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Howard Cohen / Miami Herald:
Alberto Ibargüen, president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, is retiring, describing the change as “stepping down” after 18 years — Alberto Ibargüen, president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Miami-based philanthropy …
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Alex Daniels / The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Knight Foundation Leader to Retire, Leaving a Powerful Legacy
Sarabeth Berman / @sarabethberman: In his 18 years at @knightfdn, @ibarguen helped catalyze a national movement to revive local news. We are grateful for your work, leadership, and commitment to an informed and engaged public. Huge congrats to a legend! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Judy Woodruff / @judywoodruff: a giant in the world of philanthropy is stepping aside after making huge waves in journalism & the arts; with everlasting thanks from @NewsHour & #Canvas, we can't wait to see what you do next https://twitter.com/...
@omiamifestival: We're over the moon to see our beloved President of the @knightfdn Alberto Ibargüen (@ibarguen), profiled in the @nytimes. Incredibly grateful to him and everything he has done for O, Miami. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@froomkin: “I think about how different the media landscape would be, and possibly also the political landscape if Knight had used its considerable wealth....to intentionally and patiently focus on media justice.. and media policy,” says @MollydeAguiar https://www.philanthropy.com/ ...
Graciela Mochkofsky / @gmochkofsky: A champion of journalism & journalism education, and a phenomenal friend and supporter of the @newmarkjschool is retiring. Buena suerte en lo que viene, @ibarguen. Te vamos a extrañar. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jim Brady / @jimbrady: It has been a great honor to work for @ibarguen and I'm glad I will still get to do it for a while longer before he retires from @knightfdn . Still a lot for me to learn. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Raju Narisetti / @raju: Through @knightfdn, Alberto @ibarguen has been a seminal figure in American journalism, among other philanthropic projects. https://www.nytimes.com/...? via @nytimes
@froomkin: It was a tragedy when @knightfdn passed on the chance to buy McClatchy, which then got sold to a vulture fund. https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Fernand R. Amandi / @amandionair: Alberto @ibarguen's decision to retire after an extraordinary run @knightfdn leaves Grand Canyon-sized shoes to fill for his successor. A true visionary. A giant amongst giants. The best of the best. A job extraordinarily well done, Alberto.👏🏼👏 🏼 https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor@mastodon.social: The retirement of Alberto Ibargüen as head of the Knight Foundation is is huge news in journalism and philanthropy, for good reasons. — No foundation has done anywhere near as much to help journalists understand and be part of the digital world. …
Paul Cheung / @pcheung630: Truly an End of an Era. I had the privilege of working for @ibarguen twice in my career. First time @MiamiHerald & 2nd time @knightfdn. https://twitter.com/...
Jaimie Ding / Los Angeles Times:
The California Journalism Preservation Act, a state bill filed this week, would force Google and Facebook to pay a “journalism usage fee” to fund newsroom jobs — In the latest attempt by legislators to rein in Silicon Valley, a measure has been introduced in California …
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Press Gazette, @matthewkeyslive, The Seattle Times, California Globe, @latimes, @rachaelmyrow and @mcvalada
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William Turvill / Press Gazette: Fleet Street's big tech showdown looms
Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: This is not a good idea. https://twitter.com/...
Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times: Good luck, California Journalism Preservation Act; farewell Olympia press corps houses
@latimes: In the latest attempt by legislators to rein in Silicon Valley, a measure has been introduced in California that would force tech companies such as Facebook and Google to pay publishers for news content from which their platforms profit. https://www.latimes.com/...... https://twitter.com/...
Rachael Myrow / @rachaelmyrow: The California Journalism Competition & Preservation Act (@BuffyWicks) would require digital ad giants pay a “journalism usage fee” for selling ads next to news. Industry rep: “It's unsurprising to see CA copying failed [federal] proposals.” https://www.latimes.com/... via @latimes
@mcvalada: You frame it like it is a bad thing, but the concept of paying for IP produced by others is the point of IP law. The legislative history of the 1909 Copyright Act exposes newspapers trying to steal photographers' work for “news.” Not allowed, tho lots of judges don't care now. https://twitter.com/...
Jameel Jaffer / New York Times:
A TikTok ban would have to satisfy the most stringent form of First Amendment review as the ban would operate as a prior restraint on speech of would-be users — The First Amendment has so far played only a bit part in the debate about banning TikTok. This may change.
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Seth Stern / Freedom of the Press Foundation: Unconstitutional TikTok ban would open the door to press censorship
David French / @davidafrench: This is a wise statement from FIRE. Banning TikTok because of its content would raise significant First Amendment concerns. Banning it because it hoards sensitive information about Americans and is under the thumb of the CCP is a different matter. https://www.thefire.org/...
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: Will TikTok CEO's congressional testimony stave off a US ban?
@cendemtech: @JameelJaffer .@JameelJaffer: “A broad coalition of free speech orgs — including @PENamerica, @CenDemTech & the @knightcolumbia First Amendment Institute, which I direct — made essentially this observation in a letter sent to Congress in advance of Thursday's hearing.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jameel Jaffer / @jameeljaffer: Wrote about the proposed TikTok ban and the First Amendment. Tl;dr If the U.S. government wants to shut down a major communications platform, it's going to have to come up with better reasons. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Shira Ovide / @shiraovide: I don't downplay the risks of TikTok. But we need to be honest about the enormity of an attempted ban. Maybe not since Prohibition has there been a ban involving a product so widely used. Plus: the First Amendment Plus: Where else might a ban hammer fall?
Trevor Timm / @trevortimm: Every news article that discusses banning TikTok needs to start directly grappling with the fact that the First Amendment almost certainly would prevent such an act. Pretending otherwise is willfully ignoring the obvious. https://freedom.press/...
