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James Bennet resigns as editorial page editor of The New York Times; Katie Kingsbury named as acting editorial page editor through the November election — The New York Times announced today that James Bennet, Editorial Page Editor since May, 2016, is resigning effective immediately.
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Cliff Levy / @cliffordlevy: James Bennet has resigned as head of @nytopinion. Here's the note from NYT publisher A.G. Sulzberger. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair: “Full of Anguish and Pain”: A Generational Watershed at the Times as Editorial Page Editor James Bennet Resigns
@nytimespr: The @nytimes announced today that James Bennet, Editorial Page Editor since May 2016, is resigning effective immediately. Katie Kingsbury, who joined The Times in 2017, has been named as acting Editorial Page Editor through the November election. https://www.nytco.com/...
Marc Tracy / @marcatracy: Letter from AG Sulzberger: Bennet has resigned; JIm Dao stepping off masthead and away from opinion; Katie Kingsbury acting editorial page editor thru election. Letter to staff from AG Sulzberger https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab: After newsroom protests, The New York Times opinion page editor and the top editor at The …
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation: Bennet's out as newsrooms come to terms (or not) with Black Lives Matter
Dan Okrent / @okrent: This is a dark, dark day for the NYTimes. I know no finer journalist than James Bennet.
Dave Weigel / @daveweigel: Per source close to Tom Cotton: He's quintupled his fundraising since the NYT fracas started. Around $200k. He doesn't even have a Democratic opponent this year. So, where's the money going? Expect Cotton to run an ad against Biden this week.
Joe Pompeo / @joepompeo: 2/ As of Friday night, still no indications that anything major was going to happen imminently. That changed over the weekend: A.G. and Bennet had the conversation that made Bennet's departure a fait accompli, + people started picking up smoke signals that something big was afoot
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News: NY Times accused of ‘stealth editing’ report after claiming Cotton pushed ‘military force against protesters’
Rudy Takala / Mediaite: ‘Journalism is in Trouble’: Fox's Howard Kurtz Says NY Times-Tom Cotton ‘Fiasco’ …
Tom Cotton / @tomcottonar: This is false and offensive. I called for using military force as a backup—only if police are overwhelmed—to stop riots, not to be used against protesters. If @nytimes has any decency left, they should retract this smear. https://twitter.com/...
Lindsay Crouse / @lindsaycrouse: On James Bennet: I'd worked in @nytopinion for years before him. It was like being in a room where you could look but not touch. James invested in younger staff. He let us contribute. I never could have brought female athletes into our report without the environment he fostered.
Ted Cruz / @tedcruz: The NYT literally fired their editorial page editor because he dared publish an op-ed that Leftists disagreed with. The totalitarian Left will brook no dissent. To hell with Free Speech—we are Pravda. New York Times: founded as an actual newspaper 9/18/1851. Died: 6/7/2020. https://twitter.com/...
Susan Fowler / @susanthesquark: Jim Dao is the best boss I've ever had. He was responsible for thousands of things you all have loved, and he never took credit or glory for himself. That he is no longer involved in op-eds is a terribly sad thing.
Jeet Heer / @heerjeet: 2. The Times, along with other elite media, has long practiced a highly specialized form of objectivity (or rather, faux-objectivity): both-sidesism. Based on the narrow USA 2-party system, idea is that neutrality means giving articulation to competing elites (Dem & GOP).
Jeet Heer / @heerjeet: 1. What the hell is happening at the New York Times? I think the larger crisis, going well beyond the argument over the Cotton op ed, is the crack-up of the elite consensus that dominated from 1939 until 1991 (and had a strong afterlife until around 2014).
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: The Bennet era at NYT was one of constant mistakes and embarrassments for the paper. How on earth can you say with a straight face that you “know no finer journalist than James Bennet,” @okrent? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Robby Soave / Reason: James Bennet's Resignation Proves the Woke Scolds Are Taking Over The New York Times
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: James Bennet is a prime example of the smarter-than-anyone-else D.C. political journalist who routinely does incredibly stupid things because he values bothsidesism above pretty much everything else, including the truth. No surprise his comeuppance is being mourned by his ilk.
Antonio Garca Martnez / @antoniogm: “Anyone who sees ‘any piece of Opinion journalism — including headlines or social posts or photos or you name it — that gives you the slightest pause, please call or text me immediately.’” We're all living on a college campus now. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Paper of Record = everyone else right now. “The event felt like a YouTube video of people talking at you, and Slack felt like Twitter,” this person said. “It was just everyone angry on the internet.” Via @joepompeo https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Perhaps more to the point, he embarrassed his boss, which is and has always been the only completely unforgivable journalistic sin. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Pompeo / @joepompeo: “After the town hall meeting, what became clear was that he couldn't stay in that job, because it was clear that the newspaper no longer supported him, and in a political job like that, if you don't have support, you're dead.” https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Christina Sommers / @chsommers: Ms. Kingsbury, new editor at NYTimes, told staff “Anyone who sees any piece of Opinion journalism, headlines,social posts,photos—you name it—that gives you the slightest pause, please call or text me immediately.” It's all about staff sensitivities now. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “After the town hall meeting, what became clear was that he couldn't stay in that job, because it was clear that the newspaper no longer supported him, and in a political job like that, if you don't have support, you're dead.” https://www.vanityfair.com/...
Michael Tracey / @mtracey: NYT top brass can claim all it wants that the editor's ouster doesn't mark a philosophical shift, but it so obviously does: which is that the NYT, in keeping with wider media trends, has granted institutional primacy to a new generation of coddled babies https://twitter.com/...
Mariam Ahmed / Talking Biz News: NY Times editorial page editor Bennet resigns, Kingsbury appointed as interim
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap: Tom Cotton Brands Interim NY Times Opinion Editor Katie Kingsbury a ‘Far-Left Radical’ (Video)
Diane Tucker / @dianetucker: @Laurie_Garrett Whoa, a little clarification. James Bennet resigned after admitting he didn't bother to read the Cotton op/ed that he commissioned. He had more important things to do, though I can't imagine what they might be.
