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Kathleen Kingsbury / New York Times:
NYT says it is retiring the term “Op-Ed”; editorials will still be called editorials, but articles written by outside writers will be called “Guest Essays” — The first Op-Ed page in The New York Times greeted the world on Sept. 21, 1970.
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@elisewho, @froomkin, @sistertoldjah, @katiekings, @katiekings, @katiekings, @maxboot, @tim_stevens, @elanazak, @_alastair, @maxasteele, @hautepop, @joshsternberg, @travelinganna, @jillfilipovic, @rubinafillion, @pennyriordan1, @mattyglesias, @abeaujon, @brianstelter, @katiekings, @sarafischer, @sarafischer and @adriana_lacy
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Elise Hu / @elisewho: Really glad to see this. NYT is retiring the outdated term “op-ed” bc straight news pieces don't live in a fixed spot for editorials to be “opposite” of anymore. Gonna call “op-eds” what they are — guest essays — instead https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: The obvious next step: Briefly explaining why this guest was given a megaphone for this essay. See: https://presswatchers.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Sister Toldjah Le Pew / @sistertoldjah: Will the “straight news” pieces at the NYT now be referred to as “op/eds”? Because I think that would be a big improvement. https://twitter.com/...
Kathleen Kingsbury / @katiekings: The Op-Ed page and the term itself are increasingly a throwback from an older age and a print newspaper design. We don't like jargon in our articles; we don't want it above them, either. We are striving to be more inclusive in explaining how and why we do our work.
Kathleen Kingsbury / @katiekings: That's why we'll be introducing a new term to our pages. Editorials will still be called editorials, but outside contributors' pieces in @nytopinion will be known going forward as “Guest Essays,” a title that will appear above the headline.
Kathleen Kingsbury / @katiekings: Impulses that made Op-Ed successful 50 years ago are still in play. It's a space where voices can be heard + respected, where ideas can linger, to be given serious consideration In that spirit, I'm pleased to share our new roster of contributing writers https://www.nytco.com/...
Max Boot / @maxboot: I agree that “op-ed” makes no literal sense in the digital world (there is nothing to be “opposite” of) but, as a former op-ed editor, I lament the loss of this hallowed term. I suppose if anyone has the right to retire it, however, it's the newspaper that invented it. https://twitter.com/...
Elana Zak / @elanazak: After 50 years, @nytopinion is retiring the phrase Op-Ed in favor of the term Guest Essays. “We don't like jargon in our articles; we don't want it above them, either,” explains @katiekings. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alastair Coote / @_alastair: “Hence the new Guest Essay label. Readers immediately grasped this term during research sessions and intuitively understood what it said about the relationship between the writer and The Times.” User research: not just for testing out your new UI! https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jay Owens / @hautepop: The New York Times is retiring the old print media term “op-ed” (which never actually stood for “opinion editorial” btw, much as it seems to) - in favour of “Guest Essays” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Annemarie Dooling / @travelinganna: “In the digital world, in which millions of Times subscribers absorb the paper's journalism online, there is no geographical “Op-Ed,” just as there is no geographical “Ed” for Op-Ed to be opposite to” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jill Filipovic / @jillfilipovic: There are people on here who are going to be mad / annoyed about this, and I can already predict who they are, but what I don't yet know is how they're going to justify being mad about this: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rubina Madan Fillion / @rubinafillion: Most @nytopinion readers don't realize that Op-Ed stands for “opposite the editorial page.” Today we're retiring the term. We're also launching a new design to further highlight the differences between Opinion and news. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Penny Riordan / @pennyriordan1: “Terms like Op-Ed are, by their nature, clubby newspaper jargon...” and readers “immediately grasped” the new label of Guest Essay. 👏👏Bravo NYT for finally making this change! 👏👏And I hope other newspapers do as well: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: In which @katiekings wisely kills the “op-ed.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Andrew Beaujon / @abeaujon: NYT retires the term “Op Ed,” will call them “Guest Essays” instead https://www.nytimes.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: No more Op-Eds at the NYT: “Editorials will still be called editorials, but the articles written by outside writers will be known going forward as ‘Guest Essays,’ a title that will appear prominently above the headline.” I think this is a big improvement. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kathleen Kingsbury / @katiekings: The first Op-Ed page in The New York Times greeted the world on Sept. 21, 1970. Today, more than 50 years later, we at @nytopinion are retiring the name “Op-Ed.” As the Opinion editor, I'd like to tell you why. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: FWIW, sources tell me a change like this has been contemplated since the James Bennet fiasco last summer. https://twitter.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: 🚨 NEW from @nytimes Opinion Editor @katiekings —NYT retiring the term *Op-Ed* —Term no longer relevant in digital world —Editorials will still be called editorials, but the articles written by outside writers will be known going forward as “Guest Essays” https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times:
This year's Oscars, a TV broadcast about films mostly distributed on the internet, was a celebration of diversity as nine of 20 acting nominations went to POC — Chloé Zhao's film about the damaged American dream won best picture, best director and best actress.
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The Guardian, The Wrap, Fast Company, /Film, Deadline, MediaPost, @charmainesmchan, Variety, @brianstelter, Ad Age and The Playlist
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Catherine Shoard / The Guardian: Anthony Hopkins is oldest-ever acting Oscar winner after taking best actor for The Father
Beatrice Verhoeven / The Wrap: Oscars 2021: Chloé Zhao Becomes 2nd Woman to Win Best Director
Michael Grothaus / Fast Company: Streaming services gave traditional Hollywood studios a run for their money at the Oscars
Ethan Anderton / /Film: Anthony Hopkins Gives a Belated Oscars Acceptance Speech, Pays Tribute to Chadwick Boseman
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: Netflix: Most Oscars, But Still No Best-Picture Win
Charmaine Chan / @charmainesmchan: I know this is very much on the nose, but damn do you know what it feels like to be another Asian woman in this industry and seeing these two win?!? Congratulations Chloe and Yuh-Jung, you two are giving the rest of us so much pride and hope 🥺🤗 https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: “a stage show broadcast on television about films mostly distributed on the internet.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alexandra Jardine / Ad Age: Oscars boost diversity, Unilever designs inclusive deodorant: Monday Wake-Up Call
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Colette, co-produced by EA and Oculus Studios, and released by The Guardian, wins an Oscar for best documentary short — Facebook just won its first Oscar. — “Colette,” from the social giant's Oculus VR group and EA's Respawn Entertainment, picked up the trophy for documentary short subject Sunday at the 93rd Academy Awards.