Karl Bode / Techdirt: The US Government Has Not Justified A TikTok Ban
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: I appreciate this @ShiraOvide piece because it gestures toward the way that this ban would be very confusing/frustrating for ppl https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Shira Ovide / @shiraovide: If the government is serious abut banning TikTok, it's time for an honest pitch to the American public. “If you're going to take something from the American public, we need to tell them why,” Tim Wu told me. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Thank you, @JameelJaffer, for finally raising the crucial issue of First Amendment rights in connection with the xenophobic fever to ban TikTok and with it the voices of millions of Americans. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@evan_greer: The First Amendment doesn't care about your feelings, Congress https://www.nytimes.com/...
@cendemtech: .@JameelJaffer: “As to fears relating to #disinformation, the U.S. government has not pointed to evidence that the Chinese government has forced TikTok to align its algorithm with the imperatives of the country's disinformation efforts.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Drew Harwell / @drewharwell: “The First Amendment would require the government to carry a heavy burden of justification. This is an important feature of our system, and not a bug” https://www.nytimes.com/... @JameelJaffer
@aclu: The government has no right to ban entire platforms and censor the free flow of information. This is a clear violation of our First Amendment rights. https://www.cbsnews.com/...
Jameel Jaffer / Just Security: TikTok and the First Amendment — It's unfortunately commonplace around the world for governments …
David Ruddock / @rdrv3: This is the only good article I've read about banning TikTok and honestly, makes me wonder why we are even having this discussion. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@cendemtech: “...as many digital rights advocates have pointed out, the federal gov't could protect Americans' privacy much more effectively — & without [] a categorical ban [of a] platform used by millions of Americans — by enacting comprehensive privacy regulation.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: Why TikTok Needed to Pay for Influencers to Attend Anti-Ban Rally
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: “If the U.S. government actually tries to shut down [TikTok], the First Amendment will certainly have something to say about it” @JameelJaffer writes. “Users are indisputably exercising First Amendment rights when they post and consume content” on TikTok https://www.nytimes.com/...
@penamerica: “The legitimacy of our democracy depends on the free trade in information and ideas, including across international borders. Except in... extreme circumstances, citizens should be able to engage freely with the... platforms of their choice”—@JameelJaffer https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social: Thank you, @jameeljaffer, for finally raising the crucial issue of First Amendment rights in connection with the xenophobic fever to ban TikTok and with it the voices of millions of Americans. — There's a Problem With Banning TikTok. …
@knightcolumbia: “If the U.S. government actually tries to shut down this major communications platform, the First Amendment will certainly have something to say about it,” @JameelJaffer. Read more in today's @nytopinion. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Laura Ingraham / @ingrahamangle: The CCP's hacks try to hide behind the First Amendment. Opinion | There's a Problem With Banning TikTok. It's Called the First Amendment. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/...
Scott Greenfield / @scottgreenfield: Jameel Jaffer argues that the First Amendment precludes the govt from shutting down TikTok as a prior restraint on speech. Is the mechanism by which speech occurs protected? It's a complicated question. https://www.nytimes.com/...
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Erin Doherty / Axios:
As lawmakers ripped TikTok CEO Shou Chew on March 23, the app's creators mocked the congressional hearing and defended the platform under the tag #tiktokhearing — It was a near-perfect split screen: As lawmakers ripped TikTok in a congressional hearing with the company's CEO on Thursday …
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Casey Newton / Platformer: How TikTok failed to make the case for itself
Hailey Fuchs / Politico: TikTok's plan to stave off government intervention: Flood D.C. with influencers
Makena Kelly / The Verge: Congress seems more determined to ban TikTok than ever
@tiktokcomms: Our CEO, @shouchew, shares a special message on behalf of the @tiktok_us team to thank our community of 150 million Americans on TikTok ahead of his congressional hearing later this week. Learn more on our Newsroom 👇 https://newsroom.tiktok.com/ ...
Dell Cameron / Wired: The TikTok Hearing Revealed That Congress Is the Problem
Daysia Tolentino / NBC News: After TikTok hearing, users declare their love for the platform — and the CEO
Lucien Greaves / @luciengreaves: That's right. If China wants all of our personal data they're just going to have to buy it from Facebook like everybody else! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Emily Baker-White / @ebakerwhite: 8/ It's wild to have written my first TikTok story just over a year ago, breaking the existence of Project Texas, and sitting in a hearing today basically devoted to it. All this because @SchoofsFeed said to @JohnPaczkowski last year, ‘hey, we should cover TikTok more!’
Emily Baker-White / @ebakerwhite: 6/ Lawmakers talked over Chew a lot, and sometimes asked questions they then didn't allow him to answer. Seems counterproductive! That said: not to get my hopes up, but there was a heartening amount of talk about legislation that would affect all tech companies, not just TT.
Emily Baker-White / @ebakerwhite: Some thoughts on the TikTok hearing today: 1/ When members mentioned spying on American journalists, they were talking about me and my team (and @CristinaCriddle at FT in London). You can read more about that here: https://twitter.com/...
Emily Baker-White / @ebakerwhite: 5c/ There is (much) more that platforms can do to ensure that harmful content doesn't reach users, and we should have those conversations. But this problem is not unique to TT, and the assertion that people who work at these companies don't care about harmful content is wrong.
@dealbook: In December, ByteDance said that its employees based in China had retrieved data of U.S. TikTok users, including journalists. The revelations were perhaps the strongest public evidence of privacy violations by TikTok and ByteDance. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Makena Kelly / @kellymakena: Watching today's hearing, it seemed as if most lawmakers had already made up their minds about TikTok. Wrote about it here! Photo cred @BeccaFarsace. https://www.theverge.com/...
Michael Tracey / @mtracey: If “censorship” is defined as coercive state action to block, impede, or punish the expression of speech, nothing fits the bill like the government banning an entire social media platform in one fell swoop — instantly curtailing the speech of 100 million Americans who use TikTok
Eugene Scott / @eugene_scott: “If they went ahead with banning TikTok, it would feel like a slap in the face to a lot of young Americans,” Aidan Kohn-Murphy, a creator who used the app to support President Biden in 2020 https://www.axios.com/...
