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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Online harassment of female journalists, especially those who cover technology, is deeply destabilizing and increasingly hard to endure — Julia Carrie Wong remembers a time, years ago, when she felt that being a part of digital culture was fun. — “I used to really enjoy online spaces …
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@sulliview, @jessicalessin, @ggreenwald, @blackamazon, @fenitn, @iwmf, @kerrymflynn, @froomkin, @sorayamcdonald, @danrather, @wilgafney, @hunterwalk, @theafronerd, The Guardian and Newser
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@sulliview: Online harassment of female journalists is real, and it's increasingly hard to endure. ....My column, with thanks to @juliacarriew for sharing so forthrightly what she has experienced https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jessica Lessin / @jessicalessin: This has to stop and tech leaders should be embarrassed and ashamed for their role on this. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: This WashPost article on the harassment female journalists get online forgot to mention who was responsible for this specific racist and misogynist abuse and where it came from (it was against the reporter who found the mean Neera tweet about Murkowski): https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: This is good AND ? Someday I won't HAVE to be this person..... Not a single Black woman is interviewed or mentioned https://twitter.com/...
Fenit Nirappil / @fenitn: “It's simply an unhinged rage that women dare to have a voice. Unless you've been there, it's hard to comprehend how deeply destabilizing it is, how it can make you think twice about your next story, or even whether being a journalist remains worth it.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@iwmf: “[Online attacks are] clearly an effort to silence women's voices in public spaces.” Executive director @ElisaLeesMunoz spoke with @Sulliview about the threat online abuse poses and how we're working to protect women journos online. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@kerrymflynn: “It's simply an unhinged rage that women dare to have a voice.” - @Sulliview https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: This is awful. One additional observation: misogyny is everywhere and, due to Trumpism, more overt than ever. Editors should assign reporters to cover it more, whatever their gender whatever their beat. https://twitter.com/...
@sorayamcdonald: Everything Margaret says here. And I wish Black journalists—particularly Black women—got this sort of vocal and unambiguous support from their newsrooms when the person inciting the same sort of awfulness toward them was POTUS. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Dan Rather / @danrather: Truth. And every news organization needs to be aware of this, with support, protection, and guidance. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
I Am Black / @wilgafney: So apparently the experiences of black women journalists are irrelevant in spite of what we all witnessed in the White House briefing room and on the lawn in the past four years. Ok. We see you white women. https://twitter.com/...
@hunterwalk: when people say “male journalists gets harassed horribly too, so why are we focusing on women?” a) women are subjected to way more sexualized, graphic and physical threats b) yes, stop harassing male reporters too ty @Sulliview 💪 https://twitter.com/...
@theafronerd: Especially since @RokhayaDiallo is right HERE. She is probably the most targeted female journalist on this app https://twitter.com/...
Gideon Lichfield / @glichfield:
[Thread] A look at Facebook's PR tactics to push back against unflattering stories, including trying to overwhelm editors with lists of supposed factual errors — With all the pushback from Facebook against @_KarenHao's recent story, and as one of the editors on the piece, I thought it worth making some observations on the PR strategy Facebook has adopted in response. Other journalists may find this useful. https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
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@_karenhao, @moonalice, @nastyoldwomyn, @anabnos, @grady_booch, @brokenimageheap, @pareene, Humans + Tech, @dlauer, @drpanmd, @sheeraf, @jasonabbruzzese, @glichfield, @fitzthereporter, @sivavaid, @beynate, @kmac, @eaterofsun, @kissane, @jason_kint, @teddyschleifer, @gadyepstein, @glichfield, @mikamckinnon, @zevshalev, @zackwhittaker, @clarajeffery, @sesmith, @hetanshah, @tomcoates, @aaschapiro, @notrivia, @roseveleth, @sanjanah, @timnitgebru, @jason_kint and @themarkup
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Karen Hao / @_karenhao: A bit stunned by @schrep's response to @CaseyNewton's questions in Platformer today: “If you're going to pick on a team at the company, please don't pick on this one.” My god, if there's one thing to take away from my piece, it's that the COMPANY not the TEAM is at fault here. https://twitter.com/...
Roger McNamee / @moonalice: Too often, FB Comms' gaslighting goes unchallenged. Three cheers to @glichfield for his exceptionally effective dissection of FB's attack on @_KarenHao's brilliant article. Please read this thread. Others fight back effectively, but this is art. https://twitter.com/...
CCJ / @nastyoldwomyn: “... models that maximize engagement increase polarization. They could easily track how strongly users agreed or disagreed on different issues...and how their stances changed as a result. Regardless of the issue, the models learned to feed users increasingly extreme viewpoints.” https://twitter.com/...
Alexander Abnos / @anabnos: Great thread on what PR can look like to journalists, which applies beyond the tech world. Within American soccer, I've seen and dealt with pretty much every strategy listed here (though not all at once, and obviously without the financial/cultural heft of Facebook behind it). https://twitter.com/...
Grady Booch / @grady_booch: Facebook is a profoundly unethical company, and it starts at the top, with Mark. And Sheryl. https://twitter.com/...
Emma Rindlisbacher / @brokenimageheap: Kinda a tossup between emailing me on Christmas eve to grant me an interview if I give him final approval over quotes dude and the you don't know how financial disclosures work can you delay piece lady in terms of who was the worst flack I've dealt with. https://twitter.com/...
@pareene: this is a good thread. keep in mind when you read it that the reason they do this stuff is most of the time it works. https://twitter.com/...
