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Fox News contributors Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes resign from the network in protest of Tucker Carlson's streaming special on the January 6 Capitol mob — Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes, stars of a brand of conservatism that has fallen out of fashion, decide they've had enough.
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Ben Smith / @benyt: New: Two Fox News Contributors Quit in Protest of Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 Special https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Folkenflik / NPR: Two Fox News commentators resign over Tucker Carlson series on the Jan. 6 siege
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post: Two Fox News pundits quit over concerns about ‘conspiracy-mongering’ Jan. 6 documentary
Greg Sargent / Washington Post: As two Fox contributors quit over Tucker Carlson, an alarming truth is revealed
Colby Hall / Mediaite: Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes Both Called Out Mollie Hemingway's Pro-Trump Propaganda Before Leaving Fox News
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Two longtime Fox commentators, @JonahDispatch and @stephenfhayes, say “they've had enough.” They tell @benNYT that they have resigned from Fox. The final straw: Tucker Carlson's “Patriot Purge” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “Senior journalists and producers at Fox typically receive a salary premium for the opprobrium that comes with working at the company.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Brooks / @nytdavidbrooks: Steve and Jonah have been two of the bravest journalists during this whole mess. They've taken positions that carry real costs. Think about supporting @thedispatch. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jonathan Chait / @jonathanchait: You've heard of being paid with prestige? Working at Fox News is the opposite of that. https://twitter.com/...
A.J. Katz / TVNewser: Conservative Commentators Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg Leave Fox News Over ‘Outrageous’ Tucker Carlson Fox Nation Special
Eric Deggans At Npr / @deggans: Tucker Carlson's series on Jan. 6 Capitol riot was so riddled w/misinformation, 2 conservative commentators - who have tolerated a lot there - quit. Two other anchors aired segments pushing back, tho not mentioning Carlson. Profiles in courage, I guess. https://www.npr.org/...
@mattnegrin: You can bet $6,000,000,000,000 that these billowing sacks of wagyu-grade bad faith will land on @chucktodd's panel of “journalists” this Sunday to be awarded the Meet the Press Medal of Freedom and 15 minutes to express dismay that Kamala Harris is putting CRT in vegetables https://twitter.com/...
Liz Cheney / @liz_cheney: Thank you @stephenfhayes and @JonahDispatch for standing up for truth and calling out dangerous lies. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Bill Kristol / @billkristol: Kudos to @stephenfhayes and @JonahDispatch for standing up to Fox, yelling Stop, at a time when few other conservatives are inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Andrew Lawrence / @ndrew_lawrence: “this is not what i signed up for when i took a job at the racism factory” https://twitter.com/...
Eugene Scott / @eugene_scott: I will forever be fascinated by different people's last straws ... https://twitter.com/...
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian: Two quit Fox News over Tucker Carlson's Capitol attack series
Brian Stelter / CNN: Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes resign from Fox News, protesting ‘irresponsible’ voices like Tucker Carlson
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: They joined Fox as contributors in 2009. “We believed, sincerely, that the country needed Fox News.” Now they're quitting because “the voices of the responsible are being drowned out by the irresponsible.” https://thedispatch.com/...
Adam Kinzinger / @adamkinzinger: This.... Leading by example. Nice job @JonahDispatch and @stephenfhayes Two Fox News Contributors Quit in Protest of Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 Special https://www.nytimes.com/...
David French / @davidafrench: I'm proud to work with @JonahDispatch and @stephenfhayes. They made a hard, good call. Jonah: “Whether it's ‘Patriot Purge’ or anti-vax stuff, I don't want it in my name, and I want to call it out and criticize it.” https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Two of the most vocal and unhinged advocates of the first War on Terror - @JonahDispatch and @stephenfhayes - just quit Fox News (where nobody knew they worked) in protest over Tucker Carlson warning of the dangers of the new War on Terror and questioning FBI involvement in 1/6. https://twitter.com/...
Jeet Heer / @heerjeet: Wasn't Tucker Carlson also a vocal and unhinged advocate for War on Terror (even calling Iraqis as “primitive monkeys")? For that matter wasn't Greenwald also a less vocal but also unhinged advocate for the same cause? No heroes in this snake pit. https://twitter.com/...
David Corn / @davidcorndc: Somebody is all in on Tucker Carlson's fascistic demagoguery. https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer ‘pro-voting’ Rubin / @jrubinblogger: what were they still doing there?? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Julie Roginsky / @julieroginsky: Lots to unpack here but quite interesting to me is Tucker taking shots publicly at the two contributors on the way out, even FNC officially has no comment. Never would have been allowed back in the day. Who's in charge of the network, exactly? https://twitter.com/...
@pftompkins: These poor guys, imagine getting hired and then your FIRST DAY on the job you see something terrible that compels you to quit, I am assuming https://twitter.com/...
Cameron Joseph / @cam_joseph: Heck, five years ago it would've been shocking https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: We should ALL quit Fox Noise. And reality-based journalists should work to wean America off it. https://presswatchers.org/...
Joe Walsh / @walshfreedom: Thank you @stephenfhayes. Thank you @JonahDispatch. https://twitter.com/...
It Guy / @itguy1959: Meanwhile there was good news today. Two of the most irrelevant trucon pundits in history left @FoxNews in protest. I can almost hear Tucker's signature laugh in the comment below. https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Willis / @owillis: There aren't journalists at Fox News and mainstream media media writers love pretending there are https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Martin / @jmartnyt: Fox makes its choice, con't https://twitter.com/...
