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Washington Post:
Email: Twitter dissolves its Trust and Safety Council, saying it isn't “the best structure” for “external insights into our product and policy development work” — Meanwhile, a former top Twitter official fled his home amid attacks following Musk tweets
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN: Former top Twitter official forced to leave home due to threats amid ‘Twitter Files’ release
Arlene Getz / Committee to Protect Journalists: CPJ deeply concerned by dissolution of Twitter Trust and Safety Council
Adam Tinworth / One Man & His Blog: Musk disbands Twitter Trust & Safety Council
@pressfreedom: “As a platform that has become a critical tool in both open and repressive countries, Twitter must play a constructive role in ensuring that journalists & the public are able to receive and impart information,” said @jodieginsberg, CPJ president. https://cpj.org/...
Ananya Bhattacharya / Quartz: Elon Musk's Twitter won't take any more advice from its Trust and Safety Council
Lisa De Pasquale / BRIGHT: More Twitter Files Reveal More on Trump Ban
Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: Elon Musk's Twitter Disbands Trust and Safety Council
Cat Zakrzewski / @cat_zakrzewski: Developing: Twitter dissolved its Trust and Safety Council on Monday night, the latest sign that Elon Musk is unraveling years of investments in content moderation. w/ @josephmenn @NaomiNixWrites https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ronald Brownstein / @ronbrownstein: “Elon doesn't want criticism, and he really doesn't want the kind of advice he would very likely get from a safety council,which would likely tell him to rehire some of the staff he got rid of & reinstate some of the rules he got rid of, and turn the company in another direction” https://twitter.com/...
Ketan Joshi / @ketanj0: What a nightmare. Musk and all of his fans are a growing threat and they're only going to get worse as their entire project starts to fall apart and they have to turn to aggressive attacks to feel whole again. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN: Twitter disbands its ‘Trust and Safety Council’ that tackled harassment and child exploitation
Ross A. Lincoln / The Wrap: Elon Musk Disbands Twitter Anti-Harassment Council Right After Baselessly Implying Former Employee Is a Pedophile
Olga Lautman / @olganyc1211: Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety Council. Also, a former top Twitter official fled his home amid attacks following Musk's tweet All by design to make one of the most popular social platforms turn to vile hell https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ashley Eskeleton / @ashleyesqueda: “Staying until Twitter shuts down” isn't an option anymore, if you don't want to support things like this https://twitter.com/...
@exavierpope: Twitter's Trust and Safety Council was disbanded minutes before it was set to meet. Reckless https://twitter.com/...
@karoli: Yeah, who needs trust and safety on a service known for elevating Russian disinformation and other threats against vulnerable people anyway? One man's midlife crisis is a global one now. https://twitter.com/...
@washingtonpost: Members of Twitter's Trust and Safety Council received an email with the subject line, “Thank You,” to inform them the council was dissolved, minutes before it was to meet — the latest sign of Musk undoing efforts that make the network safe and more civil. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@wholemarsblog: Nobody is going to hurt him. When he wrote an op-ed in the New York Times that didn't endanger Elon / Twitter employees, but Elon replying to someone's tweet does? Words are not violence. Some are too quick to label any comments they don't like as incitement of violence. https://twitter.com/...
David Mack / @davidalanmack: In other news, Mu$k named himself chancellor and declared the Constitution invalid. https://twitter.com/...
@stringwallapp: Man Elmo is desperate. I wonder what information that is currently being circulated on Twitter is so threatening to the criminal enterprise? https://twitter.com/...
Maury Brown / @bizballmaury: Flying the company into the side of the mountain (again). The FTC, EU, India, et al, is going to be interested in this. https://twitter.com/...
Steven Greenhouse / @greenhousenyt: Makes total sense that advertisers are shying away from Twitter as @elonmusk fills it with racists, antisemites & insurrectionists. Maybe their reluctance to advertise will make Musk reverse his decision to turn Twitter into a cornucopia of spleen & hate https://apnews.com/...
Bob Cesca / @bobcesca_go: Imagine what this hellscape will look like two years from now, right around Election Day 2024. https://twitter.com/...
Jodie Ginsberg / @jodieginsberg: As Twitter said in its own blog from September this year: “People come to Twitter for many reasons. As it turns out, one of the biggest is to stay informed about current events.” https://blog.twitter.com/... 1/2 https://twitter.com/...
David Weissman / @davidmweissman: This won't be good. https://twitter.com/...
Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone: Musk's Twitter Dissolves Trust and Safety Council, The People Tasked to Make It Safer
@angry_staffer: I don't know why everyone is freaking out, it's not like he axed the independent council that helps moderate child exploitation, hate speech, self harm, etc. ... Oh. https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal:
News Corp names Sunday Times Editor Emma Tucker as EIC of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones, starting on February 1 as the first woman to lead the WSJ — Currently the editor of the Sunday Times in the U.K., Ms. Tucker will assume her new position at the Journal on Feb. 1
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News Corp: Emma Tucker Named Next Editor-in-Chief of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires; Matt Murray Takes New Role at News Corp
Steven Perlberg / Insider: Emma Tucker has been named editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal in a Murdoch editorial shakeup
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Sometimes the rumors are true! The Murdochs bring in Sunday Times (UK) editor Emma Tucker as next Editor-in-Chief of The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Current top editor Matt Murray takes on new role at company News release: https://newscorp.com/...