David Weissman / @davidmweissman: Just remember this same person told @KingJames to shut up and dribble, spare me the bullshit. https://twitter.com/...
@tbogg: Fun fact: When Laura was editor of the conservative Dartmouth Review she sent a reporter to secretly record a support group for LGBTQ students. Just beacause she was, and has remained, an asshole. https://twitter.com/...
Edward-Isaac Dovere / @isaacdovere: In four days, Tom Cotton: -got his thoughts on military crushing Americans in the NYT -caused an internal NYT revolt -ingrated himself to Trump -got a talking pt against the media -upped his position for 2024 GOP race -led to resignation of a top editor https://www.nytco.com/...
Laurie Garrett / @laurie_garrett: OP-Ed editor James Bennett forced to resign, after running a piece by Sen. Tom Cotton calling for use of U.S. military forces to suppress #GeorgeFloydProtests . Good, or bad, for Journalism? Chime in. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: Tom cotton is going to try and dine out of this media controversy he created for as long as possible https://twitter.com/...
Laura Ingraham / @ingrahamangle: Full-on frontal assault on free speech in America. We're all back in college again with coercive speech codes and non-stop sensitivity workshops. https://twitter.com/...
Kaivan Shroff / @kaivanshroff: NEW: The New York Times Opinion Editor has resigned. Good. He made incredibly irresponsible decisions and used the platform to elevate bigoted and anti-science voices. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michael Weiss / @michaeldweiss: Seumas Milne published a speech by Osama bin Laden in the @guardian's comment section in 2004. He not only kept his job, he then went on to become the communications director for Jeremy Corbyn, who once upon a time was leader of the Labour Party. https://www.nytimes.com/....
Richard Grenell / @richardgrenell: diversity and tolerance have been under attack for years....the demand from the left is that everyone think a certain way. It's a dangerous path. https://twitter.com/...
@leahmcelrath: Fwiw, you might want to read the publisher's comments about the purported values of the @nytimes: https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: Kurtz is just demonstrating something not uncommon among white men his age who are essentially tenured in media: any accountability feels like oppression. Job loss, which other journos experience all the time, often because of the mismanagement of others, is something he's above. https://twitter.com/...
Karen K. Ho / @karenkho: Hundreds of current and former Times staff put their careers on the line and spoke up. Howard Kurtz is equating Bennet losing a high-profile job to a violent act of several genocides and during a week when millions of people are protesting *actual deaths* from police brutality.
Joe Concha / @joeconchatv: Lots of scalps for the woke & the mob this week. James Bennet of the Times for the Cotton op-ed. Stan Wischnowski of the Philadelphia Inquirer for the “Buildings Matter” piece. This is as a profound threat to journalism & true diversity of thought if this is the new normal. https://twitter.com/...
David Sirota / @davidsirota: In an elite media world with almost no accountability, we now know there is at least a rock bottom. You can be held accountable for publishing a fascist screed that you solicited but didnt even bother to read before blasting out to millions of people https://www.nytco.com/...
Rebecca Vilkomerson / @rvilkomerson: WOOOW. And worth noting that it was the Black writers, editors and staff of the NYT who spoke out, at no little risk, to make this happen. https://twitter.com/...
Rick Petree / @rickpetree: There is some satisfaction in this, wrt to the specific episode of the Tom Cotton OpEd. As to the broader problems of the Times' journalism, we shall see. They need to step up; 2020 is an important year, for us all. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Pompeo / @joepompeo: 3/ Full reaction/feelings from Opinion staffers still not entirely clear, but I am told that “people are stunned.” I'll have more in a story at some point tomorrow.
Eli Clifton / @eliclifton: Bennet's legacy includes bringing in neoconservative pundits Bret Stephens, who had made racist statements about “disease of the Arab mind,” and Bari Weiss, whose qualifications included leading a campaign smearing Arab professors. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Pompeo / @joepompeo: 1/ A bit of color, via my initial reporting, on how the Bennet defenestration went down: Friday's town hall perceived as having gone very bad/very negatively received. And AG's autopsy of how the Cotton op-ed got through revealed too few eyes on the thing before it pubbed. But...
Walt Mossberg / @waltmossberg: I don't know him, and don't wish him ill. But this is manifestly the right thing to do. And not just because of the Cotton piece. Bad judgments have permeated both the editorial and op-ed page, including the failure to endorse a sole candidate in the Dem presidential primary. https://twitter.com/...
P Nielsen Hayden / @pnh: Again. The core fact about @nytimes is that its owners are vicious authoritarians who want to (1) promulgate vicious authoritarianism and (2) be welcome in polite society anyway. James Bennet failed to divert attention from this—his most important task. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Daniel Kibblesmith / @kibblesmith: I have never understood how powerful people are so hard to fire that even when they get fired they “resigned.” Resigning is the white collar prison of getting fired. https://twitter.com/...
Javier Panzar / @jpanzar: “Last week we saw a significant breakdown in our editing process, not the first we've experienced in recent years.” https://twitter.com/...
Angus Johnston / @studentactivism: Read the note. This was a defenestration, and not a gentle one. https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: So. As of now, it's a one-person competition to replace Dean Baquet as top editor of NYT: Joe Kahn (@nycscribe but don't look for him to use this site much). https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: But. A month ago, NYT would have gotten a modicum of grief for a bake-off (for the most prestigious job in journalism) between two white guys. Now it's a clear path for a lone white guy, and I don't know if that will fly.
@kfury: Hopefully the new acting Editorial page editor will read all editorials before printing them. https://twitter.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: Then again, it might have been an actual resignation—Bennet not wanting to do it anymore. And I get the impression that he had more managerial ambitions than editorial ambitions, so not sure he liked being the section editor to begin with.
Wagatwe Wanjuki / @wagatwe: Really interested to see how things will be executed. I like the idea that the NYT will explain why they chose a specific argument and where it fits in national discourse. https://twitter.com/...
