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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
NY judge upholds order blocking NYT from publishing Project Veritas docs, orders NYT to turn over physical copies and destroy electronic ones; NYT will appeal — The New York State judge also ordered The Times to turn over any physical copies and destroy any electronic versions of documents a lawyer prepared for the group.
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Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Today's ruling in the Project Veritas v. NYT case is a monster lump of First Amendment coal. It not only stops the paper from publishing memos it obtained via reporting but also orders it to return and destroy physical and digital copies, respectively: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Yet the passage highlighted below takes the cake. It cites Project Veritas' argument that NYT “knew [it] was not authorized to disclose” the memos. WHAT? *PROJECT VERITAS*-which trades in sting operations steeped in deception-is scolding NYT for not having “authorization”? https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Just in: Judge in Westchester County, NY, rules in favor of Project Veritas in its effort to keep NY Times from publishing or using Veritas' atty-client memos. Justice Wood says this will ‘protect integrity of judicial process’ and ‘is no defeat for the First Amendment.’ https://twitter.com/...
Orin Kerr / @orinkerr: “The opinion is fascinating because Judge Wood writes with extraordinary certainty while being extraordinarily wrong and extraordinarily likely to be reversed on appeal.” (Not my area, but an interesting post.) https://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Kevin Gosztola / @kgosztola: “The special danger is it allows a party suing a news organization for defamation to then get a gag order against the news organization banning any additional reporting. It's the ultimate chilling effect.” -Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., media lawyer https://www.nytimes.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Judge says Veritas ‘met its burden of showing that the subject memoranda were obtained by irregular means.’ He also finds no basis for Veritas' contention that NYT attorneys violated rules of professional conduct. https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/ ...
Adrienne LaFrance / @adriennelaf: This is absolutely wild and extremely important. “No court should be able to tell The New York Times or any other news organization how to conduct its reporting.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytopinion: The Times, like any other news organization, makes ethical judgments daily about whether to disclose secret information from governments, corporations and others. The First Amendment is meant to leaves those ethical decisions to journalists, not to courts. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ted Boutrous / @boutrousted: The court's absurd rationale “would provide an incentive for any reporter's subjects to file frivolous libel suits as a means of controlling news coverage about them. More to the point, it would subvert the values embodied by the First Amendment.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Harry Litman / @harrylitman: Flagrant unconstitutional prior restraint based on nonsensical reasoning by New York State judge. Wont stand up, https://www.politico.com/...
Shanlon Wu / @shanlonwu: Legally baseless decision by NY state judge Charles Wood an elected judge siding with Project Veritas in violating 1st Amendment Freedom of the press - by reasoning NYT somehow violating attorney-client privilege when they are neither attorney nor client. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Erin Banco / @erinbanco: “Journalism, like democracy, thrives in an environment of transparency and freedom.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Ben Smith / @benyt: A good reminder that US press freedoms are truly unusual, and need fighting for https://www.nytimes.com/...
Peter Baker / @peterbakernyt: “This is a breathtaking rationale: Justice Wood has taken it upon himself to decide what The Times can and cannot report on. That's not how the First Amendment is supposed to work.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@aclu: This order is a four-alarm fire for press freedom. Without any evidence that the NYT improperly obtained Project Veritas' legal documents, the court has no grounds for enjoining their reporting. This unconstitutional prior restraint must be reversed. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dilan Esper / @dilanesper: This Court got something fundamentally wrong. It's a complicated issue. I will walk you through it. Courts have a lot of power over parties to a lawsuit, including to restrict how information obtained within the lawsuit (i.e., in discovery) is used. 1/ https://twitter.com/...
Laurence Tribe / @tribelaw: This decision flagrantly violates the First Amendment and should be appealed instantly and reversed promptly. https://www.reuters.com/...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: “In addition to imposing this unconstitutional prior restraint, the judge has gone even further...ordered we return this material, a ruling with no apparent precedent and one that could present obvious risks to exposing sources (if) allowed to stand.” https://www.reuters.com/...
Bill Scher / @billscher: The judge in this case is a Republican elected official who won one judicial election for a 14-year term with less than 10 percent of vote https://ballotpedia.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Max Kennerly / @maxkennerly: Yeesh. This reasoning conflates “matter of public concern,” a concept of defamation law, and the purposes of the attorney-client privilege. Neither of them alone would justify this extreme result, so the court just mixed parts of each together to end up here. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ian Millhiser / @imillhiser: It is astounding how many judges do not know the first thing about the Constitution. https://twitter.com/...
Jacob Remes / @jacremes: Sounds like maybe someone should steal the documents from the Times and publish them before anyone has a chance to tell them to stop. If the Times accidentally left the doors unlocked, oh well. https://twitter.com/...
