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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Kara Swisher is leaving The New York Times to return to Vox Media, where she will host a new interview podcast, saying, “I want to make whatever I want to make” — Kara Swisher, the prominent tech reporter, commentator and Recode co-founder, is leaving her role as columnist …
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Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: To who wonder why, here's my reason for all I do via, obvi, Sondheim: There's a part of you always standing by Mapping out the sky, finishing a hat Starting on a hat, finishing a hat Look, I made a hat Where there never was a hat https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: I think the @nytimes has been an amazing platform for me over the past years for writing and pods and I cannot say enough about the quality and integrity of what they make. Far too many thank in edit and biz, so kudos to all of its amazing crew. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Josh Dickey / The Wrap: Kara Swisher to Leave The New York Times, Will Rejoin Vox Media for New Podcast
Sandy Garossino / @garossino: Kara Swisher made a brilliant move when she went to the NYT & hugely expanded her profile. Equally brilliant next step to own what she's built. https://twitter.com/...
Maggie Haberman / @maggienyt: Bummed about this but excited to see what comes next > https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Don't worry kids, the unholy marriage of @profgalloway and me is still intact. https://twitter.com/...
Anthony DeRosa / @anthony: “One good thing about working with a company like Vox is they're very open to entrepreneurial ways,” she said. “Every media company should be thinking about talent.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Ben Smith / @semaforben: A whole generation of internet journalists — @karaswisher, @Choire, 👋 — who went to the Times seem to be venturing back out into the wild. @ezraklein @dodaistewart .... https://twitter.com/...
Thomas Barrabi / New York Post: Kara Swisher leaving New York Times for Vox Media
Jim Bankoff / @bankoff: It's a great joy and honor to work with you @karaswisher ❤️ https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Like @BreneBrown said: “Someone, somewhere, will say, 'Don't do it. You don't have what it takes to survive the wilderness.' This is when you reach deep into your heart and remind yourself, ‘I am the wilderness. ’” https://twitter.com/...
Jodi Kantor / @jodikantor: Same experience here. @karaswisher shows up for other journalists, in person, on the phone, with constant energy, encouragement and ideas. https://twitter.com/...
Neal Katyal / @neal_katyal: Such a coup for @voxmedia and the amazing @bankoff. @karaswisher may be the most interesting and brilliant voice living in Washington DC. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Candice Ortiz / Mediaite: Kara Swisher to Leave NY Times and Return to Vox Media to Host New Podcast
Walt Mossberg / @waltmossberg: Think of @karaswisher as the Taylor Swift of journalism. She has exciting ideas and she wants to control her work and her destiny. The best way for her to do that right now is to leave the @nytimes for a new role at @voxmedia . I'm thrilled for her! https://twitter.com/...
@nicolewong: Wonderful to follow @karaswisher's journey and the path she cuts for others. Kara is one of the most gifted interviewers of our time, not only because of her brilliant insights but because she really *listens* so acutely that she can quote you back to yourself. Congratulations! https://twitter.com/...
Jake Sherman / @jakesherman: i love sway. So i hope — and assume! — @karaswisher will do it for Vox. https://twitter.com/...
Lulu / @lourdesgnavarro: Let me just say that working with @karaswisher has been amazing. She is a generous and delightful colleague and a huge booster of those around her. Rock on 👊 https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Cecilia Kang / @ceciliakang: I will follow @karaswisher's work, wherever she goes. And this quote is so boss, which she is... “I want to do what I want to do. I want to make whatever I want to make, and I think that's a great thing.” https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Kristof / @nickkristof: Whatever her platform, @karaswisher will be a must-read/must-listen. Best of luck in your next chapter, Kara. https://twitter.com/...
Tara Palmeri / @tarapalmeri: “Swisher said she's become ‘very interested’ in owning intellectual property and sharing in the benefits of building a business alongside a partner. That interest, along with wanting to try new formats and create new things, spurred her move.” Same, girl. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
@voxmedia: We'll be expanding our partnership with @karaswisher, who will be working with Vox Media to develop and host a new twice-weekly podcast featuring spirited, agenda setting conversations. Read more here: https://www.voxmedia.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Hey @taylorswift13 come discuss at Code in LA in September. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Carman / @ashleyrcarman: SCOOP: @karaswisher is leaving the new york times and making her return to vox media to host a new podcast https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News: Swisher leaving NY Times and returning to Vox
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Unlike ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC, Fox News will not carry Thursday's primetime January 6 Committee hearing, airing the proceedings on Fox Business instead — UPDATED, 4:57 PM: When the January 6th Committee holds its first primetime hearing on Thursday, Fox News Channel will stay …
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Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Fox News makes it official: It will NOT show Thursday's 1/6 hearing like all the other major networks. Tucker Carlson's show will air as usual. Carlson promotes conspiracy theories about the riot, calls the committee “illegitimate,” and ridicules the committee members.
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Fox's top news anchors will be moved over to the Fox Business Network, and they will cover the hearing there. At 8pm ET on an ordinary night, Fox News has more than 3 million viewers, while Fox Business has under 100,000. That pretty much says it all about Fox's priorities.
Adam Kinzinger / @adamkinzinger: If you work for @FoxNews and want to maintain your credibility as a journalist, now is a good time to speak out, or quit. Enough is enough. https://twitter.com/...
