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Memo: The New York Times Executive Editor Joe Kahn defends the outlet's trans coverage and warns staff and contributors not to campaign or attack colleagues — “We do not welcome, and will not tolerate, participation by Times journalists” in protests over the paper's coverage of trans issues, its executive editor wrote.
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Madeline Leung Coleman / @madelesque: I am deeply disappointed and disgusted that my employer @nymag published this in response to the open letters to NYT. Distorting, wrongheaded, shortsighted, un-fact-checked. And by the way, check out this line! https://twitter.com/...
Christie D'Zurilla / Los Angeles Times: Celebrities are standing with GLAAD in protest of New York Times' trans coverage
@byjudedoyle: So, basically, if you speak up, you're out. Seems like a solid commitment to examining all sides of the issue! https://twitter.com/...
Dell Cameron / @dellcam: Power's predestined role is to downplay & disregard legitimate concern and exercise force to silence its critics & this is where movements that require greater coordination & participation often Peter out. Action is substantially harder to accomplish than words. https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Chait / @jonathanchait: I understand why activists think critical reporting about youth gender medicine fuels a right-wing backlash. But their view is actually backward. The best way to defuse a backlash is accountability to ensure abuses don't occur. https://nymag.com/...
Noah Berlatsky / @nberlat: the NYT taking a brave stand for free speech by (checks notes) using its power as an employer to silence criticism from staffers. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
Hamilton Nolan / @hamiltonnolan: This and the other NYT responses seem to be a total evasion of the question: What justifies the bizarre volume of coverage that one particular framing of this issue gets? I've never heard a remotely convincing explanation that's not incriminating. https://twitter.com/...
Luke / @lukeoneil47: You are performing advocacy one way or the other whether you are aware of it or not. The difference now is that more of the audience is onto the con and can yell at you about it on Twitter every day. https://www.welcometohellworld.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Luke / @lukeoneil47: I am not unsympathetic to this problem obviously but there has to be a line somewhere for a lot of people. https://twitter.com/...
Tom Ley / @toley88: imo the archness of this response betrays how ideologically motivated the coverage in question has been. https://twitter.com/...
@samthielman: The GLAAD letter and the Freelance Solidarity Project letter are two entirely different letters. If I'm being accused of lazy misrepresentation I guess one thing I would try not to do in responding to the accusation is lazily misrepresent it https://twitter.com/...
James Palmer / @beijingpalmer: the most effective way to affect change here is going to be for people in NY society to call out NYT management on this in the settings that actually matter to them; private events among the rich and powerful. Be polite, but be clear and firm; they need to feel opprobrium.
@rain@hachyderm.io: Joe Kahn is a liar and a gaslighter. There were two separate letters, only one from GLAAD. Trying to club the two like this is malicious. https://twitter.com/...
Richard M. Nixon / @dick_nixon: They learned nothing from Jayson Blair and Judith Miller, both of whom were defended from the top with similar bloodlust. There are thoughtful people at the Times but they know to keep their heads down, even when they are being tarred with someone else's brush. https://twitter.com/...
Dell Cameron / @dellcam: In the history of activism, the strongly-worded letter has rarely accomplished anything. It's just an obligatory step used to demonstrate publicly that power can't be reasoned with. If you aren't prepared to escalate beyond it, you aren't really in the fight.
Madeline Leung Coleman / @madelesque: If you'd like to see the actual letter that so many contributors to NYT sent — and not the bogeyman Jonathan Chait seems to think he's responding to — you can read it here. And sign if you feel moved. https://nytletter.com/
Jonathan Chait / @jonathanchait: The key premise of the NYT letter is that coverage resources are misplaced because nothing important has changed in youth gender treatment. And that is demonstrably untrue. https://nymag.com/...
Carlos Maza / @gaywonk: Cancel your subscription. Don't support a paper that's actively siding with bigotry. It's not worth it. https://twitter.com/...
@samthielman: really remarkable how much they're willing to say that doesn't even touch the substance of the letter and its carefully itemized objections. just upset about being disrespected, as always. https://twitter.com/...
Luke / @lukeoneil47: When Journalist-ists talk like this I feel like I'm dealing with a method actor who refuses to break character in between takes. Oh you're an 1800s farmer in real life? Right here in front of me? That's wild. https://twitter.com/...
Will Stancil / @whstancil: The position of NY Times, always and forever, is that the NY Times exists outside and above society, is not subject to the petty biases that everyone else has, and therefore cannot ever be questioned or critiqued by anyone but certain chosen favorites within the Times. https://twitter.com/...
@woahitsjuanito: 1. This is a massive slap in the face to every writer who contributed to the NYTLetter. 2. The GLAAD letter being conflated with the NYTLetter and used to diminish both at once isn't just insulting, it's actively disingenuous, especially for people claiming they care about truth. https://twitter.com/...
James Palmer / @beijingpalmer: also bear in mind that many journalists have a hard time speaking their mind on this because the NYT makes up such a massive proportion of high-level jobs. It's possible for me because I'm a China nerd who has no interest in working for them and a range of career choices.
Will Stancil / @whstancil: Pretty clear that, in practice, Times leadership believes deeply in their own neutrality as a starting assumption, and thus anyone who criticizes them becomes an activist with an agenda. A perfect little epistemic loop for ignoring criticism. https://twitter.com/...
Sydney Bauer / @femme_thoughts: It's a hell of a strategy for the Times to just ignore the letter that came from its own contributors that was sourced and reported and conflate it with an additional letter from GLAAD and other groups. https://twitter.com/...
Will Stancil / @whstancil: The idea that biases could be embedded in their worldview, social contacts, the demographic makeup of their organization - and thus would only be identifiable by outsiders - never seems to occur to Times leadership. Or maybe they think they've evolved beyond such plebian matters.
Russell Cohn / @cohnrussell: Feel like something the @NYTimesGuild should comment on https://twitter.com/...
James Palmer / @beijingpalmer: this is just going to be endlessly doubling-down on the self-satisfaction of believing that the Times, rather than the trans people it's helping fuel attacks on, is the victim here. https://twitter.com/...
@elivalley: Love an ethics policy that “prohibits our journalists from aligning themselves with advocacy groups” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Katelyn Burns / @transscribe: The contributor's letter was not affiliated with GLAAD. This is a purposeful falsehood. https://twitter.com/...
Megan Farokhmanesh / @megan_nicolett: the incredible number of writers I deeply admire and respect who've signed, vs those using it as part of a bad faith argument about how it's ~an attack on free press~ says everything https://twitter.com/...
Felicia Sonmez / @feliciasonmez: Kahn is giving Fred Ryan a run for his money when it comes to treating the journalists at his paper with utter contempt. https://twitter.com/...
