Mediagazer: Q&A with Yoel Roth, Twitter's former head of trust and safety, on restricting the NY Post laptop story, the service's prior mission for breaking news, and more (Poynter)

11:25 AM ET, July 3, 2023

Top News:

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:

Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping — Twitter is putting limits to how many tweets its users can read as the Elon Musk-owned service suffers extended outage …

Discussion: @elonmusk, Insider, Gizmodo, @oneunderscore__, @jayrosen_nyu, @elonmusk, @demercy_, @katienotopoulos, New York Post, The Overspill, Deadline, The Messenger, Android Authority, @murtazasolangi, Digital Journal, @moistcr1tikal, @mnateshyamalan, @mikedrucker, @esthercrawford, @triketora, @rmac18, @paulswhtn, @daveleebbg, @tomwarren, @derjarjour, @bzamayo, @karaswisher, @imbethmccoll, @profgalloway, @mikeisaac, @discussingfilm, @austin_rief, @joannastern, @scottnover, @growing_daniel, @terronk, @ferretgrove, @asiedumends, @arvidkahl, @modestproposal1, @cfc_janty, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @snowden, @jacksettleman, Breitbart, USA Today, Mediaite, The Information, UPI, The Comeback, Variety, ABC13, Bloomberg, NPR, TMZ.com, The Hollywood Reporter, Awful Announcing, IGN, The Guardian, @ismh@eworld.social, @kmetz@chaos.social, CBS News, @Noupside@saturation.social, @caseynewton@mastodon.social, @caseynewton@mastodon.social, @jay@shirtless.gay, @gregpak@mastodon.social, @fawfulfan@mastodon.social, @noctuaminervae@toot.si, @quietmarc@kolektiva.social, @lmc@mastodon.social, @ianbetteridge@writing …, @Ciantic@twit.social, @Andres@mastodon …, @el0j@mastodon.gamedev.place, @minimaxir@sigmoid.social, @micah@indieweb.social, @nixCraft@mastodon.social, Forbes, @mergesort@macaw.social, New York Daily News, The Verge, The Hill, Politico, WSPA-TV, Boing Boing and Know Your Meme, more at Techmeme »

Andy Baio / Waxy.org:
A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself via a Twitter web app JavaScript bug, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits

Slate:

Uber whistleblower and former New York Times technology opinion editor Susan Fowler Rigetti has joined Slate's Future Tense as its new editor — Future Tense—which is a partnership of Slate, Arizona State University, and the think tank New America—is thrilled to announce its new editor is journalist …

Discussion: @michellemanafy and @susanthesquark

Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:

A look at WBD CEO David Zaslav's unforced errors and unpopular plans to cut costs, some of which have been by adopted by rivals like Disney and Paramount Global — Warner Bros. Discovery CEO has made unpopular cuts and missteps while dealing with a heavy debt load and changing media landscape

Discussion: @jbflint, @benmillermke, @davidclinchnews, @wsj, @jbflint, @jbflint, Above the Line and The Verge

Madison Czopek / Poynter:

Poynter's MediaWise Director says Twitter's Community Notes mostly fail to fight misinformation due to requiring a “cross-ideological agreement on truth” — An attempt to solve ‘the problem of biased fact-checkers’ has left most Notes unseen by public, fact-checking conference is told

Discussion: @caulfieldtim

Meg James / Los Angeles Times:

DirecTV removes 159 Nexstar-owned stations, including ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC, after the companies failed to reach a new distribution deal by the July 2 deadline — Millions of DirecTV customers lost access to Nexstar Media Group channels after the two companies failed to agree to a new distribution contract by a Sunday night deadline.

Discussion: The Desk, Next TV, MediaPost, The Streamable, Reuters, @megjameslat, The Wrap, The Hollywood Reporter, @w7voa, Deadline, The Desk, Variety and Radio & Television …

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:

Thousands of performers, who signed their voice rights away in perpetuity years ago, are being forced to compete with AI-cloned versions of their voices — Performers forced to compete with themselves as companies' use of technology for cloning prompts calls to update copyright law

Discussion: @kailashconcepts, @thatkirstylang, @mhbergen, @pkedrosky and @mayazi, more at Techmeme »

Bron Maher / Press Gazette:

ITN appoints Debbie Ramsay, the commissioning editor for news and current affairs at Channel 4, as the new editor of 5 News, succeeding Cait Fitzsimons — Ramsay will take over the programme in the autumn. — ITN has appointed Debbie Ramsay as the new editor of 5 News, succeeding Cait Fitzsimons.