@observer: The Wall Street Journal named Emma Tucker its first female editor-in-chief, replacing Matt Murray, who has been in the role for four years. The editorial restructuring comes as News Corp, the Journal's parent company, weighs merging with Fox. https://observer.com/...
Gregory Schmidt / @gregorynyc: BREAKING: The Wall Street Journal named Emma Tucker, a longtime editor for Murdoch-owned newspapers in Britain, as its new top editor, report @katie_robertson and @BenMullin. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jackson Richman / Mediaite: JUST IN: Wall Street Journal Names Emma Tucker Editor-in-Chief
Rachel Bachman / @bachscore: Emma Tucker will take over as editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal on Feb. 1, becoming the first woman ever in that role. https://www.wsj.com/...
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: Veteran UK journalist to serve as next Wall Street Journal editor in chief
Greg Greene / @ggreeneva: “[WSJ's incoming editor] has been backed by Mr. Thomson and Rebekah Brooks, the head of News Corp's British arm”: amazing how Brooks has prospered, 11 years on from the phone-hacking scandal — undented in the eyes of her stalwart patron, Mr. Rupert Murdoch. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: If anyone ever tries to insist the Journal is free of Murdoch's political manipulation... It, too, is his bulky pulpit. That's why he bought it. Wall Street Journal Names a New Editor https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post: Wall Street Journal taps Emma Tucker to become first female editor in chief
Catherine Lucey / @catherine_lucey: Ms. Tucker, who will be the first woman to lead the Journal, has served as editor of the Sunday Times, another News Corp publication, since January 2020. https://www.wsj.com/...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: How many times will this sort of language be used to justify the sort of right wing orthodoxy that Rupert Murdoch has imposed in media in multiple countries? https://twitter.com/...
Raju Narisetti / @raju: Matt and I joined the Pittsburgh bureau of @WSJ the same week in 1994 and he is a dear friend. @murraymatt was a wonderful and caring colleague and, as EIC of @wsj in recent years, exactly what that newsroom needed in doing excellent & accurate journalism https://www.wsj.com/...?
@christinalamb: Congratulations @EmmaTuckerST on becoming first woman editor of the @WSJ - they are lucky to have you but huge loss for us at the Sunday Times - we will miss you https://www.wsj.com/...
Ben Smith / @semaforben: .@WSJ editor Matt Murray emails staff that he's out, and handing reins to Emma Tucker, as first reported by @maxwelltani @semafor https://www.semafor.com/...
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: Sunday Times editor Emma Tucker moving to Wall Street Journal
Richard Tofel / @dicktofel: In naming the new editor of the WSJ, Robert Thomson, Murdoch's CEO, says she has “digital nous.” https://www.wsj.com/...
Robert Smith / @bondhack: It's also not “The Times of London”, a ridiculous Americanism for what is a national newspaper https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@froomkin: Murdoch, after complaining of “woke orthodoxy” sullying the WSJ newsroom, fires editor and replaces him with a loyalist. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Rachyl Jones / Observer: The Wall Street Journal Names Emma Tucker Editor-in-Chief, Succeeding Matt Murray
@curtisschin: MyPOV: The @WSJ is a stronger media outlet because of the work & leadership of @murraymatt. Looking forward to seeing what is ahead at the Wall Street Journal w/ Emma Tucker as the new editor (congrats) & Matt Murray in a new role. https://www.wsj.com/... #bigshoestofill
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: If anyone ever tries to insist the Journal is free of Murdoch's political manipulation... It, too, is his bulky pulpit. That's why he bought it. Wall Street Journal Names a New Editor https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Vivian Salama / @vmsalama: News Corp named veteran U.K. journalist @EmmaTuckerST as the next editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal, succeeding Matt Murray, who oversaw significant digital growth and guided the news organization through the Covid-19 pandemic https://www.wsj.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “The announcement comes as a special committee at News Corp is weighing a possible merger with Fox Corporation... a move that has set off some unease in The Journal's newsroom.” https://twitter.com/...
Becky Barrow / @beckymbarrow: Lucky @WSJ. @EmmaTuckerST is a 🌟. Truly a treat to have had her as editor of the Sunday Times since 2020. Living proof that an editor can be kind as well as successful. (And a mother too, who runs to work). 💪 https://twitter.com/...
Tiffani Ashley Bell / @tiffani: This man's son is on the board of TSLA...for those of you who tweeted about its board getting rid of EM. Not happening. https://twitter.com/...