Neeraj Kamdar / Humans + Tech: Tiny pill cameras look for cancer in the digestive system / Humans + Tech - #71
Dave Lauer / @dlauer: If you haven't deleted your Facebook account yet, does this change your mind? https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Richard Pan / @drpanmd: Facebook prioritized profit & right-wing extremism to health: “they blocked a medical-misinformation detector that had noticeably reduced the reach of anti-vaccine campaigns” #VaccinesWork #Ivax2protect #StopHateForProfit @AmerAcadPeds @Vaxyourfam @gavi https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
Sheera Frenkel / @sheeraf: Read Facebook's PR attempts for what they are, an effort to deflect attention from this great reporting that @_KarenHao has gifted us with. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Abbruzzese / @jasonabbruzzese: Great thread here that hints at why Facebook seems so frustrated by the MIT piece: they expected something of a puff piece and didn't get it. https://twitter.com/...
Gideon Lichfield / @glichfield: Since this thread on Facebook's PR tactics seems to have been useful for a lot of people, I'm also going to offer some observations on how the story was edited that may be helpful if you're approaching a similar kind of big piece. https://twitter.com/...
Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez / @fitzthereporter: This is a fascinating thread on the pushback companies will try after good journalism gives them a public shellacking. Government agencies/officials try a lot of these strategies, too, depending on the agency. The better ones own up to the mistakes and move forward. https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan / @sivavaid: Please read this thread. It reveals just how sleazy and dishonest Facebook communications are. These are tactics they have used for years. https://twitter.com/...
Nate Erskine-Smith / @beynate: At the 1st IGC in London, Facebook's Richard Allen told 9 parliaments that “borderline content...close to being banned” may be rewarded by FB's algorithm and that “rather than rewarding it, we should reduce it.” That was in 2018. A complete and continued failure of leadership. https://twitter.com/...
Kate Mackenzie / @kmac: This Facebook AI story is an absolute must-read, along with the threads from the @_KarenHao on reporting it, and @glichfield on editing & FB's attempt to push back. https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
Oliver Morton / @eaterofsun: Wired is lucky to be getting @glichfield as its editor in chief. https://twitter.com/...
Erin Kissane / @kissane: Breaking down exactly how tech companies try to discredit critical reporting is a public service and model editorial practice. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Super important point about CTO of Facebook's response. It's the company. It's the profit guardrails. He's also there as a distraction. See 2018 DCMS @CommonsDCMS hearing. There is a reason they traded him in for Chris Cox at the last minute. https://twitter.com/...
Teddy Schleifer / @teddyschleifer: This is a great thread about how editors can support their reporters against “pushback” from subjects of stories after publication. 90% of the time I get “pushback” it is total BS. https://twitter.com/...
Gady Epstein / @gadyepstein: V interesting thread on the PR strategy employed by Facebook after a critical story. @glichfield and @_KarenHao have handled it all deftly. (Also check Gideon's TL for related good thread on editing the original feature) https://twitter.com/...
Gideon Lichfield / @glichfield: In this case, Facebook wants you to believe that @_KarenHao's story is an attack on one team within Facebook, @jquinonero's Responsible AI team. It isn't. She uses RAI's story to illustrate how Facebook *itself* derails internal efforts to tackle the problem of misinformation.
Mika McKinnon / @mikamckinnon: Recommended reading. Useful for journalists; for Facebook users; for politically-engaged people; for people who exist in current society; for people who need to live in the future we're currently creating. https://twitter.com/...
Zev Shalev / @zevshalev: Hopefully Facebook response makes more people read @_KarenHao's work. FB is in denial if they think they've done enough to halt radicalization on their platform. Their response is all self preservation and shows no concern for those who've ‘lost’ family members bc of FB. https://twitter.com/...
Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker: This is an excellent thread unpicking Facebook's attempt to PR its way out of @_KarenHao's incredible reporting. https://twitter.com/...
Clara Jeffery / @clarajeffery: This piece by (former MoJo fellow) @_KarenHao is outstanding as is this thread by @glichfield. Both add to our understanding of how deeply malignant and duplicitous Facebook is. https://twitter.com/...
S. E. Smith / @sesmith: This is a fascinating thread on trying to shut down a story and while tech companies may claim these tactics are unique to FB I am here to tell you they definitely are not. https://twitter.com/...
Hetan Shah / @hetanshah: The outline of Facebook PR tactics here remind me of @TimHarford's piece on how tobacco companies dealt with evidence of the health impacts of smoking through trying to confuse the picture. ‘Doubt is our product’ they said https://timharford.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Tom Coates / @tomcoates: Very strong and interesting thread from someone I've known for thirty years and trust implicitly. https://twitter.com/...
Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro: Facebook gave @_KarenHao access to their “responsible AI” team hoping, it seems, for a puff piece. When she wrote a critical story, FB PR went into high gear-this thread, from her editor @glichfield, explains how FB tried to undermine the reporting. https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Soderberg / @notrivia: A really important and fascinating thread that is also advice for editors on how you support reporters when they do work that powerful people try and discredit (FWIW, a lot of this also reflects how Baltimore Police respond to critical reporting) https://twitter.com/...
Rose Eveleth / @roseveleth: @_KarenHao Also really love seeing @glichfield go to bat for her against the FB PR flood. Hope other editors are paying attention & taking notes, this is how you support a writer! https://twitter.com/...
Sanjana Hattotuwa / @sanjanah: Compelling, incisive journalism (by @_KarenHao & others) is increasingly distinguished by the degree to which #Facebook attacks reporters & media platforms that publish them. Company's PR spin is human equivalent of its (growing) algorithmic toxicity. https://twitter.com/...
Timnit Gebru / @timnitgebru: Very informative thread. Like I said before the manner in which the execs and PR ppl responded also undermines the work that many are trying to do inside the company. That response alarmed me more than the actual article itself. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Interview with Liz Maynes-Aminzade, head of The New Yorker's Puzzles & Games Dept., on popular crossword puzzles and how games fit into subscription strategy — “If you're looking at a metric like unique visitors, the audience for the crossword is not colossal.
