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David Bauder / Associated Press:
NBC reporter Dasha Burns draws criticism after saying PA Senate candidate John Fetterman struggled with small talk without access to a closed-captioning device — An NBC News correspondent who interviewed Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman says an on-air remark …
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Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine: The Vulnerability of John Fetterman
Josh Kraushaar / @joshkraushaar: NBC News' Dasha Burns: “In small talk before my interview [with Fetterman], it wasn't clear he understood what I was saying.” #PASEN
Dasha Burns / @dashaburns: Unlike any political interview I've ever done. Unlike any race I've ever covered. WATCH: https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Sorry to say but I talked to @JohnFetterman for over an hour without stop or any aides and this is just nonsense. Maybe this reporter is just bad at small talk. https://twitter.com/...
Ken Meyer / Mediaite: Colby Hall Defends NBC Reporter's Fetterman Interview from Tribalized Media Anger: Letting ‘Allegiance’ Get In the Way of Facts
@nbcnightlynews: Pennsylvania Lt. Governor and Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman sat down with @DashaBurns in an exclusive interview using closed captioning. Fetterman discussed his recovery after suffering a stroke in the primaries and his race against Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Ortega / @mattortega: Good Lord, NBC News. (NBC News screenshot from @AJentleson) https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / The Present Age: Taking a Look at the Associated Press' Bizarre Coverage of the Fetterman/Oz Campaign
@jsprenk: There's a point bubbling under the surface of the Fetterman discourse about diversity in media. Kara Swisher also had a stroke and experienced the same auditory issues. I'm glad she's in a position to speak up on this issue. The media needs people with different experiences.
Dasha Burns / @dashaburns: It's possible for two different reporters to have two different experiences w a candidate. Our team was in the room w him & reported what happened in it, as journalists do. Before & after closed captioning was on. Our full intv is now available to watch: https://www.nbcnews.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kim Kelly / @grimkim: weird time to be a disabled journalist who lives in Pennsylvania and has family members who have survived strokes—and others who haven't—and see the way some of my media “colleagues” are talking about Fetterman!
@emylewatkins: The #Fetterman interview really just exposes what so many disabled journalists & news consumers already knew: our industry has serious problems with ableism. So let's talk about it: What do you wish journalists or outlets would do differently? #CripTheNews #DisabilityTwitter
@therecount: PA Dem. Senate nominee John Fetterman pushes back on criticism of his NBC interview, which used closed captioning: “Most often, kinds of politicians use a teleprompter, but nobody wonders if he or she is able to do the job ... Half of Americans watch TV with using captions too.” https://twitter.com/...
Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona: Chris Matthews popped up on Morning Joe this morning and had this to say about John Fetterman: “She was soft, she was reasonable, and she asked reasonable questions of a guy who cannot answer the question because he has to look at the monitor.” https://twitter.com/...
Ashton Pittman / @ashtonpittman: Imagine interviewing a deaf candidate and informing viewers that, before you provided him with captions or an interpreter, “it wasn't clear he understood what I was saying.” That's basically what Dasha Burns did here with John Fetterman. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Merica / @merica: It is not news that Fetterman uses closed captioning in interviews. From a July interview, his first post-stroke: “In the Wednesday morning interview, Mr. Fetterman used closed captioning on the call to make sure he didn't miss any words.” The story: https://www.post-gazette.com/ ...
Kendall Brown / @kendallybrown: @DashaBurns The fact that you framed basic accommodations as something that voters need to “decide” is acceptable IS biased. Acting like whether or not we accommodate disabled people's needs and treat them with diginity is up for debate IS showing bias. If you can't see that, get a new job.
Holly Otterbein / @hollyotterbein: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July: “Fetterman used closed captioning on the call” NYT, Sept.: “He is still using closed captioning to conduct video conversations, as he did in the interview” Politico, Sept.: “Fetterman conducted the interview ... using closed captioning.” https://twitter.com/...
Josh Holmes / @holmesjosh: Friendly “reporters” were apparently conducting interviews with Fetterman through a computer stenographer without disclosing that, while he and his campaign were insisting he has no problem at all.
Manny / @mannyfidel: the john fetterman/closed captioning hooplah is so silly because the framing is “can voters understand him???” while he is actively being understood
Karen K. Ho / @karenkho: the way some journalists are reacting to John Fetterman's use of closed captioning explains why basic things like consistent alt-text and workplace accommodations are such a struggle in so many newsrooms
NBC News: Full Fetterman interview: 'I believe I'm going to be able to serve effectively' after stroke
Audrey Fahlberg / The Dispatch: Will One Man's Stroke Determine Control of the Senate?
Julia Manchester / The Hill: NBC interview draws new scrutiny over Fetterman's health
David Mack / BuzzFeed News: Disability Advocates Say The Response To John Fetterman Using Closed Captioning In An Interview As He Recovers From A Stroke Was “Deeply Upsetting” And Stigmatizing
Paul Rigney / @paulrrigney: Photog who shot the interview and liveshots here, and this is not what she said. But hey man, enjoy the RT's. https://twitter.com/...
Dasha Burns / @dashaburns: We were happy to accommodate closed captioning. Our reporting did not and should not comment on fitness for office. This is for voters to decide. What we do push for as reporters is transparency. It's our job. Fetterman sat down and answered our questions. That's his job. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Young / The Daily Beast: John Fetterman Stumbles, ‘Stutters’ During First in-Person Interview Since Stroke
Adam Jentleson / @ajentleson: Good moment for a gut check here. Fetterman has said he misses words and pushes them together, and been transparent about needing closed captioning. I'm biased but when I watch the clip I see a guy recovering and recovering overcoming a challenge. I wonder what voters will see. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Jentleson / @ajentleson: Here is my basic question: How can anyone thinking of running for office, and who requires reasonable accommodations like captions, look at what NBC has done over the past two days and think they will get a fair shake - that their need for accommodation won't become the story? https://twitter.com/...
