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Steven Perlberg / Insider:
Memo: NYT's Dean Baquet tells staff Twitter presence is “purely optional”, to “meaningfully reduce” time on the site, and attacking colleagues is “not allowed” — - NYT Executive Editor Dean Baquet said in a memo that Twitter is now “purely optional” for staffers.
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Sarah Ellison / @sarahellison: Dean Baquet just announced a major shift in policy for NYT reporters on Twitter. Per an internal memo: “A Reset in our approach to Twitter,” he writes: that “maintaining a presence on Twitter and social media isn ow purely optional for Times journalists.”
Steven Perlberg / @perlberg: New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet has issued a Twitter “reset” for the newsroom, urging reporters to “meaningfully reduce” their twitter time and reminding them that tweets and subtweets attacking or undermining their colleagues are not allowed https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: The NYT announced a new policy on Twitter today and it's very disappointing and contradictory to see. This is not how a newsroom should approach the internet or social media. It only deepens the NYT's vulnerability to bad faith attacks. Let me break it down https://twitter.com/...
Megan McArdle / @asymmetricinfo: Apparently the New York Times issued a new social media policy today. Unfortunately, it doesn't do what every major newsroom ought to, which is tell employees they have to get the hell off Twitter: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Angel / @angelmendoza___: we're cancelling each other over newsroom social media policy takes today. post your cancellable newsroom social media policy take.
Delia Cai / @delia_cai: if the nyt wanted an actually effective twitter policy it would just be “every time you tweet you will be assigned to expand on that as a story” boom problem solved no one will ever twet again
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: I wrote my response to The Times regarding social media three years ago. The paper is turning its back on the people too long not heard or represented in its pages. This is an abuse of its power. https://medium.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Social media is the real world, especially for the last 2 yrs I would hope newsrooms would recognize that. When ur obsessively focused on policing employee speech & expression 24/7 that makes it harder for ppl to do their jobs, it makes staff more vulnerable to bad faith attacks
Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast: New York Times to Staff: Maybe Chill Out on Twitter a Bit
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Newsroom social media policies need to recognize that social media isn't just some place u log on to promote ur stories, it is where we live, socialize, date, connect, vent, cope, & more. Policies like this are regressive and not consistent w/ how younger ppl use the internet.
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: This is such an important factor: It's not just that journalists who turn away from Twitter turn away from voices they ignore, it's that they turn away from accountability. https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: If twitter isn't the public editor anymore, I think they should probably hire one. https://twitter.com/...
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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review: When it comes to how journalists use it, there's no such thing as ‘Twitter’
Wagatwe Wanjuki / @wagatwe: Newsroom social media policies are arbitrarily enforced and mainly exist to push out staff management doesn't like https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: For the majority of my career I ran social strategy for newsrooms. I wrote social media guidelines for large media cos. A good social policy is about *supporting* your staff, protecting them against bad faith attacks, and recognizing that we all live as full humans online now
Becket Adams / @becketadams: says quite a bit about the NYT's workplace culture that the top brass has to remind staffers not to shit on one another in public. https://twitter.com/...
Holly Otterbein / @hollyotterbein: Please lord let this be a trend: “First, maintaining a presence on Twitter and other social media is now purely optional for Times journalists.” https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: Lol. Sign of a healthy workplace! https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: The masthead editors are more obsessed w/ twitter than the majority of the newsroom, stalking down employees every reply. Saying they're going to police that even *more* is counterproductive, damaging to journalists, especially those who need to use the internet for reporting
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Newsroom leaders also need to recognize that social media is more than twitter and try to understand how entangled the internet is w/ young ppl's lives. They really do not seem to understand this. Wait until they learn about TikTok, or Twitch, or any myriad of other platforms
Christina Pushaw / @christinapushaw: In case you were wondering, the Times has confirmed that their journalists have the approximate emotional maturity of 7th graders. https://twitter.com/...
Andi Zeisler / @andizeisler: “We eliminated the Public Editor position because we wanted to rely on Twitter as a reporting and feedback tool, but it turns out we don't like either the reporting or the feedback”🤔 https://twitter.com/...
Derek Thompson / @dkthomp: I think Twitter is much better than most ppl say (including its own power users) and also that its influence in journalism is too great https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: This could well be @deanbaquet's last substantive memo to staff as executive editor. Way to go out with a nasty little whimper. https://twitter.com/...
@samoburja: Very interesting. This retreat shows how politically important the website has been this entire time. Too late however. Journalists are addicted to the site. https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: Years of. Silencing POC journalists, unfair application, creating unequal tiers, losing journalist after journalist Now a white one complains and it happens Just as they see it's about to throttle more marginalized feedback It be disgusting if it wasn't predictable https://twitter.com/...
