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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Matt Taibbi posts internal Twitter documents showing the company's 2020 debate over the handling of content related to NY Post's Hunter Biden laptop story — The new disclosures, touted as “The Twitter Files,” were posted in a lengthy Twitter thread by investigative reporter and author Matt Taibbi (and retweeted by Musk).
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Matt Taibbi / @mtaibbi: 1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES
Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona: On his Substack, Matt Taibbi tells his readers that he “had to agree to certain conditions” to do the Hunter Biden laptop thread for Musk. https://twitter.com/...
Elon Musk / @elonmusk: @hodgetwins @micsolana Twitter acting by itself to suppress free speech is not a 1st amendment violation, but acting under orders from the government to suppress free speech, with no judicial review, is
Tim Miller / The Bulwark: No, You Do Not Have a Constitutional Right to Post Hunter Biden's Dick Pic on Twitter
Zeynep Tufekci / @zeynep: Okay then. That's the big story. Taibbi says, seemingly with access to all internal docs, the earlier big claim that the government had directly intervened ("stepping in") to suppress a story before the election has no evidence. Also seems some nonconsensual nudity was removed. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Marshall / @joshtpm: The one thing you can never do as a journalist is deceive your readers. Among all the other nonsense that went on tonight we have a great example of it here. Taibbi portentously announced that the Biden Team had sent an order to Twitter to delete Tweets and it had been “handled.” https://twitter.com/...
Will Oremus / @willoremus: What might seem damning from Taibbi's thread—Twitter comms frantically asking how to justify the policy—actually flows from the firewall Twitter kept between policy and comms. The comms folks weren't part of the decision, but they have to defend it, so this is them pushing back.
Tressie McMillan Cottom / @tressiemcphd: Journalists will tackle the facts and meaning of it all. I just want to add how much this statement looks and sounds like classic conspiracy rhetoric. The appeal to trust. The secrecy. The sacred texts (emails and hidden tweets). It's right wing scriptural inference up & down. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Speaking of transparency... what kind of deal to @mtaibbi cut to get this nothingburger of a story, beyond having to tweet it out as if it was something “explosive”: https://twitter.com/...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Not for nothing, but so far, everything revealed is... basically exactly what has been known for nearly two years, and is basically... how these kinds of decisions always work? I mean... why the buildup to reveal... this?
Patrick LaForge / @palafo: “The communications mostly show a team debating how to finalize and communicate a difficult moderation decision.” https://www.theverge.com/...
Jesse Singal / @jessesingal: “Substack Man.” The level of just casual cattiness and condescension among this set is so off the charts — if trust in mainstream media is slipping, they have no one to blame but themselves. https://twitter.com/...
Idrees Ahmad / @im_pulse: I had been warning about Taibbi for years. A few years back I even organised a letter to @RollingStone, signed by leading Middle East scholars and human rights campaigners, asking the mag to withdraw its support from his podcast, which had turned into a reactionary sewer. https://twitter.com/...
David French / @davidafrench: Musk is referring here to Biden team requests to remove pornographic pictures of Hunter. Biden was not president in 2020, and therefore there was no government involvement in his campaign's requests. The First Amendment is not implicated when only private actors are involved. https://twitter.com/...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: Imagine volunteering to do online PR work for the world's richest man on a Friday night, in service of nakedly and cynically right-wing narratives, and then pretending you're speaking truth to power.
Lucas Nolan / Breitbart: ‘Twitter Files’ Compares Treatment of Hunter Biden Laptop Story to Child Porn - but Child Porn Runs Rampant on Twitter
Max Berger / @maxberger: I'm old enough to remember when this guy considered himself the scourge of billionaires. He met with us at Occupy Wall Street to discuss digging up dirt on elite bankers. Now, he's helping the richest man in the world spread right-wing talking points. Sad! https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: so musk is just making him do this on twitter over multiple days to get numbers to try to convince advertisers with right https://twitter.com/...
Michael Tracey / @mtracey: The Daily Beast spreads anonymous gutter-level gossip every single day based on “conditions” that I guarantee are 100% sleazier than whatever conditions Taibbi accepted to publish primary source material that anyone can simply read for themselves https://twitter.com/...
Brian Bushard / Forbes: Musk's ‘Twitter Files’: Internal Hunter Biden Debate Revealed With Much Hype But No Bombshells
Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix: Seems right so far. Otherwise... nothing new. Another Musk failure to launch... https://twitter.com/...
Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce: release the emails https://twitter.com/...
Brian Tyler Cohen / @briantylercohen: Just a reminder that Joe Biden was not the president in 2020 so Twitter was not “acting under orders from the government.” https://twitter.com/...
David Corn / @davidcorndc: Good point. Has @mtaibbi replied to this criticism? Has he explained the “conditions” he agreed to in order to gain access to the Twitter files? Wouldn't a fierce critic of access journalism do so? What was the deal? https://twitter.com/...
Tim Miller / @timodc: My Friday Night Dispatch: “No, You Do Not Have a Constitutional Right to Post Hunter Biden's Dick Pic on Twitter” https://www.thebulwark.com/...
Will Oremus / @willoremus: jeez, i log off twitter for a few hours and come back to find that i missed *reads entire thread* uh not that much actually? https://twitter.com/...
David Harsanyi / @davidharsanyi: This piece is a masterpiece in dishonest strawman-ing. There's no reason for anyone to who supposedly believes in “democracy” to defend suppressing news. So they have to pretend it wasn't. https://twitter.com/...
Jared Holt / @jaredlholt: To it's credit, places like @semafor (which took SBF money) have shown what it means to be transparent, even if its embarrassing. Disclosure is important and Matt wouldn't explain what's going on. That's a red flag if there ever was one. https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Taub / @jentaub: Non-consensual nudity is what got Gawker sued for $100 million, broke, and shut down. Remember the video of Hulk Hogan. Peter Thiel bankrolled that lawsuit. Twitter is treated differently under the law for now. But it seems like Elon wants to fuck around and find out. https://twitter.com/...
Farhad Manjoo / @fmanjoo: congress will investigate a private company's editorial decisions to make sure that private companies' editorial decisions aren't being influenced by politics https://twitter.com/...
Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: I know Twitter doesn't have a comms team anymore, and while “we will let journalists search our email archives to find evidence that supports their preconceived notions” will be fun to watch I don't think it is a great long-term strategy.
Rand Paul / @randpaul: This is better than a Friday night movie. Everyone should read this and everyone should thank @elonmusk for bringing this public. https://twitter.com/...
Max Burns / @themaxburns: As Matt Taibbi reminds is, the role of journalism is to comfort the comfortable and give the billionaire's handpicked talking points an air of legitimacy.
@acyn: Comer: We're going to have every single people at Twitter that was involved in this in front of the House Oversight Committee as soon as possible https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: What a lede here from @Timodc https://www.thebulwark.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Robert Evans / @iwriteok: from “speak truth to power” to “write exactly what the world's richest man tells you to write” https://twitter.com/...