Karl Bode / @karlbode: it's completely wild that people in the TRUTH AND ACCURATE INFORMATION business are oblivious to both their role in amplifying a bigoted right wing moral panic, AND honestly believe that journalism is best served by silencing their own employees https://twitter.com/...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: @maxwelltani They're taking sides with this. They're playing dumb by pretending they're not, which is in itself lying to their staff and readers, but they are absolutely taking sides here.
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Thousands sign a letter protesting The New York Times' coverage of trans people, coordinated with a letter from GLAAD; a NYT statement defends the outlet's work — This story has been updated with a statement from The New York Times. — In the past year, page A1 of The New York Times …
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani: Memo from Joe Kahn to NYT staff responding to yesterday's letter re: trans coverage. Times leadership says the paper “will not tolerate, participation by Times journalists in protests organized by advocacy groups or attacks on colleagues on social media and other public forums.” https://twitter.com/...
Michael Powell / @powellnyt: Journalism is meant to ask difficult and discomforting questions, and to question institutions, including the medical establishment. I am very proud to work at a place that publishes the work of @emilybazelon, Katie Baker, Azeen Ghoryashi, @mega2e and @DouthatNYT
Kelsey McKinney / Defector: The New York Times Continues To Make Its Priorities Clear
Kang / @jaycaspiankang: Maybe I'm just a big dumb dumb but... is the implication here that Rushdie kinda deserved it, or, at the very least, is more of a legible victim because ‘his beliefs’ DO square with what he's accused of? Really don't think I'm being uncharitable here! It's English! Words matter! https://twitter.com/...
Noah Kulwin / @nkulw: People are dying https://twitter.com/...
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair: The New York Times Publishes a Defense of J.K. Rowling One Day After Contributors Call Out Anti-Trans Coverage
Megan Greenwell / @megreenwell: It's very striking and disheartening that a letter pleading for better coverage is being deliberately interpreted by a handful of prominent journalists as a demand for no coverage. https://twitter.com/...
Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen: the @nytimes statement on the open letters about its coverage of trans people. from Charlie Stadtlander, director of external communications https://twitter.com/...
@yashar: In an opinion piece, the NYT's Pamela Paul has compared harsh criticism that JK Rowling faces to 30 years of state-sponsored death threats which were backed by a multi-million dollar bounty. Absolutely absurd and frankly insulting to what Salman Rushdie has dealt with. https://twitter.com/...
Dilan Esper / @dilanesper: I think the New York Times' VERY dismissive response indicates the activists made some mistakes in how they presented their complaints to the NYT. This is a separate point from the substance. Assume they are right on the merits. How should they have gone about it? 1/
@chrisgeidner: I strongly support this letter and am glad to put my name on it. I have for several years criticized the NYT's treatment of and coverage of trans, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people and, in recent years, trans kids and their health care. https://nytletter.com/ https://twitter.com/...
Audrey McCabe / Media Matters for America: The New York Times responds to criticism of anti-trans coverage with opinion piece defending J.K. Rowling
Bill Grueskin / @bgrueskin: Here's the NYT's response, via @laurahazardowen In a more perfect world, the Times would be offering to meet with some of the letter-writers and hear them out. The tone of this response conveys nothing of the sort. https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Kate Wagner / @mcmansionhell: My small contribution to https://nytletter.com/: https://twitter.com/...
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: NYT editors: Paper ‘will not tolerate’ its journalists protesting coverage of transgender people
@glaad: We've had enough. We've joined over 100 organizations and leaders to demand that @nytimes stop printing inaccurate and harmful misinformation about transgender people and issues. Today we are outside of the Times building to send a clear message. https://www.glaad.org/nytimes https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Tom Scocca / @tomscocca: It's an open letter, it makes no demands beyond asking for a response. Calling it “bullying” is a pretty grim demonstration of how empty your commitment to discourse has been all along. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: Am open letter demanding that you stop covering a subject is pretty anti-persuasive.
@froomkin: Who changed this headline? And why? New York Times readers deserve answers. (And my DMs are open) https://twitter.com/...
Megan Greenwell / @megreenwell: The most recent story I wrote for the New York Times was (correctly!) held for two days at the last minute because an unrelated news event would have made it appear to be in bad taste.
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: either the times is intentionally lying by conflating the two letters or they're incapable of clearly relaying the facts of a situation—seems bad for a newspaper either way!! https://twitter.com/...
Dr. Thrasher / @thrasherxy: Interesting: the @nytimes is engaging in very deft obfuscation here. GLADD is an advocacy org, bu the separate letter was signed by hundreds of journalists—specifically, journos who've been published by the Times. And they're conflating two to ignore everyone's critiques. https://twitter.com/...
Melissa Gira Grant / @melissagira: “Ironically, one of the specific critiques of the NYT reporting has been their tendency to obscure the activist connections of ppl quoted in their stories on the anti-trans side, while identifying trans ppl who are quoted as members of advocacy groups.” https://www.assignedmedia.org/ ...
Christina Cauterucci / Slate: Impeccable Timing, Pamela Paul!
David Klion / @davidklion: Feeling pretty good about having signed that letter https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Gorrell / Pirate Wires: The New York Times Response To The GLAAD Trans Letter
@kendrawrites: They're pathologically afraid of being told they're wrong. Same reason why NYT gave such a milquetoast response on being called out ending with “we stand by our journalism” they'll never admit fault until enough time has passed you forget what they were wrong about. https://twitter.com/...
Euan Yours / @euanyours: I cannot express how inappropriate it is to compare JK Rowling being criticised for her campaign again trans lives, to a person being stabbed, only a few days after a trans teenager was stabbed to death. https://twitter.com/...
Christopher Robbins / @christrobbins: here's critic @Jo_Livingstone talking about why the New York Times might be running so many stories that elevate anti-trans narratives https://hellgatenyc.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ryan Cooper / @ryanlcooper: we're just asking questions. and when we don't like the answers we get we pretend we didn't hear and ask them again https://twitter.com/...
Michael Shellenberger / @shellenbergermd: Finally, institutions are standing up to the Woke More of this please https://twitter.com/...
Alejandra Caraballo / @esqueer_: The day after hundreds of current and former NYT writers pleaded with the NYT to stop their transphobic coverage and days after a 16 year old trans girl in the UK was murdered in a hate crime, they publish this bullshit. They don't care. The cruelty is the point. https://twitter.com/...