Meredith Shiner / @meredithshiner: Also when Dean Baquet eliminated @nytimes public editor, he said criticism on twitter rendered the job useless. Now he's saying “we can rely too much on twitter as a feedback tool.” Will he be restoring the public editor position? https://twitter.com/...
Edward Ongweso Jr / @bigblackjacobin: newsrooms arbitrarily enforce their social media policies—when they exist—so you might as well shitpost to your heart's content until they yell at you. might as well be unhinged on main cause it doesn't actually matter and the people who do think it does are almost always ghouls https://twitter.com/...
Jonah Goldberg / @jonahdispatch: Megan coming on @jonahremnant today. We'll discuss. https://twitter.com/...
Nikki Mccann Ramírez / @nikkimcr: We did it friends, we public edited the NYT off twitter
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: “Media has a Twitter problem and Twitter has a media problem” isn't new. Twitter, like every app, creates ecosystems. This ecosystem is full of power users fighting for validation, promotions, & sources. But you can't tell people, who exist in a very public career, to ignore it.
Asawin Suebsaeng / @swin24: I see what you're doing here https://twitter.com/...
Benjamin Wittes / @benjaminwittes: This is unlikely to be effective https://twitter.com/...
Michael Hobbes / @rottenindenmark: super insightful thread https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: “Tweets or subtweets that attack, criticize or undermine the work of your colleagues are not allowed,” is horrible policy. Let people disagree. Learn. Get better. But for @deanbaquet it's: Shut up. And don't listen to the hippies. https://twitter.com/...
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: Related to this: Dean Baquet does not handle his own iPhone. His assistant handles it for him. We really cannot have editors who have very little digital aptitude making rules for digital. They have no context, no practice, and a lot of contempt for digital communication. https://twitter.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Caught up with the Discourse™️, and: -Twitter is a really fun app when you have >5,000 subscribers. -Twitter is a little panic inducing when you have <10,000 subscribers -Twitter is unusable at <20,000 subscribers -This app is increasingly bad and increasingly prevalent.
Dr. Thrasher / @thrasherxy: Last month the NYT ed board wrung its hangs abt “implications of chilled speech for democracy.” Baquet saying “Masthead editors, department heads & our Standards department will pay close attention to how all Times journalists use social media” creates “chilled speech,” no? https://twitter.com/...
Noah Smith / @noahpinion: Megan McArdle is correct. I am very glad to see people increasingly realizing that Twitter itself is one of the biggest problems with American public discourse. Been saying this for years! https://twitter.com/...
Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: The continued decline in trust in the media is partially driven by journalists' use of Twitter, specifically when their online personas demonstrate strong antipathy to a person/organization/cause and then they are allowed to write the definitive “neutral” first draft of history. https://twitter.com/...
Gene Park / @genepark: Shoutout to our former managing editor Emilio, who told me, “Gene I don't understand 90% of the shit you tweet about but it seems to be working. Keep it up.” https://nymag.com/...
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: I am instructing all Big Technology reporters to delete their Twitter accounts and migrate to Tumblr effective immediately. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: When the Times ended its public editor position, part of the rationale was that vigorous criticism on social media could take its place. Now the editors are suggesting a Twitter withdrawal might be a better idea. And there will be more policing of the staff's presence there. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce: If editors want to promote newsroom harmony, they should ban Slack. https://twitter.com/...
Ed Zitron / @edzitron: I think the policy is great. Social media and the internet have never meaningfully effected my life, other than meeting my wife and hiring my staff and running my business, there really is no way you can reasonably say you need it https://twitter.com/...
Tom Gara / @tomgara: Build some sort of robot Ben Smith who just sort of patrols the newsroom like a Roomba, pouncing on reporters who tweet about things and telling them they should report it out https://twitter.com/...
@fmanjoo: I ... agree. but I think a lot of newsrooms would have to all jump at once https://twitter.com/...
@alexmassie: @DaniGaravelli1 That may be true on both counts (certainly the latter) but, tbf, MM is responding to the NYT's new preferences for its own staff.
Dani Garavelli / @danigaravelli1: @alexmassie Doesn't it over-estimate the number of staffers, ie far more of us are freelance these days? Also correctly highlights Twitter's limitations when it comes to promoting work but underestimates it as a means of building contacts imo.
Dani Garavelli / @danigaravelli1: @alexmassie Yes that's fair but then she says: “Let me tell you why Twitter is bad for journalism” which takes it way beyond the NYT.
Farhad Manjoo / @fmanjoo: my bosses say I don't have to be here any longer so bye forever https://twitter.com/...
@alexmassie: Unfortunately most of this thread is true. (Though Twitter has uses for freelancers that it may not have for staffers) https://twitter.com/...
Barry Petchesky / @barry: Do these people know you can just use Twitter for, like, following capybara accounts and tweeting about subway delays https://twitter.com/...