Chris Lynch / Hypnotized Fish: Saturday Flotsam and Jetsam
Brandy Zadrozny / @brandyzadrozny: To leap to political contributions as the reason the right was more often reported for rule breaking is just bad reasoning and really bad reporting. Good thing this guy doesn't have an editor. https://twitter.com/...
Kelsey Vlamis / Insider: Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna reached out to Twitter as it suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story to voice concerns about violating free speech and press freedom principles
Michael Brendan Dougherty / @michaelbd: I thought the story was that Twitter labeled a true news story from America's oldest newspaper “potentially harmful” and restricted its distribution with the same tools it uses against child pornography, contrary to its own rules. But this is how the Bulwark sees it. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Imagine anyone thinking Matt Taibbi was credible on any of this. Holy fuck.
Tim Carmody / @tcarmody: In any “big reveal” of this kind, the content or lack thereof doesn't matter nearly so much as the rhetoric, the gestures, and the optical illusion to an audience that demands it be fooled https://twitter.com/...
Jason Wilson / @jason_a_w: In this situation your choices are (a) specify the conditions for your readers (b) refuse to do the story (c) congrats you work for Elon Musk now https://twitter.com/...
Josh Marshall / @joshtpm: basically from start to finish the only person coming through any of this looking even half way decent in yoel roth
Jared Holt / @jaredlholt: How can Matt Taibbi ever call himself a journalist again after collabing w the wealthiest guy on Earth, doing PR work that could otherwise spur legal issues at Twitter. It'll be how a lot of people remember him going forward. A lackey to the ruling class, cosplaying otherwise. https://twitter.com/...
Fox News: Musk's revelations on Twitter censoring Hunter Biden laptop story prompt liberal rage: ‘Hack stuff’
Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: It's absolutely true that every political actor on the planet is working the refs continuously. What's important is whether the final decisions are being made consistent with already-decided policy and in a neutral way. Clearly, Twitter's over-pivot on 2016 lead to a big mistake.
Mike Shields / @digitalshields: Someone told me about this OpenAI ChatGPT thing and I didn't believe it at first but this is pretty amazing https://twitter.com/...
Jeffrey Snover / @jsnover: Ok Ben beat me to the conclusion. But to be fair, I keep waiting for @mtaibbi to add more tweets. I'm open to there being a there there. But I don't see any. https://twitter.com/...
Bill Kristol / @billkristol: “While normal humans who denied Republicans their red wave were enjoying an epic sports weekend, MAGA activists...were getting riled up about leaked emails revealing that troll accounts were not allowed to post ill-gotten photos on a company's platform...” https://www.thebulwark.com/...
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: So far, we've... confirmed a bunch of things that Twitter said publicly, debunked the idea that the gov't demanded the story be removed, highlighted the challenges of content moderation... and revealed the personal email addresses of Jack and Ro Khanna (violating Twitter policy).
@capitolhunters: People now marveling over Matt Taibbi's fall from his noble days covering Occupy Wall Street - remember that Tim Pool, who just hosted Kanye West and Nick Fuentes on his show, also got his start at Occupy. The alt-right is full of those slides from journalism to propaganda. 1/ https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Will Oremus / @willoremus: I wrote about this structural separation between policy and comms earlier that year, when they decided to fact-check a Trump tweet. As @jason_kint notes, it contrasts w/ FB's approach which lets PR concerns influence policy. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: Elon Musk paid $44 billion to discover what we already knew: content moderation is messy and involves whole teams of people with a range of viewpoints trying to appease different political factions. He then gave “leaks” to a Substack Man to present it as a blockbuster. https://twitter.com/...
Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona: Simps gonna simp. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: This thread confirms what I knew! Excellent! Twitter's reaction to 2016 included policies for both on-platform trolling and hack-and-leak. The latter lead to a big overreach that had nothing to do with the deep state or @EI_Partnership. A bunch of execs, of course, argued. https://twitter.com/...
@thedailybeast: Yet again, Elon Musk turned Twitter into a spectacle, promising to air the company's dirty laundry about “what really happened with the Hunter Biden story suppression.” However, the leak turned out not to be quite the bombshell Musk had hyped. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Julian Sanchez / @normative: “Break[ing] a real story about real power centers” is not how I'd characterize “The richest man on earth fed me some documents, and I spun them like he wanted.” https://twitter.com/...
Ben Dreyfuss / @bendreyfuss: @mattyglesias ... If we're going to play the “first amendment was violated by a government employee asking a private enterprise to consider taking steps to moderate speech” game then I think it's the trump team that is first against the wall https://twitter.com/...
Robby Soave / Reason: Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi Reveal Why Twitter Censored the Hunter Biden Laptop Story
@josenotajay: I can't imagine how exhausting it must be to pretend that the “Twitter Files” are a real news story. https://twitter.com/...
A.J. Delgado / @ajdelgado13: @mtaibbi Uhhh. The Trump Campaign in 2016 used to also send in requests to Twitter to have it remove tweets that had inaccurate information. Just FYI. I was there.
Jeet Heer / @heerjeet: The juxtaposition of the two screenshots produces real hilarity. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Stamos / @alexstamos: But this is the most important tweet in the thread, and it contradicts the conspiracy theories promoted by a variety of biased media outlets and political actors, as well as a statement of a new Senator made just today. https://twitter.com/...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: The big story seems to be that the owner of twitter used the site and it's resources to promote a partisan nothingburger https://twitter.com/...
Josh Marshall / @joshtpm: @micsolana wow someone reporting a tweet. Holy shit. Lol
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Elon Musk vicariously publishes internal emails from Twitter's Hunter Biden laptop drama
Brian Fung / CNN: Released Twitter emails show how employees debated how to handle 2020 New York Post Hunter Biden story
Brandon Gorrell / Pirate Wires: The Twitter Files Thread, In A Way More Readable Format
Joseph Wilkinson / New York Daily News: Elon Musk claims Twitter muzzled Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020 without reason
Ben Schreckinger / Politico: ‘This will be awesome’: Musk leaks Twitter's Hunter Biden files
Kylie Robison / Fortune: Elon Musk attacks Twitter's previous leaders by trying to refocus attention on the GOP's favorite target: Hunter Biden and his laptop
RADAR: Twitter CEO Elon Musk Vows To Release Details About ‘What REALLY Happened’ With Hunter Biden Laptop Story Censorship
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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Elon Musk thinks the “Twitter Files” show that Twitter staff nefariously helped Joe Biden, but all they show is a team debating a difficult moderation decision — Free-speech crusader Elon Musk isn't happy with Twitter's years-old decision to suppress a news story …
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Fox News: Musk declares New York Times ‘lobbying firm for far left’ after reportedly ignoring ‘Twitter Files’ story
Patrick LaForge / @palafo: It's possible to believe Twitter made the wrong call on limiting a news article and the right call on deleting stolen pictures of genitalia while also noting the right of an owner to decide what it allows to be published on its site. First Amendment only limits the government. https://twitter.com/...