Jack Mirkinson / @jackmirkinson: a trans teen was just murdered in the UK. this isn't a game. the NYT can tell itself whatever it wants about standing up to the activist mob but it is swimming in very, very foul waters
Chris Mohney / @chrismohney: well the NYT immediately publishing a defense of JK Rowling certainly is a kind of answer to that open letter
@nycsouthpaw: Rather than quibble with the words Kahn chose to describe the NYT's coverage of trans issues, I'd point out some of the ones he didn't use: accurate, fair, and just. I think that's the heart of the dispute and any effort to defend the coverage on other grounds is a deflection. https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: Trans people don't have a voice at the paper. Not a single trans person is on staff as a columnist. And in the rare occasions where one of their columnists does publish a pro-trans column, the paper does stuff like this: https://www.readtpa.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Gillian Branstetter / @gbbranstetter: Your outrage is the point. Trans people are denied much of any institutional power, leaving us no option for pushback but platforms (like this one) that incentivize frivolity and hostility, which is then used to deny us more institutional power. They wear our anger as a badge. https://twitter.com/...
Louis Peitzman / @louispeitzman: It's helpful to their cause to conflate both letters as one letter from an advocacy group rather than acknowledging that the letter they're actually talking about here was written and signed by current and former NYT contributors. https://twitter.com/...
Sophie Bee / @pogform: The NYT publishing “In Defense of J.K. Rowling” the day after the open letter decrying their anti-trans coverage is particularly vile (you can sign the open letter here https://nytletter.com/)
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: They do this all the time. Every. Single. Time. “Do better journalism.” “How dare you demand we stop doing journalism?!?!” https://twitter.com/...
@TexasObserver@texasobserver.social: A predictable but absolutely craven response from the #NYTimes. They dismiss anyone concerned about trans rights, even their own contributors, as “advocates” but somehow transphobic lobbyists get to be neutral. …
@glaad: Dear @nytimes: Why does the Times continue to say “a letter,” when there were two distinct letters: 1. One from 100+ organizations and leaders, including GLAAD. 2. One from 1000+ current and former NYT contributors. Facts and accuracy are important. https://twitter.com/...
Schooley / @rschooley: Sure seems New York Times is behaving this way to appease the party that's clearly fear mongering against trans people as a key part of their hateful agenda. https://twitter.com/...
Noah Berlatsky / @nberlat: I think @tomscocca is right to see the NYT as engaged in a deliberate moral crusade against trans people. It's very similar to fox news' treatment of the migrant caravan in 2018. Moral panic non issues meant to drive clicks and revenue and enrage readers for political purposes.
@sxarletred: Holy shit this article is vile. Look how she frames trans rights activists https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Kelsey Mckinney / @mckinneykelsey: It is so infuriating to watch the country's biggest paper bow to the rich and powerful while they ignore legitimate and earned criticism https://defector.com/...
Erin Reed / @erininthemorn: The New York Times seriously published a prominent opinion piece “In Defense Of JK Rowling” a day after they were called out by every LGBTQ org, leaders, and activists for their anti-trans coverage. Sickening. Drop the NYT if you care about trans people. This is purposeful. https://twitter.com/...
Andrew Sullivan / @sullydish: Journalistic mobs openly, publicly bullying named, fellow journalists. Now imagine the bullying they perpetrate *within* these institutions. They are, quite simply, anathema to a free society and a free press.
Maris Kreizman / @mariskreizman: Good morning. You can still sign the letter decrying the anti-trans bias in the New York Times. https://nytletter.com/ https://twitter.com/...
Leor Sapir / @leorsapir: NYT responds to protest letter on trans coverage. Not sure what to make of this response. Which probably means that it accomplished its mission. https://twitter.com/...
Michelangelo Signorile / @msignorile: The New York Times has an ugly history of virulent homophobia, under the leadership of Abe Rosenthal, c. 80s. It copped to it. I interviewed the publisher, editors, reporters in early '90s. It was a good thing. So why believe the NYT can't be anti-trans today?
@atrios: The nyt takes this tone witb all left wing criticism always. They dismiss it as activism and pretend to misunderstand it. Every time no matter how it is delivered https://twitter.com/...
Carlos Maza / @gaywonk: Pro-cop, pro-capitalism, anti-trans... The New York Times is a right-wing outlet. https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Lake / @ashleylatke: They're not afraid, they have power and they're using it. Part of that power is the power to lie, boldly, and have it just work. They know they are doing that here, calling this even coverage. They know exactly what they do. https://twitter.com/...
Michael Tracey / @mtracey: Apparently a ton of media people live in some strange alternate universe where the New York Times “follows the lead of far-right hate groups” and systematically “vilifies” Trans and non-binary people. Must be peculiar to live in that universe https://nytletter.com/
Alex / @alex_abads: the nyt received an open letter from nyt contributors about anti trans bigotry yesterday https://twitter.com/...
Molly Sprayregen / LGBTQ Nation: Hundreds of LGBTQ+ leaders call on “New York Times” to fix “biased” & “irresponsible” coverage of trans people
Noah Berlatsky / @nberlat: NYT editors were angry/upset at pushback from the newsroom about coverage of racism, fascist op eds. doubling down on anti trans coverage is way to fight internal political battles too, shoring up the old guard.
@tuckwoodstock: 900 NYT contributors and 15,000 readers: please consider your fixation on promoting anti-trans views. NYT spokesperson: excuse me??? we are very empathetic to trans people actually???? NYT, less than one day later: https://twitter.com/...
@soniasaraiya: this from @mckinneykelsey is v good and i'd add that the NYT like other legacy orgs is much more concerned with coddling its reactionary readership than trying to empathetically understand the issue https://defector.com/...
Brynn Tannehill / @brynntannehill: Rowling literally tweeted that all trans women should legally be presumed to be rapists. Once again, the NYT finds a way to unironically platform the people who believe the optimal number of trans people is zero, and want government to solve the transgender question for them. https://twitter.com/...
@sxarletred: She ends by claiming standing up for Rowling is standing up for trans people. One day after a huge open letter to NYT about their transphobia. Holy shit this paper is trash. https://twitter.com/...
@n_th_n_: To illustrate how committed it is to normal journalistic inquiry on subjects like “should trans people should suffer constant violence?”—NYT has responded to the charge that it's anti-trans by running an entire op-ed devoted to defending the high priestess of violent transphobia. https://twitter.com/...
@raxkingisdead: NYT published this the day after receiving an open letter from hundreds of contributors and subscribers begging them to cut it out with the seemingly endless transphobic content because of course they did https://twitter.com/...
David Ng / Breitbart: Judd Apatow, Lena Dunham Attack NY Times over Trans Coverage Exposing Schools Encouraging Minors to Change Gender Behind Parents' Backs
Jason Weisberger / Boing Boing: The New York Times called out for editorial bias about transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people by its own writers
Drew Magary / @drewmagary: “There is no value in this column beyond provocation, and choosing to publish it the morning shows exactly who the Times hopes to provoke: not people in power, but people who have a right to question them.” -@mckinneykelsey https://defector.com/...