John Schwartz / @jswatz: If this decision was any dumber you'd have to water it once a week. And yes, I do have a law degree. https://twitter.com/...
James Ball / @jamesrbuk: Good *grief*. This could reverberate for some time. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel A. Horwitz / @danielahorwitz: The attorney-client privilege is principally an evidentiary rule and secondarily an ethics rule. It has other functions as well, but none of them—zero—comes anywhere close to justifying a prior restraint against reporting material that a journalist obtained lawfully. https://twitter.com/...
Professor Garrett Epps / @profepps: The conservative legal movement will not let the holidays dampen for a second its unwinking hostility to democracy. https://twitter.com/...
Ari Cohn / @aricohn: Imagine, the same judge who issued a prior restraint thought “NYT didn't reveal its source and there's nothing on the record showing it *didn't* obtain the documents improperly so Project Veritas satisfied its burden” was a smart, logical conclusion. He's not very...impressive. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: The right wing's relentless attack on the First Amendment — for everyone who isn't a right-winger, that is — is bearing poisonous fruit. They find a compliant judge, and wham. https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy Turk / @jturk125: All I want for Christmas is document links with legal reporting /tweeting. You have them. Voila: https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: A reminder that yes, this ruling is from a judge on the New York Supreme Court. But here in New York, a “Supreme Court” is a trial court whose justices hear cases on a county level—in this case, Westchester County, a New York City suburb where Veritas's office is located. https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: I have deep concerns for the First amendment and no sympathy for journalism at this point They were publishing full out screeds about protesters and immigrants Meanwhile humoring these fools til they hit back https://twitter.com/...
Armando / @armandondk: Let's be clear this is a million times more a threat to journalism than the Assange prosecution. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Chapman / @fawfulfan: This is an outrageous attack on freedom of the press. I expect the @nytimes to win this easily on appeal. https://twitter.com/...
@nytopinion: “No court should be able to tell The New York Times or any other news organization — or, for that matter, Project Veritas — how to conduct its reporting,” writes the editorial board. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jered Ede / @jtaylorede: The Times/corp. media argued prior restraint. Wrong. “The Times is perfectly free to investigate, ... publish, opine, expose or ignore whatever aspects of Project Veritas its editors in their sole discretion deem newsworthy, without utilizing [PV's a/c] privileged memoranda.”
Gabriel Malor / @gabrielmalor: From the order: PV has the burden. Then: “There is nothing in the record to show how the Times obtained the privileged memoranda that belong to Project Veritas.” And then the court notes that NYT only states that it was obtained through “newsgathering efforts.”
Gabriel Malor / @gabrielmalor: That's it. That's the entirety of the evidence the court relies on to decide that PV has met its burden to show that the documents were obtained “improperly or irregularly.” But no evidence is no evidence. You ordinarily cannot meet a burden by pointing to a *lack* of evidence.
Gabriel Malor / @gabrielmalor: PV is using discovery rules—in a case in which no discovery has taken place!—to force NYTimes to return documents that are unrelated to the litigation. Seems sketchy to me. NYTimes has already said it will appeal. Rightly so.
Jan Wolfe / @jannwolfe: New: A judge has ordered the New York Times to return internal documents to Project Veritas, and to destroy any electronic versions. The judge said he's more concerned with Project Veritas's “basic right of privacy” than NYT's freedom of the press claims. https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Rittiman / @brandonrittiman: You know what's not a good idea? The government telling reporters not to publish information they lawfully obtained, that's what. #FreePress https://twitter.com/...
Gabriel Malor / @gabrielmalor: This should be reversed. The court starts by noting that PV has the burden of showing that the memos were obtained “improperly or irregularly.” Okay so, what's the evidence of improper or irregular behavior? The order doesn't cite any. Instead, it points to a lack of evidence. https://twitter.com/...
Mitch Pugh / @scmitchp: A sign a judge knows he's 100 percent right: dropping the opinion on Christmas Eve. This is getting overturned but this judge has no business on the bench. https://twitter.com/...
Mark Lukasiewicz / @deanluk: A judge ordering journalist to destroy documents = a judge attempting to destroy the 1st Amendment. Let's hope neither act of destruction occurs. https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: But it triggered a motion from Project Veritas lawyers seeking to stop NYT from further disseminating those memos. It has succeeded. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... 4/
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: On Nov. 11, the Times published a story based on legal memos drafted by attorneys retained by Project Veritas—an enlightening story for showing the lengths to which PV went to ensure that its video stings stayed within the four corners of the law. 3/ https://www.nytimes.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: The ruling is the latest salvo in a defamation case brought by Project Veritas in 2020 relating to NYT coverage of one of its videos. https://lawandcrime.com/... 2/
Andrew Fleischman / @asfleischman: For Project Veritas, of all places, to complain about informants... https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Fleischman / @asfleischman: Here, in a couple of paragraphs, is why everyone who says you can fix an unconstitutional prior restraint with “newsworthiness” is an idiot. That's subjective as hell, and judges might not find bad stuff about people they like newsworthy. https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Richard Tofel / @dicktofel: Today's opinion in the Project Veritas v. NYT case is incredibly myopic, and, I think, highly unlikely to be ultimately sustained on appeal. 1/
Richard Tofel / @dicktofel: It essentially holds that NO attorney advice to a client can ever be a matter of public concern, and that there is a blanket exception protecting such advice to the rule against prior restraints. 2/
Richard Tofel / @dicktofel: Opinion here: https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/ ...
