The source tells CNBC the company aims to pursue further value through ESPN+ and sports betting. https://twitter.com/...
Dylan Byers / Puck: Will Disney and ESPN Consciously Uncouple?
Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh: “It has inched toward...fantasy sports, but actual gambling is...more consequential. Imagine it as the Robinhood of sports. Currently, this option to transition from the declining cable business to the lucrative gambling space doesn't fully exist for ESPN.” https://puck.news/...
Darren Rovell / @darrenrovell: Then they can do the sports betting thing — four years late. https://twitter.com/...
Modest Proposal / @modestproposal1: Disney is presumably constantly exploring this https://twitter.com/...
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: 100% respect for @JBoorstin & @CNBC, my former colleagues (seriously). But a few things... - The “source” here (Z? J?) had 48+ hours to deny this on the record, and didn't. - Disney will of course pursue further value until they decide to spin it off, or not It's real, folks. https://twitter.com/...
Renan Borelli / @renan: investors hate the concept of linear television so much that disney's financial ceiling is capped for simply *owning* the extremely profitable ESPN https://puck.news/... https://twitter.com/...
Julia Boorstin / @jboorstin: As I said Dylan- and mad respect for you too- I spoke to one source- and that person denied the report and pointed to @espn's various recent investments including sports betting and NHL. What I didn't say is that Disney analysts have been suggesting this for some time! https://twitter.com/...
@sbjsbd: “If Bob Chapek was sitting here right now he would say he's completely committed to sports. He sees the value of live sports.” @espn President Jimmy Pitaro addressed the topic earlier this week at #SBJWCOS. https://sbjsbd.biz/... https://twitter.com/...
Larry Shapiro / @larrys32: @modestproposal1 As you know, this kind of exploration happens EVERY year !
@seannyberg: ESPN makes roughly $30 per cable subscription, regardless if the customer ever watches it. If Disney sticks with $15 for ESPN+ and EVERY person with cable gets a subscription (they won't), Disney's revenue is still cut in half. That's best case scenario. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Stonks / @markstonks: @SeanNyberg Interesting. Fox Sports Australia (not included in $DIS acquisition) had this problem a few years ago. They released a streaming service called Kayo, charged $25-$35 per month, and loaded it with advertisements. The platform was a major success. https://twitter.com/...
John Ourand / @ourand_sbj: I asked Jimmy Pitaro about an ESPN spin-off: We're succeeding in the DTC space. It's a big priority for Disney. Live sports rights are so important. “I believe that the Walt Disney Co. is completely committed to ESPN for the future.” https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rigdon / Awful Announcing: Disney refutes report on a potential ESPN spinoff, stock surges anyway
M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler: “There are only two ways to make money in business...” https://twitter.com/...
David Poland / @davidpoland: Good Dylan Byers piece. But again and again and again... trying to get Wall St to price you like Netflix is madness. If ESPN can throw off more spun off, worth considering. Not for stock price. Will Disney and ESPN Consciously Uncouple? - Puck https://puck.news/...
Russ Heltman / Barrett Media: CNBC Report: Disney Not Trying To Spin ESPN Off
Justin Peters / Slate:
Ben Smith has been transparent about his BuzzFeed stock options, but his shifting divestment deadline and their fluctuating value erode trust in his reporting — On Sept. 26, New York Times media columnist Ben Smith broke a big story. In a column headlined “Goldman Sachs …
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Katie Notopoulos / @katienotopoulos: I disagree here with the core implication that Ben, as a reporter, is motivated by money. I've spent a lot of my adult life wondering “what makes Ben Smith tick” and it's nothing so banal. When it comes to making content, he's far, far sicker than that https://slate.com/...
Jonathan L. Fischer / @jon_fischer: This is a good question! https://slate.com/...
Emma Carew Grovum / @emmacarew: The Slate piece breaking down Ben Smith's massive conflict of interest is very good: https://slate.com/... but doesn't address the fact that a non-straight/white/male journalist would NOT be given the same privileges and leeway.
Cale G Weissman / @caleweissman: good blog: https://slate.com/...
Adriana Lacy / @adriana_lacy: happy someone finally wrote what I've been raging about for months in my group chats lol https://slate.com/...
Jack Crosbie / @jscros: the very short answer to this (good) blog is that once you attain a certain level of status at the times the paper's standards do not apply to you https://slate.com/...
Eoin Higgins / @eoinhiggins_: Looks like @nytimes is facing some thorny ethical questions with respect to @benyt—an issue that could easily be dispensed with if he sold his stock. But 10 months after the first deadline to do so, the Times now says he gets more time. Why? https://slate.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@choire: How high would you have to be to turn down millions of BuzzFeed SPACbucks for a NYT blogging job. https://slate.com/...
