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Shirin Ghaffary / Vox:
Examining the reasoning of journalists who remain on Twitter, like WaPo's Taylor Lorenz and NBC News' Ben Collins, and of those who have left, like Jelani Cobb — Under Elon Musk's leadership, journalists have even more of a love-hate relationship with the platform.
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Eve Fairbanks / Wired: We're in Denial About the True Cost of a Twitter Implosion
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein / @ibjiyongi: “Without some software or user intervention, platforms that eschew an open-to-all public square design that came to define Twitter make it harder for diverse ideas to traverse weak-tie connections.” https://www.latimes.com/...
@techwontsaveus: “The amount of reputational and social wealth that stands to be lost if Twitter collapses is astounding. Twitter currently functions as perhaps the world's biggest status bank, and the investments stored in it are terrifyingly unsecured.” https://www.wired.com/...
Jeremy Littau / @jeremylittau: From my piece in the LA Times today on a Twitter migration that serves healthy civic exchange: “After joining, we should then use our weak ties to amplify diverse voices. In a digital democracy, our weak ties effectively make us newsstands for ideas.” https://www.latimes.com/...
@picardonhealth: Thinking of leaving #Twitter? Twitter feeds information exchange among people who might not otherwise interact, an experience hard to replicate, by @JeremyLittau https://www.latimes.com/... via @latimesopinion
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: True: “Twitter's design allows diverse voices who have been shut out of traditional media structures to build influence via networks. That capacity, and its implications for wider democratic discourse, are at risk in a mass migration.” https://www.latimes.com/... By @JeremyLittau
Arianna Ciccone / @_arianna: “Twitter is still this place sometimes where you can address powerful people or powerful people can address the public. Especially now that Musk is as addicted to the platform as anyone — in a very pathetic way — sometimes it does feel mildly cathartic to make a crack at him.” https://twitter.com/...
Shirin Ghaffary / @shiringhaffary: Elon Musk has given journalists plenty of reasons to quit Twitter. I talked to fellow journos about why that's hard to do, and why some are quietly pulling back instead. Thx to @TaylorLorenz @SilvermanJacob @laurahazardowen @oneunderscore__ + more https://www.vox.com/...
@taylorlorenz: “Journalists provide value to the platform by tweeting reliable new information in real time... if they gradually start trickling away from the platform or holding back their juiciest scoops, Musk could suffer another setback” https://www.vox.com/...
@voxdotcom: Journalists looking for an alternative to Elon Musk's Twitter who @Recode spoke with have largely fled to two new apps — Mastodon and Post — but both have so far struggled to gain the same reach as Twitter. https://www.vox.com/...
@voxdotcom: Now that Twitter isn't exactly courting journalists, why aren't they leaving? For starters, the platform is still an efficient news-gathering source. https://www.vox.com/...
@voxdotcom: While many prominent journalists have raised concerns about Elon Musk's actions — and some have shifted to new social media platforms like Mastodon and Post — few have abandoned Twitter altogether. https://www.vox.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Matt Taibbi posts internal Twitter documents showing the company's 2020 debate over the handling of content related to NY Post's Hunter Biden laptop story — The new disclosures, touted as “The Twitter Files,” were posted in a lengthy Twitter thread by investigative reporter and author Matt Taibbi (and retweeted by Musk).
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Elon Musk / @elonmusk: @hodgetwins @micsolana Twitter acting by itself to suppress free speech is not a 1st amendment violation, but acting under orders from the government to suppress free speech, with no judicial review, is
Tim Miller / The Bulwark: No, You Do Not Have a Constitutional Right to Post Hunter Biden's Dick Pic on Twitter
Matt Taibbi / @mtaibbi: 1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES
Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona: On his Substack, Matt Taibbi tells his readers that he “had to agree to certain conditions” to do the Hunter Biden laptop thread for Musk. https://twitter.com/...
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times: Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi Set Off Debate Over Release of Twitter Files
Zeynep Tufekci / @zeynep: Okay then. That's the big story. Taibbi says, seemingly with access to all internal docs, the earlier big claim that the government had directly intervened ("stepping in") to suppress a story before the election has no evidence. Also seems some nonconsensual nudity was removed. https://twitter.com/...
Kelsey Vlamis / Insider: You may think Twitter was wrong to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story but it wasn't a violation of the First Amendment
Josh Marshall / @joshtpm: The one thing you can never do as a journalist is deceive your readers. Among all the other nonsense that went on tonight we have a great example of it here. Taibbi portentously announced that the Biden Team had sent an order to Twitter to delete Tweets and it had been “handled.” https://twitter.com/...
Matt Bivens / The 100 Days: Twitter is Fun Again!
Jon Levine / New York Post: House Republicans promise to investigate exec Vijaya Gadde's role in Twitter censorship
Will Oremus / @willoremus: What might seem damning from Taibbi's thread—Twitter comms frantically asking how to justify the policy—actually flows from the firewall Twitter kept between policy and comms. The comms folks weren't part of the decision, but they have to defend it, so this is them pushing back.
Tressie McMillan Cottom / @tressiemcphd: Journalists will tackle the facts and meaning of it all. I just want to add how much this statement looks and sounds like classic conspiracy rhetoric. The appeal to trust. The secrecy. The sacred texts (emails and hidden tweets). It's right wing scriptural inference up & down. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Speaking of transparency... what kind of deal to @mtaibbi cut to get this nothingburger of a story, beyond having to tweet it out as if it was something “explosive”: https://twitter.com/...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Not for nothing, but so far, everything revealed is... basically exactly what has been known for nearly two years, and is basically... how these kinds of decisions always work? I mean... why the buildup to reveal... this?
Patrick LaForge / @palafo: “The communications mostly show a team debating how to finalize and communicate a difficult moderation decision.” https://www.theverge.com/...