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Andrew Pulver / The Guardian: Guardian film Colette wins Oscar for best documentary short
Katharine Viner / @kathviner: I'm absolutely thrilled that the Guardian has won an Oscar! For the brilliant, deeply moving documentary Colette, about an indomitable former French resistance fighter who, aged 90, visits the concentration camp where her brother died https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
@risj_oxford: The @guardian won an Oscar for its short documentary Colette, about a former French resistance fighter. @KathViner called it “a testament to our talented video team who have worked hard to build and grow our distinctive Guardian Documentaries strand” https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Lenore Taylor / @lenoretaylor: ooh look, we won an Oscar!!! Guardian film Colette wins Oscar for best documentary short https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Jordan Oloman / IGN India: 2 Video Game Companies Just Won An Oscar
Matthew Ruddle / @ruddlematthew: So the winner of the Best Documentary Short, Colette, was produced by Respawn Entertainment and Oculus (!) It's part of the VR game Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond (!!) Did... did a video game just technical win an Oscar. #Oscars
Jon Solomon / @jonsolomon: @MattHelgeson “The documentary was included in the gallery mode of the first-person shooter virtual reality game “Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond” from Respawn Entertainment & Oculus Studios, co-producers of the film. This makes “Colette” the first Oscar nomination for a video game company.”
Gerald Lynch / TechRadar: The video game industry just won its first Oscar
Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Chinese state media reporters say they received orders from the propaganda ministry not to report on Chloe Zhao's Oscar win, due to “previous public opinion” — Ms. Zhao is first Chinese woman to win best director, yet search engines erased the news
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Mediaite, The Verge, Associated Press, New York Post, @lizalinwsj, @kevindubouis, IndieWire, @kiminsley, @hashtaggriswold, @indiewire, @tunkuv, New York Times, @cmarinucci, @tony_zy, @mbaram and @jacobwgallagher
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Rudy Takala / Mediaite: Chinese Social Media Blows Up With Celebratory Posts of Chloe Zhao's Oscar Win. Hours Later They're Almost All Erased
Associated Press: Oscars: China Censors Social Media Celebration of Chinese-Born ‘Nomadland’ Director Chloe Zhao's Oscar Wins
Liza Lin / @lizalinwsj: Accolades for Zhao had filled social media platforms Weibo, Zhihu in the morning, only to be deleted by early afternoon as the censors swiftly moved in. State media reporters were told not to cover the topic. Xinhua, People's Daily and CCTV were silent. https://www.wsj.com/...
Kevin Dubouis / @kevindubouis: Chloe Zhao's Oscar win unleashed a flurry of congratulatory messages on Chinese social-media sites when it was announced Monday morning Beijing time. By midafternoon, nearly all of the posts had been erased. https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Zack Sharf / IndieWire: China Reacts to Chloé Zhao's Historic Oscars with Near Silence: ‘We Hope She Becomes More Mature’
Kim Insley / @kiminsley: Funny thing about history. You can try to erase it, but it's still there. https://twitter.com/...
Alex Griswold / @hashtaggriswold: The news that the first Chinese woman has won Best Director is evidently being censored in real-time in China https://www.wsj.com/...
@indiewire: One of the only publications in China to report on Chloé Zhao's historic #Oscars wrote, “We hope she can become more and more mature.” Zhao and #Nomadland have been silenced in China due to nationalist backlash against the filmmaker. Full details here: https://www.indiewire.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Tunku Varadarajan / @tunkuv: Chloe Zhao's Oscar win unleashed a flurry of congratulatory messages on Chinese social-media sites when it was announced Monday morning Beijing time. By midafternoon, nearly all of the posts had been erased. https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Carla Marinucci / @cmarinucci: Chloe Zhao's Oscar win unleashed a flurry of accolades on Chinese social-media sites when it was announced—and within hours, nearly all the posts had been erased https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
@tony_zy: Not exactly sure why Weibo is deleting the news about Nomadland's Oscar wins https://twitter.com/...
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Facebook says it has a policy letting any person initiate a takedown of a post containing an image of their residence, regardless of the post's newsworthiness — The New York Post has complained that Facebook is blocking and downplaying its stories. But the platform doesn't pay any special deference to journalists.
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Sean Burch / The Wrap: Facebook Explains Why NY Post Story on BLM Activist's Real Estate Was Blocked
Evelyn Douek / @evelyndouek: “What Facebook's clash with The Post really revealed—and what surprised me—is that the platform does not defer, at all, to news organizations on questions of news judgment. ” Facebook regularly trumps the editorial judgments of news orgs with their own https://www.nytimes.com/...
Angie Drobnic Holan / @angieholan: Not the main point of this @benyt column, but #factcheckers who work with Facebook are not ‘junior journalists’ (a common anti-factcheck talking point, plus ageist) and there's no 1-week deadline. Most checks are 1 to 2 days or faster. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Glenn Greenwald: ACLU Again Cowardly Abstains From an Online Censorship Controversy: This Time Over BLM
Dan Froomkin / @froomkin: Good column, that would further benefit from the disclosure that something like 5% of his employer's net profit comes from a payoff from Facebook. See: https://washingtonmonthly.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Wesley / @wesleylowery: tbh, not much more depressing than having to chose between the news judgement of Mr. Bezos and Mr. Sulzberger and Mr. Pulitzer and Mr. Hearst and Mr. Scripps and Mr. Chandler and Mr. Turner. news judgement has always been at the whims of rich white guys https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Shira Ovide / @shiraovide: “they do act as publishers — just very bad ones.” Pretty accurate! To be fair, people WANT Facebook to exercise judgment, except when they DON'T want Facebook to exercise judgment. Doing nothing is also judgment. https://twitter.com/...
