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Lauren Hirsch / CNBC:
Activist firm Elliott Management to buy Barnes & Noble for ~$683M including debt; in the past five years, B&N has lost more than $1 billion in market value — KEY POINTS — Activist firm Elliott Management announced Friday it plans to acquire bookseller Barnes & Noble for roughly $683 million, including debt.
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Wall Street Journal, @publisherswkly, @rolandscahill, Publishers Lunch, Bookseller News, USA Today and Publishers Weekly
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@publisherswkly: Barnes & Noble has been acquired by Elliot Management Corporation in an all-cash transaction valued at about $683 million. Elliot acquired U.K. bookseller Waterstones in 2018. Waterstones CEO James Daunt will also become CEO of B&N and will be based in New York City.
Roland Scahill / @rolandscahill: It will take Amazon about 14 days to gross what Barnes & Noble was sold for https://twitter.com/...
Michael Cader / Publishers Lunch: Now Official: Elliott Advisors Buys Barnes & Noble, Daunt to Become CEO
Katie Mansfield / Bookseller News: Barnes & Noble close to deal with Waterstones owner Elliott Management
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with The Atlantic's Adrienne LaFrance and Jeffrey Goldberg on hiring and promoting women; Goldberg says print cover writers are almost exclusively white men — It's not a shocker that a lot has changed at The Atlantic since it was founded all the way back in 1857.
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Vox, Los Angeles Times, @karenkho, @lisang, @jessicaschulb, @jeffreygoldberg, @jeffreygoldberg, @laurahazardowen, @maxblumenthal, The Independent, @laurahazardowen, @boxall, @laurahazardowen, @jbenton, @jmrivera02, @jessieopie, @monaeltahawy, @ashleyfeinberg, @jbenton, @nhannahjones, @niemanlab, @laurahazardowen, @countmystars, @jbenton, @clarajeffery, @christykarras, @andilorenz, @jaclyncosgrove, @itsalexberg, @karenkho, @jbenton, @vadimjhu, @eefandrews, @laurahazardowen, @jbenton, @inlauraswords, @noreenmalone, @sulliview, @carnage4life, @karenkho, @jeffreygoldberg, @jsellenberg, @adriennelaf, @jeffreygoldberg, @jbenton, @aarond, @sarahparvini, @rachelheine, @karenkho, @jamilsmith, @blackamazon, @nhannahjones, @nhannahjones, @miekeeoyang, @nhannahjones, @fisher_danar, @susanorlean, @ashleyfeinberg, @grossdm, @_almaqah, @notesfromhel, @eenayo, @3vansutton, @rklein90, @aishas, @anamariecox, @alishagrauso, @johnghendy, @alexvandermaas, @alissamarie, @jabogen, @laurahazardowen, The Mary Sue, The Guardian and Mediaite
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Laura McGann / Vox: Even worse than Jeffrey Goldberg's sexist quote was his gaslighting of a journalist
Stacy Perman / Los Angeles Times: No, Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg was not misquoted in Nieman Lab
Karen K. Ho / @karenkho: this kind of thinking among so many white male editors, despite clear evidence to the contrary, highlights the bubbles I have been spending most of my career fighting to break into: https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Lisa Goldman / @lisang: If Jeffrey Goldberg thinks there's a lack of women who can write 10k word features, then he's astonishingly ignorant about his peers & he should step aside for a woman to replace him. Immediately. I'm gobsmacked by this interview. Stunned. What an insult. https://www.niemanlab.org/... pic.twitter.com/uAZzxJnHWn
Jessica Schulberg / @jessicaschulb: Aside from being patently untrue it blows my mind that the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic still doesn't know better than to say this out loud!!! https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Jeffrey Goldberg / @jeffreygoldberg: 2/2 @laurahazardowen's story has the details about how we're trying to improve (going from 17% women leaders to 63% women leaders in less than 3 years, for 1 thing). I'm sorry I didn't make myself clear in this interview, and I'm sorry that I hurt anyone. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Jeffrey Goldberg / @jeffreygoldberg: Re: That @NiemanReports interview: I was trying to explain (and obviously failed to explain) that white males dominate cover-story writing because they've had all the opportunities. We're trying to change that at @TheAtlantic. 1/2
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: Here are my comments on my Atlantic interview with @JeffreyGoldberg. 1) I enjoyed talking with Jeff and think that @TheAtlantic is doing an admirable job of hiring women. This is WHY I did the piece. It sucks if a stray comment distracts from what the team there is accomplishing.
Max Blumenthal / @maxblumenthal: Jeffrey Goldberg: It's really hard to write a bogus 10,000 word cover story linking Saddam to Al Qaeda or drumming up war with Iran, then get promoted to editor in chief. The journalists in America who can do it are exclusively ex-Israeli prison guards. https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Zamira Rahim / The Independent: Jeffrey Goldberg: Fury as Atlantic magazine editor suggests only white men can write long stories
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: I will be doing a couple more tweets about this. To respond briefly here, Jeff isn't misquoted - but I also believe his comments are being somewhat misconstrued. He didn't say the only people who *CAN* write these stories are men.
Bettina Boxall / @boxall: Atlantic has lots of company. During my 3 decades+ at @latimes, w/ a few exceptions it's seemed that a prerequisite for being considered a “WRITER” has been a pair of testicles (white of course). https://twitter.com/...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: 3) Please please read the whole story, including the comments from @AdrienneLaF, the first female executive editor in the company's history. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: It's the same reason that women/POC typically make up a smaller share of managers/executives with every rung of the corporate ladder you climb. It gets harder to make what a white man's lizard brain falsely tells him is a “riskier” choice. (6.6% of Fortune 500 CEOs are women.)
Joshua Rivera / @jmrivera02: there are all sorts of ways top editors ghettoize marginalized writers—"reporters" is one. POC are rarely seen as “reporters” because they only break through when they're writing about—guess what—race. there are all sorts of arbitrary experience thresholds in this business https://twitter.com/...