Antifa Innovation Tsar / @profjeffjarviss: Excited to stand in as the acting editor of the New York Times op-ed section. Looking for two pieces ASAP: “Why Rowling Did Not Go Far Enough” and “Jesus Loved Martial Law”. Get at me, email in bio.
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Key graf from AG Sulzberger's memo: “Last week we saw a significant breakdown in our editing processes, not the first we've experienced in recent years. @JBennet and I agreed that it would take a new team to lead the department through a period of considerable change.”
Dr. Steven W. Thrasher / @thrasherxy: This is surprising. It is unusual to see consequences up the ladder in cases like these. https://www.nytco.com/...
Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: Still processing but @katiekings is brilliant and has done an enormous amount to diversify the editorial board, which is turning out beautiful work. 100% believe things will run much better with her in charge. What a development! https://www.nytco.com/...
Elizabeth Spiers / @espiers: I'm actually surprised about the Bennet resignation. The usual NYT response to big screw ups by people high up in the hierarchy is to double down. It took them forever to acknowledge Judy Miller's screw ups. (Lower-level people like Jayson Blair get the front page treatment tho)
Hamilton Nolan / @hamiltonnolan: Direct action gets the goods James
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Inside the revolts erupting in the biggest US newsrooms, as some staff have pushed back on approaches to covering racism and Trump — Staff members' demands helped end the tenure of James Bennet as Opinion editor of The New York Times. And they are generating tension at The Washington Post.
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Osita Nwanevu / New Republic: Tom Cotton and the Elite Media's Dalliance With Illiberalism
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review: James Bennet and a moment of truth
Nick Tuths / @nicktuths: When I was at Maddow during Ferguson, there were people at that network who said we shouldn't put @WesleyLowery on because “he's an activist, not a reporter.” We didn't listen, because the coda on our show was you SHOULD be passionate about the topic you report on. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: I started this week looking at the origins of this journalistic moment in Ferguson, which took me into a story about @WesleyLowery & @washingtonpost , which led me right back to James Bennet & @nytimes. Here it is: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: Lot of thoughtful stuff in this @drvox piece, inlcuding the challenge for opinion pages that “There is no Trumpism but Trump” https://www.vox.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: One iconic story of newsroom tensions in this moment ins @WesleyLowery & Martin Baron. The full story, and blunt internal memos, are here: https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: Update: WaPo's Kris Coratti says,"This report is part of a broader conversation we've been having throughout the newsroom abt our use of social media, & it is an ongoing conversation. This report is a useful source of insights and next steps as we review and refine our policies."
Emily Atkin / HEATED: My apartment flooded
Emily Bell / @emilybell: ...fascinating look into how national newsrooms perceive of and use social media. Most journalists are looking for more clarity and guidance https://twitter.com/...
Errin Haines / @emarvelous: Those of us whose careers were forged on the streets of Ferguson have never forgotten what we saw, and we are forever bonded by the experience. I will also be forever grateful to every brave soul who shared their stories with me there. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sara David / @saraqdavid: “American view-from-nowhere, 'objectivity'-obsessed, both-sides journalism is a failed experiment. We need to rebuild our industry as one that operates from a place of moral clarity.” -this from @WesleyLowery needs to be a conversation in every newsroom rn https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeremy Littau / @jeremylittau: This is one of those things you should make time to read today. I'm going to share a couple standout quotes downstream but it underscores the important context that the James Bennet incident is part of a much larger tug-of-war in newsrooms the past half-decade. https://twitter.com/...
Mara Gay / @maragay: “'Generations of black journalists, including here at The Washington Post, have served as the conscience not only of their publications but of our entire industry,' Mr. Lowery said.” https://www.nytimes.com/... @benyt
@thomaschattwill: This from @benyt's excellent column unnerves me: “American view-from-nowhere, 'objectivity'-obsessed, both-sides journalism is a failed experiment,” [Loury tweeted]. “We need to rebuild our industry as one that operates from a place of moral clarity.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@goldietaylor: I will always believe that by sounding the alarm about what was unfolding Ferguson that Saturday afternoon, I ended my career in cable news. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Harris / @markharrisnyc: I find it troubling that this memo uses the word “mob” four times. Yes, negative social media response can be overwhelming, but policy decisions about social media shouldn't be made by people who feel perpetually threatened by the hordes at the gate. https://twitter.com/...
Eriq Gardner / @eriqgardner: Interesting strategy here. NYT staffers relying on the National Labor Relations Act to protect their protest tweets... https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Zeitlin / @mattzeitlin: a newspaper is just like the organizations that newspapers cover: people speak out (or leak) when they feel like their concerns aren't being heard internally https://twitter.com/...
Eric Deggans At Npr / @deggans: Powerful column on tension between non-white reporters calling out systemic racism and old school bosses. But I think it underplays how GOP, not just Trump, has gotten more extreme, making racism more overt, challenging non-white journalists even more. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: For an academic who studies the press, this doc is gold. @nikkiusher https://twitter.com/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: I expressed a lot of these concerns with WaPo's social media policy directly to the executive editor. In response, he snarled that if I didn't like the policy I could find a new job https://twitter.com/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: lol we have been politely asking that they like...hire one (1) additional black person for....50 years....but go off king https://twitter.com/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: @AaronBlake @benyt the Playbook piece also spelled my name wrong and got my age wrong. YA CAN'T MAKE IT UP
Aaron Blake / @aaronblake: Amazing that this bit of analysis @benyt links to was written just a few short years ago. “YA CAN'T MAKE IT UP” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: Everytime someone uses this tired line to my face I respond that I'm pretty sure the Pulitzer on my bookshelf is for reporting https://twitter.com/...
Deanna Pan / @ddpan: Absolutely this. When I was a reporter in SC, I felt like we had to walk this tightrope between reporting accurately on racism and not offending our majority white readership. Coverage was riddled with euphemisms like “racially tinged/charged/offensive” at the behest of editors. https://twitter.com/...