Ross A. Lincoln / The Wrap: Trevor Noah Dismantles ‘Trash’ Way John Fetterman's Stroke Recovery Has Been Covered (Video)
Alex Thompson / @alexthomp: “We spoke using Google Meet, because the stroke had made it difficult for him to process what he hears; the video chat has closed-captioning technology that allowed him to read my questions in real time.” https://nymag.com/...
Victoria Brownworth / @vabvox: Excellent thread on interviewing @JohnFetterman by someone known for in-depth interviews and who also had a stroke a decade ago. And a reminder that there are two senators serving right now who had strokes this year: Lujan and Van Hollen. Be less ableist and less like the GOP. https://twitter.com/...
Loree Seitz / The Wrap: NBC Reporter Called Out for ‘Nonsense’ Treatment of Pennsylvania Senate Candidate John Fetterman
Brian Tyler Cohen / @briantylercohen: Here's my interview with @JohnFetterman from a few days ago. The notion that he wasn't able to understand is mind-numbingly false. https://www.youtube.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Connie Schultz / @connieschultz: Highly recommend this honest, deeply reported story by @rtraister. She documents Fetterman's challenges & strengths & rightly notes: “the willingness with which the political press took up the frame offered by the Oz campaign has been startling.” https://nymag.com/...
Brian Rosenwald / @brianros1: Because there are no competency issues. His thinking is 100% fine, as he's explained & proved in interview after interview. He just sometimes needs to see things in writing. This is a standard Johnson, Kirk, Lujan, and Van Hollen haven't been held to. https://twitter.com/...
Louise Perkins King / @louise_p_king: Have listened to mult @JohnFetterman interviews incl @NBCNews The take that he isn't cogent, wasn't able to understand bc used a common aid - pure ableism. Many leaders have had/recovered from strokes. To use an aid in that recovery is simply good sense. @NBCNews do better! https://twitter.com/...
Fox News: Associated Press hit for article on reporter's Fetterman comment: ‘Here comes AP to clean up for Democrats’
Ben Blanchet / HuffPost: Tucker Carlson's Latest Attack On Democrat John Fetterman Comes Back To Bite Him
Wendell Husebø / Breitbart: NBC News Journalist Dasha Burns's Report on Democrat John Fetterman's Closed Captioning, Interview Aid Goes Unsupported by Network
Media Matters for America: Political journalists joined right-wing media with ableist responses to Fetterman interview
A.J. Katz / Adweek: NBC News' Dasha Burns Responds to Criticism of Her Interview with Pennsylvania Senate Candidate John Fetterman
Ryan Saavedra / The Daily Wire: Democrat Senate Candidate Fetterman Forced To Use Giant Screen For Interview: 'This Guy's In Bad Shape'
Mike Redmond / UPROXX: John Fetterman Is Assuring Everyone That He'll Be In Better Shape Soon, But He (Definitely) Can't Say The Same For Oz
Richard Luscombe / The Guardian: John Fetterman says stroke he suffered ‘changes everything’ about his life
Jack Queen / Reuters:
A Connecticut jury awards $965M+ in damages to Sandy Hook families of children and staff members in the second defamation trial against Alex Jones and Infowars — A Connecticut jury has reached a damages verdict in a case to decide how much conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay families …
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Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times: Live Updates: Alex Jones Ordered to Pay Sandy Hook Victims' Families Over $800 Million
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: As the jury reads the damages and the Sandy Hook parents weep, Alex Jones is on his broadcast, laughing and assuring his audience that he won't actually be paying any of this money. “Do these people actually think they're getting any of this money?” https://twitter.com/...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: Breaking: Absolutely astronomical figures in this InfoWars lawsuit out of Connecticut. Alex Jones owes $229 million to just the first three plaintiffs, all family members of Sandy Hook victims. There are nine more plaintiffs to go.
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: Breaking: A Connecticut court rules Alex Jones owes Sandy Hook victims over $1 billion.
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: Alex Jones after his billion dollar damages verdict: “They want to scare us away from question Uvalde or Parkland. We're not going away. We're not going to stop.” He's now selling “vitamineral fusion” from the InfoWars store.
Olivia Olander / Politico: Alex Jones ordered to pay $965 million for Sandy Hook lies
Edmund H. Mahony / Hartford Courant: Jury reaches verdict of nearly $1 billion in compensatory damages against Alex Jones in Sandy Hook trial
Jacob Knutson / Axios: Jury orders Alex Jones to pay nearly $1 billion in Sandy Hook defamation trial
Eric Hananoki / @ehananoki: And when you're talking about people who have embraced Alex Jones, there is, of course, Donald Trump. He told Jones in 2015 ( https://www.mediamatters.org/ ...): “Your reputation's amazing. I will not let you down.” https://twitter.com/...
Safia Samee Ali / NBC News: Alex Jones must pay more than $950 million in damages to families of 8 Sandy Hook victims
Eric Hananoki / @ehananoki: Alex Jones is thankfully being ordered to pay hundreds of millions to family members of the Sandy Hook victims. Meanwhile, GOP media personalities like Steve Bannon, TPUSA / Charlie Kirk, and Tucker Carlson are embracing him (via @johnknefel): https://www.mediamatters.org/ ...
Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo: Alex Jones Ordered To Pay Nearly $1B To Sandy Hook Families In Costly Reaping
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: Alex Jones on his show just now, learning he owes over $1 billion in damages to Sandy Hook victims: “This must be what Hell's like, they just read out the damages. Even though you don't got the money.”
Zeke Miller / @zekejmiller: WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — Jury says Alex Jones should pay $965 million to people who suffered from his lies about the Sandy Hook school massacre.