Evan DeSimone / @mediaevan: From a technical ethics perspective I suppose this matters, but I find it hard to believe that many people see this as a real issue. https://slate.com/...
Keegan Hamilton / @keegan_hamilton: “It was a mistake for journalists to ever pretend that it was valuable or even possible to suppress their own beliefs, knowledge, and perspectives in pursuit of absolute neutrality in every story they ever report.” https://slate.com/... via @justintrevett
Nikki Usher / Nieman Lab:
With two-thirds of NPR's stations licensed to colleges, which are vulnerable to culture wars, stronger walls between license holders and newsrooms are needed — For many who are concerned about declines in local news, shoring up the existing journalism infrastructure for public media in communities seems like a no-duh solution.
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Nikki Usher / @nikkiusher: Wrote about the coming (and present) culture wars that we'll see between public media and higher ed. As public media becomes more important than ever, we need to fix its vulnerabilities-which include, surprisingly, university governance and procedure https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: lotta “wait what?!” moments in this good article by @nikkiusher on how public radio gets tangled up with university boards https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: In 2019, @nprillinois reported with @propublica on sexual harassment at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. And then this happened. (3/ https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: @nikkiusher @NiemanLab So with higher ed increasingly at the crossroads of the culture wars, public media is vulnerable to growing political interference over its operations, in both red and blue states. If you know of more examples, let us know @NiemanLab. (5/5) https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: This year UNC Chapel Hill's Board of Trustees appointed 2 new board members to NC Public Radio (@wunc). One had called student protesters of a campus Confederate statue “criminals” and “entitled wimps” and voted against Nikole Hannah-Jones' tenure (1/ https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Nicholas Dawes / @nicdawes: Really important warning from @nikkiusher about the governance structures at university-based public radio stations, crucial bastions of local reporting with real vulnerabilities to interference. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Charles Ornstein / @charlesornstein: Good Q by @nikkiusher: Higher ed and public radio are enmeshed. So what happens when the culture wars come? https://www.niemanlab.org/... via @NiemanLab
Nikki Usher / @nikkiusher: And the potential for censorship and self-censorship is really worrisome, even in blue states. At my own university @illinois_alma, sexual misconduct could not be investigated by pub media w.o revealing sources https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Brock E.W. Turner / @brockewturner: This is something I think about a lot: “If public media is to be part of the solution for helping to bolster the availability of local journalism...there needs to be a stronger wall between who holds the license and who runs the newsroom.” Via @NiemanLab https://www.niemanlab.org/...
David Bauder / Associated Press:
News Leaders Association extends deadline for its newsroom staff diversity survey to October 31, after receiving less than 250 responses when it wants 1,500 — NEW YORK (AP) — More than a year after George Floyd's killing focused attention on efforts to diversify newsrooms, the ability to measure real progress is proving elusive.
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@ap, @delanomassey, @devishastri, @alexanderrusso, @emilyrnunn, @kharijohnson, @marissaaevans, @webjournalist, @kmtorralva, @emmacarew, @sciwrialicia, @kaitwells, @laelaps, @rasmus_kleis and @niemanlab
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@delanomassey: “A lack of diversity can reveal itself in many news decisions ...” ☝🏽 that says a lot https://apnews.com/...
Devi Shastri / @devishastri: “There is no pipeline problem,” said Robert Hernandez, a professor at the (USC)'s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. “We are producing diverse students. The reality is they're not being hired, they're not being retained, they're not being promoted.” https://twitter.com/...
Alexander / @alexanderrusso: Journalism demands accountability from others, but struggles to provide it https://apnews.com/...
Emily Nunn / @emilyrnunn: I WONDER WHY https://twitter.com/...
Khari Johnson / @kharijohnson: I cannot wait for journalists to bring this up when they get job offers https://twitter.com/...
Marissa / @marissaaevans: It's a shame these newsrooms will beg for names and lists of journalists of color to recruit but won't respond to an industry survey so a journalist of color can have an accurate understanding of the newsroom they're walking into. https://twitter.com/...
Robert Hernandez / @webjournalist: I would love for news guild/unions and Latinx/Black/Asian/Indigenous and allies ask the news org leadership to due annual audits. Perhaps we should create a template for staffers at news orgs to gather internal signatures of support for this?? https://twitter.com/...
Krista M. Torralva / @kmtorralva: Probably because they know they didn't do any better over the last two years. https://twitter.com/...
Emma Carew Grovum / @emmacarew: A survey is only as good as its data, which means newsrooms need to start reporting their data publicly. If your newsroom doesn't have an annual diversity report and doesn't participate in industry studies, then it's time to name and shame. https://twitter.com/...
Alicia Chang / @sciwrialicia: “The @AP reported that 76% of its full-time news employees in the United States are white, 8% are Latino, 7% are Black and 6% are Asian. News management is 81% white.” https://apnews.com/...
