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Gary Price / LJ Infodocket:
A US federal judge rules in favor of four publishers in their copyright infringement case against the Internet Archive and its Controlled Digital Lending system — This coverage is free for all visitors. Your support makes this possible. — This coverage is free for all visitors.
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Chrisfreeland / Internet Archive Blogs: The Fight Continues — Today's lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow …
@internetarchive: We will appeal. #DigitalRightsForLibraries #EmpoweringLibraries https://blog.archive.org/...
Andrew Albanese / Publishers Weekly: Is Controlled Digital Lending on Borrowed Time?
@publisherswkly: BREAKING: A federal judge has decided in favor of four publishers in the long-awaited copyright case Hachette v. Internet Archive. “There is nothing transformative about IA's copying and unauthorized lending of the works in the suit,” the judge writes. This story is developing.
@internetarchive: Today's lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow to all libraries & the communities we serve. But it's not over—we will keep fighting for the traditional right of libraries to own, lend, and preserve books. Learn more & take action👇 https://blog.archive.org/...
Max Kennerly / @maxkennerly: The central holding is, if you own a physical book and scan it, you infringed the author's copyright by creating an unauthorized copy—even if you never use both at the same time. (This also implies that printing an ebook = infringement.) That's quite bad. https://storage.courtlistener.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@rysiek@mstdn.social: So @internetarchive scanning books for their digital library is copyright infringement: — http://blog.archive.org/... But OpenAI slurping all of that to train a model that then can generate text and put actual authors out of business (already happening with copywriters), is not. …
Andres Guadamuz / @technollama: This is a worrying development in the US courts. The erosion of exceptions and limitations that protect libraries and archives must be stopped. Copyright maximalism won't rest until there are no libraries left. https://twitter.com/...
@shortformernie: The publishers won the first round. If they win the other rounds, they might as well just shut down libraries because that's honestly what they're trying to do. https://www.theverge.com/...
Cory Doctorow / @doctorow: The court bases this on the existence of a “licensed” ebooks from publishers - ebooks that cost many multiples of the print editions and self-destruct after just a few lend-outs: https://blog.archive.org/... 47/
Tonyo Cruz / @tonyocruz: The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in a lawsuit brought by four book publishers. https://www.theverge.com/...
Neb / @luckstreetboy: losing the internet archive would be the modern equivalent of the burning of the library of alexandria https://twitter.com/...
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation: A federal judge delivers an easily predicted rebuke to the Internet Archive
Paul E Williams / @pewilliams_: It'll be a shame if Internet Archive has to end their digital lending service. Has helped me access dozens of hard to find, out of print books over the years. Feels like publishers thrashing around—taking good services down with them—because they can't adapt to a changing world. https://twitter.com/...
Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone: Internet Archive Loses First Battle in Publishers' Copyright Infringement Lawsuit
Nancy Sims / @copyrightlibn: The Internet Archive's position was dealt a heavy blow in today's opinion - but it may still be early days. Opinion access: https://storage.courtlistener.com/ ...
Nancy Sims / @copyrightlibn: The arguments on Monday were about “cross-motions for summary judgment” - i.e., both parties said “everything is so clearly in my favor that we don't need a trial.” The opinion sides entirely with publishers, and loss on MSJ is not great in terms of legal procedure. But...
Nancy Sims / @copyrightlibn: This is the kind of case where most district court opinions get appealed. I would be a bit surprised, given the effort IA has put into this so far, if they don't appeal this decision - and decisions from a higher court might change the game a lot.
Nancy Sims / @copyrightlibn: Hachette v Internet Archive is abt IA lending digital copies of print books it keeps in storage - both in the form of controlled digital lending (CDL) and the National Emergency Library (NEL) during the early days of COVID. Oral arguments were Monday, an opinion today is -wild-.
Nancy Sims / @copyrightlibn: Because of the likelihood of appeal, I'm -not- going to fully analyse the opinion here. Also because it is Friday afternoon, and I need to go do some real-people stuff. But here are a couple thoughts on things that stand out to me...
Daniel Walters / @danielwinlander: Hachette doing their best to take an axe to the single most important tool that an investigative journalist has. https://twitter.com/...
Devlin Hartline / @devlinhartline: Yahtzee! District court rejects the ridiculous controlled digital lending (CDL) theory in Hachette Book Group v. Internet Archive! All four fair use factors strongly favor the plaintiffs. #copyright https://storage.courtlistener.com/ ...
Eriq Gardner / @eriqgardner: Not transformative, rules judge https://twitter.com/...
Eriq Gardner / @eriqgardner: BIG breaking news: Book publishers win lawsuit against Internet Archive over e-book lending at start of pandemic. https://www.courtlistener.com/ ...
