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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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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
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/ ...
Choire Sicha / New York Magazine: Journalism's Twitter Problem Is the Journalists
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.
Hanna Panreck / Fox News: New York Times announces Twitter ‘reset’: ‘Tweets or subtweets’ attacking colleagues ‘not allowed’
Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast: New York Times to Staff: Maybe Chill Out on Twitter a Bit
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
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
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: 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.
Alex Griffing / Mediaite: Taylor Lorenz Eviscerates the NY Times' New ‘Regressive’ Twitter Policy: ‘Policing Employee Speech & Expression’
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: If twitter isn't the public editor anymore, I think they should probably hire one. https://twitter.com/...
Wagatwe Wanjuki / @wagatwe: Newsroom social media policies are arbitrarily enforced and mainly exist to push out staff management doesn't like https://twitter.com/...
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/...
Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap: NY Times Updates Twitter Rules, Urges Reporters to ‘Meaningfully Reduce’ Time on Platform
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/...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: do NOT tweet about this, but @jbenton spoke with Dean Baquet about the @nytimes' new Twitter policies. “I started to feel that Twitter's influence in journalism, period, and in our journalism was too great.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
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/...
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/...
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
Michael Hobbes / @rottenindenmark: super insightful thread https://twitter.com/...
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/...
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
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce: If editors want to promote newsroom harmony, they should ban Slack. https://twitter.com/...
@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/...
@alexmassie: Unfortunately most of this thread is true. (Though Twitter has uses for freelancers that it may not have for staffers) 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/...
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
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/...
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.
@noturtlesoup17: lmao good luck building up that disinformation beat like y'all were talking about doing. 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/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: dean finally read @MikeIsaac's tweets 😞 https://twitter.com/search 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/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: “Stop me before I tweet again,” a Washington Post columnist implores her employer. 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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/...
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/ ...
@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.
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/...
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/...
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/...
@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/...
Dave Lee / @daveleeft: I can't be the only one who thinks the NYT's Twitter memo is perfectly reasonable.
@fmanjoo: I ... agree. but I think a lot of newsrooms would have to all jump at once https://twitter.com/...
Joe Cunningham / The Kitchen Pundit: The New York Times Had To Tell Employees Not to Subweet Their Colleagues
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/...
Jonah Goldberg / @jonahdispatch: Megan coming on @jonahremnant today. We'll discuss. 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/...
Nikki Mccann Ramírez / @nikkimcr: We did it friends, we public edited the NYT off twitter
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/ ...
Kai / @kamilumin: undermining your colleagues is only for the opinion section https://twitter.com/...
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.
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
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/ ...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: Thread worth reading: https://twitter.com/...
@dwaynefuhlhage: @sarahellison @NPRinskeep Does this mean the NYT is going to hire a public editor? https://twitter.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/...
Asawin Suebsaeng / @swin24: I see what you're doing here 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/...
Tim Carmody / @tcarmody: Circling the wagons https://twitter.com/...
Lindsey Boylan / @lindseyboylan: They don't get it at all. Couldn't be more out of touch. 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/...
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/...
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/...
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
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/...
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/...
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.
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/...
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/...
Josh Schwerin / @joshschwerin: Didn't the NYT designate twitter feedback as their defacto public editor? 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/...
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/...
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/...
Farhad Manjoo / @fmanjoo: my bosses say I don't have to be here any longer so bye forever 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/...
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/ ...
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/...
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/ ...
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/...
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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Bloomberg, MediaPost, The Wrap, Ad Age, The Streamable, Adweek, TVNewser, Fox News, @lucas_shaw, @sarafischer, @crazyantguy1970, @xpangler, @pkafka, @xpangler and Yahoo News
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Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: Perrette, Finch To Expand Roles At New Warner Bros. Discovery
Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap: Warner Bros. Discovery Leadership Team to Include Casey Bloys, Channing Dungey
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
A.J. Katz / TVNewser: Future Warner Bros. Discovery Executive Team Is Announced, With Chris Licht as Chairman and CEO of CNN Global
Jennifer Maas / Fox News: Chip and Joanna Gaines' Magnolia Network to be under HBO at Warner Bros. Discovery
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/...