J.D. Capelouto / @jdcapelouto: TikTok is taking over the livestream video space, and that was on full display during the congressional hearing today. The bulk of the users on the streams were (predictably) on CEO Shou Zi Chew's side and mad that members of Congress want to ban the app: https://www.semafor.com/...
Sapna Maheshwari / @sapna: “The future of TikTok in the US is definitely dimmer and more uncertain today than it was yesterday,” said @LindsayPGorman, head of technology & geopolitics at the German Marshall Fund & a former tech adviser for the Biden admin. https://www.nytimes.com/... w @ceciliakang @dmccabe
Adi Robertson / @thedextriarchy@mastodon.social: It's worrying how many of these hearing questions boil down to lawmakers furiously asking TikTok why it isn't removing things that are almost certainly legal speech, and in some cases specifically asking why they don't take them down *the way they do in China*.
Sheila Dang / Reuters: Potential TikTok ban sends advertisers scrambling
Gary Price / LJ Infodocket:
A federal judge decides in favor of four publishers in their copyright infringement case against the Internet Archive and its Controlled Digital Lending program — This coverage is free for all visitors. Your support makes this possible. — This coverage is free for all visitors.
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Nancy Sims / @copyrightlibn: The Internet Archive's position was dealt a heavy blow in today's opinion - but it may still be early days. Opinion access: https://storage.courtlistener.com/ ...
Nancy Sims / @copyrightlibn: The arguments on Monday were about “cross-motions for summary judgment” - i.e., both parties said “everything is so clearly in my favor that we don't need a trial.” The opinion sides entirely with publishers, and loss on MSJ is not great in terms of legal procedure. But...
Nancy Sims / @copyrightlibn: This is the kind of case where most district court opinions get appealed. I would be a bit surprised, given the effort IA has put into this so far, if they don't appeal this decision - and decisions from a higher court might change the game a lot.
Nancy Sims / @copyrightlibn: Hachette v Internet Archive is abt IA lending digital copies of print books it keeps in storage - both in the form of controlled digital lending (CDL) and the National Emergency Library (NEL) during the early days of COVID. Oral arguments were Monday, an opinion today is -wild-.
Nancy Sims / @copyrightlibn: Because of the likelihood of appeal, I'm -not- going to fully analyse the opinion here. Also because it is Friday afternoon, and I need to go do some real-people stuff. But here are a couple thoughts on things that stand out to me...
Daniel Walters / @danielwinlander: Hachette doing their best to take an axe to the single most important tool that an investigative journalist has. https://twitter.com/...
Maria Bustillos / @maria@thelife.boats: The opinion is ridiculous. — “Yes the publishers made record amounts of money while the Internet Archive was loaning ebooks, but who's to say the publishers wouldn't have made EVEN MORE MONEY if they hadn't?” …
Devlin Hartline / @devlinhartline: Yahtzee! District court rejects the ridiculous controlled digital lending (CDL) theory in Hachette Book Group v. Internet Archive! All four fair use factors strongly favor the plaintiffs. #copyright https://storage.courtlistener.com/ ...
@publisherswkly: BREAKING: A federal judge has decided in favor of four publishers in the long-awaited copyright case Hachette v. Internet Archive. “There is nothing transformative about IA's copying and unauthorized lending of the works in the suit,” the judge writes. This story is developing.
Maria Bustillos / @maria@thelife.boats: Devastated to learn of publishers' motion for summary judgement granted in their case against the Internet Archive. — https://www.docdroid.net/...
Eriq Gardner / @eriqgardner: Not transformative, rules judge https://twitter.com/...
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Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
A look at the Internet Archive's and the major publishers' arguments in a New York court as publishers struggle to prove IA's book lending hurt their revenues
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Jasper Gregory / @jaspergregory: if libraries were new today there's no way that book publishers would let them exist https://www.techdirt.com/...
Jamie Clark / @jamiexml: Publisher Profits versus Libraries, Authors, the Internet, and Everybody. Is there still a right of first use in #copyright? HT @mmasnick @glynmoody cc @doctorow https://twitter.com/...
@quinnnorton: Yeah, yeah. This is true. https://www.techdirt.com/... Capitalize all the things is a very bad culture of any kind of long term survivability.
Juliya Ziskina / @jziskina: @mmasnick at @techdirt getting straight to the point - “As much as publishers like to claim they “love libraries,” their actions here speak quite clearly that they would destroy them if they could.” https://twitter.com/...
@internetarchive: Excellent description of how controlled digital lending works & coverage of Monday's oral argument from @mmasnick at @techdirt ⤵️ https://twitter.com/...
Jen / @jenreadsromance: libraries turn children into readers, so watching publishing work overtime to throw out their future consumers with the bathwater is a real fucking trip. https://www.techdirt.com/...
Maria Bustillos / @mariabustillos: This @arstechnica piece on the publishers' lawsuit against @internetarchive omits a key fact: The publishers are looking to *restrain* traditional library rights by creating an altogether new class of unownable “books”. This would redefine libraries. https://arstechnica.com/...
Eileen Clancy / @clancynewyork: “Book publishers with surging profits struggle to prove Internet Archive hurt sales.” Some publishers have exhibited sheer rapaciousness, turning their backs even on the traditional library model and compelling purchases of annual licenses for ebooks. #NotVerySympathetic https://twitter.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Twitter plans to wind down its legacy verified program, first introduced in June 2009, and remove legacy verified checkmarks starting on April 1, 2023 — The social network, which the mega-billionaire bought last year in a debt-heavy $44 billion deal, announced on Thursday that starting April 1 …
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@verified: On April 1st, we will begin winding down our legacy verified program and removing legacy verified checkmarks. To keep your blue checkmark on Twitter, individuals can sign up for Twitter Blue here: https://twitter.com/... Organizations can sign up for https://twitter.com/...... https://twitter.com/...