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: After 4 yrs, Matt Murray will be replaced as head of @wsj by @EmmaTuckerST, making her the first woman to edit the paper. Murray had clashed with the publisher and drew the attention of @rupertmurdoch who was upset about a newsroom revolt under his watch: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matthew Zeitlin / @mattzeitlin: people forget that the trump campaign tried to stovepipe the hunter biden story to the WSJ but they actually tried to report it out and find a real connection to joe biden and couldn't and thus “hunter biden's laptop” the discourse object was born https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Urvi Dugar / Reuters:
Elon Musk says Blue subscribers will see half the number of ads as non-subscribers and that Twitter plans to offer a higher tier with no ads in 2023 — Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted on Monday that Twitter's Basic blue tick will have half the number of advertisements and the social media platform …
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Elon Musk / @elonmusk: @micsolana In a few months, we will remove all legacy blue checks. The way in which they were given out was corrupt and nonsensical.
Elon Musk / @elonmusk: @Erdayastronaut @TwitterBlue Basic Blue will have half the number of ads. We will offer a higher tier with no ads next year.
@twitterblue: we're baaaack! Twitter Blue is now available for $8/month on web or $11/month on iOS - we've made some upgrades and improvements 🧵 https://twitter.com/...
@verified: blue checkmark 🤝 Twitter Blue we've removed the old application to be verified — when you subscribe or upgrade to the new Twitter Blue on web or iOS, you'll receive a blue checkmark (after your account has been reviewed). for more info check out this thread: https://twitter.com/...
Nehal Malik / iPhone in Canada Blog: Twitter Will Remove All Legacy Blue Checkmarks ‘in a Few Months,’ Says Elon Musk
@zacksjerryrig: Since his much more sensical method worked out so well last time. 🍿 https://twitter.com/...
Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra: Elon Musk says Twitter Blue perk cuts ads by 50% And Twitter will offer a higher tier with NO ADS by next year https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Lothar / @ltr_zh: I've been saying for years I'd pay $10-ish for no ads in my stream. Glad to know at least one billionaire thinks like me... https://twitter.com/...
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Elon says Twitter will remove all legacy verifications ‘in a few months’
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Twitter relaunches Blue for $8/month on the web and $11/month on iOS with a checkmark after an account review, 1080p video uploads, an edit button, and more — we're relaunching @TwitterBlue on Monday - subscribe on web for $8/month or on iOS for $11/month to get access to subscriber-only features, including the blue checkmark 🧵 https://twitter.com/...
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@twitter: we'll begin replacing that “official” label with a gold checkmark for businesses, and later in the week a grey checkmark for government and multilateral accounts
Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8: Unsurprising but it's official: If you don't pay for Twitter Blue, you'll soon lose your Blue check verification https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Again, this is not the important part: If Musk follows through with the plans he floated weeks ago (I know), people who *don't* subscribe to Twitter will have a degraded experience. That is: Twitter will become a subscription service. https://twitter.com/...
Ananya Bhattacharya / Quartz: Elon Musk is making iPhone users pay for his fight with Apple
@twitter: when you subscribe you'll get Edit Tweet, 1080p video uploads, reader mode, and a blue checkmark (after your account has been reviewed)
Betta Fish / @prettybadlefty: Twitter Blue doesn't even get rid of all ads 💀 https://twitter.com/...
Kerry Flynn / @kerrymflynn: 👀 Ah, gold verified badges are popping up on my TL... specifically for some media companies https://twitter.com/...
Tim Culpan / Bloomberg: Musk Versus Apple Is a Fight Worth Having
Michael Grothaus / Fast Company: Twitter Blue is launching again today as some ‘legacy’ checks display vague messages
Anthony DeRosa / @anthony: Personally, I don't care about having a check. The issue is that removing legacy checkmarks is that it will make it very difficult to figure out who are legitimate accounts in the future, which makes Twitter less useful and frankly dangerous as a source of news https://twitter.com/...
Lucas Nolan / Breitbart: Elon Musk's Twitter to Relaunch ‘Twitter Blue’ Feature Today - With Higher Prices on iPhones
Sarah Jackson / Insider: Elon Musk launched Twitter Blue for a second time after pulling it for issues, introducing new gold check marks for verified business accounts
Wes Davis / The Shortcut: Twitter Blue relaunch: how much the subscription costs on the web, iOS and Android
Ketaki Bhojnagarwala / ScreenRant: Twitter Blue: Is It Worth Paying $8 (Or $11) A Month?
Clare Duffy / CNN: Twitter relaunches option to pay for blue check marks
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: A virtual rainbow of checkmarks. https://twitter.com/...
@ooccouchgags: Apple: Threatens to pull Twitter off their app store Twitter: Any iOS users got to pay 11$ a month than 8$! That will show them! https://twitter.com/...
Kat O'Brien / @obrien_kat: This is going to be terrible for accessibility. Color-blind and low-sighted people will not be able to distinguish between colors to know what means what. https://designsystem.digital.gov/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Justin Klawans / The Week: Twitter to attempt re-launch of controversial subscription service
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Twitter Blue will relaunch on Monday with an $11 per month price tag on iOS
Dan Arrows / @dan_arrows: For a hundred bucks per year you get HALF the ads!?!? lmao https://twitter.com/...
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Twitter Blue relaunching on Monday with these features; Musk says character limit will increase to 4,000
@eckhartsladder: 😂 I love that the net-effect of the verification democratization is that independent journalists and the like are now fucked over, while they give the big brands a way to stand out even more. Really intelligent move. https://twitter.com/...