Patrick Chovanec / @prchovanec: 1. Some thoughts on the Twitter thread put out by @elonmusk and @mtaibbi. My purpose here isn't to promote or rebut, but evaluate and consider. I will try my best to be fair-minded.
Mike Masnick / @mmasnick: Meanwhile, would love to see the editorial discussion at the NY Post on whether to run the laptop story in the first place. I do wonder how that would look compared to what was revealed regarding Twitter internal discussion.
Tim Carney / @tpcarney: It was not a difficult moderation decision unless you were weighing responsibility vs desire to protect the presidential frontrunner from scrutiny. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Swider / The Shortcut: Twitter Files timeline: unbiased review of how moderators botched the Hunter Biden laptop story
Brian Stelter / The Atlantic:
A eulogy for HLN, launched by Ted Turner on New Year's Day 1982 and now effectively closing, made mostly obsolete at a time when anyone can broadcast headlines — Media Winter is here once more, and it is getting ugly. It seems as though every news giant is shrinking toward 2023 through end …
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@espiegler: @brianstelter on HLN & how, for media, “before death comes obsolescence”: “This strained moment for TV news has no small number of anchors & hosts questioning what they thought they knew about the medium—& how much space will exist for them in the future.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
@taylorlorenz: That's not what sets TV apart. Many good journalists do this every day on the internet, but if they're women they're then derided by cable news people as “influencer journalists” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Hobson / @jeremyhobson: Great piece by @brianstelter. I got into radio as a kid because I felt the people I was listening to were my friends and companions. We need people we like and trust to help us understand the world around us. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Erica Hill / @ericarhill: The .@HLNTV family welcomed me almost 20 yrs ago and never let go ❤️ Memories+life long friends. @RobinMeade + @MorningExp are the family so many viewers chose, and not just for the news. Bittersweet read from @brianstelter https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: @Newsy Here's what really happened: CNN grew too big, too fast, when times were good. But if you look at Jeff Zucker's time there, it was mostly a ratings and financial disaster. If it weren't for Trump's presidency, CNN would have had no high points.
Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: @mediagazer @brianstelter I have some thoughts on this... https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: You know, I would buy a lot of the arguments that Brian makes in his piece, except they don't apply to everyone. CNBC is “companion television” for Wall Street execs who have the same technology to get information at their fingertips. Yet that network is doing just fine. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan McDowell / @planet4589: @brianstelter @TheAtlantic I was an HLN addict in its early days, but after some years ‘breaking news’ started to mean ' news we've already mentioned for the past 2 days' - its move away from actually being a breaking news stream happened long before twitter came along to play that role.
Martin Lieberman / @martinlieberman: Good read by @brianstelter about why Robin Meade will be missed ... “The reinvention of a broadcast medium plays out anticlimactically, like a slowly abandoned shopping mall—one store closes at a time until the whole structure serves a different purpose.” https://ow.ly/... https://twitter.com/...
Jamie Stelter / @jamiestelter: “Before death comes obsolescence.” @brianstelter writes (lovingly!) about what the death of HLN means for the future of TV news. @TheAtlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Jordan Valinsky / @jordan327: I've been watching @RobinMeade for 20 years every morning and going to miss her and her team so much :( https://twitter.com/...
Geoff Pilkington / @geoffpilkington: The End of Companion Television CNN's Headline News may seem thoroughly old-fashioned now that it's dead. But its demise is a reminder of the creeping nature of media obsolescence. Interesting column by @brianstelter https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: CNN will no longer produce live programs for HLN and will simulcast CNN This Morning; layoffs include CNN correspondent Chris Cillizza
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@frankpallotta, @rachelmetz, @lamonicabuzz, @justinbaragona, Deadline, @dylanbyers, Poynter, @dylanbyers, @oliverdarcy, @brianstelter, @oliverdarcy, @lucas_shaw, @kerrymflynn, @loudmouthjulia, @brianstelter, Breitbart, New York Post, Talking Biz News, @notjessewalker, @racheltobac, RADAR, @b52malmet, MediaPost, @evan_greer, @sfiegerman, @taylorlorenz, @goldietaylor, @heysamantha, @justinhendrix, @ceciliakang, @mmitchell_ai, @jason, @ninadschick, @alixabeth, @benjedwards, @chrisalbon, @rachelmetz, @rachelmetz, @jtemple, @heatherkelly, @jeffjarvis, @keitholbermann, @themaxburns, @kailijoy, @atrios, @keitholbermann, @curtishouck, @hemantmehta and @tvgrimreaper
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Frank Pallotta / @frankpallotta: Unfortunately, I was laid off by CNN yesterday, but looking back, I'm thrilled that I got to spend a decade covering something I love: the inner workings of Hollywood.
@rachelmetz: i was laid off from @CNN today (and i'm not the only one). i'm devastated; i loved my job. i was CNN's only AI reporter, and the *last remaining* CNN Digital reporter in the San Francisco Bay Area. i'm taking a beat to breathe, but i'll be looking for a new reporting job ASAP.
Paul R. La Monica / @lamonicabuzz: Personal news! I'm part of the @CNN layoffs. I'll keep working until early March. After that? A much needed break to recharge after 21+ years! I feel awful for my amazing colleagues who are losing their jobs. But don't cry for me. I'll be fine. Now it's time to get back to work!
Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona: Chris Cillizza is one of the CNN staffers who have been let go in the latest round of layoffs by Chris Licht, according to @bristei: https://variety.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: Scoop @PuckNews: As part of CNN cost cuts, HLN will cease all live programming.
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: NEW @PuckNews: New memo from Chris Licht details changes at CNN... https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Read @brianstelter's eulogy to HLN: “The reinvention of a broadcast medium plays out anticlimactically, like a slowly abandoned shopping mall—one store closes at a time until the whole structure serves a different purpose.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Yesterday's announcement about the demise of HLN deserved a followup. It's a sad moment in the 40-year-history of cable news. So I wrote this for @TheAtlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Frank was one of the original CNN media reporters. He has an incredible passion for the business that he covers and a spirit that livened up the newsroom. Looking forward to seeing what he does next. https://twitter.com/...
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: Frank is a smart and passionate reporter who should be scooped up by a newsroom — quickly. https://twitter.com/...
@kerrymflynn: Separate from Frank being the amazing human he is, it's so sad to see CNN is down to one media reporter @oliverdarcy is great and so happy @sarafischer is now a contributor. But the media industry needs more coverage by reporters. We more people holding this industry accountable
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: There are few journalists who are truly great reporters, analysts, and writers. They shine brightly when you stumble upon their work. Frank is exceptional at all three. His work remains a constant source of thorough analysis of the complex world of Hollywood. I'll miss it dearly. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: This is just an act one plot twist, my movie buff friend. Setting up an epic next act! https://twitter.com/...
Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post: CNN layoffs came under Chris Licht's massive restructuring
Mariam Ahmed / Talking Biz News: CNN has laid off two additional business journalists
Jesse Walker / @notjessewalker: There was a time when turning on CNN Headline News at the top of the half-hour was the fastest way to find out what news was breaking. That era ended decades ago, and I have not willinging watched the channel in eons, but still: Pour one out for the cutting edge of the '90s. https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Tobac / @racheltobac: Rachel is one of my very favorite reporters (and not just because we share the same first name spelling). If you're not hiring Rachel, you're missing out. https://twitter.com/...
Connor Surmonte / RADAR: CNN Axe Falls: On-Air Correspondents FIRED — Who's In, Who's Out In Cost-Cutting Bloodbath
Barbara Malmet / @b52malmet: “Lay off” is a polite term for getting kicked out of the door. https://twitter.com/...
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: CNN Strips HLN, Drops Longtime Anchor Robin Meade
@evan_greer: ugh, this really really sucks. for years CNN has almost no good tech reporting at all, and often had tech reporting that was just straight up wrong. Rachel has been an awesome, thoughtful reporter focused on covering stories that really matter. just a huge loss. hire her! https://twitter.com/...
Seth Fiegerman / @sfiegerman: Rachel is a tremendous reporter and a wonderful colleague who made me and everyone else on our team smarter. Hire her, immediately. https://twitter.com/...
@goldietaylor: I am saddened by this news, as I am grateful to have shared the screen with Robin Meade over the years. She is an incredible talent. >> HLN Gutted By CNN Layoffs https://variety.com/... via @variety
Samantha Murphy Kelly / @heysamantha: Some big changes at CNN today. @rachelmetz is an A++ journalist any media outlet would be lucky to have. https://twitter.com/...
Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix: An important beat, an important voice- I look forward to seeing where Rachel lands. https://twitter.com/...
Cecilia Kang / @ceciliakang: hire rachel https://twitter.com/...
@jason: The Era of Excess ends & the Age of Accountability begins CNN's new management deploys zero-based budgeting, which in this case states “starting with a blank spreadsheet show me what you need to run a new a 24-hour network” https://variety.com/...
Nina Schick / @ninadschick: Letting go of a brilliant and the *only* AI reporter? What a spectular own goal by @CNN. https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen / @alixabeth: This is no time for our democracy to be skimping on reporting and, yet, here we are. It's far more than worrisome to contemplate what we'll never learn because major news outlets are firing reporters. https://twitter.com/...
Benj Edwards / @benjedwards: This is a huge bummer, Rachel is one of my favorite reporters in the AI space! Whichever outlet she ends up in is going to be lucky to have her https://twitter.com/...
Chris Albon / @chrisalbon: Such a mistake by CNN. The widespread deployment of AI is going to shape the next decade. https://twitter.com/...
@rachelmetz: when i started at CNN in late 2018, it was with the promise of a massive expansion of the tech reporting team, particularly in the Bay Area. instead, the opposite has happened, and it's been awful to see a great team shrink. i'm going to miss working with you all so much.
@rachelmetz: i feel really lucky to have worked with many wonderful folks over the past four years, some who have moved on and some who are still at CNN. thank you @sfiegerman @MattQuinn16 @kyurieff @donie @saraashleyo @heatherkelly @AlexKoppelman @richbarbieri @JasonFarkas @claresduffy
@jtemple: If you're smart, you'll hire Rachel, who is a great reporter and a wonderful colleague. https://twitter.com/...
Heather Kelly / @heatherkelly: Rachel is one of the best at making AI stories enjoyable, accessible and jargon free. Hire her. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: The news here is that there still is a channel called HLN. https://twitter.com/...
Keith Olbermann / @keitholbermann: I wanted to say that while I have found @ChrisCillizza's deterioration into unalloyed Bothsidesism awful, it is not personal (and I understand if, from him, it is) and I do not want to celebrate his firing, especially since it's part of Chris Licht's mission to destroy @CNN https://twitter.com/...
Max Burns / @themaxburns: The day finally came but I refuse to take joy in anyone's layoff. Layoffs suck. https://twitter.com/...
Kaili Joy Gray / @kailijoy: Chris Cillizza, call your office https://twitter.com/...
Keith Olbermann / @keitholbermann: On the other hand, if you look at both sides, there are problems either way #ThoughtsAndPrayers https://twitter.com/...
Curtis Houck / @curtishouck: #NEW: Among the CNN layoffs are correspondents Alison Kosik, Martin Savidge, Alex Field, Mary Ann Fox, and....CHRIS CILLIZZA https://variety.com/...
Hemant Mehta / @hemantmehta: Silver lining. https://twitter.com/...
Clare Malone / New Yorker:
A look at Puck, its founder Jon Kelly, and his vision for an outlet for and about “moguls”; source: Puck hopes to raise a $15-20M Series B in early 2023 — The media startup Puck is aiming to build a business by covering power and wealth from the inside.
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Tom Gara / @tomgara: This whole article is fun but I want another 8,000 words on the founding investor in Puck: “the investment arm of Standard Industries, the world's largest roofing and waterproofing company, which employs a number of former Vanity Fair staffers.” https://www.newyorker.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Clare Malone / @claremalone: I wrote about @PuckNews, the site with a decidedly un-squeamish fixation on the rich & powerful, and the Graydon Carter protege behind it all. https://www.newyorker.com/...
@taylorlorenz: I love Puck they have great stuff can't wait to read this piece https://www.newyorker.com/...
Tina Nguyen / @tina_nguyen: My favorite thing about working at @PuckNews is that I get to openly roast my boss in the New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Felix Gillette / @felixgillette: Puck is great. years ago, knew the minute I perused the multipage, multivariable, rpo-heavy offensive playbook that he'd drawn up for an intramural, Bloomberg touch football game circa 2010 that @JonKelly2 was going big places and doing big things. https://www.newyorker.com/...
Ryan McCarthy / @mccarthyryanj: Just a fantastic story by @ClareMalone on Puck. At a time when trust in media is in the crapper, the big new media startups (Puck, Semafor, Punchbowl, etc) are catering to the most elite readers. Thank god we're taking care of their editorial needs https://www.newyorker.com/...
Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: @mediagazer That sounds like Bloomberg Lite to me.
@newyorker: The media startup Puck isn't squeamish in declaring its fixation on the rich and powerful. “Élite journalists are our influencers,” Jon Kelly, its editor-in-chief and co-founder, said. https://nyer.cm/zOdCb98
Lainna Fader / @lainnafader: Shocked by these numbers https://www.newyorker.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Tom Ley / @toley88: Would love to know more about how Puck got 10,000 “institutions” to subscribe to its newsletters. https://twitter.com/...
Stephen Rodrick / @stephenrodrick: Going back to bed.. “Élite journalists are our influencers,” Jon Kelly, Puck's editor-in-chief, says. “And there is a chance to arbitrage the confluence of their influence and their opportunities.” https://www.newyorker.com/...