Keith Boykin / @keithboykin: ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC will all air Thursday's primetime hearing of the bipartisan January 6th Committee. So it looks like Fox News is the only major “news” network that won't air it. They gotta keep their viewers ignorant and angry. https://deadline.com/...
Matthewprigge / UPROXX: Try Not To Be Shocked: Fox News Will Not Be Airing The First Jan. 6 Committee Hearing, At Least Not On Its Main Channel
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: * Fox is trying to maintain legitimacy, as well, not as a news network, or as a business with occasional public sphere duties, but its legitimacy with core viewers. It has made the call that the committed audience won't stand for having the hearings “shoved down our throats.” 4/
Chris Stigall / @chrisstigall: Prediction: Fox will kick ratings ass. Check back Friday. Nobody will watch this. https://deadline.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: * Another way to put it: By not carrying Thursday's hearing Fox is standing up for the rights of its viewers— more specifically, the right not to know. Not to see. * There is a kind of perverse public service standard there. Fox is protecting its public from the news. 5/
Jeremy Littau / @jeremylittau: One of the most powerful roles journalists play is that of gatekeeper (the selection of what to cover) and framer (characterizing the news). Many other neworks and cable channels are carrying it, so it's not like it means the public *can't* see it, but in a time of fracturing ... https://twitter.com/...
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian: US networks to air January 6 hearings - but Fox News sticks with Tucker Carlson
@accountablegop: Getting your Jan. 6 news from Fox News is like getting your Ukraine news from Russian state TV. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: * Among people who produce news for a living, agreement on the basic news worthiness of the hearings would probably reach 95 percent. (My guess.) * Among those people there should be no question that Fox is not a news network at its core, but something different. 2/
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: * As I said, Fox has the right to do this. A better question is whether it is strong enough to do anything else— to carry the hearings anyway. I say no. Fox is too weak to go against its core audience. The core audience is too weak to watch the hearings. Protection is needed. 7/
Sawyer Hackett / @sawyerhackett: Fox News ran 1,098 primetime segments on Benghazi from the day of the attack until the committee hearings, which they carried live for more than 7 hours. Today they announced they won't cover the hearings on the January 6th insurrection.
Julie Hinds / @juliehinds: This @Sulliview column is even more relevant now that Fox News has announced it won't be airing Thursday night's Jan. 6 committee hearing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: Fox News Channel won't carry coverage of prime-time Jan. 6 hearing live
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: * I assure you that CBS is not expecting Thursday's prime-time hearing to be a ratings winner. They are carrying it to maintain legitimacy as a private business that occasionally recognizes a duty to the public sphere. And not to do so would be a blow to their news division. 3/
Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo: Fox News Channel Won't Air Jan. 6 Hearing
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
Memo: Washington Post Executive Editor Sally Buzbee reiterates “in the strongest of terms” rules banning harassment, discrimination, and attacks on colleagues — DEMOCRACY DIES ON TWITTER — The Washington Post's executive editor Sally Buzbee on Tuesday issued yet another internal memo …
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Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: In early 2020, @stevenjay and @loriamontgomery, then the Post's National and deputy National editors, commissioned an internal report on social media use in response to newsroom-wide outrage over my suspension. Two years later, nothing has changed. 1/x https://int.nyt.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: New: @SallyBuzbee sends stern memo to WaPo staff, reiterating newsroom's values against “racist or sexist behavior” and saying that “we do not tolerate colleagues attacking colleagues either face to face or online.” https://twitter.com/...
Jackson Richman / Mediaite: Washington Post Editor Gets Tough in New Memo to Staff Over Online Behavior: ‘We Will Enforce Our Policies And Standards’
Chris Selley / @cselley: If I started a newspaper I would make it a condition of employment that employees can't be on Twitter. https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Parker / @ashleyrparker: The Post is not perfect. No institution is. But I'm proud to work here. I love coming to work (almost) every single day, and knowing that my colleagues are collegial, collaborative and fun humans — not to mention talented journalists — who are always striving to do better. https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Sieff / @ksieff: Our newsroom is full of some of the smartest, most collegial people I've ever met. And their journalism is almost always better than their tweets. I'm proud to work at the Post. https://twitter.com/...
Peter Doran / @peterbdoran: The best thing that @feliciasonmez can do right now is tell @SallyBuzbee that sentence two needs a verb. https://twitter.com/...
Saagar Enjeti / @esaagar: I have real sympathy for some great people at the Post who are trapped inside the building with crazy people but I regret to inform them that this statement is moot. The instigator and the liar weren't punished while the guy who RTd a joke was. This is all just window dressing https://twitter.com/...
Carol Leonnig / @carolleonnig: I have been deeply troubled watching my coworkers being attacked in public lately. None of us are perfect. Thanks to @SallyBuzbee for reemphasizing she won't tolerate coworkers attacking their own. The hallmark of @washingtonpost has been its collegiality. I'm proud to work here. https://twitter.com/...
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: Pinning this thread because it's important. (And have deleted one of the tweets because I told a story that is my colleague's, and not mine, to tell.) https://twitter.com/...
Corbin Bolies / @corbinbolies: The @washingtonpost has issued *another* memo condemning attacks between colleagues, promising to enforce its social media and workplace harassment policies. It came hours after @feliciasonmez called out management for ignoring enforcement for years: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Several WaPo reporters tweeting after @SallyBuzbee's memo that, while the institution isn't perfect, they are proud to work for the paper. Here are a few. https://twitter.com/...