@biggsintweets: imagine fixing a problem that didn't exist by creating three new problems https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Charlton-Dailey / @rachelcdailey: Grey really won't work with the different view modes. But this is something he'd know if he hadn't fired the whole accessibility team https://twitter.com/...
Cara / @caraesten: we're dealing with, at minimum, four checkmarks in play right now lmao https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Littau / @jeremylittau: Red checkmark if you think they should bring Firefly back. Yellow if you are the dentist who DOES NOT recommend Trident. Purple if you know what the fox says. Green if you think “Tonight thank God it's them instead of youuuuuuu!” is a cringey Christmas lyric. https://twitter.com/...
Jack Appleby / @jappleby: Elon thinks the $8 web or $11 mobile pay structure is attacking Apple when it's actually attacking consumers. A huge portion of Twitter users only use the app, not the web. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Rabinowitz / @airlineflyer: $11/month for a meaningless blue checkmark 😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😅😂🤣 https://twitter.com/...
@kynsofficial: Make the blue check optional, I just wanna be able to edit tweet and upload 10minutes HD video for my programming students. Idc the fuck you do with blue check or if it's white or gold https://twitter.com/...
@hellocullen: instead of paying for this im gonna post monthly videos of me burning 10 dollars in 720p https://twitter.com/...
Tom Coates / @tomcoates: If you want to pay $8 a month to have everyone think you love Elon Musk, you will be able to do so from Monday. I will not be paying for it. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Twitter Blue Relaunching on Monday With Higher Price on iPhone and Account Review Process
Laura Forman / Wall Street Journal:
Similarweb: desktop visits to Twitter's ad manager fell ~74% YoY in Oct. and 85% in Nov., the largest drop since Musk's takeover; the trend continues in Dec.
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Gideon Lichfield / Wired: The Trumpification of Elon Musk
Suzanne Vranica / @vranicawsj: Twitter's ad manager volume traffic fell 85% in November. https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Mark Frauenfelder / Boing Boing: Twitter's ad manager volume activity fell 85% in November
Matt Levine / Bloomberg: FTX Had Some Luna Trouble
Richard Tofel / @dicktofel: Interesting WSJ piece about struggles across digital advertising, including indication that ads on Twitter fell 74% in October, 85% in November, have almost disappeared this month. https://www.wsj.com/...
Dan Davies / @dsquareddigest: just to get in early on this (via @CAVandy) - I've always been a huge fan of Morgan Stanley, great bunch of guys, I'm sure they'll be excellent owners https://twitter.com/...
Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra: Visits to Twitter's Ad Manager October: Down 74% vs. same period last year November: Down 85% December: Traffic volume too low to track https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gallagher / @djtgallagher: The Twitter circus may be grabbing eyeballs, but @DoubleLJSquared says the ad dollars aren't following: https://www.wsj.com/...
@bookforum:
Bookforum announces plans to close after 28 years and that its current December/January/February issue will be the magazine's last — https://twitter.com/...
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Emily Suzanne Lever / @snarlsdegaulle: this comes a scant 5 days after penske media corporation bought artforum which owns bookforum. i will not forgive and i will not forget 💔💔💔 https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Wilson / @jenlouisewilson: This is such bullshit. Bookforum understood that criticism could be fun and bold and responsible all at the same time. https://twitter.com/...
Maris Kreizman / @mariskreizman: This is tragic. One more wonderful publication that actually ran long, thoughtful book reviews, gone. https://twitter.com/...
Nick Jackson / @nbj914: PMC/Jay Penske closed its acquisition of Bookforum's parent company, Artforum, last Tuesday. https://news.artnet.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Nathan J Robinson / @nathanjrobinson: It looks as if Bookforum was shuttered by a giant media conglomerate that bought it just to destroy it. This is why independent media is crucial. If outlets doing important work are owned by billionaires, they can be killed even if the readers and staff want to keep them going. https://twitter.com/...
Alexandra Kleeman / @alexkleeman: A great loss, coming after the loss of Astra only a couple weeks earlier. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Luo / @michaelluo: This is such a loss... https://twitter.com/...
Dana Stevens / @thehighsign: I got a chance to write for @BookForum in 2004, at the beginning of my career (a review of Judith Butler's Precarious Life) & I include that fact in my bio to this day, because I was so proud to write for such a serious & smart magazine. RIP & may everyone there find a great job. https://twitter.com/...
Bilge Ebiri / @bilgeebiri: Terrible news. Artforum gets bought by Penske, and Bookforum — one of the best journals out there — is promptly shuttered. https://twitter.com/...
Meghan O'Rourke / @meghanor: Oh no. This is just such a bummer for books and criticism and the world of ideas that @bookforum so brilliantly illuminated, all while letting its writers retain their own idiosyncratic style. https://twitter.com/...
Noah Kulwin / @nkulw: My one byline there is among my proudest. An incalculable loss https://twitter.com/...