Felix Salmon / @felixsalmon: Fascinating @ClareMalone profile of Puck's Jon Kelly. (I had no idea that TPG tried to buy VF!) This is very Nick Denton, though, and dangerous. In my experience people are much more likely to lie when they know they're off the record. https://www.newyorker.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Honored to contribute a tiny, tiny sliver of weekly analysis to @PuckNews, a truly terrific - and fast growing! - publication anchored by some of the most brilliant and insightful writers working today. What a great New Yorker feature on their efforts! https://www.newyorker.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Honored to contribute a tiny, tiny sliver of weekly analysis to @PuckNews, a truly terrific - and fast growing! - publication anchored by some of the most brilliant and insightful writers working today. What a great New York feature on their efforts! https://www.newyorker.com/... https://twitter.com/...
New York Times:
Sources: Twitter's US ad revenue was 80% below internal expectations for the week of the World Cup's Nov. 20 start, as Twitter keeps missing weekly ad targets — Under Elon Musk, the company has cut its financial expectations as some advertisers request discounts and are offered incentives.
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@davidcorndc, @texasrabbitt, @simonvandore, @spencerbdavis, @karaswisher, @dbinkowski, @honsamseabury, @beyerstein, @thetweetofjohn, @nickknudsenus, @jay_jaffe, @rvawonk, @lothcomic, @akamisterjayem, @azeem, @garymarcus, @thefawcette, @evanhandler, @blueatlgeorgia, @thirdwaykessler, @rschooley, @jakebackpack, @fly4dat, @davidclinchnews, @graceal38236563 and @sizpatel, more at Techmeme »
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Rabbitt / @texasrabbitt: @mediagazer I've been having fun replying to ads I see and laughing at them for advertising on an alt right platform because it makes them look bad. Feel free to join me.
Simon Vandore / @simonvandore: Elon standing on the goose's goldenest eggs. World Cup comes but once every four years. https://twitter.com/...
Spencer / @spencerbdavis: very convenient that he published this only an hour before NYTime's article about twitter losing 80% of its expected ad revenue https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: For all the Hunter laptop hand waving which is a bit of a dud so far, this is the real story, which we predicted on @PivotPod, a troubling 80% drop in ads. https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Binkowski / @dbinkowski: Now I have to question the authenticity of Elon's bedside gun pic because holy hell that guy really loves shooting himself in the foot every chance he gets #twitterfiles #nothingburger https://www.nytimes.com/...
Samuel Seabury / @honsamseabury: Could @elonmusk be trying to distract from today's real news about Twitter: https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Lindsay Beyerstein / @beyerstein: Twitter's ad revenue was 80% below internal expectations during the World Cup. But I'm sure Matt Taibbi's hard-hitting dick pic reporting will stiffen advertisers' resolve: https://www.nytimes.com/...
John FitzGerald / @thetweetofjohn: Automakers are among the most concerned advertisers, with General Motors raising questions about whether Twitter's data would be shared with Mr. Musk's car company, Tesla, three people said. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nick Knudsen / @nickknudsenus: It's almost as though turning Twitter into a hotbed for hate is bad for business. 🧐🤷🏻 ♂️ https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jay Jaffe / @jay_jaffe: LO FuckingL https://twitter.com/...
Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D / @rvawonk: More on Twitter's advertising woes: “The World Cup has historically been a boon for Twitter, bringing in record traffic and an influx of advertising dollars. But this time [...], Twitter's US ad revenue was running at 80% below internal expectations...” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Daniel Kelly / @lothcomic: Given the extent to which “wealth” is fictional, I'm not sure how long Elon can actually afford to keep Twitter up and running. https://twitter.com/...
James Fawcette / @thefawcette: #Twitter Advertising Plummets Under #Musk. Q1 rev $1.1 Billion down from $1.6 prior year. Twitter had 3,980 advertisers in May, only 2,315 in October, fewest of any month until that point. Advertisers started fleeing when his acquisition was announced https://www.nytimes.com/...
Evan Handler / @evanhandler: “Many of the company's troubles can be traced to Mr. Musk's takeover in late October.” But I'm sure Matt Taibi's scathing expose (of nothing) will change all that. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@blueatlgeorgia: It's almost as if... impressions don't generate income. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jim Kessler / @thirdwaykessler: You know what's killing Twitter? Capitalism. @kateconger @MikeIsaac Ryan Mac report https://www.nytimes.com/...
@rschooley: So the TWITTER FILES dropped 15 minutes before the NYT tweeted this out from what I can tell, but I'm sure the timing was totally coincidental. https://twitter.com/...
Jacob Bacharach / @jakebackpack: Bribing a disgraced former journalist to tweet revenge porn of the current US President's addict son seems like a sagacious move to calm the jittery advertisers IMO. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@fly4dat: Ouch. That's a ~$330M monthly hole to fill, on top of the $80-100M original loss* and the $125M LBO interest. In sum: ~$550M/month. Substantial even for @elonmusk *will be cut after the 2-3mo severance payments run out. https://twitter.com/...
David Clinch / @davidclinchnews: Meanwhile -> https://twitter.com/...
Grace Alexander / @graceal38236563: @mediagazer Someone better call the Tesla board to expect further decreases in their stock price.
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Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Twitter offers advertisers generous incentives, including matching $500K to $1M in spending in 2022, in a bid to jump-start its faltering business
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Zoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer: NEW: Twitter is desperately trying to boost revenue by offering advertisers “unprecedented” incentives. Those who spend >$500k will get 100% “value add” (additional impressions & matching ad spend). On Slack, a Twitter VP said it was “the most aggressive ad spend incentive” ever
Sarah Reese Jones / @politicussarah: The real Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/...
@nytimes: Twitter is losing revenue and missing advertising targets. By the first week of the World Cup, U.S. ad revenue was 80% below expectations. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@mattmcneilshow: EIGHTY PERCENT below expectations!!! Who knew the social media site whose policies indicate “a little Hitler is okay, but repeated unabashed adoration for Hitler will EVENTUALLY get you blocked” is having revenue issues. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kyle Griffin / @kylegriffin1: Twitter keeps losing revenue and missing advertising targets: By the first week of the World Cup, Twitter's U.S. ad revenue was running at 80% below internal expectations for that week. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Anthony DeRosa / @anthony: Elon and co. knew this story was coming so the timing might have been intentional https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dan Eggen / @daneggenwpost: “Twitter had 3,980 advertisers in May, the month after Mr. Musk agreed to buy the company, according to MediaRadar, an advertising intelligence company. By October, it had 2,315 advertisers, the fewest of any month until that point.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Carl Quintanilla / @carlquintanilla: “.. Twitter's U.S. ad revenue was running at 80 percent below internal expectations for that week, three people with knowledge of the figures said.” @nytimes @MikeIsaac #WorldCup https://www.nytimes.com/...
John Gruber / Daring Fireball: ★ Two Weeks Later and Twitter Is Still Up
Amol Sharma / @asharma: Twitter is offering advertisers incentives to increase their spending — including matching value up to a certain level — after Musk's takeover prompted many brands to walk away from the platform. https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Giulio S. / @astaniscia86: Twitter plan is tailored for big brands and agencies. The pool of SMEs ad budgets is out of sight of Elon Musk. https://www.wsj.com/... @patiencehaggin https://twitter.com/...