Ramishah Maruf / CNN: Elon Musk speaks out on ‘Twitter Files’ release detailing platform's inner workings
Tristan K. Pugwash / The Tristan K. Pugwash Diary: Turncoat Taibbi — That's what I'm calling hack journo Matt Taibbi after his disgraceful embrace …
Blake Montgomery / Gizmodo: The Twitter Files, Explained
Nathan J Robinson / @nathanjrobinson: Wait, was the “condition” that Taibbi agreed to that it had to be posted exclusively here on Musk's own product for a period of time, in order to boost Musk's revenue? Is that why Taibbi hasn't yet written it into an article? https://twitter.com/...
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost: Even Right-Wingers Think Elon Musk's Hunter Biden Reveal Is A Nothingburger
Caleb Howe / Mediaite: Elon Musk Says Liberal Journos Smearing Matt Taibbi Should Be ‘Looking in the Mirror’ and ‘Accepting Responsibility’
Jesse Singal / @jessesingal: “Substack Man.” The level of just casual cattiness and condescension among this set is so off the charts — if trust in mainstream media is slipping, they have no one to blame but themselves. https://twitter.com/...
Idrees Ahmad / @im_pulse: I had been warning about Taibbi for years. A few years back I even organised a letter to @RollingStone, signed by leading Middle East scholars and human rights campaigners, asking the mag to withdraw its support from his podcast, which had turned into a reactionary sewer. https://twitter.com/...
Harper Lambert / The Wrap: Elon Musk Says He's ‘Hardly Read Any’ of the Twitter Files, Has Given Bari Weiss Access to Work on Rollout
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: Imagine volunteering to do online PR work for the world's richest man on a Friday night, in service of nakedly and cynically right-wing narratives, and then pretending you're speaking truth to power.
Julian Sanchez / @normative: “Break[ing] a real story about real power centers” is not how I'd characterize “The richest man on earth fed me some documents, and I spun them like he wanted.” https://twitter.com/...
David Corn / @davidcorndc: Good point. Has @mtaibbi replied to this criticism? Has he explained the “conditions” he agreed to in order to gain access to the Twitter files? Wouldn't a fierce critic of access journalism do so? What was the deal? https://twitter.com/...
Michael Brendan Dougherty / @michaelbd: I thought the story was that Twitter labeled a true news story from America's oldest newspaper “potentially harmful” and restricted its distribution with the same tools it uses against child pornography, contrary to its own rules. But this is how the Bulwark sees it. https://twitter.com/...
Lurker In Chief / Lurker's Newsletter: Twitter and the Hunter Biden cover up and what everyone seems to be missing
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: What a lede here from @Timodc https://www.thebulwark.com/... https://twitter.com/...
David Harsanyi / @davidharsanyi: This piece is a masterpiece in dishonest strawman-ing. There's no reason for anyone to who supposedly believes in “democracy” to defend suppressing news. So they have to pretend it wasn't. https://twitter.com/...
Bill Kristol / @billkristol: “While normal humans who denied Republicans their red wave were enjoying an epic sports weekend, MAGA activists...were getting riled up about leaked emails revealing that troll accounts were not allowed to post ill-gotten photos on a company's platform...” https://www.thebulwark.com/...
Jennifer Taub / @jentaub: Non-consensual nudity is what got Gawker sued for $100 million, broke, and shut down. Remember the video of Hulk Hogan. Peter Thiel bankrolled that lawsuit. Twitter is treated differently under the law for now. But it seems like Elon wants to fuck around and find out. https://twitter.com/...
Max Burns / @themaxburns: As Matt Taibbi reminds is, the role of journalism is to comfort the comfortable and give the billionaire's handpicked talking points an air of legitimacy.
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Imagine anyone thinking Matt Taibbi was credible on any of this. Holy fuck.
Jared Holt / @jaredlholt: How can Matt Taibbi ever call himself a journalist again after collabing w the wealthiest guy on Earth, doing PR work that could otherwise spur legal issues at Twitter. It'll be how a lot of people remember him going forward. A lackey to the ruling class, cosplaying otherwise. https://twitter.com/...
Jared Gans / The Hill: Trump calls for ‘termination’ of election rules in Constitution to overturn 2020 election
Tim Miller / @timodc: My Friday Night Dispatch: “No, You Do Not Have a Constitutional Right to Post Hunter Biden's Dick Pic on Twitter” https://www.thebulwark.com/...
Brian Tyler Cohen / @briantylercohen: Just a reminder that Joe Biden was not the president in 2020 so Twitter was not “acting under orders from the government.” https://twitter.com/...
David French / @davidafrench: Musk is referring here to Biden team requests to remove pornographic pictures of Hunter. Biden was not president in 2020, and therefore there was no government involvement in his campaign's requests. The First Amendment is not implicated when only private actors are involved. https://twitter.com/...
Jared Holt / @jaredlholt: To it's credit, places like @semafor (which took SBF money) have shown what it means to be transparent, even if its embarrassing. Disclosure is important and Matt wouldn't explain what's going on. That's a red flag if there ever was one. https://twitter.com/...
Robert Evans / @iwriteok: from “speak truth to power” to “write exactly what the world's richest man tells you to write” https://twitter.com/...
Will Oremus / @willoremus: I wrote about this structural separation between policy and comms earlier that year, when they decided to fact-check a Trump tweet. As @jason_kint notes, it contrasts w/ FB's approach which lets PR concerns influence policy. https://twitter.com/...
Fox News: Musk's revelations on Twitter censoring Hunter Biden laptop story prompt liberal rage: ‘Hack stuff’
Chris Lynch / Hypnotized Fish: Saturday Flotsam and Jetsam
Max Berger / @maxberger: I'm old enough to remember when this guy considered himself the scourge of billionaires. He met with us at Occupy Wall Street to discuss digging up dirt on elite bankers. Now, he's helping the richest man in the world spread right-wing talking points. Sad! https://twitter.com/...
Ben Dreyfuss / @bendreyfuss: @mattyglesias ... If we're going to play the “first amendment was violated by a government employee asking a private enterprise to consider taking steps to moderate speech” game then I think it's the trump team that is first against the wall https://twitter.com/...