@thehowie: A few more principled men and women and we wouldn't have to worry about the country's demise. https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Two longtime Fox News commentators have resigned in protest of what they say are unhinged pro-Trump conspiracy theories embraced on by dominant opinion shows My interviews with @stephenfhayes and @JonahDispatch - more to come on NPR's @MorningEdition https://www.npr.org/...
Tripp Grebe / @tripper_grebe: I'm damn proud to have worked for Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg. Think about supporting @thedispatch. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Daniel W. Drezner / @dandrezner: “Resignations like Mr. Hayes's and Mr. Goldberg's remain rare at Fox. Cable contributor jobs are lucrative — often six figures or more — and open doors to book deals and speaking engagements."https://www.nytimes.com/ ...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: These resignations, while welcome, are somewhat hollow gestures. Fox “News” has been relentlessly injecting poison into our civic bloodstream for years, and Carlson's vile show only slightly upped the toxicity. These men bolstered an evil enterprise. Surely they knew that. https://twitter.com/...
@curtmills: “Mr. Carlson called Mr. Hayes's and Mr. Goldberg's resignations ‘great news’ in a telephone interview on Sunday. ‘Our viewers will be grateful.’” https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Gura / @davidgura: “The voices of the responsible are being drowned out by the irresponsible,” @JonahDispatch and @stephenfhayes write. “With the release of ‘Patriot Purge,’ we felt we could no longer ‘do right as we see it’ and remain at Fox News. So we resigned.” https://thedispatch.com/...
Christian Vanderbrouk / @urbanachievr: Tucker Carlson's ‘Patriot Purge’ Special Leads Two Fox News Contributors to Quit - The New York Times. Good for @JonahDispatch and @stephenfhayes. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rosemary Rossi / The Wrap: 2 Longtime Fox News Contributors Resign Over Tucker Carlson's Capitol Riot Special
Gerry Callahan / @gerrycallahan: I watch a lot of Fox. I honestly did not know either of these two still worked for the network. What were they on, the Chris Wallace show no one watches? https://twitter.com/...
David French / @davidafrench: Here's @JonahDispatch and @stephenfhayes in their own words. https://thedispatch.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Bradley P. Moss / @bradmossesq: Thank you to @JonahDispatch and @stephenfhayes for knowing when to hold and knowing when to fold. Fox has gone too far, and it's increasingly difficult to see how to bring it back from the brink. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Berman / The Racket News: Jonah Goldberg goes full John Galt.
Rachael Larimore / @rachaelbl: News from the bosses: https://thedispatch.com/...
Max Blumenthal / @maxblumenthal: Hard to tell if these neocon Iraq war cheerleaders quit Fox bc the doc pushes a right-wing persecution narrative, or bc it references Bush's torture program, Bush lying about WMDs, the FBI manufacturing terror plots against innocent Muslim Americans and even Operation Northwoods https://twitter.com/...
Shermichael Singleton / @shermichael_: Both men are brilliant writers and intellectuals of a brand of conservatism that's no longer mainstream but perhaps even more important today than before. https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Despite false claims and incendiary rhetoric on Fox about the elections and Covid, many journalists inside Fox News concluded Carlson's “Patriot Purge” was dangerous and different. Bret Baier and Chris Wallace objected to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott & news chief Jay Wallace MORE https://twitter.com/...
Boris Ryvkin / @bryvkin: Haha. Tucker remains in the ascendant after this desperate and pathetic move. https://twitter.com/...
Anne Applebaum / @anneapplebaum: A rare resignation on principle https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Willis / @owillis: Lol they were fine with the last 25 years of Fox News racism, misogyny and lying but this was a bridge too far? Yeah. Okay. https://twitter.com/...
@rpsagainsttrump: Why we are leaving Fox News. “In reality, it is a collection of incoherent conspiracy-mongering, riddled with factual inaccuracies, half-truths, deceptive imagery, and damning omissions.” https://thedispatch.com/...
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone: Kyle Rittenhouse, Far-Right Darling, Tells Tucker Carlson He ‘Supports the BLM Movement’
Frank Conniff / @frankconniff: Just as admirable as the officers who quit the Nazi party in late 1945. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Walsh / @brianjameswalsh: “Patriot Purge creates an alternative history of January 6, contradicted not just by common sense, not just by the testimony and on-the-record statements of many participants, but by the reporting of the news division of Fox News itself.” https://thedispatch.com/...
Jordan Michael Smith / @writerjms: To put this in perspective, one of these guys wrote a ridiculous book concocting an absurd Saddam Hussein/bin Laden connection. The other guy wrote a ridiculous book concocting an absurd liberal/Nazi connection. THESE guys thinks Fox is off the rails. https://twitter.com/...
Jonah Goldberg / @jonahdispatch: I just finished driving about 875 miles. The last 200 in some pretty stressful conditions. Lots of folks sending me support and/or hate. I'm not going to publicly respond to any of it tonight beyond posting this — and saying “thanks” to the friendlies. https://thedispatch.com/...
Arthur Schwartz / @arthurschwartz: “Carlson called Mr. Hayes's and Mr. Goldberg's resignations ‘great news’ in a telephone interview on Sunday. ‘Our viewers will be grateful.’” Two Fox News Contributors Quit in Protest of Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 Special https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nina Burleigh / @ninaburleigh: Interesting .... A step too far even for Jonah https://twitter.com/...
Ned Ryun / @nedryun: Fox just got better. I mean I'm sure Bret Baier will be sad half his regular guests are leaving. . . https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jennifer ‘pro-voting’ Rubin / @jrubinblogger: Mr. Goldberg said that he and Mr. Hayes stayed on at Fox News as long they did because of a sense from conversations at Fox that, after Mr. Trump's defeat, the network would try to recover some of its independence and, as he put it, “right the ship.” ... WUT??