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: And honestly, we've known it for far longer than that. For years, Post employees have been raising concerns of unequal treatment of employees from different backgrounds, or of “stars” versus everyone else — not just when it comes to social media use. None of this is new. 11/x
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: Are there “different rules for different people here?” Yes. We've known it for more than two years. We held three company-wide “listening sessions” on the issue in Feb. 2020, shortly before Post staffers began working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic. 10/x
Nick Miroff / @nickmiroff: The collaborative newsroom culture built by the Graham family has survived plenty of tests and trials, and it'll survive Twitter. Thank you @SallyBuzbee for making clear we're all in this together. I'm deeply proud to be a part of The Washington Post. https://twitter.com/...
@froomkin: The full report on social media guidelines from the Washington Post's national desk is really quite amazing and (still) on point. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: This is just weird and creepy. Why are they all posting identical language about how proud they are to work at the Washington Post, like from a script handed down by a cult leader? https://twitter.com/...
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: I often hear from colleagues who want to say something but are afraid to speak out. Knowing how the Post punished me for my own trauma — and how a colleague publicly accused me of “bullying” for flagging a sexist tweet — I don't blame them for being afraid of retaliation. 16/x
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Sources: The Washington Post suspended reporter David Weigel for one month without pay for retweeting a sexist joke from YouTuber Cam Harless on Friday — New York (CNN Business)The Washington Post has suspended reporter David Weigel without pay for retweeting a sexist joke, a person familiar with the matter told CNN on Monday.
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Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: New: WaPo has suspended @daveweigel without pay for his retweet of a sexist joke. When emailed for comment, an out-of-office message said that he will return on July 5th. https://www.cnn.com/...
Jonathan M. Katz / The Racket: Just take the W, grifters — There were plenty of things to argue about after Johnny Depp won …
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation: A Washington Post reporter is suspended after his sexist retweet blows up
Jill Filipovic / @jillfilipovic: Here's a take everyone will hate! A few things can be true: -Weigel's tweet was dumb and sexist. -Felicia Sonmez was right to point out the rank hypocrisy of her and Dave's employer. -The consequences for dumb, sexist tweets should be proportionate and a month without pay is not. https://twitter.com/...
@angrybklynmom: I thought his retweet of the joke showed a lack of professionalism & I can understand why colleagues were bothered. But when a person is being suspended, & possibly fired for RT a joke, maybe it's gone too far? What happened to the old days of talking to someone privately? https://twitter.com/...
American Press Institute: Need to Know: June 7, 2022 — OFF THE TOP — You might have heard: The Jan. 6 hearings start this week.
Jenn Gidman / Newser: Sexist Joke Leads to Staff Turmoil at Washington Post
Fredrick Kunkle WaPo / @kunklefredrick: I'm sorry, but @daveweigel's punishment does not fit the crime. A month's suspension w/o pay for retweeting a sexist joke — especially after its removal and an apology was made — is the kind of overkill that chills free speech. https://www.cnn.com/...
Ben Dreyfuss / @bendreyfuss: I mean, come on. This is such a massive overreaction. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Jones / Poynter: Is it OK for police to pose as journalists?
Jim Treacher / Who the Heck Is Jim Treacher?: WaPo's Dave Weigel Learns How Much His Loyalty to the Democrats Is Worth
Brianna Wu / @briannawu: 1/ If you are a woman on Twitter dot com, please remember if you express any opinion on Dave Weigel and sexism, you will get screamed at. If you critique him, you get screamed at. If you defend him, you will get screamed at. If you take a middle position you will get screamed at
Kat Rosenfield / @katrosenfield: very interested in the practical limits of whatever policy resulted in this if one were a WaPo employee who, say, pursues stand-up comedy as a hobby, or is overheard by some sniffy coworker telling a bawdy story to friends at a bar. what constitutes a suspense-worthy offense? https://twitter.com/...
Michael Tracey / @mtracey: This is just amazing. The Washington Post is being held hostage by emotional-blackmail psychos https://cnn.com/...
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: Simply objecting to a retweet of a sexist joke — and a colleague's false accusation of “bullying” — leads to ... this. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@popehat: I'm a fan of @daveweigel, and have been for a while, and will remain one. I think it's good that he decided to apologize for retweeting a sexist joke that offended colleagues, but also think that a month suspension without pay is a substantially excessive punishment.
@profjeffjarviss: The Washington Post should send a strong message: tomorrow morning, fire at least 50% of the newsroom, ranked in order of Worst Retweets. This will create such a powerful culture reset.
Jesse Singal / @jessesingal: I'm sure this not-at-all-overreaction to a single retweet of a joke you could see any night on Comedy Central will calm things down and make the world more just. Congrats to all involved! Biggest congrats to me for never again having to work for an employer like this. https://twitter.com/...
Olivia Nuzzi / @olivianuzzi: I'm sad that all of us who subscribe to the Washington Post for their journalism won't get to read @daveweigel's coverage of the primaries taking place this month because the paper has put optics and politics before ethics and fairness. It's a disservice to readers.