Farhad Manjoo / @fmanjoo: congress will investigate a private company's editorial decisions to make sure that private companies' editorial decisions aren't being influenced by politics https://twitter.com/...
@acyn: Comer: We're going to have every single people at Twitter that was involved in this in front of the House Oversight Committee as soon as possible https://twitter.com/...
Jason Wilson / @jason_a_w: In this situation your choices are (a) specify the conditions for your readers (b) refuse to do the story (c) congrats you work for Elon Musk now https://twitter.com/...
@thedailybeast: Yet again, Elon Musk turned Twitter into a spectacle, promising to air the company's dirty laundry about “what really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression.” However, the leak turned out not to be quite the bombshell Musk had hyped. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
@capitolhunters: People now marveling over Matt Taibbi's fall from his noble days covering Occupy Wall Street - remember that Tim Pool, who just hosted Kanye West and Nick Fuentes on his show, also got his start at Occupy. The alt-right is full of those slides from journalism to propaganda. 1/ https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Michael Tracey / @mtracey: The Daily Beast spreads anonymous gutter-level gossip every single day based on “conditions” that I guarantee are 100% sleazier than whatever conditions Taibbi accepted to publish primary source material that anyone can simply read for themselves https://twitter.com/...
Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce: release the emails https://twitter.com/...
Tim Carmody / @tcarmody: In any “big reveal” of this kind, the content or lack thereof doesn't matter nearly so much as the rhetoric, the gestures, and the optical illusion to an audience that demands it be fooled https://twitter.com/...
Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona: Simps gonna simp. https://twitter.com/...
Will Oremus / @willoremus: jeez, i log off twitter for a few hours and come back to find that i missed *reads entire thread* uh not that much actually? https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: so musk is just making him do this on twitter over multiple days to get numbers to try to convince advertisers with right https://twitter.com/...
Jeet Heer / @heerjeet: The juxtaposition of the two screenshots produces real hilarity. https://twitter.com/...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: The big story seems to be that the owner of twitter used the site and it's resources to promote a partisan nothingburger https://twitter.com/...
Rand Paul / @randpaul: This is better than a Friday night movie. Everyone should read this and everyone should thank @elonmusk for bringing this public. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: I know Twitter doesn't have a comms team anymore, and while “we will let journalists search our email archives to find evidence that supports their preconceived notions” will be fun to watch I don't think it is a great long-term strategy.
Josh Marshall / @joshtpm: basically from start to finish the only person coming through any of this looking even half way decent in yoel roth
Josh Marshall / @joshtpm: @micsolana wow someone reporting a tweet. Holy shit. Lol
@josenotajay: I can't imagine how exhausting it must be to pretend that the “Twitter Files” are a real news story. https://twitter.com/...
A.J. Delgado / @ajdelgado13: @mtaibbi Uhhh. The Trump Campaign in 2016 used to also send in requests to Twitter to have it remove tweets that had inaccurate information. Just FYI. I was there.
Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: This thread confirms what I knew! Excellent! Twitter's reaction to 2016 included policies for both on-platform trolling and hack-and-leak. The latter lead to a big overreach that had nothing to do with the deep state or @EI_Partnership. A bunch of execs, of course, argued. https://twitter.com/...
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: To leap to political contributions as the reason the right was more often reported for rule breaking is just bad reasoning and really bad reporting. Good thing this guy doesn't have an editor. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: It's absolutely true that every political actor on the planet is working the refs continuously. What's important is whether the final decisions are being made consistent with already-decided policy and in a neutral way. Clearly, Twitter's over-pivot on 2016 lead to a big mistake.
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: So far, we've... confirmed a bunch of things that Twitter said publicly, debunked the idea that the gov't demanded the story be removed, highlighted the challenges of content moderation... and revealed the personal email addresses of Jack and Ro Khanna (violating Twitter policy).
Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: But this is the most important tweet in the thread, and it contradicts the conspiracy theories promoted by a variety of biased media outlets and political actors, as well as a statement of a new Senator made just today. https://twitter.com/...
Jeffrey Snover / @jsnover: Ok Ben beat me to the conclusion. But to be fair, I keep waiting for @mtaibbi to add more tweets. I'm open to there being a there there. But I don't see any. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Shields / @digitalshields: Someone told me about this OpenAI ChatGPT thing and I didn't believe it at first but this is pretty amazing https://twitter.com/...
Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix: Seems right so far. Otherwise... nothing new. Another Musk failure to launch... https://twitter.com/...
Matt Swider / The Shortcut: Twitter Files timeline: unbiased review of how moderators botched the Hunter Biden laptop story
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: Elon Musk paid $44 billion to discover what we already knew: content moderation is messy and involves whole teams of people with a range of viewpoints trying to appease different political factions. He then gave “leaks” to a Substack Man to present it as a blockbuster. https://twitter.com/...
Robby Soave / Reason: Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi Reveal Why Twitter Censored the Hunter Biden Laptop Story
Kristina Wong / Breitbart: Twitter Files Reveal DNC Requested Censorship of James Woods
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Elon Musk vicariously publishes internal emails from Twitter's Hunter Biden laptop drama
Brandon Gorrell / Pirate Wires: The Twitter Files Thread, In A Way More Readable Format
Ben Schreckinger / Politico: ‘This will be awesome’: Musk leaks Twitter's Hunter Biden files
Kylie Robison / Fortune: Elon Musk attacks Twitter's previous leaders by trying to refocus attention on the GOP's favorite target: Hunter Biden and his laptop
RADAR: Twitter CEO Elon Musk Vows To Release Details About ‘What REALLY Happened’ With Hunter Biden Laptop Story Censorship
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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Elon Musk thinks the “Twitter Files” show that Twitter staff nefariously helped Joe Biden, but all they show is a team debating a difficult moderation decision — Free-speech crusader Elon Musk isn't happy with Twitter's years-old decision to suppress a news story …
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Patrick LaForge / @palafo: It's possible to believe Twitter made the wrong call on limiting a news article and the right call on deleting stolen pictures of genitalia while also noting the right of an owner to decide what it allows to be published on its site. First Amendment only limits the government. https://twitter.com/...