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
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/...
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/...
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J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nine WarnerMedia executives, including HBO Max chief Andy Forssell, will exit the company, ahead of the Discovery merger, expected to close as early as Friday
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Todd Spangler / Variety: HBO Max Is Rolling Out an Updated Apple TV App That Promises Better Stability, New Features
John Koblin / New York Times: Discovery announces new leaders for soon-to-be Warner Bros. Discovery.
Jennifer Maas / Variety: Discovery Makes Big WarnerMedia Executive Suite Changes Ahead of Merger; Toby Emmerich and Gerhard Zeiler to Remain
Richard Middleton / TBI Vision: WarnerMedia exodus as Jason Kilar, Ann Sarnoff & Andy Forssell confirm exit
Matthew Keys / The Desk: WarnerMedia executives leaving ahead of Discovery merger
The New York Times Company:
Lydia Polgreen returns to The NYT 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: We're excited to announce that @lpolgreen will return to The Times as the newest columnist for @NYTOpinion https://www.nytco.com/...
Lydia Polgreen / @lpolgreen: Some personal news! https://twitter.com/...
Liam Stack / @liamstack: This is wonderful and exciting news!Congratulations to @lpolgreen! 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/...
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.
Katie Robertson / New York Times: Eric Boehlert, Media Critic and Writer, Dies at 57
Aaron Rupar / Public Notice: RIP Eric Boehlert. His voice will be missed.
Talia Wiener / Montclair Local News: Eric Boehlert, Montclair resident and veteran media critic, struck and killed by train
Charles P. Pierce / @charlesppierce: Eric Boehlert was 57, but his spirit was decades younger and his wisdom was decades older https://www.esquire.com/...
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 …
@froomkin: Absolutely crushed to learn that Eric Boehlert has died. His work had never been more essential. I grieve.
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: Very nice (very sad) tribute by @CharlesPPierce https://twitter.com/...
Michelangelo Signorile / The Signorile Report: In memory of Eric Boehlert
@brownandbella: Damn. This is rough. This is a huge blow to the media community dedicated to transparency in government. https://twitter.com/...
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/...
Israel Salas-Rodriguez / The Sun: Eric Boehlert ‘dead’ aged 56: Journalist ‘dies in bike accident,’ Soledad O'Brien reports as she leads tributes
@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/...
Julia Martin / NorthJersey.com: Eric Boehlert, well-known writer and media analyst, killed by train in Montclair
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 …
Discussion:
@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/...
Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
Le Monde, which has 425K digital subscribers, launches an English language version of its site and plans to hit 1M 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 …
Associated Press:
A Turkish court transfers the trial of 26 Saudis accused of murdering Jamal Khashoggi to Saudi Arabia, raising fears they won't be brought to justice — ISTANBUL (AP) — A Turkish court ruled Thursday to suspend the trial in absentia of 26 Saudis accused in the gruesome killing …
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Josh Dickey / The Wrap: Jamal Khashoggi Murder Trials Moved to Saudi Arabia After Turkey Halts Prosecution
Martin Chulov / The Guardian: Turkey to send case against Khashoggi's alleged killers to Saudi Arabia
Selcan Hacaoglu / Bloomberg: Turkish court suspends the trial in absentia of Saudis accused of murdering Jamal Khashoggi and transfers the case to Saudi Arabia, which may lead to a cover up
Ellen Knickmeyer / @ellenknickmeyer: Committee to Protest Journalists @pressfreedom condemns Turkey's transfer of prosecution in the killing of @JKhashoggi to Saudi Arabia, whose crown prince is accused of ordering up the crime. https://apnews.com/...