@kaitwells: It took @wirecutterunion an ENTIRE year of bargaining, a human rights reckoning & gobs of NYT money to a consultant before Wirecutter agreed to our DEI proposal and to publicly disclose diversity stats. And that transparency still lacks intersectionality. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@laelaps: “As a researcher and a journalist, I am deeply discouraged that the journalism industry isn't as transparent about its workforce in the way that it expects other industries to be transparent about theirs.” https://twitter.com/...
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: US @NewsLeaders Association has extended the deadline for its survey about employment practices at news organisations after few revealed the diversity of their staff. The association was hoping for responses from 5,900 newsrooms. It's had fewer than 250 https://apnews.com/...
Karolle Rabarison / Online Journalism Awards:
2021 Online Journalism Awards winners include The NYT, ProPublica, PublicSource, and Grist; WaPo won for its pandemic coverage — PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 15, 2021 — Inspiring journalism projects covering climate change, Himalaya's ghost cats, political crisis in Hong Kong and the U.S. public health system …
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@ona, San Francisco Chronicle, FRONTLINE, @rubinafillion, @cbaxter1 and @jessetnichols
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@ona: WINNER: The Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, Small Newsroom: @SpotlightPA for At Risk, In the Dark https://awards.journalists.org/ ... #OJA21 https://twitter.com/...
San Francisco Chronicle: S.F. Chronicle wins third straight Online News Association award for breaking news coverage
Anne Husted Series Publicity / FRONTLINE: “The Last Call” Honored with 2021 Online Journalism Award
Rubina Madan Fillion / @rubinafillion: Absolutely thrilled that @GinaSKChua is the inaugural recipient of the Impact Award at the Online Journalism Awards (#OJA21). Congratulations, Gina! #ONAInsights https://twitter.com/...
Christopher Baxter / @cbaxter1: Two national investigative journalism awards in one week for @SpotlightPA, which two years ago was nothing but a great idea. Absolutely incredible. This team is 🔥. Congrats @RebeccaKMoss, @Daniel_SR and all those involved in this project. https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Nichols / @jessetnichols: Exciting news: our team took home an Online Journalism Award (aka a “nerd knife") for our story on climate tipping points! Congrats to the whole project team: @HerrCaitlin, @shannonosaka, @themadstone, @heypenner, and everyone else who helped the project come to life https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
A look at OneLog, which lets readers use a single login across some of the largest Swiss media websites and expects to reach 2M active accounts by 2022 — OneLog brings together some of the largest and most trusted Swiss media companies. Their single sign-on solution will reach 2 million active accounts …
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@jayrosen_nyu, @joonian, @niemanlab, @risj_oxford, @pilhofer and What's New in Publishing
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Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: You can use one log-in to access many of the largest news sites in the Swiss ecosystem— some free, some subscriber-based. (Including the big public broadcaster.) By 2022 the system will have 2 million active accounts. Swiss population: 8.7 million. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Wong Joon Ian / @joonian: this is cool but make it crypto https://twitter.com/...
@niemanlab: “In our newsrooms, they said there's going to be a huge shitstorm because users don't like to register. If you *mention* the word login, there's going to be a shitstorm. Nothing like that happened.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
@risj_oxford: Swiss news organisations have joined forces to allow readers to use a single login across their news sites. The system has brought together the largest and most trusted news outlets to reach 2 million active users (or 1/4 of Swiss population) in 2022 https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Aron Pilhofer / @pilhofer: Some day, US publishers will realize the singular value of single sign-on. But not just any SSO, managed for the benefit of some startup or another... but SSO managed by a trusted third party (like the @LocalMediaAssoc or @LMConsortium). Magic will happen. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Geoff Weiss / Tubefilter:
Netflix to launch the Netflix Book Club on November 16 featuring videos on Facebook and YouTube highlighting books it is adapting — Netflix has unveiled a virtual book club that will highlight titles it's adapting into series and films. — Netflix Book Club content will be hosted by Orange …
Alex Sujong Laughlin / Study Hall:
Social media and audio production are just two of the invisible structures built to prop up a select few voices — Until late this summer, I worked as a senior producer at a company that made podcasts for clients and media partners. I quit, in part, because I saw how far my ideas could go without my name attached to them.
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@elysetoribio, @csymrl, @nishachittal, @beebrookshire, @alexlaughs, @brosandprose, @rebekahentralgo, @alex, @mimapamundi, @clairevtran, @kairyssdal, @gabrieljr, @melissagomez004, @hermanywong, @maryamshahlive, @markdubya, @rhainacohen, @ricsanchez, @nicktheandersen, @studyhallxyz, @cmkueppers, @cesegal, @d__woodward, @briannaclee and bookforum.com
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Elyse Toribio / @elysetoribio: Thank you, @alexlaughs, this nails the experience of being in a social role. The ghostwriting, the optimizing, being the last line of defense for quality control, a stopgap in avoiding blind spots...yet often not considered by peers to be real journalists. https://studyhall.xyz/...