Lois Beckett / @loisbeckett: It's wrong to characterize the current media debates as about journalism that's more “personal” or partisan. Disproportionately white newsrooms failed to cover racism objectively. What is happening now is a course correction towards...the facts. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Justin George / @justingeorge: Wes is one of the most important journalistic voices on race post-Ferguson. https://twitter.com/...
Tricia Romano / @tromano: Damning assessment of the “objective” stance by newspapers. It's bs. You can't be objective. You are a person. You can be fair and factual. https://twitter.com/...
Ricardo Lopez / @rljourno: .@WesleyLowery paved the way. The bravery it takes to speak truth to power, especially when doing so carries such great professional risk should not be understated. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Flint / @jbflint: @jacknicas @realrobcopeland @WSJ Either you're a) trying to say WSJ reporters know there's a difference between news and opinion pages and thus don't freak out every time there is something there they don't agree with or b) you're trying to drag us into your fight.
Jack Nicas / @jacknicas: @JBFlint @realrobcopeland @WSJ Nah. My main point was the op-ed was pretty garbage. And actually, I don't think it's typically appropriate for reporters to weigh in on their papers' opinion pieces. The Tom Cotton piece was an unusual case. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Rob Copeland / @realrobcopeland: As my friend @jacknicas knows, news is separate from opinion @WSJ. We are inured to nothing. Reporters here are laser focused on what is printed in the news pages, and are encouraged to speak freely and frequently about it with the top levels of the masthead. https://twitter.com/...
Jack Nicas / @jacknicas: The Times op-ed sparked unusual backlash among reporters here. But there probably won't be any such reaction at the WSJ. I was a reporter there for seven years, and my former colleagues are sadly quite inured to the opinion pages contradicting what they report in the news pages.
Jack Nicas / @jacknicas: And let me be very clear: The Wall Street Journal's news reporters and editors are world class and always have been. This op-ed has nothing to do with them. The WSJ's Opinion pages have sometimes produced important work. They've also often contradicted facts in the news pages.
Jack Nicas / @jacknicas: I also strongly agree that all opinion sections should include a broad spectrum of views. I'm merely questioning why the WSJ's top “recommended” article for three straight days is a flimsy argument that racist policing is figment of our imagination.
@mairavz: Studying political science prepares you well for journalism: the first thing you learn is there is no such thing as objectivity https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Fresca Cowboy / @presidentwil: Really appreciate journalists who are acknowledging that objectively witnessing suffering is condoning it. It's complicated and messy but journalists who acknowledge the power dynamic are the truth tellers https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Did not know any of @WesleyLowery's story. Glad I do now. https://twitter.com/...
@mattnegrin: It's weird that this depthy autopsy of the Bennet fuckup as a prism into how the NYT and WP neuter themselves so they can't truthfully cover race doesn't even mention the NYT's wild headline on Trump's racist tone-deaf speech, “Trump Vows To ‘End It Now’” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Staci D Kramer / @sdkstl: “Walking in circles and then realizing later on that it was simply an unconstitutional rule, it changed the way I thought about reporting — it made me think I have to question everything, including the rules of our reporting.” @yamiche to @benyt https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mike Hixenbaugh / @mike_hixenbaugh: My take after reading this: The future of journalism is bright. @WesleyLowery, @Yamiche, @byjoelanderson, @trymainelee, @AdamSerwer https://www.nytimes.com/...
Frank Rich / @frankrichny: If you want full, objective context for what erupted at @nytimes - and not just the Times - this is it. https://twitter.com/...
Asher Moses / @ashermoses: Civilisation is doomed unless journalists take a stand on values. “American view-from-nowhere, 'objectivity'-obsessed, both-sides journalism is a failed experiment. We need to rebuild our industry as one that operates from a place of moral clarity.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Cara Fitzpatrick / @fitz_ly: Hard to see @WesleyLowery leaving WaPo as anything other than a huge loss for the newspaper. They lost an immensely talented young reporter who could have spent a career there. https://twitter.com/...
Kelsey Kupferer / @kkupferer: “The new way of covering civil rights protests...coalesced on the streets of Ferguson.” As a journalist and Missourian, I've been thinking about just how much we owe the people of Ferguson and the young Black reporters who were (and still are) on the ground there. https://twitter.com/...
Adi Joseph / @adijoseph: This column is very good and makes a lot of great points, particularly the quick note about reader loyalty increasingly outweighing clicks. But I think it bypasses (intentionally?) the greater discussion of how Twitter has elevated what once were considered special interests. https://twitter.com/...
Elana Zak / @elanazak: Both @Sulliview and @benyt's columns today focus on an argument gaining a lot of traction: newsrooms' “core value needs to be the truth, not the perception of objectivity.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@isaacfitzgerald: I once had the privilege of watching 👑@byjoelanderson give a talk about his experiences covering Ferguson at the @BellHouseNY in Brooklyn. Given the incredible tweet this man gave us earlier this week, this big, beautiful portrait of him in the @nytimes seems even more deserved. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: Fantastic @benyt column about the cohort of journalists who flew to Ferguson and came back to transform journalism. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mukhtar M. Ibrahim / @mukhtaryare: Washington Post reporters told @benyt that they wished @WesleyLowery was still there, breaking news from Minneapolis for the paper. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Josh Eidelson / @josheidelson: “Walking in circles and then realizing later on that it was simply an unconstitutional rule, it changed the way I thought about reporting — it made me think I have to question everything, including the rules of our reporting,” https://www.nytimes.com/... @benyt @Yamiche
Aditi Juneja / @aditijuneja3: This is a great piece. @WesleyLowery and Black journalists across America deserve better from their employers. And Americans need the truth from the media. Even if it makes White folks uncomfortable. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan J. Reilly / @ryanjreilly: Some really great photography in this fascinating @benyt piece. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mickey Kaus / @kausmickey: Treading verrry carefully. But informative. This can't be the only thing he writes on Topic A ... https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Stein / @spytalker: ‘When an organization loses a journalist as talented and as fiercely committed to the truth as Wesley Lowery, its leaders need to ask themselves why,’ said Felicia Sonmez...who clashed with Mr. Baron over a different tweet. ‘We need more reporters like him, not fewer.’ https://twitter.com/...
