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[Thread] On May 11's editorial call, CNN's Chris Licht says Kaitlan Collins “made a lot of news” and “America was served very well by what we did last night” — Chris Licht begins CNN's 9am editorial call by praising @kaitlancollins for a “masterful performance last night.” He says “I couldn't be more proud of her” and the whole team in NH. Then he says he's aware of the backlash... More to come
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Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “You do not have to like the former president's answers, but you can't say that we didn't get them,” Licht tells staffers, many of whom are angry about the town hall. “Kaitlan pressed him again and again and made news. Made a LOT of news.” And “that is our job.”
@acyn: Cooper: You have every right to be outraged today and angry and never watch this network again. But do you think staying in your silo and only listening to people you agree with is going to make that person go away? https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Just in: CNN's town hall with Donald Trump averaged 3.1 million total viewers. The event outrated Fox and MSNBC, as expected, but these are not 2015/16 level numbers for Trump — not even close.
Alex Griffing / Mediaite: CNN's Trump Town Hall Brings Big Ratings Boost For Network, Which Doubles Fox and MSNBC
Oliver Darcy / CNN: CNN faces harsh criticism after Trump unleashed a firehose of lies during its live town hall
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: Forget the theatrics in former President Trump's falsehood-filled town hall on CNN and the Twitter-bubble hysterics; Trump actually made lots of news at Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, N.H., last night, @AlexThomp writes: https://www.axios.com/...
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: I look forward to Chris Licht's heartfelt apology this morning (😂)
@johnamaechi: No, @CNN - you screwed up. Platforming an avowed liar fresh off being found guilty of sexual assault. Behaviour should have consequences that don't include access to international audiences to lie, abuse, bully, manipulate the narrative and rehabilitate your image. https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: I would argue that ‘making news’ is not our job; holding power to account is. And on that measure, the town hall last night was a complete and utter failure. https://twitter.com/...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / @aoc: It was a disservice to democracy, but also a major harm for women, survivors, & people who rely on repro rights. CNN allowing sexual assault to be treated like a joke to an applauding audience is egregious. At this point it's not abt Trump- we know him. It's abt the programming
John Cusack / @johncusack: Cooper can't have it both ways - the fact is it's wasn't half the electorate. It was a handpicked cheering section - it was the mar a lago lobby. If Cooper feels this way truly- then call on licht to release exactly who the audience was and how they were chosen - how much... https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: This is what's known as a ‘false dilemma fallacy’ https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Kelly / @thesarahkelly: This really encapsulates the disconnect between ownership's mission and journalists' mission https://twitter.com/...
Chris Hayes / @chrislhayes: solely from a “news” perspective, it's a very old shtick! it's gone from man bites dog to dog bites man over the course of 8 years. https://twitter.com/...
@paulachertok: 😒Chris Licht is proud of @CNN hosting a Trump rally live on TV. He's either gaslighting that his debacle was “masterful” or he's delusional. Either way, it's very bad news for journalism, democracy and America. https://twitter.com/...
@froomkin: This was brave and honest and @oliverdarcy has once again earned my admiration, especially with his boss saying the opposite in the CNN morning phone call. https://www.cnn.com/...
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: Here's the best thread w/ CNN C.E.O. Chris Licht's remarks this morning on last night's Trump Town Hall. As I wrote ahead of last night's event, “a defining feature of many a WBD executive is their ability to pretend like nothing is wrong.” >> https://twitter.com/...
Dahlia Lithwick / @dahlialithwick: It's so weird. Now the avoidance of flagrant lies, threats of violence and contempt for law and truth is a crabbed “silo?” I sort of prefer to think of it as “democracy ” but sure, I'm limited that way. https://twitter.com/...
Dave Zirin / @edgeofsports: Pathetic. Hope it was worth it @CNN @kaitlancollins https://twitter.com/...
Asha Rangappa / @asharangappa_: Is there really a silo where you can avoid listening to Trump?? If so, can someone please point me to it? https://twitter.com/...
@kellwoohoo: As a former media buyer, I can tell you that the boost in ratings @CNN got for a one-night event won't help them sell any more ads. Especially with the damage to their reputation this town hall has caused. @CNN won't get this stank off them any time soon! https://nymag.com/...
Sugith Varughese / @sugithvarughese: All too often, the news media forgets they aren't the story. https://twitter.com/...
Michael McDonald / @electproject: Trump's schtick could easily be magAI generated. There's no reason to watch it. I didn't https://twitter.com/...
@jeffjarvis: Good for @NicolleDWallace that she chooses not to replay Trump's CNN lies from last night. I repeat a link to @brianstelter's report from CNN boss Chris Licht's defensive call with staff this morning: https://twitter.com/...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: This is an attempt at damage control. https://twitter.com/...
@hholdenthorp: Kendall Roy literally said, ‘we can make prime time safe for you,’ on Sunday night. Licht did the same thing with Trump. At least own up to it. @CNN @karaswisher @EricSchultz https://twitter.com/...
David Rothkopf / @djrothkopf: He clearly does not understand his job. Most of the news produced was about CNN's ghastly judgment in doing this and producing it as they did. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Mullin / @benmullin: New, w/@grynbaum: In the days leading up to last night's Trump town hall meeting, CNN held mock debates to prep @kaitlancollins. Donald Trump was played by Mark Preston, CNN's VP of political and special events programming: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Joyce Carol Oates / @joycecaroloates: Think of how many more viewers CNN might get if they hosted executions or mud wrestling between nude candidates for president. Not sure that a one-night-only high rating means anything significant. https://twitter.com/...
@princessbravato: It's an attempt of gaslighting to me. Anderson screwed up here. We aren't in a silo to not want to hear lies and defame his victim. He incited an insurrection. It was gutterball, humiliating, disgusting, vile lies, and hatred. American people deserve better. https://twitter.com/...
Bradley Whitford / @bradleywhitford: Chris Licht, spare us your defender of democracy bullshit. You're in show business. You got hired to get ratings for CNN. If that means platforming a racist traitor so he can lie, mock his sexual assault victim and get applause for it, you'll do it. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kim Masters / @kimmasters: This thread confirms that Chris Licht is not fit to run a news organization. https://twitter.com/...
