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Memo: The New York Times Executive Editor Joe Kahn defends the outlet's trans coverage and warns staff and contributors not to campaign or attack colleagues — “We do not welcome, and will not tolerate, participation by Times journalists” in protests over the paper's coverage of trans issues, its executive editor wrote.
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Will Stancil / @whstancil: Pretty clear that, in practice, Times leadership believes deeply in their own neutrality as a starting assumption, and thus anyone who criticizes them becomes an activist with an agenda. A perfect little epistemic loop for ignoring criticism. https://twitter.com/...
Will Stancil / @whstancil: The idea that biases could be embedded in their worldview, social contacts, the demographic makeup of their organization - and thus would only be identifiable by outsiders - never seems to occur to Times leadership. Or maybe they think they've evolved beyond such plebian matters.
Hamilton Nolan / @hamiltonnolan: This and the other NYT responses seem to be a total evasion of the question: What justifies the bizarre volume of coverage that one particular framing of this issue gets? I've never heard a remotely convincing explanation that's not incriminating. https://twitter.com/...
Will Stancil / @whstancil: The position of NY Times, always and forever, is that the NY Times exists outside and above society, is not subject to the petty biases that everyone else has, and therefore cannot ever be questioned or critiqued by anyone but certain chosen favorites within the Times. https://twitter.com/...
@samthielman: really remarkable how much they're willing to say that doesn't even touch the substance of the letter and its carefully itemized objections. just upset about being disrespected, as always. https://twitter.com/...
@rain@hachyderm.io: Joe Kahn is a liar and a gaslighter. There were two separate letters, only one from GLAAD. Trying to club the two like this is malicious. https://twitter.com/...
@byjudedoyle: So, basically, if you speak up, you're out. Seems like a solid commitment to examining all sides of the issue! https://twitter.com/...
@woahitsjuanito: 1. This is a massive slap in the face to every writer who contributed to the NYTLetter. 2. The GLAAD letter being conflated with the NYTLetter and used to diminish both at once isn't just insulting, it's actively disingenuous, especially for people claiming they care about truth. https://twitter.com/...
Sydney Bauer / @femme_thoughts: It's a hell of a strategy for the Times to just ignore the letter that came from its own contributors that was sourced and reported and conflate it with an additional letter from GLAAD and other groups. https://twitter.com/...
@samthielman: The GLAAD letter and the Freelance Solidarity Project letter are two entirely different letters. If I'm being accused of lazy misrepresentation I guess one thing I would try not to do in responding to the accusation is lazily misrepresent it https://twitter.com/...
Luke / @lukeoneil47: When Journalist-ists talk like this I feel like I'm dealing with a method actor who refuses to break character in between takes. Oh you're an 1800s farmer in real life? Right here in front of me? That's wild. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Ley / @toley88: imo the archness of this response betrays how ideologically motivated the coverage in question has been. https://twitter.com/...
Richard M. Nixon / @dick_nixon: They learned nothing from Jayson Blair and Judith Miller, both of whom were defended from the top with similar bloodlust. There are thoughtful people at the Times but they know to keep their heads down, even when they are being tarred with someone else's brush. https://twitter.com/...
Carlos Maza / @gaywonk: Cancel your subscription. Don't support a paper that's actively siding with bigotry. It's not worth it. https://twitter.com/...
Katelyn Burns / @transscribe: The contributor's letter was not affiliated with GLAAD. This is a purposeful falsehood. https://twitter.com/...
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: Kahn is giving Fred Ryan a run for his money when it comes to treating the journalists at his paper with utter contempt. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: @maxwelltani They're taking sides with this. They're playing dumb by pretending they're not, which is in itself lying to their staff and readers, but they are absolutely taking sides here.
Dell Cameron / @dellcam: In the history of activism, the strongly-worded letter has rarely accomplished anything. It's just an obligatory step used to demonstrate publicly that power can't be reasoned with. If you aren't prepared to escalate beyond it, you aren't really in the fight.
@elivalley: Love an ethics policy that “prohibits our journalists from aligning themselves with advocacy groups” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Karl Bode / @karlbode: it's completely wild that people in the TRUTH AND ACCURATE INFORMATION business are oblivious to both their role in amplifying a bigoted right wing moral panic, AND honestly believe that journalism is best served by silencing their own employees https://twitter.com/...
Dell Cameron / @dellcam: Power's predestined role is to downplay & disregard legitimate concern and exercise force to silence its critics & this is where movements that require greater coordination & participation often Peter out. Action is substantially harder to accomplish than words. https://twitter.com/...
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Thousands sign a letter protesting The New York Times' coverage of trans people, coordinated with a letter from GLAAD; a NYT statement defends the outlet's work — This story has been updated with a statement from The New York Times. — In the past year, page A1 of The New York Times …
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani: Memo from Joe Kahn to NYT staff responding to yesterday's letter re: trans coverage. Times leadership says the paper “will not tolerate, participation by Times journalists in protests organized by advocacy groups or attacks on colleagues on social media and other public forums.” https://twitter.com/...
nytletter.com: For the attention of Philip B. Corbett, associate managing editor for standards at The New York Times.