Casey Morell / @csymrl: v v v good from @alexlaughs https://studyhall.xyz/...
Nisha Chittal / @nishachittal: “When you've been taught that you are an accessory to greatness, how do you believe that you can be great yourself?” @alexlaughs https://studyhall.xyz/...
Bethany Brookshire / @beebrookshire: This is so important. We're eager to lionize the “talent” in podcasts, news, everything. But no host or writer is alone. https://studyhall.xyz/...
Alex Sujong Laughlin / @alexlaughs: uh longform tweeted my essay. what. https://twitter.com/...
Cruella Dawson / @brosandprose: “This presumption that social editors don't do real work was heightened by the lack of visibility around the work we actually did. There are no bylines on tweets... it's often not clear who is making strategic decisions or writing compelling social copy.” https://studyhall.xyz/...
@rebekahentralgo: This paragragh is so haunting and unfortunately so real https://studyhall.xyz/... https://twitter.com/...
@mimapamundi: “Beyond pay and credit discrepancies, the invisibility of this labor props up the fallacy that great works of journalism and art come from a singular, gifted individual” https://studyhall.xyz/...
@clairevtran: “In modern newsrooms, social media work occupied similar roles to historically pink-collar work, like secretarial or administrative ... which placed women and other underrepresented groups in roles supplemental to the work considered ‘core’ to the business"https://studyhall.xyz/ ...
Kai Ryssdal / @kairyssdal: This. My job is to speak my native language into a microphone. Easiest job in the shop. Aaaaaaalllllllllllllllll the other stuff I get credited for @Marketplace is because of the producers who do the hard, hard (and invisible) work https://twitter.com/...
Gabe Rosenberg / @gabrieljr: Yes to everything from @alexlaughs on the “ghostwriters” of media - who in so many places include the (usually young) digital editors or social media producers, too often dismissed as “pedestrian peddlers of a lower form.” https://studyhall.xyz/... https://twitter.com/...
Melissa Gomez / @melissagomez004: This from @alexlaughs should be required reading for anyone who works in a newsroom.. “Beyond pay and credit discrepancies, the invisibility of this labor props up the fallacy that great works of journalism and art come from a singular, gifted individual.” https://studyhall.xyz/...
Herman Wong / @hermanywong: What I have long admired about @alexlaughs is that she is principled and willing to speak up, even at a cost. Her essay is perceptive and her voice valuable to journalism. https://studyhall.xyz/...
Maryam Shah / @maryamshahlive: this is brilliant and I CAN RELATE 🗣🗣🗣🗣 🗣🗣🗣🗣 🗣 https://twitter.com/...
Mark W. Smith / @markdubya: This, from @alexlaughs, is a critical time capsule on how our industry has limited important voices and forward movement. Thank you for writing it, Alex. https://studyhall.xyz/...
Rhaina Cohen / @rhainacohen: This essay will speak to anyone who's worked in a behind-the-scenes role in journalism. And to anyone who's worked with producers, social media editors, podcast editors and so on—here's what it feels like for your coworkers. https://twitter.com/...
R.I.P. Sanchez / @ricsanchez: great essay by my old colleague @alexlaughs on the invisible roles in media. social media production — especially in newsrooms — is essentially ghostwriting. “I wrote thousands of words a day, uncredited, in service of other people's bylines.” https://studyhall.xyz/...
Nick Andersen / @nicktheandersen: speak 👏🏼 that 👏🏼 truth 👏🏼, @alexlaughs https://studyhall.xyz/... https://twitter.com/...
Study Hall / @studyhallxyz: the ‘company intern running the twitter’ is a tired joke, but it's not going away. read @alexlaughs on what that means for media workers whose labor is designed to fade into the background: https://studyhall.xyz/... https://twitter.com/...
Courtney Kueppers / @cmkueppers: Every person working in journalism really really ought to read this. Thank you, @alexlaughs. https://studyhall.xyz/...
Corinne Segal / @cesegal: This is so incredibly good. https://twitter.com/...
Danielle Woodward / @d__woodward: This was such a great read. “This presumption that social editors don't do real work was heightened by the lack of visibility around the work we actually did ... By design, a successful social media project feels like it has no writer at all.” https://studyhall.xyz/...
Brianna Lee / @briannaclee: “Social media and audio production are just two of the invisible structures built to prop up a select few voices that are deemed valuable in the media industry.” Nodding through this piece (in between the nightmare flashbacks of my first social media job) https://twitter.com/...