Patrick Chovanec / @prchovanec: 1. Some thoughts on the Twitter thread put out by @elonmusk and @mtaibbi. My purpose here isn't to promote or rebut, but evaluate and consider. I will try my best to be fair-minded.
Hella Hueck / @hellahueck: Elon Musk's promised Twitter exposé on the Hunter Biden story is a flop that doxxed multiple people. The documents don't show what Musk thinks they show, and a US Representative is going to have to change his email address. https://www.theverge.com/...
@davidrlurie: Musk didn't expose a scandal, but he exposed a lot of former Twitter personnel to serious danger. https://twitter.com/...
Tim Carney / @tpcarney: It was not a difficult moderation decision unless you were weighing responsibility vs desire to protect the presidential frontrunner from scrutiny. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Meanwhile, would love to see the editorial discussion at the NY Post on whether to run the laptop story in the first place. I do wonder how that would look compared to what was revealed regarding Twitter internal discussion.
Samy Adghirni / Bloomberg: France's Macron Had ‘Honest’ Discussion With Musk About Twitter
Tyler Falk / Current:
A survey of 2,310 US radio stations: white employees made up 75.4% of noncommercial newsrooms in Q4 2021, down from 78.8% YoY, vs. 92.1% of commercial newsrooms — A survey tracking workforce diversity in radio and television found that racial diversity has grown among the news staffs of noncommercial radio stations.
Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:
Twitter reinstated the account of Andrew Anglin, the neo-Nazi who founded the white supremacist website The Daily Stormer, after originally banning him in 2013 — Andrew Anglin spent his first day back on Twitter defending Ye's antisemitic rants. — Andrew Anglin ― …
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@rmac18: Asked about Kanye's suspension, Musk says he did it because the swastika image was an incitement of violence, and suggests that it was a violation of US law. Swastikas are obviously problematic symbols, but I'm not aware that sharing them is a violation of any US law.
Jordan Fischer / @jordanonrecord: Twitter is currently recommending I follow neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin. Incredible stuff. https://twitter.com/...
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: New: A week ago, Elon Musk announced a great unbanning—Twitter would reverse thousands of suspensions, including Donald Trump. But also, scraped data shows, he freed an emboldened group of trolls, white nationalists, QAnoners, and extreme right-wingers. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Elon Musk just brought an infamous neo-Nazi back to Twitter
Ashton Pittman / @ashtonpittman: After suspending Kanye West for antisemitism, @ElonMusk has restored the account of Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin, publisher of The Daily Stormer, the internet's largest neo-Nazi website. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@deanobeidallah: The Neo Nazi Andrew Anglin who Elon Musk has welcomed back to Twitter has literally stated that his operating principle is “What would Hitler Do.” I'm 100% serious. This is the vileness that Musk is amplifying. https://twitter.com/...
As Musk is learning, content moderation is a messy job: As Musk is learning, content moderation is a messy job
Rick Wilson / @therickwilson: “Allowing notorious Nazi and anti-Semite Andrew Anglin back on Twitter certainly means we want our brand associated with the platform. Please take our money,” said no advertiser, ever.
@anandypaul: you let Andrew Anglin — a literal neo-Nazi who founded the notorious neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer — back on Twitter yesterday he was banned since 2015, but i guess he doesn't fall into that 10% of “far right extremists” shut the absolute fuck up https://twitter.com/...
@fka_tabs: Starting to think Elon should have tried moderating like, one subreddit first? Just to get a feel for where the challenges are?
@manicpixiehack: anglin personally targeted me on stormfront when i was in college. fucking fantastic https://twitter.com/...
@deanobeidallah: As I stated on MSNBC: Elon MUSK is intentionally normalizing Nazis and HATE by allowing self-professed NAZI Andrew Anglin back on Twitter. I added: Elon Musk is NO friend of the United States. His goal is to amplify the divisions in our nation (like Russia did in 2016 campaign.) https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Topolsky / @joshuatopolsky: Wow it turns out that Elon Musk owning twitter and allowing all the nazis and shitheads back on has... driven a huge rise in hate speech! Couldn't have seen this one coming. https://www.theverge.com/...
Jon Cooper / @joncoopertweets: NEW: Elon Musk has just restored the Twitter account of Andrew Anglin, the neo-Nazi who founded the infamous website Stormfront and said women should be “raped and locked in cages.” Good luck getting back those advertisers, Elon.
Joyce Karam / @joyce_karam: Andrew Anglin, Editor of neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, is reinstated on Twitter after 9 yrs. Adulation to Kanye & defending Hitler are his first tweets https://twitter.com/...
@rmac18: Musk: “I definitely wanted to punch Kanye, so it was definitely inciting me for violence.” He then mentions Alex Jones and suggests that if Jones was chastising Kanye for his views, then he has clearly gone too far. (Not sure how you enshrine that in a social media policy.)
Amy Spitalnick / @amyspitalnick: Anglin in a full-fledged Nazi who runs the Daily Stormer and, among many other things, was found liable for the Charlottesville violence in our lawsuit. A perfect example of the vile, violent extremists Musk is welcoming with open arms. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Elgan / @mikeelgan: Nazi Andrew Anglin allowed back on Twitter. His first order of business is defending Kanye West. https://www.huffpost.com/...
Karolin Schwarz / @raeuberhose: Andrew Anglin is still online. https://twitter.com/...
Max Burns / @themaxburns: Anglin is currently a wanted man with a warrant out for his arrest. https://twitter.com/...
Joel Birch / @joeldtd: You're the man @elonmusk thanks so much for bringing free speech back to the platform. Nothing like a little neo-Nazi recommended content AM I RIGHT!? https://twitter.com/...