Tim Carmody / @tcarmody: I wonder if journalism doesn't get in its own way too often by assuming that's what is good for it (or some portion of it) is good for the country or world. What's good for CNN, or even CNN's audience, is not good for us, and vice versa. (Insert any media organization here.)
Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona: Also, while this is a big number for CNN primetime compared to recent numbers, this still wouldn't beat a typical weeknight broadcast of Tucker Carlson when he was still on Fox. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: In the key 25- to 54-year-old demo, the town hall averaged 703,000, about five times higher than CNN's typical performance at 8pm.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / @aoc: “Making news” is not the same as covering news. When one wishes to become a participant in events (ie. “making” news), they become the story and sacrifice the pretense of a neutral observer. Also no one got answers. It was 70 mins of steamrolled propaganda, esp on abortion & SA https://twitter.com/...
Lindsey Boylan / @lindseyboylan: “Masterful performance” is a tell. It's a vapid and gross show. That's it. Unlike the recent overtures of “going back to” hard hitting news, CNN continues to be a TMZ version of the news. https://twitter.com/...
Simon Schama / @simon_schama: It's the “ well we have to hear from Adolf or how are we going to battle him ?” casuistry .. so deeply deluded https://twitter.com/...
Scott Adams / @scottadamssays: I don't think this could have turned out better. It was a great show. Plenty of fact-checking. I learned some things. Provocative. Made news. Entertaining. @kaitlancollins was prepared and poised. Well produced. https://twitter.com/...
@iampoliticsgirl: This is the problem with the 24h news-for-profit entertainment model. The media is not supposed to make news, but report on it. CNN committed arson, threw gasoline on the fire, then got great ratings for covering it. It's obscene. https://twitter.com/...
David Marcus / @blueboxdave: The point wasn't a one night ratings bonanza, it was to try to send the message that CNN isn't just the Anti-Trump News Network anymore. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Geidner / @chrisgeidner: “Made a LOT of news” is going to stick with me. It's an admission. https://twitter.com/...
Paul Farhi / @farhip: For perspective: 3.1 million viewers is about what “The Five” averages on @FoxNews on a daily basis.
@voxdotcom: CNN is under scrutiny over its decision to host a town hall with former President Donald Trump. Looming over that criticism is the shadow of billionaire media mogul John Malone. https://www.vox.com/...
Po Murray / @po_murray: I left @CNN when Chris Licht hired a gun extremist to spread gun lobby lies. I urge all to join me & #BoycottCNN for giving the seditious twice impeached racist misogynist fascist criminal a platform to spread his lies. https://www.cnn.com/... #ShameOnCNN
John Cusack / @johncusack: What's so alarming is the lecturing tone about silos - really ? Are you really that defensive - or do you really think we are really that dumb ? It was all for the money - Don't put lipstick on this pig AND be self righteous about it - https://twitter.com/...
@agoldmund: “You don't have to like this guy's odious and dangerous views, but you can't say we didn't amplify them” https://twitter.com/...
@meidastouch: If you think your ‘job’ as a news network is to ‘make’ the news, you are doing it wrong. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Mwachiro / Adweek: CNN's Chris Licht on Chaotic Trump Town Hall: ‘America was Served Very Well by What We Did Last Night’
Kurt Bardella / @kurtbardella: I don't think it's their job to “make” the news - it's their job to report it, not become it. https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / The Present Age: The Head of CNN Thinks It's Journalism's Job to “Make News.” That's a Problem.
Ted Johnson / Deadline: CNN's Chris Licht Defends Donald Trump Town Hall: “I Absolutely, Unequivocally Believe America Was Served Very Well By What We Did Last Night”
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian: CNN head defends Trump's lie-strewn town hall: ‘America was served very well’
Kayla Cobb / The Wrap: CNN's Chris Licht ‘Unequivocally’ Believes the Trump Town Hall Served America ‘Very Well’
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: CNN CEO: “America Was Served Very Well” by Trump Town Hall, Backlash “Absolutely Expected”
Chris Panella / Insider: CNN boss Chris Licht loved how Trump's town hall turned out, even though it was ‘uncomfortable’ hearing the audience cheering
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In CNN's town hall, Donald Trump repeated lies that the 2020 election was rigged, mocked E. Jean Carroll, and called moderator Kaitlan Collins “a nasty person” — The former president condones violence on Jan. 6, 2021 and a government default in a televised appearance
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Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Covering Trump is “tricky and messy,” Licht says, and it will “continue to be messy and tricky, but it's our job.” He confidently says “America was served very well by what we did last night.” Many CNN employees strongly disagree.
Peter Baker / @peterbakernyt: Props to @kaitlancollins who was in an impossible position but did a heroic job of fact-checking Trump throughout the town hall. No easy task given how many factually untrue things he said in such a short time. Collins was a true pro and showed what a stellar journalist she is.
Michael J. Socolow / Slate: You're Interviewing Trump. He's Lying Through His Teeth. Here's What to Do.
Max Tani / Semafor: ‘America was served very well by what we did last night’: CNN chairman defends Trump town hall
Jack Shafer / Politico: Enough With the Bellyaching Over CNN's Trump Town Hall
Tom Jones / Poynter: CNN's Trump town hall turns into a Trump rally
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair: CNN's Donald Trump Town Hall Was Essentially a Campaign Rally
Zach Wolf / @zbyronwolf: If you didn't watch, I think @jaketapper sums it up. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Tomasky / New Republic: Shame on CNN for That Naked, Cynical Play for Fox Viewers
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: Rapid reaction from a CNN staffer: “A disaster, and totally predictable.”
James Politi / Financial Times: Hollywood mogul pledges ‘all the resources’ Joe Biden needs to win in 2024
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker: Don't Say You Haven't Been Warned About Trump and 2024 — CNN's awful town hall …
Aaron Rupar / @atrupar: Byron Donalds on CNN refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election https://twitter.com/...
Jack Shafer / @jackshafer: New @politico: Stop With the Bellyaching Over CNN's Trump Town Hall https://www.politico.com/...