Stassa Edwards / @stassaedwards: the sameness of the media is so depressing and it's even more depressing to watch publications that were actually doing interesting work close https://twitter.com/...
Catherine Lacey / @_catherinelacey: But can they not tho? https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Sharlet / @jeffsharlet: This is to me devastating news. Bookforum has been by a distance the most adventurous review, introducing me to so many ideas and writers. And I've gotten to do some of my favorite writing there. This is just awful. I assume it's a function of the company's acquisition. Damn. https://twitter.com/...
Peter Labuza / @labuzamovies: This acquisition should have gotten more scrutiny @FTC https://twitter.com/...
Dessi Gomez / The Wrap: Penske Media Dissolves Literary Digest Bookforum a Week After Acquisition of Parent Company
Jeet Heer / @heerjeet: This is very sad news. Bookforum is a great book review journal, really kept abreast of current culture. I've had the privilege to write for them a few times. https://twitter.com/...
@themysterious: Not a big mystery outlet but nevertheless a loss to be mourned by anyone who loves books https://twitter.com/...
Wayne Koestenbaum / @campmarmalade: The first book I reviewed for Bookforum, in 1994, was the diaries of Joseph Cornell, edited by Mary Ann Caws. That book, to me, symbolizes the aesthetic resources—intricacy, strangeness, imagination—that are threatened by the shutdown of journals like Bookforum. https://twitter.com/...
Judy Berman / @judyberman: This is devastating. A magazine whose every issue I read cover to cover, that introduced me to many of the best new books I've read in recent years. https://twitter.com/...
Parul Sehgal / @parul_sehgal: Devastating. Bookforum was a perfect magazine + my first intellectual home. Michael Miller taught me how to write. Terrible news for all of us who care about books + criticism. https://twitter.com/...
Lizzy Harding / @lissyhard: Getting to work at and write for Bookforum has been a thrill and an education and an honor. Today is awful, and also a reminder of the obvious: the magazine means so much to so many, and it does not belong in the past! https://twitter.com/...
Josh Fomon / @fomonjosh: Kinda feel like it's time to create a collective for reviews, especially for small presses. https://twitter.com/...
Nathan Heller / @nathanheller: Truly horrifying. Bookforum has been an institution in New York criticism as long as I've been around (it gave me some of my first assignments!) and in recent years has been on a real roll, publishing some of my favorite pieces by some of my favorite critics. An outsized loss. https://twitter.com/...
Moira Donegan / @moiradonegan: Bookforum was a rare and extraordinary magazine, one of the few places where a new writer can try our ambitious projects, and a place that never asked me to make my writer simpler, less weird, or more palatable. https://twitter.com/...
Phil Klay / @philklay: Bad news for readers, writers, the broader culture... https://twitter.com/...
Muna / @muna_mire: it's hard to wrap my mind about this just folding under new ownership? it was a rigorous, thoughtful magazine and i genuinely enjoyed the reviews (i don't enjoy most book reviews) https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Vorona Cote / @rvoronacote: This is devastating news—I feel it both as a writer who has contributed to Bookforum and as a reader who deeply admires its mission. Literary criticism will suffer greatly for Bookforum's absence, and I dearly hope that the magazine will find another way to exist. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Kois / @dankois: ugh a great magazine that I loved subscribing to. what a disaster! https://twitter.com/...
Christian Lorentzen / @xlorentzen: Awful news. Grateful to all the genius editors I've worked with at Bookforum over the years, especially Michael Miller. https://twitter.com/...
Nora Caplan-Bricker / @ncaplanbricker: This is crushing. No publication has covered the world of books with the same combination of breadth and depth—let alone while being, always, such a pleasure to read. Literary culture is so much poorer for this loss https://twitter.com/...
James Surowiecki / @jamessurowiecki: What? This is, and has been forever, a great literary magazine. What a disaster. https://twitter.com/...
Jane Hu / @hujane: bookforum was one of my favorite places to write for—and one of my favorite magazines to read. the work it did (short but comprehensive and sharp pieces of literary criticism) was undeniably a public good, and i hope it finds itself reanimated in some other future form 😭 https://twitter.com/...
Brian Phillips / @brianphillips: this is just unspeakably depressing https://twitter.com/...
@pressgazette: Bookforum Magazine is closing after 28 years, saying it is “immensely grateful to the advertisers, subscribers and booksellers who made our mission possible over the years”. https://twitter.com/...
Micah Uetricht / @micahuetricht: This is tragic and shocking. I'm a subscriber and one-time contributor to Bookforum; there's few other magazines like it that are dedicated to covering books in ways that are concise and compelling. US intellectual life will be significantly (more) impoverished with it gone. https://twitter.com/...
Natasha Lennard / @natashalennard: Ugh. No. Bookforum is my favourite. This sucks. https://twitter.com/...
@aaronpcalvin: I've subscribed to Bookforum for years and I'm sure I'm not the only one to say this, but: This fucking sucks. The magazine was home to so much great writing about books and I'm going to personally miss the hell out of it. https://twitter.com/...