Janet Johnson / @jjohnsonlaw: It's incredible. This is what Trumpism has reaped: misogyny is funny, women who object to it are fair game for harassment, even mild consequences for men who promote the misogyny that leads to a hostile work environment for a coworker are “not in anyone's best interest.” https://twitter.com/...
Victoria Brownworth / @vabvox: The shock here after years of Dave Weigel tweeting sexist crap is that WaPo finally thought something he said was over the top. https://twitter.com/...
Tim Miller / @timodc: Putting the debate over the original tweet aside, shouldn't we be incentivizing a forgiveness culture where people delete tweets & apologize, as @daveweigel did? Doesn't piling a gratuitous punishment on top just incentivize the next person to double down & go to substack? https://twitter.com/...
@katewillett: This is ridiculous. The joke retweeted is word play, absolutely not worth suspending a good journalist over. https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Bitecofer / @rachelbitecofer: I stand with The Stache #FreeDaveWeigel #7DirtyWords #WhatAWorld https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Nora Munro / @noramunro: The number of people in the replies suggesting that the real problem is that women just won't lighten up about sexist jokes ... 🙄 https://twitter.com/...
Maya Contreras / @mayatcontreras: Weigel's colleague at WaPo was attacked online for days because of that tweet, it wasn't just a “retweet”. WaPo needs to have policies in place that discourage their reporters' from “casually” platforming bigotry — as there is no such thing as casual bigotry. https://twitter.com/...
@golikehellmachi: reporters, journalists and columnists all have *wildly* different expectations about what they should and should not tweet under their own names with their employers namechecked in their bios than almost any other professional field
@golikehellmachi: also weigel's a multiple repeat offender who'd been asking for trouble for a long time and got it, and i don't think a suspension is an unfair punishment given his track record
@golikehellmachi: when you have a professional culture that encourages people to get chippy with their peers, colleagues, followers and adversaries on social media every day, getting chippy is what people are going to do
IncognegroNeville / @formerlycbm: Not a fan of Weigel, but this is a ridiculous suspension. WaPo is a joke of a news organization. https://twitter.com/...
@kt_so_it_goes: dumb retweet and wapo gets to do what they like with their workplace culture, including making it the wild wild west because they're just making up policies on the fly about what's ok and what'a not. when you don't have a policy this is the shit you're asking for https://twitter.com/...
Mikki Kendall / @karnythia: Shall we take bets on whether or not women who work with him have had issues with him? https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: One month suspension without pay for Weigel. I'll just say I don't think the Post's handling of this retweet and related issues has built a healthier workplace environment that sets everyone up to succeed. https://www.cnn.com/...
@undeadfoia: One retweet and the guy loses pay for a month? Cancel culture wins again. Meanwhile, look at the rest of the cesspool that is @washingtonpost - from @SallyBuzbee on down, https://twitter.com/...
Saagar Enjeti / @esaagar: Genuinely repulsed at Bezos for not standing up to any of this at HIS paper. What is the point of having F U Money if you never say F U? Buying yachts, thirst posting about his GF, delaying lunar project for his vanity rocket company are apparently more important Just gross https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Taylor Lorenz just got caught repeatedly lying in her article such that WP had to revise it 3 times as an “Editor's Note,” and it still contains a lie: nothing happened. Dave Weigel immediately apologized for RT'ing a joke and is suspended without pay: https://cnn.com/...
@rudepundit: This is dumb. It was dumb when the Post did it before to @feliciasonmez. It's dumb now when it's @daveweigel. Weigel apologized and deleted the RT. Living in fear that a goddamn retweet will get you suspended or fired is a shitty thing to do to your employees. https://twitter.com/...
Murtaza Hussain / @mazmhussain: Genuinely wasn't aware that you could be held accountable for your retweets but also what's the point of publicly shaming and punishing someone after they already apologized? This is a very unforgiving culture. https://twitter.com/...
@_celia_bedelia_: Wow shocking that Glenn is defending Dave Weigel and misogyny. SHOCKING https://twitter.com/...
Derek Hunter / @derekahunter: I know Dave and like her personally. He's lots of things, but none of them is a misogynist. https://twitter.com/...
Will Wilkinson / @willwilkinson: This is outrageous. For a dumb effing RT? Come on. Dave's the best in the biz and an incredibly kind person. I can't help feeling that he's somehow paying for the Post's earlier grievous mishandling of his indignant colleague's tweets. Not right. https://twitter.com/...
Donald Trump Jr / @donaldjtrumpjr: It's fun to watch the MSM eat their own, but also here's some unsolicited advice: Get a sense of humor, you schmucks. That being said, we need a full audit of WaPo's oppressive practices! Toxic workplace? Gender pay gap? Independent investigation! https://www.cnn.com/...
@dprk_news: Washington Post suspends correspondent Pablo Escobar for sexist retweet. https://www.cnn.com/...
Michael Malice / @michaelmalice: Repeating what someone else says is not endorsing it, especially as a reporter “Weigel on Friday retweeted YouTuber @hamcarless who joked, “Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it's polar or sexual."" https://twitter.com/...
Mollie / @mzhemingway: It's not just the hostile work environment and the hypocrisy of rewarding repeated fabulists and punishing people for jokes, but the STUPIDITY of the hostile work environment that I would find intolerable. https://twitter.com/...
Natalie Shure / @nataliesurely: This is a massive, disproportionate penalty for a retweet! just idiotic https://twitter.com/...