Sara Fischer / Axios: CNN's Trump town hall draws 3.1 million viewers
Jill Colvin / Honolulu Star-Advertiser: Trump attacks accuser, defends Jan. 6 rioters in CNN town hall
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: It's really important that some CNN employee tomorrow tape and leak tomorrow's post-mortem on this event. Because we need to know if this is what to expect from now through next November.
Cyrus Moulton / Northeastern Global News: Why did CNN give former President Donald Trump a prime-time town hall?
Michelle L. Price / Associated Press: Takeaways from Trump's CNN town hall: Election lies and attacks on E. Jean Carroll
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times: CNN's Trump town hall nabs 3.3 million viewers amid brutal criticism
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer: On CNN, lying Trump was a late-night comedian for an America I didn't recognize
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: “Why CNN's Trump town hall was always doomed to fail” My op-ed tonight reacting to the #CNNTown disaster - the ridiculous format, biased crowd, lack of follow-ups, and clear win for Trump. What did Licht, CNN, and Collins *think* was going to happen? https://www.msnbc.com/...
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian: Trump's CNN town hall was a mess of lies - and it was utterly predictable
Mark Harris / @markharrisnyc: Update: The proper thing for Chris Licht to do now is resign. https://twitter.com/...
Jared Yates Sexton / @jysexton: The Donald Trump Town Hall on CNN was an indictment of Trump, his supporters, CNN, the GOP, and our politics and media. And it was a warning that things could get much, much worse unless we prepare to fight back. https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Bitecofer / @rachelbitecofer: Low Ratings Don https://www.axios.com/...
Kimberley Johnson / @authorkimberley: .@peterbakernyt — Kaitlin is a novice and Trump steamrolled her. There was no heroic effort. She didn't hold him accountable. Your tweet is lipstick on a pig. Shame on @CNN. https://twitter.com/...
Tina Daunt / The Wrap: 5 Times CNN's Kaitlan Collins Pushed Back at Donald Trump - and a Few Times She Didn't (Video)
Joyce Alene / @joycewhitevance: Vintage @ejeancarroll: “It's just stupid, it's just disgusting, vile, foul, it wounds people,” Ms. Carroll said in an interview with The New York Times, adding that she had been “insulted by better people.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lea Black / @leablackmiami: I used to respect you Peter. She lost complete control of the event. https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: “It's hard to see how America was served by the spectacle of lies that aired on CNN... And CNN aired it all. On and on it went. It felt like 2016 all over again. It was Trump's unhinged social media feed brought to life on stage” - CNN's @oliverdarcy 👏👏 https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/ ...
David Weissman / @davidmweissman: CNN is the new Fox News. What a garbage tweet. https://twitter.com/...
Congressman Jamaal Bowman / @repbowman: Didn't we learn our lesson in 2016? CNN has a responsibility to tell the truth. But last night's town hall was nothing but a platform for fascist lies. https://www.msnbc.com/...
Ruth Ben-Ghiat / @ruthbenghiat: MAGA was served, certainly not democratic America. https://twitter.com/...
@howardfineman: @mtomasky on the @CNN grab for #Fox viewers. Mike's a judicious commentator, so this is a good measure of the reaction in the journalism world, even among a lot of CNNers. https://newrepublic.com/...
Ben Smith / @semaforben: .@maxwelltani finds CNN staff grumbling, as the difficulty of CNN's position becomes clear https://www.semafor.com/...
Markos Moulitsas / @markos: The dissenting employees got it right https://twitter.com/...
Mrs. Betty Bowers / @bettybowers: No, @CNN, America is *not* well served by giving a sexual predator a prominent platform to mock one of his victims (to giddy laughter and applause) the day after a jury unanimously found him liable for both maliciously defaming and sexually assaulting her. https://twitter.com/...
Akiva Cohen / @akivamcohen: And by “it” that would be “why his network shouldn't have aired this in the first place” https://twitter.com/...
@vanityfair: “The mood is absolutely the lowest it's been in the Licht tenure, and that's saying a lot,” a CNN journalist tells VF. A behind-the-scenes look at Donald Trump's CNN Town Hall: https://vntyfr.com/K6xT8jh
Simon Schama / @simon_schama: ‘America was served very well by what we did last night’: CNN chairman defends Trump town hall https://www.semafor.com/... No it wasn't; just the opposite
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Some inside-the-CNN-studio reporting from VF's @charlottetklein: https://www.vanityfair.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Drew Holden / @drewholden360: I find it curious how the media talks about Trump as if he had just this morning appeared mysteriously out of the primordial soup and isn't a former POTUS who has very deliberately dominated the public mind for decades. https://twitter.com/...
Frank Conniff / @frankconniff: So when Trump accused Democrats of infanticide, did Collins present her “tough, persistent questioning” in the form of Mime? Because I didn't hear a fucking thing. (An hour of Shields and Yarnell would have had more journalistic value.) https://twitter.com/...
Virginia Heffernan / @page88: This hyperbolic “America was served very well” is a tell —it's the same neurotic exaggeration that Trump tilts into right after a howler of a lie. It reminds me of the Quayle gaffe, “It's a terrible thing to lose your mind.” Which he followed with: “How true that is.” https://twitter.com/...
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine: Trump's CNN Town Hall Was a MAGA Rally
@newrepublic: People make mistakes and miscalculations in this world, all the time. But this isn't one of those times. Chris Licht and CNN knew exactly what they were doing with the Trump town hall. https://newrepublic.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: As @playbookdc points out, “the furious pace of [Trump's] falsehoods made them impossible to counter in real time” - yes, this is exactly the point of his ‘Gish Gallop,’ as I point out in my book #WinEveryArgument & in my latest op-ed: https://www.msnbc.com/...
@washingtonpost: Trump's popularity within the GOP was on display from the start of the town hall in Manchester, N.H., with a live studio audience of mostly Republicans and some undeclared voters likely to vote in the party's 2024 presidential primary, the nation's first. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Michael Tomasky / @mtomasky: Be mad at Trump, sure. But be madder at CNN's craven, cynical execs like Chris Licht. That was inexcusable. https://newrepublic.com/... Follow @newrepublic
@therecount: “It's hard to see how America was served by the spectacle of lies that aired on CNN Wednesday evening.” —CNN's @oliverdarcy on CNN's Trump town hall https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: “So CNN, with this ridiculous town hall format and an audience seemingly recruited “from the Mar-a-Lago parking lot,” put its own anchor in a position to fail... But format aside, she didn't do herself any favors, either.” https://www.msnbc.com/...