@therecount: Alex Jones responds to owing around $1B in damages to Sandy Hook families by shamelessly asking for donations to fund InfoWars: “They want to ... scare us away from questioning Uvalde ... or Parkland ... We're not scared, and we're not going away, and we're not going to stop.” https://twitter.com/...
Ted Johnson / Deadline: Alex Jones Ordered To Pay Nearly $1 Billion In Damages To Sandy Hook Families - Update
Erica Leslie Lafferty / @ericalaff: My statement from earlier 🧵: My name is Erica, I am the daughter of Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, the principal of sandy hook school — and as I was testifying about the rape threats that were sent to me because of Alex Jones' lies,
Jackson Richman / Mediaite: 'This Must Be What Hell's Like': Watch Alex Jones React to News He Owes Sandy Hook Families Almost $1 Billion
@axios: The order comes on top of the $49.3 million in damages a separate Texas jury ordered Jones in August to pay to the parents of a 6-year-old boy killed in the school shooting. https://www.axios.com/...
Anna Merlan / @annamerlan: The families do not look happy; this isn't a happy moment. They look calm, weepy, or stunned, for the most part. But what a victory.
Be A King / @berniceking: Praying for the parents and families whose grief and sorrow Alex Jones cruelly disregarded for profit and propaganda. https://twitter.com/...
@nycsouthpaw: If anyone deserves to live the rest of his life beholden to a horde of personally outraged judgment creditors, it's Alex Jones.
Dave Levinthal / @davelevinthal: Over at InfoWars dot com ... https://twitter.com/...
Angelo Carusone / @goangelo: Shortly before Jury ordered Alex Jones to pay $965M in damages to Sandy Hook families, Jones was on his show calling for Pfizer execs to be hanged. The man is a destructive, deceitful and lethal menace. Let these damages crush him under weight of his own lies. Fox News next.
Tristan Snell / @tristansnell: Alex Jones's response to the Sandy Hook verdict: “Do these people actually think they're getting any of this money?” Go ahead, Alex. Try to play games, try to hide money, just try. That could result not just in paying the plaintiffs — but in imprisonment for contempt of court.
Maria Shriver / @mariashriver: Bankrupt is one thing, but it's his spewing that needs to be stopped. @shannonrwatts https://twitter.com/...
Molly Knight / @molly_knight: Actually Alex, Hell is having your child get murdered then having to move 10 times because some nutjob with a megaphone tells his violent followers that your child's murder was a government hoax. https://twitter.com/...
Philip Lewis / @phil_lewis_: Alex Jones is as evil as it gets https://twitter.com/...
Shannon Watts / @shannonrwatts: NEW: Alex Jones and InfoWars are being bankrupted right now in a Connecticut court. This is huge. https://twitter.com/...
Lisa Rubin / @lawofruby: The damages awarded for defamation/slander and infliction of emotional distress are compensatory damages and are not capped under CT law. https://twitter.com/...
@pwnallthethings: The Sandy Hook jury verdict in Alex Jones / InfoWars trial in Connecticut is ongoing and already up to several hundred million dollars of damages. Wipes them out.
@pwnallthethings: Just shy of a billion dollars total damages. That's “burn it all to the ground” numbers
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: I'd say there's a pretty decent chance we get a full-throated defense of Alex Jones from Tucker Carlson tonight that avoids mentioning what these judgments are for. https://twitter.com/...
Gretchen Carlson / @gretchencarlson: Karma for this piece of shit. How dare he ever uttered 1 word against these brave families who endured the worst act imaginable when they lost their children at Sandy Hook. Prime example of the craziness of our society pushing outrageous lies that ruined lives. #AlexJones https://twitter.com/...
David Corn / @davidcorndc: The most expensive batcrap crazy conspiracy theory ever. https://twitter.com/...
@meidastouch: As you see these judgments come in, remember that Turning Point USA recently gave a standing ovation to Alex Jones at a conference. Jones has been embraced by the Republican Party at all levels. He is not some fringe figure on the Right. https://twitter.com/...
@schotthappens: No amount of money will ever ease the pain that Alex Jones caused these families. That being said, this could shut down Infowars, and might deter other people from doing something similar https://twitter.com/...
@ugarles: it is my understanding that, unlike TX, CT does not have a relevant damages cap and this is the Actual Amount that Jones and the Infowars entities owe https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Willis / @owillis: let the infowars bodies hit the floor https://twitter.com/...
Katherine Clark / @repkclark: My thoughts are with the Sandyhook parents whose murdered children Alex Jones cruelly exploited. There is no adequate price for suffering inflicted by the horror of Jones' greed and lies, but I hope this step toward accountability brings them comfort. https://twitter.com/...
Anna Merlan / @annamerlan: Jesus absolute Christ. What a deluge. Attorney's fees will awarded at a later date. I can see several of the family members visibly exhaling.
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: i spent months of my life following the guy and digging up people and records from his past. the biggest thing i took away isn't whether he believes his bullshit or not...it's that he will never and cannot stop terrorizing people https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
@newtownaction: May this verdict be a lesson for all conspiracy theorists who use lies to harass families who have been impacted by mass shooting tragedies. You will pay! https://twitter.com/...
Kim Iversen / @kimiversenshow: Such a dangerous precedent to set. One should be allowed to say that an event, any event, is fake and should then be allowed to state their reasoning no matter how absurd. https://twitter.com/...
Jared Holt / @jaredlholt: The jury awarded attorney's fees. Have a feeling those folks won't mind at all going hunting for their money. https://twitter.com/...
Doug Jones / @dougjones: This will never bring back those precious kids & their teachers but it's the next step on the road to justice. Remember it was the financial verdict obtained against the Klan by the @splcenter in the Donald lynching case that brought down the KKK. Appropriate that Jones is next. https://twitter.com/...