Irin Carmon / @irin: Seeing so much accountability today that I never thought I'd see. https://twitter.com/...
Eugene Scott / @eugene_scott: “Seeing police in armored vehicles in riot gear with semiautomatic weapons in a residential neighborhood in America — and seeing them viewing black people not as citizens and taxpayers and people worthy of protection ... was surreal,” @emarvelous https://www.nytimes.com/...
Felix Salmon / @felixsalmon: This is similar to how journalists like @eisingerj and @RanaForoohar were radicalized by the financial crisis. When you discover that the sources you've been trusting have just straight-up been lying to you, that changes your view profoundly. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: “American view-from-nowhere, 'objectivity'-obsessed, both-sides journalism is a failed experiment. We need to rebuild our industry as one that operates from a place of moral clarity.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jarell Cardoza / Sunday Plug: Baldwin on the American Dream, Coates on the moment, not so civil newspaper wars
Nick Pacilio / @nickpacilio: “The central vein for reporters, producers, activists and a vast national audience was Twitter, which had already begun subtly shifting the power dynamic in news. ... Twitter 'did make it feel like you're more accountable to a broader audience and a more diverse audience.'” https://twitter.com/...
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: We need more reporters like @WesleyLowery, not fewer. His voice in our newsroom and his work in our pages are missed now more than ever. An important column by @benyt: https://twitter.com/...
Mat Honan / @mat: “Perhaps most tellingly, reporters I spoke to at The Post said they wished Mr. Lowery was still there, breaking news from Minneapolis for the paper.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Good by @benyt. Lord there is so much work to do and there is so much time lost likely too much. https://twitter.com/...
Clara Jeffery / @clarajeffery: This is a very good piece. It documents how one of the big failings of newspapers rn is that the “view from nowhere” is in fact a “view from white male comfort zone.” https://twitter.com/...
Greg Dworkin / @demfromct: this is great, if it happens what a story https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: “Minutes after Mr. Sulzberger told the staff in an email that Mr. Bennet had resigned, he told me not to interpret the move as a philosophical shift. ” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Big new @benyt column: “The shift in mainstream American media — driven by a journalism that is more personal, and reporters more willing to speak what they see as the truth without worrying about alienating conservatives — now feels irreversible.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Roberts / Vox:
To defend values like respect for accuracy and shared facts, media cannot remain neutral when those values are under threat from racialized authoritarianism
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@ewong, @stevekrak, Talking Points Memo, @mcoatney, @brianstelter, Reason, @jayrosen_nyu, @fugueish, @brendannyhan, @demfromct and Popular Information
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Edward Wong / @ewong: Like @benyt story, this @drvox essay gets at a core question in newsrooms — incl. @nytimes — in Trump era: How goal of “objectivity” clashes w/ honest coverage of erosion of democracy & rise of ideas, people and systems around authoritarian minority rule. https://www.vox.com/...
Steve Krakauer / @stevekrak: When journalists start worrying about “defending America's values” and drawing boundaries, then the public needs to start worrying about who has appointed themselves this monumental task. But that's not a journalist's job, particularly not when it comes to an opinion section. https://twitter.com/...
Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo: NYT Editorial Page Editor Resigns Amid Backlash Over Cotton's ‘Send In the Troops’ Op-Ed
Mark Coatney / @mcoatney: I think this is excellent, but the problem is structural, no? That is, you don't rise to the level of decision maker in most media orgs without a history of support and deference to existing power structures https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “The question is where are the boundaries and, just as importantly, who draws them? Who decides what is in bounds and out of bounds? Is it the press's job to draw those lines and defend those boundaries?” https://www.vox.com/...
David Bernstein / Reason: Is the Future of Freedom of Speech in Jeopardy?
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: I don't know that you can make it any clearer than @drvox does here. Outstanding work, with details and links to back it up. This is THE challenge from today to November 3. 'The Tom Cotton op-ed affair shows why the media must defend America's values.' https://www.vox.com/...
Chris Palmer / @fugueish: The Paradox Of Tolerance is most definitely in effect. I find it surprising that educated people like Sulzberger and Bennett are able to still pretend not to understand it. https://twitter.com/...
Brendan Nyhan / @brendannyhan: “The rise of right-wing authoritarianism is the headline story of US politics, but the domestic mainstream media is prevented by its own anachronistic habits and norms from telling it.” https://www.vox.com/...
Jay Rosen / PressThink:
Trump's fact-free presidency has antiquated the idea of newspapers uncritically presenting both sides; “view-from-nowhere” journalism is no longer an option — Dean Baquet has a phrase for it: We are not the resistance. But if that were entirely true, James Bennet would still have a job.
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@jayrosen_nyu, Poynter, The Hill, @mirakamdar, @frankrichny, @ckrewson, @jason_kint, National Review, @profcarroll, @emersongreg, @kirktousaw, @ladyofsardines, @dkiesow, @mlcalderone, Fox News and NPR
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Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: I had to stay up half the night to finish this. My post on last week's rebellion at the New York Times. It's called “Battleship Newspaper.” My interpretation of this event. https://pressthink.org/... I hope you will read it.
Tom Jones / Poynter: The controversy at The New York Times is over more than just one op-ed. The future of the Times could be at stake.
Scott Wong / The Hill: Clyburn: Tom Cotton should be ‘ashamed of himself’
Mira Kamdar / @mirakamdar: “The Times has evolved a lot since 2005. But now it has to update its pressthink; it has to evolve politically. That's not in the newsroom's DNA. But it is the call of the times. ” https://twitter.com/...
Chris Krewson / @ckrewson: This is a well-reasoned @jayrosen_nyu essay; a contextual reading of the state of “objective” journalism, at the NYT and elsewhere. https://pressthink.org/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Provocative read. When it's published overnight and recommended to me by 9am then it's worth the time. Thanks for sharing, Jay. https://twitter.com/...