Sopan Deb / @sopandeb: There are good points in this thread, for sure. But I think it's easy to say this when you're established in your career and don't have the institutional barriers that non-white newsroom employees do. https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / @enbrown: Twitter helps if you can stick to promoting your work, tweets that are an extension of your work, harmless subjects (babies, cats, sunrises, sloths, etc), & reporting from events https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: “Stop me before I tweet again,” a Washington Post columnist implores her employer. https://twitter.com/...
Tim Carmody / @tcarmody: Circling the wagons https://twitter.com/...
@noturtlesoup17: lmao good luck building up that disinformation beat like y'all were talking about doing. https://twitter.com/...
Virginia Heffernan / @page88: Flashback to 2007 when NYT exec editor Bill Keller was sorely disappointed in me for being on Twitter w/this anon handle—I thought it was a strip club then—when I shd be be proud NYT rep, aiming to match wits w/the best of them. Sad the paper is reduced to this defensive crouch. https://twitter.com/...
RC Di / @rcdimezzo: The battle for good information is won or lost online. Restricting journalists from using + growing + engaging their online platforms does little to help win the fight against mis- and disinformation. https://twitter.com/...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: Thread worth reading: https://twitter.com/...
Karl Bode / @karlbode: you can prop up authoritarianism with terrible he/said she said coverage that validates and amplifies right wing propaganda, or downplay Covid with a newsletter widely regarded in the medical field as journalistic malpractice, but don't you dare share human opinions on twitter https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: dean finally read @MikeIsaac's tweets 😞 https://twitter.com/search https://twitter.com/...
Megan McArdle / @asymmetricinfo: Yes, I understand the irony of a journalist on Twitter saying that journalists should get off Twitter. It's a collective action problem; I can't solve it myself. So let me list all the ways that Twitter is bad for journalism.
Jillian Jorgensen / @jill_jorgensen: I know people are dunking on this... but lately I have been spending less time on Twitter, and have been more thoughtful about my interactions here, and I think it's for the better in terms of both my reporting and my life in general. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: .@jeffjarvis absolutely right. In journalism, really great work is just the beginning of a conversation. @deanbaquet want it to be the end of the conversation. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: Lorenz is spot on. This is *not* what I recommended the @NYTimes to do in 2014: https://www.niemanlab.org/... It's unsurprising @DeanBaquet hasn't tweeted this policy: he hasn't tweeted anything in many years, sending a clear message to the newsroom. It leaked: https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: twitter is a great place to share your work, have a few laughs, make some friends and alienate a few people you probably wouldn't get along with anyway. chill! https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Hey @hblodget, if I may suggest, if you take this story out from behind the paywall every damned journalist in the world will be reading and commenting on it: https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Alex Heath / @alexeheath: “First, maintaining a presence on Twitter and other social media is now purely optional for Times journalists.” Wait, it was mandatory before? https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Lindsey Boylan / @lindseyboylan: They don't get it at all. Couldn't be more out of touch. https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Right before I left I got reprimanded by NYT for saying “doxxing is bad” on social media because it was “expressing an opinion” and expressing opinions is banned in the social media policy (I argued it's a fact, they disagreed). This is how ineffective policies like this play out
@thesarahkelly: “We encourage everyone to meaningfully reduce your time on Twitter, but our highest-paid editors will still be watching your feeds like hall monitors” https://twitter.com/...
John Hatch / @johnhatch237: This esp. affects journalists, but it's a problem at a lot of businesses run by older people who think social media is this separate thing you do. “I am logging onto the Facebooks for 15 min. of online banter!” That's not how any of this works, but policies remain antiquated. https://twitter.com/...
Audrey Bowler / @aud_bowler: people sent hate mail to my home after a right-wing site wrote up my tweets from 2018 about the movie The Mummy. not sure training programs could have prevented that! https://twitter.com/...
Michael Hobbes / @rottenindenmark: The editorial board straightforwardly claimed that holding your tongue due to fear of retaliation was a threat to liberal democracy. Today the paper is threatening to retaliate against journalists who “criticize” or “undermine” (???) their colleagues. https://twitter.com/...
Michelangelo Signorile / @msignorile: This should say except for our star reporters — because this has basically been the NYT policy, but none of them of followed it. https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Huertas / @aaronhuertas: I would just stop publishing bad opinion essays where the evidence and reasoning fall apart with the most basic scrutiny, but this is certainly another approach. https://twitter.com/...
Dave Lee / @daveleeft: I can't be the only one who thinks the NYT's Twitter memo is perfectly reasonable.
Schooley / @rschooley: I always feel like the NYT blaming criticism on “Twitter” is such a cop out when I'm sure the feedback that gets under their skin isn't from deranged MAGA accounts but from some of their most informed and engaged readers, and often other journalists. https://twitter.com/...
Lydia Polgreen / @lpolgreen: Spending less time on here, taking what happens on here less seriously and not being an ass on here: all excellent ideas! https://twitter.com/...