Rick Paulas / @rickpaulas: This is pretty much what I was talking about when I said that it's probably time to update/adjust that whole Manufacturing Consent thing. It's about who controls self-publishing platforms now, less about who controls the publications. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller: Good piece by @benyt. Glad @NewsCEO points out just how arbitrary Facebook is. https://twitter.com/...
@azi: Of all the things they don't track ... “@Facebook doesnt keep a central register of news articles it expunges on these grounds ... And it does not keep track of how many news articles it has blocked...” via @benyt: https://www.nytimes.com/...
@jessienyc: Good morning to everyone except these two, and anyone who has a problem with a Black woman buying a nice house. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Amy Alexander / @amyalex63: This situation is Bonkers: “What Facebook's clash with The [NY] Post really revealed — and what surprised me — is that the platform does not defer, at all, to news organizations on questions of news judgment.” — @benyt https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Fascinating and concerning power flex by Facebook policy in light of my thread tonight demonstrating once again why we can't trust the company. Also ironic considering Facebook doesn't want to be responsible for a phone # breach including its own CEO ;) https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kim-Mai Cutler / @kimmaicutler: I think ... not enabling mass viral distribution of someone's private primary home address is ... a good idea? https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: Two ways to fix this: 1) Create the conditions for more competition online, including much stronger antitrust enforcement. 2) Regulate speech — that is, have government regulate speech. I pick the first one. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Well, there's another way to position this: Facebook is making judgments about Murdoch's unjournalism while journalism refuses to clean its own house of him. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tony Biasotti / @tonybiasotti: “What Facebook's clash with The Post really revealed — and what surprised me — is that the platform does not defer, at all, to news organizations on questions of news judgment.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
A group of Germany's largest media, tech, and advertising companies file antitrust complaint against Apple as it makes privacy changes on iPhones — Axel Springer among companies claiming controls will damage targeted advertising on iPhones — A group of Germany's largest media …
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Brian X. Chen / New York Times: To Be Tracked or Not? Apple Is Now Giving Us the Choice.
Steve Randy Waldman / @interfluidity: is this the most patronizing argument ever, re Apple requiring opt-in for ad tracking in apps? You'd have to believe (1) ad targeting is really valuable to consumers; and (2) they don't know it, so they'd harm themselves by oping out from https://www.ft.com/... ^@jmhamiltonblog https://twitter.com/...
Sam Shead / CNBC: Apple hit with German antitrust complaint as it prepares to roll out new iPhone software
Privacy Matters / @privacymatters: In other words, businesses built on opaque data harvesting practices and dark patterns complain that bringing privacy out of the shadows where #Datavampires lurk will harm business. https://www.ft.com/...
@pressgazette: German publisher Axel Springer among media, tech and ad companies accusing Apple of antitrust abuse with iOS update they claim could lead to a “60% fall in advertising revenues for app developers” - FT https://www.ft.com/...
Bill Fitzgerald / @funnymonkey: Companies are also concerned that they will actually need business models now, rather than screw customers over via data overcollection. https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Javier Espinoza / @javierespft: FT: Apple faces fresh complaint in Germany over privacy setting changes which come into force later today https://www.ft.com/...
Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal: *sigh* ... there is not a single reader in the world who agrees with this. — German media groups file Apple antitrust complaint as it makes privacy changes https://www.ft.com/...
Robert Bateman / @robertjbateman: Facebook and friends have lodged a German antitrust complaint against Apple's iOS changes. The FT compares the German complaint to one made by France Digitale in March. But that complaint was fundamentally different. (https://digitalprivacy.news/ ...) /1 https://www.ft.com/...
Anthony Spadafora / TechRadar: Apple wants to expand its ad empire even further
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Apple rolls out iOS and iPadOS 14.5 with App Tracking Transparency, which requires apps to get permission to track user activity on other apps for ad purposes
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Insider, ScreenRant, TechCrunch, ZDNet, TechRadar, @anthony, @tomwarren, @wadhwa, @jacknicas and @puiwingtam
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Katie Canales / Insider: Apple will finally let you unlock your iPhone with Face ID while wearing a mask, but only if you have an Apple Watch
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature has arrived — here's what you need to know
Jason Cipriani / ZDNet: iOS 14.5 arrives with controversial privacy feature, Face ID improvements and new voices for Siri
James Rogerson / TechRadar: iOS 14.5 update release date, news and the new features it brings to your iPhone
@anthony: I never knew what IDFA is, which is how you're tracked across apps on your phone. I learned that and so much more in @JoannaStern's exclusive interview with Apple's SVP of software engineering Craig Federighi on the company's new app-tracking controls: https://www.wsj.com/...
Tom Warren / @tomwarren: iOS 14.5 is out now and includes new Face ID mask features and Apple's App Tracking Transparency https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Vivek Wadhwa / @wadhwa: This one feature makes me want to switch back to an iPhone. Strongly support Apple's efforts to protect us from Zuck Vader https://twitter.com/...