Michael Powell / @powellnyt: Journalism is meant to ask difficult and discomforting questions, and to question institutions, including the medical establishment. I am very proud to work at a place that publishes the work of @emilybazelon, Katie Baker, Azeen Ghoryashi, @mega2e and @DouthatNYT
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair: The New York Times Publishes a Defense of J.K. Rowling One Day After Contributors Call Out Anti-Trans Coverage
Megan Greenwell / @megreenwell: It's very striking and disheartening that a letter pleading for better coverage is being deliberately interpreted by a handful of prominent journalists as a demand for no coverage. https://twitter.com/...
Kang / @jaycaspiankang: Maybe I'm just a big dumb dumb but... is the implication here that Rushdie kinda deserved it, or, at the very least, is more of a legible victim because ‘his beliefs’ DO square with what he's accused of? Really don't think I'm being uncharitable here! It's English! Words matter! https://twitter.com/...
Noah Kulwin / @nkulw: People are dying https://twitter.com/...
@chrisgeidner: I strongly support this letter and am glad to put my name on it. I have for several years criticized the NYT's treatment of and coverage of trans, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people and, in recent years, trans kids and their health care. https://nytletter.com/ https://twitter.com/...
@yashar: In an opinion piece, the NYT's Pamela Paul has compared harsh criticism that JK Rowling faces to 30 years of state-sponsored death threats which were backed by a multi-million dollar bounty. Absolutely absurd and frankly insulting to what Salman Rushdie has dealt with. https://twitter.com/...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: the @nytimes statement on the open letters about its coverage of trans people. from Charlie Stadtlander, director of external communications https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / The Present Age: Why I Signed the NYT Letter (And You Should, Too)
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Here's the NYT's response, via @laurahazardowen In a more perfect world, the Times would be offering to meet with some of the letter-writers and hear them out. The tone of this response conveys nothing of the sort. https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Michael Shellenberger / @shellenbergermd: Finally, institutions are standing up to the Woke More of this please https://twitter.com/...
Louis Peitzman / @louispeitzman: It's helpful to their cause to conflate both letters as one letter from an advocacy group rather than acknowledging that the letter they're actually talking about here was written and signed by current and former NYT contributors. https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: either the times is intentionally lying by conflating the two letters or they're incapable of clearly relaying the facts of a situation—seems bad for a newspaper either way!! https://twitter.com/...
@glaad: We've had enough. We've joined over 100 organizations and leaders to demand that @nytimes stop printing inaccurate and harmful misinformation about transgender people and issues. Today we are outside of the Times building to send a clear message. https://www.glaad.org/nytimes https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Christina Cauterucci / Slate: Impeccable Timing, Pamela Paul!
Brandon Gorrell / Pirate Wires: The New York Times Response To The GLAAD Trans Letter
Jacob Weindling / Blogging Through the Breakdown: The New York Times Political Section Cares More about its Brand than Journalism
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: Am open letter demanding that you stop covering a subject is pretty anti-persuasive.
Tom Scocca / @tomscocca: It's an open letter, it makes no demands beyond asking for a response. Calling it “bullying” is a pretty grim demonstration of how empty your commitment to discourse has been all along. https://twitter.com/...
Jon Ralston / @ralstonreports: Permit me a thread on something I have first-hand knowledge of. My child transitioned when he was 20. This is a good letter Chris links to. What is most disturbing to me about the treatment of trans issues even by the mainstream media is how facile it can be, lacking nuance. 1/5 https://twitter.com/...
@froomkin: Who changed this headline? And why? New York Times readers deserve answers. (And my DMs are open) https://twitter.com/...
Megan Greenwell / @megreenwell: The most recent story I wrote for the New York Times was (correctly!) held for two days at the last minute because an unrelated news event would have made it appear to be in bad taste.
Melissa Gira Grant / @melissagira: “Ironically, one of the specific critiques of the NYT reporting has been their tendency to obscure the activist connections of ppl quoted in their stories on the anti-trans side, while identifying trans ppl who are quoted as members of advocacy groups.” https://www.assignedmedia.org/ ...
Nate Hochman / @njhochman: But the NYT's openness to occasionally allowing dissidents in its pages is not the same thing as an overall anti-trans bias—a claim with no empirical evidence other than the occasional presence of critical voices. NYT op-eds on the topic are more often left-wing than right-wing: https://twitter.com/...
Lisa Selin Davis / BROADVIEW with Lisa Selin Davis: An Open Letter to GLAAD About their Open Letter to The New York Times About Their Coverage of Kids with Gender Dysphoria
David Klion / @davidklion: Feeling pretty good about having signed that letter https://twitter.com/...
@kendrawrites: They're pathologically afraid of being told they're wrong. Same reason why NYT gave such a milquetoast response on being called out ending with “we stand by our journalism” they'll never admit fault until enough time has passed you forget what they were wrong about. https://twitter.com/...
Euan Yours / @euanyours: I cannot express how inappropriate it is to compare JK Rowling being criticised for her campaign again trans lives, to a person being stabbed, only a few days after a trans teenager was stabbed to death. https://twitter.com/...