@froomkin: Acknowledging reality really ought to be a de minimus requirement for getting paid to be in CNN https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: “They learned nothing and forgot nothing.” Those famous words have been attributed to Talleyrand, supposedly in reference to the Bourbon dynasty. But he could have been referring to CNN in the age of Donald Trump. My take: https://www.msnbc.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: A thread: As I said before, this was an impossible stage. But there were a few key moments where @CNN could have taken back the con from Trump, even tho his cavalcade of lies made it very difficult and the audience was gamed in his favor. Here's my quick thoughts as an... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Neil McMahon / @neilmcmahon: CNN's own excellent media reporter Oliver Darcy does a very good job under the circumstances of dismantling the disaster that just aired on his network, and notes the internal anger. https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/ ...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: CNN's Reliable Sources newsletter features a whole list of critical tweets of the network's town hall with Trump https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@froomkin: Excellent. “He was welcomed onto CNN to address an audience of non-Republicans watching at home and an audience of loyal Republicans sitting in that hall in New Hampshire. Win-win.” https://twitter.com/...
@froomkin: Sorry, but “bracing” and “bewildering” are cop-out words for describing the totally predictable disaster that was the CNN town hall. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: “This was a clear win for Trump. He felt no pressure and conceded nothing. He was welcomed onto CNN to address an audience of non-Republicans watching at home and an audience of loyal Republicans sitting in that hall in New Hampshire.” —@mehdirhasan https://www.msnbc.com/...
Victor Ray / @victorerikray: Media outlets that pretended they *accidentally* platformed racism and misogyny during the first Trump campaign are just openly embracing it this time.
Rebecca Aguilar / @rebeccaaguilar: Former FBI General Counsel tells @MSNBC that CNN made mistake having only Trump supporters in audience at townhall “irresponsible” and Kaitlin Collins needed to be super prepared. @ChrisLichtCNN did you hear this? #TrumpTownHall https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: “'The election was not rigged, Mr. President,' she said, with some desperation in her voice. 'You can't keep saying that all night long.' Actually ... he could. He did. And CNN helped him do it.” My take tonight on the awful #CNNTownhall: https://www.msnbc.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: 2. You cannot get caught up in getting him to answer your question when it becomes clear he has exactly no intention of answering it. A good example was the the obviously lie of the 9-month abortion he kept repeating unchallenged. Rather than trying to get him to answer the... https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: 3. The Trump loving audience would jar anyone and it is easy to let it get to you. But it is also an opportunity to win some over, which is especially powerful if you are in someone's home base. You only need one. So, when the crowd started snickering about @ejeancarroll, for... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: 6. Lastly, let me say it was an impossible task for any interviewer and will be for all reporters covering him going forward. Trump depends on that. It is certainly the job of the media to talk to him. That said, I always rely on that old journalism saying: “Afflict the... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: 1. In no particular order, you need to top Trump early and often, despite accusations of being unfair. For example, the obvious Nasty Woman retort would have been: “And a jury just yesterday unanimously called you a sexual predator. So here we are. Do you want to keep going here,... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: 5. Utterly ignore the bosses' voices in your ear piece and do what you want to do, irregardless of the cost. Every interview I do I think of as my last with any particular person. That includes ending the interview if you think it has degenerated beyond your control. That... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@gtconway3d: When you're a star, they give you free air time on national TV to lie and defame people. Historically, if you look at the last million years, that's been largely true. Unfortunately or fortunately.
Ryan Bort / @ryanbort: CNN insiders called Trump's town hall “appalling,” “brutal,” and a “fucking disgrace.” Trump's team was overjoyed: “We want to thank CNN for their generous donation to President Trump's campaign!” From me, @dianafalzone, @swin24, and @NikkiMcR https://www.rollingstone.com/ ...
@dianafalzone: A CNN insider tells @RollingStone the “town hall was “a fucking disgrace. “1000 percent a mistake [to host Trump]. No one [at CNN] is happy.” https://www.rollingstone.com/ ...
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: There will be questions about the format of this event. While presidential town halls are by nature live, a taped event would have allowed for editing. Some at CNN think that Collins did as well as could be done — but in a “flawed” format. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@froomkin: Election deniers should not be on news shows. They sure as hell shouldn't be paid to be on news shows. https://twitter.com/...
@nikkimcr: if you see the train coming don't park yourself on the fucking tracks. https://twitter.com/...
Soledad O'Brien / @soledadobrien: Actually she fumbled some pretty big ones (killing 9 month old babies? Maybe hop in on that lie, Kaitlin). So no. Not heroic. https://twitter.com/...
Shayne Mathis / @metalshayne2000: It's blowing my mind that the news media is just going to go back to giving Trump free airtime and treating him like a standard POTUS candidate after inciting a riot where people died when he lost the last election. https://twitter.com/...
James Fallows / @jamesfallows: What CNN was saying this morning. https://www.cnn.com/...
Hieronymus McGillicuddy / @hieronymusmcg: As usual, CNN was totally full of shit. Trump is not moderating or normalizing his behavior in the slightest, and there was never any reason to believe he might. https://twitter.com/...
Marianne LeVine / @marianne_levine: “He refused to acknowledge he lost the last election. He said he'd pardon rioters at the U.S. Capitol. He condoned sexual assault and smeared a victim.” @iarnsdorf @MaeveReston on the town hall https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Stephen Fowler / @stphnfwlr: Who could have seen this coming? https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Earlier today CNN was reporting on “signs that Trump is adopting a more traditional campaign in his third run for the White House.” A broader reach, they said. “A strategy of expanding his appeal.” https://www.cnn.com/... Tonight CNN saw what kind of campaign he intends to run.
Rob Quinn / Newser: Trump Played a ‘Steamroller’ at CNN Town Hall
@froomkin: Kudos to @jaketapper for telling it like it is. But his boss needs to apologize for this debacle or quit or be run out of the business.