Anna Merlan / @annamerlan: Jones is ranting about the verdict and says is meant to “scare” people and says he can “Keep them in court for years,” calls the verdict “a joke” and says he'll appeal.
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: Alex Jones is hoping there's a cap on these damages and is now just mocking the verdict. “Why not make it trillions?” This is not an amount he can fundraise or sell supplements to get out of. Even Jones gave up trying to add up damages: “We've lost count, it's in the billions.”
Juliette Kayyem / @juliettekayyem: Maybe we can monetize hate just as well as they do ... 🔥🔥🔥 https://twitter.com/...
Joseph Sakran / @josephsakran: While $1 Billion does not take away the pain and anguish experienced by the @sandyhook families, I hope it brings a swift end to the infowars media empire. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: a good rule of thumb is to never believe anything that comes out of Jones' mouth. But he's telling the truth that he'll never stop doing this shit to people https://twitter.com/...
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: The @NYTimes, a paper I subscribe to and depend on, can be so strange. The Alex Jones blog once credited my reporting, and now it's gone. I couldn't care less, but the quiet erasure of attribution, as a librarian, is not great. It begs the question, who else will they lift from? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Raza Ahmad Rumi / @razarumi: This is the least conspiracy theorists deserve. Each one of them should be held accountable for spreading callous, dangerous lies. #AlexJonesTrial https://twitter.com/...
Shannon Watts / @shannonrwatts: Alex Jones thinks he's in hell. Not the parents he tortured after their children were murdered. Even $1 billion isn't adequate. https://twitter.com/...
Dana Loesch / Dana Loesch's Chapter and Verse: A Billion Dollar Defamation Case
Jen Psaki / @jrpsaki: The damage Alex Jones has done to the lives of these families is horrific—nearly a billion dollars doesn't solve their pain-but also true that the end of infowars would be a public service
Will Sommer / @willsommer: The AP puts the Sandy Hook verdict at $965 million. The plaintiffs have accused InfoWars of hiding its assets to avoid a massive judgment just like this. https://twitter.com/...
Will Sommer / @willsommer: The Sandy Hook jury verdict is in for the Alex Jones - InfoWars trial in Connecticut, and it's looking enormous. One plaintiff alone is getting $120 million.
JJ MacNab / @jjmacnab: Meanwhile on Infowars. https://twitter.com/...
Robert Picardo / @robertpicardo: Hallelujah! The system worked! If you think #AlexJones is being persecuted for exercising “free speech”, you're wrong. He's being punished for LYING about family tragedies & EXPLOITING them for millions in personal profit. He'll give 800M to these victims! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Insider: Alex Jones' billion-dollar judgement: The conspiracy theorist has turned career-ending setbacks into profit windfalls, but this could be too much to overcome
Ginnie Teo / New York Daily News: Legal experts react to Sandy Hook jury awarding families $1B in Alex Jones defamation trial
Bess Levin / Vanity Fair: Alex Jones Vows to Keep Terrorizing the Families of School-Shooting Victims Following Nearly $1 Billion Judgement
Todd Spangler / Variety: Alex Jones Is ‘Basically Broke for the Rest of His Life’ After Sandy Hook Verdict, Says Former U.S. Attorney
Matthewprigge / UPROXX: Alex Jones Reacted To Having To Pay Nearly A Billion Dollars To Sandy Hook Families By...Cheering And Fist-Pumping?
Oliver Darcy / CNN: Alex Jones faces a reckoning, but the style of politics he popularized is here to stay
Brett Wilkins / Common Dreams: Far-Right Conspiracy Grifter Alex Jones Hit With Nearly $1 Billion in Damages for Sandy Hook Lies
Loree Seitz / The Wrap: Alex Jones Says He's ‘Almost Out of Money’ Even Before $965 Million Judgment in Sandy Hook Case
Ashe Schow / The Daily Wire: Alex Jones Ordered To Pay Nearly $1 Billion To Families Of Sandy Hook Victims
Zach Schonfeld / The Hill: Alex Jones cheers on air as judge reads $965 million defamation suit verdict
Laurel Brubaker Calkins / Bloomberg: Alex Jones Must Pay Almost $1 Billion for Sandy Hook Lies
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone: Alex Jones Mocks Jury Ordering Him to Pay $1 Billion to Sandy Hook Families
Ben Kesslen / New York Post: Alex Jones must pay Sandy Hook families $965M in second defamation trial
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast: Jimmy Kimmel Brutally Mocks Alex Jones' ‘Hissy Fit’ Over $965 Million Verdict
Ethan Shanfeld / Variety: Alex Jones Ordered to Pay Nearly $1 Billion in Sandy Hook Defamation Trial
Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost: Alex Jones Hit With $965 Million Verdict In 2nd Trial Over Sandy Hook Lies
Carla Sinclair / Boing Boing: Alex Jones ordered to pay nearly $1 billion to families of Sandy Hook victims
Katia Porzecanski / Bloomberg: Alex Jones Must Pay Almost $1 Billion for Sandy Hook Lies
Steven Church / Bloomberg: Right-Wing Provocateur Alex Jones to Join Bankruptcy Mediation
Anna Merlan / VICE: Connecticut Jury Orders Alex Jones and Infowars to Pay $965 Million to Sandy Hook Families
Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast: Alex Jones Gloats After Jury Slaps Him With $1 BILLION Bill for His Sandy Hook Garbage
Abigail Weinberg / Mother Jones: Jury Orders Alex Jones to Pay Sandy Hook Families Nearly $1 Billion
Oliver Darcy / CNN: Jury reaches decision in Sandy Hook trial that will determine how much Alex Jones should pay for lies about the massacre
Sylvester Marquardt / Self Interest Almanac: GOP, Alex Jones, and Dead Children
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
TikTok announces Showtimes, an ad format that lets movie studios post trailers and direct users to showtimes and tickets at local theaters — TikTok is kicking off its annual product event with a set of announcements, including a feature aimed at studio movie marketers called Showtimes on TikTok.
