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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Long-time Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace leaves the network after 18 years, says “I feel we've built a community here” — Long-time “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace is leaving the network after nearly two decades to “try something new,” he announced Sunday.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post: Chris Wallace bolts Tucker Carlson's Fox News
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times: Chris Wallace Leaves Fox News as Right-Wing Hosts Hold Sway
Brian Steinberg / Variety: Chris Wallace to Join CNN Plus After Fox News Channel Departure
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Update: Chris Wallace is headed to be a signature player for CNN plus, according to a person with direct knowledge.
Guy Benson / @guypbenson: Wallace gets an ovation as he enters the news room after the show. This was a very well-kept secret.
David Folkenflik / NPR: ‘Fox News Sunday’ host Chris Wallace to join CNN's streaming service
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: The part in blue is a magic phrase in American journalism. Almost impossible to overstate its prestige. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Context for Chris Wallace's departure from Fox News: He and Bret Baier had recently objected to the Tucker Carlson documentary “Patriot Purge.” https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: Chris Wallace is hosting a new interview show on CNN+ — and he'll work on the streaming network's political & conventions coverage as well, per a source briefed. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Karl Bode / @karlbode: in the late 90s and early 00s Fox needed to at least have the superficial veneer of a real news outlet. now Americans are so blanketly misinformed and ignorant, and pushback to Rupert's propaganda so repeatedly feckless, the pretense isn't even necessary https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Stelter just announced on CNN that Chris Wallace is joining CNN via its new streaming network, CNN+. He will be on five days a week with an interview show.
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “Every day, in other words, Fox News takes another step toward its destiny as The Tucker Carlson Channel,” @ErikWemple writes. “And in that future, there's no room for journalists.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@latimes: The surprising departure makes Chris Wallace the latest in a series of high-profile cable news stars to leave their long-standing posts. https://www.latimes.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: This is exactly how to frame this news, from @brianstelter and @oliverdarcy https://www.cnn.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Tim Young / @timrunshismouth: My joke is now confirmed as accurate. Variety is reporting that Chris Wallace is probably joining CNN. https://variety.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jeffrey Goldberg / @jeffreygoldberg: One of the best interviewers in television news is leaving Fox: https://twitter.com/...
John Dickerson / @jdickerson: A first rate journalist who was very good at what he did because he worked very hard, prepared, had a sense of context, and he listened. https://twitter.com/...
Sam Raskin / New York Post: Chris Wallace leaving Fox News for ‘new adventure’ at CNN streaming service
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “Mr. Wallace's move to CNN+ is one of the biggest signs yet that CNN is investing heavily in its pivot to direct-to-consumer streaming...” https://www.wsj.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: 🚨More on @axios: CNN hires Chris Wallace away from Fox News — Wallace will anchor a new weekday show and will contribute to CNN+'s live programming — 👀Vacancies at major cable nets piling up as more companies begin to invest in streaming alternatives https://www.axios.com/...
David Axelrod / @davidaxelrod: And welcome, Chris, to @CNN! https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: I'm told by multiple sources inside Fox News that this was a shock to journalists at the DC bureau, where Wallace has been based https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: He worked for the devil incarnate for 18 years. Chris Wallace to Leave Fox News https://www.nytimes.com/...
@news_maker: A person familiar with the matter suggested Wallace may be jumping to CNN Plus https://variety.com/...
Trigaux / @venturetampabay: Heading to CNN. All this coverage and press release of his departing are too PC to state the obvious. Wallace finally leaving cult-first, reality-last Fox with one thought: “Enough of these loonbags!” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Clint Watts / @selectedwisdom: I completely understand & yet sad about this “Chris Wallace said he is leaving Fox News, ending an 18-year-run as host of “Fox News Sunday,” the network's flagship weekend show”. https://www.wsj.com/...
Megan Ziegler / FOX 10 Phoenix: Chris Wallace announces departure from FOX News
Jeff Kemp / @jkempcpa: If CNN is setting a new course - and I hope they are - couldn't think of a better first move. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Steinberg / @bristei: Chris Wallace announced Sunday he is leaving Fox News Channel and is said to be joining CNN+. CNN spokespersons could not be reached for immediate comment https://variety.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: The pandemic shift to digital has expedited the shift of cable news talent to streaming, but no network is going to stop seriously investing in linear news programs until sports move out of the cable bundle, and that won't be for another few years. https://twitter.com/...
@wwmtnews: Wallace said he was leaving Fox after 18 years because “I want to try something new, to go beyond politics to all the things I'm interested in. I'm ready for a new adventure and I hope you'll check it out.” https://wwmt.com/...
Caroline Downey / National Review: Chris Wallace Leaving Fox News after 18 Years
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots: Your Sunday Morning BFDs
David Axelrod / @davidaxelrod: Had some bracing sessions with @FoxNewsSunday during my WH/campaign days but always appreciated them. A straight shooter on a network that too often is not, you could rely on Chris Wallace to be tough but fair. All you can ask! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Steven Rattner / @steverattner: Really sad. Chris was a fine journalist and truly fair and balanced. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Marshall / @joshtpm: big hit for ATN https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: That's a good point. Think about all the damage—and death—Fox has caused just over the last couple years, as Wallace gave them cover. https://twitter.com/...
Jessica Huseman / @jessicahuseman: It was only a matter of time I guess https://twitter.com/...
Mike Emanuel / @mikeemanuelfox: I am still stunned by the news. It has been a real pleasure working with Chris over the years. Wishing Chris and his family great health, success and happiness always! It is the end of an era. https://www.wsj.com/...
Rochelle Riley / @rochelleriley: Thus declaring #FoxEntertainment and entertainment channel for real. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Lynch / TVNewser: Chris Wallace Leaving Fox News After 18 Years
Connor Perrett / Insider: Chris Wallace is leaving Fox News after 18 years to join CNN+
Brianna Crummy / Politico: Chris Wallace exits Fox News for CNN+
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Chris Wallace will join CNN as an anchor for CNN+, the streaming subscription service set to debut in Q1 2022 — Chris Wallace is joining CNN as an anchor for CNN+, the much-anticipated streaming subscription service that will debut in Q1 2022. — “I am thrilled to join CNN+.
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal: Chris Wallace to Depart Fox News, Join CNN+ Streaming Service
@cnnpr: We're thrilled to welcome Chris Wallace to CNN as an anchor for @CNNPlus. His new weekday show will feature interviews with newsmakers across politics, business, sports and culture & will contribute to CNN+'s slate of live programming available at launch. https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post: Chris Wallace leaves Fox News for a CNN streaming show: 'I'm ready for a new adventure'
Sinéad Baker / Insider: Chris Wallace's Fox News departure was so secret that even his panelists didn't know about it, report says
Michelangelo Signorile / The Signorile Report: Chris Wallace helped Fox News claim it engaged in “journalism”
Kasie Hunt / @kasie: I could not be more excited to have Chris Wallace as a colleague — it's going to be an honor to be part of the lineup alongside him @CNNplus https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Breaking media news during our media program today: Chris Wallace is joining CNN as an anchor for CNN+ https://twitter.com/...