Richard Tofel / @dicktofel: Only if you think that the attorney-client privilege is the single most important bedrock of our constitutional system (trumping, for instance, press freedom or free speech) does this even begin to make sense. Some lawyers, but precious few other citizens would agree, I think./3
Eriq Gardner / @eriqgardner: There's so much about this that makes little sense including what the judge means by “irregular.” https://twitter.com/...
Liz Mair / @lizmair: This strikes me as very much a wrong ruling though I firmly believe a lot of (governmental) going after Veritas, as much as I disagree with their ideological underpinnings, is also anti-First Amendment. https://twitter.com/...
@freedomofpress: BREAKING: New York judge doubles down on censorship order against New York Times and demands the paper destroy documents. Shocking ruling that goes against a century of precedent. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Daniel A. Horwitz / @danielahorwitz: A ludicrous ruling, and plainly wrong. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Fleischman / @asfleischman: Project Veritas went from claiming coverage of Hunter Biden was being censored to demanding its secrets be protected. https://twitter.com/...
Kim Masters / @kimmasters: Oh, ffs https://twitter.com/...
Jered Ede / @jtaylorede: I wonder if @BGrueskin has made it to page 27 yet. Hello Bill. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@calaesthetic: A.G. Sulzberger says NYT will appeal immediately: “In defiance of law settled in the Pentagon Papers case, this judge has barred The Times from publishing information about a prominent and influential organization that was obtained legally in the ordinary course of reporting.” https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: This is the same judge who ruled against the NY Times' effort to dismiss a defamation suit, filed by Veritas last year. I wrote about the case in May, via @CJR https://www.cjr.org/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: For those of you wondering about the judge: He was elected, as a Republican, in 2009. Two other judges on this court were assigned the case, but they recused themselves. That's when it went to Justice Wood. https://ballotpedia.org/...
Gautam Hans / @dispositive: I teach Legal Ethics (including attorney-client privilege) and litigate First Amendment cases. This is a wrong and bad ruling. https://twitter.com/...
Eric Owens / @ericowensdc: America's trial courts are a disaster. Elected judges are the worst. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Lavoie / @djlavoie: This is breathtakingly unconstitutional and every Cancel Culture twerp who's not up in arms right now can shut up forever. https://twitter.com/...
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: “This ruling should raise alarms not just for advocates of press freedoms but for anyone concerned about the dangers of government overreach into what the public can and cannot know,” says NYT Publisher A.G. Sulzberger https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeremy Barr / @jeremymbarr: Statement from New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger on judge's decision to uphold prior restraint on the newspaper as it relates to coverage of Project Veritas — and to order the return of internal documents obtained through reporting: https://twitter.com/...
Sindhu Sundar / Insider: Judge rules The New York Times must destroy documents and not publish reporting on conservative group
Noah Goldberg / New York Daily News: New York Times ordered to return legal documents, take down story on Project Veritas
David Cohen / Politico: Judge blocks New York Times on Project Veritas coverage
Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner: Victory for Project Veritas: Judge orders New York Times to get rid of memos
Andrew Denney / LAW.com: Judge Orders NYT to Surrender Project Veritas Legal Memos
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Grace Mirabella, who served as Vogue's EIC between 1971 and 1988 and launched a rival magazine called Mirabella with Rupert Murdoch in 1989, dies at 92 — Grace Mirabella, who was the most influential voice in fashion during her 17 years as the top editor of Vogue magazine …
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Phyllis Messinger / New York Times: Grace Mirabella, Who Brought Vogue Down to Earth, Dies at 92
Sara Spector / @miriam2626: RIP Grace Mirabella! You empowered women and your legacy will live on in Texas as women fight for their rights. You were an inspiration! https://twitter.com/...