Jeet Heer / @heerjeet: Amazing that Kahn is brazenly conflating two different letters here in order to discredit perfectly reasonable criticism coming from people who (as contributors to the Times) are making a professional critique informed by an understanding of what journalism is. https://twitter.com/...
Jacob Weindling / Blogging Through the Breakdown: The New York Times Political Section Cares More about its Brand than Journalism
Stephen Robinson / Wonkette: New York Times Contributors Politely Request Paper Unf**k Its Coverage Of Trans People
Don Hughes / @getfiscal: This is one reason I think the NY Times should elect its editors... group chats shouldn't have to yell at corporate bosses to get results, they should be able to run pro-trans slates at a democratic convention https://twitter.com/...
Lisa Selin Davis / BROADVIEW with Lisa Selin Davis: An Open Letter to GLAAD About their Open Letter to The New York Times About Their Coverage of Kids with Gender Dysphoria
Jennifer Kretchmer / @dreamwisp: I cancelled my NY Times subscription over the anti-trans bias they've consistently demonstrated. Grateful to these contributors for making a statement. https://twitter.com/...
Jon Ralston / @ralstonreports: Permit me a thread on something I have first-hand knowledge of. My child transitioned when he was 20. This is a good letter Chris links to. What is most disturbing to me about the treatment of trans issues even by the mainstream media is how facile it can be, lacking nuance. 1/5 https://twitter.com/...
Frankie de la Cretaz / @thefrankiedlc: so glad the NYT gets to decide for the entire trans community whether its coverage counts as fair, deep, and empathetic. this is what it looks like to shout down people who are telling you you're wrong without actually engaging with their critique https://twitter.com/...
Ty Schalter / @tyschalter: @powellnyt ... Journalism is not meant to ask the same simple questions over and over again because you personally don't like the institutions' very clear answers—and it's certainly not meant to prop up cranks and bigots because you DO like THEIR answers.
Nate Hochman / @njhochman: But the NYT's openness to occasionally allowing dissidents in its pages is not the same thing as an overall anti-trans bias—a claim with no empirical evidence other than the occasional presence of critical voices. NYT op-eds on the topic are more often left-wing than right-wing: https://twitter.com/...
Nate Hochman / @njhochman: The NYT's reporting, too — ostensibly the main place where its anti-trans bias materializes — usually hews to the standard progressive line on the issue. Here are some recent headlines from the non-opinion sections: https://twitter.com/...
@holdendcat: @njhochman Nate, doing straight reporting on how transgender people are worried about the effects of laws directly naming them is no more “the progressive line” than reporting taxpayers want to pull their kids out of a crumbling public school is “the conservative line.”
Jason Linkins / @dceiver: wow I didn't catch that the NYT watered down Jamelle's headline after the fact, good catch from @ParkerMolloy https://open.substack.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Mx. D. E. Anderson / @diannaeanderson: Gotta wonder who complained to make that headline change https://twitter.com/...
Adam Gurri / @adamgurri: @mattyglesias An open letter criticizing the substance of the coverage, on the other hand, is certainly an exercise in persuasion
Rob Chappell / @robchappell365: @mattyglesias Matt, you often (correctly) criticize people who argue against points that weren't really made, right? That's what you're doing here. Maybe read the letter and rethink?
Jesse Singal / @jessesingal: Via @laurahazardowen, here's the NYT's response to the open letters. It's basically perfect. The letter writers appear to have lost, full-stop. I'm relieved. https://twitter.com/...
Jesse Singal / @jessesingal: 2/ Of course we don't know what's going on inside the building, and maybe this will have a chilling effects. But this was not the sort of public statement you make if you think you letters you're responded to made any legitimate points you need to grapple with.
Casey Plett / @caseyplett: The Times responded to the letter (and the one from @glaad) in an unsurprising but disappointing way: Not addressing anything of substance, defending their work without qualification or humility. https://www.niemanlab.org/...
Jon Ralston / @ralstonreports: I have come to find that while there is a lot of hateful rhetoric, covered without context too often, most people who are not exploiting trans folks for political purposes just don't know enough. Just as they didn't know enough, as the letter says, about gays at one time. 2/5
@chrisgeidner: I would like to note the incredible personal disappointment that I feel about the NYT's actions, through its coverage decisions about trans issues. https://twitter.com/...
Noelle Howey / @noellehowey: @chrisgeidner Thank you for sharing this. I wrote about my trans parent - and reviewed books on trans families for the NYT in the early to mid 2010s and have been horrified to see the devolution of their coverage and POV in the last few years.
Christina Sommers / @chsommers: Right. Journalism is not exempt from criticism or discomfiting questions. Neither are long-winded letters from activist journalists. Many (including me) think the letter writers can and should do better. https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Cortland / @mattbc: If there was any justice, Parker would have a @nytimes column. https://twitter.com/...
Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy: It's no surprise that the usual crew of contrarian-bro types are putting a ton of energy into lying about the NYT Letter and its goals. (No, it is not a call to “silence” anyone, that is a wild, ridiculous distortion.) Anyway, my latest newsletter: https://www.readtpa.com/...
@albertocairo: @laurahazardowen @nytimes So they are implying that, say (just for the sake of argument,) a journalism professor with years of experience as a journalist is now an “activist” because he criticizes their news agenda, story framings, and reporting?
Jo Livingstone / @jo_livingstone: This is your response to a complaint from hundreds of your own contributors? One comment tacked on to a dismissal of the GLAAD letter? This is outraging. https://twitter.com/...
Chase Woodruff / @dcwoodruff: It's all laid out quite clearly here in the first paragraph: the NYT views the rights and humanity of trans people as politically contestable — something that may be championed as part of an “advocacy mission” but cannot be a value embedded in a “journalistic mission.” https://twitter.com/...
Zack Ford / @zackford: Well, I see the @nytimes has taken ZERO responsibility for the harm it has repeatedly done to transgender people with its constant parroting and spotlighting of right-wing talking points. https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Kevin M. Kruse / @kevinmkruse: Journalism isn't exempted from being asked difficult and discomforting questions, or being challenged on its approach. The NYT contributors who signed that letter (including me) think the paper can and should do better here. https://twitter.com/...
Ashley Feinberg / @ashleyfeinberg: huge kudos to michael for afflicting the comfortable (kids who want to be allowed to exist) and comforting the afflicted (the entirety of conservative media and state governments enacting sweeping decisions about kids bodies against medical advice) https://twitter.com/...