Erica Hill / @ericarhill: Welcome to the family, Chris Wallace! Thrilled you're joining .@CNNplus https://twitter.com/...
Frida Ghitis / @fridaghitis: Looks like CNNPlus is going to be a very big deal https://twitter.com/...
Emma Roth / The Verge: Chris Wallace leaves Fox News to host weekday show on CNN's new streaming service
Michael M. Grynbaum / @grynbaum: Chris Wallace will join CNN+ as an anchor, CNN confirms. “I look forward to the new freedom and flexibility streaming affords in interviewing major figures across the news landscape, and finding new ways to tell stories,” Wallace says in a statement.
Bianna Golodryga / @biannagolodryga: Fantastic news! Welcome, Chris. 👏 https://twitter.com/...
Matthew S. Schwartz / NPR: Chris Wallace announces abrupt departure from Fox News to join CNN streaming service
Mychael Schnell / The Hill: Politics, media worlds react to Wallace news
Alyssa Farah Griffin / @alyssafarah: Huge get for @CNN https://twitter.com/...
Jamie Gangel / @jamiegangel: Great news - One of my first assignments at NBC was sitting between Chris Wallace and Andrea Mitchell @mitchellreports at the White House. Needless to say, I learned a lot. Thrilled to be working with Chris again. Welcome to @CNN + https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/ ...
Ken Meyer / Mediaite: CNN's Brian Stelter: Chris Wallace's Departure ‘Speaks Volumes’ About Fox News' Increasing ‘Radicalism’
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Wallace is joining @CNNplus. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Politi / Slate: Chris Wallace Leaves Fox News for CNN's New Streaming Service
Bob Cronin / Newser: Chris Wallace Resigns From Fox News
Preet Bharara / @preetbharara: Welcome, Chris Wallace https://twitter.com/...
Emlyn Travis / E! Online: Chris Wallace Leaves Fox News After 18 Years
Jana Winter / Yahoo News:
A deep dive into a secretive US CBP unit that investigated as many as 20 journalists, including NYT's Ali Watkins and AP investigative reporter Martha Mendoza — It was almost 10 p.m. on a Thursday night, and Ali Watkins was walking around the capital following instructions texted by a stranger.
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Byron Tau / @byrontau: An outstanding piece of journalism from @janawinter about how the CBP had a secretive unit called the Counter Network Division that was tasked in part with surveillance of journalists during the Trump years. https://news.yahoo.com/...
@ap: @AP The revelations raised alarm in news organizations and prompted a demand for a full explanation from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. “We are deeply concerned about this apparent abuse of power,” said Lauren Easton, AP's director of media relations. https://apne.ws/fm8GDSr
Martha Mendoza / @mendozamartha: When I learned the federal government reviewed my travel, banking, email, phone information without cause, my greatest concern was for our democracy. Operation Whistle Pig: Inside the secret CBP unit with no rules that investigates Americans https://news.yahoo.com/...
Jana Winter / @janawinter: This is a real important point. I am not saying what Rambo did was great but it was absolutely, at every step of the way, authorized, ordered and rewarded by every (including highest levels) of @CBP management. He shouldn't be fall guy here. This is bigger than him. Much bigger. https://twitter.com/...
@bethanykhan: Wow this is so wild, chilling, but not shocking - CPB investigating journalists and us citizens? Yea, not shocked. Someone write this screenplay and green light this as a HBO miniseries or movie immediately. Title: Operation Whistle Pig https://twitter.com/...
Under No Pretext / @grahamvsworld: This looks like a secret police unit because it is a secret police unit, with all that that entails. https://twitter.com/...
Laila Al-Arian / @lailaalarian: This terrifying baseless, invasive investigation into a journalist was allowed to happen because the surveillance state is massive, powerful and unaccountable, and seemingly operates with no mandate, no rules and only to justify its ever-growing budgets. https://news.yahoo.com/...
Mitchell Prothero / @mitchprothero: inside look at how the feds spy on me and my colleagues is quite an infuriating read tbh https://news.yahoo.com/...
@nixonron: Reupping this incredible investigation by @janawinter and @YahooNews from yesterday. Federal agents should not be rummaging around in travel, financial and terrorist watchlist databases ‘vetting’ journalists to see if there are ‘reputable’ https://news.yahoo.com/...
Aki Peritz / @akiperitz: I keep thinking back to this crazy @janawinter article about these dime-store CBP James Bond-wannabes who operate w few rules and apparently no oversight. This is civil liberties nightmare fuel, run by the Reno911! crew https://news.yahoo.com/...
@marshallproj: A secretive unit operated by Customs and Border Protection used sensitive government databases intended to track terrorists to investigate as many as 20 U.S.-based journalists, @YahooNews reports. https://news.yahoo.com/...
George Joseph / @georgejoseph94: This reporting would have been great already based on the exclusive govt documents, but @janawinter went a step further— finding amazing characters + weaving together a thrilling plot helping us see how far federal surveillance powers have gone: https://twitter.com/...
Ben Norton / @benjaminnorton: US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has a shadowy division that uses secret databases to surveil journalists, government officials, congressional members and their staff, NGO workers, and more. Another form of US authoritarianism and mass surveillance https://news.yahoo.com/...
Shahid Buttar / @shahidforchange: DOJ prosecuting Assange, like DHS investigating journalists, threatens more than freedom of the press. At stake is your right to know about government secrets, crimes, and cover ups (many of which continue), and the constitutional role of the press as a 4th branch of government. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Benacci / The Cavalry: Operation Whistle Pig
Sharon Weinberger / @weinbergersa: One thing we struggled with is what to call what CPB was doing to journalists, others. CBP called these invasive database searches “vetting.” Yet checking travel records to see who's sleeping with whom seems like more. Surveillance? Investigating? Spying? https://news.yahoo.com/...
Shashank Joshi / @shashj: Takeaway from this excellent story is that one unknown and apparently unaccountable department of CBP has free run of US government databases to conduct invasive surveillance on the travel patterns of anyone they deem vaguely or potentially useful to an investigation. https://twitter.com/...
David McBride / @murdochcadell: Read this, especially if you are a journalist. Australia is no different. Except I imagine the blackmail threats often succeed at first instance. Of course the US are the ‘good guys’. ‘Investigating forced labour’. Africa.. China, those bad guys. https://twitter.com/...
Jana Winter / @janawinter: Similarly we tend to focus on things like inside threats by say, russian or Chinese spies, but this story is one of gov officials authorized to do this work, to query these databases and genuinely thought they were doing nothing wrong. And technically they weren't. Which is worse https://twitter.com/...
Leila Fadel / @leilafadel: I would read every word of this investigative piece by @janawinter. It's terrifying, as she notes, this is happening now. https://twitter.com/...