Hannah Murphy / Ars Technica: Twitter dangles incentives to try to lure advertisers back
Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: Twitter offers advertisers BOGO ads to try to win them back; Ye suspended again
Sarah Kinosian / Reuters:
Sources: El Salvador's president built a propaganda machine with government-linked traditional media plus social media trolls, while attacking independent press — President Nayib Bukele has built a communications juggernaut in El Salvador. Its engine: paid internet trolls whose online attacks …
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@tomaxwell: Interesting reporting on how El Salvador's president @nayibbukele has employed troll farms, spun up new media outlets to silence independent reporters https://www.reuters.com/... Of course Twitter didn't respond to requests for comment, since it doesn't have a comms team anymore
Mike Brock / @brockm: I see a lot of bitcoiners et. al. laughing this all off as lies and propaganda, on a prima facie basis. Is it though? https://twitter.com/...
@oablanchard: These types of operations are becoming far more mainstream. Pay attention. For the past several years, the model has been fine-tuned in more vulnerable countries, and still is. What we can observe and learn from those operations can teach us how to protect ourselves from it here. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Kinosian / @skinosian: One senior U.S. government official, who know about the internal State Dept study mapping Bukele's strategy, told me that it was “one of the most sophisticated media operations in the western hemisphere”
Sarah Kinosian / @skinosian: For months I dug into President Bukele's media machine in El Salvador. What I found was a highly-coordinated network designed to attack critics, praise Bukele and mislead, that was built on paid government trolls, propaganda, and most importantly, fear. https://www.reuters.com/...
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
The Washington Post has laid off Sarah Kaufman, one of the last full-time dance critics in the US; as of 2015, there were two full-time critics remaining — The Washington Post has laid off Pulitzer Prize winner Sarah L. Kaufman, one of the last full-time dance critics in the country …
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@caitjgibson, @katherinelewis, @jodyvance, @ilyseh, @nickturse, @jimtrotter_nfl, @annia, @jbf1755, @ailsachang, @garymasonglobe, @saintsoftness, @kemettler, @kemettler, @caitjgibson, @caitjgibson, @consumersos, @dance_edit, @chris__richards, @bernstein, @damonlinker, @jsf, @molliekatzen, @zinoman, @misssoniarao, @jbenton, @hankstuever, @lauracappelle, @ionarts, @mrdavidjays, @jadabird, @timothynoah1, @sdkstl and @sulliview
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Caitlin Gibson / @caitjgibson: It's been a brutal week for The Washington Post, and I want to talk about one particular journalist who lost his job of 23 yrs, & what it means - for the stories we tell, & way our readers understand their world - when deeply experienced, irreplaceable journalists are lost. 1/x
Katherine X Lewis / @katherinelewis: Heartbreaking. David Rowell has also been consistently kind and encouraging to freelance journalists who sought his advice or pitched him. I hope he finds a new position somewhere that values long-form journalism and storytelling. https://twitter.com/...
Jody Vance / @jodyvance: It's a beautiful and heartbreaking thread. Layoffs in journalism and media will chang our society, for the worse, with each cut. The anti-media rhetoric is built upon a want to control the narrative - control the messages - and control people. Media = freedom. https://twitter.com/...
@ilyseh: What a beautiful tribute. There's a lot to love about new media but investigative reporters and passionate editors shape and enrich our lives so profoundly. The loss of them is immeasurable. https://twitter.com/...
Nick Turse / @nickturse: A great thread about how journalism gets made — and what an impact an editor who really cares about every aspect of the craft can make. https://twitter.com/...
Jim Trotter / @jimtrotter_nfl: If you know, you know. If you don't, here you go. 👇🏾 https://twitter.com/...
@annia: Ever wondered why there's so much propaganda & fake news these days? Why so many people believe misinformation? Why outright lies have become so powerful? This. This here is one major reason why. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Joanne Freeman / @jbf1755: Technologies that shape how people communicate with each other almost always shape the democratic process. With the ongoing social media scramble & the firing of so many journalists this week...it will be interesting to see the dynamics of change, what is gained, & what is lost. https://twitter.com/...
Ailsa Chang / @ailsachang: What we do as journalists comes down to the humans that we are. Lose sight of that, you lose sight of what's at the heart of this mission. https://twitter.com/...
Gary Mason / @garymasonglobe: This is a remarkable love letter to an editor by a very appreciative reporter. https://twitter.com/...
@saintsoftness: This is outrageous and bad for anyone who cares about the arts in America. Supposedly WaPo wants more tech writing— I'd be the first to tell you my writing about technology is deeply informed by dance historians and critics, as well as dance as art form. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Katie Mettler / @kemettler: Hours after @washingtonpost laid off @SarahLKaufman, she went to the theater. She had an assignment, and she didn't want to disappoint the dancers and the readers. That's the kind of quality human and journalist we just let go. Read Sarah's final review: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Katie Mettler / @kemettler: @washingtonpost @SarahLKaufman A class act by every definition: https://twitter.com/...
Caitlin Gibson / @caitjgibson: I've been thinking so much this week about how journalism is, at its core, at its best, so fundamentally human. We tell human stories, and those stories are shaped by the humans who report and write and edit and produce them, who decide which stories to tell, and how. 10/x
Caitlin Gibson / @caitjgibson: So the impact of the loss of someone like David, and the other incredible journalists laid off this week, the brilliant people cast out across our industry, feels truly staggering, immeasurable. Our attentive readers will notice and feel it. At The Post, we are heartbroken. /end
@consumersos: A terrific thread about the value of journalism. And journalists. By @CaitJGibson https://twitter.com/...
@dance_edit: The @washingtonpost has laid off dance critic @SarahLKaufman. She minces no words: “I can't fathom why this institution is shutting itself off to what dancers and choreographers have to say about our lives and the world we live in.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@chris__richards: It's Friday at noon and the Washington Post still hasn't sent an internal memo about the layoff of Sarah Kaufman who brought immeasurable prestige to this newspaper by winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2010 Instead, we're reading about it in our paper https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Joe Bernstein / @bernstein: I had the privilege of getting to know @SarahLKaufman during our year as Nieman fellows. It's hard for me to imagine a more gracious and brilliant person and arts journalist. The Post's loss. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Damon Linker / @damonlinker: This makes me sad, but the reality is: Serious writing about dance and other arts will continue to die off in general-interest outlets. It will be replaced by people writing Substack newsletters on the subjects for much smaller audiences of people willing to pay for it. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Farago / @jsf: one casual observation to add to my colleagues' regrets: uptown or downtown, ballet or conceptual, the dance audience right now is YOUNG. Younger than the theater's, younger than the opera's, younger than many museums'. Dance has a growing public, and our media is trivializing it https://twitter.com/...