Reuters:
President Obrador says Mexico's government will channel a quarter of its publicity budget, about $37M, into health insurance and pensions for poorer journalists — President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday said his government would channel a quarter of its publicity budget into paying …
Linley Sanders / YouGov:
YouGov survey of 1,500 Americans: the most trusted news orgs by the left and right are the Weather Channel (52%), PBS (41%), the BBC (39%), and the WSJ (37%) — Americans of opposing political parties are sharply divided on how much they trust the news reported by national media organizations, according to a new Economist/YouGov poll.
Discussion:
@alexmassie, @akiperitz, @linleyann, @carmichaeldave, @michaelsocolow, @donmoyn, @andrewjtobias, @imbernomics, @bigfatsurprise, @asemota, Substack and Beck of the Pack
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@alexmassie: Pretty good numbers for the BBC but the Weather Channel has a problem. https://twitter.com/...
Aki Peritz / @akiperitz: The odd thing is that Fox News is barely cracks 50% approval *by Republicans* ...which begs the Q: what do republicans actually trust for information? Also OAN (!?) is more trustworthy for Dems than Breitbart. (!?) https://twitter.com/...
Linley Sanders / @linleyann: A new @YouGovAmerica poll shows that there are very few news organizations that are trusted by more than a small proportion of Americans on both sides of the political aisle: https://today.yougov.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Carmichael Davion / @carmichaeldave: Do 40-50% of folks think The Weather Channel is....lying? 😂 https://twitter.com/...
Michael Socolow / @michaelsocolow: I think it says something when the “most trusted name in news” is a channel that broadcasts speculation about the future rather than channels that are responsible for simply telling you about things that have already occurred. It's why horoscopes are still in the newspaper. https://twitter.com/...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: The GOP numbers are just astonishing. Fox, Newsmax and OAN viewed as more trustworthy than anything except the weather channel. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Tobias / @andrewjtobias: An interesting point here besides the obvious is that not that many Republicans seem to trust any media outlet. (Including Breitbart, OAN, Newsmax, Fox News) https://twitter.com/...
Scott Imberman / @imbernomics: Dems need to go on the Weather Channel more often to reach out to conservative voters. https://twitter.com/...
Nina Teicholz / @bigfatsurprise: If I'm reading this correctly, congratulations to the Weather Channel above all, followed by the @WSJ , for successfully cultivating bipartisan trust https://twitter.com/...
Osaretin Victor Asemota / @asemota: Yet they still sell advertising. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Pareene / The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter:
A parody condemns Substack's VP of comms after she said Twitter staff “worried about Elon Musk pushing for less regulated speech... please do not come work here.” — Free speech means I'm allowed to do this — Hello, welcome. I'm a “VP” ("vice president") of “Comms” ("communications") at the newsletter company.
Discussion:
@lulumeservey, Columbia Journalism Review, @anildash, @rothschildmd, Richard Hanania's Newsletter, @mmasnick, @tarahaelle, @juliusgoat, @ericnewcomer, @lmatsakis, @pwafork, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @mariabustillos, @tomphilpott, @kottke, @readdanwrite, @buccocapital, @nycsouthpaw, @lauraolin, @ryanlcooper, @katzish, @ryanlcooper, @scottkubie, @mccanner, @philipsherburne, @annehelen, @informor, @ericnewcomer, @libbycwatson, @mikeisaac, @sam_d_1995, @originalspin, @jdan, @bafeldman, @chanders, @ashleyfeinberg, @ggreenwald, @can, @blackamazon, @iwriterealgood, @dierobinsondie, @jason_kint, @kirindave, @samverdile, @joshuaogundu, @juliarosen, Make Orwell Fiction Again and Input
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Lulu Cheng Meservey / @lulumeservey: Substack is hiring! If you're a Twitter employee who's considering resigning because you're worried about Elon Musk pushing for less regulated speech... please do not come work here.