John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton: 2/ Cause for concern: the secretive CBP unit with wide powers, an oversight problem, and a blemished track record... is apparently still operational👇 I wonder how much has changed? https://twitter.com/...
Jana Winter / @janawinter: *has*. @DHS and @cbp still *HAS* a secretive unit called Counter Network Division currently run by literally same people doing same exact thing (despite referrals for criminal prosecution). CND still targeting US citizens not suspected of any crime—under BIDEN administration. https://twitter.com/...
John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton: 3/ After the last scandal like this... AG Garland formally prohibited @TheJusticeDept from seizing reporters' records in leak investigations (there are exceptions). Sounds like @CBP & @DHSgov may be overdue for urgent policy overhaul. https://apnews.com/... https://twitter.com/...
John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton: 4/ Broad powers to surveil and muck about with the free press are a key precondition for authoritarianism. The stakes could not be higher right now. America 🇺🇸 must circumscribe & reform this unchecked authority before it's too late. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Dawsey / @jdawsey1: One of the craziest things I've read in 2021. And that's saying something... https://twitter.com/...
@spaceyg: This is cray! A CBP unit existed to investigate forced labor. If Operation Whistle Pig was tasked with THAT, then why were they hanging around DC speakeasies spooking journalists? And what about Operation Blooming Onion, the recent slave-labor bust in GA? https://news.yahoo.com/...
John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton: NIGHTMARE: no-oversight unit at CBP fished around in private lives of journalists, congressional staffers, possibly congresspeople. Had an agent cooking up psyops. @Deloitte even makes an appearance, helping to track a reporter through social media. https://news.yahoo.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth C. McLaughlin / @ecmclaughlin: Now imagine what they're going to do with data scraping and collection if/when this Republican party is returned to power. Because it won't be confined to undocumented folks or a handful of reporters, I'll tell you that. https://twitter.com/...
@ap: BREAKING: A special Customs and Border Protection unit used sensitive government databases intended to track terrorists to investigate up to 20 U.S.-based journalists, including a Pulitzer Prize-winning AP reporter, according to a federal watchdog. https://apne.ws/gD4NxsZ
Joaquin Castro / @joaquincastrotx: The abuse of government databases by this @DHSgov unit to surveil and act against American citizens, the press and elected officials is detestable and must be stopped. @DHSgov must disband this unit; anyone who perpetrated this abuse should be fired and prosecuted. 1/ https://twitter.com/...
Jason Leopold / @jasonleopold: The 500+ documents that formed the basis of the Yahoo News report on the CBP unit targeting journalists and others can be found here, pried loose via #FOIA a couple months ago by @rcfp https://www.rcfp.org/...
Kenneth P. Vogel / @kenvogel: Lots of troubling details in this story about a government surveillance program targeting journalists. Perhaps most troubling: one of the most aggressive agents was repeatedly praised by @CBP for his efforts, which included monitoring reporters' families. https://news.yahoo.com/...
Edward Snowden / @snowden: CBP abused intelligence databases to trawl through the private lives of 15-20 American journalists in a manner that the Inspector General reported it to the Justice Department as a criminal conspiracy. But the government refused to prosecute. https://news.yahoo.com/...
Jack Shafer / @jackshafer: The secret government unit that spies on journalists (and other Americans), by @janawinter https://news.yahoo.com/...
Jana Winter / @janawinter: I have many things to say about this story but first a huge thanks to my editor @weinbergersa for helping me tell this is a digestible compelling way, to everyone at @YahooNews for help & guidance & to Rambo for risking his job to talk https://news.yahoo.com/...
Mattathias Schwartz / @schwartzesque: When it comes to mass surveillance, we tend to focus on the threat of top-down totalitarianism and underestimate the threat of data-empowered loons conducting search-and-destroy missions as they root through our private lives. @janawinter has the goods... https://news.yahoo.com/...
Zach Dorfman / @zachsdorfman: “The AP demands an immediate explanation from CBP as to why journalists including AP investigative reporter Martha Mendoza were run through databases used to track terrorists,” an AP spokesperson told Yahoo News in a statement. https://news.yahoo.com/...
Ashe Short / @asheschow: LOL at them trying to make it seem like she was in danger because she met a source at The Sheppard. It's one of the most popular “speakeasies” in DC. https://twitter.com/...
Seth Hettena / @seth_hettena: Lots of revelations in this terrific @janawinter story about a CBP investigation that targeted journalists. https://news.yahoo.com/...
Kathy Gannon / @kathygannon: Breathtakingly outrageous https://twitter.com/...
@nixonron: Great and disturbing investigation by @janawinter and @YahooNews. It is simply outrageous that a government agency was ‘vetting’ journalists by running them through databases used to track terrorists. https://news.yahoo.com/...
@nixonron: I can't empathize enough how disturbing this is and to see that my colleague @mendozamartha, one of the most accomplished investigative journalist on the planet, was supposedly ‘vetted’ by @CBP personal rummaging though government databases. https://twitter.com/...
Zach Dorfman / @zachsdorfman: Incredible investigative reporting from @janawinter on a CBP unit that “routinely used the country's most sensitive databases to obtain the travel records & financial & personal information of journalists, gov officials, congressional members & others.” https://news.yahoo.com/...
Sharon Weinberger / @weinbergersa: If the question of mass surveillance is: What's the harm? Here it is. Officials looking into a reporter's romantic relationship. Performing records searches on elected member of Congress and their staff and “connecting” them to the terrorism watchlist. https://news.yahoo.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: “government officials trawling through government databases, looking at the private lives — and even romantic relationships — of U.S. citizens not suspected of any crime, is precisely what civil liberties experts have warned about for years.”— @JanaWinter https://news.yahoo.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Klaidman / @dklaidman: New: A unit with the US Customs and Border Patrol, operating with few rules, routinely scoured sensitive government databases for travel, financial and other personal information on journalists, members of Congress and their staff and others. @janawinter https://news.yahoo.com/...
Stacy-Marie Ishmael / @s_m_i: “he did something that most journalists probably don't expect government officials to do: He ran Watkins through an assortment of databases.” if you're a journalist from certain backgrounds your whole life is knowing you'll be run through databases https://news.yahoo.com/...
Andria Krewson / @underoak: This should be on your weekend reading list. And if you travel internationally, you owe it to your friends and family to travel with an empty phone contact list. https://twitter.com/...
Anthony DeRosa / @anthony: Operation Whistle Pig: Inside the secret CBP unit with no rules that investigates Americans “We are pushing the limits and so there is no norm, there is no guidelines, we are the ones making the guidelines.” https://news.yahoo.com/...
Daniel Schuman / @danielschuman: So, the CBP in the guise of a leak investigation prompted by something entirely unrelated, used all of the federal databases at its disposal to dig into 20+ journalists, their families, and congressional staff + potentially members — without a warrant. https://www.yahoo.com/...
Jon Ward / @jonward11: dude “sipped WhistlePig old fashioneds”? pull his card https://news.yahoo.com/...