Mark Frauenfelder / Boing Boing: Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to hide their checkmarks to avoid shaming and mockery
Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra: Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to hide their blue checkmarks to avoid the shame https://boingboing.net/... https://twitter.com/...
Ian Bogost / The Atlantic: Blue Check Marks Were Always Shameless
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: Alternate idea: pay me to put the checkmark back on my profile after April 1. Pay me many American dollars.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Which Sucker Companies Are Going To Pay Elon Musk $1,000/Month To Get An Ugly Gold Badge?
Kevin Hurler / Gizmodo: Should Anyone Believe Elon Is Killing Legacy Blue Checks on April Fools' Day?
N. K. Jemisin / @nkjemisin: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah ahaha ::wheeze, slaps table:: hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! It's like he wants us all to leave. https://twitter.com/...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / @aoc: Last time they tried this someone pretended to be Eli Lilly and tanked their stock price by pretending insulin was free https://twitter.com/...
Aaron McDade / Insider: Twitter to charge businesses $1,000 per month to keep gold verified checks as it axes ‘legacy’ verified checks
Lucas Nolan / Breitbart: Bye Bye Blue Checks: Elon Musk's Twitter to Revoke Verification of Users that Don't Pay Up
Stephanie Mlot / PCMag UK: Twitter Plans to Kill ‘Legacy Verified’ Checkmarks on April 1
@datruthdt: The purpose of verification was completely lost in all this. The point is to protect people from impersonators. Random Joe with 100 followers doesn't need to be verified because he doesn't have people being stupid pretending to be him or role playing as him. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Grothaus / Fast Company: With legacy verification ending, will Twitter's blue checks become the new scarlet letter?
Marcel / @basicallyidowrk: Social media is dying. It's pay to play on every app. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Binder / @mattbinder: lol but don't worry you'll still be able to find the people paying yet hiding their checkmark via the Blue Verified filter in Twitter search so you can block them https://twitter.com/...
Adam Tinworth / One Man & His Blog: The Tickpocalypse is upon us
Ron Perlman / @perlmutations: Yes folks for only $450 you too can appear famous and important. Just think, only $450!! Plus your fingerprints. Plus a DNA sample. Plus your pin numbers. ACT NOWWWW!!! https://twitter.com/...
Nina Raemont / CNET: Legacy Blue Check Marks on Twitter Are Going Away Next Month
Eva / @evacide: This is the natural end-game in the process of turning the blue check from a verification of identity to a source of ridicule and shame. https://twitter.com/...
Aakash Chopra / @cricketaakash: What if most of the accounts that were verified by @Twitter (to protect their identity and prevent impersonation) decided not to sign up for Twitter Blue?? Create a legacy and then kill the legacy yourself the Twitter way. 😍 https://twitter.com/...
William Gallagher / AppleInsider: Starting April 1, all a Twitter blue checkmark will mean is the user is paid
Laura Kate Dale / @laurakbuzz: Okay, so the “dismantling of lords and peasants” system of paid verification actually boils down to “You can pay to get boosted in the algorythm, but also hide that you paid for that boost and keep that secret, appearing to simply be naturally popular on the platform” https://twitter.com/...
Ananya Bhattacharya / Quartz: Twitter is about to start purging unpaid blue ticks
Vinny Thomas / @vinn_ayy: imagine paying for a secret shape https://twitter.com/...
Scott Hanselman / @shanselman: Maybe the real blue checks were the friends we made along the way https://twitter.com/...
Neelesh Misra / @neeleshmisra: Verification is a way to prevent impersonation. Preventing my impersonation is the responsibility of Twitter. I am not going to pay you to do your job. I will not pay to remain verified. You want to take my blue check mark today, please do. @elonmusk @verified https://twitter.com/...
Andy Boxall / @andyboxall: If this actually happens, the blue check will become the official logo of that man's fan club, or an alert you're about to get scammed. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Primack / @danprimack: The organization verification cost is $1k per month, which will difficult and/or prohibitive for certain small businesses, nonprofits and local government groups. https://twitter.com/...
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: Twitter to un-verify people who don't pay $8/month starting on April Fools' Day
Valerie Bertinelli / @wolfiesmom: He must be trying to make twitter obsolete. It's the only explanation. Every single decision he has made has put this app deeper in it's grave. https://twitter.com/...
Kate Aronoff / @katearonoff: While there is an unverified class, I am in it, while there is a shitposting element, I am of it, and while there is a suspended account, I am not free https://twitter.com/...
@froomkin: I wonder if every organization is going to start paying a grand to @elonmusk — or none. https://variety.com/...
Benjamin Allbright / @allbrightnfl: This will end whatever the blue check mark thing is for me. I never asked for it, I don't understand why people care enough to pay for it. Only thing it evenr meant to me was that you knew I was actually me and not an imitator or parody account. https://twitter.com/...
Peter Gleick / @petergleick: On April 1st, having a blue check mark will simply mean you're a sucker. I won't miss it. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Petriello / @mike_petriello: Cool! Surely if I click on this for more information, the app will .. uh .. hmm. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
James Fallows / @jamesfallows: Back last fall, the prevailing opinion was: Virtually no one with a “verified” account will care if Twitter takes it away. Still think that's true. And as it becomes purely a paying proposition, *why* would it be worth paying to keep?? https://twitter.com/...
Shauna / @goldengateblond: all it means now is “I'm dumb enough to pay a billionaire's bills” so ok https://twitter.com/...
Richard Signorelli / @richsignorelli: This will actually devalue the check-mark and will end up being another costly failure. Twitter to Revoke Legacy Verification Blue Check-Mark Badges in April - Variety https://variety.com/...