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review: Elon Musk pushes Twitter's edit button, as Trump's imitation Twitter flounders
@anildash: Deleting my @SubstackInc account, for all the reasons you'd expect. The last two unsubscriptions were two friends I care deeply about, who I will support in every other way I can. But not on a platform that flounts its desire to enable harm. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Rothschild / @rothschildmd: “If you want to do something about combatting disinformation, conspiracy theories, harassment, pseudoscience, and hate speech; then work somewhere else” is a hell of a pitch. Let's see how it works out. https://twitter.com/...
Richard Hanania / Richard Hanania's Newsletter: Why You Should Be on Substack — I recently helped convince Bryan Caplan to get on Substack.
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Oof. I actually like Substack and think what they're doing is important. But tweeting this makes me think significantly less of the company, because it just gets everything so wrong (including the idea that Musk is pushing for less moderation as opposed to different moderation) https://twitter.com/...
Tara Haelle / @tarahaelle: I keep rereading this and rediscovering all its amazing layers and marveling at how oblivious you have to be to tweet these words in this order. It's... remarkable really. https://twitter.com/...
A.R. Moxon / @juliusgoat: This kind of shit is why I didn't build my newsletter on Substack. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer: if substack is so committed to free speech, they should allow porn. otherwise they should stop saying they support free speech because it's absolutely a pose. they support certain speech that they decide is appropriate
Louise Matsakis / @lmatsakis: For no reason at all, I invite you to read @decka227's fantastic reporting on what Substack is doing abroad. The company says it's committed to free speech, but has few resources for the journalists on its platform taking risks in authoritarian countries https://restofworld.org/... https://twitter.com/...
James Morrow / @pwafork: Hahahaha this is awesome. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer: to be clear i like the people at substack. at bloomberg i wasn't allowed to opine on twitter about my grievances with their editorial decisions. so happy to be free to criticize my collaborator's policies
Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer: if substack is so free speech, why don't they do more to promote their writers shitting on their free speech policy. that would be the true expression of their principles
Maria Bustillos / @mariabustillos: jeepers but you are terrible at this job https://twitter.com/...
Tom Philpott / @tomphilpott: How long before Twitter and Substack merge under a Muskian umbrella? https://twitter.com/...
@kottke: As VP of Comms For the Newsletter Company, It's Really Important That I Make Sure Everyone Associates Our Brand With Being a Huge Unaccountable Dipshit. This is pitch perfect. https://theap.substack.com/...
Daniel Roberts / @readdanwrite: completely regardless of the various specific political issues here and your own views: Why why why would a corporate comms person insult/exclude a specific group of people in a “We're hiring” tweet? https://twitter.com/...
@buccocapital: Our main character today is the VP of Communications at Substack with a wild, wild tweet Does substack have lawyers? The must be frantically figuring out what to do with this tweet https://twitter.com/...
@nycsouthpaw: “There were a bunch of braying jackasses on Blogspot, but no one ever thought of that as a platform specializing in braying jackasses.” https://theap.substack.com/...
Laura Olin / @lauraolin: “Every day I log in with one mission: To ensure people understand that we, here at the newsletter company, do not just provide a platform for shitheels and trolls, but that shitheels and trolls are an essential part of our corporate culture.” https://theap.substack.com/...
Ryan Cooper / @ryanlcooper: ‘The most important way we can protect speech is to jokingly(?) threaten to establish blacklists of people that disagree with the way particular billionaires conceive of “regulating” “speech.”’ https://theap.substack.com/...
Amanda Katz / @katzish: Well done. Vintage Gawker vibes https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Cooper / @ryanlcooper: “I think I'm pretty good at my job, which is why so many people understand that our company is about conflating the concept of free and open debate with being a braying jackass all the time.” https://theap.substack.com/...
Scott Kubie / @scottkubie: The last thing on Substack I'll be linking to. It's perfect. https://twitter.com/...
Erin Mccann / @mccanner: “I went to Yale.” https://theap.substack.com/...