Michael Isikoff / @isikoff: Wow. It doesn't get any more bizarre-or disturbing- than this: A secret DHS/CPB program that investigated journalists, tapping into govt. databases to obtain their phone, travel records & other personal data. @janawinter #OperationWhistlePig https://news.yahoo.com/...
Matthew Zeitlin / @mattzeitlin: How many media outlets essentially did this operation's work for it by writing titillating stories pulled from indictments that are for fairly narrowly circumscribed crimes but include a ton of embarrassing narrative detail https://twitter.com/...
Sharon Weinberger / @weinbergersa: This morning we published @janawinter's article on a secret CBP unit that investigates journalists, members of Congress and other unsuspecting Americans. In 20 yrs of journalism, it's one of the strangest & most and disturbing stories I've encountered. https://news.yahoo.com/...
Jenn Budd / @buddjenn: The unit w/in @CBP being described as taking orders on who to investigate from the Trump White House is Stasi level secret & illegal investigations. Congress must investigate. Operation Whistle Pig: Inside the secret CBP unit https://news.yahoo.com/...
Sharon Weinberger / @weinbergersa: Exclusive: The leak investigation that targeted @nytimes' Ali Watkins wasn't an isolated incident. The CBP unit that sparked the probe also trawled the records of journalists, congressional staffers and lawmakers. @janawinter on Operation Whistle Pig. https://news.yahoo.com/...
Hamed Aleaziz / @haleaziz: An absolutely insane/shocking/disturbing investigation by @janawinter: https://www.yahoo.com/...
Valerie Hopkins / New York Times:
At the Oslo awards ceremony, Nobel Prize winners Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov call for peace, a renewed commitment to democracy, and support for a free press — At an awards ceremony in Oslo, Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitri A. Muratov of Russia called for peace, democratic renewal and support for a free press.
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@nobelprize: “Without facts, you can't have truth. Without truth, you can't have trust. Without trust, we have no shared reality, no democracy, and it becomes impossible to deal with our world's existential problems...” Read @mariaressa's full #NobelPrize lecture: https://www.nobelprize.org/... https://twitter.com/...
CCJ / @nastyoldwomyn: I wonder how many @nytimes journalists are taking this to heart? @deanbaquet? https://twitter.com/...
@fccthai: If you haven't watched @mariaressa speaking at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony yet, here is the link. An important speech for journalism and for anyone who cares about human rights. #HoldTheLine https://www.rappler.com/...
@hoybraten: And This: «Now, please, with me, close your eyes. And imagine the world as it should be. A world of peace, trust and empathy, bringing out the best that we can be. Now let's go and make it happen. Let's hold the line. Together.» @mariaressa https://twitter.com/...
Maya / @mayasharona: “Without access to trustworthy independent news, populations are left in the dark, governments grow corrupt and democratic institutions soon become a sham.” Thank you @mariaressa for your courage and vision. @nytimes @nytopinion https://www.nytimes.com/...
Bruna Martins dos Santos / @boomartins: And @mariaressa speech at the Nobel prize ceremony is our mandatory reading of the week! https://twitter.com/...
Maria Galli / @davieclan: “The destruction has happened. Now it's time to build - to create the world we want...Now, please, with me, close your eyes. And imagine the world as it should be. A world of peace, trust and empathy, bringing out the best that we can be.” Maria Ressa Nobel Peace Prize 2021 https://twitter.com/...
Steven Lee Myers / @stevenleemyers: “Our greatest need today is to transform that hate and violence, the toxic sludge that's coursing through our information ecosystem, prioritized by American internet companies that make more money by spreading that hate...” @mariaressa https://www.nytimes.com/...
Victor Pickard / @vwpickard: Key argument by @mariaressa and Mark Thompson on how the market poses an existential threat to journalism alongside state-sponsored oppression: “Independent news companies face a second, more insidious but potentially no less lethal threat: bankruptcy.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Steven Hassan, PhD / @cultexpert: A vibrant and well funded independent media is vital to combat authoritarians! Media that depends on advertisers are too easy to exert undue influence and ignore the primacy of the public good! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jean Vengua / Eulipion Outpost: 12/11/2021 #44 — We've had a dip in temperature (and remember, I'm in central California …
Anne Applebaum / @anneapplebaum: from Maria Ressa's Nobel prize speech: “Every day, I live with the real threat of spending the rest of my life in jail just because I'm a journalist. When I go home, I have no idea what the future holds, but it's worth the risk.” https://www.nobelprize.org/...
Anne Applebaum / @anneapplebaum: From Dmitry Muratov's Nobel prize speech: “I want journalists to die old.” https://www.nobelprize.org/...
Alex Thompson / @alexthomp: Journalist Maria Ressa, accepting her Nobel prize, goes off on tech: “These American companies controlling our global information ecosystem are biased against facts, biased against journalists..They are — by design — dividing us and radicalizing us.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sheelah Kolhatkar / @sheelahk: Stunning of critique of tech platforms from Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa: “These American companies controlling our global information ecosystem are biased against facts, biased against journalists... They are-by design-dividing us and radicalizing us.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimes: Maria Ressa and Dmitri Muratov, the journalists awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, used their acceptance speeches to issue dire warnings about the threats to democracies and call for greater accountability for social media companies. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kenneth Roth / @kenroth: As the receive their Nobel Peace Prizes, Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov seek renewal of our commitment to democracy and media freedom. They also call for greater accountability for hate and violence promoted on social media. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@jenniferpreston: Thank you @mariaressa for also using your #Nobel lecture to announce the start of one of the most ambitious philanthropic funds for independent journalism around the world! Congrats to you and former @nytimes ceo Mark Thompson. Details: https://nytimes.com/... #holdtheline 4/4
Frank Langfitt / NPR: Nobel Peace laureates blast tech giants and warn against rising authoritarianism
Mary Fitzgerald / openDemocracy: Journalists' Nobel Peace Prize casts a shadow on failures of our democracy
Natalia Antelava / @antelava: This is @mariaressa 's historic speech in full. If you have any interest in journalism you must read it in full. If you have the vaguest interest in the future of our planet you MUST read it in full https://www.rappler.com/...
Tai Nalon / @tainalon: “We need information ecosystems that live and die by facts. We do this by shifting social priorities to rebuild journalism for the 21st century while regulating and outlawing the surveillance economics that profit from hate and lies.” (@mariaressa) https://twitter.com/...
@doughtystpublic: Journalists @mariaressa & Dmitry Muratov awarded the #NobelPeacePrize today. Ms Ressa is represented by an international legal team jointly led by Amal Clooney & @caoilfhionnanna @DoughtyStIntl, working with @Can_Yeginsu @ClaireOverman @CovingtonLLP. Read Maria's speech here: https://twitter.com/...
Jackie Malton / @thursley: This is brilliant. Shame quite a few people don't understand that without truth you can't have trust... https://twitter.com/...