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Parker Higgins / @xor: Interesting interview with the Puzzles & Games editor at the New Yorker, which has published the best mainstream crossword out there since launching in 2018. This number made my jaw drop a bit https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: “In the first year, we had to send back several otherwise excellent drafts because the grids included, for example, OMELET instead of OMELETTE, or TOTALED instead of TOTALLED.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
@niemanlab: “If you're looking at a metric like unique visitors, the audience for the crossword is not colossal. But if you're looking at people who subscribe, or people who read multiple articles a month, those are groups that really value our crossword.” https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
@niemanlab: “We also get some funny emails when people are scandalized by clues. Someone wrote in objecting to a puzzle that had LUBE in the grid — clued as ‘Bedside-table supply, perhaps’ — which she said had ruined her morning coffee.” https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Adriana Lacy / @adriana_lacy: “At The Wall Street Journal, for example, a team looking to increase subscribers' active days found that playing a puzzle had a more dramatic impact on reader retention than other actions the team had been promoting to new subscribers.” https://www.niemanlab.org/...
@niemanlab: The New Yorker launched its first-ever Puzzles & Games Dept. at the end of 2019 and has rolled out a number of digital goodies for solvers since. Now, it's bringing the crossword to print. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
@thebrowser: Also relevant: this Nieman lab piece on puzzles, including cryptic crosswords. Cryptics are popular in Britain but less well-known in the US. We're hoping to change that with our American-style cryptics & all-star puzzle team! https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Dan Feyer / @danfeyer: ... which joins Out of Left Field Cryptics, and a number of indie setters like @MossDef and @d_avidgold, as the only regular cryptic sources outside of the NYT/WSJ and Canadian papers. Read the whole piece by @SarahScire about the Puzzles & Games Dept.: https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Fox's free streaming service Tubi is planning to start funding original movies and TV shows; Roku and Pluto TV are also exploring original programming — Free streaming services increase their ambitions after growing like weeds during pandemic — Fox Corp.'s free streaming service Tubi …
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The Verge, Jefferson Graham's newsletter, @awallenstein, @newsynick, @lucas_shaw and @lucas_shaw, more at Techmeme »
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Jeffersongraham / Jefferson Graham's newsletter: Ads on HBO! Nix to shared Netflix.
Andrew Wallenstein / @awallenstein: First Roku, now this. Surely Pluto TV bound to follow as the whole AVOD category matures. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Nick Turner / @newsynick: Tubi, a free streaming service owned by Fox, was a big hit during the pandemic. Now it hopes to build on that momentum by making original programming https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @Lucas_Shaw
Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw: All of the free streaming services are mirroring what happened with Netflix/Hulu. You start with reruns, and then upgrade to funding your own. Roku started, tubi and Pluto follow. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
Roku has hired several former Quibi executives as it prepares to roll out content from Quibi's library of 75+ shows to The Roku Channel — Former Quibi senior content executives Colin Davis and Brian Tannenbaum are among those who have joined Roku. — Two months after acquiring the Quibi library …
Pat Leahy / The Irish Times:
Ex-Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has resigned from Ireland's Commission on the Future of the Media, amid row over alleged IRA-supporting columnist Greenslade — Alan Rusbridger had come under pressure over Roy Greenslade article about Máiría Cahill — about 5 hours ago Updated: about 4 hours ago
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Donie O'Sullivan / @donie: Also a member of the Facebook Oversight Board. https://www.irishtimes.com/...
Columbia Journalism Review:
Survey of 1,500 PBS viewers: their political leanings span from extremely liberal to extremely conservative, and 50%+ rank PBS as neutral in terms of news bias — This piece is adapted from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism's weekly newsletter. — In February, M&RR, a marketing research firm …
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@cjr: PBS could help rebuild trust in US media, @TowCenter research suggests: https://www.cjr.org/...
Vivian Schiller / @vivian: “Ideally” doing a lot of heavy lifting here. @CPBmedia is HIGHLY politicized: “CPB was established as a firewall btw Congress and local stations so that, ideally, Congress could not directly influence programming decisions through the withholding of funds” https://www.cjr.org/...
@cjr: If the funds were available for digital experimentation at PBS, @TowCenter research shows, the network may be able to play a larger role in restoring trust in the media. https://www.cjr.org/...
UVA Democracy Initiative / @uvademocracy: @UVAMediaLab's @Ali_Christopher published an article on @PBS and trust in @CJR - through greater funding and a rethink of public policies towards public broadcasting, PBS can play a larger role in restoring trust in the media. https://www.cjr.org/...
Ken Tingley / Upstate New York: Stefanik would vote against Christmas morning
Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
McKinsey report: Hollywood is leaving $10B/year on the table by ignoring racial inequities in film and TV and should set concrete goals to increase diversity — A McKinsey report that combined previous research and new interviews argues that concrete steps like company bonuses tied to improved representation can lead to change.
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@debreese, @demanedavis, @tcmbigcheese, @mckinsey, @mekahlonbcla, @tressiemcphd, @radiomirage, @mckinsey, @elsahiltner, @ej11lizzie, @attorneycrump, @jnelsonldf, @walthickey, @franklinleonard, @franklinleonard, @larenztate, @chrisiousity, Mashable, @absurdbirdz, @nicsperling, @minjinlee11, @drphilgoff, @jemelehill, @franklinleonard, @tressiemcphd, @franklinleonard, McKinsey Insights & … and @andrewlavallee
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Debbie Reese / @debreese: I see parallels in article in NYT about Hollywood and lack of diversity, and children's lit. “...white executives' assumptions about target audiences being ‘valued more than lived experiences of creators.’” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
DeMane Davis / @demanedavis: “Hollywood has the potential to gain an additional $10 billion in annual revenues — which amounts to nearly 7% more than its baseline — by addressing the racial inequities.” https://deadline.com/...