Jessie Opoien / @jessieopie: It's a little known fact, the uterus actually prevents women from being able to write more than 9,999 words in one story. https://twitter.com/...
Mona Eltahawy / @monaeltahawy: So many white male editors in US media go out of their way to remind us they are gatekeepers of patriarchy - whether it's in who they hire/don't hire, who they publish/don't publish, and the predators they often protect and enable.
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: Gotta train up all these women so hopefully one day they can reach the level of..... Jesse Singal? pic.twitter.com/LG9EykNDJo
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: A few thoughts. First, what @TheAtlantic is doing to bring more women into top positions is legit exciting, and not just because it means promotions for beloved @NiemanLab alumni! https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: It is not, clearly, that white men are disproportionately the ones who can write a 10K cover, but it is certainly true that far too many people always assume white men are the most capable even when they write shitty-ass 10K cover stories.
@niemanlab: “I want to create conditions in which women and people of color don't feel like they have to represent all the time, they can just do their jobs."https://www.niemanlab.org/ ...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: 2) An earlier thread suggested that Jeff believes I misquoted him. He says this is not the case. https://twitter.com/...
Liz Thurmond / @countmystars: Men are always, ALWAYS seen for their potential and women are always seen for the absolute minimum evaluation of their experience. https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: .@lkmcgann writing about @laurahazardowen writing about @AdrienneLaF may trigger some kind of @NiemanLab inception https://www.vox.com/...
Clara Jeffery / @clarajeffery: Most features shouldn't be 10,000 words, and fetishizing length often leads to some baggy self-indulgent shit. Those features that should be at that length can be written by any gender/race of person. Baggy self-indulgent shit is more often tolerated if a white man wrote it.
Christy Karras / @christykarras: So you're saying they completely misquoted you? Have you asked for a correction?
Andrea Lorenz / @andilorenz: I'd be curious to know the makeup of the editors choosing writers for the cover story.
Jaclyn Cosgrove / @jaclyncosgrove: One time, I used my tiny lady brain to write all these words about mental illness and the criminal justice system: http://newsok.com/... It was real, real hard for a little ol' lady like me. *faints from stress* https://twitter.com/...
Alex Berg / @itsalexberg: I guess it's a miracle that I can even write this fourteen word Tweet. https://twitter.com/...
Karen K. Ho / @karenkho: Off the top of my head, here are some non-white guys capable of writing 10,000 word cover stories: @jaycaspiankang @carvellwallace @jaeahjlee @alexandrianeas @jiatolentino @caityweaver @taffyakner @MirinFader @minakimes @joonlee @JamilSmith @jelani9 @caseyparks @conniewang
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: Oh, one last thing:Generally speaking, when a journalist says he's been “completely misquoted” and asked for a correction — but it turns out the exchange is on tape and quoted completely accurately — the good thing to do is to take back your false charges
Vadim Schick / @vadimjhu: If you read it context of the first paragraph though, it's pretty clear he meant is as self-criticism, no?
Eve Andrews / @eefandrews: i don't think that's what's going on.... it's that there already ARE a lot of women and non-white men who write longform reported features, including for the atlantic, and to say that “almost exclusively” white men do it is out of touch and out of date
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: 4) And to the Twitter dudes (some of whom have now deleted their tweets) suggesting I made this up: JFC, of course I recorded it.
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: Third: I thought it was pretty clear what Goldberg meant, that white men are the ones who usually get those opportunities.
Laura Norkin / @inlauraswords: Not for nothing but I don't think anyone realizes how many “1,200-word pieces for the web” start out at 10,000 words in the first place. https://twitter.com/...
Noreen Malone / @noreenmalone: What's interesting is that so many men who have been handed the editorship of a magazine without ... ever having been an editor seem to have a difficult time imagining taking a flyer on others doing the thing they used to do. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview: I aspire to be one of those women who can write 1,200 words. I top out at about 850.
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: This is an example of confusing opportunity with ability https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Karen K. Ho / @karenkho: More great names who are not white dudes capable of writing cover-length longform stories ALL THE TIME: @AdrianChen @gingerthomp1 @evaholland @omar_aok @williams_paige @e_alexjung @bijanstephen @marissaaevans @ktbenner @mega2e @jodikantor
Jeffrey Goldberg / @jeffreygoldberg: A bit more: Most of the writers of magazine cover stories have been men because men have traditionally been given the opportunity to do so. We're trying to change this at @TheAtlantic. @laurahazardowen interviewed me about changes at the magazine here: https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Jordan Ellenberg / @jsellenberg: Everybody who writes long pieces at some point writes their first. @nxthompson assigned me 6k words for Wired when I'd never done >1200. https://twitter.com/...
Adrienne LaFrance / @adriennelaf: A lot of people are sharing one quote by @JeffreyGoldberg from this Nieman Lab piece. I understand why. But as someone who has had infinity conversations with him about getting more women bylines in the print magazine, I know what he actually meant. (1/2)
Jeffrey Goldberg / @jeffreygoldberg: They didn't. I told the reporter that many women haven't been given the chance to write the 10,000 word stories. That's what I'm trying to change.
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: When an opportunity is that rare, a publication doubles down on whatever its priors are in picking a story/writer. So if its priors are “this is a job for white men,” they'll do that.
Aaron Dunlap / @aarond: Goldberg tries to deny saying that quote, then backpedals and says it's he said it but it's not what he meant, even though it was pic.twitter.com/mVU0sPlxrM
Sarah Parvini / @sarahparvini: This line: “I used to cover the Middle East & I think the thing that hamstrings Middle Eastern countries more than almost anything else is that they tend not to tap into half their population's potential and intelligence...It's the same principle applied to any field, any place.” https://twitter.com/...
Karen K. Ho / @karenkho: I'm sure many Atlantic staffers read @lyzl but if I was independently rich one of the first things I would do is hire her to write whatever the hell she wanted, including cover features. You bet your butts she's one of the best features writers in America right now.