Christopher Robbins / @christrobbins: here's critic @Jo_Livingstone talking about why the New York Times might be running so many stories that elevate anti-trans narratives https://hellgatenyc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Cooper / @ryanlcooper: we're just asking questions. and when we don't like the answers we get we pretend we didn't hear and ask them again https://twitter.com/...
@chrisgeidner: I would like to note the incredible personal disappointment that I feel about the NYT's actions, through its coverage decisions about trans issues. https://twitter.com/...
Alejandra Caraballo / @esqueer_: The day after hundreds of current and former NYT writers pleaded with the NYT to stop their transphobic coverage and days after a 16 year old trans girl in the UK was murdered in a hate crime, they publish this bullshit. They don't care. The cruelty is the point. https://twitter.com/...
Jack Mirkinson / @jackmirkinson: a trans teen was just murdered in the UK. this isn't a game. the NYT can tell itself whatever it wants about standing up to the activist mob but it is swimming in very, very foul waters
Chris Mohney / @chrismohney: well the NYT immediately publishing a defense of JK Rowling certainly is a kind of answer to that open letter
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: Trans people don't have a voice at the paper. Not a single trans person is on staff as a columnist. And in the rare occasions where one of their columnists does publish a pro-trans column, the paper does stuff like this: https://www.readtpa.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Gillian Branstetter / @gbbranstetter: Your outrage is the point. Trans people are denied much of any institutional power, leaving us no option for pushback but platforms (like this one) that incentivize frivolity and hostility, which is then used to deny us more institutional power. They wear our anger as a badge. https://twitter.com/...
Sophie Bee / @pogform: The NYT publishing “In Defense of J.K. Rowling” the day after the open letter decrying their anti-trans coverage is particularly vile (you can sign the open letter here https://nytletter.com/)
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: They do this all the time. Every. Single. Time. “Do better journalism.” “How dare you demand we stop doing journalism?!?!” https://twitter.com/...
@TexasObserver@texasobserver.social: A predictable but absolutely craven response from the #NYTimes. They dismiss anyone concerned about trans rights, even their own contributors, as “advocates” but somehow transphobic lobbyists get to be neutral. …
Rob Chappell / @robchappell365: @mattyglesias Matt, you often (correctly) criticize people who argue against points that weren't really made, right? That's what you're doing here. Maybe read the letter and rethink?
Don Hughes / @getfiscal: This is one reason I think the NY Times should elect its editors... group chats shouldn't have to yell at corporate bosses to get results, they should be able to run pro-trans slates at a democratic convention https://twitter.com/...
Schooley / @rschooley: Sure seems New York Times is behaving this way to appease the party that's clearly fear mongering against trans people as a key part of their hateful agenda. https://twitter.com/...
Noah Berlatsky / @nberlat: I think @tomscocca is right to see the NYT as engaged in a deliberate moral crusade against trans people. It's very similar to fox news' treatment of the migrant caravan in 2018. Moral panic non issues meant to drive clicks and revenue and enrage readers for political purposes.
@sxarletred: Holy shit this article is vile. Look how she frames trans rights activists https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@holdendcat: @njhochman Nate, doing straight reporting on how transgender people are worried about the effects of laws directly naming them is no more “the progressive line” than reporting taxpayers want to pull their kids out of a crumbling public school is “the conservative line.”
Jennifer Kretchmer / @dreamwisp: I cancelled my NY Times subscription over the anti-trans bias they've consistently demonstrated. Grateful to these contributors for making a statement. https://twitter.com/...
Jon Ralston / @ralstonreports: I have come to find that while there is a lot of hateful rhetoric, covered without context too often, most people who are not exploiting trans folks for political purposes just don't know enough. Just as they didn't know enough, as the letter says, about gays at one time. 2/5
Erin Reed / @erininthemorn: The New York Times seriously published a prominent opinion piece “In Defense Of JK Rowling” a day after they were called out by every LGBTQ org, leaders, and activists for their anti-trans coverage. Sickening. Drop the NYT if you care about trans people. This is purposeful. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Sullivan / @sullydish: Journalistic mobs openly, publicly bullying named, fellow journalists. Now imagine the bullying they perpetrate *within* these institutions. They are, quite simply, anathema to a free society and a free press.
Christina Sommers / @chsommers: Right. Journalism is not exempt from criticism or discomfiting questions. Neither are long-winded letters from activist journalists. Many (including me) think the letter writers can and should do better. https://twitter.com/...
Maris Kreizman / @mariskreizman: Good morning. You can still sign the letter decrying the anti-trans bias in the New York Times. https://nytletter.com/ https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Singal / @jessesingal: Via @laurahazardowen, here's the NYT's response to the open letters. It's basically perfect. The letter writers appear to have lost, full-stop. I'm relieved. https://twitter.com/...
Leor Sapir / @leorsapir: NYT responds to protest letter on trans coverage. Not sure what to make of this response. Which probably means that it accomplished its mission. https://twitter.com/...