Tobias Hoonhout / National Review: NYT Opinion Editor Resigns following Cotton Op-Ed Fallout
David Carroll / @profcarroll: “But at some point the light bulb has to flick on. This isn't debate club. It's an attack on the institutions of American democracy.” https://twitter.com/...
Greg Emerson / @emersongreg: A lot about newsroom diversity, the new cost of the flawed “view from nowhere”, and why the @nytimes needs to change its DNA to resist disinformation and demagoguery. Good stuff from @jayrosen_nyu https://pressthink.org/...
@kirktousaw: “Debate club democracy — where people of good will share a common world of fact but disagree on what should be done — is an expensive illusion to maintain during a presidency that tries to undermine every independent and factual check there is on the executive's power...” https://twitter.com/...
Ursula Wolfe-Rocca / @ladyofsardines: I hadn't heard the phrase “debate club democracy” before reading this, but I'll be using it again, perhaps with the addition of the modifier “white.” https://twitter.com/...
Damon Kiesow / @dkiesow: I am not sure if @jayrosen just coined this phrase but ‘debate club democracy’ exactly describes the privilege of knowing the debate will never really threaten you personally. https://pressthink.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Michael Calderone / @mlcalderone: Quite a piece from @jayrosen_nyu on Bennet's exit and news orgs clinging to the notion of “debate club democracy” in the Trump era https://pressthink.org/... https://twitter.com/...
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
In this polarized moment, the choice for journalists is not to become activists or stenographers but decide how to best serve their mission of telling the truth — With the country in turmoil over racial injustice, a public health crisis and devastating job losses, it should be no surprise that journalists are caught up in the tumult.
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@dmontyjr, MediaFile, @amendezpty, The Media Nut, @lyndalrowlands, @froomkin, @oz_f, @kellymcb, @cbellantoni, @jmpyper, @thorntonaustin, @elizwgreen, @rominaadi, @dangillmor, @myhlee and @timcarman
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David Montgomery / @dmontyjr: “But it's the kind of mess that American journalism could come out of stronger and better if they — and the American people they serve — grapple with some difficult questions.” Good one by @Sulliview https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ana Graciela Mndez / @amendezpty: “Every piece of reporting — written or spoken, told in text or in images — is the product of choices. Every article approaches its subject from somebody's perspective.” https://twitter.com/...
Josh Sternberg / The Media Nut: Truth matters isn't just a slogan. It's an operating principle.
Lyndal Rowlands / @lyndalrowlands: I just came back to Australia after 4+ years in the US - US media has its own problems but I was still shocked by how stuck in the past Australian media seemed when I got back - like we can't just leave addressing our own racism to SBS anymore, it's 2020 ffs https://twitter.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Exactly! Via @Sulliview: “What if we framed coverage with this question at the forefront: What journalism best serves the real interests of American citizens? Make decisions with that in mind & at least some of the knotty problems get smoothed out” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Osman Faruqi / @oz_f: This is really sharp piece that gently, but very effectively, dismantled the “boths sides” journalistic model that dominates Australian media and underpins stuff like the Bannon interview. WaPo isn't some leftist rag, this should be a wake up call. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@kellymcb: WashPost's @Sulliview says the choices that journalists make when doing their jobs are the most important choices. What truths are you going tell? How well will you tell them? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Christina Bellantoni / @cbellantoni: “Every piece of reporting ... is the product of choices. Every article [focuses on] somebody's perspective. Every digital home page, every printed front page, every ... newscast, every [news alert], every talk show is the product of decision-making.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Julia Pyper / @jmpyper: “The core question is this: In this polarized, dangerous moment, what are journalists supposed to be? ... The real answer is to make better, wiser choices — ones that best serve our important mission to find and tell the truth.” Reading: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
John Thornton / @thorntonaustin: @sulliview asks all the right questions. All I know for sure is that “the market” doesn't have any of the answers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Elizabeth Green / @elizwgreen: required reading. “Using that lens, Cotton's views should be known, but not amplified and normalized within the prized real estate that is the op-ed page of the New York Times.” https://twitter.com/...
Romina Ruiz-Goiriena / @rominaadi: “'Journalism is not stenography'” is a refrain from an astute editor I know." https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: In today's WashPost, @sulliview has a different perspective: “What's a journalist supposed to be now — an activist? A stenographer? You're asking the wrong question.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / @myhlee: We've been asking what the role of journalists should be during this polarized and dangerous time. @Sulliview challenges us to reframe coverage with this question at the forefront: What journalism best serves the real interests of American citizens? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Bon Appétit editor alleges only white editors have been paid for video appearances; a Condé Nast representative denied the allegation — : Adam Rapoport, editor-in-chief of Bon Appetit, came under fire Monday with calls for him to resign or be fired after allegations …
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Adweek, Washington Post, Fox News, @joeybear85, @sarahmanavis, The Guardian, The Wrap, @aliciakennedy, @piescarcega, @msolis14, New York Post, The Juice of One Lemon, Heavy.com and @robcabrera
Discussion:
Sara Jerde / Adweek: Bon Appétit Editor in Chief Resigns After ‘Brownface’ Photo Surfaces and Allegations of Discrimination Mount
Emily Heil / Washington Post: Bon Appétit's editor resigns after ‘brownface’ photo and allegations of discrimination
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News: Bon Appétit editor-in-chief resigns after photo in brown face, claims of mistreatment …
Joseph Hernandez / @joeybear85: I'm likely courting internal reprimand, but I'm appalled and insulted by the EIC's choice to embrace brownface in the photo making the rounds. I've spent my career celebrating Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, and POC voices in food, and this feels like an erasure of that work.
Sarah Manavis / @sarahmanavis: In case you've missed it: Not only is Sohla one of the only front facing Bon Appetit editors to denounce EIC Adam Rapoport doing brown face, apparently only white BA editors are paid for their video appearances. Here's her Instagram story just now https://twitter.com/...