Philip Sherburne / @philipsherburne: This, by @pareene, is hands down the best thing ever published on Substack https://theap.substack.com/...
Anne Helen Petersen / @annehelen: “Lots of thoughtful, intelligent, conscientious people use our platform, and even rely on us for their livelihoods. My job is to make sure no one in the broader, Internet-using public associates the work of those people with our corporate brand.” https://theap.substack.com/...
Mor Naaman / @informor: If you were wondering whether Substack already internalized that the challenges that plagued the Web and tech platforms for decades are coming for them... no they haven't https://twitter.com/...
Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer: @pt I mean if this becomes their whole brand then people will leave. So many substacks already bend over backward having to justify being on substack to their readers. My audience isn't broadly worried and is probably pro substack here. But lots of others aren't.
Libby Watson / @libbycwatson: As VP of Comms For the Newsletter Company, It's Really Important That I Make Sure Everyone Associates Our Brand With Being a Huge Unaccountable Dipshit, by @pareene https://theap.substack.com/...
Rat King / @mikeisaac: not trying to pile on but this tweet is kind of confounding either they don't care about alienating the people who write for substack that aren't edgelords because it's not where their subs revenue comes from OR just a classic bad tweet (or i guess both) https://twitter.com/...
Sam / @sam_d_1995: honestly kind of remarkable that the head of communications at substack is just an obnoxious troll trying to go viral on this site if that's all it takes to be a comms exec, a company should hire me for the role https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Yang / @originalspin: Oof. I can hear the clicking sounds of people googling “what are alternatives to substack” https://twitter.com/...
Jordan Scales / @jdan: Just admit your organization isn't smart enough to deal with the problem of hate speech on your platform. It is not a coincidence that pretending to be “pro free speech” means doing nothing. You're lazy. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Feldman / @bafeldman: 95% of why i stopped my newsletter is because it made me unhappy but the other 5% was that i did not want money i brought in to even indirectly subsidize... whatever this is. very easy decision https://twitter.com/...
@chanders: Hope that Substack has a good comms leadership team that can help sort out this comms disaster! https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: brave, important work https://theap.substack.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: 😍 For those who ask me why I have confidence in Subtacks's long-term commitment to free speech values and why I believe they will resist corporate media's pressures to start censoring as they demand:👇 https://twitter.com/...
Can Duruk / @can: i think it's time for @ranjanxroy and I to move off of substack, what an embarrassing tweet from their vp of comms https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: Hey so if you get denied at Substack , especially if you feel like it wa s politically motivated Or find your promotion isn't good ? Lulu just gave you a sweet setup to sue And if y'a work in Cali ? Remember Sunshine clause ! https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Huckaby.flac / @iwriterealgood: Every time I have self doubt about whether I'd be a shitty VP of comms based on previous work experience and my general hatred of tech Bullshit someone like this tweets https://twitter.com/...
@dierobinsondie: This lady is married to a dude who works at the Heritage Foundation lol https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: This is all wrong. Someone please explain to Substack's comms chief that it's the 1st amendment that protects twitter to make these decisions and from government regulation. Maybe less baiting of substack's beloved GG armies please. https://twitter.com/...
@kirindave: Why would you ever go work there? No offense, but Substack sounds like the most boring technology company you could possibly work for. They serve static content and send emails. Twitter engineers actually built something amazing. Substack is Expensive Political Wordpress. https://twitter.com/...
@samverdile: Sometimes when reporters complain about egregious PR behavior on here, I think, “I don't know a single comms person who would do that!” but then I see tweets like this and realize those people very much exist https://twitter.com/...
Julia Rosen / @juliarosen: What do you do when your VP, Comms is the one creating the crisis? https://twitter.com/...