Jason Hancock / Missouri Independent:
Missouri's governor vows to prosecute a reporter he labeled a hacker after the reporter alerted the state to a website flaw that exposed teachers' SSNs — On Tuesday, a reporter with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch alerted the state that Social Security numbers of school teachers and administrators …
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@govparsonmo, @govparsonmo, @johnleschen, Washington Post, @aman4allsaisons, @govparsonmo, @pettycommajared, Wired, New York Times, @doctorow, USA Today, @malwarejake, @teapainusa, Pluralistic, @mattdpearce, @doctorow, @doctorow, @doctorow, Krebs on Security, @evacide, Associated Press, TechCrunch, @malwaretechblog, Metacurity, @mat, Techdirt, @pry0cc, @tonylovasco, @jdmar3, @jeremiahg, @jeremiahg, @jeremiahg, Newser, @jamiedupree, @racheltobac, @profcarroll, @dataeditor, @rachelwalexande, @shanselman, @patio11, @tessa_weinberg, @vickerysec, @infosec_taylor, @litmoose, @kurteichenwald, The Verge, @sarhutch, @sarhutch, @bengoerz, @wbm312, @gamescan, @hacks4pancakes, @hacks4pancakes, @govparsonmo, @hacks4pancakes, @bengoerz, @snlyngaas, @quinnypig, @manjusrii, @jonrosenberg, @mattblaze, @k8em0, @webster, @dangillmor, @digiphile, @hayesbrown, @spj_tweets, @marissaaevans, @wongmjane, @laura_nelson, @webster, @helenkennedy, @greg_doucette, @dangillmor, @racheltobac, @albertocairo, @greg_doucette, @rcfp, @jgamblin, @arkansasblog, @aishas, @harrymccracken, @jgamblin, @davidcayj, @gabrieljr, @losowsky, @jadelson, @properlyzuri and @jadelson
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Governor Mike Parson / @govparsonmo: Through a multi-step process, an individual took the records of at least three educators, decoded the HTML source code, and viewed the SSN of those specific educators. We notified the Cole County prosecutor and the Highway Patrol's Digital Forensic Unit will investigate. https://twitter.com/...
Governor Mike Parson / @govparsonmo: We want to be clear, this DESE hack was more than a simple “right click.” THE FACTS: An individual accessed source code and then went a step further to convert and decode that data in order to obtain Missouri teachers' personal information. (1/3) https://twitter.com/...
John Leschen / @johnleschen: @GovParsonMO https://twitter.com/...
Philip Bump / Washington Post: A newspaper informed Missouri about a website flaw. The governor accused it of ‘hacking.’
@aman4allsaisons: “View Source Is Not A Crime” deserved a sticker. Feel free to make your own. https://www.zazzle.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Governor Mike Parson / @govparsonmo: This morning, at 9:45 a.m., I will hold a press conference regarding the recent hacking of @MOEducation's website. We will outline the state's efforts to strengthen data security and the steps that will be taken to hold those involved accountable. https://twitter.com/...
Jared Petty / @pettycommajared: This is like the state of Missouri neglegently posting people's social security numbers in the footnotes on a roadside billboard and then suing journalists for reading the billboard carefully and reporting the numbers exist and shouldn't be there. https://www.npr.org/...
Maria Cramer / New York Times: Governor Accuses Reporter of Hacking After Flaws in State Website Are Revealed
Cory Doctorow / @doctorow: We're a couple decades into the slow-motion information security emergency, and it's speeding up, and most people genuinely don't understand the fundamental premise that “security” is always contextual, in relation to a threat. 22/
Jake Williams / @malwarejake: Serious talk for my less technical followers: it doesn't matter how many steps it takes to convert the data to a social security number. The data never should be exposed to public access in any format that can be decoded, regardless of the number of steps. Period. 1/ https://twitter.com/...
Tea Pain / @teapainusa: The only crime is reportin' Republican's mistakes. https://www.rawstory.com/...
Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce: in seriousness: headlines like these undersell the real scandalousness of what Parson is doing. the state published teachers' Social Security Numbers online and is now threatening to prosecute a journalist who tried to protect the teachers' privacy. that's *two* scandals, not one https://twitter.com/...
Cory Doctorow / @doctorow: Renaud did a public service for 100,000 Missouri state employees. He deserves the governor's praise and thanks, not his threats. There IS a place for security measures that assume good faith but bad follow-through - they are essential for groups that trust each other. 33/
Cory Doctorow / @doctorow: But a public website is visible to the whole world, which, by definition, includes literally everyone in the world you DON'T trust. Sending sensitive information to people you don't trust but tagging it “Please don't look at this” is obviously bad security. 34/
Cory Doctorow / @doctorow: That ignorance is dangerous. It's what's behind #Missouri Governor @GovParsonMO's absolutely shameful slander and threats against @PostDispatchbiz reporter @Kirkman. https://krebsonsecurity.com/ ... 23/
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting Security Vulnerability
Eva / @evacide: “View source” is not a crime. Prosecuting people for reporting security flaws in your website is vile. https://twitter.com/...