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TechCrunch, Ad Age, TikTok, Fortune, Graming's Newsletter, AdExchanger and The Information
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: TikTok launches Profile Kit to add up to six videos on other sites, integrating first with LinkTree
Erika Wheless / Ad Age: TikTok wants to help movie theaters engage Gen Z
Christiaan Hetzner / Fortune: Bombshell report reveals TikTok is getting rich off live-streaming refugee families begging for help
Jessica E. Lessin / The Information: TikTok and the Universal Law of Internet Companies
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: ByteDance plans to expand its Resso music streaming service globally, starting with over a dozen markets excluding the US, and integrate it into TikTok — Company is negotiating with labels as it seeks more than a dozen new global markets — BeReal vs. TikTok: Can ‘Authentic’ Social Media Compete Without Ads?
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Nidhi Pandurangi / Insider: TikTok already took over as Gen Z's social platform of choice. It might be coming for Spotify next.
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: Resso may lead ByteDance's global music streaming charge
Chris Cooke / Complete Music Update: Wall Street Journal says TikTok music service talks on going but strained
Ben Fritz / @benfritz: TikTok has reached that special moment in every Internet media site's adolescence when they start negotiating with music labels. https://www.wsj.com/...
@richlightshed: 🎶 Can @tiktok_us be a music label, a music subscription service like Spotify and the place where you discover new music all in one? Ep #127 of @LightshedTMT Podcast with @WaltLightShed @BrandoLightShed https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brian Roemmele / @brianroemmele: How bad will the TikTok Earworm AI technologies be? I wrote about the issue over a decade ago as I saw music tilt to become just “hooks”. The early AI was designing songs. The new AI will design addictive Earworm playlist edited to 10x more addictive. https://www.quora.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Newley Purnell / @newley: TikTok parent ByteDance has begun talks with music labels about expanding its music-streaming service globally. Resso now only available in India, Indonesia and Brazil https://www.wsj.com/... via @jtoonkel @AnneMarieSteele @sal19
Sal Rodriguez / @sal19: Here's our latest scoop on the TikTok front: ByteDance is planning to expand the markets in which its Resso music-streaming service operates in a bid to challenge Spotify and Apple Music https://www.wsj.com/... got to help @jtoonkel and @AnneMarieSteele on this one
Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide: TikTok parent in talks with labels to launch music streaming service in 12+ new markets - report
Ben Mullin / @benmullin:
Gannett CEO Mike Reed announces austerity measures, including a voluntary severance offer, a 401(k) match suspension, and a five-day mandatory leave in December — New: memo from Gannett CEO Mike Reed announcing “voluntary severance” and other austerity measures at the company: https://twitter.com/...
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Bailey Schulz / USA Today: Gannett, owner of USA TODAY, continues cost-cutting measures
Kati Kokal / @katikokal: In a meeting that lasted less than 15 minutes this afternoon, @Gannett announced mandatory furloughs at the holidays, buyouts, freezing our 401(k) match and stopping hiring. No details. Very little info on timeline. I think most of us are either speechless or swearing rn.
Joseph D. Jaafari / @josephjaafari: Thank GOD for @azrepublicguild, as Gannett is announcing they are cutting all 401k's matching, and requiring people to take 5 days off. They're also offering unpaid leave, a salary reduction with time reduction, and voluntary severance. This is... awful.
Rafael Carranza / @rafaelcarranza: This the clearest endorsement yet of the importance of unions. Mike Reed acknowledged these changes won't impact newsrooms at @Gannett like mine who are still bargaining. (We're approaching the 3rd anniv. of when we voted to establish the @azrepublicguild, but still no contract.) https://twitter.com/...
Molly Beck / @mollybeck: Gannett owns the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and 10 other newspapers in Wisconsin: https://twitter.com/...
Jon Ralston / @ralstonreports: This is just horrible, a sign of the times in our business. Wish all the hard-working journalists laid off the best. https://twitter.com/...
Julia Shumway / @jmshumway: The Gannett CEO who made $7.7 million last year is really giving all his employees making $30K five unpaid mandatory days off for Christmas https://twitter.com/...
Katie Hall / @katie_statesman: I am, once again, so grateful to have unionized in the wake of Gannett's announcement today. The CEO acknowledged these changes won't affect newsrooms like mine who are still bargaining if we don't want them to. We are fighting every day to #KeepAustinInformed 💜🦇 https://twitter.com/...
Ashton Pittman / @ashtonpittman: Gannett has spent decades scooping up and hollowing out local newsrooms for a buck and continues actively killing this vital underpinning of democracy. And this monster just keeps going. Gannett doesn't give a damn about democracy, journalism or even its own journalists. https://twitter.com/...
@kylegrantham: Gannett is cancelling their 401(k) match (which was already minuscule), forcing a week-long furlough IN DECEMBER, and closing open positions Gannett generated $3.2B in revenue in 2021, and Mike Reed took home $7.7M, roughly 160 times that of the average Gannett employee https://twitter.com/...
@rebekahlsanders: Because we unionized in 2019, @Gannett cannot impose these cuts on us, as it is doing in other newsrooms. Instead, the company must negotiate with our united members. https://twitter.com/...
Bill Shea / @bill_shea19: It's astounding how badly Gannett has been run for so long, and what it does to employees. I covered hundreds of Gannett layoffs/buyouts just in Detroit alone over the years. Almost always during the holidays. https://twitter.com/...