Jamil Smith / @jamilsmith: I hope that @JeffreyGoldberg now realizes how this attitude perpetuates the very problem that he claims that he wants to solve. Yes, writing those stories is difficult. There are those of us who aren't white men who are quite capable of handling the task. https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: Hint: White men.
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: Literally, the difference between Nikole Hannah-Jones the beat reporter who could barely get on the front-page of a regional newspaper and the Nikole Hannah-Jones who could write a 10K-word story for a national magazine was about 12 months and someone believing I was capable.
Mieke Eoyang / @miekeeoyang: I don't get @JeffreyGoldberg's comment here... 6 of the last 10 Pulitzer winners for feature writing are women. Some even writing for magazines. @katherynshulz @rachelkaadzig @hannahdreier @DianaMarcum @amyellisnutt @LaneDeGregory https://twitter.com/...
Ida Bae Wells / @nhannahjones: So, no one thought I was capable of writing a 10K cover story...until someone gave me the opportunity to do it. And until someone gave me the opportunity to do it, I had never written a 10K cover story. No matter WHO'S writing these they take A LOT of work, editing, rewriting. https://twitter.com/...
Dana R Fisher / @fisher_danar: Check out that quote down there, folks—apparently most people who can write 10K words are White Men—#OUTRAGEOUS! Just going to list a few authors who have written much longer books (as well as articles) who could do it: @tressiemcphd @sobieraj @SociologistRay @DeanaRohlinger1 https://twitter.com/...
Susan Orlean / @susanorlean: Oh my god is right. Seriously, Jeffrey? Are you reading anything these days? https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: oh my GOD https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Gross / @grossdm: And yet somehow virtually every New York Magazine piece that is knocked out of the park is by @lisaxmiller or @jpressler or @Olivianuzzi or @rtraister or @vanessagrigor https://twitter.com/...
Almaqah / @_almaqah: Does Jeff Golberg think David Frum is so much more talented than other writers that he merits 10% of their cover stories in the past two years https://twitter.com/...
Helen Ubias / @notesfromhel: There are not a lot of journalists in America who can do it...in large part because the editors in America who hire/assign people to do these stories are almost exclusively white males. There you go, Mr. Goldberg. Fixed it for you. https://twitter.com/...
Inae Oh / @eenayo: also! the last line in this very dumb graf is how most Precious Editors at Important Magazines tend to operate https://twitter.com/...
Evan Sutton / @3vansutton: The reason most of the cover stories are written by white men is that editors assign the stories to white men, not because women or people of color can't write great cover stories. https://twitter.com/...
Rebecca Klein / @rklein90: This is profoundly infuriating https://twitter.com/...
Aisha Sultan / @aishas: It's really, really hard to be an editor-in-chief w. enough self awareness to realize how ridiculous and terrible this sounds. But, we see the promise and potential here. With enough exposure to lady writers capable of producing 10,000 words, we can get you there. https://twitter.com/...
Ana Marie Cox / @anamariecox: Ok I'll go first: @rtraister @Remember_Sarah @taffyakner @susanorlean @JaneMayerNYer @jiatolentino @michelledean @annehelen @lyzl @BlairBraverman And that was without looking anything up. Please, everyone, add whomever I forgot. https://twitter.com/...
John Hendrickson / @johnghendy: This piece is a good occasion to acknowledge that @nora_kelly is the backbone of @TheAtlPolitics team and makes us all better every day: https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Alex Vandermaas-Peeler / @alexvandermaas: One of the first impressions I had interviewing for my role at Atlantic 57 was that the team is run by women (including many woc). I've seen how rare that can be and cannot emphasize enough how important this is for me as a woman in the workplace. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Alissa Wilkinson / @alissamarie: Honestly can not emphasize enough how often I've seen the latter be true in my professional experience (over and over and over again) https://twitter.com/...
Julie Bogen / @jabogen: .@AdrienneLaF tells @NiemanLab “The only way to put women in leadership is to do it for the first time.” “My wife introduced me to the concept that women are judged on experience and men are judged on potential,” says @JeffreyGoldberg. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: In 2016, women made up just 17% of editorial leadership at @TheAtlantic. Today, women account for 63% of newsroom leaders. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Chelsea Steiner / The Mary Sue: The Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic Doesn't Think Women Can Write Longform Pieces
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: WarnerMedia abandons plan for a three-tiered streaming service, will likely package HBO, Cinemax, and the Warner Bros. library together for $16-$17/mo — New package is expected to include HBO, Cinemax and Warner Bros. content for barely more than HBO's current streaming service
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Ben Fritz / @benfritz: Plus $13 for Netflix, $12 for Hulu, $10 for Amazon, $7 for DisneyPlus... https://www.wsj.com/...
Jonathan Easton / Digital TV Europe: WSJ: Warner streaming platform to cost USD$16-17
Todd Spangler / Variety: WarnerMedia Streaming Service Likely to Cost $16-$17 Monthly, Bundle HBO and Cinemax (Report)
TV Grim Reaper / @tvgrimreaper: The tiers (& their fiefdoms?) are collapsing! Demonstrates the pricing conundrum Warner is in. HBO currently priced at $15 sets a floor. Add in a bunch more and only add $1-2? Market confusion/friction ahead! https://www.wsj.com/...
Amrita Khalid / Engadget: AT&T's streaming bundle with HBO could start at $16
Matt Scalici / @mattscalici: Very excited to pay $17 a month to watch Wonder Woman and no other good movies https://www.wsj.com/...
Mike Calia / @michael_calia: AT&T is probably going to package all of its content (HBO, WB, etc) in one big streaming service for up to $17 a month — $10 more a month than Disney's streaming service. @JBFlint and @Lilliannnn report: https://www.wsj.com/...