J. Clara Chan / The Wrap: Bon Appétit Top Editor Adam Rapoport Seen in Brownface in Resurfaced Instagram Photo
Alicia Kennedy / @aliciakennedy: It's been quite something to watch writers outside of food look to the test kitchen as some sort of equitable utopia. There were 2 pieces this year on that! https://twitter.com/...
Patricia I. Escrcega / @piescarcega: I'm enraged that journalists of color have to constantly worry about their jobs and livelihoods simply for doing the right thing. https://twitter.com/...
Marie Solis / @msolis14: the success of the bon appetit test kitchen relies on viewers buying into the illusion of a workplace founded on camaraderie, good will, solidarity, etc. there's no way to reconcile that idea with these revelations https://twitter.com/...
Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post: Bon Appétit editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport called to resign over brownface photo
Caroline Burke / Heavy.com: Adam Rapoport in ‘Brown Face’: Bon Appetit Editor in Chief Called Out for Racist Costume
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Marina Fang / HuffPost:
Bon Appétit EIC Adam Rapoport says he is stepping down after a photo of him in brown face surfaced causing an uproar from staffers — The publication has long faced controversies surrounding its cultural appropriation of food trends and glaringly white staff.
Discussion:
CNN, The Wrap, Deadline, Variety, @marinafang, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, New York Times, Grub Street, @marinafang and @nicolelzhu
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Kerry Flynn / CNN: Bon Appétit editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport resigns
J. Clara Chan / The Wrap: Bon Appétit Editor in Chief Adam Rapoport Resigns After Brownface Photo Resurfaces
Dade Hayes / Deadline: Bon Appétit Editor Adam Rapoport Resigns After Race-Based Controversies Grip Condé Nast Title - Update
Todd Spangler / Variety: Bon Appetit Editor-in-Chief Adam Rapoport Resigns After Backlash Over Treatment of People of Color
Marina Fang / @marinafang: Breaking: Bon Appétit editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport has resigned after a photo of him wearing brownface resurfaced and several of the magazine's few staffers of color publicly called on him to resign https://www.huffpost.com/...
Lucas Kwan Peterson / Los Angeles Times: Adam Rapoport steps down as editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit after brownface photo surfaces
Josh Rivera / USA Today: Here's what's going on with ‘Bon Appétit’ and why editor in chief Adam Rapoport resigned
Kim Severson / New York Times: Bon Appétit Editor Adam Rapoport Resigns
Chris Crowley / Grub Street: Bon Appétit's Editor-in-Chief Resigns After Staff Outcry
The Arizona State Press:
Cronkite School of Journalism says Sonya Forte Duhé will not become its next Dean, after reports of alleged racist and homophobic remarks to students — Provost Mark Searle made the announcement and said he would appoint an interim dean this week — Sonya Forte Duhé …
Discussion:
Rachel Leingang / Arizona Republic: Cronkite faculty members say incoming dean, accused of racism, would harm school's reputation
The Arizona State Press: Incoming Cronkite dean has alleged history of racist, homophobic comments toward students
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: Big congratulations to @WMyskow and @piperjhansen — a 23-people-on-the-record story that leads directly to the ouster of your dean is pretty much the ne plus ultra of j-school reporting https://www.statepress.com/... https://www.statepress.com/...
Jim Roberts / @nycjim: Arizona State Press just conducted a masterclass in investigative reporting, detailing extensive allegations of racist and homophobic remarks by the incoming dean of the Cronkite School of Journalism. Now, the new dean won't be getting the job after all. https://www.statepress.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Great reporting by student journalists. Their original story: https://www.statepress.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Lauren Peikoff / @laurenpeikoff: So much of this has to be thanks to the dogged reporting from the student reporters at @statepress. https://twitter.com/...
Julie O'Donoghue / @jsodonoghue: The outgoing @Loyola_NOLA dean of journalism lost a job at @Cronkite_ASU after allegations of racism, homophobia and body-shaming surfaced. The most detailed account of the allegations I've read came from the @statepress (ASU student newspaper). https://www.statepress.com/...
Rachel Leingang / @rachelleingang: This comes after truly excellent work by student newspapers at ASU, @statepress, and at Loyola, @Loyola_Maroon, both of which found many students who had complaints about Duhé's treatment. Both initial stories: https://www.statepress.com/..., https://loyolamaroon.com/...
Vic Vela / @vicvela1: College journalists: Never underestimate your ability to do amazing work that can lead to change. Never let people tell you that your reporting won't make a difference. Remarkable work from @statepress: https://www.statepress.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@statepress: Provost Mark Searle made the announcement and said he would appoint an interim dean this week. https://www.statepress.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Samantha Melbourneweaver / @samanthamvb: On Friday, the @statepress published an investigation into incoming @Cronkite_ASU Dean Sonya Forte Duhé who is accused of having made racist and homophobic remarks to students at her last school. On Sunday, Cronkite said she won't be dean next year. https://www.statepress.com/...
PEN America / @penamerica: Arizona State University has retracted an offer to the newly hired dean at the university's journalism school after nearly two dozen students raised concerns and protests over the woman's alleged history of racism and mistreatment to the LGBTQ community. https://www.azcentral.com/...
New York Times:
Company memo: Axios CEO Jim VandeHei says he supports employees' right to march, and Axios would cover bail and assist in medical bills for any staff doing so — In a company memo, the chief executive of the politics news site said he supported staff members' right to march …
Discussion:
Fox News, The Hill, @benyt, @battymamzelle, @sanasaeed, @dancgoldberg, @edmundlee, @neontaster, @lainnafader, @benyt, @grace_panetta and @aleksnotalex
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Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News: Axios letting journalists join George Floyd protests, will work to pay bail if they're arrested, report says
Justine Coleman / The Hill: Axios gives green light for reporters to join protests
Ben Smith / @benyt: Axios cuts the Gordian knot tangling up a lot of newsrooms, says reporters can protest police brutality and racism. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@battymamzelle: Journalists don't exist outside of politics and the black ones have been telling you this for years now 🤷🏿♀ ️ https://twitter.com/...