Megan McArdle / @asymmetricinfo: 2) Nonetheless, Twitter *feels* like it is producing a lot of attention to your work. So journalists tell themselves that they have to spend all day on Twitter to promote their work, even though this doesn't, you know, actually result in anyone reading the work
Tom Gara / @tomgara: This is a huge misread of what Twitter does. It's a miniscule driver of traffic, obviously. But it plays a massive role in how a significant share of people with cultural & political power understand the world https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Anyway, you can read @perlberg's whole story here. I hope all newsrooms can evolve and start to understand the internet. The legacy news industry is so important and NYT journalists do excellent work, they deserve to be supported https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Rachel Sklar / @rachelsklar: Old enough to remember when the NYT got rid of the Public Editor position because Twitter was totally going to take its place https://twitter.com/...
Rafi Schwartz / @thejewishdream: I'm sure Bari is already hard at work writing 9,000 words about how this is cancel culture run amok https://twitter.com/...
Kai / @kamilumin: undermining your colleagues is only for the opinion section https://twitter.com/...
Tiana Lowe / @tianathefirst: Do not publicly trash the people paying for your rent and healthcare, period, if you want to collect that paycheck with dignity. That's not a journalism rule — it's a basic workplace ethic. That journalists feel entitled to smear the brands that made them famous is embarrassing. https://twitter.com/...
Steven Perlberg / @perlberg: A New York Times spokesperson added that this is “absolutely not a ban.” A Twitter spokesperson declined to comment, sadly https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Max Kennerly / @maxkennerly: @felixsalmon @sarahellison My understanding is that NYT wanted everyone to have a presence on social media of some sort, though their actual policies were more about what people shouldn't post rather than a requirement they post / interact / etc. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@dwaynefuhlhage: @sarahellison @NPRinskeep Does this mean the NYT is going to hire a public editor? https://twitter.com/...
Josh Schwerin / @joshschwerin: Didn't the NYT designate twitter feedback as their defacto public editor? https://twitter.com/...
Tom Gara / @tomgara: I just want to make clear to all NYT staffers who are reconsidering their approach to Twitter: I'm also here to support you and encourage you to continue posting vigorously
Julian Routh / @julianrouth: Been thinking about this more and more lately. What's more dangerous than it being an echo chamber for a particular ideological perspective is that it's an echo chamber for journalists to talk to journalists about journalism, all day, no breaks. https://twitter.com/...
Noah Shachtman / @noahshachtman: Rolling Stone editor Noah Shachtman has issued a cocaine “reset” for the newsroom, urging reporters to “meaningfully reduce” their cocaine time and reminding them that key bumps and lines attacking or undermining their colleagues are not allowed https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: It's troubling that the NYT's executive editor has to tell staff not to publicly attack/undermine their colleagues, but that's where we are. https://twitter.com/...
Ellen Carmichael / @ellencarmichael: I agree it's good for reporters and generally all professionals working in public-facing jobs to “meaningfully reduce” their Twitter time. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Socolow / @michaelsocolow: They eliminated the Public Editor, saying Twitter & social media would perform the same function of providing dynamic feedback & critique. Now they're saying the feedback & critique from social media isn't necessarily helpful or useful. Accepting criticism isn't easy for @nytimes https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: These two things are in direct contradiction w/ each other. The issue w/ NYT is that they consistently buy into bad faith attacks online and punish their journalists when they're subject to gamergate style smear campaigns. https://twitter.com/...
Jordan Fischer / @jordanonrecord: This is a cop out. Times journalists have said for years the newsroom doesn't have their backs when it comes to online harassment. Instead of addressing that, now the Times can wash its hands and say, “Being on Twitter was your choice.” https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: 1) Eliminate Times public editor, saying that Twitter feedback can do the job instead 2) Decide that Twitter feedback is bad and that Times journalists don't need to use it https://twitter.com/...
Hanna Panreck / Fox News: New York Times announces Twitter ‘reset’: ‘Tweets or subtweets’ attacking colleagues ‘not allowed’
Alex Griffing / Mediaite: Taylor Lorenz Eviscerates the NY Times' New ‘Regressive’ Twitter Policy: ‘Policing Employee Speech & Expression’
Joe Cunningham / The Kitchen Pundit: The New York Times Had To Tell Employees Not to Subweet Their Colleagues
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Interview with NYT executive editor Dean Baquet on the details behind the company's Twitter policy, as he encourages staffers to tweet less and report more — “Tweet less, tweet more thoughtfully, and devote more time to reporting,” says executive editor Dean Baquet.