Sam Stein / @samstein: Ten years ago it would have been utterly unfathomable to see @JonahDispatch and @stephenfhayes leave Fox News in protest of the network's coverage. But here we are https://thedispatch.com/...
Paul Waldman / @paulwaldman1: It has come to my attention that the organization I have been working for, Americans For Poisoning Everyone's Ice Cream, may have been making a negative contribution to people's enjoyment of ice cream, and I am available for interviews to explain my resignation. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Boehlert / @ericboehlert: 🤣🤣🤣 <Their departures also mark the end of a lingering hope among some at Fox News — strange as this is for outsiders to understand — that the channel would at some point return to a pre-Trump reality > https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Karl / @jonkarl: .@stephenfhayes and @JonahDispatch are two of the smartest conservative writers and thinkers in America. Both are (or were) longtime Fox News contributors. Tonight they resigned. Here's why. https://thedispatch.com/...
@oliviatroye: The Tucker Carlson conspiracy touting special on Kyle Rittenhouse will indeed lead to the promotion of more violence. Thank you Jonah Goldberg & Stephen Hayes for taking a stand for the truth against an ongoing dangerous enterprise. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Steve Inskeep / @nprinskeep: “If a person with such a platform shares such misinformation loud enough and long enough, there are Americans who will believe—and act upon—it.” https://thedispatch.com/...
Jared Holt / @jaredlholt: This is a principled line in the sand we don't see too often these days, which is great. But it is also interesting to me to see who draws these lines and where. https://twitter.com/...
James Kirchick / @jkirchick: .@stephenfhayes and @JonahDispatch are honorable men and this is the tough, but honorable, thing to do https://thedispatch.com/...
Eli Valley / @elivalley: Weird how they kept cashing those checks through years of fascist disinfo and stochastic terrorism https://twitter.com/...
John Ziegler / @zigmanfreud: Translation: Two Fox News Contributors Were No Longer Getting Booked Regularly, So They Contrived a Face-Saving, Woke-Friendly, Exit Strategy that the @nytimes Would Find Conveniently Newsworthy https://twitter.com/...
@yesnicksearcy: They are leaving because they suck. We didn't need an article about it. https://twitter.com/...
Peter Wehner / @peter_wehner: A principled stand by principled men. I wish there had been more of their kind during the last few years. In any event, Steve and Jonah did the right thing and have (further) shown the world what Fox News stands for the days. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Fox insiders and outsiders who bemoan its fate in the Trump era are endorsing its pre-Trump existence. When it was run by Roger Ailes. https://twitter.com/...
Marc E. Elias / @marceelias: Hey Siri, define “the very least they could do.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jerry Christmas / @jerrydunleavy: A serious question I have is whether this stand will also apply to MSNBC & CNN, or just to Fox, and why. https://twitter.com/...
David Blackmon / Campaign Update: Monday's Absurdity: Christmas Comes Early as Fake Conservatives Quit Fox News
Kimberly Ricci / UPROXX: Two Longtime Fox News Contributors Quit In Protest Of Tucker Carlson's Batsh*t Series (Which Falsely Claims That The MAGA Riot Was A ‘False Flag’ Operation)
Christian Vanderbrouk / @urbanachievr: This also highlights Paul Ryan's failure as a Fox Corp board member. If your operation is too toxic for mainstream conservatives like Goldberg and Hayes, you're no longer doing any good; you're window dressing.
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: Two Fox News contributors quit over Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 documentary
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Alden Global Capital announces an offer to acquire Lee Enterprises for $24/share, a ~30% premium to its stock's Nov. 19 closing price — The hedge fund has developed a reputation for slashing staff in newsrooms and other departments and selling off real estate at outlets it owns.
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New York Times, Business Wire, @sarafischer, @seandkennedy, Press Gazette, MediaPost, @marcatracy, @annaknicolaou, Bloomberg, @edmundlee, @saragregory, @joshuadarr, @meghin_, @rczullo, @brennanmgilmore, @davidfolkenflik, @katereports, @katereports, @jeremylittau, @poynter, @davidfolkenflik, @itsren, @ben_baby, @ofirahy, @ashleyinnrv, @sarahfenske, @sabrinaamorenoo, @zdroberts, @raleighreporter, @existentialfish and @shahlafarzan
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Katie Robertson / New York Times: Alden Global Capital makes an offer for Lee Enterprises, a big newspaper chain.
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: Alden Global Capital announces an offer to acquire Lee Enterprises for $24/share, a ~30% premium to its stock's Nov. 19 closing price
Sean Kennedy / @seandkennedy: Lee owns most of the major newspapers in Virginia. Alden already owns The Pilot and the Daily Press. If Alden acquires Lee, every major newspaper in Virginia would be owned by one company. https://twitter.com/...
William Turvill / Press Gazette: Hedge fund Alden bids $140m for Lee Enterprises to expand its US local newspaper empire
Tony Silber / MediaPost: Alden Capital Makes Offer To Lee Enterprises, Fourth-Largest U.S. Newspaper Chain
Marc Tracy / @marcatracy: Part of Alden's letter announcing bid to buy Lee Enterprises, newspaper chain (St. Louis, Omaha, Buffalo, more) in which already a minority shareholder. Last big indpt chain out there. https://twitter.com/...
Anna Nicolaou / @annaknicolaou: “vulture” hedge fund Alden continues to take over more of the newspaper industry. Today with a deal to buy Lee Enterprises, publisher of dozens of daily newspapers. here is Alden's explanation: https://twitter.com/...
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: $LEE acquired Buffet's news company last year for $140 million. Alden's offer today effectively values the entire rest of LEE at $1 million, so arguably a bargain for Alden: https://www.sec.gov/...