Jack Nicas / @jacknicas: @MikeIsaac Apple and Facebook's fight intensifies with the release of a new iPhone feature today that requires apps to get permission to track people on other apps. Most people are expected to block that tracking — and Facebook isn't happy. @bxchen explains here: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Roku says anti-competitive demands from Google, including requests for preferential treatment of apps like YouTube TV, may force YouTube TV off Roku's platform — Roku on Monday notified its users via email that YouTube TV may be forced off its platform entirely, alleging anti-competitive demands …
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Variety, Ad Age, The Streamable, MediaPost, TechCrunch, The Verge, Adweek, @sarafischer, IGN India, New York Post, The Wrap, @sarafischer, @xpangler, Light Reading, TechRadar, @thestreamable, Protocol, @eric_schmitt, @xpangler, @sarafischer, 9to5Google, @sarafischer, @richlightshed, @jason_a_w, @sarafischer, @alex, FierceVideo and Cord Cutters News, more at Techmeme »
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Todd Spangler / Variety: Roku Says YouTube TV May Get Dropped, Accusing Google of Anticompetitive Behavior
Jason Gurwin / The Streamable: This is What YouTube Says About Dispute with Roku
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: Roku May Lose YouTube TV, Accuses Google Of Anticompetitive Behavior
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Roku alleges Google is using its monopoly power in YouTube TV carriage negotiations
Makena Kelly / The Verge: Roku could lose YouTube TV in standoff with Google
Mollie Cahillane / Adweek: YouTube TV May Go Dark on Roku as Platform Accuses Google of Anticompetitive Behavior
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: The Roku/Google fight is the latest in a long list of spats between streaming networks and distributors over carriage agreements. — For consumers, it means that the programming blackouts common on cable/ satellite are migrating over to the streaming world. https://www.axios.com/...
Julia Alexander / IGN India: Roku May Stop Carrying YouTube TV After Company Alleges Anticompetitive Behavior by Google
Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post: Roku accuses Google of making ‘anti-competitive’ demands over YouTube TV
Jennifer Maas / The Wrap: Roku Warns Customers They Might Lose YouTube TV as Talks With Google Break Down
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: Breaking: @Roku says anti-competitive demands from Google may force removal of YouTube TV app https://www.axios.com/...
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: .@Google statement on @Roku allegations: “We're disappointed that they chose to make baseless claims while we continue our ongoing negotiations... We have made no requests to access user data or interfere with search results” https://variety.com/...
Jeff Baumgartner / Light Reading: Battle brews between Roku and YouTube TV
Henry St Leger / TechRadar: Your Roku smart TV may lose the YouTube app - here's why
@thestreamable: YouTube says that Roku's public claims are inaccurate and are “disappointed that they chose to make baseless claims while we continue our ongoing negotiations” https://thestreamable.com/... $GOOG $ROKU $AMZN $DIS $NFLX $APPL $FUBO cc @mediagazer @Techmeme
Eric Schmitt / @eric_schmitt: One of the many reasons I'm suing Google for its anti-competitive behavior. The #BigTech threat to innovation and many other things we value is real. https://www.axios.com/...
Todd Spangler / @xpangler: .@Roku warns customers @YouTubeTV may go dark on its platform amid a dispute with Google — which Roku alleges is asking for anticompetitive deal terms https://variety.com/... via @Variety
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: And here's the email from @roku to customers about the spat: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Roku may lose YouTube TV as negotiations with Google break down [Update: Google statement]
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: 🚨 Roku says Google has asked Roku to do things that it does not see replicated on other streaming competitors' platforms, like creating a dedicated search results row for YouTube within the Roku smart TV interface and giving YouTube search results more prominent placement. https://twitter.com/...
Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed: tvOS wars heating up!!! 🔥🔥🔥 https://twitter.com/...
Jason Wilson / @jason_a_w: That whole “streaming content” thing was nice while it lasted https://www.axios.com/...
Sara Fischer / @sarafischer: 🚨 A key issue for Roku—other than Google is asking it to manipulate search results that favor Google's products—is that it believes Google is trying to tie renewal of YouTube TV distribution contract to force additional anticompetitive benefits for Google's separate YouTube app https://twitter.com/...
Reggie Ugwu / New York Times:
SiriusXM acquires 99% Invisible, producer of the highly successful podcast by the same name with 500M+ downloads, to become a “foundational” part of Stitcher — The deal, for one of industry's earliest success stories, is the latest salvo in an era of rapid consolidation.
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PR Newswire, RAIN News, @michaelmiraflor, @radiotopia, @prx, @ylichterman, @nytimes, @davidgura, @nicktheandersen and @nwquah
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Brad Hill / RAIN News: SiriusXM acquires 99% Invisible Inc.
Michael J. Miraflor / @michaelmiraflor: “Roman Mars is selling his company 99% Invisible, Inc. to SiriusXM.” Oof, this one hurts. 99% Invisible is one of the all time great creative and design podcasts. SiriusXM is not a paywall that is in my top consideration set, given all of my other subs.
@radiotopia: We have some news. Our co-founder Roman Mars is selling his company 99% Invisible to SiriusXM. The 99% Invisible podcast was the founding inspiration for our network, and we'll continue to champion creative, independently owned podcasts.
@prx: Our partner Roman Mars is selling his company 99% Invisible to SiriusXM. We're grateful to have been an essential partner for 99% Invisible through the years, and for Roman's commitment to numerous independent audio producers through @Radiotopia.
Joseph Lichterman / @ylichterman: this has nothing to do with the content of this story — which is also interesting and another interesting development in the podcast/public media world — but it's pretty neat that the lead photo is a scan of a film negative https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimes: SiriusXM has acquired the company behind the hit podcast “99% Invisible.” Roman Mars, the show's host and founder, said the sale was an attempt to free himself from administrative duties and to secure greater resources for his staff. https://www.nytimes.com/...
David Gura / @davidgura: “What does it mean that Facebook is getting into audio? Or that Apple is changing the ‘subscribe’ button to a ‘follow’ button? I don't know and I don't want to figure it out.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
How local TV stations plan to remain relevant as viewers shift to streaming, including Sinclair's plans to develop its own linear streaming service — - EW Scripps CEO Adam Symson tells CNBC his company is planning an “advocacy campaign” to teach Americans about the value of digital antennas.