John Ganz / @lionel_trolling: weigel retweeted a “woman be shoppin” level joke and got suspended without pay. do they have a union there?
M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler: Looking forward to the Supreme Court hearing the inevitable landmark argument about whether or not hitting a button on a website constitutes free speech. https://twitter.com/...
Rachael Larimore / @rachaelbl: Yeah, a retweet of a dumb joke is absolutely the biggest credibility problem facing the @washingtonpost right now. 🙄https://www.cnn.com/ ...
David French / @davidafrench: I would say “remarkable.” But really it's predictable. What a graceless workplace. https://twitter.com/...
Cenk Uygur / @cenkuygur: I hope the people that were out for blood after he already retracted and apologized are happy. But there's no chance of that. No apology is ever good enough, no redemption is ever offered. Now people will talk about this forever as if it defines even 1% of @daveweigel's career. https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: LOL . That's less than half the shit I've heard about him that people have been ignoring https://twitter.com/...
Kipp Jones / Mediaite: Babylon Bee CEO Offers Dave Weigel Money to Repost Sexist Tweet: ‘Have Some Respect For Yourself’
David Propper / New York Post: Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel suspended following retweet of sexist joke: report
Lachlan Cartwright / The Daily Beast: The Washington Post Dumpster Fire Is Still Raging
The Daily Beast:
Washington Post Executive Editor Sally Buzbee asks staff to treat each other with respect and kindness after two reporters argued on Twitter over a sexist joke
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Ben Mullin / @benmullin: In the wake of the recent social media dustups involving WaPo journalists, Executive Editor Sally Buzbee sends a memo to journalists admonishing them to treat each other with respect and kindness: https://twitter.com/...
John Nolte / Breitbart: Washington Post Reporter Felicia Sonmez Aims Reign of Terror at Second Male Colleague
Steve Berman / The Racket News: Dave Weigel should quit today
@mattsideashop: saying sorry for something not worthy of an apology is a surefire way to get progressives to come after you https://twitter.com/...
@sirgametime: More people should call out their misogynistic coworkers like Felicia did here. And screw everyone yelling at her for having an opinion on Weigel's very public retweet. https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Singal / @jessesingal: We're many days out from Dave Weigel retweeting an offensive joke and quickly undoing it when he saw people were offended, and debate still rages in the WaPo newsroom. Everyone is resurfacing offenses they endured months/years ago to insert themselves into the shitstorm. Healthy! https://twitter.com/...
Tom Watson / @tomwatson: Pretty hard to both sides this situation. But damn, @SallyBuzbee succeeded. And thus blew it up bigger. Circle the wagons - “keep disputes secret from our know nothing readers” - is also a close cousin of let's get more conservative voices in the paper. https://twitter.com/...
Greta Van Susteren / @greta: Not everything we tweet or retweet should bring the ‘death penalty’ and frankly, I think 99% of women have heard worse (and many have said worse about men...)...he apologized so everyone should just let this go https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Mac / @rmac18: My main takeaway from this is that the font she emails with is enormous https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: Nothing was published when they were found to be so racist they called parts of the building the plantation , when they did not follow through on diversity pledges, when one of their reporters fudged contact details , and multiple instances of racism and sexism https://twitter.com/...
Jose A. Del Real / @jdelreal: I reject your attempt to make a specific critique of your regular public bullying into a sweeping opera about principles. As I said, Weigel's retweet was offensive and *should* be called out. It was strongly condemned internally. So I'm confused about your implication otherwise. https://twitter.com/...
Erin Overbey / @erinoverbey: I'd really like men in media to think hard about what it takes for women to continue to speak up/call out industry sexism & lack of diversity while receiving private texts/DMs from their male colleagues about how brave they are even as the men avoid joining the fight publicly... https://twitter.com/...
@juwanthewriter: Weigel's “joke” is activating the likes of alleged sexual harasser/far-right pundit Greg Kelly to make further harmful remarks to his colleagues in his defense. Meanwhile, he's tweeting like all is normal. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Caruso / @jaycaruso: Seriously? The Washington Post had to issue a statement about a retweet of a dumb joke? Nearly a dozen journalists in Mexico have been murdered since the start of the year and here we have people freaking out because Dave Weigel retweeted something. Goddamned babies. https://twitter.com/...
Janelle O'Dea / @jayohday: Every woman knows how this goes: “Sexism should be called out! None of that is allowed!!!” *calls out sexism* “No, no, not like that” https://twitter.com/...
@goldietaylor: I count @daveweigel as a friend. What he did was wrong. @feliciasonmez rightly called him out and Dave apologized. To accuse Felicia of being a clout chasing bully is abhorrent. https://twitter.com/...
Moira Donegan / @moiradonegan: @feliciasonmez In seriousness, having a principle means standing up for it even when it is unpopular, and even when it is inconvenient, and even when it means challenging our friends. I'm grateful to have Felicia as a model—she has shown bone-deep integrity on this point.
Moira Donegan / @moiradonegan: @feliciasonmez Strange that he seems to feel it's ridiculous that you would frame your own opposition to public sexism by representatives of your institution as “about principles.” Perhaps more accurate to say that opposition to sexism is simply not a principle that he respects.