@thehill: Trump calls E. Jean Carroll a “whack job” after sexual abuse verdict https://thehill.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Trump to Kaitlan Collins: “You are a nasty person!” CNN crowd: “HAHAHAHAHA” https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: Kaitlan Collins presses Trump over and over about whether he wants Ukraine to win the war and he won't say it. Trump: “I want everybody to stop dying. They're dying, Russians and Ukrainians.” Collins: “You won't say that you want Ukraine to win.”
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: Kaitlan Collins is clearly doing what she can to keep Trump accountable. Many strong journalists have tried to do this dance.
@rollingstone: Trump mocked the allegations Carroll made, claiming that he was too famous to hang around department stores. https://www.rollingstone.com/ ...
Charlie Nash / Mediaite: Bill O'Reilly Criticizes Kaitlan Collins For ‘Debating’ Trump During Town Hall: ‘Young Woman With Not a Lot of Experience’
Peter Weber / The Week: Trump declines to tell CNN forum if he wants Ukraine to win its war against Russian invaders
William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast: Laura Ingraham Gloats CNN Was ‘Out of Its League’ in Trump Town Hall
Dan McLaughlin / New York Post: After Trump's CNN town hall, it's clear he and the flailing cable network deserve each other
Niall Stanage / The Hill: Five takeaways from Trump's CNN town hall
John Hendrickson / The Atlantic: Entirely Unrepentant — In an unhinged town hall, Donald Trump repeated familiar lies and tested new talking points.
Ted Johnson / Deadline: Donald Trump Steamrolls Through CNN Town Hall
Insider: CNN hoped a Trump town hall would give it credibility with the GOP. Instead, it got dunked on.
Shelby Talcott / Semafor: Donald Trump meets the mainstream media again
J. Kim Murphy / Variety: Donald Trump Opens CNN Town Hall by Repeating False Claims, Calls Moderator Kaitlan Collins ‘Nasty’
@mjk_4mjk@mastodon.ie: @Mediagazer CNN gave a platform to a sexual abuser and then let him abuse his victim more. Chris Licht needs to be fired. “NEW: CNN insiders call the town hall with Trump “appalling” and a “fucking disgrace"", https://mstdn.social/...
@mjk_4mjk@mastodon.ie: @Mediagazer Trump incited one of his followers to send a bomb to CNN in the past. — Idiot Chris Licht of CNN gives the sexual abuser who was indicted on 34 felony counts a town hall. Roger Stone threatened CNN employees (Trump pardoned Stone). …
Howard Koplowitz / al.com: Donald Trump lashes out at Kaitlan Collins, calls her ‘a nasty person’ during CNN town hall
Sam Levin / The Guardian: Trump repeatedly lied at his CNN town hall. His biggest claims, factchecked
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: Trump snaps at CNN's Kaitlan Collins: 'You're a nasty person'
Ryan Gajewski / The Hollywood Reporter: CNN Town Hall Audience Members Laugh, Cheer as Trump Talks About E. Jean Carroll Sexual Abuse Verdict
Domenico Montanaro / NPR: Trump continues lies about election and lashes out after N.Y. verdict in town hall
Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone: Trump Mocks E. Jean Carroll at Town Hall, as His Fans Cheer Him On
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: NBCUniversal's head of advertising Linda Yaccarino is in talks to become the new CEO of Twitter — Twitter owner Elon Musk said earlier he had picked a new chief executive, without naming the person — NBCUniversal's head of advertising Linda Yaccarino is in talks to become …
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Elon Musk / @elonmusk: Excited to announce that I've hired a new CEO for X/Twitter. She will be starting in ~6 weeks! My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops. https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Here is my first best guess here: @lindayacc of NBC. I will have more. (Musk says has found new CEO for Twitter | Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/...
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: + fwiw, NBCU sources say Yaccarino shares similar political views as Musk.
Sara Fischer / Axios: NBCU ad chief Linda Yaccarino in talks to lead Twitter
Juby Babu / Reuters: Musk says he has found a new CEO for Twitter
Tom Tapp / Deadline: Elon Musk Announces He's Stepping Down As Twitter CEO; Unnamed Woman Replacing Him At The End Of June
Fred Lambert / Electrek: Tesla (TSLA) shares jump on Elon Musk announcing he found a CEO for Twitter
Grace Kay / Insider: Elon Musk says he's found a new Twitter CEO: ‘She will be starting in ~6 weeks!’
Matt Binder / @mattbinder: as Musk says, it's important that Twitter is a neutral platform and the best way to achieve that 50/50 split is to have two right wingers sitting atop the company running it https://twitter.com/...
Tom Parker / Reclaim The Net: Likely New Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino is a WEF Executive Chair That Suggested Elon Musk Limit His Tweets
Gary Black / @garyblack00: If true, Linda Yaccarino would be a great CEO of Twitter. She gets the ad business and understands the needs of advertisers, can talk their language (ROI/brand safety) and will speak her mind while being deferential. $TSLA @elonmusk https://www.wsj.com/...
Lou Paskalis / @loupas: With regard to @karaswisher's prediction that @lindayacc will be the next CEO of @Twitter, I can say that she would be my first choice, and my only choice, to save the platform from the hands of its owner. I still cannot understand why she'd subject herself to @elonmusk, however! https://twitter.com/...
Paris Marx / @parismarx: No surprise: the rumored new Twitter CEO shares Elon Musk's incredibly right-wing views. https://twitter.com/...
Jared Gans / The Hill: Musk says he's hired new Twitter CEO to replace him
Jessica Toonkel / @jtoonkel: Sources tell us not a total done deal, buuut NBCUniversal's Yaccarino is in talks to become the new CEO of Twitter w/@VranicaWSJ @AlexaCorse https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Exclusive, if you read my tweets that is! NBCUniversal's Linda Yaccarino Is in Talks to Become Twitter CEO, Replacing Elon Musk - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/...
Insider: The chatter inside Twitter is that Ella Irwin is a top candidate to be Elon Musk's CEO pick. There's another executive being touted by media industry insiders, too.