@rebekahlsanders: .@Gannett scheduled therapy sessions for employees to discuss “facing adversity” after Hurricane Ian. Listening in you could be forgiven for thinking the therapist is talking about the stress and trauma caused by the company's treatment of staff. The “self-care” burden is a con. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Shafer / @danrshafer: Awful, awful news for journalism in Wisconsin, where Gannett owns 11 newspapers. https://twitter.com/...
Hannah Ruhoff / @the_ruhoff: average Gannett salary $48k Gannett CEO income $7.7 million executives income $1.7 million someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my newspaper is dying. https://twitter.com/...
Colin Jones / @colinjones: In case you're wondering, Reed reportedly earned $7,741,052 in 2021. https://twitter.com/...
Damien Willis / @damienwillis: $559. That's what I guess it'll cost me to keep working for @Gannett in December. I'm sure my family will understand.
Sean Lahman / @seanlahman: These draconian measures won't apply to unionized newsrooms like @rocnewsguild, but it's still a cause for existential dread. In the 12 years I've been with Gannett, top execs have failed to come up with any sustainable strategies and just serve up layoffs and cuts over and over. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Thompson / @alexthomp: Another loss in the punditry v. reporting battle. Gannett's local reporting was important earlier this year as the takes mounted. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Lis Smith / @lis_smith: Horrible news for accountability- certainly in politics. The death of local media will only fuel the rise of dangerous ideologues as they will face less and less scrutiny in a free press. https://twitter.com/...
Ted Nesi / @tednesi: Keep in mind: Gannett executives continue to pay themselves millions of dollars... even though they're the people who thought this it was a good idea to load a *print newspaper company* with massive high-interest debt during a time of declining circulation https://www.usatoday.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Scot Ross / @rossacrosswi: Gannett is the Trump of corporate newspaper owners: a total disaster. How on earth do you fuck up the providing of a service everyone needs everyday? https://twitter.com/...
Catherine Sweeney / @cathjsweeney: Gannet is pausing all hiring https://twitter.com/...
Curt Hogg / @cyrthogg: Gannett, the company that owns the Journal Sentinel and 10 other Wisconsin papers, is at it. Again. And, quite frankly, I'm quite fed up with this same cycle being repeated while the CEO pulled in a $7.7 million salary last year. Thankful for @mkenewsguild once again. https://twitter.com/...
@eclecticbrotha: Same company that publishes USA Today. This is what Gannett is doing to its actual workforce. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Schad / @schadjoe: If you believe that quality journalism and respected journalists enrich your day, seek to uncover truths, ask the hard questions you would want asked of people with power and authority, please support your local newspaper today. Without that, this will continue to happen —> https://twitter.com/...
Justin Murphy / @citizenmurphy: The indifference to journalism is just breathtaking. Imagine him keeping a straight face and saying there's a plan to serve the public. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: More of happens when financial engineers — who put community information needs far down the list (if there at all) of priorities — control journalism companies: https://twitter.com/...
Emma Marris / @emma_marris: Journalism is in bad fucking shape, if you haven't noticed. My sympathies for everyone, staffer or freelancer, living with the stress of trying to cover a world on fire from an industry on fire. https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Willis / @owillis: last year mike reed made $7.7 million while cutting staff at gannett by 24% https://www.bizjournals.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Spooky Sheridan Hendrix / @sheridan120: Gannett: We're giving you free time to spend with your families around the holidays! Also Gannett: You just won't have the money to feed them or buy them gifts or travel to see them or pay your rent. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Hemingway / @heminator: I worked briefly at USA Today over 20 years ago, and Gannett's always been a lousy corporation. OTOH, given the quality of the product they've been churning out lately — see USAT's hilariously bad “fact checking” — not surprised their product is failing. https://twitter.com/...
Katie Hall / @katie_statesman: A very important footnote: It won't affect unionized members, but unfortunately our union cannot represent our managers. I stand with my managers who will have to undergo these austerity measures. Their only source of stress should be editing me, not having their 401(k) cut.
Katie Hall / @katie_statesman: Others who are not protected under the Austin NewsGuild umbrella: our digital folks and a couple of our best journalists who are technically USA Today journalists. Gannett likes to try to separate us all, but I'm standing together with them.
Laura Finaldi / @lauraefinaldi: Need I remind everyone that @Gannett journalists across Florida have spent the past few weeks covering Hurricane Ian while simultaneously being directly impacted by the storm? All this for “near-term” flexibility. This is not acceptable or OK. https://twitter.com/...
David Gura / @davidgura: Last year, Mike Reed made $7.74 million, “consisting of a $900,000 salary, a $767,052 bonus and a stock award valued as of the grant date at just over $6 million.” https://www.bizjournals.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Diana Moskovitz / @dianamoskovitz: This is your reminder that Gannett is more worried about keeping shareholders happy than producing journalism. I went into some detail about that here: https://defector.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Shannan Bowen / @shanbow: This impacts 12 North Carolina newsrooms, their employees, and—yes—their communities. Journalists: I'm here to offer any support, advice, connections and resources that will help you. https://twitter.com/...
@leomcastaneda: local newspapers are a cornerstone of our democracy and the CEO of one of the largest chains in the country is being paid millions of dollars to destroy them in the cruelest way possible https://twitter.com/...
Emily Hopkins / @indyemapolis: Gannett announcing its holiday gift to employees each year: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Trevor Brown / @tbrownokc: Mandatory 5 day furloughs is such a shit move, especially in Dec. Gannett hit me with those a multiple times in my first job out of college Having your monthly income cut by 1/4 unexpectedly during the holidays does not feel good https://twitter.com/...
Stacey Barchenger / @sbarchenger: I can't say it any better. Having @azrepublicguild just paid for itself - again. https://twitter.com/...
Emma Keith / @emma_ckeith: when the transcript's corporate owners talked themselves up they'd say “we treat our people so much better than they do at Gannett or Lee.” and you know what, yeah, I guess it's easy to clear the bar when the bar is in hell https://twitter.com/...