Jason Gurwin / Latest Streaming & Cord …: Report: WarnerMedia Ditches 3-Tier Streaming Service for $16-17 Plan with HBO & Cinemax Bundled
Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: AT&T's Plan for a Netflix Killer Reportedly Gets an Overhaul, Expected to Cost Around $17 Per Month
Tim Baysinger / The Wrap: ‘Tokyo Vice’ Drama Series With Ansel Elgort Set at WarnerMedia Streaming Service
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: AT&T's WarnerMedia might be punting on its original streaming service plans
Chris Evangelista / /Film: WarnerMedia Streaming Service Could Cost as Much as $17 Per Month, Would Include HBO and Cinemax
Kevin Nguyen / The Verge: AT&T's WarnerMedia streaming service to cost “between $16 and $17 a month”
Jeff Baumgartner / Light Reading: AT&T Exec Said Telco's Ideas Will ‘Radically Reshape’ TV
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
Meredith's Entertainment Weekly is going to a monthly print schedule and gets a new EIC, J.D. Heyman, replacing Henry Goldblatt; July 5 is last weekly edition — The frequency change takes effect in August. — Entertainment Weekly will no longer be a weekly magazine starting in August …
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Adweek, Variety, @adambvary, @poniewozik, @whittlz, @lukemones, @chaneyj, @aaronfullerton, @taradbennett, @jeffjarvis, @ewdocjensen, @markharrisnyc, @evanrosskatz, Deadline and The Wrap
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Brian Steinberg / Variety: Entertainment Weekly Will Go Monthly
@adambvary: WOW. Entertainment Weekly is going monthly — but keeping its name. WOW. This magazine was a singular obsession growing up, and getting to work there was a dream job. I'm very sad today, and hopeful for everyone still there for good things ahead. WOW. https://www.adweek.com/...
James Poniewozik / @poniewozik: 1. As a subscriber from the ancient '90s, I hope this is just a new beginning, not the beginning of the end. EW has incubated so many great writers and critics.2. “The brand will retain its name”? Will it be a monthly called Entertainment... Weekly? https://www.adweek.com/...
@whittlz: Sending love to all my friends still on board the @EW bus. Miss y'all. You're some insanely talented MFers and I've never been prouder to work somewhere. And @HenryGoldblatt, I can't wait to see where your brilliance lands. https://www.adweek.com/...
Luke Mones / @lukemones: Oh no, now the name “Entertainment Weekly” is going to sound very useless and stupid https://twitter.com/...
Jen Chaney / @chaneyj: I trust this is not the end of Entertainment Weekly, just as New York's move from a weekly to bi-weekly publication was not the end of it. But it still makes me sad. https://variety.com/...
Aaron Fullerton / @aaronfullerton: End of an Era. I've been a subscriber since I was 13 and it shaped a lot of my concepts of the business and why I wanted a career in it. I hope something else comes along to fill the void. https://twitter.com/...
Tara Bennett / @taradbennett: Damn. As a print lover, this makes me sad. I know the world is changing but print mags like Premiere, Starlog & EW shaped me, & unknowingly, laid the foundation for my own career. Flipping through these mags were like the Sears catalog (just monthly) https://www.adweek.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: My old baby, Entertainment Weekly, is weekly no more. It's monthly. (Time Inc execs begged me to make it less than weekly at launch to save on production cost. I argued the biorhythm of entertainment was weekly.) https://variety.com/...
Jeff Jensen / @ewdocjensen: My gratitude for EW, the people who built it, and the people I worked with when I was there is immeasurable. I wish the new incarnation well, even as I grieve the amazing thing that is coming to an end. https://www.adweek.com/...
Mark Harris / @markharrisnyc: My heart breaks a little, but the world changes, and I'm proud this day was slower to arrive than anybody would have guessed. Much love to all of EW's great staffers, past and present, and all good wishes as this new chapter begins. https://www.adweek.com/...
@evanrosskatz: “It really is part of the evolutionary change of the brand to meet the needs of the audience,” new EIC J.D. Heyman said. So your audience needs less of the magazine? Got it. https://www.adweek.com/...
Dino-Ray Ramos / Deadline: Entertainment Weekly To Go Monthly, Names New Editor-In-Chief
Jacob Granger / Journalism.co.uk:
Study of 212 leading news organizations in US and Europe finds 69% of newspapers operate some form of online pay model, up just 5.5% in two years — RISJ report found that 69 per cent of US and European newspapers use some form of paywall - but that figure has only risen by 5.5 per cent in two years
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Hundreds of Vox Media workers stage a one-day walkout to pressure management to sign a union contract; an editor says SBNation won't cover the NBA finals Game 3 — - Employees aren't writing or editing stories on Thursday — ‘This was a hard decision,’ SBNation editor says on Twitter
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@germanrlopez, @josheidelson, @letsgomathias, @dlind, HuffPost, @gmgunion, @timebner, @thesarahkelly, @lukewsavage, @mskellymhayes, @charliemagne, @iwwfju, @kath_krueger, @attackerman, @zzzzaaaacccchhh, @samleecole, @rachelysanders, Mediaite, @dianaelbasha, @jmsummers, @austinhunt, @attackerman, @sarahmccammon, @brandonetc and The Wrap
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German Lopez / @germanrlopez: .@Bankoff: I love working at Vox. But when I started, I made just $30,000 a year in DC (a pretty expensive city). I don't want anyone at Vox Media to go through that again. It's time the company agree to a fair contract with @vox_union.
Josh Eidelson / @josheidelson: Latest: Vox CEO @Bankoff tells employees he's “disappointed” by @vox_union walkout and, “While paying people a lot more than market wages sounds great on the surface, it's not realistic or smart.” https://www.bloomberg.com/... Says he wants “fair & highly competitive agreement quickly” https://twitter.com/...
Christopher Mathias / @letsgomathias: I recommend reading the first letter of each paragraph in this @AndyBCampbell article https://www.huffpost.com/...
Dara Lind / @dlind: .@Bankoff I took a big pay cut to come to Vox on the promise that my $40K salary would be raised once I was more trained in journalism. Instead I worked as hard as anyone (mostly autodidactically) to help build a website for a year and a half on $40-44K. https://twitter.com/...