Discussion: @tinadaheley, @ayshahtull, @charlenewhite, @nelsabbey, @genellealdred, @deb_ramz, @_caitfitz, @marcusryder and @jasminedotiwala

Alex Barasch / New Yorker:

A look at Mattel Films, part of US toy giant Mattel, which has licensed IP for 45 movies, starting with Greta Gerwig's Barbie, following similar moves by Hasbro — In an era when “pre-awareness” rules Hollywood, the company is ginning up plots for everything from Hot Wheels to UNO.

Discussion: IndieWire, Screen Rant, Variety, IGN, World of Reel, MovieWeb, Comic Book, SlashFilm and The Wrap

Naman Ramachandran / Variety:

Ofcom launches a broadcast standards investigations into GB News and Rupert Murdoch's TalkTV after receiving complaints about politicians serving as newsreaders — U.K. media regulator Ofcom has launched broadcast standards investigations into TalkTV, owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and GB News after receiving complaints.

Discussion: Press Gazette, The Guardian, Bloomberg, Deadline and Broadband TV News

Poynter:

Q&A with Yoel Roth, Twitter's former head of trust and safety, on restricting the NY Post laptop story, the service's prior mission for breaking news, and more — Yoel Roth explains how moderation rules evolved at Twitter, the fight against harassment and why he no longer drives a Tesla

Discussion: @poynter and @elgaree

New York Times:

Sources detail ByteDance's book publishing expansion and concerns over an uneven playing field; BookScan says 100+ large BookTok authors had $760M in 2022 sales — As ByteDance launches a publishing company, many in the book world wonder if it will create an uneven playing field by boosting its own authors at the expense of others.

Discussion: @loradeets, @ratlpolicy, @magnifymedia, @anderscorr and Insider

David Folkenflik / NPR:

A look at Geraldo Rivera's scandals and his career as a muckraking local TV news journalist turned award-winning and self-promoting network star — Geraldo Rivera has been a constant showman at Fox News for nearly a generation. Now, the curtain is falling.

Discussion: The Wrap, @davidgura, @davidfolkenflik, The Week, The Guardian, Vanity Fair and The Hill

Archived Page Info:

This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 11:25 AM ET, July 3, 2023.

View the current page or another snapshot:

Who's Hiring in Media?

Congress Editor, DC — WaPo

China Night News Reporter, London — Bloomberg

Senior Reporter, DC — LexisNexis

Transcription Copy Editor - Opinion, CA — NYT

Part-time Editor, Remote — Techmeme

Home & Travel Reporter - Ireland — Newsweek

Weather Reporter, MA — Boston Globe

South Reporter, GA/Remote — ProPublica

Awards Specials Editor, CA — Hollywood Reporter

Middle East Editor, Remote — Semafor

Private Capital Reporter, London — FT

Deputy Tech Ed. - CNBC, CA — NBCUniversal

Reporter - Police Beat, OR — The Oregonian

National Tech Reporter — States Newsroom

Articles Editor, CA — SF Standard

Harrisburg Reporter, PA — PCBC

Higher Ed. Reporter, Remote CA — EdSource

Alabama Reporter, AL — Inside Climate News

Tech Reporter, CA — Fortune

Digital Editor, DC — Stars & Stripes

Deputy Editor - Investigations, NY — WSJ

Senior Writer - Biotech, Remote — Fierce

Business Reporter, TX — Fort Worth Report

News Correspondent, MS — Magnolia Tribune

Accountability Reporter, NC — Charlotte Observer

Freelance Reporter - L.A. Education, CA — The 74

Associate Editor, London — WIRED

Copy & Weekend Editor, NH — Keene Sentinel

Political Reporter, TX — Courier Newsroom

Staff Writer, MA/Remote — Tech Advisor

Economic Mobility Reporter, FL — Miami Herald

Reporter - Skift Meetings, Remote — Skift

Reporter, NC — NC Newsline

Add your company here

See Also:

Mediagazer: site main

Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer

Mediagazer Mobile: for phones

Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources

Subscribe:

Mediagazer RSS feed

Mediagazer on X

Mediagazer on Mastodon

More News:

McKenna Oxenden / New York Times:
A profile of Rachel Griffin Accurso, known as Ms. Rachel on social media, whose YouTube channel for educational children's videos has over 4.8M subscribers

Discussion: @chrissyfarr, @mack_oxenden, @joepostingg, @meghanmccain and @gadinbc, more at Techmeme »

Peter Bale / International News Media Association:
An interview with Jeff Jarvis on his new book The Gutenberg Parenthesis, lessons from media's print era, the death of mass media, publishing's future, and more

Discussion: @peterbale, @inmaorg and @inmaorg

David Pierce / The Verge:
Ten years after Google killed Google Reader, the team that built the much-beloved RSS app reflects on what went wrong and what could have been