Phillip Maciak / @pjmaciak: This is an incredible loss to criticism. It's hard to even imagine that a publication with that kind of talent and care and style could even possibly go away. So sorry to all the staffers who've worked to turn this magazine into something completely essential. https://twitter.com/...
Wayne Koestenbaum / @campmarmalade: Literature is always disappearing from the limelight. I will miss this vital forum, where I felt at home. https://twitter.com/...
Naomi Fry / @frynaomifry: this sucks. can't someone with money use it for cultural good for once and turn this around https://twitter.com/...
Katherine Maher / @krmaher: My first ever published work was a review in Bookforum. They let new writers write. This is so sad. https://www.bookforum.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Tim Shorrock / @timothys: About 8 years ago, I had a cover review here about one of the worst North Korea books ever written, ‘The Cleanest Race.’ Everybody in the mainstream press thought it was the greatest. Sorry to see this magazine gone. https://twitter.com/...
Ed Burmila / @edburmila: The really depressing thing about news like this is knowing how little money (comparatively) is needed to prevent an outlet like this from going under. Half the promo budget of the next Mayor Pete book is probably a year of Bookforum's operating costs. https://twitter.com/...
Sophia Stewart / Publishers Weekly: ‘Bookforum’ to Cease Publication
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK-based LGBTQ+ outlet Pink News adds an “uplifting” stories filter to its app after studies show more consumers avoid news because of its impact on their mood — The LGBTQ+ brand has added an “uplifting” news feature to its new app. — LGBTQ+ brand Pink News has given …
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Michelle Manafy / @michellemanafy: Pink News has given its readers the option to see only “uplifting” stories after studies showed the increasing numbers of consumers avoiding the news because of the impact it has on their mood. https://pressgazette.co.uk/...
@pressgazette: “It was to enable people just have that option not to necessarily filter out bad news completely, but it's being able to take that break when you need it.” 25% of @PinkNews readers said they were interested in just being able to read uplifting news https://pressgazette.co.uk/...
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Twitter starts testing Blue for Business, which adds a gold checkmark for “corporate entities”, including media organizations — Alongside of the relaunch of Twitter Blue, Twitter's controversial subscription service, Twitter has begun rolling out a new offering called Blue …
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Kendra Clark / The Drum: What users and businesses need to know about the newly revamped Twitter Blue
The Indian Express: Twitter Blue launches on web, Twitter Blue for Business to bring ‘gold’ checkmark for businesses
Zach Schonfeld / The Hill: Twitter relaunching revamped subscription service, prices higher for Apple users
Edward Moyer / CNET: Twitter Blue to Relaunch Monday With Blue and Gold Check Marks, Higher iOS Price, Company Says
Matthew Sedacca / New York Post: Twitter relaunches ‘Twitter Blue’ after bungled November rollout
Susanne Barton / Bloomberg: Twitter Relaunches Twitter Blue Monday With Two-Tiered Pricing
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
The HFPA announces the 2023 nominations for the Golden Globes, which will air on NBC and stream on NBCUniversal's Peacock in January as part of a one-year trial — The tarnished awards ceremony will air on NBC in January in a one-year trial. But which stars will show up to collect their trophies?
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Hilary Lewis / The Hollywood Reporter: Golden Globes: Nominations List
David Ng / Breitbart: Non-Woke ‘Yellowstone’ Gets First Golden Globes Nomination Ever for Kevin Costner
Sarah Lynch / Fast Company: The Golden Globes are coming back for 2023, but will Hollywood and audiences return?
Variety: Golden Globes Snubs and Surprises: Harry Styles, Tom Cruise, Jennifer Lawrence, ‘The Rings of Power’ and More
Elyse Dupre / E! Online: Kaley Cuoco, Ana de Armas and More Stars React to 2023 Golden Globe Nominations
Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap: ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ Leads 2023 Golden Globes Nominations (Complete List)
Josh Rottenberg / Los Angeles Times: The Golden Globes are mounting a comeback. But Hollywood is still ‘on the fence’
Matt Tamanini / The Streamable: HBO Max, Netflix Lead All Streamers with 14 Nominations; Where to Stream 2022 Golden Globe Nominees
Claire Valentine / W: Golden Globes 2023: Nominations, How To Watch
@gulf_news: List of Golden Globes 2023 nominees: ‘Avatar’, ‘Babylon’, ‘RRR’, ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and more https://gn24.ae/... https://twitter.com/...
Gabriel Sherman / @gabrielsherman: congrats to entire @AlaskaDailyABC team on Hilary Swank's Golden Globe nom!!! https://ew.com/...
Brooks Barnes / @brooksbarnesnyt: Kelly Bush, one of the power publicists who have pushed the Globes to make meaningful reform, says she will encourage clients to participate in the coming ceremony. “Many of us are encouraged by the strides and commitment that have resulted,” Novak said. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael Starr / New York Post: Why the 2022 Golden Globe TV nominations got it (mostly) right this time
Patrick Hipes / Deadline: Golden Globe Nominations: The Complete List
Christopher Rosen / GoldDerby: How to watch the Golden Globes nominations announcement live
Freedom of the Press Foundation:
A coalition of ~40 press rights and civil liberties organizations urges Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to get PRESS Act to a vote before Congress adjourns — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — A coalition of nearly 40 press freedom, civil liberties and other organizations led by Freedom …
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@protecting1st: Sometimes bills are so simple, & passing them so critical, that they become a cornerstone of our country's future. We proudly join @FreedomofPress @ACLU @EFF & nearly 40 other civil liberties orgs in urging @SenSchumer & the Senate to pass the PRESS Act. https://freedom.press/...
Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Justin Smith says Semafor is on pace to generate ~30% of its first-year revenue from events arm SemaforX and is planning 40+ events in 2023, up from 15 in 2022 — The publisher, whose inaugural Africa Week begins Monday, will host 40+ events in 2023 — The news and business publisher Semafor …
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Sean Griffey / @seangriffey: .@Adweek and @MarkStenberg3 have quietly become one of the best sources of media reporting around. Always some data/insight for operators in here. https://www.adweek.com/...
Mark Stenberg / @markstenberg3: New: Semafor has used events as a way to generate significant revenue right from its launch. It has hosted 15 already this year, and plans to up that to 40+ in 2023. This week, the publisher kicks off its multi-day Africa Summit in D.C. For @Adweek: https://www.adweek.com/...
Justin B. Smith / @justin_b_smith: .@semafor is building an ambitious global live journalism business. As the @Semafor Africa Summit begins this morning in DC, we are thrilled to be featured in @Adweek. Semafor Will Generate 30% of Its First-Year Revenue From Events https://www.adweek.com/... via @Adweek
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Oscar-oriented films flatline at the box office because people have grown comfortable watching them at home, but studios still seem to be grasping for answers — The kind of critically praised dramas that often dominate the awards season are falling flat at the box office, failing to justify the money it takes to make them.
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Anthony DeRosa / @anthony: The problem is not quality: Reviews have been exceptional. Rather, “people have grown comfortable watching these movies at home,” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Grace Panetta / @grace_panetta: i saw “she said” in theaters and it was great...but i also acknowledge i am in the very niche target demographic for that film (anxious brunette reporters covering gender equity issues) https://twitter.com/...
Tim Marchman / @timmarchman: It feels relevant that these movies look incredibly boring; not really sure when dull Oscar bait was ever a big draw at the arthouse. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@dancingofpens: Give us a laugh or two in there! When I think about going out to see misery and degradation and racism and all the other things that are wrong with our lives, I'm too depressed to put on my coat." https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sam Rubin / @samontv: Why are you NOT going to the movies? Are some “prestige” movies too downbeat? https://www.nytimes.com/...
@turksespinnekop: I know I keep saying I miss movies for adults but these movies aren't going to get me to go to theaters. Give me mid-budget action thrillers, not franchises, but standalone thrillers, and I'll be there on opening day. https://twitter.com/...
Tim Seeley / @hackintimseeley: This is really interesting. It's a bummer, as a film fan, but I work in comics, so not being able to do whole genres or styles of stories ain't nothin' new for me. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nathaniel Rakich / @baseballot: Seems extremely premature to come to this conclusion when it isn't even awards season yet. These films will make most of their money during their Oscar campaigns. https://twitter.com/...
M.H. Williams / @automaticzen: The problem was the pandemic sped up trends in theatrical. Unless you're a cinephile or indie head, you're not really up for spending $25-30 all-in to see a drama in theaters. There used to be a gap between TV and film. Currently there isn't. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Conor Sen / @conorsen: Maybe after the past 6-7 years and especially the past 2-3 people are looking for feel-good content (aimed at adults!). Nobody wanted to see Iraq War movies in the 2000's either. https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Friedman / @bfriedmandc: I thought the entire purpose of lowbrow, kitschy summer blockbusters was to make money for studios to fund the highbrow, Oscar-winning films no one pays to see. Hollywood folks, is that wrong? https://www.nytimes.com/...
@seantrende: Y'know, there was a time, like from 1927-2015, where filmmakers knew how to make Oscar-worthy films that still connected with a broader audience, and art-house film dreck was relegated to, well, art houses. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@molochofficial: very funny that the nyt is kept alive solely by our collective feeling of guilt at letting culture die but then the nyt itself does nothing but cheer-lead for the death of culture https://twitter.com/...
Alicia Smith / @alicia_smith19: This makes me sad.A bit soapy to say but we're losing common cultural phenomenons that unite people together as people seem to dwell into their own niche and resort to streaming where there are 10k+ things to watch (I'm guilty,as I can't remember last time I went to the theater) https://twitter.com/...
Heather S. Mongilio / @hmongilio: Theaters are also making it difficult to see these movies. I wanted to see “She Said” in theaters. I couldn't find it playing at a theater within 30 minutes of my house 2.5 weeks after it was released. https://twitter.com/...
Noah Harald / @noahharald: Or maybe, and stay with me here- maybe the 25 movies made for this exact audience shouldn't all be released within 6 weeks of each other, released for the people most likely to avoid indoor public spaces during rising winter COVID cases AND knowing they will be on VOD in weeks? https://twitter.com/...