Mollie Katzen / @molliekatzen: This is a horrible loss for the dance world, and for our culture in general. And at a time when we need art and art discussion more than ever. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jason Zinoman / @zinoman: Grim news. We're watching the slow death of large branches of art criticism. The worst part is the hardest hit (local, live arts) are the ones that spotlight work that need press the most. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Sonia Rao / @misssoniarao: Writing about the arts is vital, and difficult. I was grateful when I joined Features to be able to learn so much about the craft simply by being near or reading the work of such brilliant colleagues. Our critics, like Sarah, are incredible. What a loss. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: As of 2015, there were two full-time dance critics in the U.S., at @nytimes and @washingtonpost. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... I guess it's just one, @giakourlas at the Times, now? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Hank Stuever / @hankstuever: This was shocking to me and a very big loss of a colleague I have long admired, who is an expert on grace because she possesses so much of it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Laura Cappelle / @lauracappelle: Thoroughly depressing news - @SarahLKaufman laid off by the @washingtonpost. In a matter of months, we've lost @dancingtimes and one of the last full-time dance critic positions in the US. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Charles T. Downey / @ionarts: This is a terrible decision - not a good sign for the upcoming reconfiguration of the Style section, to say the least https://twitter.com/...
David Jays / @mrdavidjays: This is grim news: Sarah Kaufman is a remarkable dance writer whose stories have a regional hook but international reach. A huge loss to Washington - and signals a retreat from valuing dance and the wider arts https://twitter.com/...
Jada Yuan / @jadabird: On Weds, @washingtonpost laid off Pulitzer-winning dance critic Sarah Kaufman, in a series of cuts. Her classy exit illustrates what a loss this is: “My principal concern is what is going to happen to those artists and the wider public knowledge of them.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Timothy Noah / @timothynoah1: Washington Post Concedes D.C. Is Cultural Backwater. Sarah Kaufman will not be replaced. Gia Kourlas of the NYT is now the country's only full-time newspaper dance critic. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Staci D Kramer / @sdkstl: @Sulliview I keep coming back to this: in the midst of a hiring push, “The Post did not offer laid-off staffers other roles at the paper.”
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: Such a talented writer with a unique voice. These layoffs are painful to see, and — given the pace of recent hiring, and the contributions these journalists have made — pretty cold, though perhaps they make strategic sense to some. Seems misguided to this observer https://twitter.com/...
Angela Fu / Poynter:
Gannett's layoffs, affecting ~200 people in its news division, include reporters at the flagship USA Today and producers on regional digital optimization teams — Among those affected were reporters at flagship paper USA Today and producers working on Gannett's digital optimization teams.
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Staci D Kramer / @sdkstl: >>The Atlantic DOT Guild emailed Gannett's outside counsel Thursday to bargain over the changes but received an out-of-office message, McLoone said.<< https://twitter.com/...
@od_schneider: Please read this Poynter article by @angelanfu, particularly the section on the DOT: https://www.poynter.org/...
Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
The NYT union has sent a letter to the paper's CEO and publisher threatening a daylong walkout on December 8 if they don't come to terms on a new labor contract — This morning at 8 a.m., New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger and CEO Meredith Kopit Levien received a letter from Bill Baker …
Discussion:
@nytimesguild, Reason, @nhannahjones, @lydiadepillis, @rweingarten, @wirecutterunion, @liamstack, @jswatz, @ronlieber, @powellnyt, @conordougherty, @daveyalba, @jennyvrentas, @rubinojc, @hopnotes, @amandahess, @bradlander, @nytliz, @jeanuh_, New York Daily News, @nina_channing, @sheeraf, @francesrobles, @bobbybigwheel, @lkatzenberg, @gregkb, @apantazi, @chrisecrowley, @chactivist, Reuters, Axios and The NewsGuild
Discussion:
@nytimesguild: After 20 months of negotiations, enough is enough: Today, more than 1,000 @NYTimesGuild members pledged to walk out if @nytimes does not agree to a complete and fair contract by Dec. 8.
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: I will be joining my @NYTimesGuild colleagues in walking out if @nytimes doesn't agree to a fair contract by Dec. 8. https://twitter.com/...
Lydia DePillis / @lydiadepillis: Signal boosting this action, which I signed, because the labor share of income has been eroding for decades and when workers have power they should use it. https://twitter.com/...
Randi Weingarten / @rweingarten: We Support you @nytimesguild https://twitter.com/...
@wirecutterunion: We at Wirecutter Union stand in solidarity with the @nytimesguild. Our colleagues deserve a fair contract. https://twitter.com/...
Liam Stack / @liamstack: The NYT approved $150M in stock buybacks to benefit shareholders. My Guild colleagues are asking the company for a fair contract it can clearly afford to support the people who made its success possible. And we've pledged to walk out if it doesn't happen. https://twitter.com/...
John Schwartz / @jswatz: I love the New York Times, and loved working there for 21 years. The @NYTimesGuild protected my rights while I worked there. I support the Guild, and my former colleagues, in this walkout. They need a contract! As they say, “Without us, it's just blank space.” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ron Lieber / @ronlieber: I am not in the union, but I support my union colleagues. It should not have gotten to this point, and the union's resolve is as serious as I've ever seen it. Follow @NYTimesGuild for more. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Powell / @powellnyt: New York Times Staff Ready for Walk Out. Mgt of NYT, a great paper, faces critical decisions: Do you pay staff wages that arrest two-decade slide against inflation? Do you cast aside insulting attempts to kill pension and cut health? @NYTimesGuild https://nymag.com/...
Conor Dougherty / @conordougherty: Things getting very tense at work. After 20 months of negotiations, more than 1,000 @NYTimesGuild members (including me) pledged to walk out if @nytimes does not agree to a complete and fair contract by Dec. 8. https://nymag.com/...
Jenny Vrentas / @jennyvrentas: The truth is @NYTimesGuild members are essential to making @nytimes great. The truth is we're worth it. I pledge to walk out with more than 1,000 of my @NYTimesGuild colleagues if @nytimes does not agree to a complete and fair contract by Dec. 8. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Rubino / @rubinojc: Feels like we're at a tipping point for media companies refusing to pay journalists fairly. From Fort Worth to New York. https://twitter.com/...
Josh Noel / @hopnotes: Stand strong, NYT journalists!! The Chicago Tribune has been at the negotiating table with @tribpub even longer than 20 months and we've hit headwind after headwind with our hedge fund owners ...🤔 https://twitter.com/...
Amanda Hess / @amandahess: I'm proud to stand with my colleagues! We ask the NYT — which heaps millions on execs and shareholders while boasting about profits — to deliver a fair contract and livable wage to ALL the people who make this paper in the most expensive city in the world. https://twitter.com/...
Brad Lander / @bradlander: If you're a @nytimes subscriber like me who is grateful every day for the work of their journalists & staff, please join me in sending a letter to NYT management demanding that they give @NYTimesGuild workers the contract they deserve: https://actionnetwork.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Williamson / @nytliz: I'm one of them. https://twitter.com/...
Gina Cherelus / @jeanuh_: I've joined my colleagues in this pledge to walk out if @nytimes does not agree to a fair contract. Check out this thread to learn more. https://twitter.com/...