Andy Campbell / HuffPost: Vox Media Employees Walk Out On Final Day Of Union Bargaining
@gmgunion: a wealthy CEO trying to convince media workers that the unlivable salaries they're being paid are “market” wages.... really, truly, you hate to see it https://twitter.com/...
Tim Ebner / @timebner: FYI: @Eater_DC is rerunning old stories today, including one that I wrote a month ago. I am not a scab. I support the @Eater staff working to negotiate a fair wage and contract for the 335 members of the @vox_union. The time is now @Bankoff. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Sarah Kelly / @thesarahkelly: Given that SB Nation was paying its copy editors $10/hr (except where prohibited by law, because that's below minimum wage some places) as late as February 2018, I'm not sure Bankoff knows what market wages are. https://twitter.com/...
Luke Savage / @lukewsavage: Sending solidarity to staff @vox_union today ✊✊✊✊https:// www.bloomberg.com/...
@mskellymhayes: The average Vox Media executive makes $223,347 per year. When you have employees living in a place as expensive as DC making $30K per year, you can fuck off with your disappointment about people walking off the job. https://twitter.com/...
Charlie J. Johnson / @charliemagne: Meaning no disrespect — an enormous deficit of understanding exists on wage, development and growth opps between the generations in this profession, and it's only becoming understood by the older guard when we talk about it, share salary data, organize. It ain't like it was. https://twitter.com/...
@iwwfju: FYI: @voxmediainc owns @voxdotcom, @verge, @SBNation, @Eater, @Polygon, and @Curbed. (Thank @Phanzon for the list!)
Katherine Krueger / @kath_krueger: tweet your salary @Bankoff https://twitter.com/...
Zach Schonfeld / @zzzzaaaacccchhh: “The median estimated compensation for executives at Vox Media, Inc. is $226,847, or $109 per hour.” https://twitter.com/...
Samantha Cole / @samleecole: another great thing about unions: they force management to show their full asses to every potential future employee that's paying attention https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Sanders / @rachelysanders: there's a very special way that CEOs and HR people use the word “competitive” when they're talking about how uninterested they are in paying their employees more https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Reed Richardson / Mediaite: Huffington Post Story Embeds Secret Message of Support in Coverage of Vox Media Union Walkout
Diana Elbasha / @dianaelbasha: extremely true — my first DC journalism job paid $28K. https://twitter.com/...
Juana / @jmsummers: We *all* need to be talking about this more. Ever thankful for a colleague early on in my DC career who helped me realize how underpaid I was at the time. https://twitter.com/...
Austin Hunt / @austinhunt: BuzzFeed paid me $35,000 a year in NYC — and they acted like they were doing me a favor 😬 https://twitter.com/...
@attackerman: This is less than I made just a few years earlier at a *nonprofit* news agency that doesn't exist anymore. All workers need unions; management promises are worthless without workers' ability to negotiate from a position of strength. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah McCammon / @sarahmccammon: Another reason to consider starting a journalism career somewhere else. There's often more room to experiment/learn/grow/fail, and $30,000 goes a lot farther in Des Moines than D.C. https://twitter.com/...
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Cindy Vanegas-Gesaule, BuzzFeed News head of programming, adds oversight of film and TV projects to her role, replacing Lauren Dolgen, who left BuzzFeed in May — Cindy Vanegas-Gesaule is adding oversight of film and TV projects to her existing role as head of programming for BuzzFeed News.
Del Harvey / Twitter:
Twitter simplifies the language for its rules and reorganizes them into three high-level categories: safety, privacy, and authenticity — Our rules exist to help keep everyone using Twitter safe and ensure they can participate freely in the public conversation.
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Del Harvey / @delbius: Our rules exist to help keep people safe and ensure they can participate freely in the public conversation. As Twitter has evolved, so have our rules, but over time they'd become confusing, disorganized, and sometimes unnecessarily long.
@twittersafety: Rules should be easy to understand. We heard you, ours weren't. We updated, reordered, and shortened them, so you can know what's not allowed on Twitter. Click through this thread for all our rules, and read our blog to learn more. https://blog.twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Thread: https://twitter.com/...
LST / @longshorttrader: This thread summarising twitter's “rules” appears sensible and fair. In my experience, the issue is not so much the rules, but the unclear and uneven enforcement of alleged or actual violations of the rules. I suspect that will be the case going forward as well. https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: Related, Twitter just refreshed its rules. Mostly a formatting fix (removing redundant bits, clarifying certain things, etc.). Should be interesting to see if this makes a difference in terms of enforcement (which, like YouTube, has been very inconsistent) https://blog.twitter.com/...
Chris White / The Daily Caller: Twitter Goes Into PR Mode After YouTube Demonetizes Crowder, Other Users
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Twitter's updated T&Cs look clearer — yet it still can't say no to Nazis
AJ Dellinger / Engadget: Twitter simplifies its rules on safety, privacy and more
Matthew Kassel / Columbia Journalism Review:
Some journalists are returning to their hometowns to work, citing the benefits of meaningful work, strong emotional connections, and trust from sources — It's quite possible that Caitlin Dewey owes her career in journalism to The Buffalo News. She grew up in the suburban town of Wheatfield …
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@claremalone, @jacobonpurpose, @kytja, @carmenmforman, @scbaird, @tylerkingkade, @dabeard and @laurenweberhp
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Clare Malone / @claremalone: Apparently my mom is now an assigning editor at CJR https://twitter.com/...
Jacob Titus / @jacobonpurpose: “Journalists who return to their hometowns are serving a vital need ... there is 'a level of intimacy and trust with sources that's deeply beneficial for telling more thoughtful, nuanced stories' than national reporters, who often parachute in.” https://www.cjr.org/...
Kytja Weir / @kytja: You can go home again: Journalists who return to their hometowns to work, with nice cameo by @KHNews' own @LaurenWeberHP https://www.cjr.org/... via @cjr
Carmen Forman / @carmenmforman: Dozens of people have asked me why I moved back to Oklahoma to work at @TheOklahoman. This about sums it up. via @CJR #localnewsmatters https://www.cjr.org/...