Timnit Gebru / @timnitgebru: So this is what the @washingtonpost workplace is like? Men harassing women and calling them bullies and accusing them of creating a toxic work place for *checks notes* objecting to sexist tweets? Is he gonna have his name on an article about harassment then? https://twitter.com/...
Tara Haelle / @tarahaelle: Not a great way to lead a newsroom. If your employee retweets something sexist, and another employee calls them out publicly, *as they should*, you stand by them and discipline the offender. You don't call for being fucking polite. https://twitter.com/...
@jefflowell: Unbelievable, gross mis-characterization of what happened. I can't believe the grace @feliciasonmez is showing in dealing with this crap. https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Singal / @jessesingal: Noteworthy brushback pitch. It's weird to me how controversial it is among some journalists that it is better to handle your differences with your colleagues internally than it is to blast them on Twitter. https://twitter.com/...
David Burge / @iowahawkblog: They should settle these toxic workplace disputes the way that roofers do: rooftop fistfights Also, please film this for a Netflix reality series https://twitter.com/...
Josh Barro / @jbarro: Fairly insane culture has developed at WaPo where employees just air their grievances about each other in public. Of course, it's a choice for management to allow that. https://twitter.com/...
@theageofshoddy: Everyone inside the paper will and should read this as a public endorsement and backing of both Lorenz and Sonmez. If you want to know why this happens, this is why. https://twitter.com/...
@scarylawyerguy: I don't know of other “dust ups” at WaPo but when a male reporter retweets something sexist and is called out for it by a female reporter who then suffers through a weekend of online attacks (including by a different male colleague!) I don't think “dust up” is the right term. https://twitter.com/...
Corbin Bolies / @corbinbolies: The public feud between reporters @feliciasonmez and Jose Del Real over @daveweigel's Friday retweet culminated in a newsroom-wide email from @SallyBuzbee. w/@ZTPetrizzo on this weekend saga: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: I've reached out to @SallyBuzbee and @mateagold for help on this but haven't heard back so far. Retaliation against a colleague for speaking out against sexism is never okay. I hope Washington Post leaders treat this as the serious issue that it is. 8/8
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: Update: For those who, like me, are blocked from reading my colleague's tweets, here is his thread from this afternoon. No apology, but a whole boatload of more false accusations and mischaracterizations. To be clear: - There was no “unrelenting series of attacks.” 1/x https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Lauren Hough / @laurenthehough: the person who points out the problem isn't the problem. you don't solve the problem by silencing the person who pointed to it. why are we still fucking playing this game https://twitter.com/...
Jose A. Del Real / @jdelreal: Last night I came under an unrelenting series of attacks intended to tarnish my professional and personal reputation. The cause? Some tweets I sent calling for compassion within our workplace. Those attacks continued this morning. 1/6
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: So far I've received no apology from my colleague for baselessly accusing me of engaging in “bullying,” “harassment” and “cruelty” — just for objecting to a sexist tweet. I did, however, receive an email from him accusing me of fostering a “toxic workplace.” And now this! https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jose A. Del Real / @jdelreal: @feliciasonmez Fighting sexism and misogyny matters deeply to me. I will always admire your bravery in sharing your story. And I support your fight against retribution for doing so. Entirely separately, I hope you reconsider the cruelty you regularly unleash against colleagues.
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: Example 5 billion and then some. Especially great when a statement from your newspaper's executive editor provides fodder for *more* harassment. https://twitter.com/...
@froomkin: WaPo's top editor tells everyone to shut up already, instead of making a statement about sexism and sanctimonious men. Shame. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
@froomkin: It's been a year since @SallyBuzbee took over the Washington Post newsroom. What kind of leader has she turned out to be? https://twitter.com/...
Ariel Zilber / New York Post: Washington Post editor scolds reporters after ‘sexist’ tweet ignites Twitter brawl
Mollie / @mzhemingway: I'm not saying you have to find the original joke laugh-out-loud funny but wow would it be awful to work at such a humorless and angry place. https://twitter.com/...
David Weigel / @daveweigel: I just removed a retweet of an offensive joke. I apologize and did not mean to cause any harm.
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: WaPo chief spox @kriscoratti issues statement on @daveweigel's retweet of a sexist joke, which he has since apologized for: “Editors have made clear to the staff that the tweet was reprehensible and demeaning language or actions like that will not be tolerated.”
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: It is TOTALLY NORMAL that a @washingtonpost political reporter retweets this misogynistic crap. Totally totally normal. https://twitter.com/...
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: Fantastic to work at a news outlet where retweets like this are allowed! https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: How many times does the same NYT/WPost reporter have to be caught lying before her frightened colleagues cease defending her or remain silent? Again, media employees love lamenting that they lost the trust of the public, but *never* look in the mirror to ask why this happened. https://twitter.com/...
Anna Merlan / VICE:
PR firm Vocal Media “recruits, trains, and pays influencers” to promote progressive causes, exemplifying just how lightly TikTok enforces disclosure rules — Vocal Media “recruits, trains, and pays influencers” to promote liberal causes on TikTok. It's easy to see how less-benign actors could use their model.
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Tim Marchman / @timmarchman: A number of exhausting people have responded to this story by saying that it's okay to do undisclosed propaganda if it's in service of a sufficiently righteous cause. That's certainly an opinion one can have!