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@juddlegum, @kateconger, @morningmoneyben, @politicussarah, @politicussarah, @niemanlab, @moonalice, @froomkin, @laurahazardowen and Mediaite
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Judd Legum / @juddlegum: .@jbenton has an interview with @deanbaquet that's worth reading. Two things stuck out to me. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Kate Conger / @kateconger: The need to be On Here for a journalism career and the unhealthy aspects of the platform are always in tension, but it's been especially fraught for me while covering Twitter the company. Personally, I feel relief at being encouraged to step back. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Ben White / @morningmoneyben: All well and good. And good for the NYT. But many of us received — and in large part enacted — these suggested changes years ago. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Reese Jones / @politicussarah: people fleeing social media: “In recent years, our journalists have faced an alarming increase in online threats and abuse. Many involve blitzes of racist and misogynist attacks that target women journalists and journalists of color — and, at times, even their families.” https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Reese Jones / @politicussarah: “BAQUET: Well, I would say one thing: It eats up too much time. I mean, there are journalists, at NYT and elsewhere, who tweet many, many, many, many, many times a day. Some people tweet about the minutiae of their lives. To me, that's time not spent actually reporting” https://twitter.com/...
@niemanlab: “I mean, there are journalists, at The New York Times and elsewhere, who tweet many, many, many, many, many times a day. Some people tweet about the minutiae of their lives. To me, that's time not spent actually reporting.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Roger McNamee / @moonalice: It is a good thing that @NYT has become a puzzle company, because the ecosystem of news in the internet era continues to puzzle Times leadership. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: From @deanbaquet. Shot. Chaser. https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Choire Sicha / New York Magazine:
NYT's policy on Twitter is right: Twitter provides feedback on journalists' value but it can prompt self-censorship and is where anecdotes are mistaken for data — Today, New York Times honcho Dean Baquet ordered a company-wide “reset” in how his staff should think about Twitter.
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@eliotwb, @anoushasakoui, @taylorlorenz, @rachelsklar, @markberman, @nickstatt and Supercreator
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Eliot Brown / @eliotwb: “Reporters confuse their Twitter audience for the actual world.” https://nymag.com/...
Anousha / @anoushasakoui: This is such a good read! Ive dialed back my twitter usage A LOT, although the instant gratification of engagement is hard to kick. https://nymag.com/... via @intelligencer
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: This is extremely toxic! https://nymag.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Sklar / @rachelsklar: “At the Times in particular they are often starved for information and kept in eternal suspense about their status in the organization.” 👀 https://nymag.com/...
Mark Berman / @markberman: lmao this is the most accurate headline you will see all month https://nymag.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Nick Statt / @nickstatt: It is true. Media twitter, and twitter in general, is just so deeply exhausting and embarrassing. https://nymag.com/...
Michael Jones / Supercreator: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, now and forever
Jon Marcus / AARP:
Report for America launches an Experienced Corps for older and retired journalists to serve as editors and mentors in pared-down newsrooms — They're filling the gaps in community news while learning skills and earning money — ChrisAnna Mink was 60 when she started her second career …
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@jayrosen_nyu, @cforman, @reportinghealth, @aarp, @maxresnik, @report4america and @sarafischer
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Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Older adults with time on their hands are stepping up to help cover local news, according to the AARP. https://www.aarp.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Craig Forman / @cforman: @Report4America ... also an MD!!/pediatrician whose career expertise makes her UNIQUELY qualified to report and comment on the healthcare issues of California's Central Valley, which she did so competently for @modbee @mcclatchy and with support including @StanislausCF @BrianClarkMod
@reportinghealth: “People 50 and older are becoming increasingly familiar sights on the citizen-journalism beat as news outlets are hollowed out due to budget cuts,” reads this @AARP piece featuring contributor @CMMink. They bring with them a wealth of life experience. https://www.aarp.org/...
@aarp: “Age has a benefit,” says Mark Fuerst, 72. “People have been through things. They've experienced things. You want that in a reporter.” See how more and more older adults are filling the gaps in community news while learning skills and earning money. https://www.aarp.org/...
Max Resnik / @maxresnik: Lots of love this week for @city_bureau Documenters Network! — @AARP @JonMarcusBoston spoke with @d_holli and Documenters in @cledocumenters & @DetDocumenters about older adults stepping up to cover local news https://www.aarp.org/...
The New York Times Company:
Lydia Polgreen returns to The New York Times as an opinion columnist from Spotify podcast studio Gimlet, where she has been managing director — Opinion announces that Lydia Polgreen is returning to The New York Times as an Opinion columnist. — Few journalists have had as peripatetic a life and career as Lydia Polgreen.
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@nytimespr, @liamstack, @basharatpeer, @tomgara, @fka_tabs, @lpolgreen, @rcallimachi, @moiradonegan, @zeynep, @katzonearth, @miriamelder and @samdolnick
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@nytimespr: We're excited to announce that @lpolgreen will return to The Times as the newest columnist for @NYTOpinion https://www.nytco.com/...
Liam Stack / @liamstack: This is wonderful and exciting news!Congratulations to @lpolgreen! https://twitter.com/...