Associated Press: Journalist warns Missouri about security breach. He's threatened with criminal charges.
Carly Page / TechCrunch: F12 isn't hacking: Missouri governor threatens to prosecute local journalist for finding exposed state data
@malwaretechblog: This is like if a bank mailed someone an envelope full of cash and then accused them of bank robbery for opening it. Either the governor has no understanding of how computers work or is just trying to distract from their screw up (probably both). https://twitter.com/...
Cynthia Brumfield / Metacurity: Missouri Governor Seeks to Prosecute Journalist for Responsibly Reporting Flaw in State's Website
Mat Honan / @mat: This is like a Labrador Retriever explaining a vacuum cleaner https://twitter.com/...
Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Journalists In St. Louis Discover State Agency Is Revealing Teacher Social Security Numbers; Governors Vows To Prosecute Journalists As Hackers
Pry / @pry0cc: This is what happens when y'all say HTML is a programming language and not markup 😭🤣 https://twitter.com/...
Rep. Tony Lovasco / @tonylovasco: It's clear the Governor's office has a fundamental misunderstanding of both web technology and industry standard procedures for reporting security vulnerabilities. Journalists responsibly sounding an alarm on data privacy is not criminal hacking. #moleg https://www.stltoday.com/...
@jdmar3: My dude, if someone can right click “view source” and see a SSN for an employee, that is on your web developers. I've seen that kind of amateur shit before, so it's definitely possible, but it looks like the problem might be on your end. https://twitter.com/...
Jeremiah Grossman / @jeremiahg: At the appropriate time, someone will also need to inform the Missouri Governor and Cole County Prosecutor about Google Cache and the Wayback Machine.
Jeremiah Grossman / @jeremiahg: I'll tell you exactly why many of us in Tech and InfoSec are especially sensitive about complete BS like this and react accordingly. Aaron Swartz. https://twitter.com/...
Jeremiah Grossman / @jeremiahg: Thinking one step forward, whatever person or company built this app... find out what other websites they built and it'll probably have the exact same problems. Highly unlikely this is a one-off.
Jamie Dupree / @jamiedupree: This Governor reminds me of old fart members of Congress who aren't really up to speed on how the internet works. https://missouriindependent.com/ ...
Rachel Tobac / @racheltobac: Hitting F12 in a browser is not hacking. If your code leaks personal data via public development tools that any person can see by simply pressing F12 on a keyboard then you have a huge data leak issue, not a hacking situation, on your hands. Fix your website. https://twitter.com/...
David Carroll / @profcarroll: Selecting View Source from a browser menu is not a crime! Decoding URL encoding is not a crime! This is the most dangerous kind of lawmaker tech illiteracy force multiplied by public IT being bad at privacy because extreme negligence with personal data is not a crime! https://twitter.com/...
Steven Rich / @dataeditor: this whole situation is like dropping your wallet without realizing, a stranger picking it up and handing it back to you and you calling the cops to report that person for robbery https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Alexander / @rachelwalexande: “Decoded the HTML source code” My dude, perhaps learn how the Internet works before you start prosecuting journalists for exposing massive security breaches in your state's IT infrastructure. https://twitter.com/...
Scott Hanselman / @shanselman: Hey @GovParsonMO open your browser and press F12. You're a hacker now. (Spoiler: you're not) https://twitter.com/...
Patrick McKenzie / @patio11: For geeks who have not heard @tqbf et al mention this: not every org in the world is a tech company with a bug bounty, and you might want to conclude “absence of an explicit bug bounty is a sign that sending in details of an exploit, even in good faith, is a risky endeavor.” https://twitter.com/...
Tessa Weinberg / @tessa_weinberg: “Putting Social Security numbers within HTML, even if it's ‘non-display rendering’ HTML, is a stupid thing for the Missouri website to do and is a type of boneheaded mistake that has been around since day one of the Internet...” https://missouriindependent.com/ ... via @J_Hancock #MoLeg
Chris Vickery / @vickerysec: This mentality is the reason why cybersecurity is terrible everywhere. Someone responsibly notified the State of Missouri about an agency exposing personal data to the public internet. And now the Governor of Missouri is trying to prosecute the person who notified the State. https://twitter.com/...
Ashley / @infosec_taylor: That's called a misconfiguration and that is an insider threat. It was publicly available information. No hacking needed. Either you are getting bad advice from your IT staff or you are GROSSLY misrepresenting what they are telling you. https://twitter.com/...
Moose / @litmoose: Growing up Floridian, I was used to the worst of all the news. If someone was horrendously wrong, or awful, or things went politically askew, it was always my home state. That extra breeze through your window tonight is the collective sigh of all FL infosec: “He's not ours!” https://twitter.com/...