NYT Obituaries / @nytobits: While Grace Mirabella was considered the most powerful woman in fashion, she kept the focus on fashion and not herself. “I'm not a clothes girl,” she said, “if it means talking about them all the time.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimes: Grace Mirabella transformed Vogue magazine from a glittery, color-splashed paean to the spirit of the 1960s into a more sensible adviser to women entering the workforce in the '70s and '80s. She has died at 92. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Amanda Fortini / @amandafortini: One detail that spoke to me in this obituary of Grace Mirabella, former editor of Vogue, is that it says she is survived by her stepsons and step-grandchildren. You don't see that very often. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Isabel B. Slone / @isabelslone: “She wore Prada without the devil.” ❤️ https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jeanne Beker / @jeanne_beker: One the most gracious and loveliest, Grace Mirabella was emblematic of another time in fashion, when there was a lot more kindness and compassion. I was lucky to know her, and even wrote for her “Mirabella” magazine. RIP https://www.nytimes.com/...
Lauren Mechling / @laurenmechling: “To signal the new mood, Ms. Mirabella had the red walls of the editor's office repainted beige, and she often wore tailored beige clothes to work.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Tyler McCall / @eiffeltyler: Damn, sad to hear about Grace Mirabella. If you're interested in fashion but haven't read her memoir, you really should. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kate Ng / The Independent: Grace Mirabella: This is the legacy of Anna Wintour's predecessor at Vogue
Brian Niemietz / New York Daily News: Former Vogue editor Grace Mirabella dead at 92
Adam S. Levy / Daily Mail: Former Vogue editor Grace Mirabella has died at 91 at her Manhattan home: Ran famed publication from 1971 through 1988
Laura Gesualdi-Gilmore / The US Sun: Grace Mirabella dies at 91 - Vogue's iconic former editor-in-chief and Mirabella founder passes away
Farah Ghouri / City A.M.: Former Vogue editor Grace Mirabella dies aged 91
Kaitlyn Frey / People.com: Longtime Vogue Editor-in-Chief Grace Mirabella Dies at 91
Zachary Kussin / New York Post: Grace Mirabella, editor who ‘guided Vogue through sexual freedom,’ dead at 91
Edward Helmore / The Guardian: Grace Mirabella, 70s and 80s US Vogue editor, dies aged 92
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Profile of Dr. Oz, the celebrity physician with a long history of sharing dubious medical advice on his daytime TV show and on Fox News — The celebrity physician, a candidate in Pennsylvania's Republican primary for Senate, has a long history of dispensing dubious medical advice on his daytime show and on Fox News.
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@tripgabriel, @b52malmet, @sallykohn, @keitholbermann, @brianstelter, @dangillmor, @blackamazon, @donmoyn, @mollyjongfast, @amanbatheja and @mini_fig
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Trip Gabriel / @tripgabriel: In ebullient language, he has often made sweeping claims based on thin evidence, which in multiple cases, like that of hydroxychloroquine, unraveled when studies he relied on were shown to be flawed. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Barbara Malmet / @b52malmet: Oz is a quack extraordinaire. https://twitter.com/...
Sally Kohn / @sallykohn: Would love someone gay to run for PA Senate against Dr. Oz so then the match up would be Friend of Dorothy versus the Wizard of Oz https://www.nytimes.com/...
Keith Olbermann / @keitholbermann: Let's just cut to the correct term: Quack https://twitter.com/...
Brian Stelter / @brianstelter: Lots to learn about Dr. Oz here: https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor: In this case the NY Times doesn't pull punches in explaining the longstanding medical misinformation from the not-so-great or wonderful Oz who's running for the US Senate: https://www.nytimes.com/...
@blackamazon: Right around the time the rest of media has an honest discussion with the people who warned them That's why I keep banging on about it , because what they say AND IT IS TRUE “ is if it was really important mainstream media would do it” We don't do they don't have to https://twitter.com/...
Don Moynihan / @donmoyn: Dr. Oz has made his medical credentials the center of his political campaign for Senate. But he has trafficked in misinformation about COVID and other public health issues for years. Very damning review of his record. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Molly Jong-Fast / @mollyjongfast: When does right wing media apologize for suggesting malaria drugs for treating COVID? https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Aman Batheja / @amanbatheja: Dr. Oz promoted chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine 25+ times on Fox News. “When a Veterans Affairs study showed that Covid-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine were more likely to die than untreated patients, that advocacy came to an abrupt halt.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mark Brown / The Guardian:
Mail on Sunday prints a story admitting it infringed on Meghan Markle's copyright and will pay “financial remedies” for publishing her letter to her father — Newspaper runs front-page statement and 64-word story stating it infringed copyright over letter to father
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Daily Mail, @jezardscribe1, @jamesrbuk, @akankwaku, @breakthrudiva, Insider, @clemfan88974905, Mediaite, @sussexroyalglow, @danielanadj, E! Online, Vanity Fair, Deadline and Hollywood Reporter
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Daily Mail: The Duchess of Sussex — Following a hearing on 19-20 January 2021, and a further hearing on 5 May 2021 …
Adam Jezard / @jezardscribe1: Good for Meghan: 'These harmful practices don't happen once in a blue moon - they are a daily fail that divide us, and we all deserve better." https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
James Ball / @jamesrbuk: This will have cost the paper about £2 million to £2.5 million - almost all of it to the various parties' lawyers. https://twitter.com/...