Sara Gregory / @saragregory: Three men paved the way for this: Frank Batten Jr., Warren Buffett and Patrick Soon-Shiong. https://twitter.com/...
Joshua P. Darr / @joshuadarr: Government has subsidized local newspapers throughout American history. If they don't act, there's only one direction this is going. https://twitter.com/...
Meghin Moore / @meghin_: If you value local journalism, this should be on your radar. Every major newspaper in Virginia should NOT be owned by one single company, especially one that's pure evil. https://twitter.com/...
Robert Zullo / @rczullo: The grim reaper of the newspaper business comes for the company that owns most of Virginia's newspapers. https://twitter.com/...
Brennan Gilmore / @brennanmgilmore: This should be illegal. https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: This is how deep cuts can accelerate — with further consolidation https://twitter.com/...
Kate Martin / @katereports: My deepest sympathies for journalists at Lee Enterprises. If anyone needs help with resume feedback or whatnot please PM me. My DMs are open. https://twitter.com/...
Kate Martin / @katereports: Lee Enterprises owns eight newspapers in these North Carolina cities: Concord Greensboro Hickory Marion Morganton Mooresville Statesville Winston-Salem I am so sorry for these communities. https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Littau / @jeremylittau: I don't know the law enough to know when this becomes antitrust, but it definitely isn't good for consumers. https://twitter.com/...
@poynter: Alden Capital, a hedge fund with a reputation for slashing staff in newsrooms, has announced a bid to acquire Lee Enterprises, a publicly traded chain of 75 daily newspapers and several hundred other outlets. https://www.poynter.org/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Oh boy. Q: Was the (high-interest) lifeline from Buffett enough for Lee? https://twitter.com/...
Ren LaForme / @itsren: Alden Global Capital, the hedge fund with a reputation for buying and slashing newspapers, has its eyes set on Lee Enterprises, which owns @stltoday, @TheBuffaloNews, @OWHnews and others. https://www.poynter.org/...
Ben Baby / @ben_baby: A friendly reminder that Alden Global Capital hurts America as much as any corporation in the world. https://twitter.com/...
Ofirah Yheskel / @ofirahy: this is not good news https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Spinks Dugan / @ashleyinnrv: I was going to tweet a sardonic and resigned “lmao” but this is actually not funny at all for the intrepid reporters who will face greater loss of resources and job insecurity due to this acquisition, nor for the communities they serve. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Fenske / @sarahfenske: This is really, really bad news for anyone who cares about journalism in St. Louis (which ought to be everyone in St. Louis) https://twitter.com/...
Sabrina Moreno / @sabrinaamorenoo: After acquiring Tribune, Alden stripped the Virginian-Pilot down so much that the Richmond Times-Dispatch became the largest paper in Virginia. Now it's coming for not only RTD, but @roanoketimes, @DailyProgress and much more https://twitter.com/...
Zach D Roberts / @zdroberts: Someone needs to stop this. @AOC, @RepJerryNadler, @BernieSanders - we cannot have one hedge fund going from paper to paper like a vulture taking them all down. https://twitter.com/...
Colin Campbell / @raleighreporter: Lee Enterprises has a bunch of newspapers in NC, including Greensboro, Winston-Salem and Hickory. Our state has been mostly Alden ownership-free up until now https://twitter.com/...
John Whitehouse / @existentialfish: This is gonna be real bad https://twitter.com/...
Shahla Farzan / @shahlafarzan: Lee Enterprises owns 50 daily newspapers, including the St. Louis Post Dispatch, a critical news source in our community. This article from @TheAtlantic summarizes really well how Alden Global Capacity destroys #newsrooms from the inside out: https://theatlantic.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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Spotify removes shuffle play as the default option on albums for premium users, so tracks play in the order artists intended, after Adele requests the change — Adele has persuaded Spotify to take the shuffle button off all album pages so tracks play in the artist's own order.
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@adele: This was the only request I had in our ever changing industry! We don't create albums with so much care and thought into our track listing for no reason. Our art tells a story and our stories should be listened to as we intended. Thank you Spotify for listening 🍷♥️ https://twitter.com/...
Pop Crave / @popcrave: Following the release of ‘30’ by @Adele, Spotify removed the shuffle button as the default option when playing albums. Now, listeners have to listen to every album's tracklist in order. https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Hassan / Washington Post: Adele asked Spotify not to shuffle her carefully-curated album by default. The streaming service listened.
Margaret H. Willison / @mrsfridaynext: ADELE, I LOVE YOU. Can you make TV providers turn off motion smoothly as their default setting next? https://twitter.com/...
Jem Aswad / Variety: Adele Asks Spotify to Remove ‘Shuffle’ Button From Her Albums, and It Does — Kind of
Hannah Sparks / New York Post: Adele orders Spotify to remove option to ‘shuffle’ track list on ‘30’
Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone: Adele Single-Handedly Made Spotify Change How Albums Are Played on the Streaming Service
Tara Slone / @taraslone: I love this. Artists and bands take painstaking care to craft the arc of their albums. Much of that listening experience has been diminished by digital formats. Long live the album! https://www.bbc.com/...
Stacy-Marie Ishmael / @s_m_i: The album generation rejoices 💫 https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lumley / @tlums: Pay artists fairly, you monopolistic pieces of shit. https://twitter.com/...
Greg Brady / @gregbradyto: If you're playing an album, the shuffle feature should never, ever be used. You want to skip a track, fine, but don't be a maniac & do this. “Appetite For Destruction” shouldn't start with “It's So Easy”. “Purple Rain” shouldn't start with, ummm, “Purple Rain”. https://twitter.com/...