Sara Wahedi / @sarawahedi: Precisely why I am so passionate about data-driven policy in Afghanistan. Without facts, we've become used to solving problems with metaphorical band-aids, unable to follow patterns and trends to help us find solutions. We have much to learn from you, @mariaressa. https://twitter.com/...
Ziauddin Yousafzai / @ziauddiny: What an incredible and mind-blowing Nobel Prize lecture! Thank you @mariaressa for every word you said. Thank your for your vision and wisdom for a better world.#NobelPeacePrize https://twitter.com/...
Icij / @icijorg: In their @NobelPrize acceptance speeches, @mariaressa and Dmitry Muratov stressed the importance of independent reporting in defending against authoritarian regimes, and held a minute of silence during the ceremony to honor journalists killed on the job. https://www.aljazeera.com/...
Valerie Hopkins / @valeriein140: I spent my afternoon watching the Nobel speeches of Maria Ressa and Dmitri Muratov. Both were impassioned pleas for a better world that they believe is within our grasp — one in which journalists play a crucial role. “We are the antidote against tyranny.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Abdi Latif Dahir / @lattif: “These American companies controlling our global information ecosystem are biased against facts, biased against journalists,” @mariaressa said in her Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech on Friday. “They are — by design — dividing us and radicalizing us.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Joel Simon / The Guardian: In the battle between truth and lies, we must protect the world's journalists
Mark Little / @marklittlenews: “What are you willing to sacrifice for the Truth?” One for the ages! #HoldTheLine https://twitter.com/...
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: “I stand before you, a representative of every journalist around the world who is forced to sacrifice so much to hold the line, to stay true to our values and mission: to bring you the truth and hold power to account.” https://twitter.com/...
@kerrymflynn: .@mariaressa + Mark Thompson on @FundFreeMedia supporting independent journalism globally: “We both know that the great political and cultural battles that free media faces everywhere can only be won if we first stabilize and future-proof its economics” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Raymund Antonio / Manila Bulletin: Nobel Prize honors Ressa's ‘courage in service of others’, says Robredo
Valerie Hopkins / New York Times: As Muratov Accepts Nobel, Legacy of His Russian Predecessors Recedes
Nerijus Adomaitis / Reuters: Social media platforms jeopardise elections, Nobel Peace laureate Ressa says
Jan M. Olsen / The Independent: Nobel Peace Prize winners say independent journalism can counter tyranny
Democracy Now: “Hold the Line”: Watch Filipina Journalist Maria Ressa's Full Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
Rebecca Ratcliffe / The Guardian: Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov receive Nobel peace prize
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
The International Fund for Public Interest Media, led by Mark Thompson and Maria Ressa, says it is looking to raise $100M after the US pledges up to $30M
The International Fund for Public Interest Media, led by Mark Thompson and Maria Ressa, says it is looking to raise $100M after the US pledges up to $30M
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Colin Crowell / @colincrowell: “The big picture: Journalists have faced record levels of persecution globally during the pandemic, which has empowered autocrats to go after the free press with arbitrary measures like ‘fake news’ laws and internet blackouts.” @mariaressa @FundFreeMedia https://www.axios.com/...
Paul Rosenberg / @paulhrosenberg: How about a domestic effort to fund local public interest news? The democracy you save could be your own. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “The U.S. will invest up to $30 million in a new initiative, led by news veterans, called The International Fund for Public Interest Media, to protect the free press globally.” https://www.axios.com/... Co-chairs: Nobel winner @mariaressa and Mark Thompson, ex CEO, New York Times.
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: NEW @axios: Spoke w Mark Thompson about new Intl media fund he co-chairs w Maria Ressa - Looking to raise $100m - Received $30m commitment from US, $1m from Taiwan, undisclosed amounts from NZ, France - In “serious conversations” w 15 more govs about funds https://www.axios.com/...
@pressfreedom: “This is the sixth year in a row that CPJ has documented record numbers of journalists imprisoned around the world,” said @Joelcpj. “Governments are determined to control and manage information, and they are increasingly brazen in their efforts to do so.” https://cpj.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Axios:
Some current and former BuzzFeed staff can't sell their stock amid a steep price drop, due to poor communication from BuzzFeed and its stock transfer agent — Many early BuzzFeed employees remain unable to sell their shares, even though the company went public this past Monday.
Discussion:
New Yorker, What's New in Publishing, CNBC, @danprimack, @danprimack, @sherman4949, @sarafischer, @ariannarebolini, @ariannarebolini, @raymondsultan, @ariannarebolini, @raymondsultan, @eringriffith, @danablankenhorn, @stevekandell, @mariskreizman, @oliverdarcy, @eringriffith, @nkulw, @mediainsider, @sapna, @juliareinstein, @dalrymple, @nycsouthpaw, Insider and @perlberg
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Clare Malone / New Yorker: How Former BuzzFeed Employees Missed Their Big Payday
Dan Primack / @danprimack: As BuzzFeed heads into its second trading week, two thoughts: 1/ stock transfer agents are opaque, and there's no indication that BuzzFeed knew it's ex-employees would have troubles trading.
Dan Primack / @danprimack: 2/ ex-employees have relationship w/ BF, not transfer agent. If they aren't already working on a class action lawsuit, I'd be surprised. More surprised, though, that BuzzFeed isn't heading this off by making these people whole. Icymi: https://www.axios.com/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: Bustle Digital CEO Bryan Goldberg told me he bought “a fuck-ton” of BuzzFeed shares at $6 a pop and he'll “really back up the truck” if shares fall further. https://twitter.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: New with @danprimack: Blunder prevents early BuzzFeed employees from selling their shares — The situation is exacerbated by steep price drop, and a stock conversion ratio that already has caused some early employees to be underwater https://www.axios.com/...
Arianna Rebolini / @ariannarebolini: I still can't sell my shares but I did just get this check for $1.67 from BuzzFeed's transfer agent so that is...something https://twitter.com/...
Arianna Rebolini / @ariannarebolini: @RaymondSultan Sure I just have five or six conflicting documents I need you to print out and sign and then fax to me
Ray / @raymondsultan: @AriannaRebolini fuck, you're a billionaire compared to the rest of us schlubs
Arianna Rebolini / @ariannarebolini: I keep thinking of me last week, so excited at the prospect of being able to pay off my student loans 🤡🤡🤡🤡 🤡🤡🤡🤡 which I could have done if I'd been able to sell, on Monday, the shares I've owned for five years! but lol it's fine, i'm fine https://twitter.com/...
Erin Griffith / @eringriffith: @Wolfkenn Startups generate a ton of wealth and those companies created many millionaires. But there are so many other stories of employees getting screwed and those don't get told as often.
@danablankenhorn: I wrote this a few days ago but it still holds: $BZFD Buzzfeed lands with a Thud. https://investorplace.com/... Note the implications, because they go well beyond the market.
Maris Kreizman / @mariskreizman: Remember the episode of Succession when Kendall laid off everyone at Vaulter and then shoplifted some batteries and threw them in the trash? That's this. https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “Many early BuzzFeed employees remain unable to sell their shares, even though the company went public this past Monday...” https://www.axios.com/...