Tim Marchman / @timmarchman: Oddly, we know this because the firm pitched @annamerlan on doing a story on the practice, which I suppose worked out in that she did. The ads, which the comms shop inexplicably insisted were not in violation of TikTok rules, were taken down after we reached out for comment.
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: Undisclosed “influence campaigns have been a persistent problem for TikTok”, and, as @annamerlan reports, as “Vocal Media “recruits, trains, and pays influencers” to promote liberal causes [it's] easy to see how less-benign actors could use their model” https://www.vice.com/...
Alex Howard / @digiphile: Covertly paying online “influencers” to hype causes is mind-bogglingly wrongheaded. https://www.vice.com/... This would run afoul of @FTC disclosure rules. A sabotaged @FEC means this Wild West will get worse. You can't buy authenticity. https://twitter.com/...
Becca Ricks / @baricks: Interesting story emerging today about paid political influence on TikTok, building off a @mozilla report that @bgeurkink and I wrote last year about policy loopholes on the platform (https://assets.mofoprod.net/ ...) https://twitter.com/...
Jason Koebler / @jason_koebler: what's up tiktok, today i want to talk to you about “bipartisan infrastructure bill” https://www.vice.com/...
@blackamazon: Wild funny that they found the “liberal” ones first after years or letting the racist ones slide https://twitter.com/...
@vice: The company has so far partnered with the likes of Planned Parenthood and NARAL. https://www.vice.com/...
Anna Merlan / @annamerlan: Last week, I got an email from an associate at a company called Hone Strategies, asking if I wanted to write about Vocal Media, which “recruits, trains and pays” influencers to make videos on “important policy topics” like gun violence and abortion. https://www.vice.com/...
Emily Baker-White / @ebakerwhite: Platforms can't always determine whether Campaign A paid Influencer B (off-platform) to make a given piece of content. But the fact that it's hard to enforce just makes it more dangerous. These are political ads, w/o disclosure about who paid for them. https://www.vice.com/...
Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal:
BuzzFeed stock dropped 41%+ on June 6, 2022, after the lockup for executives and major institutional investors from selling their shares expired on June 1, 2022 — Move marks worst one-day percentage drop in digital-media upstart's short trading history — BuzzFeed Inc.'s stock plummeted 41% …
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Keith Hernandez / @keithrhernandez: BuzzFeed stock is down 37.90% today, the day employees and executives lock up expires. The market cap is now less than their yearly revenue. That's what we call “zero faith” in their business: https://twitter.com/...
Gabrielle Bienasz / Insider: BuzzFeed's stock plunged Monday, putting the company's market cap below the $315 million that AOL paid for HuffPost in 2011
Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post: BuzzFeed shares recoup some losses after Monday's 41% stock decline
Jordan Dixon-Hamilton / Breitbart: BuzzFeed Stock Tanks 41 Percent After Initial Investors Allowed to Sell
@loudmouthjulia: If the market wasn't bad enough as is (protect/extend the runway, cut costs, slow/freeze hiring), that sound you hear is every other private digital media company that considered going public via SPAC or otherwise this year very likely not doing that. https://twitter.com/...
Kerry Flynn / @kerrymflynn: Shares in BuzzFeed Inc. fell to $2.23 yesterday, an all-time low since going public in December via a SPAC. This comes after a six-month lock-up provision that restricted some Class A shareholders expired last week. How does BuzzFeed bounce back? $BZFD https://www.axios.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Astrid Galván / Axios:
Congress members ask the State Department and USAID to review a US-funded program meant to protect Mexican journalists; a record 11 have been murdered in 2022 — A group of Democratic members of Congress wants the Biden administration to review a U.S.-funded program meant …
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@spj_tweets: “A group of Democratic members of Congress wants the Biden administration to review a U.S.-funded program meant to protect Mexican journalists amid a wave of unpunished killings. The lawmakers say the U.S. needs to do more to promote journalists' safety.” https://www.axios.com/...
@repchuygarcia: This week, @JoaquinCastrotx, @RepRaulGrijalva, and I led our colleagues in sending 2 letters to @SecBlinken raising concerns about forced disappearances in Mexico and the alarming rise in violence toward and killing of Mexican journalists. https://www.axios.com/...
Ben Kamens / @beekamens: Proud to see @RepChuyGarcia, @JoaquinCastrotx, and @RepRaulGrijalva leading on this effort to address the rise in violence against journalists in Mexico. https://twitter.com/...
Joaquin Castro / @joaquincastrotx: In Mexico, journalists are risking their lives to report the truth, too often without the protections they need. I'm leading a letter w/@RepRaulGrijalva & @RepChuyGarcia asking the Biden admin. to work with our Mexican partners to protect the free press https://www.axios.com/...
Terrence McCoy / Washington Post:
A British freelance journalist and a companion have gone missing while traveling down Brazil's Itaquai River to conduct research for a forest conservation book — RIO DE JANEIRO — As another day went by without any sign of a British journalist who went missing in the Amazon, diplomats …
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@freedomofpress: “As another day went by without any sign of a British journalist who went missing in the Amazon, diplomats, rights groups and news orgs pressured the Brazilian government to marshal an expansive search and rescue mission” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: This is a really grim article on the courageous British journalist missing in the Amazon while reporting on lawless invasion by industry interests, @domphillips, and a stark reminder of the real dangers journalists face who do this kind of dangerous but vital work: https://twitter.com/...