Jordan Fischer / @jordanonrecord: I feel so awful for my friends at Gannett papers who put out incredible work day after day and get rewarded with cut after cut. Gannett leadership doesn't deserve them. https://twitter.com/...
Will Cleveland / @willcleveland13: a reminder: gannett ceo mike reed “earned” nearly $8 million last year. he doesn't care about journalists or local journalism. he cares about himself and investors. what he's doing is criminal and my heart breaks to see my former colleagues have to sift through this horseshit. https://twitter.com/...
Marc R. Masferrer / @mrmasferrer: Another blow to local journalism in Sarasota-Manatee and across Florida, where Gannett journalists do some of the best journalism around. Just look at how papers in Fort Myers, Naples, @HeraldTribune covered #HurricaneIan https://twitter.com/...
Tom Tapp / Deadline: Troubled Gannett Announces Hiring Freeze, Unpaid Holiday Furloughs, Suspension Of 401(k) Match And Voluntary Severance
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation: From a hiring freeze to unpaid furlough, Gannett's Mike Reed is slashing once again
Ray Schultz / MediaPost: Gannett Hits Staff With New Cost-Cutting Moves
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Research: Netflix released a record 1,026 original TV episodes in Q3 2022, compared to 223 for Prime Video, 194 for Hulu, 140 for Disney+, and 114 for WBD — Netflix has taken peak TV to a new peak. — In a data point sure to fuel more quantity-versus-quality debate …
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@thetranscript_: The number of original episodes released in Q3 2022: — $NFLX: 1,026 — $AMZN's Prime Video: 223 — $DIS's Hulu: 194 — $DIS's Disney+: 140 — $WBD's HBO Max: 114 https://twitter.com/...
Chris Sutcliffe / The Drum:
World Federation of Advertisers and Ebiquity study: 29% of the world's biggest advertisers aim to cut spending in 2023 and 40% aim to maintain marketing budgets — Research into the likely ad spend of the world's biggest brands finds a third plan to cut budgets.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Book excerpt: journalists must adopt new tactics after six years of covering Trump, often failing to label lies and acting as his megaphones and stenographers — I believed in traditional reporting, but Trump changed me — and it should change the rest of the media too. — Perspective by Margaret Sullivan
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@sulliview, @misszippy1, @jrubinblogger, @rulajebreal, @zaleskiluke, @nancyromm, @_barringtonii, @lolgop, @shiramstein, @jayrosen_nyu, @froomkin and @sulliview
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Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: 1/3 This piece, adapted from my memoir/manifesto NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL, just published in @washingtonpost magazine. I write https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Amanda Esch Loudin / @misszippy1: Cannot be repeated enough. Listen to what she's saying https://twitter.com/...
@jrubinblogger: On the nose: . These modes of coverage can have the effect of normalizing a candidate who should not be normalized. They also often constitute a distraction at a time when huge swaths of one party are essentially running against democratic practices. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Rula Jebreal / @rulajebreal: “When covering politicians who are essentially running against democracy, old-style journalism will no longer suffice.” A Journalist's Manifesto https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Luke Zaleski / @zaleskiluke: The press must be more clear-eyed and direct than ever about the ongoing catastrophic threat to America Trump is. He must be covered like a hurricane barreling down on the shores of democracy and the freedoms and rights of the people. You will never survive if you're not prepared https://twitter.com/...
Nancy Rommelmann / @nancyromm: “Perhaps the most imp. thing journalists can do as they cover the campaign ahead is provide thoughtful framing and context.” Sure, always. “They shouldn't just repeat what's being said, but help explain what it means.” Nope! Provide 1st, let readers do 2nd https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Barrington Martin II / @_barringtonii: “old style journalism” = Unbiased, impartial reporting that sticks to facts not the narrative. This is sad. Journalistic activism the second worse activism. The first is judicial. https://twitter.com/...
@lolgop: I think the real problem with how Trump gets covered isn't how Trump gets covered. It's how they attack Trump's opponents to build up the credibility with Republicans they think they lose by being honest about Trump. https://twitter.com/...
Shira Stein / @shiramstein: I was lucky enough to read an advanced copy of Newsroom Confidential and y'all... I cannot recommend this book enough. Every journalist needs to read and learn from @Sulliview and the lessons she shares. It is SO good and I've been recommending it to all of my friends for weeks. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “If Trump Runs Again, Do Not Cover Him the Same Way.” So says @Sulliview in an excerpt from her new book. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... “I believed in traditional reporting, but Trump changed me — and it should change the rest of the media too.” https://twitter.com/...
@froomkin: “Covering someone who doesn't care about democratic norms — even something as basic as the peaceful transfer of power — requires different judgments about what stories really matter, and how we should or should not cover them.” Thank you, @Sulliview! https://twitter.com/...
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: https://twitter.com/...
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
The UK's Channel 4 buys artworks by Hitler, Picasso, and more and will let a studio audience decide if comedian Jimmy Carr should burn them with a flamethrower — Ian Katz says new show, Art Trouble, celebrates the channel's tradition of ‘iconoclasm and irreverence’
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Richard Littler / @richard_littler: Take an important subject. Miss the mark. Chuck nuance out of the window. Add a dash of false equivalence. Or maybe I'm just niggling because Ch4 ‘we nurture new comedy talent’ rejected the Scarfolk series in favour of a - checks article - Hitler painting. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Martha / @moominmarxist: didn't jimmy carr recently do a “joke” saying that the GRT community being targeted during the holocaust was a good thing?? https://twitter.com/...
Emma Picken / @emmacpicken: What the absolute hell is this abomination. 6 million Jews murdered is not fodder for ‘entertainment’. Mind bogglingly gross and guaranteed to increase antisemitism. @Channel4 this is horrific. https://twitter.com/...