Dilan Esper / @dilanesper: I think the New York Times' VERY dismissive response indicates the activists made some mistakes in how they presented their complaints to the NYT. This is a separate point from the substance. Assume they are right on the merits. How should they have gone about it? 1/
Frankie de la Cretaz / @thefrankiedlc: so glad the NYT gets to decide for the entire trans community whether its coverage counts as fair, deep, and empathetic. this is what it looks like to shout down people who are telling you you're wrong without actually engaging with their critique https://twitter.com/...
Michelangelo Signorile / @msignorile: The New York Times has an ugly history of virulent homophobia, under the leadership of Abe Rosenthal, c. 80s. It copped to it. I interviewed the publisher, editors, reporters in early '90s. It was a good thing. So why believe the NYT can't be anti-trans today?
@atrios: The nyt takes this tone witb all left wing criticism always. They dismiss it as activism and pretend to misunderstand it. Every time no matter how it is delivered https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Lake / @ashleylatke: They're not afraid, they have power and they're using it. Part of that power is the power to lie, boldly, and have it just work. They know they are doing that here, calling this even coverage. They know exactly what they do. https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Singal / @jessesingal: 2/ Of course we don't know what's going on inside the building, and maybe this will have a chilling effects. But this was not the sort of public statement you make if you think you letters you're responded to made any legitimate points you need to grapple with.
Jason Linkins / @dceiver: wow I didn't catch that the NYT watered down Jamelle's headline after the fact, good catch from @ParkerMolloy https://open.substack.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Michael Tracey / @mtracey: Apparently a ton of media people live in some strange alternate universe where the New York Times “follows the lead of far-right hate groups” and systematically “vilifies” Trans and non-binary people. Must be peculiar to live in that universe https://nytletter.com/
Alex / @alex_abads: the nyt received an open letter from nyt contributors about anti trans bigotry yesterday https://twitter.com/...
Noelle Howey / @noellehowey: @chrisgeidner Thank you for sharing this. I wrote about my trans parent - and reviewed books on trans families for the NYT in the early to mid 2010s and have been horrified to see the devolution of their coverage and POV in the last few years.
Molly Sprayregen / LGBTQ Nation: Hundreds of LGBTQ+ leaders call on “New York Times” to fix “biased” & “irresponsible” coverage of trans people
Nate Hochman / @njhochman: The NYT's reporting, too — ostensibly the main place where its anti-trans bias materializes — usually hews to the standard progressive line on the issue. Here are some recent headlines from the non-opinion sections: https://twitter.com/...
Noah Berlatsky / @nberlat: NYT editors were angry/upset at pushback from the newsroom about coverage of racism, fascist op eds. doubling down on anti trans coverage is way to fight internal political battles too, shoring up the old guard.
@tuckwoodstock: 900 NYT contributors and 15,000 readers: please consider your fixation on promoting anti-trans views. NYT spokesperson: excuse me??? we are very empathetic to trans people actually???? NYT, less than one day later: https://twitter.com/...
Mx. D. E. Anderson / @diannaeanderson: Gotta wonder who complained to make that headline change https://twitter.com/...
Brynn Tannehill / @brynntannehill: Rowling literally tweeted that all trans women should legally be presumed to be rapists. Once again, the NYT finds a way to unironically platform the people who believe the optimal number of trans people is zero, and want government to solve the transgender question for them. https://twitter.com/...
Casey Plett / @caseyplett: The Times responded to the letter (and the one from @glaad) in an unsurprising but disappointing way: Not addressing anything of substance, defending their work without qualification or humility. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Ty Schalter / @tyschalter: @powellnyt ... Journalism is not meant to ask the same simple questions over and over again because you personally don't like the institutions' very clear answers—and it's certainly not meant to prop up cranks and bigots because you DO like THEIR answers.
@sxarletred: She ends by claiming standing up for Rowling is standing up for trans people. One day after a huge open letter to NYT about their transphobia. Holy shit this paper is trash. https://twitter.com/...
@n_th_n_: To illustrate how committed it is to normal journalistic inquiry on subjects like “should trans people should suffer constant violence?”—NYT has responded to the charge that it's anti-trans by running an entire op-ed devoted to defending the high priestess of violent transphobia. https://twitter.com/...
Adam Gurri / @adamgurri: @mattyglesias An open letter criticizing the substance of the coverage, on the other hand, is certainly an exercise in persuasion
@raxkingisdead: NYT published this the day after receiving an open letter from hundreds of contributors and subscribers begging them to cut it out with the seemingly endless transphobic content because of course they did https://twitter.com/...
David Ng / Breitbart: Judd Apatow, Lena Dunham Attack NY Times over Trans Coverage Exposing Schools Encouraging Minors to Change Gender Behind Parents' Backs
Jason Weisberger / Boing Boing: The New York Times called out for editorial bias about transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people by its own writers
Stephen Robinson / Wonkette: New York Times Contributors Politely Request Paper Unf**k Its Coverage Of Trans People
Matthew Cortland / @mattbc: If there was any justice, Parker would have a @nytimes column. https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: It's no surprise that the usual crew of contrarian-bro types are putting a ton of energy into lying about the NYT Letter and its goals. (No, it is not a call to “silence” anyone, that is a wild, ridiculous distortion.) Anyway, my latest newsletter: https://www.readtpa.com/...