Kweku Akan / @akankwaku: You don't have to like her, but she stuck it to the Daily Mail. Who issues an apology on the quietest news day of the year, in small, easily missable print. It pains me to say this, but let's give them a hand, please retweet this, so those who might miss this, can see it. https://twitter.com/...
Gayle Edwards / @breakthrudiva: Now bearing in mind this has been on the #dailyfail site since just before midnight on Christmas Day - how bizarre that it does not have one single comment, as yet (0959 26th Dec)?!! 🤔#MeghanMarkleWonAgain https://mol.im/...
Lauren Edmonds / Insider: The Mail on Sunday publishes a court-ordered statement after Meghan Markle's copyright win
Clem Fandango / @clemfan88974905: “Financial remedies have been agreed.” Does this mean ANL isn't doing a final appeal? Seems so. Interesting day/time to publish it. Didn't see it this morning (Christmas). https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ ...
Leia Idliby / Mediaite: UK's Mail on Sunday Prints Front Page Mea Culpa After Meghan Markle's Legal Victory, Publishers to Pay Her ‘Financial Remedies’
Glow / @sussexroyalglow: The Daily Mail's announcement of how Meghan Markle The Duchess of Sussex won her legal case against them. This time I'm prepared to share the link. They have moderated the comments & apparently no comments have been approved by them yet. #MeghanMarkle https://mol.im/...
Daniela Nadj / @danielanadj: Publishers of the Mail on Sunday have agreed to pay “financial remedies” to the Duchess of Sussex, three years after she began a protracted privacy battle over a handwritten letter to her estranged father. Another victory for Meghan Markle. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Corinne Heller / E! Online: Meghan Markle Gets Published Statement From U.K. Tabloid About Her Legal Victory Against Them
Jordan Hoffman / Vanity Fair: Britain's Mail on Sunday Sheepishly Acknowledges That Meghan Markle Totally Won
Brandon Choe / Deadline: Meghan Markle Handed Front-Page Apology By UK Tabloid
New York Times:
A look at the harrowing five-day journey of 120 current and former NYT employees and family members in Kabul to an evacuation plane after the Taliban's takeover — Baggage lost, bodies battered, more than 120 Times employees and family members barely made it to a plane out of Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover.
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@pressfreedom, @starsandstripes, @pagossman, @shellykittleson, @kannoyoungs, @nytimesworld, @nytimes, @megankstack, @helenbranswell, @katzish and @lkatzenberg
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@pressfreedom: Escaping Kabul: Baggage lost, bodies battered, more than 120 @nytimes employees and family members barely made it to a plane out of Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover. It required an unsettling collaboration. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@starsandstripes: Germany so far has facilitated the departure of about 10,000 people since the Taliban takeover of Kabul, 5,300 on its own military flights and some 5,000 by other means after its airlift concluded in late August. https://www.stripes.com/...
Patricia Gossman / @pagossman: Such a moving, piercing piece, riddled with sorrow and loss: “No one comes through a passage like that unchanged — not people, not countries.” @Tmgneff @MujMash https://www.nytimes.com/...
Shelly Kittleson / @shellykittleson: “They kept asking where we were going, why we were leaving our own country. Mujib told them we were journalists who no longer felt safe (...) ‘But who is going to do the journalism here, me?’ asked a middle-aged fighter, Hajji Suhbat Khan” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / @kannoyoungs: This piece detailing how @Tmgneff, @MujMash and others helped Times employees and their families flee Kabul is a must-read. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimesworld: When the Taliban walked into Kabul uncontested on Aug. 15, The New York Times had more than 120 Afghan employees and their families still in the country. This is how, amid chaos and gunfire, beatings and hunger, they made their escape. https://nyti.ms/...
@nytimes: Aug. 15 — The Fall of Kabul “We woke up on Sunday morning with the conviction that we no longer had a few days to prepare to leave — we barely had a few hours.” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Megan K. Stack / @megankstack: I didn't think I had any desire to read another Afghan evacuation story, but this one is particularly well-written and rich with observation and feeling. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Helen Branswell / @helenbranswell: Heroic and heartbreaking account of how the @nytimes managed to get their Afghan staff out of Kabul after its fall. All who know people who were on this flight are beyond grateful for their unrelenting efforts. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Courtney Hurtt / INNsights:
INN Index survey: foundation funding for nonprofit outlets fell from 57% of revenue in 2017 to 47% in 2020, indicating funding sources are becoming more diverse — The end of a year always lends itself to reflection. And the beginning of the new year comes with resolutions.