Louis Chilton / The Independent: Channel 4 purchases paintings by Hitler and Rolf Harris - that Jimmy Carr may destroy
Dr Fern Riddell / @fernriddell: ‘As part of its latest season of programmes, the TV channel has bought artworks by a range of “problematic” artists, including Pablo Picasso, as well as convicted paedophile Rolf Harris and sexual abuser Eric Gill.’ https://twitter.com/...
Georgie Bingham / @georgiebingham: Is this culturally significant or just really tasteless? https://twitter.com/...
@lbc: ‘This is a desperate plea for attention.’ As Channel 4 announces their new show ‘Art Trouble’ will feature burning a Hitler painting, Journalist & anti-Semitism campaigner Jonathan Sacerdoti calls it an ‘utterly sick piece of entertainment television’. @NickFerrariLBC | @jonsac https://twitter.com/...
Alex Hern / @alexhern: Also quite funny that if the audiences vote to save the work of art by hitler channel 4 is just... stuck owning a work of art by Hitler
Nicole Lampert / @nicolelampert: If I was trying to make the case for my importance amid the threat of a government sell off, I wouldn't do this. https://twitter.com/...
Scott Bryan / @scottygb: “Plans to produce a series on modern Britain presented by Paul Dacre have been put ‘on hold’ after the former Daily Mail editor became too busy with other projects, although the broadcaster will push ahead with a documentary about men with abnormally large penises.”
Ross McCafferty / @rossmccaff: “the broadcaster will push ahead with a documentary about men with abnormally large penises.” Sign-off and a half that @jimwaterson https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smoke / @bencsmoke: the man who famously joked about “thousands of gypsies killed by the nazis” being a “positive” is definitely not the man i would chose to front this i have to say https://twitter.com/...
@ahistoryinart: Besides the attribution issue (the Hitler market is littered with fakes) why buy a painting by a man who caused murder and cruelty beyond imagining? The trade in Hitler's paintings is repulsive and sick - it's also humanising him. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Robert Rotifer / @robertrotifer: Try as I might can't think of ANYTHING about this idea that isn't completely terrible, historically illiterate, plain stupid and downright dangerous. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
John Koblin / New York Times:
Netflix is the top bidder for nearly 300 acres of a former US Army base in New Jersey, where the company would build its second-biggest production complex — The company was the top bidder for land occupied by a former Army base. — Netflix is inching closer to building a huge production studio on the Jersey Shore.
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Brian Grubb / @briancgrubb: three guys named vinny shouting “ay, stranger things!” at the cast of stranger things on the wildwood boardwalk https://twitter.com/...
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
An interview with Rest of World EIC Anup Kaphle and operations head Eli Berger on paying staff and freelancers fairly around the world and holding more events — Rest of World, a nonprofit newsroom covering global tech stories, now has its first editor-in-chief.
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@risj_oxford, @kevglobal, @restofworld, @simonowens, @digiday, Talking Biz News and Talking Biz News
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@risj_oxford: “Who gets to tell these stories is a central priority for us... I've realized that there is a huge value you can have when you are from the places that you are covering.” @restofworld's Editor-in-Chief @AnupKaphle speaks to @SPGuaglione https://digiday.com/...
Mr Anderson / @kevglobal: How a global digital news startup will pay its employees equally across locations https://digiday.com/... < interesting effort at equity. As someone who covered my own country (US) as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, there are things here that resonate with me.
@restofworld: Rest of World is in @digiday: Newly appointed Editor in Chief @anupkaphle and Head of Operations Eli Berger talk about running a truly global news site https://digiday.com/...
Simon Owens / @simonowens: Rest of World has done an impressive job of building out an international reporting team despite very little funding. It definitely punches well above its weight in terms of reporting impact. https://digiday.com/...
@digiday: .@restofworld, a nonprofit newsroom covering global tech stories, now has its first editor-in-chief. Here's a look at the business strategy. @SPGuaglione has the story. https://digiday.com/...
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News: Rest of World promotes Kaphle to editor in chief
Peter White / Deadline:
Warner Bros. Discovery partly reverses course and plans to move its Directors' Workshop and Writers' Workshop from Warner Bros. Television to its DEI division — Warner Bros. Discovery has performed a quick U-turn on its decision to close its Writers and Directors Workshops.
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The Hollywood Reporter: Warner Bros. Discovery to Reinstate Pipeline Programs for Writers and Directors
DGA: DGA Statement on Warner Bros. Discovery's Decision to Dismantle the TV Directors' Workshop Program
Starlight Paige / @paige_me0wster: an important comment: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Schooley / @rschooley: Sometimes everyone crying out at once, “What a stupid move” works. https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Denius / @aarondenius: Ok. The pilot it back on!! Man these last few days have been exhausting https://twitter.com/...
Gennifer Hutchison / @gennhutchison: Okay... interesting. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop here, ha. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Schneider / Variety: Warner Bros. Discovery Says It Will Keep Writers and Directors Workshops Alive, But Evolve to Conglom-Wide DEI Oversight
@drlawyercop: So many of us went through this program, spoke out, and Warner Bros. listened! Huge! https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Leach / @jeffleach: They listened. Glad to hear it. A win for writer and directors of all races, regions, genders and sexualities. 🤘🏼☺️ https://twitter.com/...
Ali Golub / @alibrooke4ever: Shout out to the DGA for pledging to fight against this. Not sure why the WGA didn't... https://twitter.com/...
@trevordmoretz: Back in my 20's I would have said something like “Are you on a bike? Because you're back pedaling ” https://twitter.com/...
Erin Brady / SlashFilm: Warner Bros. Discovery Clarifies What's Going On With Their Writer And Director Workshops
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