@froomkin: Hey @jbouie! Who changed your headline and why? You would be doing a huge public service if you told us. That was a great column. https://twitter.com/...
Peter Kafka / Vox:
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki plans to step down after nine years, to be replaced by Neal Mohan as SVP and head of YouTube; Wojcicki was Google's 16th employee — One of the most prominent women in tech — and one of Google's earliest employees — is leaving the company.
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Susan Wojcicki / YouTube Official Blog: A personal update from Susan
Joseph Pisani / Wall Street Journal: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Is Stepping Down After Nearly a Decade in the Role
Susan Wojcicki / @susanwojcicki: Today, after nearly 25 years at @Google, I'm stepping back to start a new chapter. I'm inspired every day by creators around the world who bring people together on @YouTube. It's been an honor to have a front row seat to this incredible community. https://blog.youtube/...
Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: I've known @SusanWojcicki for decades from Google in the early days and, while we have had decades of lively debates about the company, there is no one who has been as gracious and few as wildly competent. A quiet and self-effacing legend, who deserved more bows than she took. https://twitter.com/...
Jessica E. Lessin / The Information: I Was Wrong About Susan Wojcicki
Chris Morris / Fast Company: 6 things to know about new YouTube chief Neal Mohan
@youtubecreators: thank you @SusanWojcicki for all your amazing work over the years to make YouTube home for so many creators ♥️ https://twitter.com/...
Matthew Keys / The Desk: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki resigns amid ad revenue woes
Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: Susan Wojcicki, Googler No. 16 and longtime YouTube CEO, is stepping down
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Neal Mohan, her successor, spent years with her building up Google's display ad biz (now the subject of a federal antitrust suit), and then was her top exec at YouTube. Here's a 2022 chat I had with him about building up Shorts, YouTube's TikTok clone: https://podcasts.apple.com/...
Jessica Lessin / @jessicalessin: End of an era. @SusanWojcicki has been an incredible role model for women in tech. https://www.vox.com/...
Bilal Zuberi / @bznotes: An epic run at Google for @SusanWojcicki. While media will spend most time discussing her legacy as head of Youtube for the past 9 years, read below and be amazed at how many products she created, and helped build and buy. That's the joy, magic and power https://www.vox.com/...... https://twitter.com/...
@mrjnowlin: Wow, end of an era. Thank you for an amazing 9 years @SusanWojcicki https://twitter.com/...
@tvgrimreaper: The entertainment media largely ignores YouTube, but its avg US primetime video viewing, on TVs & TV connected devices alone, was greater than CBS, and >2x NBC, ABC or Fox the week of 2/5. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brian Contreras / Los Angeles Times: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki steps down during a tough moment for tech
Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix: Susan Wojcicki, who led YouTube to effectively evade accountability for harms exacerbated by the platform for years, to step down and enjoy her vast wealth. https://www.vox.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Stepping Down After Nine Years
@hunterwalk: ❤️@SusanWojcicki pulled me & @satyap into her org, giving us the chance to contribute to Google AdSense and ultimately deepening the relationship which resulted in us starting @homebrew together congrats on a great run. Google wouldn't be what it is today without her leadership. https://twitter.com/...
Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: Susan Wojcicki to step down as CEO of YouTube
Carrie Mihalcik / CNET: Susan Wojcicki Steps Down as YouTube CEO
Steve Kovach / @stevekovach: Susan W. memo: “Neal Mohan was one of those leaders, and he'll be the SVP and new head of YouTube.” Interesting he doesn't get the CEO title for the CEO he's replacing. https://twitter.com/...
Anne Wojcicki / @annewoj23: Susan has been my inspiration and mentor since I was born. She is not only my sister but the most inspiring leader and mother. I can't wait for her to have more time to resume bossing me around. 😉 Congrats on 25 magical years and can't wait for the next chapter! https://twitter.com/...
Ward Carroll / @wardcarroll: As we say in the Navy, “fair winds and following seas,” @SusanWojcicki! https://twitter.com/...
Eck / @eckhartsladder: Disappointed to see this. Susan was unfairly blamed for a lot of YouTube's issues, but considering the significant hurdles of the past few years, the site has been relatively stable, and often looks expertly managed compared to the likes of twitch. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel / @zoneoftech: Thank you for everything you've done, Susan! You've completely transformed YouTube and the creator space all together. And thanks to you, myself and thousands of other creators get to follow their own dreams. https://twitter.com/...
Ward Carroll / @wardcarroll: Key line: “. . . trying to wrangle an enormous and unruly group of video creators that powered the site.” That's us. 🔥😜 https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Barr / Gizmodo: YouTube's CEO Is Resigning
Sarah Polus / The Hill: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki stepping down
@nailogical: Thank you Susan for all that you've done for creators and their audiences, we will miss you🥺 but next chapter Susan let's gooooooo💕 https://twitter.com/...
Michelle Chapman / 6abc: Susan Wojcicki stepping down as CEO of YouTube after 9 years
Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Quits After 9 Years
Rick Klau / @rklau: Truly the end of an era. Grateful for all @SusanWojcicki did at Google, and at YouTube. Congrats, Susan - and best of luck with what comes next! Your leadership set an example that made everyone around you better. https://www.vox.com/...
@stokel: So this is significant and as a first hot take I think the history books will actually be quite kind to Susan Wojcicki https://www.vox.com/...
@carthusdojo: Say what you will about YouTube as a slow moving, bloated company that often makes mistakes, but doing creator summits & having the CEO interviewed by creators is unheard of for any other platform. Susan helped build YouTube into the viable creator ecosystem. Thank you Susan! ♥️ https://twitter.com/...
Satya Patel / @satyap: There would be no @homebrew without @SusanWojcicki giving me and @hunterwalk the opportunity to work with her in the early days of AdSense. Grateful for her support of us and many others. Congrats on an epic tenure. You've left your mark on so many people https://www.vox.com/...
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: Wojcicki, who has been at Google for 25 years - she rented her garage to its cofounders - says she's leaving to focus on “family, health and personal projects.” She is replaced by Neal Mohan, who has worked with her at Google for years and has been her #2 at YouTube since 2015.
Chandra R. Srikanth / @chandrarsrikant: And the rise of another Indian-American. Neal Mohan to become YouTube CEO https://twitter.com/...
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki steps down, will assume advisory role at Google and Alphabet
Andreas Klinger / @andreasklinger: What a run. Youtube is under appreciated imho. This platform has defacto replaced TV, and easily pressures twitch & tiktok on the side. https://twitter.com/...
Matt Novak / Forbes: YouTube CEO Steps Down After 9 Years Of Leading Most Popular Social Network For Kids
Peter Kafka / @pkafka: I talked to Wojcicki about the challenges of running a giant operation fueled by users in a 2019 Code Confernce interview: https://www.vox.com/...