Pat Younge / @tcmbigcheese: Imagine working in an industry that leaves $10bn per year on the table because it excludes black talent. This isn't the view of whiny liberals, this is McKinsey's analysis. Doing the right thing is good for your soul and your bank balance - who knew! https://www.mckinsey.com/...
@mckinsey: Streaming services are on the rise 📈 But Black representation on streaming remains inadequate. New research offers a possible path to change: https://www.mckinsey.com/... #10BillionInTheBlack #BlackLightCollective #McKonRace https://twitter.com/...
Mekahlo Medina / @mekahlonbcla: New study found systemic racial inequality is costing the #Hollywood entertainment industry approximately $10 billion a year as a result of undervaluing Black films, filmmakers and executives, according to consulting firm McKinsey & Company. @NBCLA https://www.mckinsey.com/...
Tressie McMillan Cottom / @tressiemcphd: “'Where the money' resides is a neoliberal misdirection of resistance to the prevailing wage of whiteness that transmogrifies public wage as psychological wage and in this essay I will...” https://twitter.com/...
Shereen Marisol Meraji / @radiomirage: I guess it takes a study to prove what people have been saying for years and years AND YEARS! (and not just about Hollywood...) https://www.google.com/...
@mckinsey: Statistics show it's much harder for Black actors to land lead roles early on in their careers than it is for white actors. New research on how to build a more #diverse and inclusive #Hollywood: https://www.mckinsey.com/... #10BillionInTheBlack #BlackLightCollective #McKonRace https://twitter.com/...
@elsahiltner: This translates to theatre too. If you're swayed by money rather than justice, or fairness, or quality of art, or vitality of the industry... producing diverse works by a diverse groups of people pays off. https://deadline.com/...
Liz Jenkins / @ej11lizzie: A thread. A masterfully written and well researched thread https://twitter.com/...
Ben Crump / @attorneycrump: Representation MATTERS... and it pays. By addressing racial inequities, Hollywood could make BILLIONS. Underfunded Black-led projects still outperform others, so imagine how well they'd do if given a fair shot! https://deadline.com/...
Janai Nelson / @jnelsonldf: More important than the economics, the exclusion of Black talent in #Hollywood allows the most influential narrative-shaping industry to perpetuate inequality, narrow depictions of Black life, & a range of white glory that does more subliminal damage than we could ever quantify. https://twitter.com/...
Walter Hickey / @walthickey: this is the most fascinating and disturbing bit of information from the study in my view https://twitter.com/...
Franklin Leonard / @franklinleonard: There also remain massive social barriers to entry, which have outsized effects on members of the Black community. https://www.mckinsey.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Franklin Leonard / @franklinleonard: “The few Black creatives in prominent off-screen positions (creator/producer/writer/director) find themselves responsible for providing for other Black off-screen talent. Unless >=1 senior member of a production is Black, Black talent is largely shut out” https://www.mckinsey.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Larenz Tate / @larenztate: The film and TV industry has the opportunity to gain an additional $10 billion in annual revenues by addressing its persistent racial inequities. We are Big Business ya dig!!! More in new McKinsey research: https://www.mckinsey.com/... #10BillionInTheBlack #BlackLightCollective https://twitter.com/...
Chrisi / @chrisiousity: What I think is important about this study is it challenges the notion that we go with white people for financial reasons. The evidence is that they could make MORE money with more black creators, but... somehow.... they don't. https://twitter.com/...
Siobhan Neela-Stock / Mashable: Hollywood loses $10 billion annually when it ignores Black talent
Octavia James / @absurdbirdz: I have a slide I created for unconscious bias training that compares revenue fr Black & Asian films vs the 5 movies made about dogs. You can probably imagine the dog movie pitched for funding with #mansbestfriend in there somewhere. Well the BFs made no money. 🤦🏽♀ ️ https://twitter.com/...
Nicole Sperling / @nicsperling: Hollywood is leaving a lot of money on the table by not investing enough in Black-led stories. New study by McKinsey has some interesting revelations and some interesting solutions, too. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Min Jin Lee / @minjinlee11: The alternative: “Hollywood Could Make $10 Billion More A Year If It Were More Inclusive.” A thought. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Phillip Atiba Goff / @drphilgoff: 1. Really cannot overstate the importance of this report. Not only does it reveal the $10BILLION annually Hollywood loses by overlooking Black creatives, it provides a structural account of how and why. https://twitter.com/...
Jemele Hill / @jemelehill: This is an important study and long confirms what many people of color have known. It's also critical that we are understand there's a real cost with racism. It's not some harmless, nebulous concept. Hollywood has lost $10 BILLION because of racism and structural inequality. https://twitter.com/...
Franklin Leonard / @franklinleonard: “Think about where the industry is failing with Latinx representation, Asian representation, women, the LGBTQ community, disability. If $10 billion annually is just the Black community, how much more are we leaving on the table?” #10BillionInTheBlack https://variety.com/...
Tressie McMillan Cottom / @tressiemcphd: One of the wildest lies about racism is that somehow it exists a universe totally separate from the laws of economics. Racism is more valuable than money: Hollywood Loses Money When Undervaluing Black-Led Projects, Study Finds - Deadline https://deadline.com/...
Franklin Leonard / @franklinleonard: Time to dig into this race and Hollywood study by noted social justice warriors..checks notes...@mckinsey (Yes, a joke) Headline is obviously that Hollywood is losing $10B per year by not optimizing for the economics of Black talent but THERE'S MORE (1/x) https://deadline.com/...
Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
As House holds hearing on tech and news, Microsoft accuses Google of making publishers depend on it and Google claims Microsoft just wants to undercut a rival — - Microsoft and Google sparred over their practices and treatment of news outlets in a battle between antitrust targets of past and present.