Erin Griffith / @eringriffith: the story of startup employees getting screwed on shares is a tale as old as time https://www.axios.com/...
Noah Kulwin / @nkulw: I've been given shares of two companies and at no point did I ever treat them as worth more than the paper that they were signed on https://www.axios.com/...
@mediainsider: BuzzFeed began trading on Monday, closing down 11%. Former staffers complained of delays and confusion in converting their options into shares. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Sapna Maheshwari / @sapna: seems unusual that so many former BuzzFeed employees can't do anything with their shares due to administrative issues that will take a week or more to resolve. wonder what that means for the stock price? https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Julia Reinstein / @juliareinstein: “BuzzFeed stock has fallen more than 40%, and so far the company has given no indication that it plans to compensate its former employees for their accelerating losses... It did not, and has not, apologized.” https://twitter.com/...
Jim Dalrymple II / @dalrymple: I am not an attorney, but this seems like it should be a fairly straightforward lawsuit? https://twitter.com/...
Southpaw / @nycsouthpaw: BuzzFeed screws early employees who hold shares with surprise paperwork and delays as IPO price gets cut nearly in half. https://www.axios.com/...
Steven Perlberg / Insider: Some ex-BuzzFeed staffers are fuming that they couldn't immediately dump their shares after the company's public debut
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Maxwell Strachan / VICE:
In Slack posts, Jonah Peretti denies “speculation” that big investors and execs could trade BuzzFeed stock ahead of others, blames transfer agent for problems
In Slack posts, Jonah Peretti denies “speculation” that big investors and execs could trade BuzzFeed stock ahead of others, blames transfer agent for problems
Discussion:
@scottdeveau, @vice, @motherboard, @lorenzofb, @mollyhc, @andrewfeinberg, @timmarchman, @timmarchman, @bombur, @timmarchman and @maxwellstrachan
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Scott Deveau / @scottdeveau: “The crux of the issue is this: At least some former employees who believed in the future of the company enough to exercise their options have found themselves unable to sell” https://www.vice.com/...
@vice: Workers who had money on the line are very upset about about having been part of the SPAC from hell. https://www.vice.com/...
@motherboard: “It's been almost a week, and myself and former BuzzFeed employees have not been able to trade the shares we have earned and paid for because of a fuck up by management,” one former employee tweeted Thursday. https://www.vice.com/...
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / @lorenzofb: I love working in media because it's such a good sustainable business run by execs who not only understand it, but also care deeply about it. https://www.vice.com/...
Molly Hensley-Clancy / @mollyhc: Axios sums up the absolute mess of a situation with BuzzFeed and former employees' stock options pretty well https://www.axios.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Feinberg / @andrewfeinberg: It would be nice if there's a way to send the executives who were able to cash out to prison for this while liquidating their assets to compensate all the people whose work they profited from before screwing them over. https://www.vice.com/...
Tim Marchman / @timmarchman: This is a bit in the weeds (read the blog) but a BuzzFeed flack strongly insisted that execs getting to convert their unsaleable shares to saleable ones before peons could was not part of an evil scheme, suggesting the execs are incompetent dipshits: https://twitter.com/...
Tim Marchman / @timmarchman: Hovering over all of this, of course, is the New York Times inexplicably allowing a superstar writer, a former BuzzFeed News editor, to do something seemingly plainly against its own ethics policy: https://slate.com/...
Mike Epstein / @bombur: Cool cool cool. Cool. Cool cool. https://www.vice.com/...
Tim Marchman / @timmarchman: NEW: BuzzFeed boss blames SPAC debacle that's fucked over former workers on third party, which essentially put on a fake mustache and said “Wrong number!” and hung up when @maxwellstrachan reached out while trying to get the the bottom of the catastrophe: https://www.vice.com/...
Katherine Huggins / Mediaite:
CNN hires Alyssa Farah as a political commentator; she served as press secretary for Mike Pence and DOD and was White House communications director in 2020 — Alyssa Farah, previously the White House communications director for former President Donald Trump, will join CNN as a political commentator.
Discussion:
Politico, @rolandsmartin, @mondairejones, @aaschapiro, @emmavigeland, @markhughesfilms, @tallyannae, @genepark and Barrett Media
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@rolandsmartin: Y'all shocked that @CNN hired serial Donald Trump liar @Alyssafarah? https://twitter.com/...
Mondaire Jones / @mondairejones: History will record that media outlets were complicit in the demise of our democracy. https://twitter.com/...
Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro: CNN is hiring Trump's former Communications Director, Alyssa Farah, who spent 3 1/2 years in the Trump admin. Here she is in Oct, 2020 telling the press corps that Trump's COVID-19 test result was his “private medical history.” https://www.youtube.com/... https://www.mediaite.com/...
Emma Vigeland / @emmavigeland: I wish I loved anything as much as cable news loves hiring loathsome Republicans just because they criticized Trump. The woman was literally a WorldNetDaily “correspondent.” https://twitter.com/...
Mark Hughes / @markhughesfilms: .@CNN hiring a bunch of rightwing media folks is a sign it's time to switch channels. Even the “best” of them spent years excluding racism & authoritarianism, questioned climate crisis, promoted misogyny, & cheered wealth inequality. Fuck this whitewashing of reputations. https://twitter.com/...
@tallyannae: This tracks 100%. What used to be @CNN is now Fox-Lite and getting more Fox-like everyday. https://mediaite.com/a/sqykb via @mediaite
Gene Park / @genepark: oh cnn using that leftover Chris Cuomo money to fill their “people our audience shouldn't trust” quota. I do not understand why broadcast news spends hundreds of thousands if not millions to hire political partisans like George stephanopoulos and this one https://twitter.com/...
Ben Quinn / The Guardian:
The UK high court rules Julian Assange can be extradited to the US to face espionage charges, overturning a previous judgment in January — Decision overturns previous ruling that Wikileaks co-founder could not be extradited due to mental health concerns — Julian Assange can be extradited …
Discussion:
Daily Mail, New York Times, @judiciaryuk, @ajenglish, @adamwagner1, Caitlin’s Newsletter, @wikileaks, @julianhillmp, @deacampaign, @cdeloire, @englishpen, @_arianna, Vanity Fair, Committee to Protect …, @louisemensch, @senator_patrick, @suigenerisjen, @guillaumelong, @wikileaks, @drjillstein, Defend WikiLeaks, @greenpartymolly, @claredalymep, @claredalymep, @aiww, @ianbohen, @snowden, @schwarz, @schwarz, @pressfreedom, @simonowens, @leecamp, BBC, Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, @charlie_savage, @janet_rice, @arusbridger, @benjaminnorton, @clarkemicah, @georgemonbiot, @cijournalism, @b_obermayer, @wikileaks, @wikileaks, @daveg, @agent_of_change, @jnhanvey, Variety, Washington Post, Ars Technica, Reuters, Axios and Bloomberg
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Sarah Oliver / Daily Mail: Julian Assange has a stroke in Belmarsh prison: Fiancée blames extreme stress caused by US extradition battle
@judiciaryuk: USA -v- Julian Assange: Full judgment and summary of High Court decision available here https://www.judiciary.uk/...