Drew Beringer / @drewberinger: probably should have asked for Spotify to pay artists fairly instead https://twitter.com/...
Max Helyer / @maxmeatsix: Amen to this, couldn't of said it better myself. When will the big artists help everyone out and make it fair again #BrokenRecord https://twitter.com/...
Jody Serrano / Gizmodo: Spotify Removes Shuffle as a Default at the Request of Adele, But Don't Hate, It's Still There
Drew Holcomb / @drewholcomb: I can't even begin to tell you how much respect I have for @Adele and this push for respecting the “album”. We artists work so hard on telling a complete story... the songs all work together. Three cheers for the 🐐! https://twitter.com/...
@llstenlng_party: Long live the album format @Adele asked for the shuffle option to be removed from albums, retaining the original running order. @Spotify replied “anything for you” - if so, maybe ask them to pay artists fairly. #BrokenRecord https://www.bbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Eric Renner Brown / @ericrennerbrown: Tell them to fairly pay artists next https://twitter.com/...
@rac: there's a special place in hell for people that listen to albums on shuffle lol https://twitter.com/...
Peter / @kulipeter: let's remove only getting $0.003 per stream while we're at it https://twitter.com/...
@rolandi_teeji: Impeccable! Coz I really wonder how people listen to albums on shuffle. It's such a horrific way to listen to music. An album is like a plot. The artiste has reasons for arranging the songs in that chronology. Shuffling defeats that essence. You shouldn't shuffle albums. https://twitter.com/...
Evan Greer / @evan_greer: imagine this being your biggest complaint with Spotify https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Topolsky / @joshuatopolsky: CD players in the 90s had shuffle buttons and also you can lift the needle whenever you want on a record. Adele could push for higher earnings for artists or help smaller performers break through or whatever but this is her big power move with Spotify lmao https://twitter.com/...
Drew Olanoff / @yoda: I dig this. Super easy to create a playlist and do whatever you want. https://twitter.com/...
@fuckedup: when our entire industry is upended by thieves and our sense of incremental progress is one of the best selling artists of all time begging them to take down a fucking button https://twitter.com/...
Casper Moon / @bleepblooptwts: imo if you listen to albums on shuffle you're not actually listening to the album. the flow of a track listing is such an important part of the listening experience and without it you're just listening to a randomised playlist of songs https://twitter.com/...
Margo Price / @missmargoprice: yes @Adele! this is brilliant! now please help get us paid 🥺 https://twitter.com/...
Eddie Robson / @eddierobson: “all album pages”... for premium users. The free version still only plays albums on shuffle. (Also, bit weird they're heralding this as an amazing new feature when it's actually just doing the obvious) https://www.bbc.com/...
@roureynolds: As an artist that's always been meticulous about album track listings, I fully support this. Consideration-for-the-initial-vision- of-an-album-4eva!! https://www.bbc.com/... @BBCNews @SpotifyUK @Adele
Banquet Records / @banquetrecords: we've had shuffle disabled on our LPs for years. https://twitter.com/...
Min / @minnniemou: of all the things she could've had spotify do... like pay their artists properly ...? https://twitter.com/...
Leslie Mac / @lesliemac: This is so interesting. One of Spotify's “pay us” pain points is that they shuffle everything if you don't pay for the service. Adele got them to remove that selling point for all albums, not just her own. Incredible use of power and privilege. https://twitter.com/...
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Jessica Lessin says The Information has 225,000 “active users”, including paid subs and newsletter readers, as it prepares to launch a weekend lifestyle edition — Website aimed at Silicon Valley proves value of subscription model for journalism
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Talking Biz News, @mohamed, @clockwerks, @aservais1, @pressgazette, @annaknicolaou, @markdistef, @jakesherman and @rafat
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Mariam Ahmed / Talking Biz News: The Information hits 225,000 active users
Mohamed Nanabhay / @mohamed: This says something about the understanding many journos have about the economics of the industry they work in.... https://twitter.com/...
Trei Brundrett / @clockwerks: this is a really strange piece that mixes pretty much everything up about media models - sometimes in the same paragraphs (b2b vs consumer subs; subs vs advertising; paying customers vs email subscribers vs active users) https://www.ft.com/...
Alain Servais / @aservais1: Bring me consistency & quality and I'll happily pay like...in old days!-The Information,a tech news publication aimed at Silicon Valley insiders,has reached 225,000 active users,underlining rise of specialist subscriptions as a business model for journalism https://www.ft.com/...
@pressgazette: Technology news website The Information now has 225,000 paying subscribers AND free newsletter subscribers, founder @Jessicalessin tells the FT. Site is said to be profitable and has 49 employees. https://www.ft.com/...
Anna Nicolaou / @annaknicolaou: new: @theinformation has reached 225,000 users (paid subscribers + newsletter readers) over the summer @Jessicalessin was considering starting a new publication about Hollywood. Instead, she's launched a weekend lifestyle edition. details here: https://www.ft.com/...
Mark Di Stefano / @markdistef: “About 75 per cent of readers are under the age of 45.” https://www.ft.com/...
Jake Sherman / @jakesherman: great for @Jessicalessin and @theinformation — one of my favorite pubs. Jessica has been a huge help for us in thinking through @PunchbowlNews Growth of The Information is good news for media business https://www.ft.com/...