@iansherr: What happened to “freedom of speech, not freedom of reach,” @elonmusk ? https://twitter.com/...
@mattmcneilshow: Amazing how the Far Right has convinced themselves (wrongly in an epic manner) that Hitler and Nazis are just different political opinions, like disagreeing on school funding or spending on senior healthcare. They're intentionally trying to validate hate. https://www.huffpost.com/...
Michael Edison Hayden / @michaelehayden: As a spokesperson, I've been looking for something to say about Twitter recommending people to follow neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin but it's challenging. It's like if you walked into a CVS and a uniformed employee suggested you purchase some crystal meth. https://twitter.com/...
Philip Bump / @pbump: Maybe the new policy is that Twitter needs to have a certain number of explicit Nazi sympathizers so getting rid of Kanye let anglin back in.
Emmanuel Macron / @emmanuelmacron: Elon Musk confirmed the Twitter's participation to the Christchurch Call. There is no place for terrorist and violent extremist content anywhere.
Wajahat Ali / @wajahatali: Nazi Andrew Anglin is trending because Musk has reinstated his account on Twitter. Let me remind everyone that Anglin said Tucker Carlson's show is “basically ‘Daily Stormer: The Show’” — a reference to Anglin's website. He has called Carlson “literally our greatest ally.”
Judd Legum / @juddlegum: “Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin has been reinstated to Twitter under Elon Musk's new policies for the platform. The founder of the white supremacist website The Daily Stormer had been banned from Twitter since 2013.” https://www.rollingstone.com/ ...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: How is this ok? https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Anglin / @worldwarwang: Dear everyone that is talking about me, I was not personally reinstated by Elon Musk. It was some kind of bulk un-ban. I'm following all the rules and will continue doing so. If I stop following the rules, I'm sure I'll be banned quickly. Chillax.
@deanobeidallah: As you read about Neo Nazi Andrew Anglin that Elon Musk just reinstated on Twitter here's what Anglin did to me and why I sued him and won $4.1 million dollars (on paper.) Maybe Musk wants to pay up for the deadbeat Nazi?! Musk is helping normalize a Nazi https://www.cnn.com/...
Aaron Y. Zelin / @azelin: Old enough to remember in 2014 when you could follow one jihadi account, the algorithm would recommend more and in a few mins you'd have a full starter pack. Fundamentally, the algorithm hasn't changed even if for a period extremists were taken down. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Elgan / @MikeElgan@mastodon.social: Nazi Andrew Anglin allowed back on Twitter. His first order of business is defending Kanye West. https://www.huffpost.com/...
Jesse Lehrich / @jesselehrich: Elon has reinstated thousands of QAnon accounts, influential neo-Nazis, etc. while also banning journalists who track extremism without explanation https://www.nbcnews.com/...
David Ingram / @david_ingram: “I never thought I'd see the day when I'd be allowed back on Twitter and yet here we are.” — Patrick Casey, a white nationalist https://www.nbcnews.com/... by @BrandyZadrozny
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone: Elon Brings One of America's Most Prominent Nazis Back to Twitter
Loree Seitz / The Wrap:
Semafor's climate and energy editor Bill Spindle left last week, citing the outlet's “over-dependence on Chevron advertising” — Semafor's climate and energy editor Bill Spindle has exited the publication after several months after saying his tenure was “marred by an over-dependence …
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Bill Spindle / @billspindle: Here's a thread 🧵 explaining what I meant in saying my tenure @Semafor was “marred by an over-dependence on Chevron advertising.” 1/
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News: Semafor climate and energy editor Spindle departs over Chevron concerns
@jason: @BillSpindle @semafor these corporates sponsorships/underwritings of specific verticals seem very challenging to me.
Bill Spindle / @billspindle: What concerned me was my belief that it was not appropriate to have Chevron advertising on the same page as stories on climate coverage, particularly as the dominant advertiser. 4/
Bill Spindle / @billspindle: Yet the Chevron ads never left my stories, where they often appeared as the sole advertiser. Despite my expressed discomfort and concerns, the ads remained. 7/
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Memo: Justin Smith says Sam Bankman-Fried doesn't hold shares of Semafor, but if his interest converts to equity, he'll have a single-digit minority stake
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John Carney / @carney: This will kind of blow people's minds: I'm a journalist in large part because a project funded by @Justin_B_Smith. We called it Dealbreaker. If you hate me, in other words, it's largely his fault. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Kinosian / Reuters:
Sources: El Salvador's president built a propaganda machine with government-linked traditional media plus social media trolls, while attacking independent press — President Nayib Bukele has built a communications juggernaut in El Salvador. Its engine: paid internet trolls whose online attacks …
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@tomaxwell: Interesting reporting on how El Salvador's president @nayibbukele has employed troll farms, spun up new media outlets to silence independent reporters https://www.reuters.com/... Of course Twitter didn't respond to requests for comment, since it doesn't have a comms team anymore
Mike Brock / @brockm: I see a lot of bitcoiners et. al. laughing this all off as lies and propaganda, on a prima facie basis. Is it though? https://twitter.com/...
@oablanchard: These types of operations are becoming far more mainstream. Pay attention. For the past several years, the model has been fine-tuned in more vulnerable countries, and still is. What we can observe and learn from those operations can teach us how to protect ourselves from it here. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Kinosian / @skinosian: One senior U.S. government official, who know about the internal State Dept study mapping Bukele's strategy, told me that it was “one of the most sophisticated media operations in the western hemisphere”
Sarah Kinosian / @skinosian: For months I dug into President Bukele's media machine in El Salvador. What I found was a highly-coordinated network designed to attack critics, praise Bukele and mislead, that was built on paid government trolls, propaganda, and most importantly, fear. https://www.reuters.com/...
Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:
Research analyzing the top 20 articles for five days on UK news sites finds women had 51% of bylines at the Mirror, 46% at the Guardian, and 33% at Mail Online — Ethnic minority voices are lacking on leading news website homepages. — Women now make up more than four in ten bylines …
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Swetha Gopinath / Bloomberg: Most Ethnic Minorities in UK Finance Face Racism, Survey Says
@pressgazette: The Mirror came top for gender diversity, with women crossing over the 50% mark during the period of our research, although it did worse for ethnic minority representation. Mail Online came bottom for both women bylines and ethnic minority journalists https://pressgazette.co.uk/...
New York Times:
Sources: Twitter's US ad revenue was 80% below internal expectations for the week of the World Cup's Nov. 20 start, as Twitter keeps missing weekly ad targets — Under Elon Musk, the company has cut its financial expectations as some advertisers request discounts and are offered incentives.
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Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Elon Musk says Apple has ‘fully resumed’ advertising on Twitter
Jyoti Mann / Insider: Amazon plans to resume advertising on Twitter and spend about $100 million a year, report says
Kurt Wagner / Fortune: Elon Musk says Apple has ‘fully resumed’ advertising on Twitter following meeting with Tim Cook
@fly4dat: Ouch. That's a ~$330M monthly hole to fill, on top of the $80-100M original loss* and the $125M LBO interest. In sum: ~$550M/month. Substantial even for @elonmusk *will be cut after the 2-3mo severance payments run out. https://twitter.com/...
David Binkowski / @dbinkowski: Now I have to question the authenticity of Elon's bedside gun pic because holy hell that guy really loves shooting himself in the foot every chance he gets #twitterfiles #nothingburger https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: For all the Hunter laptop hand waving which is a bit of a dud so far, this is the real story, which we predicted on @PivotPod, a troubling 80% drop in ads. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@rschooley: So the TWITTER FILES dropped 15 minutes before the NYT tweeted this out from what I can tell, but I'm sure the timing was totally coincidental. https://twitter.com/...
Evan Handler / @evanhandler: “Many of the company's troubles can be traced to Mr. Musk's takeover in late October.” But I'm sure Matt Taibi's scathing expose (of nothing) will change all that. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D / @rvawonk: More on Twitter's advertising woes: “The World Cup has historically been a boon for Twitter, bringing in record traffic and an influx of advertising dollars. But this time [...], Twitter's US ad revenue was running at 80% below internal expectations...” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Simon Vandore / @simonvandore: Elon standing on the goose's goldenest eggs. World Cup comes but once every four years. https://twitter.com/...
Samuel Seabury / @honsamseabury: Could @elonmusk be trying to distract from today's real news about Twitter: https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Spencer / @spencerbdavis: very convenient that he published this only an hour before NYTime's article about twitter losing 80% of its expected ad revenue https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
James Fawcette / @thefawcette: #Twitter Advertising Plummets Under #Musk. Q1 rev $1.1 Billion down from $1.6 prior year. Twitter had 3,980 advertisers in May, only 2,315 in October, fewest of any month until that point. Advertisers started fleeing when his acquisition was announced https://www.nytimes.com/...
@blueatlgeorgia: It's almost as if... impressions don't generate income. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
John FitzGerald / @thetweetofjohn: Automakers are among the most concerned advertisers, with General Motors raising questions about whether Twitter's data would be shared with Mr. Musk's car company, Tesla, three people said. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nick Knudsen / @nickknudsenus: It's almost as though turning Twitter into a hotbed for hate is bad for business. 🧐🤷🏻 ♂️ https://www.nytimes.com/...
Daniel Kelly / @lothcomic: Given the extent to which “wealth” is fictional, I'm not sure how long Elon can actually afford to keep Twitter up and running. https://twitter.com/...
Jacob Bacharach / @jakebackpack: Bribing a disgraced former journalist to tweet revenge porn of the current US President's addict son seems like a sagacious move to calm the jittery advertisers IMO. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rabbitt / @texasrabbitt: @mediagazer I've been having fun replying to ads I see and laughing at them for advertising on an alt right platform because it makes them look bad. Feel free to join me.
Grace Alexander / @graceal38236563: @mediagazer Someone better call the Tesla board to expect further decreases in their stock price.
Jay Jaffe / @jay_jaffe: LO FuckingL https://twitter.com/...
@mattmcneilshow: EIGHTY PERCENT below expectations!!! Who knew the social media site whose policies indicate “a little Hitler is okay, but repeated unabashed adoration for Hitler will EVENTUALLY get you blocked” is having revenue issues. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimes: Twitter is losing revenue and missing advertising targets. By the first week of the World Cup, U.S. ad revenue was 80% below expectations. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dan Eggen / @daneggenwpost: “Twitter had 3,980 advertisers in May, the month after Mr. Musk agreed to buy the company, according to MediaRadar, an advertising intelligence company. By October, it had 2,315 advertisers, the fewest of any month until that point.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Carl Quintanilla / @carlquintanilla: “.. Twitter's U.S. ad revenue was running at 80 percent below internal expectations for that week, three people with knowledge of the figures said.” @nytimes @MikeIsaac #WorldCup https://www.nytimes.com/...
Anthony DeRosa / @anthony: Elon and co. knew this story was coming so the timing might have been intentional https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lindsay Beyerstein / @beyerstein: Twitter's ad revenue was 80% below internal expectations during the World Cup. But I'm sure Matt Taibbi's hard-hitting dick pic reporting will stiffen advertisers' resolve: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jim Kessler / @thirdwaykessler: You know what's killing Twitter? Capitalism. @kateconger @MikeIsaac Ryan Mac report https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Clinch / @davidclinchnews: Meanwhile -> https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Reese Jones / @politicussarah: The real Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Griffin / @kylegriffin1: Twitter keeps losing revenue and missing advertising targets: By the first week of the World Cup, Twitter's U.S. ad revenue was running at 80% below internal expectations for that week. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sahil Patel / @sizpatel: “Matching” ad spend is easy to do when you have infinite supply. But how good is the quality of the supply? https://www.marketingbrew.com/ ...