Al Jazeera English / @ajenglish: The US has won an appeal over the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. His partner Stella Moris slammed the UK court decision as ‘cynical’. Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Adam Wagner / @adamwagner1: The extradition of Julian Assange is troubling as it so directly relates to work which - at least in significant proportion - was journalistic. There are freedom of expression issues at stake, no matter what you may think of him as a person https://twitter.com/...
Caitlin Johnstone / Caitlin’s Newsletter: They're Killing Him: Assange's Stroke Reveals The Western Version Of The Saudi Bone Saw
@wikileaks: Assange Lawyer: “It is highly disturbing that a U.K. court has overturned a decision not to extradite Assange, accepting vague assurances by the US government, which has reportedly plotted to kidnap or even assassinate Mr. Assange” #FreeAssangeNOW https://www.newsweek.com/...
Julian Hill MP / @julianhillmp: There will never be a legal solution to Julian Assange's case. It is an inherently political witch-hunt. The Australian Government must stand up to the US and the UK and stop this extradition. #auspol #Assange
@deacampaign: MUST READ: @AmnestyEU Director Nils Muižnieks on Assange extradition ruling: “This is a travesty of justice.” #TravestyOfJustice #NoExtradition #FreeAssangeNOW @amnesty https://twitter.com/...
Christophe Deloire / @cdeloire: THREAD We condemn today's UK High Court decision to allow the extradition of Julian Assange to the US, which will prove historic for all the wrong reasons. We fully believe that Julian Assange has been targeted for his contributions to journalism. https://twitter.com/...
English Pen / @englishpen: PEN centres condemn the decision of the High Court to clear the way for Julian #Assange to be extradited to the USA. This decision is a shocking blow to media freedom, with far reaching implications for investigative journalism worldwide. Our statement: https://www.englishpen.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Arianna Ciccone / @_arianna: “On the same day the Nobel Peace Prize honors journalists, a UK court ruled that the United States can extradite Julian Assange, a move that seriously damages journalism,” said @pressfreedom Deputy Executive Director Robert Mahoney. https://cpj.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Caleb Ecarma / Vanity Fair: Julian Assange's U.S. Extradition Ruling Strikes a Blow to Press Freedom
Jennifer Dunham / Committee to Protect Journalists: British court rules WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to the US
Louise Mensch / @louisemensch: The judgement and its EXECSUM are both here; Legal Twitter should check out the full judgement, which discusses, and rejects, Julian Assange's case for cross-appeal on various grounds. It seems probable no Wikileaks appeal will succeed, even if granted, which must be doubtful. https://twitter.com/...
Rex Patrick / @senator_patrick: While Julian #Assange will appeal, the Australian Government should be actively pressing the British Home Secretary not to allow extradition. Aside from the humanitarian dimension, Assange's case is absolutely critical to #MediaFreedom worldwide. #auspol https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Jen Robinson / @suigenerisjen: On #HumanRightsDay and the day the #NobelPeacePrize goes to journalists at risk, the High Court decides that #Assange can be extradited to the US - despite accepting the earlier findings on his mental health and suicide risk - relying only on US assurances: https://twitter.com/...
Guillaume Long / @guillaumelong: This news is devastating. The persecution of Julian Assange is a disgrace. Meanwhile, Biden is holding his cynical “democracy summit”. End the hypocrisy! End the cruelty! https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
@wikileaks: Assange Fiancee Stella Moris: A “Grave miscarriage of justice” “How can it be fair, how can it be right, how can it be possible, to extradite Julian to the very country which plotted to kill him?” #FreeAssangeNOW https://defend.wikileaks.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Jill Stein / @drjillstein: The UK & US have struck again in the 9+ year persecution of political prisoner Julian Assange - for publishing the truth about US war crimes & lies. This assault on press freedom, judicial integrity and human rights puts us all at risk. Fight on for his freedom to defend our own! https://twitter.com/...
@greenpartymolly: It's not often I agree with David Davis but he is absolutely right about this Assange has no chance of a fair trial in the US and will be persecuted for embarrassing the US state Between US and UK extradition is a one-way street #FreeAssange https://twitter.com/...
Clare Daly / @claredalymep: One of the investigative journalists behind #PanamaPapers story. Consensus in the industry & among representative bodies that extradition of Assange is an attack on journalism. Opinion columnists & mainstream political parties lag behind. That must change. https://twitter.com/...
Clare Daly / @claredalymep: Civil society groups who deal with fundamental rights and freedom of expression are in agreement on the #Assange case. Here is the Secretary General of @RSF_inter condemning today's decision to extradite. Will members of @europarl_en take note? https://twitter.com/...
@aiww: free Assange will be necessary and precondition for the freedom of speech in today's political environment. https://twitter.com/...
Ian Bohen / @ianbohen: Please educate yourself about the details of Julian Assange's case and what it means to our US democracy. https://twitter.com/...
Edward Snowden / @snowden: “Not a journalist,” chants the mob, unwittingly lobbying for the rights to speak and publish to be afforded only to a class of corporate media businesses consecrated by the state. It doesn't matter if Assange is a hobo on a soapbox: the First Amendment protects everyone equally.
Jon Schwarz / @schwarz: This is extremely bad news. If the US succeeds in extraditing Assange, it will be a catastrophe for press freedom in America and around the world. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jon Schwarz / @schwarz: I remember when lots of people ridiculed the idea that Assange had any reason to fear being extradited to the US. What a paranoid self-dramatizing weirdo, they said. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@pressfreedom: CPJ is deeply disappointed by a British court's decision to uphold the United States Justice Department's appeal to extradite #JulianAssange, which allows the U.S. to continue pursuing the extradition of the WikiLeaks founder. @TheJusticeDept https://cpj.org/...
Simon Owens / @simonowens: Kind of boggles the mind that you can prosecute a non-US citizen who wasn't even in the US for publishing US secrets. https://twitter.com/...
@leecamp: British court has ruled Julian Assange can be extradited to the same country that plotted to kill him - the US. I've never been so disgusted. We must continue to fight for his freedom. https://twitter.com/...
Becky Morton / BBC: Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules
Julian Paul Assange / Courts and Tribunals Judiciary: USA -v- Julian Assange
Charlie Savage / @charlie_savage: The UK court ruling that Julian Assange can be extradited to the USA after all will be appealed, so this stage isn't over. But his transfer to the United States could set off a momentous constitutional battle. w/ my colleague in London @meganspecia https://www.nytimes.com/...
Janet Rice / @janet_rice: Such a gut wrenching decision. We will keep fighting. @MarisePayne is the Australian government going to intervene now for this Australian citizen being appallingly persecuted for publishing details of warcrimes? https://twitter.com/...