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Timnit Gebru / @timnitgebru: I don't know what this is about but seeing “they are reverting to their familiar playbook of attacking rivals and lobbying for regulations that benefit their own interests” from the chief google person whose's been doing exactly those things is funny. https://blog.google/...
@killedbygoogle: “I've got less antitrust issues than you.” “Nuh uh!!” *clears throat and begins musical number to the tune of Anything You Can Do* “Antitrust? Isn't us! We are just better.” “I won't have antitrust issues like you.” “Yes ya will.” “No. I won't.” “Yes. Ya will.” “No. I w—” https://twitter.com/...
Sam Shead / @sam_l_shead: Fun to see Microsoft and Google scrapping publicly on how Big Tech should support journalism. @lauren_feiner reports https://www.cnbc.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: For those of you who have been lulled into forgetting Google can be a vicious, dirty company when its business interests are at serious risk, reminder...There is probably a dartboard with your name on it if you're a risk to them. https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@theregister: Google's upset that Microsoft is “lobbying for regulations that benefit their own interests.” See: https://blog.google/... Because Google would *never* do that https://www.theregister.com/ ...
Hannah Murphy / @mshannahmurphy: Punchy statement from Google accusing Microsoft of “naked corporate opportunism” for backing a US bill to make tech platforms pay for news: https://blog.google/... Also damn where Google says this “marks a return to MSFT's longtime practices”, it hyperlinks to the FUD wiki 🍿👀 https://twitter.com/...
@cnbc: Things are getting heated between rivals Microsoft and Google as the two companies continue their testimony before the House over antitrust. @ylanmui reports on the verbal blows flying from either side. https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Walter Olkowski / @walterolkowski: It is an AI eat AI world out there. The finger pointing is just a diversion. 😀 https://twitter.com/...
John Wilander / @johnwilander: “Microsoft was warned about the vulnerabilities in their system, knew they were being exploited, and are now doing damage control (...) So maybe it's not surprising to see them dusting off the old diversionary Scroogled playbook.” https://blog.google/...
@ceciliakang: Brad Smith, Microsoft pres, throws behind an antitrust bill that would give news orgs greater bargaining power w Google, Facebook. 30mins before the hearing and Smith's testimony, Google releases blog from GC calling Smith's testimony “Self Serving” https://blog.google/...
Brian Fung / @b_fung: Google is trying to blunt Microsoft's line of attack in today's upcoming House antitrust hearing on Big Tech's impact on news publishing — accusing Microsoft of “self-serving claims” and trying to deflect from cybersecurity woes: https://blog.google/...
Andreas Proschofsky / @suka_hiroaki: THAT paragraph. Wow. Can't remember the last time Google openly attacked a competitor like that. Fully dragging them through the dirt for the Exchange Mass hacks. In an article that actually is about news and journalism. https://blog.google/... https://twitter.com/...
Makena Kelly / The Verge: Microsoft and newspapers join forces to fight Google
Archie Bland / The Guardian:
Emails: BuzzFeed is shutting down HuffPost UK's news operation and video desk, except for its politics team, affecting 16 of 29 journalists — Exclusive: Owner BuzzFeed's move leaves more than half of editorial staff at risk — BuzzFeed has told the UK staff of its recently acquired HuffPost website …
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Archie Bland / @archiebland: .@HuffPostUK is closing its uk news operation, leaving 16 of 29 editorial staff facing prospect of redundancy. editor in chief @jessbrammar one of those at risk. Every mother in the editorial team is on the list: https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Emma Hope Allwood / @emmahopeall: to any aspiring, young, or even seasoned journalists and editorial staff reading posts like these on the TL who haven't yet: JOIN THE NUJ x https://twitter.com/...
Louise Ridley / @louiseridley: So sad to see this - @HuffPostUK has done such good news journalism recently and I'm so proud to have worked there. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Kit Yates / @kit_yates_maths: This is a real shame. I've really enjoyed working with various members of the @HuffPostUK team over the past year on important covid stories (https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ ...), particularly with @paulwaugh and @LucyPasha. I'm sorry for you. https://twitter.com/...
Louise Ridley / @louiseridley: Like that this article points out the impact on women and mothers - while not likely deliberate, it's the effect it's having https://twitter.com/...
Callum Burroughs / @callumburroughs: This is genuinely such rubbish news. Solidarity and love to the Huff Post UK team. https://twitter.com/...
Ian collins / @iancoll94354676: It was bad news when Buzzfeed ended its political news operation in the UK, Scram went, now Huffpost is going. As right wing news outlets are taking off. Open Democracy, Byline Times and London Economic need our support. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Nadine White / @nadine_writes: .@HuffPostUK's news operation is closing down following Buzzfeed sale. Sending love to my amazing former colleagues and friends who are some of the best journalists in the business. This is horrible. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Sister Outrider / @claireshrugged: “Every mother on the UK editorial staff has been told they face losing their job, including one person on maternity leave.” This is not coincidence. It's institutional sexism. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Jennifer Williams / @jenwilliamsmen: Only just saw this. HuffPost has been such an important and imaginative addition to news in this country, including @paulwaugh @jessbrammar @AasmaDay, and so many more besides. Thinking of everyone whose job is at risk :( https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
@howardfineman: This is gruesome to watch. @HuffPostUK is a great enterprise and is well-regarded there. #Peretti isn't a journalist and doesn't have the interests of if it in mind. His main skill seems to be impressing clueless VCs to give him money. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Liam Thorp / @liamthorpecho: This is really devastating news. I don't think there's been a time where HuffPost's reporting has been more important in this country. Thinking of some supremely talented journalists today. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan: This is so sad and frustrating - especially the way it seems to have been done. I spent three wonderful years of my career at @HuffPostUK https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
PregnantThenScrewed / @pregnantscrewed: When @jessbrammar was promoted to editor in chief @HuffPostUK when pregnant we finally felt that here was a media outlet walking the walk when it comes to gender equality. It seems @BuzzFeed couldn't care less about equality and the content of Huff post will suffer as a result https://twitter.com/...