Sana Saeed / @sanasaeed: This is *AXIOS* - a very centrist, DC-friendly news org showing itself as more progressive on this question than most newsrooms in this country, including those which claim democracy dies in the darkness or are papers of the records. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Goldberg / @dancgoldberg: One man's Gordian Knot is another man's seat belt. https://twitter.com/...
Edmund Lee / @edmundlee: Sometimes, the incremental move ends up becoming *the* move. Here, with @benyt: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lainna Fader / @lainnafader: Thanks for saying your employees can exercise their rights as citizens...? https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: Amazing that it's @axios, whose founders — when I worked with them — often got criticized for Republican ties. But they have the great benefit of being new.
Grace Panetta / @grace_panetta: Axios is now allowing reporters to attend protests & will cover their medical/legal bills: “If you're arrested or meet harm while exercising these rights, Axios will stand behind you and use the Family Fund to cover your bail or assist with medical bills.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast commits $100M to a three-year plan to advance social justice and equality with a $75M cash commitment and $25M in media — Chairman and CEO Brian Roberts vows to fight “injustice and inequality against any race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation or ability.”
Discussion:
Comcast, /Film, The Hill, Breitbart, Multichannel News, @gabekunda, @gerryfsmith, @nithyaruff and @penenberg
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Brian L. Roberts / Comcast: Comcast Announces $100 Million Multiyear Plan to Advance Social Justice and Equality
Justine Coleman / The Hill: Comcast pledges $100 million to combat systemic prejudices in American society
Gabriel Kunda / @gabekunda: Let's us not forget, Comcast is currently being sued for $20B by Byron Allen in a case that went to the Supreme Court and tests the Civil Rights Act of 1866........but I guess this is a start 🤷🏾♂ ️ https://twitter.com/...
Gerry Smith / @gerryfsmith: Inbox: Comcast plans to spend $100 million fighting “injustice and inequality against any race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation or ability.” https://corporate.comcast.com/ ...
Ben Smith / @benyt:
[Thread] Internal WaPo report: Felicia Sonmez's suspension was “arbitrary”, suggesting “management is ill-equipped to deal with social media in the modern era” — I've obtained a copy of the “Recommendations for Social Media Use” @washingtonpost National Editor Steven Ginsberg sought from a group of staffers. It's an X-ray of the issues I wrote about this week, and you can read the full thing here: https://int.nyt.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Discussion:
@benyt, @benyt, @benyt, @vivian, @kimzetter, @ashleyfeinberg, @robpegoraro, @benyt and @ashleyfeinberg
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Ben Smith / @benyt: Reporters also complain of a “two-tiered system” in which “white, male reporters often get away with potentially problematic messages, while female and minority colleagues are not given the benefit of the doubt” https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: But reporters say it's easier to get management's attention by tweeting about issues than trying to raise them in meetings. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: Finally, reporters see management responding to online mobs, without understanding what's going on. Ginsberg & a Post spokeswoman didn't respond to my emails about it. (I mentioned the report in passing in my column, where they also declined to comment https://www.nytimes.com/...) https://twitter.com/...
Vivian Schiller / @vivian: I would love to hear how other news organization are/aren't reexamining their employees' social media policies, like @MSNBC @CNN @foxnews @NPR @CBSNews @abcnews @BBCNews https://twitter.com/...
Kim Zetter / @kimzetter: This document is a really interesting window into how traditional news media are grappling with how their reporters engage on social media and how journalists are finding the old rules about what they can do online to be too restrictive and a barrier to doing their job well. https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: shout out to this enormous fucking cop https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Rob Pegoraro / @robpegoraro: What reporters on social media get, but which many of their editors still don't: “Something that is not a violation cannot become a violation because a lot of people got mad about it.” Assuming good faith among all online critics grants a heckler's veto to the least fair of them. https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: The April 20 report comes after internal concerns about the way Wesley Lowery and Felicia Sonmez were disciplined for tweets. Reporters found Sonmez's suspension “arbitrary” and “impulsive,” suggesting “management is ill-equipped to deal with social media in the modern era.” https://twitter.com/...
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Sources: at all-hands meeting, Maven announced 15% salary cuts across the org, while some staffers called for shutdown of its pro-police blog Blue Lives Matter — During a series of tense all-hands meetings, employees called upon Maven to cut ties with a “disgraceful” pro-police blog.
Discussion:
@si_union: Staffers at SI and Maven have been concerned about how dangerous this site is and how it violates our own internal policies for a long time. Friday, we came together collectively to demand it be deplatformed from Maven. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Jason Schwartz / @jasonschwartz: “Blue Lives Matter” is a very bad and racist site. Maven told staff today it is taking “definitive action”—it must de-platform the site immediately. https://twitter.com/...
Bijan Stephen / The Verge:
Twitch has had a “sudden influx of DMCA takedown requests for clips” from 2017 to 2019, as creators bemoan the three strike rule and lack of bulk deletion tools — There has been a flurry of takedown requests in the last few days — Over the last few days …
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Yahoo News, @twitchsupport, @adamhlavac, Plagiarism Today, @bijanstephen and Music Business Worldwide, more at Techmeme »
Discussion:
@twitchsupport: 📢 This week, we've had a sudden influx of DMCA takedown requests for clips with background music from 2017-19. If you're unsure about rights to audio in past streams, we advise removing those clips. We know many of you have large archives, and we're working to make this easier.
Adam Hlavac / @adamhlavac: These are the sort of red flags that convince me to move away from reaction videos. Fighting copyright claims on platforms is incredibly exhausting and not worth the strikes that could eventually lead to a channel shut down. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Bailey / Plagiarism Today: Twitch Streamers Hit with Tidal Wave of DMCA Notices
Bij / @bijanstephen: so i did some sniffing around the weird flurry of dmca notices that twitch streamers have suddenly gotten https://www.theverge.com/...
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