Hannah Murphy / Ars Technica: Twitter dangles incentives to try to lure advertisers back
Brian Stelter / The Atlantic:
A eulogy for HLN, launched by Ted Turner on New Year's Day 1982 and now effectively closing, made mostly obsolete at a time when anyone can broadcast headlines — Media Winter is here once more, and it is getting ugly. It seems as though every news giant is shrinking toward 2023 through end …
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Loree Seitz / The Wrap: Brian Stelter Says Demise of HLN Marks End of Companionship TV: ‘All the Warmth Is Gone’
@darickr: “In a flattened media world where practically anyone can read headlines or annotate a live-streamed trial, HLN seems to have been rendered obsolete.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Donie O'Sullivan / @donie: Nice to be able to read @brianstelter again — an ode to @HLNTV. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Tania Daniels / @taniadaniels3: “Viewers tuning in for companionship may find only the faintest echo of what once was. The TV will still be on, but all the warmth is gone.” @BrianStelter on the demise of CNN's sister station HLN: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Jeremy Hobson / @jeremyhobson: Great piece by @brianstelter. I got into radio as a kid because I felt the people I was listening to were my friends and companions. We need people we like and trust to help us understand the world around us. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Erica Hill / @ericarhill: The .@HLNTV family welcomed me almost 20 yrs ago and never let go ❤️ Memories+life long friends. @RobinMeade + @MorningExp are the family so many viewers chose, and not just for the news. Bittersweet read from @brianstelter https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
@espiegler: @brianstelter on HLN & how, for media, “before death comes obsolescence”: “This strained moment for TV news has no small number of anchors & hosts questioning what they thought they knew about the medium—& how much space will exist for them in the future.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
@taylorlorenz: That's not what sets TV apart. Many good journalists do this every day on the internet, but if they're women they're then derided by cable news people as “influencer journalists” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: @Newsy Here's what really happened: CNN grew too big, too fast, when times were good. But if you look at Jeff Zucker's time there, it was mostly a ratings and financial disaster. If it weren't for Trump's presidency, CNN would have had no high points.
Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: @mediagazer @brianstelter I have some thoughts on this... https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: You know, I would buy a lot of the arguments that Brian makes in his piece, except they don't apply to everyone. CNBC is “companion television” for Wall Street execs who have the same technology to get information at their fingertips. Yet that network is doing just fine. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan McDowell / @planet4589: @brianstelter @TheAtlantic I was an HLN addict in its early days, but after some years ‘breaking news’ started to mean ' news we've already mentioned for the past 2 days' - its move away from actually being a breaking news stream happened long before twitter came along to play that role.
Martin Lieberman / @martinlieberman: Good read by @brianstelter about why Robin Meade will be missed ... “The reinvention of a broadcast medium plays out anticlimactically, like a slowly abandoned shopping mall—one store closes at a time until the whole structure serves a different purpose.” https://ow.ly/... https://twitter.com/...
Jamie Stelter / @jamiestelter: “Before death comes obsolescence.” @brianstelter writes (lovingly!) about what the death of HLN means for the future of TV news. @TheAtlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Jordan Valinsky / @jordan327: I've been watching @RobinMeade for 20 years every morning and going to miss her and her team so much :( https://twitter.com/...
Geoff Pilkington / @geoffpilkington: The End of Companion Television CNN's Headline News may seem thoroughly old-fashioned now that it's dead. But its demise is a reminder of the creeping nature of media obsolescence. Interesting column by @brianstelter https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Read @brianstelter's eulogy to HLN: “The reinvention of a broadcast medium plays out anticlimactically, like a slowly abandoned shopping mall—one store closes at a time until the whole structure serves a different purpose.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Angela Fu / Poynter:
Gannett's layoffs, affecting ~200 people in its news division, include reporters at the flagship USA Today and producers on regional digital optimization teams — Among those affected were reporters at flagship paper USA Today and producers working on Gannett's digital optimization teams.
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Staci D Kramer / @sdkstl: >>The Atlantic DOT Guild emailed Gannett's outside counsel Thursday to bargain over the changes but received an out-of-office message, McLoone said.<< https://twitter.com/...
@od_schneider: Please read this Poynter article by @angelanfu, particularly the section on the DOT: https://www.poynter.org/...
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
The Washington Post has laid off Sarah Kaufman, one of the last full-time dance critics in the US; as of 2015, there were two full-time critics remaining — The Washington Post has laid off Pulitzer Prize winner Sarah L. Kaufman, one of the last full-time dance critics in the country …
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@caitjgibson, @noahpinion, @jodyvance, @garymasonglobe, @katherinelewis, @nickturse, @annia, @ailsachang, @ilyseh, @jimtrotter_nfl, @jbf1755, @saintsoftness, @kemettler, @kemettler, @caitjgibson, @caitjgibson, @consumersos, @dance_edit, @chris__richards, @bernstein, @damonlinker, @jsf, @molliekatzen, @zinoman, @misssoniarao, @jbenton, @hankstuever, @lauracappelle, @ionarts, @mrdavidjays, @jadabird, @timothynoah1, @sdkstl and @sulliview
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Caitlin Gibson / @caitjgibson: It's been a brutal week for The Washington Post, and I want to talk about one particular journalist who lost his job of 23 yrs, & what it means - for the stories we tell, & way our readers understand their world - when deeply experienced, irreplaceable journalists are lost. 1/x
Noah Smith / @noahpinion: I feel like there's a business opportunity for multi-author Substacks to hire good, experienced journalists. A lot of them getting fired by mainstream media companies. https://twitter.com/...
Jody Vance / @jodyvance: It's a beautiful and heartbreaking thread. Layoffs in journalism and media will chang our society, for the worse, with each cut. The anti-media rhetoric is built upon a want to control the narrative - control the messages - and control people. Media = freedom. https://twitter.com/...
Gary Mason / @garymasonglobe: This is a remarkable love letter to an editor by a very appreciative reporter. https://twitter.com/...