Hugh Langley / @hughlangley: !!! https://twitter.com/...
Shannon Morse / @snubs: There are so few women in tech leadership positions, and Susan has had a huge role in YouTube's growth and dominance even when other platforms try to compete. I might be in the minority but as a person who's had a career on YT since 2008, I've seen it all. https://twitter.com/...
Jennifer Elias / CNBC: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says she's stepping down
Shannon Morse / @snubs: YouTube still pays out the best CPM on content and offers the biggest abundance of income diversification of any platform for video creators. There's a lot of hate and vitriol about women in tech leadership positions but the numbers are clearly there.
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost: YouTube CEO Wojcicki Steps Down, Mohan Steps In
William Gallagher / AppleInsider: Susan Wojcicki stepping down as YouTube CEO, but not leaving Google
Azure Gilman / Fortune: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is leaving her role at the tech giant: ‘The time is right for me’
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube, is stepping down
New York Times:
A new filing in Dominion's defamation case against Fox News reveals more comments by hosts and executives privately showing disbelief in stolen election claims — The comments, by Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and others, were released as part of a defamation suit against Fox News by Dominion Voter Systems.
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Superior Court of the State of Delaware: Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network, Fox Corp and Fox Broadcasting
Oliver Darcy / CNN: Fox News stars and executives privately trashed Trump's election fraud claims, court document reveals
David Folkenflik / NPR: Off the air, Fox News stars blasted the election fraud claims they peddled
@erikwemple: By filing its suit and plowing through discovery, Dominion has produced perhaps the most piercing look at the internal goings-on at Fox News in its quarter-century history.
@erikwemple: Huge day in the Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News defamation case, with both sides filing summary-judgment motions. Dominion's version is a nearly 200-page document bursting with text messages from network talent in the tense days following the 2020 presidential election. 1/
Media Matters for America: Maria Bartiromo's source for election conspiracy theories: “The Wind tells me I'm a ghost, but I don't believe it.”
Michael Luciano / Mediaite: ‘Get Her Fired’: Texts Show Tucker Carlson Wanted Fox News Colleague Jacqui Heinrich Canned Over Fact Check of Trump Election Lie
Erik Larson / Toronto Star: Fox News knew vote-fraud claim was bogus — and aired it anyway, Dominion says
Jacob Shamsian / Insider: Fox News hosts and executives privately mocked pro-Trump election conspiracy theories after he lost, internal texts show
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Have a look at this collection of Fox quotes from November 2020, as Sidney Powell and others were spinning their case that the presidential election was stolen. https://twitter.com/...
Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone: Fox News Stars Privately Called 2020 Election Fraud Claims ‘Total BS’: Report
Jim LaPorta / @jimlaporta: .@TuckerCarlson of @FoxNews wanted @JacquiHeinrich of @FoxNews fired for *checks notes* doing her job at @FoxNews by fact checking a claim made by the President https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@beyondreasdoubt: You know the joke “discovery will be lit 🔥” well here it is irl ... this thread man https://twitter.com/...
@nikkimcr: Lest we forget that Fox fired Chris Stirewalt for not caving to the election conjecture being spun by his on-air colleagues https://twitter.com/...
Timothy Burke / @bubbaprog: There has perhaps never been a greater illustration of what “knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not” than every person who works at Fox after the 2020 election https://twitter.com/...
Libby Casey / @libcasey: “Mind-blowingly nuts,” “totally off the rails” and “completely bs.” -Fox News stars, producers & execs comments on Trump's false election claims...in private. Even as they peddled the lies on TV. By @davidfolkenflik @NPR https://www.npr.org/...
Andy / @andylevy: gotta be a rough night for the handful of people left at fnc who are capable of feeling embarrassment or shame https://twitter.com/...
AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast: REVEALED: Fox Stars Think Trumpworld Figures Are Just as ‘Insane’ as You Do
Jonathan Karl / @jonkarl: Tucker Carlson's reaction to a Fox News reporter telling the truth: “Please get her fired,” Mr. Carlson said. He added: “It needs to stop immediately, like tonight. It's measurably hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Pete Strzok / @petestrzok: Bill Barr and Jeff Jensen did. Btw, where's the long-rumored DOJ OPR report looking into all that? Dead and forgotten in the main Justice sub basement? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Jon Favreau / @jonfavs: Fox News in a nutshell: Georgetown Populist Tucker Carlson is enraged that a colleague's truthful reporting is hurting his company's stock price. https://twitter.com/...
@erikwemple: The minutiae disclosed in the Dominion filing are scandalous: They show just how incompatible is the hosts' candid chatter with the product they put on the airwaves — and the reason for that gulf is ratings. Period.
David Frum / @davidfrum: Fox News is going to need to mint a quadrillion dollar platinum coin of its own to pay the libel judgment it will owe to Dominion Voting Systems https://twitter.com/...
@erikwemple: The argument from Dominion — bolstered by correspondence among the network's top people — is that Fox News knew all too well that the stolen-election claims were a lie, yet they plowed ahead with programming indicating the opposite. /3
@erikwemple: In its own summary judgment brief filed today, Fox News argued that: *President Trump's campaign to overturn the 2020 election was newsworthy; *The statements in question were not “actionable defamation”; *Fox News hosts were covering these allegations, not advocating them;
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: A big part of the Fox News defense is the claim that Dominion's damages claim of $1.6 billion is a huge crock. Here's an important passage from the Fox News document: https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: What's more, Fox News claims that the record doesn't establish “actual malice” on part of the Fox News hosts. That means that they either knew the claims were false or proceeded with reckless disregard. To buttress this line of defense, Fox News argues: https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: More Fox News defense arguments: *The Fox News filing details moments in the coverage when hosts make statements clarifying that the Powell-Giuliani-Trump allegations are just that: allegations; Here's a critical passage explaining this defense: https://twitter.com/...
George Conway / @gtconway3d: It sure looks like the applicable First Amendment standard for liability will be met .... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Some additional defense from a Fox News spokesperson: https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Fox News today issued a statement regarding the Dominion filing: https://twitter.com/...
Betsy Klein / @betsy_klein: “Mr. Carlson continued, ‘Our viewers are good people and they believe it,’ he added, making clear that he did not.” https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: Fox News wiggled out of a defamation suit by arguing people shouldn't take the programming seriously (specifically, Tucker Carlson's show). Perhaps to fend off that defense, the Dominion filing goes into detail to show that the network's people see themselves as journalists: https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: More material in which Fox News people affirm they're in the news biz: https://twitter.com/...