Kurt Eichenwald / @kurteichenwald: This stunt by @GovParsonMO is like a bank president calling for a bank robbery charges when someone finds cash lying all over the lobby of the bank & notifies tellers it should be in the vault. @stltoday should sue the state if he goes through with this. https://www.rawstory.com/...
Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Missouri governor threatens reporter who discovered state site spilling private info
Sarah Hutchins / @sarhutch: This is a ✨ classic ✨ example of bad database design. In fact, Shaji Khan, the excellent cybersecurity prof. quoted by @stltoday, taught a whole class on how this stuff happens when I got my master's in data science. https://www.stltoday.com/...
Sarah Hutchins / @sarhutch: “The bigger problem...is that the sensitive data was there at all.” It wasn't the P-D that decided to put SSNs on a publicly accessible site. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Goerz / @bengoerz: @gamescan @GovParsonMO Key here: ENCODING is not ENCRYPTION. Encoding is reversible without a password. It is never sufficient to protect sensitive data like SSNs. Displaying encoded (but not encrypted) SSNs publicly online is negligent. The developer and state may be liable. https://www.packetlabs.net/...
Whitney Merrill / @wbm312: Whatever “award” or “recognition” for misguided security response was given to the Dallas County Sheriff for the Coalfire pentest arrest should also go to Governor Parson. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Pavlacka / @gamescan: @GovParsonMO To be CLEAR, HTML source code is FREELY available on a web page. It is NEVER secure. THE FACTS: If your devs put PII (such as SS numbers) in HTML source code, then they made a massive security blunder. The problem is with the developer of the app, not the reporter.
Lesley Carhart / @hacks4pancakes: To be abundantly clear - the data was wide open on the web - simple decrypting, decoding, and parsing on the client side is irrelevant to this.
Lesley Carhart / @hacks4pancakes: He's continuing to dig an even deeper hole with legal and technical misinformation. https://twitter.com/...
Governor Mike Parson / @govparsonmo: This data was not freely available, and by the actors own admission, the data had to be taken through eight separate steps in order to generate a SSN. (2/3)
Lesley Carhart / @hacks4pancakes: @GovParsonMO Narrator voice: what he just described is “freely available”
Ben Goerz / @bengoerz: @gamescan @GovParsonMO This is more than a “security blunder”. @GovParsonsMO, your web developers encoded (without encryption) SSNs and displayed them openly on the web. You have a massive data breach here. You need to engage a competent Incident Response firm & legal counsel immediately.
Sean Lyngaas / @snlyngaas: “If this is a crime, the law is on the wrong side of cybersecurity.” -@HarleyGeiger
Corey Quinn / @quinnypig: This is about as illegal as right-clicking an NFT! https://twitter.com/...
Belinda Barnet / @manjusrii: BREAKING: If you go to a website and select “view source” on the browser you're officially a hacker! https://twitter.com/...
Matt Blaze / @mattblaze: Don't encode SSNs of people in the HTML of publicly available webpages. And if you do, don't call the cops if someone notices and (quite responsibly) warns you. https://twitter.com/...
Katie Moussouris / @k8em0: That SSNs were embedded in the webpage demonstrates a low hanging fruit vulnerability that should have been prevented in the 1st place or at least found in a security assessment. Prose-killing the messenger only scares other security messengers away. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Tony Webster / @webster: I have questions about [*gestures at Gov. Parson's entire law enforcement career*] https://missouriindependent.com/ ...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: Missouri's governor is on a rampage against the press, and journalists need to be clear that he's making entirely bogus charges against the St. Louis newspaper that discovered abysmal security practices on a state-run computer — and acted responsibly.
Alex Howard / @digiphile: 👎 @GovParsonMO doubled down on his bogus claim that a reporter who found & reported a flaw in a .gov that exposed state employee PII “hacked” it: https://twitter.com/... Data journalism is not a crime, Governor! @stltoday informed Missourians of government error. Please retract. https://twitter.com/...
Hayes Brown / @hayesbrown: “Multi-step process” is my favorite part of this. step 1) right-click page step 2) click “view source” step 3) have eyes https://twitter.com/...
@spj_tweets: “The newspaper agreed to hold off publishing any story while the department fixed the problem and protected the private information of teachers...Gov. Mike Parson was labeling the Post-Dispatch reporter a ‘hacker’ and vowing to seek criminal prosecution.” https://missouriindependent.com/ ...
Marissa / @marissaaevans: I really want to be surprised but members of the public don't realize how terrible and outdated these governmental websites are from a user experience and security standpoint. https://twitter.com/...
Jane Manchun Wong / @wongmjane: oh wow ,,HTML sounds scary. i will include my credit card number in my bio and sue anybody for pointing it out 😤😤😤😤 https://twitter.com/...