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@asymson, @asymson, @michellemanafy, @sherman4949, @sherman4949, @billbert, @ajitpai, @sherman4949, @mattrosoff, @davemorgannyc, @sherman4949, @jeffjarvis, @ewscrippsco, @tvtechnology, @sd_so and @sherman4949
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Adam Symson / @asymson: ICYMI: @EWScrippsCo's strategy to lean into disruption. As consumers shift away from traditional pay TV and toward subscription streaming services, the digital antenna will emerge as a necessary component of people's viewing habits via @CNBC's @sherman4949 https://www.cnbc.com/...
Adam Symson / @asymson: As consumers shift away from traditional pay TV and toward subscription streaming services, the digital antenna will emerge as a necessary component of people's viewing habits. @EWScrippsCo @ScrippsNetworks via @CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/...
Michelle Manafy / @michellemanafy: Broadcasters are plotting different paths, with Sinclair Broadcast Group developing its own linear streaming service. EW Scripps CEO Adam Symson says his company is planning an “advocacy campaign” to teach Americans about the value of digital antennas. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: How do broadcast stations fit into the streaming world? May I introduce to you: the television antenna. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: Do you know what NextGen TV is? I didn't really either. But it may be something almost every American uses if the cable bundle collapses. https://twitter.com/...
@billbert: If CBS moves to Paramount+, NBC moves to Peacock, and ABC moves to Disney+, where does that leave local TV stations? How local TV stations plan to remain relevant as viewers shift to streaming https://www.cnbc.com/... from @sherman4949
Ajit Pai / @ajitpai: An excellent overview of the U.S. media marketplace and the path(s) forward for local broadcasters. Streaming, greater diversity in devices, antennas, cord-cutting, and other trends offer challenges/opportunities for broadcasters. cc @EWScrippsCo @asymson https://www.cnbc.com/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: The CEO of EW Scripps — the fourth largest US owner of local stations — says the future of local TV is ... The antenna. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Matt Rosoff / @mattrosoff: One answer: a resurgence in home digital TV antennas. Yeah, really. https://twitter.com/...
Dave Morgan / @davemorgannyc: Great piece from @sherman4949 on the power and resiliency of local broadcast TV and the largely untold and growing role of the digital TV antenna https://www.cnbc.com/...
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: EW Scripps' CEO told me his company, which bought Ion Media for $2.6b earlier this year, has “a lot of people” working on an advocacy project to get the word out about the value of digital antennas as a subscription streaming service supplement. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: They're pushing antennae. Next they'll be investing in telegraph wires. How local TV stations plan to remain relevant as viewers shift to streaming https://www.cnbc.com/...
@ewscrippsco: The time has arrived for the next frontier of TV viewing: the antenna. Read more in @CNBC from @sherman4949, featuring Scripps President and CEO @asymson. https://www.cnbc.com/...
@tvtechnology: Local TV stations plot to remain relevant in shift to streaming https://www.cnbc.com/...
Mónica Marie Zorrilla / Variety:
Early Nielsen numbers show 2021 Oscars drew 9.85M viewers, a drop of 58.3% from last year — The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony, broadcast live from both Union Station and the Dolby Theatre in L.A. on ABC, hit a record low. — Per Nielsen Live+Same Day preliminary national numbers …
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Brandon Katz / Observer: As Expected, the Oscars Were the Lowest Rated in History
Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: Death-rattle. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Facebook rolls out a miniplayer that will allow Facebook users to stream music and podcasts from Spotify through the Facebook app on iOS or Android — Facebook announced last week an expanded partnership with streaming music service Spotify that would bring a new way to listen to music …
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Ashley Carman / The Verge: Facebook is building its own in-app podcast player
Todd Spangler / Variety: You Can Now Play Spotify Directly in Facebook Mobile App
@spotifynews: Music and podcast sharing just got better. We're excited to introduce a new miniplayer experience that allows users to control their Spotify playback from the Facebook app. Read more: https://newsroom.spotify.com/ ...
Ashley Carman / @ashleyrcarman: never leave the fb app, even to hear a podcast https://twitter.com/...
Chris Brogan / @chrisbrogan: POSSIBLY meaning “original content on FB” isn't all that valuable any more - Facebook rolls out a miniplayer that will allow Facebook users to stream music and podcasts from Spotify through the Facebook app on iOS or Android (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) https://techcrunch.com/...
Lance Ulanoff / @lanceulanoff: Facebook: “How do we make Facebook more like Apple Music?” Spotify: “I have an idea” https://techcrunch.com/...
Mark Sweney / The Guardian: Spotify expected to report subscriber slowdown
Ashley Carman / The Verge: Spotify's miniplayer for Facebook launches today
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Just like you could 10 years ago, you can now play Spotify while you're in Facebook. Reminder: This is the thing Mark Zuckerberg calls a “music” project - he has another, TBD, podcast project coming - and that Spotify calls a “Music and Podcasts” project. https://newsroom.spotify.com/ ...
Martin Sfp Bryant / @martinsfp: Here's ‘Project Boombox’ https://twitter.com/...
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Sources: NBC has pulled out of the bidding for NHL's second TV package, making the next season the first time since 2005-2006 that NBC will not carry NHL games — NBC has officially pulled out of the bidding for the NHL's second TV package, according to U.S. and Canadian sources.
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@sbjsbd: BREAKING: Next season will mark the first time since '05-06 that NBC will not carry #NHL games, with sources saying that the network has officially pulled out of the bidding for the league's second TV package (@Ourand_SBJ, @markjburns88). Free to read: https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
John Ourand / @ourand_sbj: NBC pulls out of the NHL bidding process. My SBJ story with @markjburns88. https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/ ...
John Ourand / @ourand_sbj: Source: Turner Sports is likely to pick up the rest of the NHL's media rights package. https://twitter.com/...