Discussion: @myersjustinc, @whet.bsky.social, @russellholly, @burrito.space, @faduda@mastodon.ie, @jmason@mastodon.ie, @srol@mellified.men, @kfury@mstdn.social, @dcseifert@mastodon.social, @mathowie@xoxo.zone, @mmasnick.bsky.social, @davidpierce@mastodon.social and 9to5Google

Associated Press:
Austria's Wiener Zeitung, one of the oldest daily newspapers in the world, ends its print run after 320 years; a recent law change caused a sharp revenue drop

Discussion: The Guardian, Media Voices, @baekdal, @adnys.bsky.social, Klaus Gomez-Stimeder on LinkedIn, @miikalhop, @lahoare, @philipbrenn, @simonnread, @derjamesjackson, Boing Boing, Deutsche Welle, Forbes, Exponential View and The Local Austria

Kari Soo Lindberg / Bloomberg:
Hong Kong pro-democracy radio station Citizens' Radio, founded in 2005, suspends broadcasting after a recent bank account freeze made operations unsustainable

Discussion: The Messenger, The Guardian, Voice of America and Associated Press

Financial Times:
A profile of conservative French billionaire Vincent Bolloré, who is acquiring Lagardère, the parent of influential weekly newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche

Discussion: @jmglachant, @labboudles, @denismacshane, @joshspero and @krisnelson@legal.social

Earlier Picks:

Sharon Knolle / The Wrap:
WBD, Disney, Netflix, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences laid off or lost DEI leaders in the past 10 days, raising “diversity fatigue” concerns

Discussion: @realdomevans, World of Reel, @25thcenturygirl and Variety

Christian Davies / Financial Times:
YouTube removes three North Korean influencer channels posting about daily life, after South Korea labelled them as propaganda tools of “psychological warfare”

Discussion: Fox News, @parismarx and @kkarhan@mstdn.social

David Robb / Deadline:
SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP agreed to extend the current film and TV contract, set to expire June 30, to July 12 to allow for continued negotiations on a new deal

Allison Schiff / AdExchanger:
Email: ad platform MediaMath, which had raised $600M and was reportedly valued at $1B+ in 2018, plans to file for bankruptcy, after acquisition talks fell apart

Discussion: @airgups23, Digiday, @wolfiechristl, @ad360media, @anthonykatsur, @martyswant, @larakiara, @digitalshields, @tkawaja and Spotify

Andrew Marchand / New York Post:
ESPN lays off on-air commentators, sources say affecting ~20 personalities, including top NBA game analyst Jeff Van Gundy, Max Kellerman, and Keyshawn Johnson

Discussion: @mmccarthyrev, @jordancornette, @suzykolber, @jenniferhedger, @tbonewfnz, Adweek, @dtonob, RadioInsight, @_andrewcarter, @mike_rooney, Bleeding Cool News, Awful Announcing, @andrewmarchand, Associated Press, @andrewmarchand, BroBible, Deadline, @andipetrillo, @ryanefox2, @danajacobson, @whitlockjason, @shannonspake, @giothepodcaster, @blitz_burgh, @gregabedard, @joshmankiewicz, @yogiroth, @miketirico, @adamlevitan, @ebron85, @themichelleyu, @peter_king, @adamschefter, @renlavoietva, @marshallramsey, @colleenwolfe, @hoodieramey, @kevincooney, @mysportsupdate, @rgiii, @mysportsupdate, @brettbaldeck, @jswartz, @jswartz, Awful Announcing, @keitholbermann, @sherman4949, @dylanbyers, @maxwelltani, @alexweprin, @richarddeitsch, @astasiawill, @barbariancap, Washington Post, ESPN Press Room U.S., USA Today, CBS News, The Athletic, New York Post, New York Post, Deadline, New York Magazine, Sports Media Watch, CNBC, Breitbart, The Messenger, Front Office Sports, The Guardian, New York Daily News, Inside Radio, Barrett Media, The Daily Beast, Fox News, Hollywood Reporter, Mediaite, Los Angeles Times, The Wrap, UPI, The Comeback, UPROXX, Sportico, Deadline, Vibe, Sports Business Journal, TVLine, The Desk, Variety, Bloomberg and Mediaite

From Techmeme:

New York Times:
A look at how Elon Musk uses X to support right-wing world leaders like Narendra Modi who could help secure advantages for his businesses

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
A look at 01.AI, which is launching Wanzhi, a free generative AI assistant focused on the Chinese market; CEO Kai-Fu Lee says 01.AI is nearing profitability

Melissa Korn / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the rise and fall of 2U, which provides online degree programs for top US universities, and is valued at ~$30M today, down from $5B+ in 2018

Sister Sites:

Techmeme
Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web

memeorandum
What US political commentators are discussing online right now

WeSmirch
The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page