Johanna Neuman / Make Orwell Fiction Again: How the Dems Could Win 2022 Election
Andrew Paul / Input: Substack to Elon Musk critics: Don't work for us
New York Times:
El Salvador passes a law to punish anyone sharing information about gangs with up to 15 years in prison, but the law's vagueness could lead to media censorship — A measure punishing the sharing of information about gangs is so vague, critics say, that virtually anyone can be arrested …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
First Look Media, The Intercept's parent company, lays off 20 people due to pandemic-related setbacks, per a note to staff from CEO Michael Bloom and a source — First Look Media, the parent company to The Intercept, is laying off 20 people, according to a note to staff obtained by Axios and a source familiar with the situation.
Discussion:
@alleenbrown, The Daily Beast, @im_pulse, @chronic_jordan, @zhaabowekwe, @rdevro, @lilianasegura, @natashalennard, @rolandsmartin, @rashmee_kumar, @alleenbrown, @eliseswain, @moizsyed, @willparrishca, @johnknefel, @robcgalbraith, @tahtone, @ali_gharib, @alexbkane, @robertmackey, @andeps, @nickwestes, @s_phia_, @past_is_future, @hannakozlowska, @aaschapiro, @herrcaitlin, @katearonoff, @jbwashing, @coracurrier, @eliseswain and @downi75
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Alleen Brown / @alleenbrown: Just got laid off from @theintercept I cover environmental justice, especially where it intersects with criminalization, incarceration, Indigenous affairs, labor, I could go on. DMs are open if you're hiring.
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast: The Intercept Staffers Rage as Parent Company Lays Off Nearly 20 Staffers
Idrees Ahmad / @im_pulse: If @theintercept cut its star bloggers salaries by half, they'd still be overpaid while the company can hire many more reporters with the money thus saved. They have some excellent reporters. They need more of those, instead of op-ed writers. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Jordan Smith / @chronic_jordan: Alleen is an amazing journalist w/a critical eye who sees how climate intersects w/everything. I am so sorry to lose her as a colleague, but this is a rare opp for a forward-looking org to work with a true gem. TAKE IT https://twitter.com/...
Tara Houska / @zhaabowekwe: Wow, this is incredibly disappointing, @theintercept. As a frontlines advocate who often lives in rough conditions & under surveillance, @alleenbrown is one of a few reporters I trust. Her reporting is thorough, nimble, and oftentimes actually helps folks on the ground. Hire her! https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Devereaux / @rdevro: I don't even know where to begin. Alleen and I have been colleagues for nearly a decade. As a reporter, she's as dogged as they come, with an incredible nose for underreported stories. She's also a great friend. I'll miss her terribly. Editors, do yourselves a favor: hire her. https://twitter.com/...
Liliana Segura / @lilianasegura: Woke up angry & heartbroken. Alleen helped build @TheIntercept from Day 1. She not only produced some of our most outstanding work, she fought hard for her colleagues as part of @InterceptUnion. Truly the best of us in so many ways. I miss her already. https://twitter.com/...
Natasha Lennard / @natashalennard: Alleen is just an incredible reporter; this is such a loss for TI. and would be a huge win for whichever wise publication hires her next https://twitter.com/...
@rolandsmartin: This is for all of the folks on Twitter who don't know jack about media but love to tell me how to run my PROFITABLE company. “The Intercept Staffers Rage as Parent Company Lays Off Nearly 20 Staffers, including five investigative reporters” https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Rashmee Kumar / @rashmee_kumar: I always learn something from Alleen's indispensable reporting. Not to mention she's also a model colleague and solid friend. Any newsroom would be wise to scoop her up quick. https://twitter.com/...
Alleen Brown / @alleenbrown: I'm heartened by all the words of support. I'll get back soon to everyone who has reached out. Also heartened to hear that Angel, whose story I covered in our Climate & Punishment project, just walked out of ICE detention after 7+ years. Proud of my work https://theintercept.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Elise Swain / @eliseswain: The Intercept Staffers Rage as Parent Company Lays Off Nearly 20 Staffers https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... via @thedailybeast
Moiz Syed / @moizsyed: The last @theintercept layoff was 3 years ago & today they've had another. Top leadership at The Intercept still have their jobs. CEO, Editor in Chief, Deputy Editor all still there. If you can't run an org without laying off people regularly, maybe you shouldn't be in charge. https://twitter.com/...