Sam Amico / OutKick: NBC Pulls Plug On Bid To Keep Carrying NHL Games
Will Oremus / Slate:
News outlets can respond to Substack poaching their best-known opinion writers by embracing more diverse perspectives in op-ed pages and by refocusing on news — This week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg granted a rare, live, hourlong interview to a tech journalist, where he revealed the company's plans for a slew of new audio products.
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@om: Former @nytimes opnion writer @cwarzel has gone solo and that means he can focus on writing the right stuff. I, for one, and watching his Galaxy Brain closely. https://om.co/...
On my Om: Warzel's Brain — Weekend is usually for catching up on newsletters that end up in Feedbin.
Seth Abramson / @sethabramson: I read Substack journalism obsessively and have never seen one person—from Substack or not—say “your Substack newsletter will make you a millionaire.” What I've seen folks say—rightly—is if you work hard at it for a few years as a side gig, you might be able to support yourself. https://twitter.com/...
What's New in Publishing: What Substack is really doing to the media, Apple battles Spotify over podcasting, and more: The Media Roundup
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: watch my brain! https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “Despite what you might have read ... your Substack newsletter won't make you a millionaire. During the blogging boom, for every Ariana Huffington, there were plenty of others who didn't waltz into the sunset. This edition of the media makeover isn't going to be any different...” https://twitter.com/...
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: News media has had several biz model challenges caused by the Internet. - Craigslist unbundling classifieds - Local newspaper monopolies undermined by infinite competition online - Better options for advertisers in social & search and now Substack https://slate.com/...
David Beard / @dabeard: “In the long list of threats to the future of news, the rise of newsletters is probably not near the top.” Yet... https://slate.com/... @WillOremus @BGrueskin @HC_Richardson
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “The challenge for news organizations will be less about how to fill the opinion pages, and more about how to sell subscriptions when their best-known writers are constantly tempted to strike out on their own,” @WillOremus writes. https://slate.com/...
@kegill: My heartburn: without editorial oversight, which is already lax on columns/op-eds, what happens to journalistic ethics, verification and a sense of fairness (accurate representation of research/data/quotes)? https://slate.com/...
Will Oremus / @willoremus: I wrote for @slate about big-name journalists going independent as the inevitable next phase of the unbundling of news from everything else that used to cross-subsidize it. What Craigslist did for classifieds, Substack is doing for columnists. https://slate.com/...
Andy Orin / @andyorin: I think this is obvious to anyone who has worked in journalism and yet not obvious to the people who uh own or fund the platforms https://twitter.com/...
Avi Asher-Schapiro / @aaschapiro: A key to understanding Substack's impact on the news is to recognize that the kind of journalism that tends to thrive there—so far, at least for the most part—is not actually news. It's commentary and analysis, aimed at the chattering classes. https://slate.com/...
Sandeep Chandur / @schandur: Here's a far more radical idea: reduce or get rid of op-eds entirely https://twitter.com/...
Aaron Mesh / @aaronmesh: I do not see any downside to a newspaper offloading its expensive roster of pundits. https://slate.com/...
Steve Krakauer / @stevekrak: Haha they *can* but they definitely won't! https://twitter.com/...
Will Oremus / @willoremus: I wrote earlier today that news orgs would face a choice between competing with Substack to keep their biggest names, or letting them go. I suggested letting them go: https://slate.com/... Looks like the @nytimes just chose competing: https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Jane Singer / @janebsinger: Lured by editorial freedom, and maybe by the cash, well-known commentators who once wrote for legacy media are driving rapid rise of Substack. How might news orgs respond? Diversify their op-ed pages — and pitch their news coverage. https://slate.com/... @slate, h/t @NiemanLab
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: This by @WillOremus. Good analysis of how Substack, still quite small, might yet be a threat to the journalism bigs. https://slate.com/... Tip: the distinction between news and opinion cannot do all the work. Nor can confirmation bias. People get news from consuming opinion.
@alex: at some pt everyone but me will have been offered a substack pro deal https://slate.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Elie / @elieraine: Read @WillOremus if you're curious about how Substack could pose an economic challenge for the news industry https://slate.com/...
@blackamazon: Substack believes al of local news is equal to three columnists . Journalism and News needs to publicly have the conversations it privately avoided with public feedback But it won't and is watching itself be disemboweled Possibly permanently https://twitter.com/...
Joseph M. Adelman / @jmadelman: Substack cares about having subscribers, not who subscribes, which is their right. My problem is I can't justify to myself spending $60 per year on *any* individual writer's work. https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: The primary cope on which corporate journalists are now relying to demean and minimize Substack is it mostly only has opinion-writers and not those who do “real reporting.” No matter how times they repeat it, it won't become true, though may be soothing. https://slate.com/...
William Turton / @williamturton: Reporting is hard (and expensive) https://twitter.com/...
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Sources: Substack has approached NYT writers including Liz Bruenig, who was offered a $200K advance, double her salary, and Taylor Lorenz, who was offered $300K
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Steven Levy / @stevenlevy: NYT opinion writers have reasons to stay there. Brooks, Friedman, Dowd, etc. ride the Times exposure for huge speaking fees and big book advances. Everyone takes their calls. Salary is the least of it. Going to Substack would be much smaller audiences and less clout.
Steven Perlberg / @perlberg: The New York Times is readying a big push for in house, personality-driven newsletters, as Substack courts its writers. Substack offered @ebruenig a $200,000 advance, double her Times salary, according to a source familiar with the matter! https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Caitlin Flanagan / @caitlinpacific: Fact check: True https://twitter.com/...
@om: I will pay good money to read @Choire newsletter - substack or otherwise. One of the best writers to come from the original Gawker family. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... via @businessinsider
Jess Joho / @jessjoho: Google, search for NYT headlines about unions that seem to go through an existential crisis (via @nyt_diff) https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@aviwoolf: This is such an amusing turn, tho I would warn Substack to be careful not to bring NYT dysfunction with the writers. https://twitter.com/...