@albertocairo: @laurahazardowen @nytimes So they are implying that, say (just for the sake of argument,) a journalism professor with years of experience as a journalist is now an “activist” because he criticizes their news agenda, story framings, and reporting?
Jo Livingstone / @jo_livingstone: This is your response to a complaint from hundreds of your own contributors? One comment tacked on to a dismissal of the GLAAD letter? This is outraging. https://twitter.com/...
Chase Woodruff / @dcwoodruff: It's all laid out quite clearly here in the first paragraph: the NYT views the rights and humanity of trans people as politically contestable — something that may be championed as part of an “advocacy mission” but cannot be a value embedded in a “journalistic mission.” https://twitter.com/...
Zack Ford / @zackford: Well, I see the @nytimes has taken ZERO responsibility for the harm it has repeatedly done to transgender people with its constant parroting and spotlighting of right-wing talking points. https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Kevin M. Kruse / @kevinmkruse: Journalism isn't exempted from being asked difficult and discomforting questions, or being challenged on its approach. The NYT contributors who signed that letter (including me) think the paper can and should do better here. https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: huge kudos to michael for afflicting the comfortable (kids who want to be allowed to exist) and comforting the afflicted (the entirety of conservative media and state governments enacting sweeping decisions about kids bodies against medical advice) https://twitter.com/...
@froomkin: Hey @jbouie! Who changed your headline and why? You would be doing a huge public service if you told us. That was a great column. https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: You're the guy who wrote a whole piece about how trans people want to ban the word “woman” that didn't cite a single example of anyone doing that, but yeah man, you keep doing you. https://twitter.com/...
@niemanlab: One open letter draws parallels between the New York Times' coverage of trans people and, in earlier decades, its coverage of gay people and HIV/AIDS. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Patrick Reilly / New York Post: New York Times accused of ‘editorial bias’ in coverage of transgender issues
Roxane Gay / @rgay: I am proud to be among so many New York Times contributors signing this open letter calling out their egregious coverage of trans issues. The bias has been glaring and it's dangerous and if we don't speak up, we are part of the problem. https://nytletter.com/
Damon Kiesow / @dkiesow@social.kiesow.net: Dismissing legitimate critiques of your race/gender/identity reporting as coming from “activists” or “advocates” is a argument you can only make by first defining “human/civil rights” issues as having two equally legitimate sides. …
Lil Kalish / BuzzFeed News: A Group Of Trans New York Times Contributors Have Written An Open Letter Condemning The Paper's Coverage Of Trans Issues
Fox News: Celebs rip into New York Times for ‘irresponsible’ transgender coverage: Demand end to ‘both sides’ focus
Mary Yang / NPR: ‘New York Times’ stories on trans youth slammed by writers — including some of its own
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair: Nearly 200 New York Times Contributors Are Denouncing the Paper's Anti-Trans Coverage
Sara Boboltz / HuffPost: New York Times Contributors Pen Open Letter Slamming Paper's Trans Coverage
Brooke Migdon / The Hill: NYT contributors blast paper's coverage of transgender people
Alex Griffing / Mediaite: NY Times Accused of ‘Anti-Trans’ Coverage by Judd Apatow, Lena Dunham, Gabrielle Union, NYT Contributors, and Activists in Scathing Letter
Rosa Escandon / Forbes: GLAAD, Celebrities And Others Call For The New York Times To Stop ‘Biased’ Transgender Coverage
Muri Assunção / New York Daily News: LGBTQ stars, allies decry NY Times' ‘inaccurate, harmful’ trans coverage
Aarohi Sheth / The Wrap: New York Times Slammed By 100+ Contributors for ‘Irresponsible, Biased’ Coverage of Trans Community
Peter Kafka / Vox:
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki plans to step down after nine years, to be replaced by Neal Mohan as SVP and head of YouTube; Wojcicki was Google's 16th employee — One of the most prominent women in tech — and one of Google's earliest employees — is leaving the company.
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Susan Wojcicki / YouTube Official Blog: A personal update from Susan
Carrie Mihalcik / CNET: Susan Wojcicki Steps Down as YouTube CEO
Sarah Polus / The Hill: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki stepping down
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki steps down, will assume advisory role at Google and Alphabet
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost: YouTube CEO Wojcicki Steps Down, Mohan Steps In
Todd Spangler / Variety: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Stepping Down After Nine Years
Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Quits After 9 Years
Insider: The career rise of Susan Wojcicki, who rented her garage to Google's founders in 1998 and is now stepping down as the CEO of YouTube
@hunterwalk: ❤️@SusanWojcicki pulled me & @satyap into her org, giving us the chance to contribute to Google AdSense and ultimately deepening the relationship which resulted in us starting @homebrew together congrats on a great run. Google wouldn't be what it is today without her leadership. https://twitter.com/...