Cathy Gellis / @cathygellis@mastodon.cloud: We're banning books, we're banning Internet sites, and now we're banning Internet sites that lend books. — And that's just this week alone. — Good job, America.
Max Kennerly / @maxkennerly@mstdn.social: The central holding of the #InternetArchive court opinion is, if you own a physical book and scan it, you infringed the author's copyright by creating an unauthorized copy—even if you never use both at the same time. …
Evan Prodromou / @evan@cosocial.ca: I'm an active Open Library user and I hope to see the unfair ruling against Internet Archive overturned in a higher court.
Evan Prodromou / @evan@cosocial.ca: One particular thing I use it for is for out-of-print, small-run books. I would 100% be unable to read these books otherwise.
Ernie Smith / @ernie@writing.exchange: This is so infuriating. We have let the law break things in the digital world that just worked in the physical world. @internetarchive matters so much in this world: https://www.theverge.com/...
Jason Weisberger / Boing Boing: Internet Archive loses book lending lawsuit
Maria Bustillos / @maria@thelife.boats: The opinion is ridiculous. — “Yes the publishers made record amounts of money while the Internet Archive was loaning ebooks, but who's to say the publishers wouldn't have made EVEN MORE MONEY if they hadn't?” …
Jaimie Ding / Los Angeles Times:
The California Journalism Preservation Act, a state bill unveiled this week, would force Google and Meta to pay a “journalism usage fee” to fund newsroom jobs — In the latest attempt by legislators to rein in Silicon Valley, a measure has been introduced in California …
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William Turvill / Press Gazette: Fleet Street's big tech showdown looms
Editor and Publisher: News/Media Alliance applauds California State Assembly for introducing California Journalism Preservation Act
Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: This is not a good idea. https://twitter.com/...
Rachael Myrow / @rachaelmyrow: The California Journalism Competition & Preservation Act (@BuffyWicks) would require digital ad giants pay a “journalism usage fee” for selling ads next to news. Industry rep: “It's unsurprising to see CA copying failed [federal] proposals.” https://www.latimes.com/... via @latimes
@latimes: In the latest attempt by legislators to rein in Silicon Valley, a measure has been introduced in California that would force tech companies such as Facebook and Google to pay publishers for news content from which their platforms profit. https://www.latimes.com/...... https://twitter.com/...
@mcvalada: You frame it like it is a bad thing, but the concept of paying for IP produced by others is the point of IP law. The legislative history of the 1909 Copyright Act exposes newspapers trying to steal photographers' work for “news.” Not allowed, tho lots of judges don't care now. https://twitter.com/...
Howard Cohen / Miami Herald:
Alberto Ibargüen, president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, is retiring, describing the change as “stepping down” after 18 years — Alberto Ibargüen, president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Miami-based philanthropy …
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New York Times, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Knight Foundation, @alondra, @richardhaass, @andysherry, @crainsdetroit, @coralmorph, @emiliotgonzalez, @lillyweinberg, @philanthropy, @philanthropy, @kbmiami, @michaelbolden, @judywoodruff, @gmochkofsky, @pcheung630, @sarabethberman, @omiamifestival, @jimbrady, @albertocairo, @raju, @amandionair, @nytimesarts, @matthaggman, @froomkin, @froomkin and @dangillmor@mastodon.social
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Alex Daniels / The Chronicle of Philanthropy: Knight Foundation Leader to Retire, Leaving a Powerful Legacy
Alondra Nelson / @alondra: A wonderful interview that captures the spirit, ingenuity, dedication, and joyfulness of the great @Ibarguen as he winds down his transformative tenure as president of the @KnightFdn https://www.nytimes.com/...
Richard N. Haass / @richardhaass: A day to salute @ibarguen, who is stepping down from his perch atop the @knightfdn. Alberto has done much over the years to bolster democracy & journalism & the arts, & knowing him as I do, I would bet there is a lot more than pickle ball in his future. https://www.miamiherald.com/ ...
Andrew Sherry / @andysherry: It was an honor to work with @ibarguen for almost a decade @knightfdn. His disruptive sense of fun invigorated the arts in #Miami and Detroit; meanwhile his strategic vision helped revive #journalism nationwide https://www.nytimes.com/...
@crainsdetroit: Alberto Ibargüen, who helped Detroit come out of bankruptcy with the DIA's assets intact, is retiring from the Knight Foundation. https://ow.ly/...
Coral Morphologic / @coralmorph: It's hard to put into words the positive effect @ibarguen has had on so many people's lives. He and the @knightfdn took a chance on Miami and this city is what it is right now in large part because of his vision to make “Art general in Miami” - Thank You. https://twitter.com/...
Emilio T. Gonzalez / @emiliotgonzalez: Sad to learn that South Florida & @knightfdn will lose a great visionary and leader. @ibarguen is the personification of class, professionalism and integrity. Enjoy your richly deserved retirement my friend. https://nationalpost.com/...