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@inn: Courtney Hurtt @candorblue suggests three ways to sustain nonprofit journalism: invest in the business operation, leverage philanthropy to grow other revenue streams, include placed-based and issue-focused foundations. #nonprofitnews #newsmatch https://medium.com/...
Amanda Darrach / Columbia Journalism Review:
A close look at the media scene at Ghislaine Maxwell's trial, including how framing has made it an entertainment story by often focusing on graphic details — At 3:55am in downtown Manhattan, on the tenth day of the United States of America v. Ghislaine Maxwell trial, a man lay diagonally …
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@cjr: “There's a cascading effect, where if one person writes the day's story about diamonds in Epstein's safe, and Prince Andrew, and four-bedroom mansions, then everyone else feels like they have to write that story to get the clicks.” https://www.cjr.org/...
Lauren Harris / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Nic Dawes, executive director of NYC-based The City, on the publication's Open Newsroom program partnering with local libraries and community centers — In 2019, New York City saw the launch of The City, a local nonprofit news platform built with considerable foundation and donor funding …
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@terryparrisjr, @vaniaandre_, @jeffjarvis, @nicdawes, @cjr and American Press Institute
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Terry Parris Jr / @terryparrisjr: Cool to see The Open Newsroom in @CJR. A great group of students and interns built this “core” function of @THECITYNY. Credit to @MekdelaMaskal @misscostantino @Al_Dikanovic @Djlaplaza @michaelaroman_ @MaxResnik @allieginwala for making everything Nic is talking about possible. https://twitter.com/...
@vaniaandre_: Great insight from our executive director @NicDawes on @THECITYNY Open Newsroom initiative and its impact on our coverage. https://twitter.com/...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Lotsa brilliant @newmarkjschool grads namechecked here. https://twitter.com/...
Nicholas Dawes / @nicdawes: I spoke with @LHarrisWrites about @THECITYNY's approach to responsive journalism, and the need to integrate community listening deeply with newsroom and product processes. We'll be hiring in several roles to support this work in the new year, stay tuned. https://www.cjr.org/...
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
White House rejects the WHCA's proposal to hold press briefings over Zoom but says it's “open to considering a request to go back to smaller-sized briefings” — With a fierce new variant of the coronavirus on the loose, White House reporters are urging press secretary Jen Psaki …
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@sulliview: White House reporters ask for virtual press briefings during the latest covid surge. So far, it's a no go. ...From @farhip https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jeff Schogol / @jeffschogol: The Pentagon allows reporters to ask questions via Zoom. It's much better than having reporters call in. Who can forget the heavy breather briefing? https://twitter.com/...
Steven Nelson / @stevennelson10: Virtual WH briefings would allow for much tighter control of questions, as seen in this year's virtual COVID task force briefings with Fauci/CDC Reduced-capacity WH briefings, by contrast, would diversify Qs by reducing share of time given to TV/wire reporters in front row https://twitter.com/...
@dil_maz: And this is the WH's problem in a nutshell. They're so worried about the optics that they refuse to take simple measures that would keep people safe. https://twitter.com/...
Alexander Nazaryan / @alexnazaryan: Glad to see @PressSec is standing firm on in-person briefings. We need to figure out how to live with this virus responsibly instead of fleeting to Zoom with every new surge—of which there will be many. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@washingtonpost: The White House Correspondents' Association has proposed holding the daily briefings online. Press secretary Jen Psaki argued closing the briefing room would send the wrong message. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Andrew Feinberg / @andrewfeinberg: I have nothing but respect for my colleagues in general and for those serving on the @whca board, but this is getting ridiculous. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Eric Boehlert / @ericboehlert: I'm puzzled by this bc even when there was no vaccine WH briefings were never done by zoom; https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Steve Herman / @w7voa: With the #OmicronVariant on the loose, @whca urges @PressSec to move her daily briefings online, reports @farhip. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: Even optics dictate going virtual here. “White House officials have told WHCA the administration's covid protocols — which include mask requirements, and vaccine and booster checks or tests for those entering the White House premises — are sufficient protection against omicron.” https://twitter.com/...
Elaine Woo / Los Angeles Times:
Joan Didion, whose career spanned traditional reporting, screenwriting, cultural criticism, and fiction, dies of complications from Parkinson's disease at 87 — Joan Didion, the celebrated prose stylist, novelist and screenwriter who chronicled American culture and consciousness with cool detachment …
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Julia Dahl / @juliadahl: This stings. I absolutely would not be me without Joan Didion. She gave this fellow Central Valley girl the permission to dream about a life of letters. Her work is part of my soul. Thank you, Joan, for being so fiercely you. https://twitter.com/...
Frank Malfitano / @frankmalfitano: Simply a great writer, RIP. Her death along with Stephen Sondheim's is a reminder of how few major American cultural figures are left who have really permeated into mass consciousness https://twitter.com/...