Sarah Baird / @scbaird: nice piece from @matthewkassel on journalism and going home again (with a quote or two from yours truly): https://www.cjr.org/...
Tyler Kingkade / @tylerkingkade: Interesting look at journalists who report for national outlets then move back to their hometowns to continue their journalism careers https://www.cjr.org/...
David Chrisinger / New York Times:
A look back at the reporting of Ernie Pyle and how the beaches of Normandy changed the way America's most famous war correspondent reported what he saw — Most of the men in the first wave never stood a chance. In the predawn darkness of June 6, 1944, thousands of American soldiers crawled …
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: D-Day: How the papers covered landmark World War Two operation in 1944 vs 2019
Kristen Hare / Poynter: On the 75th anniversary of D-Day, front pages around the world offer a glimpse into the past
@nytimes: Ernie Pyle's reporting before D-Day was aimed at comforting the disturbed readers back home. But his writing after the Normandy landings confronted readers with outright horror. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kim Willsher / Los Angeles Times: U.S. veterans find a warm welcome in Normandy 75 years after D-day
Marcy Kaptur / @repmarcykaptur: “The advantages were theirs. Concrete gun emplacements. Gun nests w/ crossfire taking every inch of the beach. Buried mines, barbed wire. Whole fields of devices under the water to catch our boats & 4 men on shore for every 3 we had. And yet, we got on.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael Ross / @campfirewood: Ernie Pyle, ladies and gentlemen. There is a reason his is one of the first graves you encounter at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. https://nyti.ms/2wB0401
Abq-Bernco Library / @abclibrary: A fantastic story on Ernie Pyle today, please take the time to read it. The Man Who Told America the Truth About D-Day https://www.nytimes.com/... If you would like to come by and visit his home here in Albuquerque please do - Ernie Pyle Library http://abqlibrary.org/...
Justin Bean / @jbeano: “Pyle had written about battles and #war in a way that promised hope. By the time victory was actually in sight, he had come to feel that there was no way the war could be a story with a happy ending.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nick Turse / @nickturse: “What [Erine] Pyle witnessed on the Normandy coast triggered a sort of journalistic conversion for him: Soon his readers... were digesting columns that brought them more of the war's pain, costs and losses” writes @StrongerAtBP in an exceptional article. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Billy Bragg / @billybragg: Of all the words about D-Day I've read and heard in the past few days, this is the most powerful evocation of what happened 75 years ago today and the effect it had on those who were there #LestWeForget https://www.nytimes.com/...
Bill Cameron / @billjcameron: “I get so obsessed with the tragedy and horror of seeing dead men that I can hardly stand it. But I guess there's nothing to do but keep going.” @wlsam890 https://www.nytimes.com/...
Meg Waite Clayton / @megwclayton: The world could use a few more Ernie Pyles right about now. Terrific piece about him — The Man Who Told America the Truth About D-Day by @davidchrisinger in @nytimes. I read so much about him when researching The Race for Paris, and remain in awe. https://nyti.ms/2wB0401
Al Tompkins / @atompkins: God bless the journalists who did their job on the beaches, at sea and in the air on D Day https://www.cbsnews.com/...
Justin Scuiletti / @jskl: “Here are socks and shoe polish, sewing kits, diaries, Bibles and hand grenades. Here are the latest letters from home. . . . Here are toothbrushes and razors, and snapshots of families back home staring up at you from the sand.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rob Thomas / @robdthomas: I've read a lot about WWII. I hope everyone appreciates what happened on this day 75 years ago. It was literally children (average age on Omaha Beach was 24), that literally saved the world. Epic bravery. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@votevets: Ernie Pyle's war reporting had already earned him a Pulitzer Prize before #DDay, but his stark, personal dispatches from the Normandy beaches gave readers back home a first-hand account of the true cost of the battle. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeff Stein / @spytalker: “Sometimes,” Pyle wrote on June 29, two weeks after the Normandy invasion, “I get so obsessed with the tragedy and horror of seeing dead men that I can hardly stand it. But I guess there's nothing to do but keep going.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tim O'Brien / @timobrien: “Here in a jumbled row for mile on mile are soldiers' packs. Here are socks and shoe polish, sewing kits, diaries, Bibles and hand grenades....Here are pocketbooks, metal mirrors, extra trousers and bloody, abandoned shoes.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ernie Pyle / The Clarion Ledger: D-Day: This is what Ernie Pyle wrote after hitting Normandy Beach in June 1944
Ellen McGirt / Fortune: The Eyes of the World Are Upon Some of Them: RaceAhead
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
To better compete with TikTok, Instagram adds song lyrics for Stories using the Music sticker — Lip-syncing jumpstarted TikTok's rise to the center of teen culture, arguably displacing Instagram . Now the Facebook-owned app is striking back with a new feature that lets you displays lyrics …
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Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott: Instagram Now Lets You Add Lyrics to Songs on Stories
Josh Constine / @joshconstine: Instagram launches karaoke lyrics while TikTok adds overlaid text as both compete to own the silly post-perfect social media aesthetic https://techcrunch.com/... pic.twitter.com/Yu9pcwo9KZ
AJ Dellinger / Engadget: Instagram makes it easy to add song lyrics to your Stories
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
YouTube suspends monetization of Steven Crowder's channel after continued review finds “pattern of egregious actions” that are against Partner Program policies — Right-wing performer gay-bashed a Vox reporter for years. They initially declined to do anything, then ‘demonetized’ him …
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@teamyoutube: @gaywonk @YouTube To clarify, in order to reinstate monetization on this channel, he will need to remove the link to his T-shirts.
Ford Fischer / @fordfischer: Within minutes of @YouTube's announcement of a new purge it appears they caught my outlet, which documents activism and extremism, in the crossfire.I was just notified my entire channel has been demonetized. I am a journalist whose work there is used in dozens of documentaries. https://twitter.com/...