John Scalzi / @scalzi: Oh, well. Twitter Blue isn't worth $8 a month to me, and I've already put alternate verification of my identity in my Twitter bio. https://variety.com/...
Charles Gaba / @charles_gaba: Having a blue check is about to go from telling others you are who you say you are to telling others you're an idiot who willingly gives $96/year to a billionaire for no reason. https://twitter.com/...
George Hahn / @georgehahn: Bye, Twitter. I'm out. https://twitter.com/...
Ed Zitron / @edzitron: So if they take away all the blue checks and just leave the paid for blue checks does musk not realise that removes almost the entire reason anyone bought them in the first place
@marshall89hd: Part of the whole reason for verification was to stop a name/likeness from being impersonated to scam others for example.. was delighted I got my account to a good enough standing to get verified. But.. that was for nothing and deemed as corrupt. Cheers Elon pal 👍 https://twitter.com/...
Ford Fischer / @fordfischer: I pay for Twitter Blue, and I actually did so well before the Elon takeover as well. I agree that legacy checkmarks need to be vastly more accessible, and were inequitably granted. But this website will be unusable if imposter accounts are indistinguishable. https://twitter.com/...
Julia Hava / @binchcity: this whole situation is so sneetch-coded https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Drew Gooden / @drewisgooden: the only value of a twitter blue checkmark now is that people might mistake you for someone who is actually notable. if you get rid of every other checkmark, then the twitter blue checkmark literally means nothing. they're actually devaluing their own product by doing this. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Taylor / @christaylor_nyc: lol https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: the next election will be hell. I'm about to go to another meeting announcing the abandonment of supporting DEI and epistemology and there's no actual methodology or support for the vacuum about to come and it will be used to get rid of POC https://variety.com/...
Yvette Nicole Brown / @ynb: Take it. Take it TODAY. You won't get a thin dime from me for this white-supremacist-run piece of bird crap. Quote me. #FreeSpeech https://twitter.com/...
Adam Weinstein / @adamweinstein: Such an auspicious start date! https://twitter.com/...
@muellershewrote: So to keep my blue check, I have to pay a sad billionaire $11 a month? Welp, it's been a good run, blue check. It's not me. It's you. Don't let the door hitcha. https://twitter.com/...
@variety: Elon Musk's Twitter also will start charging organizations $1,000/month for verified status https://variety.com/...
Sara Luterman / @slooterman: I'm really looking forward to it being easier for weirdos to impersonate me. This is a great decision with no possible downsides. https://twitter.com/...
Patrick Daugherty / @rotopat: At New Twitter, no one can question our commitment to making useful, necessary features absolutely worthless https://twitter.com/...
Mikki Kendall / @karnythia: You're going to make it cool to not be verified. This is going to be hilarious https://twitter.com/...
Lindsey Ok / @lindseyyok: Goodbye blue check mark that I earned after years of hard work and now apparently have to pay for. Not happening https://twitter.com/...
Ashton Pittman / @ashtonpittman: Nah, y'all can have your silly little meaningless check marks back. They will soon have no meaning except “I paid $8 for Twitter.” https://twitter.com/...
Dana Loesch / @dloesch: Maybe you guys could fix the suppression and shadow banning first before asking for money. https://twitter.com/...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: Please talk about and impersonate Max Tani. It is important that people pretend to be Max Tani, a very important person who deserves to be talked about and impersonated. https://twitter.com/...
Kevin M. Kruse / @kevinmkruse: As of April 1st, only the fools will have checkmarks. https://twitter.com/...
@eve6: Humbly requesting that you remove ours immediately so people don't think we're a white nationalist with 30 followers https://twitter.com/...
Christina Warren / @film_girl@mastodon.social: Like, the brilliant part of verifying people of certain clout (also remember klout, lol) was that they'd be more likely to engage and bring their audiences and fans to Twitter. Making that pay for play and not manual takes that all away.
Christina Warren / @film_girl@mastodon.social: Meanwhile, over on Twitter, Elon is getting rid of legacy check marks, thus ruining the whole reason anyone would pay for Twitter Blue. And I'm expecting this to last 35 seconds until all the celebrities …
Kellen / Droid Life: Twitter to Remove Legacy Verified Checks Because It Wants People to Pay for Them
The Wrap: Twitter to Strip Legacy Verified Accounts of Blue Checks on April 1 - or Is Elon Musk Setting Up an Elaborate Joke?
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Twitter will kill ‘legacy’ blue checks on April 1
Matthew Keys / The Desk: Twitter to remove legacy verified badges on April 1
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Twitter expands Blue globally, will pull checkmarks from accounts that are actually verified next week
Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone: Twitter Says It Will Begin to Kill Legacy Blue Checkmarks in April
NPR:
NPR stops producing the Invisibilia, Louder Than a Riot, Rough Translation, and Everyone & Their Mom podcasts, and cuts 10% of staff to close a $30M+ budget gap — NPR moved this week to cut 10 percent of its staff and stop production of a trio of acclaimed seasonal podcasts - Invisibilia …
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Discussion:
Gregory Warner / @radiogrego: how to say goodbye to a show that you've made for 6 years? I'll be trying to figure that out. 🙏🙏🙏 to those who have joined me on this ride, so so so many of you. And ❤️to my NPR colleagues who lost their jobs, I'm one of you. I'm sorry. Stay strong. Reach out if you want.
@karenbates: It was a good run—21years—but it's just about done. Tough economic realities meant NPR had to let go of some 100 employees. I was among that number. I am sad that I won't be working with some of the fabulous people who make NPR. But I am grateful to have work that meant so much. https://twitter.com/...
Nina Gregory / @ninaberries: to all my friends at @NPR i'm here from the future to assure you it gets better! the marketplace values your skills and experience - and you might even find they value you much more than a non-profit ever could...