@carthusdojo: Say what you will about YouTube as a slow moving, bloated company that often makes mistakes, but doing creator summits & having the CEO interviewed by creators is unheard of for any other platform. Susan helped build YouTube into the viable creator ecosystem. Thank you Susan! ♥️ https://twitter.com/...
@youtubecreators: thank you @SusanWojcicki for all your amazing work over the years to make YouTube home for so many creators ♥️ https://twitter.com/...
Eck / @eckhartsladder: Disappointed to see this. Susan was unfairly blamed for a lot of YouTube's issues, but considering the significant hurdles of the past few years, the site has been relatively stable, and often looks expertly managed compared to the likes of twitch. https://twitter.com/...
Satya Patel / @satyap: There would be no @homebrew without @SusanWojcicki giving me and @hunterwalk the opportunity to work with her in the early days of AdSense. Grateful for her support of us and many others. Congrats on an epic tenure. You've left your mark on so many people https://www.vox.com/...
Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: Susan Wojcicki to step down as CEO of YouTube
Kyle Barr / Gizmodo: YouTube's CEO Is Resigning
Matt Novak / Forbes: YouTube CEO Steps Down After 9 Years Of Leading Most Popular Social Network For Kids
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube, is stepping down
Joseph Pisani / Wall Street Journal: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Is Stepping Down After Nearly a Decade in the Role
Jennifer Elias / CNBC: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says she's stepping down
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Neal Mohan, her successor, spent years with her building up Google's display ad biz (now the subject of a federal antitrust suit), and then was her top exec at YouTube. Here's a 2022 chat I had with him about building up Shorts, YouTube's TikTok clone: https://podcasts.apple.com/...
Jessica Lessin / @jessicalessin: End of an era. @SusanWojcicki has been an incredible role model for women in tech. https://www.vox.com/...
Bilal Zuberi / @bznotes: An epic run at Google for @SusanWojcicki. While media will spend most time discussing her legacy as head of Youtube for the past 9 years, read below and be amazed at how many products she created, and helped build and buy. That's the joy, magic and power https://www.vox.com/...... https://twitter.com/...
@mrjnowlin: Wow, end of an era. Thank you for an amazing 9 years @SusanWojcicki https://twitter.com/...
@tvgrimreaper: The entertainment media largely ignores YouTube, but its avg US primetime video viewing, on TVs & TV connected devices alone, was greater than CBS, and >2x NBC, ABC or Fox the week of 2/5. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix: Susan Wojcicki, who led YouTube to effectively evade accountability for harms exacerbated by the platform for years, to step down and enjoy her vast wealth. https://www.vox.com/...
Steve Kovach / @stevekovach: Susan W. memo: “Neal Mohan was one of those leaders, and he'll be the SVP and new head of YouTube.” Interesting he doesn't get the CEO title for the CEO he's replacing. https://twitter.com/...
Ward Carroll / @wardcarroll: As we say in the Navy, “fair winds and following seas,” @SusanWojcicki! https://twitter.com/...
Daniel / @zoneoftech: Thank you for everything you've done, Susan! You've completely transformed YouTube and the creator space all together. And thanks to you, myself and thousands of other creators get to follow their own dreams. https://twitter.com/...
Ward Carroll / @wardcarroll: Key line: “. . . trying to wrangle an enormous and unruly group of video creators that powered the site.” That's us. 🔥😜 https://twitter.com/...
Susan Wojcicki / @susanwojcicki: Today, after nearly 25 years at @Google, I'm stepping back to start a new chapter. I'm inspired every day by creators around the world who bring people together on @YouTube. It's been an honor to have a front row seat to this incredible community. https://blog.youtube/...
Michelle Chapman / 6abc: Susan Wojcicki stepping down as CEO of YouTube after 9 years
Rick Klau / @rklau: Truly the end of an era. Grateful for all @SusanWojcicki did at Google, and at YouTube. Congrats, Susan - and best of luck with what comes next! Your leadership set an example that made everyone around you better. https://www.vox.com/...
@stokel: So this is significant and as a first hot take I think the history books will actually be quite kind to Susan Wojcicki https://www.vox.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Wojcicki, who has been at Google for 25 years - she rented her garage to its cofounders - says she's leaving to focus on “family, health and personal projects.” She is replaced by Neal Mohan, who has worked with her at Google for years and has been her #2 at YouTube since 2015.
Chandra R. Srikanth / @chandrarsrikant: And the rise of another Indian-American. Neal Mohan to become YouTube CEO https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: I talked to Wojcicki about the challenges of running a giant operation fueled by users in a 2019 Code Confernce interview: https://www.vox.com/...
Hugh Langley / @hughlangley: !!! https://twitter.com/...
Shannon Morse / @snubs: There are so few women in tech leadership positions, and Susan has had a huge role in YouTube's growth and dominance even when other platforms try to compete. I might be in the minority but as a person who's had a career on YT since 2008, I've seen it all. https://twitter.com/...
Shannon Morse / @snubs: YouTube still pays out the best CPM on content and offers the biggest abundance of income diversification of any platform for video creators. There's a lot of hate and vitriol about women in tech leadership positions but the numbers are clearly there.