@houseforeign: CM @RepGregoryMeeks: Deeply concerned by the reported disappearance of @DomPhillips and Bruno Pereira in Brazil this week. I join the Brazilian people and international community in calling for swift action to find them as soon as possible. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@womaninhavana: The details in this @washingtonpost piece about Dom Phillips' disappearance are alarming. Hoping to see swift movement by @trussliz @FCDOHumanRights @mhopkinsfco @ukinbrazil to support this courageous British journalist by urging scaled up action now by Brazilian authorities. https://twitter.com/...
Suketu Mehta / @suketumehta: A few years ago in Rio, I was fortunate to have dinner with @domphillips . One of the nicest, kindest journalists I've met - and passionate about his adopted country. Hope he's found safe. https://twitter.com/...
Sanho Tree / @sanhotree: I really hope @domphillips and Bruno Pereira (a longtime official of Brazil's Indigenous rights organization) are found alive. Defenders of the Amazon keep getting murdered under Bolsonaro's administration. The fascist says they may have been “executed.” https://twitter.com/...
Alexander Kaufman / @alexckaufman: Reporting here says Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira encountered and filmed an illegal fisherman while venturing to the Javari Valley. He brandished a gun. Later, Indigenous activists spotted that fisherman's boat following the now-missing men. I feel sick. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@eveningstandard: Police launch probe into disappearance of British journalist in Brazil https://www.standard.co.uk/...
Julie Vitkovskaya / @julie_vit: I worked with Dom Phillips when he was at The Post. He's a kind and thoughtful reporter who loves writing about Brazil and its people. This news is devastating. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Terrence McCoy / @terrence_mccoy: I've learned additional details in the disappearance of my friend, journalist Dom Phillips. I'm devastated to report, however, that there is increasing reason to believe the worst, and that they were attacked and disappeared in the forest. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Andrew Fishman / @andrewdfish: Grim new details in this WaPo article by @terrence_mccoy: People in the village who last saw @domphillips & Bruno also report seeing the boat of an illegal fisherman who had previously threatened Bruno pass in the same direction soon after. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Tom Phillips / The Guardian: Missing British journalist's wife pleads with Brazil to find ‘love of my life’
Adam Isacson / @adam_wola: I'm a bit of a nerd, so for years I've kept a database of articles and reports about Latin America. It includes _102_ items by Dom Phillips. He's been a key window into my understanding of #Brazil, though I don't think we've met. This is devastating. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@cecillia: “The ministry was still waiting for approval from higher command. Brazilian navy said it wouldn't provide access to a helicopter, a vital search tool in an area as undeveloped and vast as western Amazonas state, until Tuesday morning — 48h after Phillips and Pereira went missing” https://twitter.com/...
Elsa Keslassy / Variety:
Ampere: Netflix and Amazon have reached or surpassed the required 30% local content quota in major European markets and are at 27% in the UK; Disney+ is at ~10% — Netflix has either reached or surpassed the required 30% local content quotas in major markets in Europe …
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Erik Gruenwedel / Media Play News: Netflix Reaches 30% Threshold for European Content Offerings
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Sources: Red Ventures is winding down Cord Cutters News, shifting streaming coverage to TVGuide.com, which it acquired via its CNET purchase in September 2020 — Marketing firm Red Ventures is winding down the streaming television-focused blog Cord Cutters News two years after it acquired the website …
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Evan DeSimone / @mediaevan: Many sites that covered the early days of streaming video (StreamDaily, VideoInk) were folded into larger outlets long ago. Others, like Tubefilter, have thrived by widening their coverage to include influencers, social media, and the creator economy. Streaming is just TV now.
Jared Newman / @onejarednewman: Sad to see Cord Cutters News go. @LukeBK did incredible work making something out of nothing and came up with scoops on the regular. I suspect it's harder for niche cord cutting sites to thrive now that streaming TV is big business. https://thedesk.net/...
Evan DeSimone / @mediaevan: It's difficult to maintain a niche site focused on streaming now that streaming is no longer by any definition niche. https://thedesk.net/...
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Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Q&A with Vox Media's SVP of e-commerce Camilla Cho on plans to launch shopping-focused newsletters, adding e-commerce content to existing newsletters, and more — Vox Media is working on identifying the titles, newsletters and franchises that are primed for the addition of shopping content …
Daniel Frankel / Next TV:
AT&T stops bundling HBO Max for free with its Unlimited Premium wireless plan, after spinning off HBO and its parent WarnerMedia in a $43B merger with Discovery — AT&T CEO John Stankey's ‘flywheel’ in the sky keeps on turnin' — The “flywheel,” that ever-spinning virtuous cycle of data …
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Variety, CNET, Mobile Internet Resource …, The A.V. Club, @matthewkeyslive, The Streamable and @dannyfrankel
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Eli Blumenthal / CNET: AT&T Adjusts Top Plan, Removes Unlimited Elite and HBO Max Option
Cherie Ve Ard / Mobile Internet Resource Center: AT&T Unlimited Premium Replaces Unlimited Elite for Consumers: Now With 50GB Mobile Hotspot Data
Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: @mediagazer @dannyfrankel They're still offering it with AT&T Wireless plans. They're not offering it with AT&T Fiber. https://www.att.com/...
Stephen Silver / The Streamable: HBO Max No Longer Available with AT&T Premium Wireless Plan
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