Wendell Husebø / Breitbart: Taxpayer-Funded NPR to Fire 10% of Staff After $30M Budget Gap, Largest Layoff Since 2008
Marissa Lorusso / @mrsslrss: I was one of the people laid off from NPR during this brutal round of layoffs. I'm gutted and heartbroken that I won't be able to continue working at @nprmusic on stories I love with people I admire so much. https://www.npr.org/...
Leila Fadel / @leilafadel: We finally know. We lose beautiful work and incredible talents, including the teams that put on the incredible work brought to us from @Roughly @LouderThanARiot @NPRinvisibilia and Everyone & Their Mom. All cancelled. https://www.npr.org/...
@geedee215: KGB been at NPR for two decades; she's my last remaining colleague from the original Code Switch team. She deserved way better than an email.
Joanna Kakissis / @joannakakissis: Few at @npr can take a straightforward pitch + elevate it, through intensive reporting + careful architecture, into a masterpiece of storytelling the way @roughly + @radiogrego can. I am gutted we're losing @roughly + its amazing team.🧵 1/4 https://twitter.com/...
@sid_madden: Thank you for the kind words. Although I appreciate them, @rodneyology and I still have jobs rn. pls send your support to @gabbybulgarelli @sorayashock @samjleeds @manosundaresan
Jared Gans / The Hill: NPR cancels four podcasts amid layoffs
@sid_madden: Just got outta therapy. This week has been the strangest knot of emotions. Dazed, proud, enraged, gutted. Two weeks into Season 2, we learned today that @LouderThanARiot is being canceled and that the entire production staff has been laid off.
@y00ree: I hope @NPR does the right thing by these shows and including IP in severance packages https://twitter.com/...
Chiara Eisner / @chiaraeisner: I was laid off @NPR as part of the massive cuts. I loved the i-team and wanted to stay for years, but here we are. Please let me know if you're looking for a multimedia, bilingual reporter w/ experience investigating environment, healthcare, tech, immigration & criminal justice.
David Kaye / @davidakaye: NPR does some of the best public interest journalism in the country (& world) and has easily the best public music program in @nprmusic's tiny desk, and it's struggling economically. show @NPR some love with $$$, people! https://twitter.com/...
Brad Hill / RAIN News: NPR completes promised layoffs, discontinues four podcasts in “existential” cost reduction
Hazel Cills / @hazelcills: This has been a truly exhausting and frankly sick layoff process. We are losing ridiculously talented people and I genuinely do not know what the fuck NPR is going to do without them. https://www.npr.org/...
Mike Katzif / @mikekatzif: Today has been hard. Still processing the talent and artistry and crucial voices we just lost. Just so sad for my pals and colleagues. https://twitter.com/...
Lars Gotrich / @totalvibration: I'm numb. I'm angry. I still have a job, but many of my brilliant colleagues and friends do not. They will tell their stories when ready. But to top it all off, NPR canceled podcasts prominently featuring brown, Black and queer voices and producers. https://www.npr.org/...
Rhaina Cohen / @rhainacohen: 3 of the 5 shows I've worked on in my current role at NPR have been cancelled. So many exceptionally talented colleagues were laid off. I'm mourning their departure & the divestment from the kind of narrative journalism that made me fall in love with audio https://www.npr.org/...
Jack Corbett / @jackcorrbit: quick, media companies hire the incredible people npr just fumbled https://twitter.com/...
Dennis Hogan / @dennismhogan: Some context: federal money from grants make up a low single digit percentage of NPR revenue. We have so defunded our culture sector over decades that NPR is public in name only. How can we expect public journalism to fulfill its mission if we don't fund it? https://twitter.com/...
Peter Sagal / @petersagal: NPR is making no announcements about who lost their jobs today, instead letting people break the news themselves. It's better that way, but still tough to hear about them, one by one. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Mulder / @muldermedia: My time at NPR is coming to an end. Proud of the last 12(!) years, despite the recent rocky months. Very much looking forward to a break. Layoffs this week are affecting 10% of NPR.
Matt Adams / @themattadams: louder than a riot invisibilia rough translation everyone & their mom i've worked with every team, each were inspiring and creative and some of the most hardworking. they deserved better. same with those who are no longer at npr after today. https://www.npr.org/...
Nick Quah / @nwquah: fuckin horrible https://www.npr.org/...
Rebecca Lavoie / @reblavoie: It is a mistake to make commercial advertising the only revenue plan for your longform journalism projects. Stations have figured this out, why couldn't NPR? https://twitter.com/...
Molly O'Toole / @mollymotoole: Sad for the state of our industry and those who have dedicated themselves to journalism, often thanklessly. I'm sorry @NPR colleagues. | NPR cancels 4 podcasts amid major layoffs https://www.npr.org/...
Chris Haxel / @chrishaxel: It's so frustrating to see some of NPR's best, most deeply-reported shows get the ax. Good journalism takes time, which means it's expensive. But it's a worthy investment. https://twitter.com/...
Natalie Escobar / @_natalieescobar: I have been so angry and so devastated all day. We are losing so many people whose talents and insights NPR desperately needed. And we are losing podcasts that were successfully bringing in the “young, diverse audiences” NPR says it wants to reach. https://www.npr.org/...
Kathleen Schmidt / @kathmschmidt: This is really awful. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Herman / @w7voa: Details on the decimation of @NPR. https://twitter.com/...
Emma Choi / @emmaeunjoo: I can't believe that I got laid off and had a midterm on the same day https://twitter.com/...
@yowei_shaw: Sending strength & love to everyone at @NPR, especially those laid off. These people are the best of the best, and have been through an excruciating month while still putting out the critical news and programming so many depend on. You are my inspiration. Solidarity forever 💚
@yowei_shaw: Well, looks like my time with NPR is up. Gutted that @NPRinvisibilia the show I love & have given 7+ yrs of my life to has “stopped production”. Gutted to not get to work with my brilliant teammates. Gutted that me & some 100 colleagues I admire have lost our jobs. This sucks.