Tom Gara / @tomgara: By far the strongest sign of the NYT's unparalleled juggernaut status is that there's now a well worn career pathway where people rise from running a large national media outlet to being an NYT columnist https://twitter.com/...
Rusty Foster / @fka_tabs: My big bet on @lpolgreen to succeed Dean Baquet is so close to paying off https://www.nytco.com/...
Lydia Polgreen / @lpolgreen: Some personal news! https://twitter.com/...
Rukmini Callimachi / @rcallimachi: Oh my god, the best news ever: https://twitter.com/...
Moira Donegan / @moiradonegan: At last, a bit of good news. Congratulations @lpolgreen! https://twitter.com/...
@zeynep: It's a good day when @lpolgreen rejoins NYT, this time as columnist. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan M. Katz / @katzonearth: This rocks, @lpolgreen. (Don't let them take away your Twitter account.) https://twitter.com/...
Josef Adalian / Vulture:
Interview with Jason Kilar, who spent two years as WarnerMedia's CEO, on paid subscriptions vs. free ad-supported services, measuring audiences, and more — This story first ran in Buffering, Vulture's newsletter about the streaming industry. Head to vulture.com/buffering and subscribe today!
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Todd Spangler / Variety: HBO Max Is Rolling Out an Updated Apple TV App That Promises Better Stability, New Features
Nina Metz / @nina_metz: “We literally had the highest revenues in the 99-year history of the company last year in the face of a pandemic, in the face of theatrical closures, in the face of cord-cutting of five to seven percent a year.” https://www.vulture.com/...
AJ Christian / @mediadataequity: Good interview with former head of HBO Max in which he predicts consolidation to 3 streaming mega-channels (Netflix, Disney-Hulu, Discovery-HBO). 3 dominant channels....Sound familiar? We're hurtling back to the broadcast era & studio system 😩 https://www.vulture.com/...
Variety:
Source: JB Perrette will run Discovery's streaming businesses and Kathleen Finch will oversee its cable networks, except HBO, CNN, and Magnolia, post-merger — Zaslav, as longtime observers predicted, has opted to have a direct-report relationship with the leaders of the businesses …
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Robert Williams / Beet.TV: Breaking News: Discovery Names Jon Steinlauf as Chief U.S. Ad Sales Officer for Warner Bros. Discovery
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: 1/4 NEW: @Discovery names new leadership team: - Adria Alpert Romm, chief ppl officer - Casey Bloys continues as chief content officer of HBO/HBO Max. - Bruce Campbell new role of chief revenue and strategy officer - Channing Dungey continues Chairman of Warner Bros. TV group
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: btw, JB Perrette (who's now overseeing HBO Max) helped launch Hulu when he was at NBC. Other early Hulu execs that went to WarnerMedia — Jason Kilar, Andy Forssell & Richard Tom — are exiting with the Warner Bros. Discovery merger https://variety.com/...
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Discovery is going to announce the post-merger leadership team with WarnerMedia this week, likely today. A little taste: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Dustin M. Bergmann / @crazyantguy1970: It's great that Zaslav sought out advice from Daly & Iger, but I still have a strong feeling that this is going to be a situation similar to what's happening at Disney with Chapek. A disaster waiting to happen... https://twitter.com/...
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: Discovery insiders repeatedly stress that Team Zaslav still hasn't really gotten under the hood of the soon-to-be former WarnerMedia, @Variety_Cynthia reports https://variety.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: JB Perrette, who helped build Hulu back when he was at NBCU, is Discovery/Warner's new streaming boss. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Tamanini / The Streamable: Will Magnolia Network Move to HBO Max from discovery+ Following Merger?
Jason Lynch / Adweek: JB Perrette, Kathleen Finch Expand Roles As Warner Bros. Discovery Sets Leadership Team
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
Le Monde, which has 425K digital subscribers, launches an English version of its site and plans to hit 1M subs in two to three years, with 25% in English — French newspaper Le Monde is launching an English version of its website on Thursday to win over international subscribers in the runup …
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Gilles van Kote / Le Monde.fr: Welcome to ‘Le Monde’ in English!
Jason Whittaker / @thetowncrier: There's now an English language version of @lemondefr. Editors will curate, but AI will do much of the translation. https://www.lemonde.fr/...
Charlie Beckett / @charliebeckett: ‘Global’ journalism doesn't have to be in English, partly thanks to AI translation. This is great from Le Monde https://twitter.com/...
Catherine Bennett / @cfbennett2: Very excited to finally be able to announce some job news... I'm now working at @lemondefr as an editor and journalist on their new English-language website Le Monde in English. https://www.lemonde.fr/...
Millie Tran / @millie: What people often miss about translation and adaptation is that it's *purely* about distribution and audience growth. It's also about sharing the perspectives you wouldn't be able to read/hear otherwise. In this case, more French and European views. I'll be watching this closely! https://twitter.com/...