Lilly Weinberg / @lillyweinberg: Alberto @ibarguen brought #vision + #tenacity to philanthropy—inspiring innovation in community, the arts and journalism. Filled with #gratitude to have worked by his side in 26 @knightfdn cities—tough, fair, kind + openminded. #oneofakind https://www.nytimes.com/...
@philanthropy: Former colleagues, board members, grantees, and foundation peers say what stands out about Ibargüen's leadership has been his willingness to veer off-script or scuttle an approach to a problem if it wasn't paying off. https://www.philanthropy.com/ ...
@philanthropy: Ibargüen will depart when Knight finds a replacement. In the meantime, he is still busy trying to put together what he hopes is a mammoth fund to support journalism. https://www.philanthropy.com/ ...
Karen Rundlet / @kbmiami: Have learned so much from @ibarguen @knightfdn abt changing communities, technologies, industries & the way we engage & inform each other. He reminded our teams to be tenacious going forward. What a legacy he leaves. https://www.philanthropy.com/ ...
Michael Bolden / @michaelbolden: I worked for @ibarguen at @MiamiHerald and @knightfdn, and learned much both times. He leaves indelible marks in journalism, community engagement and art. There are cities that have been transformed by his vision and commitment. https://www.philanthropy.com/ ...
Judy Woodruff / @judywoodruff: a giant in the world of philanthropy is stepping aside after making huge waves in journalism & the arts; with everlasting thanks from @NewsHour & #Canvas, we can't wait to see what you do next https://twitter.com/...
Graciela Mochkofsky / @gmochkofsky: A champion of journalism & journalism education, and a phenomenal friend and supporter of the @newmarkjschool is retiring. Buena suerte en lo que viene, @ibarguen. Te vamos a extrañar. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Paul Cheung / @pcheung630: Truly an End of an Era. I had the privilege of working for @ibarguen twice in my career. First time @MiamiHerald & 2nd time @knightfdn. https://twitter.com/...
Sarabeth Berman / @sarabethberman: In his 18 years at @knightfdn, @ibarguen helped catalyze a national movement to revive local news. We are grateful for your work, leadership, and commitment to an informed and engaged public. Huge congrats to a legend! https://www.nytimes.com/...
@omiamifestival: We're over the moon to see our beloved President of the @knightfdn Alberto Ibargüen (@ibarguen), profiled in the @nytimes. Incredibly grateful to him and everything he has done for O, Miami. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jim Brady / @jimbrady: It has been a great honor to work for @ibarguen and I'm glad I will still get to do it for a while longer before he retires from @knightfdn . Still a lot for me to learn. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Raju Narisetti / @raju: Through @knightfdn, Alberto @ibarguen has been a seminal figure in American journalism, among other philanthropic projects. https://www.nytimes.com/...? via @nytimes
Fernand R. Amandi / @amandionair: Alberto @ibarguen's decision to retire after an extraordinary run @knightfdn leaves Grand Canyon-sized shoes to fill for his successor. A true visionary. A giant amongst giants. The best of the best. A job extraordinarily well done, Alberto.👏🏼👏 🏼 https://www.nytimes.com/...
@nytimesarts: In its 18 years under Alberto Ibargüen, the Knight Foundation funded punk shows in Detroit and poetry dropped from helicopters in Miami. As Ibargüen prepares to retire, he talks about what might be next. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Matt Haggman / @matthaggman: A salute to the one and only Alberto Ibargüen, who has led transformative change across Miami and profoundly impacted so many lives, including my own. Alberto Ibargüen to retire as president of Knight Foundation | Miami Herald https://www.miamiherald.com/ ...
@froomkin: It was a tragedy when @knightfdn passed on the chance to buy McClatchy, which then got sold to a vulture fund. https://www.niemanlab.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Jameel Jaffer / New York Times:
A TikTok ban would have to satisfy the most stringent form of First Amendment review as the ban would operate as a prior restraint on speech of would-be users — The First Amendment has so far played only a bit part in the debate about banning TikTok. This may change.
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Washington Post, @kenroth, @thedragonfeeder, @andymok, @drewharwell, @davidafrench, @rdrv3, @shiraovide, @aclu, @aaronparnas, @trevortimm, @rasmus_kleis, @knightcolumbia, @cwarzel, @ingrahamangle, @evan_greer, @shiraovide, @cendemtech, @cendemtech, @cendemtech, @penamerica, @drewharwell, @jeffjarvis, @jameeljaffer, @scottgreenfield, Gizmodo, Just Security, Boston.com, Techdirt, @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social and Music Ally, more at Techmeme »
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Kenneth Roth / @kenroth: There is a way to protect Americans' privacy without implicating the First Amendment — by enacting comprehensive privacy regulation. Otherwise, even if TikTok is banned, the Chinese government can just buy Americans' data. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Chris Fenton / @thedragonfeeder: Why? I believe you say it best here... “The app helps shape what a billion people see and believe, and it collects intimate data about what we do.” @ShiraOvide The government needs to prove why a TikTok ban is best - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...?