Tonia Mastrobuoni / @mastrobradipo: “With an anthropologist's eye and an artist's imagination, #Didion documented disillusionments and disenchantments—dreams both quick and dead” https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
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Wiebke Hollersen / @wiebkehollersen: „She's talking not about herself to the exclusion of the world. She is simply recognizing that the world will always be refracted through the self." Über Joan Didion und das „Ich" im Journalismus. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
J. Howard Rosier / @justlikebeirut: She was also one of the most clear-headed writers, morally, that America has produced. Few images show how much of a sham everything is than John Wayne getting blitzed on white Burgundy. https://twitter.com/...
Michiko Kakutani / New York Times: Didion's Prophetic Eye on America
@parisreview: “I need an hour alone before dinner, with a drink, to go over what I've done that day.” —Joan Didion https://www.theparisreview.org/ ...
Connie Schultz / @connieschultz: “Novels by women tended to be described, even by their publishers, as sensitive...and I didn't much like it. I dealt with it the same way I deal with everything. I just tended my own garden, didn't pay much attention, behaved—I suppose—deviously.” - Joan Didion https://twitter.com/...
Mark Harris / @markharrisnyc: The brilliance of this blew my mind when I was 17, and it continues to. But the most Joan Didion-esque sentence might be the one that immediately follows it: “Or at least we do for a while.” RIP. https://twitter.com/...
Ellen Barry / @ellenbarrynyt: One of the things I liked about Joan Didion is the way she could write from inside the culture (she is so American) and simultaneously from an unsparing clinical distance, just as she could write about her own psychological state as if she were observing it in a laboratory.
Julia Carpenter / @juliaccarpenter: Joan, on “writing as a hostile act” https://www.theparisreview.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Megan Garber / The Atlantic: Joan Didion Was Our Bard of Disenchantment
Jeffrey Goldberg / @jeffreygoldberg: “She was a storyteller who rejected mythology. She had no patience for the pablum sold in the hectic American marketplace: bootstraps, merits, salvations.” — @megangarber on Joan Didion. Read the whole thing: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Kerstin Thompson / @thompsonkerstin: On Self-Respect. By Didion. This finest of essays worth a re-read every year ‘It has nothing to do with the face of things, but concerns instead a separate peace, a private reconciliation.’ https://www.vogue.com/...
Yassmin Abdel-Magied / @yassmin_a: I had never taken the time to read Didion before, it is w mixed feelings I begin now only after her passing. These seemed like as good a place to start as any (on @mrbenjaminlaw's suggestion) will say I was rather surprised to see Khartoum get a mention! https://www.vogue.com/...
Joyce Carol Oates / @joycecaroloates: who was it said, “The writer is always selling someone out”—? I don't think it's always, or usually, true; but it is true for some writers, possibly Didion or Janet Malcolm, who wielded their pens like surgical instruments, for the delectation of their enthralled readers. https://twitter.com/...
Alexander Chee / @alexanderchee: Much of Didion's best work is here, much of it still uncollected, and the paywall, it seems, is down in her honor. https://twitter.com/...
Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu: Joan Didion on political journalism in 1988. One of the pieces that made me want to do press criticism. https://www.nybooks.com/... “Insider Baseball” it is called. https://twitter.com/...
Monica Lewinsky / @monicalewinsky: ... sigh...she will be missed. https://twitter.com/...
Adrienne LaFrance / @adriennelaf: Thank goodness for @megangarber on Joan Didion. Beautiful: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Ross Andersen / @andersen: “When she talked about the stories we tell ourselves in order to live, she wasn't offering a gauzy pronouncement. She was issuing an indictment.” - @megangarber on Didion is one gorgeous sentence after another, each of which her subject would have loved https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Steve Silberman / @stevesilberman: Acutely insightful, must-read elegy for Joan Didion, RIP, by @megangarber. Like a slap in the face in the best way. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...
Col. Gustavo Arellano / @gustavoarellano: But I also put Didion in her time/place as someone from the New Journalism school, who wrote mostly for herself, at the ignorance of a LOT of California. It's not a new critique, but the best one BY FAR is what @lesbrains wrote last year, which I mention https://electricliterature.com/ ...
Emily Henderson / I'm Really Very Literary: Anticipation of a Thing — One more sleep until Santa comes and the anticipation is just as exciting as the day itself.
Connor Sheets / @connorasheets: I've loved Joan Didon's work for years but I listened to her final two books on the drive to LA (where I now live a short drive from her one-time South Bay home) and her writing on grief may have been her best. One of our most gifted writers, what a loss. https://www.latimes.com/...
Meaghan Oppenheimer / @moppyopps: The greatest of our time. No one else comes close. 💔 https://twitter.com/...