Will Parrish / @willparrishca: It's a shame to see this. Alleen Brown reports on the issues that matter to climate justice and environmental justice struggles like nobody else. I sure hope she is quickly hired elsewhere so she continues her unique and invaluable work with the least interruption possible! https://twitter.com/...
@johnknefel: Alleen is a fantastic reporter, collaborator, and person. Any newsroom would be lucky to have her. https://twitter.com/...
Rob Galbraith / @robcgalbraith: This really sucks. Alleen has published some of the best oil and gas reporting - especially on the nexus between oil & gas, private military contractors, and the security state - out there. Go read all of it. https://twitter.com/...
Tristan Ahtone / @tahtone: Alleen is the only person on staff at the Intercept regularly covering Indigenous Affairs. She's also one of a handful of journalists in the US that specialize in reporting repressive tactics by state & corporate actors against land & water defenders. This is a loss. https://twitter.com/...
Ali Gharib / @ali_gharib: Alleen is an absolute killer of a reporter. Her record of high-impact scoops and original in-depth work on a range of subjects speaks for itself. Any newsroom would be lucky to have her. Hire Alleen! https://twitter.com/...
Robert Mackey / @robertmackey: Alleen is a great reporter someone should hire asap. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Bard Epstein / @andeps: Alleen's been with The Intercept since day one, breaking all kinds stories from the climate frontlines. I hope to get to read more of her work soon when another newsroom makes a smart decision! https://twitter.com/...
Nick Estes / @nickwestes: Alleen is a friend and colleague who was the only person to regularly cover Indigenous affairs at the Intercept. Her reporting has been pivotal for all kinds of frontline struggles. A huge loss. https://twitter.com/...
@s_phia_: Hate this. @AlleenBrown has written great pieces on climate disaster + ICE detention as well as #FreeAngel, who was literally granted bond yesterday. We support you! https://twitter.com/...
Peter Jacobs, PhD / @past_is_future: TheIntercept has priorities, and they don't want to jeopardize lab leak conspiracism, demonizing NATO, or Russian asset promotion, so they're making cuts to issues they don't value, like the environment. (not a critique of the reporter, who is clearly well regarded by her peers!) https://twitter.com/...
Hanna Kozlowska / @hannakozlowska: I just don't understand how we all are supposed to continue doing are jobs (let alone apply for work!) with news like this nearly every week. Solidarity ❤️ https://twitter.com/...
Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro: The Intercept's parents company, “First Look” laid off 20 people, someone in management seems to have gone on background to tell Axios that they are “just reducing its workforce to get it into a healthy place. Oh, cool: https://www.axios.com/...
@herrcaitlin: Alleen's investigative work covering Line 3 was so essential, and her amazing data story on climate risk and incarceration was such an inspiration for me. This is a huge loss for @theintercept https://twitter.com/...
Kate Aronoff / @katearonoff: Awful news. Alleen's among the sharpest environmental justice reporters around, blowing open stories on everything from the surveillance & criminalization of anti-pipeline protesters to how prisoners are hit by the climate crisis. Any publication would be beyond lucky to have her https://twitter.com/...
John Washington / @jbwashing: Huge, self-inflicted loss for @theintercept Alleen's work is so damn important right now. Someone hire her quick. https://twitter.com/...
Cora Currier / @coracurrier: Alleen's one of the best reporters and humans out there, and covering the climate crisis like no one else. This is such a shame. https://twitter.com/...
Elise Swain / @eliseswain: major layoffs across First Look Institute today — losing my friend and colleague @AlleenBrown is an unfathomable loss for The Intercept https://twitter.com/...
James David Dickson / @downi75: The Intercept is well-funded. Why are they having layoffs?
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