Larry McShane / New York Daily News: NY Times staffers threaten 24-hour walkout after 20 months of unsuccessful union negotiations
Cornelia Channing / @nina_channing: After 20 months of negotiations, enough is enough: Today I joined more than 1,000 of my @NYTimesGuild colleagues in pledging to walk out for a fair and complete @nytimes contract. https://nymag.com/...
Sheera Frenkel / @sheeraf: I am joining more than 1,000 @NYTimesGuild members in pledging to walk out on Thursday, Dec. 8, if @nytimes doesn't agree to a complete and fair contract by then. No one wants to have it come to this, but we have been without a contract for too long. https://nymag.com/...
Frances Robles / @francesrobles: I and more than 1,000 of my New York Times Guild colleagues have pledged to walk out Dec. 8 if we don't get a contract. https://nymag.com/...
Aaron / @bobbybigwheel: Doing Wordle would count as crossing a picket line, be ready to say goodbye to your streak https://twitter.com/...
Lauren Katzenberg / @lkatzenberg: After 20 months of negotiations, enough is enough: Today I joined more than 1,000 of my @NYTimesGuild colleagues in pledging to walk out if @nytimes does not agree to a complete and fair contract by Dec. 8. We know what we're worth. https://twitter.com/...
@gregkb: “Picture it: a full day without the New York Times. No one covering the tumult in Guangzhou or inside Buckingham Palace or what our president is saying. From midnight to midnight, no reporting, no filing stories, no podcasting, no comment moderating...” https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Pantazi / @apantazi: “We are laborers and we need to get paid for the work, and I think if you're going to advocate for good, you have to actually be good as well.” https://nymag.com/...
Chris Crowley / @chrisecrowley: “We have been lectured about the dire economic future the company faces - even as the company tells Wall Street about a successful corporation that can afford to pay millions in salaries and benefits to its top executives,” states the letter. https://nymag.com/...
Chris Brooks / @chactivist: 🚨 STRIKE ALERT 🚨 This morning at 8 a.m., New York Times [management] received a letter from [. . .] the Times guild, that was signed by more than 1,000 employees. Subject line: “Enough. If there is no contract by Dec. 8, we are walking out.” https://nymag.com/...
Sara Fischer / Axios: 1,000+ NYT union members threaten to walk out
Herb Scribner / Axios:
Filing: Alex Jones has filed for personal bankruptcy in Texas; Jones and Free Speech Systems have been ordered to pay $1.5B in damages to Sandy Hook families — Alex Jones filed for personal bankruptcy in Texas on Friday, according to a court filing.
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Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times: Alex Jones Files for Bankruptcy
Justine McDaniel / Washington Post: Alex Jones files for bankruptcy as he owes nearly $1.5B to Sandy Hook families
Kevin Baum / @kevinbaum013: This is an incredibly stupid move on Alex Jones' part for so many reasons. First, he's inviting scrutiny into his finances in a way he's not going to like. State courts are limited to their specific jurisdiction. Bankruptcy courts have worldwide jurisdiction. Even though.../1 https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Williamson / @nytliz: Happy #AlexJones bankruptcy day. I'm gifting you🎁 my story about it in the @nytimes Read it for free here, + update coming soon: https://www.nytimes.com/...
CBS News: Infowars host Alex Jones files for personal bankruptcy; owes nearly $1.5 billion to Sandy Hook families for hoax lies
@axios: NEW: Alex Jones has filed for personal bankruptcy in Texas. This comes after he and his company were ordered to pay almost $1.5B in damages for falsely claiming the Sandy Hook mass shooting was a hoax. https://www.axios.com/...
New York Daily News: Exiting Jonestown: Alex Jones' bankruptcy cannot aid his escaping accountability to Sandy Hook families
Jonathan Randles / Wall Street Journal: Alex Jones Files for Bankruptcy Following Sandy Hook Trial Losses
Bree Fowler / CNET: Alex Jones Files for Personal Bankruptcy
Rob Quinn / Newser: Alex Jones Files for Bankruptcy
Connor Surmonte / RADAR: Alex Jones Files For Bankruptcy, Claims To Be Worth Less Than $10M & ‘Cannot Afford’ To Give Sandy Hook Families $1B In Damages
Steff Chávez / Financial Times: InfoWars founder Alex Jones files for bankruptcy
Samantha Beech / CNN: Alex Jones has filed for personal bankruptcy
Doug Cunningham / UPI: Alex Jones files for bankruptcy after orders to pay $1.44B to Sandy Hook families
Drew Taylor / The Wrap: Alex Jones Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Lee Brown / New York Post: Infowars' Alex Jones files for bankruptcy over $1.5 billion payouts for Sandy Hook lies
Becky Sullivan / NPR: Alex Jones files for bankruptcy following $1 billion Sandy Hook verdicts
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast: Alex Jones Files for Bankruptcy After Billion-Dollar Sandy Hook Ruling
Adi Robertson / The Verge: Alex Jones has filed for bankruptcy
Insider: Alex Jones files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and lists the Sandy Hook parents he owes $1 billion to as his creditors
Julia Shapero / The Hill: Alex Jones files for bankruptcy as damages owed to Sandy Hook families total nearly $1.5B: report
Jeremy Hill / Bloomberg: Infowars' Alex Jones Files for Bankruptcy After $1 Billion Sandy Hook Verdict
Denny Freidenrich / FreidomReport: Alex Jones must pay
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone: Alex Jones, Who Owes $1.4 Billion for Sandy Hook Lies, Files For Bankruptcy
Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing: Alex Jones files for personal bankruptcy
Justin B. Smith / @justin_b_smith:
Memo: Justin Smith says Sam Bankman-Fried doesn't hold shares of Semafor, but if his interest converts to equity, he'll have a single-digit minority stake — I sent the following memo to our staff today regarding Sam Bankman-Fried and his investment in @Semafor. https://twitter.com/...
Kristin Robinson / Billboard:
Triller removes music catalogs for UMG, WMG, Sony Music, and Merlin after Sony filed a lawsuit claiming Triller failed to make payments worth “millions” — Following Sony's lawsuit, one label source says “millions” in unpaid royalties are the issue. Triller denies this, saying the app is “reassessing” label deals.
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Kristin Robinson / @wordsbykristin: BREAKING: Yesterday, Triller quietly took down all music from UMG, WMG, Sony, + Merlin (which reps many of the biggest indie labels) 1 major label rep told @billboard it was a result of “millions” in past due royalties. Triller told me thats “false” https://www.billboard.com/...
Jeff Benjamin / @jeff__benjamin: All the music “manager” scammers we know were pushing triller when it was clear there was no real engagement. Now it comes out they haven't been paying artists. Sony says millions are missing. How was management hyped up while their artists were skimped? https://www.billboard.com/...
Dylan Smith / Digital Music News: Triller Removes Music From the Major Labels and Merlin Amid Unpaid-Royalties Rumors
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