@rafat: Good TheInformation profile in FT, though as a reporter on the story, I wouldn't necessarily have blended paid and free subscribers together. Also the story conflates “active users” and “subscribers” which isn't necessarily the same thing. https://giftarticle.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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Investigation shows how Facebook and Google fund misinformation globally by paying millions of dollars in ad revenue to the operators of clickbait pages — A month after the fall of the democratic government. — In 2015, six of the 10 websites in Myanmar getting the most engagement …
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@_karenhao, @brandyzadrozny, @_karenhao, @jolyonbt, @emilymbender, @clearing_fog, @deblebrown, @karenkornbluh, @riovictoire, @nanjala1, @malteengeler, @lauraedelson2, @blackamazon, @ruchowdh, @niallfirth, @marietjeschaake, @_karenhao, @craigsilverman, @katestarbird, @clairlemon, @cagoldberglaw, @emilybell, @mat, @profcarroll, @joshtpm, Beyond Search and @jason_kint, more at Techmeme »
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Karen Hao / @_karenhao: Over the past few weeks, the Facebook Papers have reaffirmed that FB has fueled the spread of hate speech & misinfo around the world. But there's a crucial piece missing from the story. FB isn't just amplifying misinfo. The company is also funding it. https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: This new piece from @_KarenHao shows why you should care about the spammy crap filling up your Facebook feed and the feeds of users in countries Facebook doesn't care about. Seems harmless? It's absolutely not. https://www.technologyreview.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Karen Hao / @_karenhao: A @techreview investigation has found that Facebook & Google are paying millions of ad dollars to bankroll clickbait actors, fueling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world. Many of these actors *would not exist* without these payments from both platforms.
@emilymbender: This is a long, difficult and important read. Excellent reporting by @_KarenHao https://www.technologyreview.com/ ... The upshot: without well-crafted regulation, ads-driven platforms create terrible externalities.
ClearingTheFog / @clearing_fog: Small wonder that Facebook and YouTube have such a hard time “cracking down” on professional disinformation propagators. They are paying some of them. h/t @Norberta36 https://twitter.com/...
Deborah Brown / @deblebrown: Learned more from this must read piece by @_KarenHao than from anything published based on the Facebook Papers tbh. Exemplary reporting that brings together rich expertise, collaboration across disciplines & open sourcing the code used. More of this please👌🏼 https://twitter.com/...
Karen Kornbluh / @karenkornbluh: 2015, 6/top 10 websites in Myanmar getting the most engagement were legit media. In 2016 FB offered global access to Instant Articles. In 2017 legit publishers account for only 2/top 10 publishers on FB in Myanmar. By 2018, they accounted for 0 https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
Victoire Rio / @riovictoire: Re-upping this thread - looking in more details at the ‘platform-sponsored’ aspect of the disinformation ecosystem, and the security risks financially motivated actors - often portrayed as ‘benign’ by platforms - actually carry. https://twitter.com/...
Nanjala Nyabola / @nanjala1: “An MIT Technology Review investigation, based on expert interviews, data analyses, and documents that were not included in the Facebook Papers, has found that Facebook and Google are paying millions of ad dollars to bankroll clickbait actors...” https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
Malte Engeler / @malteengeler: “Facebook's algorithmic amplification of inflammatory content [...] has fueled the spread of hate speech and misinformation, [...] destabilizing countries around the world. But [...] Facebook isn't just amplifying misinformation. It is also funding it.” https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
Laura Edelson / @lauraedelson2: This is such an important article. We're finally starting to learn how Facebook has been financing harmful content on its platform. https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: I really want this analyzed in connection with their “investments in pipeline” and black creators People dance over one BILLION but the spent 300 BILLION on folks trying to kill us While people “fighting” them give 175k and act like it's a boon https://twitter.com/...
Rumman Chowdhury / @ruchowdh: Disappointed and angry, but not surprised. https://twitter.com/...
Niall Firth / @niallfirth: Just to say: you wouldn't believe how thorough Karen is when she does these stories. Watertight doesn't even do it justice. That's why they're so powerful. https://twitter.com/...
Marietje Schaake / @marietjeschaake: ‘Facebook and Google are paying millions of ad dollars to bankroll clickbait actors, fueling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world’ @_KarenHao on how money trumps trust & safety online, especially in vulnerable communities ↘️ https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
Karen Hao / @_karenhao: I also worked with former FB data scientist @jeff4llen to identify possible clickbait actors on Facebook, using public data from CrowdTangle and Facebook's publisher lists, which record which publishers are registered in the platform's monetization programs.
Craig Silverman / @craigsilverman: An important point. I used to have a slide where I asked people to identify which content came from Macedonian spammers, which came from the Russian IRA, and which was from US hyperpartisan publishers. The challenge was that it all looked exactly the same. https://twitter.com/...
Kate Starbird / @katestarbird: Facebook isn't just hosting and amplifying harmful misinformation, but they're also funding it. They've both facilitated and incentivized the deterioration of our information ecosystem. https://twitter.com/...
Claire Lehmann / @clairlemon: “They claimed that Muslims were armed, that they were gathering in mobs 1,000 strong, that they were around the corner coming to kill you.” How the Myanmar government used digital tools to catalyse a genocide against the the Rohingya https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
Carrie Goldberg / @cagoldberglaw: No 230 immunity if you're bankrolling the content https://twitter.com/...
Emily Bell / @emilybell: Such an important piece. And 🧵...whilst we knew or suspected much of what was disclosed by the Facebook Papers, this reporting reveals a new unchecked systemic issue. And @_KarenHao is one of the best in the business https://twitter.com/...
Mat Honan / @mat: Great, scoopy story from @_KarenHao laying out how Facebook and Google effectively fund misinformation by paying millions of ad dollars to clickbait farms all around the world, often hosted on their own platforms https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
David Carroll / @profcarroll: greatest minds put to the task of targeting ads and so they built a garbage monster clickbait machine that prefers hate and lies https://twitter.com/...