Kevin M. Kruse / @kevinmkruse: Do Bond villains make an appearance in the Fox News texts? Yes, they do. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Tom Nichols / @radiofreetom: It's almost like they are horrendous elitists who only admitted the truth to each other, while letting the rubes lap up the nutty conspiracy theories for ratings. https://twitter.com/...
Ted Johnson / Deadline: Rupert Murdoch, Fox News Hosts Saw Donald Trump's Election Fraud Claims As “Crazy” And “B.S.,” Dominion Says In Defamation Filing; Network Calls Lawsuit “An Assault On First Amendment”
Will Sommer / @willsommer: This filing in the Dominion lawsuit against Fox News is one of the most remarkable documents I've ever seen. Filled with private texts between Fox stars like Hannity and Carlson, plus Murdoch, all admitting they knew Fox's stolen election claims were lies. https://int.nyt.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: For Fox News, calling Arizona for Biden in 20202 caused “brand damage” and internal crisis. Carlson, Hannity & top execs dismissed election fraud claims as baseless - but privately denounced colleagues who said so publicly, including Cavuto. My story: https://www.npr.org/...
@existentialfish: Fox execs were unhappy when a Fox reporter fact checked Giuliani and Sidney Powell's insane press conference, even calling the reporter to tell her that. Meanwhile, Ingraham and Tucker were calling her crazy. https://twitter.com/...
George Conway / @gtconway3d: “'Sidney Powell is lying by the way. I caught her. It's insane,' Mr. Carlson wrote to Ms. Ingraham on Nov. 18, 2020. “Ms. Ingraham responded: ‘Sidney is a complete nut. No one will work with her. Ditto with Rudy.’ “Mr. Carlson continued, 'Our viewers are good people and they... https://twitter.com/...
@existentialfish: Tucker Carlson said that a Fox reporter should be fired for fact-checking one of Trump's tweets on Dominion. Fox exec Suzanne Scott said the reporter “has serious nerve doing this” https://twitter.com/...
@existentialfish: The list of Fox execs who participated in relevant meetings includes both Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: One thing that leaps out of the document is just how panicked were network officials about the viewers' disenchantment with the network's very early call of Arizona for Biden. It appears the whole place was in a state of revolt: https://twitter.com/...
@existentialfish: “as early as November 5, Fox's Chief Political Correspondent Bret Baier stated privately ‘There is NO evidence of fraud. None.’” https://twitter.com/...
Bad Fox Graphics / @badfoxgraphics: 2/ “Please get her fired. Seriously....what the fuck?” -@TuckerCarlson to @seanhannity after @JacquiHeinrich fact-checked a Trump tweet reporting there is no evidence that Dominion voting machines deleted, lost, or changed votes Heinrich deleted her fact check by morning. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Bad Fox Graphics / @badfoxgraphics: “We need to fact check” -@BretBaier 🙄 Motion for summary judgment against @FoxNews has been filed, and Dominion has the goods. 🧵 https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Erik Wemple / @erikwemple: More: After a Fox News staffer correctly fact-checked stuff that was coming out of the network's opinion side, all hell broke loose among the prime-timers. Stunning: https://twitter.com/...
Schooley / @rschooley: Can the whole Fox prime time line up suddenly go on a long planned vacation I wonder. https://twitter.com/...
Jeremy W. Peters / @jwpetersnyt: Tucker Carlson, to Laura Ingraham: “Sidney Powell is lying by the way. I caught her. It's insane.” Ingraham: “Sidney is a complete nut. No one will work with her. Ditto with Rudy.” That wasn't exactly what they were saying on the air. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime: ‘Really crazy stuff’: Rupert Murdoch trashed Rudy Giuliani's election theories, unsealed filing in Fox News suit reveals
Elizabeth Landers / @elizlanders: If you have been following the lies surrounding the 2020 election, this latest filing in the defamation suit between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News is... stunning. 1 example: Fox News hosts talking about Sidney Powell, calling her a “complete nut” https://int.nyt.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@existentialfish: Fox exec on Newsmax: “They're not a news organization....[W]e have to follow journalistic rules...they do not have to and they simply do not.” https://twitter.com/...
@svdate: This is amazing. Fox's top hosts, executives all knew that the lunatic claims about rigged voting machines were false and broadcast them anyway because ratings. That would be malice. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Paramount reports Q4 revenue up 2% YoY to $8.1B, operating income down 93% YoY to $182M, TV Media down 7% YoY to $5.9B, and DTC up 30% YoY to $1.4B — The New York owner of the CBS broadcast network and the Paramount movie studio said that the costs of generating gains in streaming crimped …
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Jon Lafayette / Next TV: Paramount Says Paramount Plus Added 9.9 Million Subs, But Streaming Losses Grow To $575 Million
Mansha Daswani / WORLD SCREEN: Paramount Delivers Subscriber Gains, Sees Ad Revenues Fall
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Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount reports 77M+ global streaming subscribers in Q4, up from 67M in Q3 2022, nearly 56M Paramount+ subscribers, and 78.5M Pluto TV MAUs, up by 6.5M QoQ — The conglomerate, led by CEO Bob Bakish, in its fourth-quarter results touts higher streaming revenue.
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Variety, MediaPost, TechCrunch, Broadband TV News, @tvgrimreaper, @thr, The Wrap and The Streamable
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Jennifer Maas / Variety: Paramount Ends 2022 With 77 Million Streaming Subs as Paramount+ Adds 10 Million in Q4
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost: Paramount Streamers Hit 77M Subscribers, Losses Mount To $575M, Sub Prices Set For Hikes
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Paramount+ reaches 56M subs, raises prices as it combines with Showtime
Julian Clover / Broadband TV News: Price rises due for Paramount+
@tvgrimreaper: Paramount's streaming business loses $575 million 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙧, up from $502 million a year ago. https://twitter.com/...
@thr: Paramount CEO Bob Bakish: “We expect to return the company to earnings growth in 2024” https://t.co/...