Laura J. Nelson / @laura_nelson: So, to recap, a @stltoday journalist found gaping holes in a Missouri website that left teachers' Social Security numbers exposed and told the state before running the story. In response, the governor has launched a police investigation into the reporter. https://www.stltoday.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Tony Webster / @webster: Gov. Parson is threatening to prosecute a journalist who 100% did the ethical thing by telling the state they were publishing teacher SSNs online, then holding publication of the story until after the state fixed it. That's the gold standard for reporting security failures. https://twitter.com/...
Helen Kennedy / @helenkennedy: It seems idiots in Missouri put 100k teachers' social security numbers online in HTML source, which a child can access. (Like, um, right clicking on “view page source.") The Post Dispatch did a story on the vulnerability, now the gov wants to prosecute them for “hacking.” https://twitter.com/...
T. Greg Doucette / @greg_doucette: “decoded the HTML source code” is not a thing... https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: The governor of Missouri is in super-demagogue mode. Will journalists in Missouri — especially TV reporters — know enough about tech to understand how completely bogus his statements are? This is a test of local/regional journalism. (Also a test of CNN et al.) https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Tobac / @racheltobac: This person reported a vulnerability — a big data leak issue that anyone could see — and took time out of their day to report it to keep people safe. Changes were made to protect data, *and now they want to slap that person with criminal charges?* Absolutely not. https://twitter.com/...
Alberto Cairo / @albertocairo: It doesn't get more idiotic than this—the “hacking” was reading an HTML file—but this guy is a GOP heavyweight, so idiocy is a requirement in the job description: https://missouriindependent.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
T. Greg Doucette / @greg_doucette: Wow, it's somehow even dumber than I thought 😳 https://twitter.com/...
@rcfp: When a government official threatens to prosecute a journalist for doing their job... 🚩🚩🚩 https://missouriindependent.com/ ...
Jerry Gamblin / @jgamblin: Hey, @EFF can you make sure you look out for @kirkman? https://missouriindependent.com/ ...
@arkansasblog: Missouri governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website. Shades of Asa, bonus baby Mike and our badly flawed jobless benefit website. https://www.rawstory.com/...
Aisha Sultan / @aishas: There's a word for political leaders who threaten journalists with criminal prosecution because they uncover information that embarrasses the state. Remind me of that term.
Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken: If View Source is outlawed, only outlaws will use View Source. https://missouriindependent.com/ ...
Jerry Gamblin / @jgamblin: Ok @ebellis, everything you said about Missouri was true. https://missouriindependent.com/ ...
David Cay Johnston / @davidcayj: 1/Missouri @GovParsonMO vows to prosecute @stltoday reporter Josh @Kirkman Renaud, who found sensitive data exposed on a state website, reported it to authorities, held off running a story until the state protected the info. Parson then... https://www.rawstory.com/...
Gabe Rosenberg / @gabrieljr: This is both poor logic, and dangerous. @GovParsonMO is trying to prosecute a reporter for doing their job, and you can read what's actually happening here: https://missouriindependent.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Losowsky / @losowsky: The reporter clicked “view source” on the browser. Demonizing the press like this for doing a public service responsibly is dangerous and scary https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Adelson / @jadelson: Congratulations. Y'all just “hacked” the Missouri state website https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Zuri Davis / @properlyzuri: Since the good governor clearly has a lot of time on his hands to do silly things, you think he'd take a moment to pardon an innocent Lamar Johnson for a homicide even prosecutors admit he couldn't have committed. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Adelson / @jadelson: JFC. This is an insane threat against a reporter who went out of their way to notify the state it had screwed up and put personal information at risk. And viewing source code of gov websites is a standard part of reporting (hell, I was doing that as I saw this) https://twitter.com/...
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Senior Correspondent - Wealth, NY — 
Reporter - Ottawa Bureau — 
Local Government Reporter, IA — 
Research Director, CA — 
Immigration Enforcement Reporter — 
Presque Island Reporter, ME — 
Contributing Parks Ed. - SW, CA — 
AI Content Editor, WA — 
Legislative Reporter, TN — 
Editorial Assistant, Remote US — 
Elon Musk Reporter, NY or CA — 
Government & Politics Editor, WA — 
Business & GA Reporter. VT — 
Sports Reporter, WA — 
Energy Reporter, TX — 
Senior Reporter, SC — 
Trade & Climate Correspondent, DC — 
Reporter, WI — 
Political Newsletter Writer, CO — 
Jackson Reporter, MS — 
Music Editor, AZ — 
Breaking News Reporter, NV — 
Fearless Reporter/Producer, IA — 
Reporter II - Technology, Remote — 
Editor, Remote US — 
City Reporter, WA — 
Executive Editor, OR — 
Education & Budget Reporter, CA — 
Senior Writer/Editor, FL — 
Media Editor, Remote — 