Josh Marshall / @joshtpm: l read this with questions abt how “clickbait” is defined. The phrase can have a very elastic meaning. That said, these are fascinating and very valuable findings that definitely merit the attn of anyone interested in this issue. https://twitter.com/...
Stephen E. Arnold / Beyond Search: MIT, Facebook, and Google: Estimable Outfits Indeed
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: This nuance is super important. Nearly $300B of advertising is funding the duopoly and they're funding toxic sludge, “The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world.” /1 https://twitter.com/...
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Nielsen says it will overhaul its commercial ratings in 2022, with plans to measure audiences for individual ads — Nielsen has a new proposal for TV networks that have been threatening for months to find other means of measuring their audiences: Stick with the yardstick you already use.
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MediaPost, Ad Age, Radio & Television …, Hollywood Reporter, Adweek, @bristei, Deadline, Advanced Television, @bristei, @bristei, @bristei and @nina_metz
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Rbr-Tvbr / Radio & Television Business Report: Nielsen ‘Enhancement’ To Bring TV Per-Spot Measurement
Rick Porter / Hollywood Reporter: Nielsen to Roll Out Individual Ad Ratings
Brian Steinberg / @bristei: Nielsen has a new proposal for TV networks that have been threatening for months to find other means of measuring their audiences: Stick with the yardstick you already use..... https://variety.com/... via @variety
Dade Hayes / Deadline: Nielsen Plans 2022 Rollout Of New Commercial Metrics, Upgrading Longtime ‘C3’ Ratings Standard
Colin Mann / Advanced Television: Nielsen plans more accurate metrics
Brian Steinberg / @bristei: Nielsen plans to overhaul its system for measuring viewership of commercials, a significant change to a gauge that has been the bedrock for TV advertising deals since 2007.... https://variety.com/...
Brian Steinberg / @bristei: MORE: Nielsen says the change, which will allow it to track viewership of individual ads, will take place in 2022, but not in time for the TV industry's annual “upfront” sales market https://variety.com/...
Brian Steinberg / @bristei: MORE: Nielsen unveils the proposed innovation as TV networks have begun to seek alliances with rival measurement vendors to tabulate viewership across linear TV and new streaming hubs, charging Nielsen hasn't moved quickly enough to measure the activity https://variety.com/...
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Gizmodo says it will begin responsibly publishing the Facebook Papers with help from partners including NYU, Marquette, and the ACLU in redacting sensitive info — Independent experts from NYU, UMass Amherst, Columbia, Marquette, and the ACLU are partnering with Gizmodo to responsibly publish this historic leak.
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A look at the product box programs offered by InStyle, The Cut, Eater, and Group Nine, as more publishers launch them as worthwhile revenue streams — InStyle and The Cut created their first product boxes for sale this month, as this line of business at Eater and Group Nine reaches their one-year anniversaries.
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Thirty journalists fired from the Kyiv Post earlier this month launch Kyiv Independent, promising to use reader donations before adding commercial activities — Thirty journalists who were abruptly fired from the Kyiv Post this month have started their own publication and promised to block …
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@pressgazette: ‘We are not backed by a rich owner or an oligarch... we want to be closer with our readers and champions than we were at the Kyiv Post’: 30 journalists fired after battle for editorial independence launch @kyivindependent https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/ ...
Olga Tokariuk / @olgatokariuk: A brilliant team of Ukrainian reporters, who formerly worked at the Kyiv Post, are launching their new publication! It's name, The Kyiv Independent, has been revealed today. I am sure it will become a valuable source of information about Ukraine in English. Subscribe and donate! https://twitter.com/...
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A look at Spotify's podcast investments, including its push into advertising and video, as it appears poised to dominate the industry — With 3.2 million podcasts on its platform and more monthly active users than Apple, Spotify is the new heavy in podcasting. It's just getting started.
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Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Spotify's Findaway acquisition will turn it into an audiobook producer, distributor, and retailer, while becoming the app for consuming all audio
Spotify's Findaway acquisition will turn it into an audiobook producer, distributor, and retailer, while becoming the app for consuming all audio
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@evan_greer, @adrs, @joshhunt, @alphachromeyayo, @simonowens, @ashleyrcarman and Podcast Movement, more at Techmeme »
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Evan Greer / @evan_greer: i spend a lot of time thinking about the way that copyright maximalism pushed by institutions that claim to advocate for artists and creators is what has laid the foundation for Spotify's growing monopoly power https://twitter.com/...
Arielle Duhaime-Ross / @adrs: I cannot stress this enough: Get a library card and listen to audiobooks for free on Libby. Spotify's latest purchase is about becoming the place you listen to everything https://www.theverge.com/... via @Verge
@joshhunt: It's crazy how there's like zero consideration for the user in this article. https://twitter.com/...
Alpha Chrome Yayo / @alphachromeyayo: Spotify wants to be the place you consume all your audio Personally, I recommend that you don't let it be 🤷♂️ https://www.theverge.com/...
Simon Owens / @simonowens: A good explainer on how Spotify's acquisition of an audiobook platform fits within its larger strategy. https://www.theverge.com/...
Ashley Carman / @ashleyrcarman: I went long on Spotify's plans to acquire an audiobook company and learned a lot! The real question for publishers and authors is gonna be whether Spotify advocates for a more open system or becomes audible number 2 and locks people down in exclusive deals https://www.theverge.com/...
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Interview with Moiz Syed, formerly of The Intercept and ProPublica, on the lack of empathy among newsroom managers, the “straitjacket of objectivity”, and more — “Journalists are encouraged to hold the powerful accountable, but never to proclaim the larger moral lessons of their work.”