Ned Resnikoff / @resnikoff: Extending solidarity to any journalists caught up in the newest round of layoffs https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Carter / @brandonetc: 4 podcasts axed. 100+ people laid off. i am aching for my former colleagues and friends at NPR. a gut punch to an organization full of the best people. hiring managers: please scoop up these talented folks. you will not regret it. https://www.npr.org/...
Kelsey D. Atherton / @athertonkd: “a yawning budget gap that stands in excess of $30 million” that's 38% the purchase price of a single F-35A https://jscalc.io/... https://www.npr.org/...
Orion Rummler / @i_oriion: “The layoffs also affect people who work behind the scenes to produce the shows and podcasts, design visual elements for the web, conduct audience research, and do the myriad other functions required of a major news network.” https://www.npr.org/...
Allison Aubrey / @aubreynpr: Not an easy day here. We're losing some invaluable colleagues. My heart goes out to everyone affected #NPRlayoffs https://www.npr.org/...
Hanna Rosin / @hannarosin: Damn. Farewell my beloved and beautiful @NPRinvisibilia @aspiegelnpr @lmillernpr @yowei_shaw @abbywendle https://www.npr.org/...
@deggans: For those who have been asking me about NPR's staff reductions, I remain employed. I have been told everyone affected by the changes in our news division has been notified. Our media correspondent, David Folkenflik, has a story on the changes: https://www.npr.org/...
Alix Spiegel / @aspiegelnpr: Raising a glass to all the hands that made Invisibilia. All the creative thoughtful souls who tried for her and cried for her and hopefully - helped some people along the way. https://www.npr.org/...
Gabe Rosenberg / @gabrieljr: Ugh my heart. The podcasts are the names you might recognize, but I know there's so many brilliant producers, digital folks, and more behind the scenes who deserve better than this. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Lowry / @blowryontv: Covering bad news at your own shop is one of the toughest jobs in journalism. And unfortunately, a lot more journalists have had to experience that in the last few years. https://twitter.com/...
Sam Mintz / @samjmintz: Honestly a striking comment from director of union representing NPR workers, and not the usual kind of union rhetoric that accompanies layoffs. “They had to do something. It's real.” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Hamed Aleaziz / @haleaziz: Awful, awful news. https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Tough day at NPR: Four podcasts canceled, 10 percent of workforce laid off. We'll learn more about who is leaving the network in hours and days to come. My story: https://www.npr.org/...
Ray Schultz / MediaPost: NPR Cancels Podcasts Amid Layoffs, Budget Gap
Jeremy Bailey / The Wrap: NPR Cancels 4 Podcasts as Network Begins Mass Layoffs
Martin Baron / Washington Post:
Objectivity is a journalistic principle and is neither a false balance, a false equivalence, both-sidesism, nor neutrality, but a call for open-minded reporting — Martin Baron was executive editor of The Post from January 2013 through February 2021 and, before that, editor of the Boston Globe for more than 11 years.
Discussion:
@ijbailey, @ijbailey, @ktumulty, @ijbailey, @bylenasun, @jonathanchait, @ktumulty, @ijbailey, @ijbailey, @mariaramirezny, @froomkin, @carlosnyt, @rjcc, @abgutman, @ijbailey, @sewellchan, @brizzyc, @kaitlynjakola, @ryanjthomas83, @ijbailey, @jayrosen_nyu, @tatecurtis and @ebboyd
Discussion:
@ijbailey: The cute distinction is that the reporter is biased, because we all have biases, but that the process is objective - as though you can really separate the two. We need to acknowledge the complexity of what we do, and the flaws inherent in our processes - because we are human. 8/
@ijbailey: If your “objectivity” leads you to suspend a reporter who survived a sexual assault from covering sexual assault stories because she demands high journalistic standards, it's an objectivity I want no part of, for instance. 9/
Karen Tumulty / @ktumulty: This follows an earlier @postopinions column by @lendownie — https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@ijbailey: He calls for more humility. But he and others of like mind express little of that humility inside newsrooms or in discussions about “objectivity.” Not only that, they falsely assert that those of us who dare disagree with them don't really want standards. And that's hogwash. 4/
LenaSun / @bylenasun: “Objectivity is not neutrality. It is not on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand journalism...It is not giving equal weight to opposing arguments when the evidence points overwhelmingly in one direction.” discover.https://www.washingtonpost.com / ...
Jonathan Chait / @jonathanchait: Marty Baron engages with, and persuasively refutes, the popular criticisms of objectivity in journalism https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Karen Tumulty / @ktumulty: Two former editors of the @washingtonpost find themselves on different sides of a central debate in journalism today. From @postbaron: We want objective judges and doctors. Why not journalists too? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@ijbailey: But what grates at me the most is this idea that Baron and those of like mind want to adhere to standards and those of us who challenge their view of “objectivity” don't. Heck, I'm surprised he didn't just slur us as “woke.” Guess I should give him a point for that. 12/
@mariaramirezny: “There is an immense universe beyond the lives we ourselves have lived. And if there are constraints on our ability to understand a world beyond our own, we as journalists should strive to overcome them,” writes @PostBaron. Every word of this👏👏👏 https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@froomkin: Much of what @postbaron writes here is inarguably true. But for all his fancy talk, objectivity as practiced in our elite newsrooms is a construct of comfortable white cis men. It is full of false equivalence and cowardice and complacency. 1/x https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Carlos Lozada / @carlosnyt: “Failure to achieve standards does not obviate the need for them. It does not render them outmoded. It makes them more necessary. And it requires that we apply them more consistently.” The great @PostBaron renews the case for journalistic objectivity: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Richard Lawler / @rjcc: @mediagazer @PostBaron Open minded https://twitter.com/...