Katherine X Lewis / @katherinelewis: Heartbreaking. David Rowell has also been consistently kind and encouraging to freelance journalists who sought his advice or pitched him. I hope he finds a new position somewhere that values long-form journalism and storytelling. https://twitter.com/...
Nick Turse / @nickturse: A great thread about how journalism gets made — and what an impact an editor who really cares about every aspect of the craft can make. https://twitter.com/...
@annia: Ever wondered why there's so much propaganda & fake news these days? Why so many people believe misinformation? Why outright lies have become so powerful? This. This here is one major reason why. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ailsa Chang / @ailsachang: What we do as journalists comes down to the humans that we are. Lose sight of that, you lose sight of what's at the heart of this mission. https://twitter.com/...
@ilyseh: What a beautiful tribute. There's a lot to love about new media but investigative reporters and passionate editors shape and enrich our lives so profoundly. The loss of them is immeasurable. https://twitter.com/...
Jim Trotter / @jimtrotter_nfl: If you know, you know. If you don't, here you go. 👇🏾 https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Joanne Freeman / @jbf1755: Technologies that shape how people communicate with each other almost always shape the democratic process. With the ongoing social media scramble & the firing of so many journalists this week...it will be interesting to see the dynamics of change, what is gained, & what is lost. https://twitter.com/...
@saintsoftness: This is outrageous and bad for anyone who cares about the arts in America. Supposedly WaPo wants more tech writing— I'd be the first to tell you my writing about technology is deeply informed by dance historians and critics, as well as dance as art form. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Katie Mettler / @kemettler: Hours after @washingtonpost laid off @SarahLKaufman, she went to the theater. She had an assignment, and she didn't want to disappoint the dancers and the readers. That's the kind of quality human and journalist we just let go. Read Sarah's final review: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Katie Mettler / @kemettler: @washingtonpost @SarahLKaufman A class act by every definition: https://twitter.com/...
Caitlin Gibson / @caitjgibson: I've been thinking so much this week about how journalism is, at its core, at its best, so fundamentally human. We tell human stories, and those stories are shaped by the humans who report and write and edit and produce them, who decide which stories to tell, and how. 10/x
Caitlin Gibson / @caitjgibson: So the impact of the loss of someone like David, and the other incredible journalists laid off this week, the brilliant people cast out across our industry, feels truly staggering, immeasurable. Our attentive readers will notice and feel it. At The Post, we are heartbroken. /end
@consumersos: A terrific thread about the value of journalism. And journalists. By @CaitJGibson https://twitter.com/...
@dance_edit: The @washingtonpost has laid off dance critic @SarahLKaufman. She minces no words: “I can't fathom why this institution is shutting itself off to what dancers and choreographers have to say about our lives and the world we live in.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@chris__richards: It's Friday at noon and the Washington Post still hasn't sent an internal memo about the layoff of Sarah Kaufman who brought immeasurable prestige to this newspaper by winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2010 Instead, we're reading about it in our paper https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Joe Bernstein / @bernstein: I had the privilege of getting to know @SarahLKaufman during our year as Nieman fellows. It's hard for me to imagine a more gracious and brilliant person and arts journalist. The Post's loss. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Damon Linker / @damonlinker: This makes me sad, but the reality is: Serious writing about dance and other arts will continue to die off in general-interest outlets. It will be replaced by people writing Substack newsletters on the subjects for much smaller audiences of people willing to pay for it. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Farago / @jsf: one casual observation to add to my colleagues' regrets: uptown or downtown, ballet or conceptual, the dance audience right now is YOUNG. Younger than the theater's, younger than the opera's, younger than many museums'. Dance has a growing public, and our media is trivializing it https://twitter.com/...
Mollie Katzen / @molliekatzen: This is a horrible loss for the dance world, and for our culture in general. And at a time when we need art and art discussion more than ever. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jason Zinoman / @zinoman: Grim news. We're watching the slow death of large branches of art criticism. The worst part is the hardest hit (local, live arts) are the ones that spotlight work that need press the most. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Sonia Rao / @misssoniarao: Writing about the arts is vital, and difficult. I was grateful when I joined Features to be able to learn so much about the craft simply by being near or reading the work of such brilliant colleagues. Our critics, like Sarah, are incredible. What a loss. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: As of 2015, there were two full-time dance critics in the U.S., at @nytimes and @washingtonpost. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... I guess it's just one, @giakourlas at the Times, now? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Hank Stuever / @hankstuever: This was shocking to me and a very big loss of a colleague I have long admired, who is an expert on grace because she possesses so much of it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Laura Cappelle / @lauracappelle: Thoroughly depressing news - @SarahLKaufman laid off by the @washingtonpost. In a matter of months, we've lost @dancingtimes and one of the last full-time dance critic positions in the US. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Charles T. Downey / @ionarts: This is a terrible decision - not a good sign for the upcoming reconfiguration of the Style section, to say the least https://twitter.com/...
David Jays / @mrdavidjays: This is grim news: Sarah Kaufman is a remarkable dance writer whose stories have a regional hook but international reach. A huge loss to Washington - and signals a retreat from valuing dance and the wider arts https://twitter.com/...
Jada Yuan / @jadabird: On Weds, @washingtonpost laid off Pulitzer-winning dance critic Sarah Kaufman, in a series of cuts. Her classy exit illustrates what a loss this is: “My principal concern is what is going to happen to those artists and the wider public knowledge of them.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Timothy Noah / @timothynoah1: Washington Post Concedes D.C. Is Cultural Backwater. Sarah Kaufman will not be replaced. Gia Kourlas of the NYT is now the country's only full-time newspaper dance critic. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Staci D Kramer / @sdkstl: @Sulliview I keep coming back to this: in the midst of a hiring push, “The Post did not offer laid-off staffers other roles at the paper.”
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: Such a talented writer with a unique voice. These layoffs are painful to see, and — given the pace of recent hiring, and the contributions these journalists have made — pretty cold, though perhaps they make strategic sense to some. Seems misguided to this observer https://twitter.com/...
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