Joe McCann / @joemccann: “The appeal of Substack to most people ‘is freedom and uncapped earning potential, neither of which you get if you write a newsletter in-house,’ one Times writer said.” If you can't beat'em, join'em... https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Samo Burja / @samoburja: There are now a clearly recognizable West Coast Media and an East Coast Media. This seems like round one, poaching of talent. Last round in the early 2000s blogging lost because East Coast could afford to buy out the best writers. Tables seem turned. https://twitter.com/...
S. Mitra Kalita / @mitrakalita: OK, onto issue 2. Substack, my fave “I told you so” subject (I feel and fear the platform favors individuals/brands over communities/substance). But reading this piece made me think of this in a slightly different way. (4/x) https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
@blackamazon: The ultimate joke being that white people who ran to the Taylor's being picked on / Elizabeth the bully narrative Ignore that both are six figure earners who use marginalized people as targets and “content” who got offers while marginalized folks DO NOT EVEN GET NAMED https://twitter.com/...
Seth Abramson / @sethabramson: (🆚) This Business Insider article is mind-blowing. Last month, the NYT simply said its writers would need “approval” to start a newsletter. Now—just weeks later—it admits almost none of those requests will be approved, as Substack is seen as a competitor. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: A critical mistake will be for news publishers to think clout of working at NYT or WaPo bears 6 figure raises by going direct. If Howard Stern & Joe Rogan had a price where they willingly accepted reduced clout, so does the average NYT opinion columnist. https://twitter.com/...
Lydia Polgreen / @lpolgreen: Students of NYT history will remember Times Select, the first foray into digital subscriptions in 2005, which put the op ed columnists and a few other things behind a paywall. It lasted two years. In 2011 the full paywall launched & changed media history. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
@therealhoarse: Things nobody asked for: All of the hubris of the Times' worst personalities but now in a blog. https://twitter.com/...
Freddie deBoer: What are you, 12? There's no “deserves” — Recently a Business Insider piece reported …
Noah Berlatsky / @nberlat: welp. sort of reiterates that opinion journalism at least follows the model of the other arts; handful of very high earners and everybody else's income plummeting. https://twitter.com/...
Steven Perlberg / @perlberg: One of the writers in talks to do an in-house newsletter at the Times is @TaylorLorenz, who also received an offer from Substack of a $300,000 advance https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Bari Weiss / @bariweiss: She's worth way more https://twitter.com/...
Matt Taibbi / @mtaibbi: Strategywise, this move by the @nytimes could turn weird fast. Happy for @ebruenig tho https://twitter.com/...
Craig Calcaterra / @craigcalcaterra: NYT gonna help their writers build up a cool, personal, relatable brand with a loyal core readership to make it even easier for them to then leave and start their own thing. https://twitter.com/...
Nirawit Jittipairoj / @steakscience: The best thing about Substack is that it might kill the NYT editorial board which would actually make the NYT a better publication https://twitter.com/...
Alice / @alicefromqueens: NYT still hell-bent on keeping Substack in the news. https://twitter.com/...
Will Oremus / @willoremus: I do get why the NYT would fight to keep @TaylorLorenz in particular, though. I imagine it would cost at *least* $300k to take down the giant billboard of her face from the front of their office building. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@swodinsky: the only way i can participate in The Discourse rn is from a historical/economic pov, otherwise i'm literally sobbing on the subway while thinking abt The Commodification of Personality
@swodinsky: legitimately happy for all the ppl getting offers rn (they deserve it!!!!) but when u spend most of ur life being Deeply Unpopular it feels super weird having ur Popularity dictate ur Upward Mobility to a certain extent and,,,,,, brings a lot of trauma roaring back? idk
@swodinsky: anyone who thinks substack's biz model is new should read this 2010 analysis of two lil known media orgs named [squint] yahoo and aol https://www.niemanlab.org/...
@swodinsky: anyway feels good knowing journos were reckoning w this back when i was in elementary school. shit's literally as old as digital media itself https://digiday.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Dan Primack / @danprimack: A marketing person in 2002 told me that they'd “done the research” and that the company wouldn't support me launching a newsletter. “No audience for more than one” in VC/tech/etc, and Venturewire already existed. Glad I ignored her. Bet she now has a Substack.
Jacob Bacharach / @jakebackpack: What if I told you that instead of spending a hundred bucks a year on two newspapers and four magazines, you could spend $600 a year on 10 guys who are all mad at the same 5 liberal arts colleges!
David Sirota / @davidsirota: I think there's a truth here: The email newsletter ecosystem is right now concentrating wealth, rather than spreading it to fund journalism. The @DailyPoster is different than most - we are a team of reporters offering multiple products. IMO, this is the future. https://twitter.com/...
David M. Perry / @lollardfish: It's interesting to me that the substack and alternatives conversation has mostly ignored @revue. For the record, I am open to a significant Revue advance to launch my newsletter about soup, naps, cheese, and fishing. https://twitter.com/...
Eliot Brown / @eliotwb: Substack just raised a bunch more money ... VC firms tend to push their consumer companies to spend VC money on supply growth ... i.e. ... one might expect more poaching to come https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Will Oremus / @willoremus: I should have worded the first tweet better. Of course news orgs should try to keep their top writers. Just think competing w/ Substack on salary might be misguided (and it's not clear they're doing that). They can compete on other dimensions. https://twitter.com/...
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: @WillOremus @nytimes Was your suggestion that given the choice between holding on to their best talent and paying them more or losing their most lucrative writers to a publishing platform, they should do the latter? Why would any publisher do that?
Ruth Ben-Ghiat / @ruthbenghiat: Coverage of #substack has focused on financial arrangements offered to journalists & counter-moves of big publications and platforms. This shines light on media industry changes but newsletters raise interesting issues of engagement, credibility, audience for all authors. https://twitter.com/...