Abraham Gutman / @abgutman: We want doctors to be objective. We don't want doctors who say: here is the evidence, I can't recommend treatment. We want to know their opinion. Same with judges, they don't only repeat the law. If that's objectivity, sign journalists up too! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@ijbailey: While reading this, you should understand that Baron's definition of “objectivity” included him being upset at folks like me for calling out The Post for its handling of a reporter on the issue of sexual assault. 1/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Sewell Chan / @sewellchan: Must-read essay by @PostBaron on objectivity in journalism: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Carrie Brown / @brizzyc: Sigh. I swear, there is something about the word “objectivity” that causes people to lose even the slightest grasp of nuance or complexity. I just...serenity now! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Kaitlyn Jakola / @kaitlynjakola: “Critiquing objectivity” vs. “showing humility” is a false dichotomy: Journalists who call out inherent bias *necessarily* display humility, acknowledging what we perceive as humans is filtered through lived experiences; thus, “objective truth” is a concept of limited usefulness https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Thomas / @ryanjthomas83: This is thoughtful, as is the piece criticizing objectivity. But it strikes me that this list of traits - fairness, honesty, rigor - are things that both advocates and critics of objectivity would broadly agree on, which suggests that we need to stop using the term “objectivity” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@ijbailey: He also got upset when top-notch black reporters challenged him. If you read his piece and the detailed definition of “objectivity” he lays out, I would have to agree with it - in a vacuum. But I know how “objectivity” has played itself out in the real world time and again. 3/
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Before commenting I am going to read this several times and think hard about it. It's Marty Baron on newsroom objectivity. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Curtis L. Tate / @tatecurtis: @ijbailey It's a strange hill to die on.
E.B. Boyd / @ebboyd: This argument is based on a false—or naive—premise: That judges and doctors don't approach their work with a framework for understanding the world. Everyone has a framework. That's not the same thing as *having an agenda.* But no one is a blank slate of “objectivity.” 1/ https://twitter.com/...
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with NYT CEO Meredith Kopit Levien on the site as a destination, Google as the last great text distributor, software investment, shifting strategy, and more — Can Wordle, The Athletic, and NYT Cooking bring the Times bundle to all of America? — Meredith Kopit Levien is the CEO …
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Axios HQ, the software business spun off from Axios in 2022, raised a $20M Series A at a nearly $100M valuation to build communication tools with OpenAI's help — Axios HQ to use ChatGPT maker OpenAI to improve tools that help clients write emails, headlines
Discussion:
@roylschwartz, @jz, @chaykak, @mikerugnetta, @scottnover and Axios, more at Techmeme »
Discussion:
Roy Schwartz / @roylschwartz: So proud of the @AxiosHQ team! We raised $20M to help invest more in our AI features for our over 500 clients! https://www.wsj.com/...
Jordan Zaslav / @jz: It's an exciting time to be building for AI tools for communicators .. excited for this milestone and what it will make possible for @axioshq customers https://www.wsj.com/...
Kyle Chayka / @chaykak: Be Smart: Let a robot write your newsletters for you. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Rugnetta / @mikerugnetta: AI-specific controversy aside, the quite premise of so much of this is that the Content Ecosystem will (and must!) continue to *speed up* rather than slow down - and that's just going to be a living hell for ... everyone. https://twitter.com/...
New York Times:
The ALA says 2022 saw 1,269 attempts to ban books and other resources in libraries and schools, the most since the group began tracking censorship 20 years ago — A new report from the American Library Association showed a spike in censorship efforts, with 1,269 attempts.
Discussion:
Library Journal infoDOCKET, @staceynycdc, @alalibrary, @amandalitman, @pgourevitch, Publishers Weekly, @victorerikray, Truthout and The Hill
Discussion:
Gary Price / Library Journal infoDOCKET: American Library Association Reports Record Number of Demands to Censor Library Books and Materials in 2022: Book Challenges Nearly Doubled From 2021
Stacey E. Singleton / @staceynycdc: “With the increasingly organized campaigns to remove titles on certain topics, books have become a proxy in a broader culture war over issues like L.G.B.T.Q. rights, gender identity and racial inequality.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@alalibrary: “We don't quarrel with parents who want to guide their children's reading. What we have a problem with is advocacy groups who...demand that everybody read the books that they approve of and not read any other books, and deny that choice to other families.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Amanda Litman / @amandalitman: Yikes: Efforts to ban books nearly doubled in 2022 over 2021. 60% of complaints were directed at books & materials in school libraries and classrooms; 40% were in public libraries. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Philip Gourevitch / @pgourevitch: for all the alarmism about lefty “woke” cancel culture, every single attempted or successful book banning reported here is an assault on freedom of thought and expression and consumption from the GOP right. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Albanese / Publishers Weekly: The Week in Libraries: March 24, 2023
Victor Ray / @victorerikray: Of course. As some of us have been saying all along, the alarmism about lefty “cancel culture” laid the ideological groundwork for the current crop of right-wing bans. Contrarian centrists habitually punching left helped this along, too. https://twitter.com/...
Julia Mueller / The Hill: Record book ban attempts reported last year
Law & Crime:
Law&Crime plans to expand its YouTube presence through acquisitions and partnerships with other true crime channels, after having acquired The Disturbing Truth — Leading legal and true crime network Law&Crime announces plans to expand its YouTube presence through a series …
Discussion:
Dan Abrams / @danabrams: >@LawCrimeNetwork is beginning a series of acquisitions of true crime @YouTubeCreators. If you know of any great ones we should consider please let us know at Tips@LawNewz.com! https://lawandcrime.com/...
Mark Miller / TVNewsCheck: Law&Crime Expanding YouTube Presence With True Crime Channel Acquisitions
Erik Gruenwedel / Media Play News: YouTube's ‘Law & Crime’ Channel Enhances Content Offerings
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