@dominicmhinde: Interested to see how this goes. Spiegel English tried it with medium success, but there've also been some terrifyingly translated attempted in other markets (looking at you Sweden). https://twitter.com/...
@matthewbennett: Just as El País has thrown its English edition down the toilet, turning it in to a crap version of Buzzfeed and managed out of Mexico. https://twitter.com/...
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
Sources: Meta, to diversify its revenue, is exploring ideas like “creator coins” for Instagram influencers and “social tokens” to reward credible content — Meta has drawn up plans to introduce virtual coins, tokens and lending services to its apps …
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The Verge, ScreenRant, Technicismi, Kotaku, Protocol, Fast Company, New York Post, PC Gamer, U-Studio's Newsletter, Engadget, CNET, Input, Metro.co.uk, Insider, MediaPost, Advik's Newsletter and CoinDesk
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Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta is reportedly making ‘Zuck Bucks’
Owen Thomas / Protocol: Forget ‘Zuck Bucks.’ The real story is Facebook's financial identity crisis.
Moises Mendez II / Fast Company: Meta is reportedly working on new features straight out of ‘Black Mirror’
Thomas Barrabi / New York Post: Facebook parent Meta wants to introduce ‘Zuck Bucks’: report
Marcos Cabello / CNET: Meta Reportedly Working on Virtual Currency ‘Zuck Bucks’
Anugraha Sundaravelu / Metro.co.uk: ‘Zuck Bucks’ could be Facebook's new in-app currency
Urooba Jamal / Insider: Meta is working on virtual coins for its apps that employees have nicknamed ‘Zuck Bucks’, a report says
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: Meta Pursuing New Currency Options, Including ‘Zuck Bucks’
Advik Singh / Advik's Newsletter: Facebook parent Meta plans to introduce cryptocurrencies and tokens for its apps
Michael Bellusci / CoinDesk: Meta Exploring Non-Blockchain-Based Virtual Currency: Report
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
Parcast union reaches tentative first agreement with Spotify and Parcast management, averting a strike, with deal terms expected to be similar to Gimlet's — The agreement seemingly averts a threatened strike, but now the bargaining unit and the Writers Guild of America, East Council must approve its terms.
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Greg Evans / Deadline:
Media critic and Press Run founder Eric Boehlert, who wrote for Media Matters for America, Salon, Rolling Stone, and Billboard, dies in a bike accident at 57 — Eric Boehlert, a media critic devoted to calling out right-wing misinformation through his writing at Media Matters for America …
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Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: 1/oh my goodness: Just got crushing news from Tracy Breslin, wife of @EricBoehlert https://pressrun.media/ Has died in a bike accident, age 57. Adored his kids Jane and Ben, his dogs, biking and running and basketball and good friends, a fierce and fearless defender of the truth
James Fallows / Breaking the News: Framing: In Honor of Eric Boehlert.
Aaron Rupar / Public Notice: RIP Eric Boehlert. His voice will be missed.
Charles P. Pierce / @charlesppierce: Eric Boehlert was 57, but his spirit was decades younger and his wisdom was decades older https://www.esquire.com/...
Katie Robertson / New York Times: Eric Boehlert, Media Critic and Writer, Dies at 57
Talia Wiener / Montclair Local News: Eric Boehlert, Montclair resident and veteran media critic, struck and killed by train
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire: Eric Boehlert's Spirit Was Decades Younger and His Wisdom Decades Older
Hillary Clinton / @hillaryclinton: .@EricBoehlert's death is terrible news. I'm devastated for his family and friends and will miss his critical work to counteract misinformation and media bias. What a loss.
American Press Institute: Need to Know: April 7, 2022 — OFF THE TOP — You might have heard: The University …
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: Very nice (very sad) tribute by @CharlesPPierce https://twitter.com/...
@brownandbella: Damn. This is rough. This is a huge blow to the media community dedicated to transparency in government. https://twitter.com/...
@froomkin: Absolutely crushed to learn that Eric Boehlert has died. His work had never been more essential. I grieve.
Michelangelo Signorile / The Signorile Report: In memory of Eric Boehlert
Brian Beutler / @brianbeutler: Second every word of this by @JamesFallows. Would unfurl it as a scroll in every American newsroom if I could. https://fallows.substack.com/ ...
Mary L Trump / @maryltrump: It's difficult to describe the enormity of this loss. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Marmel / @marmel: Another decent person I'll never have the honor of meeting in this life. I'm especially sorry for his family and the people who knew him personally. But I'm also selfishly sad for the loss of his voice. If his substack goes to his family I will never unsubscribe. https://twitter.com/...
Victoria Guida / @vtg2: It's depressing to me how critiques of the media (both internally and externally) rarely acknowledge that policy reporters do exist. I'm sure there are plenty of valid critiques to make of policy reporters too! But I never read them. https://twitter.com/...