William Gallagher / AppleInsider: Susan Wojcicki stepping down as YouTube CEO, but not leaving Google
Azure Gilman / Fortune: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is leaving her role at the tech giant: ‘The time is right for me’
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Paramount reports Q4 revenue up 2% YoY to $8.1B, operating income down 93% YoY to $182M, TV Media down 7% YoY to $5.9B, and DTC up 30% YoY to $1.4B — The New York owner of the CBS broadcast network and the Paramount movie studio said that the costs of generating gains in streaming crimped …
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Jon Lafayette / Next TV: Paramount Says Paramount Plus Added 9.9 Million Subs, But Streaming Losses Grow To $575 Million
Mansha Daswani / WORLD SCREEN: Paramount Delivers Subscriber Gains, Sees Ad Revenues Fall
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Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount reports 77M+ global streaming subscribers in Q4, up from 67M in Q3 2022, nearly 56M Paramount+ subscribers, and 78.5M Pluto TV MAUs, up by 6.5M QoQ — The conglomerate, led by CEO Bob Bakish, in its fourth-quarter results touts higher streaming revenue.
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Jennifer Maas / Variety: Paramount Ends 2022 With 77 Million Streaming Subs as Paramount+ Adds 10 Million in Q4
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: Paramount Streamers Hit 77M Subscribers, Losses Mount To $575M, Sub Prices Set For Hikes
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Paramount+ reaches 56M subs, raises prices as it combines with Showtime
Julian Clover / Broadband TV News: Price rises due for Paramount+
David Satin / The Streamable: Paramount+ Adds 9.9M Subscribers in Q4 2022 to Hit Nearly 56M; Pluto TV Up to 79M
@tvgrimreaper: Paramount's streaming business loses $575 million 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙧, up from $502 million a year ago. https://twitter.com/...
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Paramount plans to hike the price of Paramount+ with ads from $4.99 to $5.99 per month and the premium tier with Showtime from $9.99 to $11.99 per month in 2023
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Alyssa Boyle / AdExchanger: Paramount Hopes Streaming Reorg Will Turn The Tide On Peak Operating Losses
Addy Bink / The Hill: Paramount+ to raise subscription prices
Jill Goldsmith / Deadline: Paramount+ To Boost Prices After Showtime Merge, Paramount Global Will Take Up To $1.5 Billion Q1 Content Charge
Ryan Scott / SlashFilm: Paramount+ To Raise Subscription Prices After Combining With Showtime - Here's What We Know
Gabrielle Sanchez / The A.V. Club: Apparently still riding high from Top Gun: Maverick, Paramount+ to raise subscription prices
Lauren Leffer / Gizmodo: Paramount+ Plans Imminent Subscription Hikes
Toni Fitzgerald / Forbes: ‘Yellowstone’ Effect? Paramount+ Adds An Industry-Best 9.9 Million
Mollie Cahillane / Adweek: Paramount+ Adds 9.9 Million Subscribers, Hikes Prices for Showtime Integration
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC: Paramount+ plans price increases as it hits 56 million subscribers
Michael Ausiello / TVLine: Paramount+ Announces Price Increase
Tony Maglio / IndieWire: Paramount+ Prices Are Going Up After Showtime Merger
Scott Mendelson / The Wrap: Paramount+ to Raise Prices as It Brings ‘Yellowstone’ Spin-offs and ‘Yellowjackets’ Together
Matt Tamanini / The Streamable: Paramount+ Confirms Price Increase for All Subscriber Tiers Timed with SHOWTIME Integration
Matt Goldenberg / Collider: Paramount+ to Increase Subscription Price for the First Time
Reggie Ugwu / New York Times:
A look at the podcast industry, as a faltering ad market and recession fears increase the reluctance to fund projects without a path to short-term profitability — “The dumb money era is over” as layoffs, budget cuts and scuttled deals challenge a long-booming industry.
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Nicholas De Leon / @nicholasadeleon: Just once I'd love for one of these “podcasts are doomed!” articles to quote people like @leolaporte, @bryanalvarez, or @scottjohnson: folks who've been podcasting since waaaay before it was cool, and yet still are humming along just fine. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimesarts: “The dumb money era is over,” producers and executives in the long-booming podcast industry say. The new mantra? “Do less with less.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rebecca Lavoie / @reblavoie: At NHPR we are about to put out Bear Brook season 2, which is reported, produced, and scored by @jasonmoonNHPR - “Dumb money mode” must have been fun for the big guys but it's also fun to punch above your weight w. what little you've got. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nick Jackson / @nbj914: Same story as every other medium. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dan Benjamin / @danbenjamin: Huh, it's almost like podcasts have to actually be great for people to listen, and that podcast production companies might have to understand the industry before jumping in. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Katherine Brewer / @katabrew: Counterpoint: When I graduated from college ('07, old yes, but not ancient) I wanted to do audio journalism & there was 1 place to go (ONE!): public radio. Since then I watched the medium explode & now every major news org has an audio department. 1/2 https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michelle Manafy / @michellemanafy: interviews with a dozen current and former podcast producers and executives indicated increased reluctance among publishers to fund projects with no obvious path to short-term profitability. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kai Ryssdal / @kairyssdal: Really interesting article, on a lot of levels. Here's the thing, though. When was the last time you heard a boss say “Let's do less with less.”? Never, is when https://www.nytimes.com/...