Abby Gardner / We Have Notes with Abby Gardner: Goodbye to All That — “I don't know what I think until I write it down.”
Chica Marx / @mckenziewark: One little thing I learned from Joan Didion: you don't always have to be asking a ton of questions. Just hang out, quietly, observe, and ppl will open up when they're ready, and more than if you'd pressed them with a barrage of questions.
@margaretsimons: Hard to say how much her work meant. When I discovered it in the 1990s, it opened windows and doors. Journalism had become stale to me. I read Didion, my work took a turn, and never turned back. Joan Didion, American journalist and author, dies at age 87 https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
@rrrrnessa: Wow. Just deeply saddened to hear about Joan Didion's passing. Her writing, especially “The Year of Magical Thinking” was the closest I felt seen in my own grief. She was a masterful writer and incredible in her understanding of grief. May she rest in peace. https://twitter.com/...
@4thestatebooks: A statement from 4th Estate about Joan Didion. Nicholas Pearson, Publishing Director: ‘No one wrote like Joan: she was out there hunting down the truth in a style that was all her own. We will miss that voice that was fierce, curious, elegiac.’ https://twitter.com/...
Rachel Donadio / @racheldonadio: 🔥 1978 Paris Review interview with Joan Didion: https://www.theparisreview.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Muska Dastageer / @dastageermuska: “I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” The great Joan Didion https://twitter.com/...
Davey Alba / @daveyalba: “Character—the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life—is the source from which self-respect springs” This quote basically yanked me through my messy 20s 🖤 RIP Joan Didion https://www.vogue.com/...
Sara Yasin / @sarayasin: feels very corny to say that didion's writing had a huge impact on me (especially as a writer girl type in brooklyn) but this is the essay that i've revisited the most https://www.vogue.com/...
Elise Hu / @elisewho: “To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which, for better or for worse, constitutes self-respect, is potentially to have everything...” —Joan Didion https://www.vogue.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@the_60s_at_60: September 23, 1967: Joan Didion's “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” first appears in The Saturday Evening Post (@SatEvePost). Text: https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@parisreview: “The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream.” Rest in peace, Joan Didion (1934-2021). Read more from the Art of Fiction No. 71: https://www.theparisreview.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@latimes: “Nobody writes better English prose than Joan Didion,” critic John Leonard once wrote. “Try to rearrange one of her sentences, and you've realized that the sentence was inevitable, a hologram.” https://www.latimes.com/...
Patt Morrison / @pattmlatimes: A seismic shock only in that #JoanDidion seemed to be an eternal part of the #California landscape, like El Capitan, or the ceaseless sea. I'd interviewed her several times, and she kindly wrote a jacket blurb for one of my books. A titan. A genius. https://twitter.com/...
Kim Janssen / @kimjnews: Joan Didion's writing is one of the reasons I wanted to live in California. RIP https://twitter.com/...
Aditya Mukerjee / @chimeracoder: “[Writers] are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.” - Joan Didion https://twitter.com/...
@latimes: Former President Obama called her “one of our sharpest and most respected observers of American politics and culture.” Joan Didion, masterful novelist, memoirist and social critic, dies at 87 https://www.latimes.com/...
Hannah Wiley / @hannahcwiley: Thank you for your words, Joan Didion. They are among my favorite ever to be printed. https://twitter.com/...
Lindsey Boylan / @lindseyboylan: “She preferred to cultivate sources on the periphery...'picking up vibrations' as she circled toward the center & back out again. But in her search for truth & meaning in a world where, as she frequently declared, the center does not hold, she told stories with icy clarity. https://twitter.com/...
@paperhaus: What has now become part of Joan Didion lore is something she told me in an interview in 2013: Harrison Ford built her kitchen in Malibu. https://www.latimes.com/...
Jack McLoone / @jfmclooney: Joan Didion taught me that you can be afraid of calling people even if you're Joan fucking Didion so she'll go down as an honorary millennial too
Condé Nast Library / @condelibrary: We're honoring and remembering Joan Didion. She worked at @voguemagazine from 1956 to 1964. Read her 1961 essay on self-respect: https://www.vogue.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@nytimes: For half a century, Joan Didion, who died on Thursday, was the grand diagnostician of American disorder in essays of strong, unmistakable cadence. She wrote her first story at age 5, after her mother told her to stop whining and to write down her thoughts.https://www.nytimes.com/ ...
Nathan Heller / New Yorker: What Joan Didion Saw
William Grimes / New York Times: Joan Didion, whose career spanned traditional reporting, screenwriting, cultural criticism, and fiction, dies of Parkinson's disease at 87
Harrison Smith / Washington Post: Joan Didion, who chronicled American decadence and hypocrisy, dies at 87
Jennifer Maas / The Wrap: Joan Didion, Iconic Author and New Journalism Writer, Dies at 87
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