Caroline O'Donovan / @ceodonovan: YouTube's handling of this homophobic harassment situation has been so messy that employees are demanding via internal petition that it take Pride branding off its public social media accounts: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
@teamyoutube: (1/4) Thanks again for taking the time to share all of this information with us. We take allegations of harassment very seriously-we know this is important and impacts a lot of people.
@teamyoutube: Sorry for the confusion, we were responding to your tweets about the T-shirts. Again, this channel is demonetized due to continued egregious actions that have harmed the broader community. To be reinstated, he will need to address all of the issues with his channel.
Nilay Patel / @reckless: YouTube has a major harassment problem, but an even bigger problem with transparency and consistency of policy enforcement. It is not our job to paraphrase their explanations. It is their job to own their policy decisions. (2/2)
Nilay Patel / @reckless: Mill famously envisioned a world in which the marketplace of ideas stocked SOCIALISM IS FOR FAGS t-shirts https://twitter.com/...
Sean Burch / The Wrap: Some YouTube Creators Worry They'll Get the Steven Crowder Treatment With ‘Arbitrary’ Rules Enforcement
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: YouTube is now demonetizing Steven Crowder, a day after saying he didn't break any rules. I'm confused! https://twitter.com/...
Chris Stokel-Walker / WIRED UK: YouTube's plan to fix hate speech failed before it even started
Nilay Patel / @reckless: YouTube tried to explain this decision on background to us, but I made the call to ignore it because they won't go on the record. (1/2) https://www.theverge.com/...
Daniel Cooper / Engadget: Why isn't YouTube held accountable for the actions of its stars?
Julian Sanchez / @normative: A few thoughts (THREAD INCOMING) on the Maza/Crowder/YouTube debate: I think this ends up being tricky for companies in large part because they aspire to uniform rules, but the harms of abusive speech in a social network ecology vary wildly depending on the speaker's audience. https://twitter.com/...
Chrissy Clark / The Federalist: YouTube Demonetizes Steven Crowder's Videos After Pressure Campaign By Gay Vox Writer
David Kaye / @davidakaye: yes, this is really central to the problem - a lack of clarity about the rules, enforcement, consistency. & it is absolutely not just a YT problem. https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: Apparently, creating and implementing vague, arbitrary censorship standards on the fly in response to mob demands and then purging people en masse end up suppressing and punishing many voices that censorship advocates like. Who could have guessed this would happen? https://twitter.com/...
@humanistreport: Maybe it's because “haha, you're a queer” isn't comedy, and most people realize Crowder was shielding himself from criticism using “comedy” as a defense. https://twitter.com/...
Clara Jeffery / @clarajeffery: The #NoPrideInYT movement is important. One of the only things that historically has moved social media platforms to less heinous policies is employee revolts. https://twitter.com/...
Justin Miller / @justinjm1: “I'm not asking YouTube to create some massive, complicated new policy to deal with this person. I'm asking them to enforce the policies that have been on the books for a long time at YouTube.” — @gaywonk https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Kelly Weill / @kellyweill: Oh my god, who is tweeting from the YouTube account: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Jason Koebler / @jason_koebler: I cannot stress enough that if you are tweetstorming clarifications of clarifications in someone's replies your PR strategy has gone completely off the rails pic.twitter.com/nm8MNzAWU4
Felix Salmon / @felixsalmon: “If they don't violate our policies, they'll remain on our site”. A crystal-clear statement of rules-based rather than principles-based regulation, in a context where principles-based regulation is the only conceivable hope. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: After YouTube said it'd demonetize Nazi and false flag content, far-right YouTubers are now trying to make the case that splitting advertiser revenue with a private internet conglomerate is somehow a right embedded in the First Amendment.
Justin Miller / @justinjm1: Chernobyl was handled better than this https://twitter.com/...
Will Oremus / @willoremus: And here's @YouTube just 20 hours later, reversing itself in the face of outrage that should have been fully predictable: https://twitter.com/...
Carlos Maza / @gaywonk: For the record, demonetizing Crowder means that @YouTube now treats anti-LGBT harassment the same way it treats pro-LGBT content. Bonkers. https://www.theverge.com/...
@emilygorcenski: Youtube is making it up as it goes along, because the whole concept of “policy” is, and always will be, subservient to to the flow of capital. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Herman / @w7voa: “We expect to issue these new consequences only in a rare handful of egregious cases, but hope they will help us prevent the actions of a few from harming the broader community.” https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: this was always how it was gonna go. how does everyone know this but the platforms!?! https://twitter.com/...
David M. Perry / @lollardfish: As a reminder to everyone: “on background” and “off the record” are two-way agreements. If the journalist doesn't agree, they aren't ethically bound in any way. https://twitter.com/...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: i think the rules-based vs principles-based distinction is worth thinking more about. the problem for youtube and other platforms is they've lost all trust in consistently enforcing rules. and they're too afraid of expressing any core principles w/o alienating audiences. https://twitter.com/...
Dieter Bohn / @backlon: Both YouTube and its parent company Google should give much more detailed explanations of why these targeted attacks don't violate their policies. This seems so obivously wrong that 4 short @TeamYouTube tweets absolutely do not cut it https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Emerson Collins / @actuallyemerson: This statement of “primarily about debating” from @YouTube has implications far beyond the the harassment of @gaywonk because “debating” is also how an enormous amount of transphobia is framed and propagated. “Debating” someone's existence cannot be a defense of bigotry. https://twitter.com/...
Darren Cohen / @_darrencohen: Product reviews are a dime a dozen.... But the Verge has been doing such great work on some of the most important issues of our time such as this. Good on @reckless for this decision. For too long tech reporting has been all about protecting access. https://twitter.com/...
Carlos Maza / @gaywonk: .@YouTube finds all the bullies LGBT people tried to escape from in high school and gives them the weapons and platform they need to keep tormenting us in adulthood. It's a platform for monsters masquerading as an ally to the LGBT people they target.
Brian Merchant / @bcmerchant: As a rule, we tech journalists need to start doing this more. Massive companies should be required to speak on the record about their policies when they are impacting literally millions of people—and we should do nothing short of demand they do so https://twitter.com/...