Corinne Podger / @corinne_podger: This piece in @nytimes about podcasts is worth reading. The podcast party isn't over but new shows have to be GOOD & well marketed. And please research to see if there's solid audience demand for a podcast format - as opposed to text. If there's no demand, don't make a show. https://twitter.com/...
Mia Sato / The Verge:
TikTok announces TikTok Trivia, a livestreamed trivia quiz with a $500K prize pool hosted daily between February 22 and 26, open to US users aged 18 and older — TikTok is taking a page out of HQ's playbook and launching a series of live trivia games, the company announced today.
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Ernie Smith / @ernie@writing.exchange: @Mediagazer HQ is screwed
Emily Baker-White / @ebakerwhite: When I saw this announcement, the first thing I thought of was another trivia app that ByteDance launched in its pre-TikTok era. It was called Beat The Q, and it pretty promptly flopped. Looks like the old twitter account is still live! https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
James Hale / Tubefilter: ‘John Wick’ taps TikTok for $500,000 trivia promo
Joe Wituschek / BGR: TikTok is launching a live trivia contest with $500,000 in prizes
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: TikTok to launch live ‘TikTok Trivia’ game with $500K in prize money
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Spotify plans a new homepage for March 2023, which lets listeners vertically swipe through music, podcast, and audiobook recommendations that play automatically — Hello and welcome back to Soundbite. This week we're previewing what Spotify will announce at its Stream On event.
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Rob / @robarcand: “...Instead of selecting from a long list of carousels featuring static cover art, the interface allows listeners to swipe vertically through content recommendations that play automatically” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Ryan H. Walsh / @jahhills: Listen to everything Bach ever composed AND be randomly served a short video of an idiot knocking himself out with a hammer. https://twitter.com/...
@chrismessina: The #Tiktokification of Spotify is coming soon! Preview: https://twitter.com/... #NewSpotify https://twitter.com/...
@richlightshed: 🔥 Here is the TikTok style vertical swipe feed that @Spotify previewed at investor day last year that @ashleyrcarman says is launching at #streamon next month $SPOT watch the preview here: https://youtube.com/... https://twitter.com/...
J Herskowitz / @jherskowitz: No thanks. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Atlanta-based Capital B, the one-year-old nonprofit news outlet for Black Americans that has raised $12M, announces plans for a second newsroom in Gary, Indiana — Capital B, the one-year-old nonprofit news startup for Black Americans, has announced plans to launch its second local newsroom in Gary, Indiana.
Erika Wheless / Ad Age:
TikTok quietly launches its in-app shopping checkout feature in the US; apparel brands Pacsun, Revolve, and Willow Boutique seem to be among the pilot partners — Pacsun and Revolve appear to be among the pilot brands — TikTok has quietly launched its shop pilot in the U.S. …
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@adage: With Gen Z using TikTok and Instagram as search engines, and #TikTokMadeMeBuyIt approaching 40 billion views, the goal of the new shop feature is to help turn TikTok into a full-funnel sales platform. https://ow.ly/...
The Guardian:
France's BFMTV suspended presenter Rachid M'Barki in January and launched an internal probe into news packages linked to Israeli disinformation unit Team Jorge — Rachid M'Barki, one of channel's longest-serving hosts, suspended during inquiry into news packages linked to ‘Team Jorge’
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Paul Lewis / @paullewis: Investigation into Team Jorge already making waves in France. These people have been operating covertly all over the world so expect this will only be the start... https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
David Conn / @david_conn: French broadcaster BFMTV has suspended a long-term presenter and launched an internal investigation amid disinformation scandal. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV plans to simulcast Apple's MLS Season Pass package starting on February 25 via DirecTV for Business, in 300K restaurants, hotels, and other businesses — Satellite broadcaster DirecTV says it will simulcast Apple's Major League Soccer (MLS) television package to business customers.
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Awful Announcing, The Streamable, DIRECTV Insider, Pro Soccer Wire, @markfishkin, Variety and Cord Cutters News, Thanks:@matthewkeyslive
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Andrew Bucholtz / Awful Announcing: DirecTV for Business adds MLS Season Pass, making MLS games available to bars, restaurants, hotels and more
David Satin / The Streamable: T-Mobile, Metro PCS Users to Get MLS Season Pass Free Starting Feb. 21
DIRECTV Insider: DIRECTV FOR BUSINESS TO MAKE MLS SEASON PASS AVAILABLE TO COMMERCIAL LOCATIONS IN THE U.S.
Mark Fishkin / @markfishkin: Important news for #MLS fans fearing AppleTV deal would keep MLS matches out of Sports Bars. #Sportsbiz #SoccerBiz https://twitter.com/...
Brian Steinberg / Variety: DirecTV To Provide Major League Soccer Games to Bars, Hotels for 2023 Season
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