Matt Binder / @mattbinder: Twitter's probable next CEO was appointed by then-President Trump to a council alongside Herschel Walker and Dr. Oz in 2018 https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brian Steinberg / Variety: NBCU's Linda Yaccarino in Talks for Twitter CEO
Ben Smith / @semaforben: Twitter is back in the big advertising business (if this happens), sorry to everyone who paid for a subscription, or thought it might become a Tucker-centric media company. https://twitter.com/...
Ross Gerber / @gerberkawasaki: She would be a great choice for twitter ceo! #tesla $tsla https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: Why Linda? Ad powerhouse and well liked. It's a ceo job for her, so upward. She can obvi tolerate assholes since she has been in media for a brick. Elon can work well with women leaders unlike many tech bros (see @gwynneshot). If she can pull it off, and it can be pulled off if... https://twitter.com/...
William Hughes / The A.V. Club: Elon Musk announces he's stepping down as Twitter CEO in June
Erin Biba / @erinbiba: So @ParkerMolloy went through all her Twitter likes (documented over on Bluesky) and yeah she's a right-wing MAGA asshole. No surprises there. https://twitter.com/...
@wagatwe: a lot of women bringing up the glass cliff, but I think the role of (yt) women enabling fascists is more pertinent https://twitter.com/...
Philip Bump / @pbump: Unfortunately those views are reportedly too complex to determine! https://twitter.com/...
Alex Heath / The Verge: Twitter's new CEO is probably this NBC exec
Ashton Pittman / @ashtonpittman: She'll be fired the moment she does something Elon doesn't like (or refuses to do something he wants her to do). https://twitter.com/...
Chandra R. Srikanth / @chandrarsrikant: .@karaswisher queen of scoops😃 https://twitter.com/...
Thomas Barrabi / New York Post: Elon Musk says he hired new Twitter CEO: ‘She will be starting in ~6 weeks!’
Jessica Kwong / Metro.co.uk: Elon Musk hires female CEO for Twitter and will transition himself to other roles
Robert Carnevale / The Wrap: Elon Musk Says He's Hired a New Twitter CEO, but Won't Say Who She Is
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: NBCUniversal Ad Sales Chief Linda Yaccarino Reportedly In Talks to be Twitter's Next CEO
New York Daily News: Elon Musk says he's hired replacement Twitter CEO, NBCUniversal head of advertising rumored to be in talks
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Google Search changes could significantly decrease publishers' traffic and affiliate revenue, but the Perspectives section may highlight individual journalists — A shift to AI-generated search results will decrease the traffic that Google sends to publishers' sites, as more people …
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CNBC, The Verge, Search Engine Land, @kimbui, @niemanlab, @chrschwaegerl, Tubefilter, Wired, Al Jazeera, Quartz, Washington Post, The Keyword, TechCrunch, Insider, CNET and 9to5Google
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David Pierce / The Verge: The AI takeover of Google Search starts now
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: The new Google Search Generative Experience: Here's what it looks like
P. Kim Bui / @kimbui: This could 100% fundamentally change all those SEO-driven efforts and teams and is 100% why we should rely on trust and community engagement to build audience, not a platform or tech company. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
@niemanlab: We're wondering about regular old links, but also, what about affiliate links? https://www.niemanlab.org/...
@chrschwaegerl: #Google plans to cannibalize quality #journalism through #AI search results that extract information from journalistic investigations and sources, but don't direct readers to them. That's a clear and present danger for #democracy: https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Will Knight / Wired: The Boring Future of Generative AI
Julia Malleck / Quartz: Google's AI-powered search engine is very nearly almost here
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: AI is changing Google search: What the I/O announcement means for you
Elizabeth Reid / The Keyword: Supercharging Search with generative AI
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google ‘Perspectives’ integrates Reddit, YouTube, TikTok and more in search results
Sindhu Sundar / Insider: Google's new AI-powered search is going to look very different
Stephen Shankland / CNET: Google Reveals Its AI-Powered Search Engine to Answer Your Questions
Seth Abramovitch / The Hollywood Reporter:
MTV News' reporters and executives reminisce about the outlet's influence: “like TikTok and Snapchat and Instagram and Spotify and YouTube all rolled into one” — Thirty-six years after TV's youth-culture monolith changed the face of cable news, its star correspondents …
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New York Times, @sethabramovitch, @dealbook, @akruglov, @defensebaron, NPR, @alexweprin, @jasonrmcintyre, @jillpantozzi, @nekesamumbi, @slmandel, @shortformernie, @yronlyhope and Vibe
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Remy Tumin / New York Times: How MTV Broke News for a Generation
Seth Abramovitch / @sethabramovitch: An oral history of the era-defining media organization MTV NEWS. (RIP.) Many thanks to @kurt_loder @tabithasoren @Jonnynono @ChrisConnelly @gideonyago #SuChinPak & #AlisonStewart for participating! https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
@dealbook: “We were the kids elbowing in. There just wasn't anything out there for young people.” A generation after MTV News bridged the gap between news and pop culture, Paramount, the network's parent company, announced this week it would shutter the news service. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alex Kruglov / @akruglov: End of an era. So many great nuggets in this oral history. This was my primary source of news and entertainment from 13 to 16 or so. Having moved from Ukraine at 12, I became an American kid by reading Rolling Stone and watching MTV, Simpsons, and Seinfeld https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Kevin Baron / @defensebaron: I loved MTV News. Y'all know I love pop culture-politics. Esp if the 80s and early 90s. It's how I saw a path to foreign policy and journalism and an international life. A bigger world. Thanks to all the MTV News trailblazers for inspiring us once-young people. @kurt_loder https://twitter.com/...
Manuela López Restrepo / NPR: After nearly four decades, MTV News is no more
Alex Weprin / @alexweprin: Amazing work from Seth. Great insight into MTV News (The boxers vs. briefs question was planted by MTV!!) https://twitter.com/...
Jason McIntyre / @jasonrmcintyre: Nothing lasts forever I'll never forget Mtv spring break in the 90s https://twitter.com/...
Jill Pantozzi / @jillpantozzi: It's very strange to think of the MTV News in this story vs the MTV News of the digital media age which was...not at all the same! It was very cool to work there but we were not VJs! https://twitter.com/...