Ellen K. Pao / @ekp: So apparently YouTube doesn't understand how brigading works or why impact matters more than intent. Or maybe it just doesn't care https://gizmodo.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Carlos Maza / @gaywonk: Good lord. @YouTube says it didn't punish Crowder because he was “focused primarily on debating” when he repeatedly called me a “lispy queer.” You can harass queer people as much as you want as long as its sandwiched between “debating.” Unreal. https://twitter.com/...
Carlos Maza / @gaywonk: And if you're an LGBT employee working at @YouTube, what the fuck are you doing? Helping a guy sell “Socialism Is For Fags” t-shirts? That company isn't your friend. It's arming the monsters that we've spent our lives trying to get away from. Walk out of there.
Carlos Maza / @gaywonk: If you're a prominent LGBT creator on @YouTube, you have an incredible opportunity to raise hell for a company that's been exploiting you for a while now. It's fucking Pride month. Use your power. Other queer creators are counting on you.
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: “The platforms” have a kind of deep desire to operate like common carriers who aren't expected to exert any judgment, but they're also fanatically averse to the kind of regulatory framework that would come with that status. https://twitter.com/...
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YouTube says it will “remove content denying that well-documented violent events, like the Holocaust or the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, took place”
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Charlotte Jee / MIT Technology Review: YouTube is deleting videos on Nazi history as part of its hate speech crackdown
Chris Dale / YouTube Blog: Taking a harder look at harassment
Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: Bowing to pressure, YouTube will reconsider its harassment policies
Jessica Lessin / @jessicalessin: This is the big part of the @youtube announcement. Puts a lot of pressure on Facebook. “Finally, we will remove content denying that well-documented violent events, like the Holocaust or the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, took place.” https://youtube.googleblog.com/ ...
April Glaser / Slate: Bring Back the Golden Age of Broadcast Regulation
Giovanni Tiso / @gtiso: Or maybe - hear me out - random history teachers could stop uploading obscure clips of Hitler and Goebbels on YouTube, and leave the jobs to curated websites where they can be surrounded by their proper context, if they even need to be shown at all. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Andy Campbell / @andybcampbell: *Sends 20,000 racist frogs to attack a gay man while screeching slurs* I'm just a comedian! *Gets defunded and banned* I'm a serious conservative voice and I am being silenced! https://twitter.com/...
David Andress / @profdaveandress: This is the part where we have to talk about fascism historically as something that refused ‘seriousness’, notoriously ‘joked’ about its real intentions, sneered at the idea of being coherent, mocked those who looked for logic in its pronouncements... https://twitter.com/...
Nina Schick / @ninadschick: Heartening move @YouTube. Remember when the parents of the victims of Sandy Hook had to go into hiding bc Alex Jones claimed it was a hoax? YouTubers will no longer be able to upload videos denying that these historical events happened. https://www.theverge.com/...
@riotdoge: Only 1 out of the 20+ Nazi Youtube channels I monitor regularly has had some videos removed, even that channel wasn't full on suspended. https://twitter.com/...
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Big update from YouTube. The next question is whether these policies will be enforced. One thing to have them; another to enforce. This could have a major impact on the overarching creator community. https://twitter.com/...
Nilay Patel / @reckless: YouTube has decided what it needs now is a new committee to study its hate speech and harassment policies. Hope nothing else happens in the meantime? At least this blog post is signed, though. https://www.theverge.com/...
Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: New: YouTube is removing thousands of videos from white supremacists and tightening its hate speech policies. At the same time, it is under fire for allowing a popular right-wing creator to harass @gaywonk. Making rules is easier than enforcing them! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Eoin Higgins / Common Dreams: Journalist and Educator Among Those Caught Up in YouTube's Latest Attempt to Purge Online Hate Speech
Ina Fried / Axios: Inside YouTube's hate speech minefield
Tom McKay / Gizmodo: YouTube Just Can't Stop Mumbling Nonsense About Its Harassment and Hate Speech Policy
Richard Blumenthal / @senblumenthal: Social media platforms have been repeatedly abused to spread repulsive lies & terrorize the victims of tragic crimes, including Sandy Hook parents. The steps taken by YouTube are overdue & must be a model for all tech platforms. https://youtube.googleblog.com/ ...
Isobel Asher Hamilton / Business Insider: ‘Not everyone will agree with the calls we make’: YouTube explained its seemingly inconsistent policies …
Brendan Morrow / The Week: YouTube promises to take a ‘hard look’ at its harassment policies amid backlash
Ames Grawert / @amescg: So @YouTube's theory — that calling out & slurring a particular person at length from a huge digital platform doesn't rise to harassment — laughably misunderstands an internet culture it helped create, and 1L tort principles (you “intend” the logical consequences of your actions) https://twitter.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety: YouTube Says It's Reviewing Harassment Policies, After It Condoned Sustained Attacks on Gay Latino Journalist
Steve Silberman / @stevesilberman: If Steven Crowder's online harrassment of @gaywonk doesn't violate @YouTube's community standards, the company has no standards. Gay kids attempt suicide every week because of language like this. It's not speech or “debate”; it's a weapon. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Adam Reilly / @reillyadam: Wow! After only [checks Wikipedia] 14 years in business! https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: I just spoke to Josh Koskoff, a lawyer representing several Sandy Hook families, and he said while he welcomed YouTube's decision it's “too late to undue the harm that occurred” to his clients over the last several years. But, he added, “At the same time, better late than never.”
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: YouTube announces it is prohibiting supremacist content, like videos glorifying Nazi ideology. Youtube will also be removing content “denying that well-documented violent events, like the Holocaust or the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, took place."https://youtube.googleblog.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Aditi Agrawal / MediaNama: YouTube updates its policy to ban some hateful content and conspiracy theories
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: YouTube cracks down on videos with supremacist content
Yoel Minkoff / Seeking Alpha: YouTube takes tougher line on hate speech
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