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@source, @josephjaafari, @lakeidrachavis, @wolfewylie, @tenuous, @keaux_, @niemanlab, @lakeidrachavis, @audiosand, @kemettler, @shaynenuesca, @alexanderrusso, @katiepark, @lilyalta, @sisiwei, @moizsyed, @editorialiste, @riogringa, @chrismoranuk, @rasmus_kleis, @marissaaevans and @marissaaevans
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@source: ⚡️ Our next Exit Interview is with @moizsyed. On the magic of being in dialogue with the world, the bargains we make to do this work, a “journalism-awards-industrial complex” that competes for resources, and “objectivity” that competes with moral clarity. https://source.opennews.org/ ...
Joseph Darius Jaafari / @josephjaafari: I literally was just saying this. We hold people to account in our work and recognize — to the point of doing entire investigations — of how systems harm people. But when we say that the moral lesson is we shouldn't harm people, it's somehow no longer journalistic. Bonkers. https://twitter.com/...
Lakeidra Chavis / @lakeidrachavis: I'll go one step further and add that in some newsrooms the money and recognition don't even trickle down. I won both for my previous employer. Left as the lowest paid reporter there. https://twitter.com/...
@wolfewylie: I've followed @moizsyed's career and his amazing work. His reasons for stepping back from the newsroom are very similar to my own. This series from @source remains so good. https://twitter.com/...
Maddy Varner / @tenuous: “American journalism has a long tradition of upholding the status quo, whether that's supporting slavery or the so-called war on terror or the police—which is not objectivity, but simply a different subjectivity.” https://twitter.com/...
@keaux_: so many gems in here, including this anecdote @moizsyed shared about a t-shirt he wore to work: “the topic of objectivity comes up, including the idea that publicly proclaiming “Abolish ICE” makes you unfit for journalism. I think that's bullshit.” https://source.opennews.org/ ...
@niemanlab: “I wonder what was it about a T-shirt that said ‘Abolish ICE’ that almost everyone in the newsroom other than me knew would not be tolerated.” https://source.opennews.org/ ...
Lakeidra Chavis / @lakeidrachavis: Sooo many good points made in this Exit Interview. “In journalism, money and recognition are so tied to awards that it sometimes feels like newsrooms spend more energy chasing medals than they do working for true community impact.” https://twitter.com/...
Sandhya Dirks / @audiosand: This so hard. so much legacy journalism is doing advocacy for the status quo and is biased on the side of power, and that the work is actually to make it less biased, closer to truthful. https://twitter.com/...
Katie Mettler / @kemettler: “In journalism, money and recognition are so tied to awards that it sometimes feels like newsrooms spend more energy chasing medals than they do working for true community impact.” https://source.opennews.org/ ...
Shayne / @shaynenuesca: “Journalists are encouraged to hold the powerful accountable, but never to proclaim the larger moral lessons of their work.” via @source https://source.opennews.org/ ...
Alexander / @alexanderrusso: “American journalism has a long tradition of upholding the status quo, whether that's supporting slavery or the so-called war on terror or the police...” - Moiz Syed. Also true when it comes to upholding inequitable public school systems. https://source.opennews.org/ ...
@katiepark: As always, @moizsyed is insightful and unafraid to ask the questions we should all be asking ourselves as journalists. https://twitter.com/...
Lily Altavena / @lilyalta: “It sometimes feels like newsrooms spend more energy chasing medals than they do working for true community impact.” YES. This is a major problem we all feed into. https://source.opennews.org/ ...
Sisi Wei / @sisiwei: This is literally the subhead, but it's so good I have to share: “Journalists are encouraged to hold the powerful accountable, but never to proclaim the larger moral lessons of their work.” Read @moizsyed's exit interview, conducted by @ryanpitts: https://source.opennews.org/ ...
Moiz Syed / @moizsyed: Getting to write about how it was for me to work in journalism was very therapeutic. I get into why I decided to leave journalism, and what I saw places like The Intercept and Propublica get wrong. Cannot thank @ryanpitts enough for shepherding me through the writing of this! https://twitter.com/...
@editorialiste: “When you work in journalism ... you make a bargain with yourself. You take a pay cut in return for feeling good about the work you're doing ... I think many of us ask ourselves whether this burden has become too heavy.” https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Glickhouse / @riogringa: So many good nuggets in @moizsyed's exit interview that I couldn't decide which one to quote. Don't miss this one! https://twitter.com/...
Chris Moran / @chrismoranuk: A really thoughtful point in here on awards vs journalism. Particularly significant since most awards are given with no insight into how specific pieces actually were read https://twitter.com/...
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: “Pouring funding, research, data, design, and development resources into projects that cater to prestige ceremonies takes those resources away from other stories that may be less flashy” @moizsyed says. https://twitter.com/...
Marissa / @marissaaevans: I wonder how often newsroom leaders actually read these interviews and make change or get upset in the background about the candidness of them. Regardless, I read these whenever they come out because it's illuminating and confirms the worst. https://twitter.com/...
Marissa / @marissaaevans: “...journalists are encouraged to hold the powerful accountable, but never to proclaim the larger moral lessons of their work. Also, I was just wearing a T-shirt—it's not going to take down journalism.” This is a must read from @moizsyed. 🔥 https://source.opennews.org/ ...
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Walmart will be the first to test Twitter's shoppable livestream platform, with a live Cyber Deals event on November 28 — Twitter's e-commerce initiatives now include livestream shopping and Walmart will be the first retailer to test the new platform. Over the past year …
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Erika Wheless / Ad Age: Twitter launches live shopping with Walmart
David Cohen / Adweek: Walmart to Hold Twitter's First Shoppable Livestream Event