Mark Di Stefano / @markdistef: You bring in traffic. You break news. And it can feel like it never matters. Thoughts with the journalists who busted a gut and this is what it all leads to. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Tim Walker / @thattimwalker: This is alarming. As well-resourced right wing media outlets multiply, liberal voices are increasingly falling silent. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Jon Stone / @joncstone: BuzzFeed's journey as a company over the last few years has really been something: from feted start-up investing in everything, through union-busting, to buying newsrooms to disband them. Thoughts to the staff affected who do some great work https://twitter.com/...
Tom Whyman / @healthuntodeath: We are rapidly hurtling towards a world in which the only way news reporting will get done is by a handful of freelance individuals funded by subscribers. No investigator who is not also an entrepreneur. https://twitter.com/...
@hkesvani: While the Buzzfeed SPAC decides to transform itself into an advertising engine for Amazon, we're heading toward a news environment consisting of patron funded podcasts and substacks, and heavily and consistently funded right-wing outlets profiting from perpetuating culture wars https://twitter.com/...
Seyi Akiwowo / @seyiakiwowo: @HuffPost has quickly become one of my favourite news media. ✔Real investigative journalism. ✔Vocally supporting Black members of staff. ✔Shining a light on how journalism and media reporting is upholding white supremacy We love to see it. https://twitter.com/...
Jessica Elgot / @jessicaelgot: Am absolutely devastated about @HuffPostUK where I spent three such happy years with brilliant people who don't deserve to be treated like this. https://twitter.com/...
Jane Bradley / @jane__bradley: Having been through these lay offs at BuzzFeed, twice, and seen many good friends lose their jobs, my thoughts go out to every journalist waiting on news. HuffPo UK has long punched above its weight and has some incredibly talented journalists. A loss to the UK media. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Jaffe / @sarahljaffe: This continues to be just awful, and the slow-motion nature is the worst part https://twitter.com/...
Ian Martin / @ianmartin: Oh no. This cracked, imploding country needs more journalists, not fewer. Ach. https://twitter.com/...
Zia Weise / @ziaweise: This is so very sad. And this is appalling: “Every mother on the UK editorial staff has been told they face losing their job, including one person on maternity leave.” Great they waited until women's day was over, I guess. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Charlie Haynes / @charliehtweets: this is so sad - Huff Po are so often coming out with agenda setting exclusives. Not having their journalism is going to be such a massive loss. https://twitter.com/...
Helena Horton / @horton_official: A loss making media company buys another and promptly sacks most of the news desk. How does this make sense? https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Joe Middleton / @joejsmiddleton: Solidarity with the HuffPost staff. Feel like I tweet this every six months but the loss of yet another progressive outlet that covers stories others don't is a further kick in the teeth for media plurality in the UK. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Tim Harford / @timharford: I still can't quite get over the fact that when I wrote “The Undercover Economist”, I described Jonah Peretti as the guy who asked Nike to print “Sweatshop” on his sneakers. Now he's in charge of sacking journalists. It's quite the story arc. https://twitter.com/...
James Ball / @jamesrbuk: This is makes for grim reading: there's an immensely talented team at @HuffPostUK and they've cut through editorially doing something genuinely different. Sad to see that wasted - but get in touch with people you know there, flag up vacancies, see what we can do to help. https://twitter.com/...
Archie Bland / The Guardian:
Sources: UK's Society of Editors will postpone the National Press Awards after outlets withdrew from the awards in protest of SoE's claim media wasn't racist — Exclusive: decision follows resignation of executive director over statement denying racism in press
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Vanessa Thorpe / The Guardian: Press body ‘faces watershed’ after Meghan interview row
Fedora Abu / @fedoraabu: This issue isn't going to be solved with diversity schemes. So long as we have newspapers owned by bigoted billionaires that can publish lies with impunity, the UK tabloid press will continue to be a malignant force in society. There needs to be a Leveson 2.0. https://twitter.com/...
Shirish Kulkarni / @shirishmm: If - for your article about racism in the media - you choose to only speak to white people in the media. You. Are. Proving. The. Point. This is just the latest example of many. Get a grip. https://twitter.com/...
Kam Sandhu / @_kayayem: I do still think it's very funny that the Meghan and Harry interview had the status to force UK press to confront racism - and the first thing the society of editors did was release an illiterate and deluded response, and blew themselves up. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: If the institution of journalism exists to hold an unflattering mirror to faults in power, who holds that mirror to journalism? In US and UK journalism, a racial reckoning is long overdue. Press body ‘faces watershed’ after Meghan interview row https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
@prasanto: UK media not bigoted, the top UK media body leader and chief bigot had said. Press body ‘faces watershed’ after Meghan interview row https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Sirin Kale / @thedalstonyears: Between 2017 and 2019, just 6 of 104 awards to individual journalists at the National Press Awards went to journalists of colour - only 2 of them women. TWO! Out of 104. People of colour didn't even win the diversity category (went to a women's sports initiative and a white man) https://twitter.com/...
Hamish McKenzie / Substack Blog:
Substack co-founder on how Substack Pro works: year one, writers get upfront pay, Substack keeps 85% of revenue; later, writers keep 90% revenue, no minimum pay — When we started Substack in mid-2017, the future for writers was frightening. The news industry was rapidly contracting, eliminating countless journalism jobs.
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Claire Lobenfeld / Read You, Wrote You: Choices — It is not a secret that Substack has been courting high-profile people in media …
Summer Anne Burton / @summeranne: I have a couple major issues with this statement, as someone who spent most of the last decade thinking about the balance of audience development, editorial voice, and, well, ethics... https://blog.substack.com/...