Nekesa Mumbi Moody / @nekesamumbi: Ah, what a time! @SethAbramovitch talks to the OGs of MTV News _ yes, even Kurt Loder _ about it's impact days after it was shut down. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Stewart Mandel / @slmandel: When Kirk Cobain died, we all tuned into MTV for the news coverage. A much different time. https://twitter.com/...
@shortformernie: Loder nails it: “It's very much like CBGBs when it closed. Nobody had been to CBGB in decades—but everyone got very weepy when it closed.” What a great remembrance. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Rodrigo Perez / @yronlyhope: Great oral history, also a great oral history to explain how MTV News was a real news organization and striving to be at the top of the music-news game at all times (and did all kinds of great reporting into the realms of the political and beyond). https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ ...
Armon Sadler / Vibe: MTV News Shutting Down After 36 Years
Max Tani / Semafor:
Tucker Carlson's Twitter show may temporarily solve his need for relevance, but to generate revenue he may use Rumble or launch something akin to The Daily Wire — The Scoop — Tucker Carlson's move to Twitter is intended to preserve his influence and political relevance …
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Fast Company, Gizmodo, @elonmusk, Forbes, American Press Institute, @asheinamerica, @pkafka, @semaforben, @semafor, @eyokley, The Wrap, Insider, Vox, Insider, Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Adweek, Yahoo Finance, Vanity Fair, New York Times, Tubefilter and TMZ.com
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Chris Stokel-Walker / Fast Company: Experts: Tucker Carlson's move to Twitter may turn off users—and advertisers—from the platform
Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: Advertising on Twitter Means You Support Tucker Carlson Now
Elon Musk / @elonmusk: On this platform, unlike the one-way street of broadcast, people are able to interact, critique and refute whatever is said. And, of course, anything misleading will get @CommunityNotes. I also want to be clear that we have not signed a deal of any kind whatsoever. Tucker is... https://twitter.com/...
American Press Institute: Need to Know: May 11, 2023 — OFF THE TOP — You might have heard: As 2024 elections near …
@asheinamerica: One of the most brilliant chief executives for whom I ever worked always said, “We win by changing the game.” The trades called him crazy, out of touch, and courting trouble, too. He was right. We added a $1B revenue in just two years. 🤣 https://www.semafor.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Talked to some former Twitter people about the Tucker Carlson math and... it could work. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / @semaforben: .@maxwelltani with new reporting inside Tucker's new media plan — a quest for relevance and attention, but no business model (yet) https://www.semafor.com/...
@semafor: Ad industry exec Lou Paskalis tells Semafor: “This is yet another example of Elon Musk's Twitter being purposely tone deaf when it comes to advertisers' concerns about content moderation under the guise of free speech and to his financial detriment.” https://www.semafor.com/...
Eli Yokley / @eyokley: “He didn't bid his show out to the various interested parties...Instead, he decided in recent days to relaunch his show on a platform that has no clear way to build a business around a streaming television show or podcast.” https://www.semafor.com/...
Robert Carnevale / The Wrap: Tucker Carlson's New Twitter Show Could Be a Moneymaker - or Just a Noisemaker
Pete Syme / Insider: Elon Musk invites longtime CNN host Don Lemon to start new show on Twitter following Tucker Carlson announcement
Peter Kafka / Vox: Tucker Carlson's TV-to-Twitter move could actually pay off
Wall Street Journal: Tucker Carlson's Twitter Show Complicates Elon Musk's Bid to Win Back Advertisers
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: Elon Musk urges Don Lemon to launch new show on Twitter
Bailey Lipschultz / Yahoo Finance: Tucker Carlson's Twitter Move Wipes $235 Million From Rumble
Caleb Ecarma / Vanity Fair: Tucker Carlson's Twitter Show Could Make Elon Musk's Advertiser Headache a Whole Lot Worse
Sam Gutelle / Tubefilter: Tucker Carlson wants to launch a show on Twitter
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
The Washington Post names Matea Gold as a managing editor, replacing Steven Ginsberg, who left in 2022 to join The Athletic; Gold joined The Post in 2013 — Matea Gold will become a managing editor of The Washington Post, executive editor Sally Buzbee announced Thursday.
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@edokeefe, @wpjenna, @postroz, @chrismegerian, @elaheizadi, @yvonnewingett, @philiprucker, @karaswisher, @mateagold, @jonathanvswan, @jdawsey1, @froomkin, @tylerpager, @annahbackstrom, @jaxalemany, @waposean, @myhlee and The Hill
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Ed O'Keefe / @edokeefe: This is great news for @washingtonpost and its readers. @mateagold is a total pro and greater person. Congrats! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jenna Johnson / @wpjenna: Matea is a visionary, creative, nimble, dogged, compassionate and beloved leader — and I am so excited to see her step into this role. Congrats! https://twitter.com/...
Rosalind Helderman / @postroz: So happy for @mateagold for this move but happier for the rest of us, who get to have her impeccable judgement, empathetic leadership, creative thinking and relentless focus on the mission to help guide our newsroom into the future. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Chris Megerian / @chrismegerian: Great news for the @washingtonpost! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Elahe Izadi / @elaheizadi: Incoming Washington Post managing editor @mateagold wants to “pull back the curtain on our work” to reinforce readers' trust. “We're in a moment in the media where we really need to reckon with the distrust that's out there.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
YvonneWingettSanchez / @yvonnewingett: Congratulations to @mateagold, a powerful advocate for her journalists and the truth. https://t.co/...
Philip Rucker / @philiprucker: Incredibly excited for @mateagold and for our entire newsroom that she is becoming a managing editor and will help chart @washingtonpost's future. Matea is an exceptional journalist as well as a gifted, compassionate leader. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: FYI @mateagold is the real deal. Great move by Post. https://twitter.com/...
Matea Gold / @mateagold: This is an remarkable newsroom, and I am deeply grateful to have the opportunity to take on this responsibility. Cannot wait for all the ambitious work that we're going to do together. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jonathan Swan / @jonathanvswan: Matea is a wonderful person and a terrific journalist. This is a great move. https://twitter.com/...