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Paramount plans to hike the price of Paramount+ with ads from $4.99 to $5.99 per month and the premium tier with Showtime from $9.99 to $11.99 per month in 2023
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Jill Goldsmith / Deadline: Paramount+ To Boost Prices After Showtime Merge, Paramount Global Will Take Up To $1.5 Billion Q1 Content Charge
Toni Fitzgerald / Forbes: ‘Yellowstone’ Effect? Paramount+ Adds An Industry-Best 9.9 Million
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC: Paramount+ plans price increases as it hits 56 million subscribers
Michael Ausiello / TVLine: Paramount+ Announces Price Increase
Gabrielle Sanchez / The A.V. Club: Apparently still riding high from Top Gun: Maverick, Paramount+ to raise subscription prices
Mollie Cahillane / Adweek: Paramount+ Adds 9.9 Million Subscribers, Hikes Prices for Showtime Integration
Tony Maglio / IndieWire: Paramount+ Prices Are Going Up After Showtime Merger
Scott Mendelson / The Wrap: Paramount+ to Raise Prices as It Brings ‘Yellowstone’ Spin-offs and ‘Yellowjackets’ Together
Addy Bink / The Hill: Paramount+ to raise subscription prices
Matt Tamanini / The Streamable: Paramount+ Confirms Price Increase for All Subscriber Tiers Timed with SHOWTIME Integration
Ryan Scott / SlashFilm: Paramount+ To Raise Subscription Prices After Combining With Showtime - Here's What We Know
Matt Goldenberg / Collider: Paramount+ to Increase Subscription Price for the First Time
Lauren Leffer / Gizmodo: Paramount+ Plans Imminent Subscription Hikes
Don Winslow / @donwinslow: A one BILLION DOLLAR “write down” Paramount Price to Increase as Losses Peak and Company Sets $1 Billion-Plus Write-Down on Showtime Integration https://variety.com/... via @variety
Erik Gruenwedel / Media Play News: Paramount+ Adds Record 9.9 Million Year-End Subs, Integrating Showtime, Price Hike in Q3
Max Tani / Semafor:
Memo: Drake and 21 Savage agree to pay Condé Nast to settle a trademark infringement suit over a fake Vogue cover the two created and used to publicize an album — Drake and 21 Savage have agreed to pay magazine publisher Condé Nast over a fake edition of Vogue the duo created and publicized last year.
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Marisa Guthrie / WWD: Drake, 21 Savage Settle Trademark Lawsuit With Condé Nast
C Mandler / CBS News: Rappers 21 Savage and Drake settle lawsuit with Condé Nast over fake promotional Vogue cover
Mia Sato / The Verge:
TikTok announces TikTok Trivia, a livestreamed trivia quiz with a $500K prize pool hosted daily between February 22 and 26, open to US users aged 18 and older — TikTok is taking a page out of HQ's playbook and launching a series of live trivia games, the company announced today.
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Emily Baker-White / @ebakerwhite: When I saw this announcement, the first thing I thought of was another trivia app that ByteDance launched in its pre-TikTok era. It was called Beat The Q, and it pretty promptly flopped. Looks like the old twitter account is still live! https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Ernie Smith / @ernie@writing.exchange: @Mediagazer HQ is screwed
Joe Wituschek / BGR: TikTok is launching a live trivia contest with $500,000 in prizes
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: TikTok to launch live ‘TikTok Trivia’ game with $500K in prize money
James Hale / Tubefilter: ‘John Wick’ taps TikTok for $500,000 trivia promo
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Spotify plans a new homepage for March 2023, which lets listeners vertically swipe through music, podcast, and audiobook recommendations that play automatically — Hello and welcome back to Soundbite. This week we're previewing what Spotify will announce at its Stream On event.
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Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh: Latest episode of Only Zuck Copies, Others Adapt is here https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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Rob / @robarcand: “...Instead of selecting from a long list of carousels featuring static cover art, the interface allows listeners to swipe vertically through content recommendations that play automatically” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
@richlightshed: 🔥 Here is the TikTok style vertical swipe feed that @Spotify previewed at investor day last year that @ashleyrcarman says is launching at #streamon next month $SPOT watch the preview here: https://youtube.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@chrismessina: The #Tiktokification of Spotify is coming soon! Preview: https://twitter.com/... #NewSpotify https://twitter.com/...
J Herskowitz / @jherskowitz: No thanks. https://twitter.com/...
Ryan H. Walsh / @jahhills: Listen to everything Bach ever composed AND be randomly served a short video of an idiot knocking himself out with a hammer. https://twitter.com/...
Jayson / @jaysonrodriguez: With Spotify introducing a vertical wipe feature and YouTube's new head coming from the product side (where short have been such a priority), TikTok is doing in like 2-3 years what Snapchat has tried to do for the past 8: Completely changing aesthetic strategy. https://twitter.com/...
Reggie Ugwu / New York Times:
A look at the podcast industry, as a faltering ad market and recession fears increase the reluctance to fund projects without a path to short-term profitability — “The dumb money era is over” as layoffs, budget cuts and scuttled deals challenge a long-booming industry.
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Nicholas De Leon / @nicholasadeleon: Just once I'd love for one of these “podcasts are doomed!” articles to quote people like @leolaporte, @bryanalvarez, or @scottjohnson: folks who've been podcasting since waaaay before it was cool, and yet still are humming along just fine. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimesarts: “The dumb money era is over,” producers and executives in the long-booming podcast industry say. The new mantra? “Do less with less.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Rebecca Lavoie / @reblavoie: At NHPR we are about to put out Bear Brook season 2, which is reported, produced, and scored by @jasonmoonNHPR - “Dumb money mode” must have been fun for the big guys but it's also fun to punch above your weight w. what little you've got. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Nick Jackson / @nbj914: Same story as every other medium. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dan Benjamin / @danbenjamin: Huh, it's almost like podcasts have to actually be great for people to listen, and that podcast production companies might have to understand the industry before jumping in. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Katherine Brewer / @katabrew: Counterpoint: When I graduated from college ('07, old yes, but not ancient) I wanted to do audio journalism & there was 1 place to go (ONE!): public radio. Since then I watched the medium explode & now every major news org has an audio department. 1/2 https://www.nytimes.com/...
Michelle Manafy / @michellemanafy: interviews with a dozen current and former podcast producers and executives indicated increased reluctance among publishers to fund projects with no obvious path to short-term profitability. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kai Ryssdal / @kairyssdal: Really interesting article, on a lot of levels. Here's the thing, though. When was the last time you heard a boss say “Let's do less with less.”? Never, is when https://www.nytimes.com/...
Corinne Podger / @corinne_podger: This piece in @nytimes about podcasts is worth reading. The podcast party isn't over but new shows have to be GOOD & well marketed. And please research to see if there's solid audience demand for a podcast format - as opposed to text. If there's no demand, don't make a show. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Atlanta-based Capital B, the one-year-old nonprofit news outlet for Black Americans that has raised $12M, announces plans for a second newsroom in Gary, Indiana — Capital B, the one-year-old nonprofit news startup for Black Americans, has announced plans to launch its second local newsroom in Gary, Indiana.
Erika Wheless / Ad Age:
TikTok quietly launches its in-app shopping checkout feature in the US; apparel brands Pacsun, Revolve, and Willow Boutique seem to be among the pilot partners — Pacsun and Revolve appear to be among the pilot brands — TikTok has quietly launched its shop pilot in the U.S. …
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