Gonto / @mgonto: Fantastic article on how @SubstackInc creates incentives for writers to write on their platform. The secured first year income in exchange of 85% of revenue is an amazing growth hack! Love it. Also love their transparency that it's a business decision https://blog.substack.com/...
Rick Paulas / Investigating Substack: Who are the Substack Pros? — NOTE: All posts will remain free on Substack as I will not be using …
Erin Millar / @erinmillar: Yup. “We believe that this movement towards subscriptions and writer autonomy represents an economic reordering for media on a scale not seen since the invention of the penny paper 200 years ago.” https://blog.substack.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: This, by the way, is why I believe in the authenticity of Substack's commitment to free discourse and their determination to reject media and activist demands that they censor. From co-founder @hamishmckenzie's defense of diverse thought: https://blog.substack.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mary Emily O'Hara / @maryemilyohara: Here is Hamish's response to the controversy over which writers get paid advances—as far as I know this is the only response so far. The comments on the post raise a lot of unanswered questions. https://blog.substack.com/...
Karthik S / @karthiks: Substack Pro! Wow. This is massive. https://blog.substack.com/... I was thinking of something like this last week when listening to @sajithpai 's podcast wtih @amitvarma - on offering a “safety net” for newcomers to develop and become big. And here it is already!
Sydney Bauer / @femme_thoughts: We pay writers in an effort to recoup more money later, but these writers do not write *for us* is a hell of a logical leap, you almost gotta hand it to them. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Sari Botton / Adventures In “Journalism”: Art and Commerce — Yesterday I was considering moving my newsletter away from Substack …
Hamish McKenzie / @hamishmckenzie: We have a program called Substack Pro where we pay minimum guarantees to writers to help them start publications (businesses) on Substack. Here's an explanation of how it all works. https://blog.substack.com/...
Mx. Dianna E. Anderson / @diannaeanderson: I wanna just point out the sleight of hand between ‘controversial’ and ‘important’ here, which elides all criticism of these writers away as simple controversy, and simultaneously elevates what they say to a position of great importance needing of protection and support. https://twitter.com/...
Phil Plait / @badastronomer: I quite like using @SubstackInc for my newsletter, both free and paid (and for convos like today's I mentioned earlier). I'm not sure what the future of independent journalism is, but they're at the vanguard. https://twitter.com/...
Quinta Jurecic / @qjurecic: I'm genuinely fascinated by Substack's apparent (?) believe that it can just calmly reason its way out of content moderation being hard https://twitter.com/...
Eoin Higgins / @eoinhiggins_: The problem with this statement is the continuing reliance on saying Substack is a platform—equal access, etc—rather than a publisher. By offering deals to writers they're the latter. https://twitter.com/...
Christina Warren / @film_girl: I haven't wanted to wade too much into the Substack discourse over the last few months (let alone days), but I read @hamishmckenzie's post and have some thoughts. The TL;DR is that Substack is neither the savior nor the villain of publishing/journalism. 🧵 https://twitter.com/...
@roseveleth: Later in this very same piece they say “we aim to host a broad array of voices because we believe a diversity of thought is essential to healthy discourse.” That's an editorial point of view!
@roseveleth: “We see these deals as business decisions, not editorial ones.” If you specifically seek out certain writers and not other writers, and you pay the writers you pick to publish things, then you're making editorial decisions. It's not rocket science. https://blog.substack.com/...
@roseveleth: Also treating journalism purely as a money making business is literally how we got into so much of this mess in the first place. 🙃🙃🙃
@roseveleth: Substack can pay whoever they want! But this idea that they're saving journalism ("The media ecosystem is in crisis. We can't afford to sit around and wait.") while also making zero editorial choices is just absurd!!!
@andrewchen: 👇🏼love this program from substack to get new publications up and running This is 100% where the next small (and eventually large) businesses will come from https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Bady / @zunguzungu: @atrubek @hamishmckenzie my question for this analogy would be that I feel like publishers do so much more in terms of marketing and logistics. An author needs a publisher but don't substack writers tend to create their own market and bring the audience in themselves?
Aaron Bady / @zunguzungu: @atrubek @alyssaharad and I couldn't begin to disentangle “it seems like substack is disproportionately hurling coins at a specific kind of established writer” from “a certain kind of established writer is disproportionately looking for an exit strategy from traditional media”
Aaron Bady / @zunguzungu: @atrubek @hamishmckenzie Which is not to say that there's no value in the platform, but there are so many functions of a book publisher that don't translate
Aaron Bady / @zunguzungu: @alyssaharad @atrubek yeah, I just can't tell to what extent what they're doing IS what it looks like it is. But it feels like most people are responding to what it LOOKS like it is, so it seems possible that its more like “tech folks mishandling the subtleties of the media world” than substack r evil
Anne Trubek / @atrubek: I *bet* there is/gonna be a controversy over substack & the @hamishmckenzie letter but as I read it I thought: “this is basically book publishing” and if you are going to critique Substack you should also take a look at book publishing. Who are you under contract with?
Kim Kelly / @grimkim: feeling a little less guilty about neglecting my Substack newsletter these days
Jude Ellison S. Doyle / @sadydoyle: Hamish has yet to say a single word to me, publicly or privately, but it seems that's for the best. If I were him, I wouldn't be able to look me in the eye, either.
Aaron Bady / @zunguzungu: @atrubek I feel like the subtext of a lot of the “why I'm leaving substack” pieces is the feeling that the writers are essentially doing marketing for substack, as a brand, and not receiving anything but basic platform services in exchange
Britni de la Cretaz / @britnidlc: fascinating timing for this to have just landed in my inbox https://blog.substack.com/...