Alec MacGillis / @alecmacgillis: “One after another, films for grown-ups have failed to find an audience big enough to justify their cost....'Tár' cost at least $35 million; ticket sales total $5.3 million. Universal spent $55 million [on] ‘She Said,’ which also took in $5.3 million.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@tvgrimreaper: Movie studio #PRJedi learning from TV networks & SVOD services! When the traditional third party public metrics of success are bleak, insist that new private metrics, that you entirely control, are looking great! https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@valuestockgeek: I like these movies when I'm in the mood but there isn't a reason to sit in a movie theater to see them, anymore. I'll stream them at home. I will sit in a theater for a big special visual/audio spectacle like Top Gun 2. I'll pay $20 for that. I'm not paying $20 to see Parasite. https://twitter.com/...
@nytimesbusiness: The kind of critically praised dramas that often dominate the awards season are falling flat at the box office, failing to justify the money it takes to make them. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@irenestellar: You sound like kpop fans arguing which album is better based on sales alone i thought the oscars is about celebrating cinema https://twitter.com/...
Tambay Obenson / @tambayobenson: “Hollywood sees the shift as an affront to its identity. Power players have clung to the fantasy that the cultural world revolves around them. But their lone measuring stick reveals that the masses can't be bothered to come watch their most-prized films; cultural irrelevancy.” https://twitter.com/...
Shiv / @sickboyved: why is this being talked about like it's happening for the first time? take 1984 for example, the highest grossing film was beverly hills cop but the best picture winner was amadeus... the oscars have never been about box office? https://twitter.com/...
Rebecca Fishbein / @bfishbfish: my controversial take is that some of these movies are not actually that good https://www.nytimes.com/...
Siddhartha Mahanta / @sidhubaba: I don't know that it should be taken as a given that all these movies are necessarily all that memorable, or that they inspire audiences to recommend them to their friends and family https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ubaka Ogbogu / @ubakaogbogu: Maybe it's because things “aimed at winning awards” are more obvious and uninteresting than those who aimed them think they are. https://www.nytimes.com/...
David A. Gross / FranchiseRe movie industry newsletter: THE YEAR-END AWARDS CONTENDERS | December 9 to 11, 2022 weekend
David Poland / The Hot Button: THB #274: How NYT's Brooks Barnes Spins Opinion Instead Of Doing Journalism
Conor Dougherty / @conordougherty: Great story by @brooksbarnesNYT on the box office carnage of highbrow movies. I think I've read like 30 think pieces on Tár yet have not met a single person who has seen it. It seems good! 'm super curious! I just can't make myself get in the car. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Conor Dougherty / @conordougherty: Because I think every story is a housing story, my theory on the box office is that it's suffering from an urban planning problem. Let's be real, unless you're a real mall person, going to the movies SUCKS. Parking, traffic. It's worse than the doctor.
Conor Dougherty / @conordougherty: Damn, this paragraph. https://twitter.com/...
Conor Dougherty / @conordougherty: Movies are in a weird place. Last year I was watching the Oscars and had never even heard of, let alone seen, several the best picture contenders.
Kenneth Turan / @kennethturan: Why are the most serious movies having serious problems at the box office? It's a real problem and @brooksbarnesNYT takes us through all the likely answers. Scary times for movie theaters, very scary. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Benjamin Ryan / @benryanwriter: This is such bad news for the future of my having a slate of movies made just for me every November and December. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ted Hope / @tedhope: Although @brooksbarnesNYT has a good take on this same issue, what we need to discuss is the lack of secondary support mechanisms to lift any film up in to the cultural conversation. We all are in private silos or worse: cohort echo chambers. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Wild Bill Wellman / @wildbillwellman: Something me & my mutual talk about all the time, and something I agree with. But this article suggest it's just natural changing taste or studios making too pretentious of product, instead of bringing up how Hollywood itself disrupted its own model. https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Poland / @davidpoland: I wish I couldn't count on Brooks Barnes shooting from the hip and getting it wrong every time. Highbrow Films Aimed at Winning Oscars Are Losing Audiences https://www.nytimes.com/...
@r3windxyz: Interesting (some would say sad) news. What the headline doesn't say: people are still watching these movies, just at home. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Gordon McAlpin / @gmcalpin: I say this with the utmost of love and respect for film, but maybe... just maybe... if a movie about an orchestra conductor didn't cost $35 million dollars to make, it could be more profitable? — Highbrow Films Aimed at Winning Oscars Are Losing Audiences https://www.nytimes.com/...
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
Twitter rolls out Community Notes, the crowd-powered feature to fact-check tweets previously known as Birdwatch, to all users worldwide — Twitter has begun rolling out Community Notes to all of its users globally, the company announced on Saturday. Previously known as Birdwatch …
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David Cohen / Adweek: Twitter Community Notes Can Now Be Read Worldwide
Antonio Vieira Santos / @akwyz: Twitter begun rolling out Community Notes globally. The feature debuted in 2021 under former CEO Jack Dorsey as means for the #SocialMedia website to combat misinformation. Before today, only individuals in the US could see the notes https://www.engadget.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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