@froomkin: WaPo's newest managing editor @mateagold championed the “Democracy Team” (https://t.co/...) Then led it to failure (https://t.co/Rl58sVLLWS) so I dunno what to think here. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Tyler Pager / @tylerpager: Amazing news for The Post. Huge congrats to @mateagold https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Annah Aschbrenner / @annahbackstrom: “The promotion of @mateagold also means that, for the first time in The Post's history, women will make up the majority of the masthead.” Beyond thrilled for Matea, a thoughtful, caring and whip smart journalist who has made me a better editor. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jacqueline Alemany / @jaxalemany: Everything @mateagold touches turns to gold — we're lucky to have her leadership. https://twitter.com/...
Sean Sullivan / @waposean: So excited for @mateagold, who has led the National desk with creativity and generosity, helping us take our journalism to another level at the @washingtonpost. Congrats! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Tony Maglio / IndieWire:
Netflix switches its first-ever upfront ad presentation, scheduled on May 17 in NYC, to a virtual event; source: WGA members planned to picket the event — The last-minute change comes courtesy of the WGA strike and the NYPD, IndieWire is told. — Show more sharing options — Submit to Reddit
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New York Times, Adweek, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, Ad Age, Next TV, Media Play News and Variety
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Bill Bradley / Adweek: Despite Netflix's Virtual Pivot, Upfront Week's Other Events Will Remain In-Person
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline: Netflix Switches To Virtual Upfront Presentation Amid WGA Strike
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: In Surprise Move, Netflix Upfront Goes From In-Person Presentation to Virtual Event
Parker Herren / Ad Age: Netflix's upfront retreat isn't deterring TV networks
Erik Gruenwedel / Media Play News: Netflix Cancels Live Advertising Upfront Slated for Company-Owned Paris Theater in New York on May 17
Brian Steinberg / Variety: Netflix Scraps Live Upfront Event, Will Go Virtual
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Ananya Bhattacharya / Quartz:
The WGA writers' strike is disrupting productions, stopping the production of some shows completely, closing writers' rooms, suspending existing deals, and more
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Variety, @aodespair, Screen Rant, The Wrap, NPR, The Week, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, The A.V. Club, @jnmedina8989, Insider, @k_trendacosta, Variety, NBC News, Associated Press, Variety and Billboard
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Joe Otterson / Variety: ‘Last of Us’ Season 2 Was Preparing to Audition Actors With Video Game Scenes Due to Writers Strike, but Is Now on Hold (EXCLUSIVE)
David Simon / @aodespair: #WGAStrong. On the day that HBO called to suspend my deal after 25 years of writing television for them, I was doing the write thing. https://twitter.com/...
Nathan Graham-Lowery / Screen Rant: The Last Of Us Season 2 Casting On Pause Amid WGA Strike For Fair Pay
Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap: WGA Strike Roundtable: 'I Can't Support My Family for the Rest of the Year' - Writer Moms Talk Why They Strike | Video
Mandalit del Barco / NPR: Single screenwriters hope to “Strike Up a Romance” on the picket lines
Brendan Morrow / The Week: 2023 writers strike: Every film and TV show impacted
Brande Victorian / The Hollywood Reporter: What Underrepresented Writers Say Is Really at Stake During the Strike
Peter White / Deadline: Unscripted TV Community Fears Strike Impact: “It's Not Going To Be A Carefree, Hot Girl, Reality Summer”
Mary Kate Carr / The A.V. Club: Mandy Patinkin with a Princess Bride sign is the latest picket line hero amid writers strike
Justine Medina / @jnmedina8989: Ran into Mandy Patinkin, Bob Odenkirk, and Adam Scott on the WGA picket line. It's a party! #WorkerPower #UnionStrong https://twitter.com/...
Reed Alexander / Insider: ‘iCarly’ writers join the WGA strike as showrunner Ali Schouten calls out Hollywood studios' ‘corporate greed’
Katharine Trendacosta / @k_trendacosta: If you think AI is going to replace a human writer, the AI I use to transcribe my interviews with writers about the strike think they are negotiating the NBA.
Cynthia Littleton / Variety: Writers' Fear of Joining the ‘Gig Economy’ Fuels WGA Picket Lines
Brahmjot Kaur / NBC News: Writers strike: What TV shows are being affected
Seung Min Kim / Associated Press: Kamala Harris postpones MTV event over Hollywood writers' strike, AP source says
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
A look at Tel Aviv-based Rayzone, whose surveillance system Echo, sold to governments globally, harvests and repurposes ad data to track people via their phones — The innovation at the heart of the advertising technology industry is automated auctions to trade real-time data about mobile phone users …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
News sharing app Artifact now lets users follow writers and get notifications when they post, and writers can claim their profiles to get a verified checkmark — Artifact, the AI-powered news app from Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, has a new feature that makes it even more of a news-focused social media app.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Meta announces AI Sandbox, with generative AI tools to help select advertisers create text variations, background images from text, and cropped images — Meta today announced an AI Sandbox for advertisers to help them create alternative copies, background generation through text prompts …
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Allison Schiff / AdExchanger: Meta Bets Its Future On AI And Advantage+
Garett Sloane / Ad Age: Meta adds generative AI into its ad platform
Reuters:
News Corp beats estimates with Q3 revenue down 2% YoY to $2.45B vs. $2.37B est., net income down 43% YoY to $59M, and news media revenue down 3% YoY to $563M — News Corp (NWSA.O) on Thursday beat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter revenue on cost-cut measures and strong digital subscriptions across …
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Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: News Corp Revenue Slips Amid Challenging Ad Market
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Managing Ed. - Berks County, PA — 
News Editor - UK, Remote — 
Staff Writer, TX — 
Multimedia Journalist, PA — 
Service Journalism Editor, CA — 
Content Director, Remote — 
Sports Reporter, ME — 
Los Angeles Issues Reporter, CA — 
Reporter - Middle East — 
Executive Editor, OR — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
Senior Media Editor — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Lexington County Reporter, SC — 
Reporter - Offshore Wind — 
General Assignment Reporter, FL — 
Staff Reporter, CA — 
Data Editor, NY — 