Alan Rusbridger / @arusbridger: The go-ahead to extradite Julian Assange appears to be on very narrow legal grounds. I hope there's an opportuinty for the wider arguments to be aired and appealed https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Ben Norton / @benjaminnorton: It's impossible to overstate the hypocrisy of the US government: Yesterday it held a bogus Summit for “Democracy” Today the UK ruled the US can extradite Assange, to throw him in a dungeon for doing journalism The US is a monstrous authoritarian regime https://defend.wikileaks.org/ ...
Peter Hitchens / @clarkemicah: The British government must not permit the extradition of Julian Assange to the USA. The case is clearly political, and to surrender him to the US penal system would be to declare ourselves a vassal state of the USA, not a sovereign nation. Johnson surely knows this.
George Monbiot / @georgemonbiot: This is outrageous. Julian Assange is not being legitimately prosecuted. He's being persecuted. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
@cijournalism: A shocking judgement, in a never-ending legal noose around investigative journalism: Assange can be extradited, the UK High Court now decides. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Bastian Obermayer / @b_obermayer: Terrible ruling. Makes journalism a crime. 👉👉Julian Assange can be extradited to US to face espionage charges, court rules https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
@wikileaks: Julian Assange fiancee @StellaMoris1: “How can it be fair, how can it be right, how can it be possible, to extradite Julian to the very country which plotted to kill him?” #FreeAssangeNOW #AssangeCase https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@wikileaks: WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Kristinn Hrafnsson: “Julian's life is once more under grave threat, and so is the right of journalists to publish material that governments and corporations find inconvenient #AssangeCase #FreeAssangeNOW https://defend.wikileaks.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
David Galbraith / @daveg: I'm sure the Assange put lots of people's lives in danger but the route that got him to be extradited involved making sure he was incarcerated without trial, for years. The most obvious stitch up. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Carlos Martinez / @agent_of_change: Assange is being punished for his role exposing imperialist war crimes. A painful reminder that the principles of democracy don't apply to those that offer meaningful resistance to the untrammelled rule of capital. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Naman Ramachandran / Variety: Julian Assange Could Be Extradited to the U.S. After U.K. Court Ruling
William Booth / Washington Post: British High Court rules in favor of U.S. extradition of Julian Assange
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: US wins appeal against UK ruling that blocked Julian Assange's extradition
Andrew Macaskill / Reuters: WikiLeaks founder Assange one step closer to extradition to United States
Zachary Basu / Axios: U.S. wins appeal on extradition of Julian Assange
Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
Tech improvements helped news outlets like the NYT, the LAT, and The New Yorker become more competitive with short documentaries, taking on HBO at the Oscars — News outlets have embraced original streaming content, resulting in Oscar-qualifying documentary shorts: “This explosion …
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@dayofrage: A story by @alexweprin at @THR on how newsroom video strategies are altering the short documentary space. ‘Day of Rage’ is a rare film to emerge from the @nytimes newsroom, reported and produced by journalists on the Visual Investigations team. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Financial Times:
Profile of Disney CEO Bob Chapek, whose top priorities include Disney+ and the metaverse, as the “parks guy” brought the company back from pandemic lows — Bob Chapek borrowed billions and sidelined insiders. It's all part of the plan — exclusive — Bob Chapek is in his element.
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Taneth Autumn Evans / @tanethautumn: “It's not about what we love, it's about what the consumer loves. They will be our guide.” AKA smart man listens to customer needs, old guard kick off because change means losing their fat bonuses... https://www.ft.com/...
@financialtimes: But in his pursuit of digital growth, Disney's CEO angered theatre owners, stars — most notably Scarlett Johansson — and some of his own employees. Releasing major movies on streaming the same day that they debuted in theatres was wildly unpopular https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@financialtimes: With audiences trapped at home during Covid lockdowns, Bob Chapek moved aggressively to promote Disney Plus, the company's primary weapon in the streaming wars against Netflix and Amazon. And it worked: subscriptions soared https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@financialtimes: Executives say streaming is the biggest burst of innovation since the 1930s studio gold rush. But it requires old media groups to dismantle the very business models they've counted on for profits. Will Bob Chapek and Disney win through? https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal:
Sirius XM hires Disney's Joe Inzerillo, who played a key role in launching Disney+, as its chief product and technology officer — Satellite radio company bets on one of streaming tech's key designers to help attract listeners beyond the car — Satellite radio broadcaster SiriusXM …
Zeyi Yang / Protocol:
Dot Dot Stand, an English-language “third-party tech blog” covering China with 13K Twitter followers appears to be operated by Tencent's public relation arm — With about 13,000 Twitter followers, Dot Dot Stand looks like a promising new publication covering China's technology trends.
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Byron Wan / @byron_wan: Dot Dot Stand looks like a promising new publication covering China's technology trends, describing itself as “a third-party tech blog” with no stated institutional affiliations. But there's a twist: Dot Dot Stand appears to be operated by Tencent's 1/2 https://www.protocol.com/...
@zeyiyang: This has been a fun sleuthing week: my latest story With about 13k Twitter followers, @dot_stand, a self-described “third-party tech blog” looks like a promising new publication. But it appears to be actually operated by Tencent's public relations arm. https://www.protocol.com/...
Knight First Amendment Institute:
Proposal: all major digital ad platforms should disclose impressions, targeting placement, delivery data, creative data, to be stored in public FTC databases — Proposal spells out criteria that trigger transparency requirement, with ad data to be collected by government agency
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Katie Harbath / @katieharbath: I like this framework from @LauraEdelson2 @efranklinfowler @mmfranz and @tnridout1. My only small suggestion is adding some standard way for keeping lists of political accounts whose ads should always be considered political. That too is harder than one may think. https://twitter.com/...
Jameel Jaffer / @jameeljaffer: Excited that @knightcolumbia got to publish this excellent, careful, readable paper explaining why ad transparency is important, and what an ad transparency mandate should look like. Thanks to @LauraEdelson2 @jcchuang @efranklinfowler @mmfranz @tnridout1 https://knightcolumbia.org/...
@knightcolumbia: Standard would push for: 1) Public disclosure of impressions, targeting placement, delivery & creative data. 2) Content removal details & decision-making process. 3) Recommendation that #FTC store data in public databases available for up to 7 years to users & researchers.
Laura Edelson / @lauraedelson2: We've been working on this idea for years, but it's also in the zeitgeist. @ChrisCoons , @robportman , and @SenAmyKlobuchar are proposing legislation today that calls for greater transparency in a wide range of areas, including Universal Ad Transparency. https://www.wsj.com/...
Laura Edelson / @lauraedelson2: Also new from me, @jcchuang , @efranklinfowler , @mmfranz, and @tnridout1 : A standard for Universal Digital Ad Transparency. Platforms say that transparency is hard, and it is. But this is a blueprint that can work for the entire digital ad industry. https://knightcolumbia.org/...