Rusty / @fka_tabs: “No writer who says anything important is universally loved; and in fact, sometimes those who engender the fiercest opposition are the ones most deserving of support,” says Hamish about the criticism of Substack recruiting a bunch of transphobes.
@alex: @hamishmckenzie they are, in my view, *editorial business* decisions. You can't really cleave the two apart. regardless, the open-thinking from substack is neat.
Louise Matsakis / @lmatsakis: I think Substack is a great option for some writers, but I'm genuinely confused how these are “investment” decisions rather than “editorial” ones. These are many of the same kinds of questions editors ask when hiring writers? https://blog.substack.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@ninocipri: Interesting to note that this sad bit of ass-covering is coming less than eight hours after being called out for supporting TERFs and harassers with this very same program, including Glen Greenwald and Freddie de Boer. https://twitter.com/...
Ty Schalter / @tyschalter: “We are not a PUBLISHER, no no no! We merely seek out writers whose work we would like to make money off of, and then we pay them for the right to try and make money off it.” https://twitter.com/...
@graceonfootball: I don't understand how these two claims can be compatible. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Notd / @notd_io: @MikeIsaac @hamishmckenzie Using VC $$ to pay writers is a great idea, but it's not going to help journalism. Many of their most popular writers are commentators, not journalists, & people can't afford to pay $5/mo for news just from one actual journalist.
Rick Paulas / @rickpaulas: For Not a Publication this sure seems like... a publication hiring a staff lol. https://twitter.com/...
Kelsey D. Atherton / @athertonkd: the future of paid newsletters, at this site or anywhere, is hardly fixed, but despite the best efforts of work like @DiscontentsNews to offer left perspective, there's a real danger that substack inevitably just becomes Medium for TERFs
Kelsey D. Atherton / @athertonkd: as someone cobbling together an income writing in a bunch of places, I would very much like Substack's editorial decisions to stop being so toxic that I can't in good faith ask people to give them money. But first, Substack has to accept that it's making editorial decisions.
Kelsey D. Atherton / @athertonkd: Ah okay, “Substack Pro” is for giving big stacks of money to the writers you've heard of who all suck but say things venture capital likes, “Substack [basic]” (Substack pleb?) is for freelancers scraping by on organic audience growth in a bad economy https://twitter.com/...
Kelsey D. Atherton / @athertonkd: one possible way for substack to address this, though lol if they will, is to split into a clear editorial wing and an open platform for anyone. But substack would have to see that “poaching specific writers” is an editorial & publishing decision, and who knows if that'll happen
Dan Hon / @hondanhon: @AthertonKD And I think this is a great point to make because it is in Substack's interest to hide/obscure the distinction between the two, and reap the merits of both frames.
Kelsey D. Atherton / @athertonkd: I should also say: if Substack is making a support-based distinction between Pro and everyone else, then Pro is a publication, and everyone else using the site as a platform is basically part of a contributor network
Dan Hon / @hondanhon: People should *really* think about where Substack might be and what different decisions it might be making right now were it not for investment.
Dan Hon / @hondanhon: I'm armchairing, but you can't say you're not making editorial decisions ("these are business decisions") and at the same time say your Pro business decisions are based on factors like “what they cover and how well that subject is covered elsewhere”. That's disingenuous. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Hon / @hondanhon: This is basically “we're totally not making editorial/content decisions just decisions like an investor or business owner” and very clearly & deliberately ignoring the fact that those decisions are implicit editorial decisions. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Hon / @hondanhon: hey turns out automattic are doing content moderation *and yet they are also a profitable business who don't have to be fine with all speech!* huh! https://www.fastcompany.com/ ...
Katherine Boyle / @ktmboyle: Game changing. When I was a writer I wouldn't have had the courage to go independent because I didn't have a big following. This changes the calculus for unknown writers. https://twitter.com/...
@alex: enjoying this @hamishmckenzie series https://blog.substack.com/... on how substack works, but would quibble with this bit: https://twitter.com/...
Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer: seems reasonable. but leaning into culture war schtick by saying “defund the thought police” strikes a very different tone. if you want people to believe you're just running a business trying to make writers profitable, stick to this. https://twitter.com/...
Kelsey D. Atherton / @athertonkd: “We don't disclose the names of the writers with whom we've done deals because it is their private information and up to them whether or not they want it publicly known.” this makes transparency and accountability on hires impossible, so that's very SV. https://blog.substack.com/...
Ryan Cooper / @ryanlcooper: this is very much like what a publisher would do https://blog.substack.com/...
Jude Ellison S. Doyle / @sadydoyle: This is, of course, beyond insufficient, and frankly beneath contempt. It justifies the decision to platform trans-eliminationist hate speech as “controversial,” “important,” and, specifically, MORE worthy of support than the trans people calling for accountability. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@fattymph: The issue is not *that* you pay writers. It's always been which writers you pay, which you don't, & how you make those decisions. It's weird that someone in the business of publishing doesn't seem to have much reading comprehension when it comes to reasonable critique. https://twitter.com/...
Rat King / @mikeisaac: interesting from @hamishmckenzie who lays out Substack's approach to recruiting/seeding talent https://blog.substack.com/...
Rusty / @fka_tabs: Well here's the Substack “why we pay writers” post, and it boils down to “we don't understand that we're making editorial decisions, and also we want to keep those editorial decisions secret.” https://blog.substack.com/...
@noyokono: So why exactly then are so many of the publicly known @SubstackInc Pro deals being made with right wingers and fascists? https://twitter.com/...
Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal: A question @hamishmckenzie. We are doing a conference next week where the topic is ‘diversity in independent publishing’. Substack Pro is interesting, but of all the people included so far, what is the gender split? https://twitter.com/...
Dan Hon / Things That Have Caught My Attention: s09e07: The One Where I Don't Want To Talk About Substack Just As Much As You Do, And Yet
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