Rusty / @fka_tabs: @samdolnick @Adampasick I could totally be poached from Substack, just gonna put that out there https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: NYT says it has “been fielding requests from employees wishing to launch their own newsletters on platforms like Substack and Twitter's Revue. Because these sites are increasingly acting as direct competitors, such efforts will generally not be approved” https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Jacob Bacharach / @jakebackpack: God bless any writer who can scam some payola while the scamming is good, but this is completely unscalable. What a case study it's gonna be when it all collapses in on itself. How many $5/month single-writer subscriptions can any one individual support? This is a MLM scheme! https://twitter.com/...
@davidastinwalsh: *sips coffee* How long until Substack collapses? Because this is some Ponzi scheme-level behavior here. https://twitter.com/...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: I remember this well because the newspaper where I worked put up a paywall around its columnists and opinion as well, and my readership dropped by an order of magnitude. So I started blogging instead, because blogs weren't behind a paywall https://twitter.com/...
Gabe Rivera / @gaberivera: Rule of thumb for writers here: your Substack advance = the number of times you've been retweeted in the past year when fighting other high-profile people on Twitter.
Michael Calderone / @mlcalderone: My contribution when the wall came down: “Times Columnists Dance on TimesSelect Grave” https://observer.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Gertz / @mattgertz: Uh wow. The Leonhardt newsletter has more subscribers than anyone on Substack by a huge amount. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Ciarelli / @nickdeplume: “There are about 70 Times newsletters, reaching a total of 28 million subscribers, according to the Friday memo.” https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
@razibkhan: so they think i'm going to pay for the rip-mask-off asshole takes on top of the subscript? HELL NO. stay your competency lane! :-) https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: The inherent difficulty with anything like this at the Times is they don't like their staffers to argue with each other. https://twitter.com/...
Gene Park / @genepark: i'll just say it. i'm not convinced substack knows what it's doing. https://twitter.com/...
@champagnesharks: This is how everything from blogs to podcasts to newsletters get ruined. All these so-called democratizing movements just end up being coopted by big money. A blog now is just the less formal strictly online part of a big newspaper and the top 50 pods are by huge orgs https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Smith / @rkylesmith: The Substackification of everything continues! Read more about it on my Substack https://twitter.com/...
Lexis-Olivier Ray / @shoton35mm: If anyone wants to pay me $300,000/yr to write a “personality-driven newsletter” I'm down. https://twitter.com/...
Yashar Ali / @yashar: Per @perlberg's story, both Taylor Lorenz and Liz Bruenig were offered six-figure advances by Substack to leave the New York Times. https://twitter.com/...
Sean Griffey / @seangriffey: I wish I had something more pithy to say about a potential NYT vs. Substack feud but not feeling very creative. I will say this, the NYT will be fine. Not sure I believe that about Substack long-term. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
David Sirota / @davidsirota: The hilarious part of this is that corporate media elites have convinced themselves Substacks are popular only because of email. They don't wanna admit independent writers are popular because they are independent & producing content that does not conform to elite media orthodoxy. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: “Because these sites are increasingly acting as direct competitors to The Times, such efforts will generally not be approved. Times colleagues who are interested in starting a newsletter should first explore doing it on our own platform...” https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Mathew Ingram / @mathewi: Clearly what journalism needs right now is a whole NBA-style structure with free agency, salary cap, etc. Also, brackets https://twitter.com/...
Adriana Lacy / @adriana_lacy: someone plz hire me to write a newsletter bc this money is just silly lol https://twitter.com/...
Stacy-Marie Ishmael / @s_m_i: @KeithRHernandez wow deep cut
Maya Lau / @mayalau: My main takeaway is, I can't believe NYT pays some of its Opinion writers only $100k (!?!) https://twitter.com/...
Natalie Fertig / @natsfert: Here's the thing. Independence isn't all it's cracked up to be. Yeah, sometimes your great stories get killed because you and your editor don't see it the same. But i would never want to give up having accountability and a second set of eyes/thoughts. That is so important. https://twitter.com/...
Patrick McGee / @patrickmcgee_: @mediagazer @perlberg *checks spam folder*
Peter Labuza / @labuzamovies: I'd actually love to see the numbers of who would cancel their Times subscription because a certain columnist wasn't there. Is it really so critical to the paper's bottom line? The good columnists are a bonus not the point. https://twitter.com/...
@akaautonomy: You can't compare blogging platforms to substack. Blogs were literally open to anyone and did not payout. Substack is a heavily VC-funded company. It's not independent writers vs corporate media, it's venture media vs corporate media. And you're the betting chip. https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Steven W. Thrasher / @thrasherxy: Let her leave the Times. I'll take her place for a paltry $100K. I'm a Christian, too—though one given to the homosexual persuasion and generally a bit nicer than Bruenig. https://twitter.com/...
Glenn Greenwald / @ggreenwald: So funny: it's the same exact cycle as what happened when blogs first appeared and started becoming popular: corporate media outlets mocked & scorned it, then fought it, then copied it and hired the bloggers to run their blogs. But what they can't still offer is independence: https://twitter.com/...
Sonal Chokshi / @smc90: BUT WHO OWNS THE LIST?! that is the only question that matters https://twitter.com/...
Keith Hernandez / @keithrhernandez: Reaching real “I have joined Fusion” levels https://twitter.com/...
Annie Roth / @annierothnews: Hey @NYTScience, if you want a newsletter focused on animal science, conservation, and welfare I am available. https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: Guild minimums (for @nytimes and others) here: https://newsguild.org/9027-2/ NYT $100k Guardian $96k WSJ $73k (which has always struck me as low!) Boston Globe $72k AP $68k Philly Inq $66k
Joshua Benton / @jbenton: I'm just gonna say I am extremely doubtful that @ebruenig's salary at @nytimes is only $100,000. $100k is the guild minimum for a Times reporter with 2 years' experience! You don't pay an opinion columnist that. If I'm somehow wrong: Liz, renegotiate! https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
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