Norman Ornstein / @normornstein: If you care about the future of the country, you should subscribe to @JamesFallows substack. And this one is particularly insightful and important. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: An appropriate send off for Eric Boehlert from @JamesFallows: on how the unspoken assumptions the media brings to coverage usually matter more than blatant expressions of bias. https://fallows.substack.com/ ...
James Fallows / @jamesfallows: A tribute to Eric Boehlert, on shocking and tragic news of his death in a bicycle accident: https://fallows.substack.com/ ...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: Just incredibly sad about this https://deadline.com/...
Blue Grass Roots / @bgr_us: Eric Boehlert was a tremendous ally in the fight for democracy. He was never afraid to call out the bad faith, right wing nonsense in mainstream media. Our deepest thoughts, prayers & condolences go to his family, friends & supporters. https://twitter.com/...
Charles P. Pierce / @charlesppierce: To paraphrase what Robin Williams said at Bill Graham's memorial: Eric's dead and fcking Kissinger doesn't even have a cold.
Molly Knight / @molly_knight: This is horrific. Keeping Tracy, Jane, Ben, and all of Eric's family and friends in my thoughts. We will continue the fight. https://twitter.com/...
Greg Mitchell / @gregmitch: Terrible, have known him for many years: Eric Boehlert Dies: Media Critic For Media Matters & Salon, Founder Of Press Run Newsletter Killed In Bike Accident At 57 https://deadline.com/... via @Deadline
@joyannreid: This really is shocking and devastating news. Eric was a brave spirit who held the media accountable without fear or favor. He was an #AMJoy regular and a valued member of @thereidout fam. Deepest condolences to his wife and family. These losses are just adding up... ugh.. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Joanne Freeman / @jbf1755: The tributes to @EricBoehlert on this thread are remarkable. He was indeed a fearless defender of the truth, and the truth needs defending desperately. He will be missed. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Kane / @alexbkane: Jesus Christ. “Boehlert was struck by a train while biking in Montclair, New Jersey; Montclair police reported yesterday that a man riding a bicycle was struck and killed by a New Jersey Transit train in Montclair on Monday evening.” https://deadline.com/...
@nydailynews: Media critic and journalist Eric Boehlert dead at 57 following bike accident. The Press Run founder and editor was remembered as ‘a fierce and fearless defender of the truth.’ https://www.nydailynews.com/ ...
Aaron Rupar / @atrupar: stunned by the news @EricBoehlert has passed away. I was just reading him yesterday and cited something he wrote in my newsletter. we can never take tomorrow for granted. my thoughts are with his family and friends.
Dr. Christine Boese / @chrisboese: This is devastating. His eye on the Press was a key part of my daily check of media criticism. And such a lively presence. R.I.P. @EricBoehlert https://twitter.com/...
Will Bunch / @will_bunch: I am just utterly heartbroken by this. Eric was a good friend and a great guy, who also happened to be an irreplaceable voice in fighting against media misinformation in this country. My condolences go out to his family https://twitter.com/...
Greg Olear / @gregolear: This is awful news. @EricBoehlert was doing such important work, and was a great guy. https://twitter.com/...
Maryn McKenna / @marynmck: Oh my god: Truly awful news. I never met @EricBoehlert, but his newsletter was one of the brightest spots in my reading. He was ferocious at showing us in the US press how often we fail to meet our own high standards. An incalculable loss. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Knopper / @knopps: The late, great @EricBoehlert's @salon investigative work on Clear Channel is some of the best music-business reporting ever: https://www.salon.com/... https://twitter.com/...
David Corn / @davidcorndc: My deepest condolences. @EricBoehlert was a passionate fighter with a sharp eye for media hypocrisy. His voice will be missed. https://twitter.com/...
Allison Hantschel / @athenae: Such a loss. He was a great supportive voice in the early blogosphere and never stopped being uncomfortably right about everything. https://twitter.com/...
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: Eric was a fearless and relentless media critic. This is so sad and awful. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Kennedy / @dankennedy_nu: Terrible news. Media critic Eric Boehlert died today in a bicycle accident. He was only 57 years old. https://deadline.com/...
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: Eric was a loving father and husband, a wonderful colleague to so many of us at Media Matters over the years, and an incisive and ferocious voice for a better media. May his memory be a blessing. https://twitter.com/...
Israel Salas-Rodriguez / The Sun: Eric Boehlert ‘dead’ aged 56: Journalist ‘dies in bike accident,’ Soledad O'Brien reports as she leads tributes
Julia Martin / NorthJersey.com: Eric Boehlert, well-known writer and media analyst, killed by train in Montclair
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New Jersey Hills Media Group, composed of 14 print weeklies, converts to nonprofit ownership by the Corporation for New Jersey Local Media — The nonprofit Corporation for New Jersey Local Media (CNJLM) has assumed ownership of the New Jersey Hills Media Group, ensuring the future …
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