@andymok: Why a #tiktokban would violate First Amendment: “But the legitimacy of [American] democracy depends on the free trade of information and ideas, including across international borders.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Drew Harwell / @drewharwell: New: This dissident uses the Chinese-owned app TikTok to criticize China's government. A nationwide ban would suppress not just him but the First Amendment rights of 150 million U.S. accounts: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @megatobin1
David French / @davidafrench: This is a wise statement from FIRE. Banning TikTok because of its content would raise significant First Amendment concerns. Banning it because it hoards sensitive information about Americans and is under the thumb of the CCP is a different matter. https://www.thefire.org/...
David Ruddock / @rdrv3: This is the only good article I've read about banning TikTok and honestly, makes me wonder why we are even having this discussion. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Shira Ovide / @shiraovide: I don't downplay the risks of TikTok. But we need to be honest about the enormity of an attempted ban. Maybe not since Prohibition has there been a ban involving a product so widely used. Plus: the First Amendment Plus: Where else might a ban hammer fall?
@aclu: The government has no right to ban entire platforms and censor the free flow of information. This is a clear violation of our First Amendment rights. https://www.cbsnews.com/...
Aaron Parnas / @aaronparnas: I understand the First Amendment concerns with a potential TikTok ban, and as a member of Gen Z, I understand the impact this app has had on my generation. But, I have serious concerns with TikTok's content moderation (or lack thereof).
Trevor Timm / @trevortimm: Every news article that discusses banning TikTok needs to start directly grappling with the fact that the First Amendment almost certainly would prevent such an act. Pretending otherwise is willfully ignoring the obvious. https://freedom.press/...
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis: “If the U.S. government actually tries to shut down [TikTok], the First Amendment will certainly have something to say about it” @JameelJaffer writes. “Users are indisputably exercising First Amendment rights when they post and consume content” on TikTok https://www.nytimes.com/...
@knightcolumbia: “If the U.S. government actually tries to shut down this major communications platform, the First Amendment will certainly have something to say about it,” @JameelJaffer. Read more in today's @nytopinion. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel: I appreciate this @ShiraOvide piece because it gestures toward the way that this ban would be very confusing/frustrating for ppl https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Laura Ingraham / @ingrahamangle: The CCP's hacks try to hide behind the First Amendment. Opinion | There's a Problem With Banning TikTok. It's Called the First Amendment. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/...
@evan_greer: The First Amendment doesn't care about your feelings, Congress https://www.nytimes.com/...
Shira Ovide / @shiraovide: If the government is serious abut banning TikTok, it's time for an honest pitch to the American public. “If you're going to take something from the American public, we need to tell them why,” Tim Wu told me. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@cendemtech: @JameelJaffer .@JameelJaffer: “A broad coalition of free speech orgs — including @PENamerica, @CenDemTech & the @knightcolumbia First Amendment Institute, which I direct — made essentially this observation in a letter sent to Congress in advance of Thursday's hearing.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@cendemtech: .@JameelJaffer: “As to fears relating to #disinformation, the U.S. government has not pointed to evidence that the Chinese government has forced TikTok to align its algorithm with the imperatives of the country's disinformation efforts.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@cendemtech: “...as many digital rights advocates have pointed out, the federal gov't could protect Americans' privacy much more effectively — & without [] a categorical ban [of a] platform used by millions of Americans — by enacting comprehensive privacy regulation.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
@penamerica: “The legitimacy of our democracy depends on the free trade in information and ideas, including across international borders. Except in... extreme circumstances, citizens should be able to engage freely with the... platforms of their choice”—@JameelJaffer https://www.nytimes.com/...
Drew Harwell / @drewharwell: “The First Amendment would require the government to carry a heavy burden of justification. This is an important feature of our system, and not a bug” https://www.nytimes.com/... @JameelJaffer
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: Thank you, @JameelJaffer, for finally raising the crucial issue of First Amendment rights in connection with the xenophobic fever to ban TikTok and with it the voices of millions of Americans. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Jameel Jaffer / @jameeljaffer: Wrote about the proposed TikTok ban and the First Amendment. Tl;dr If the U.S. government wants to shut down a major communications platform, it's going to have to come up with better reasons. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Scott Greenfield / @scottgreenfield: Jameel Jaffer argues that the First Amendment precludes the govt from shutting down TikTok as a prior restraint on speech. Is the mechanism by which speech occurs protected? It's a complicated question. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: Why TikTok Needed to Pay for Influencers to Attend Anti-Ban Rally
Jameel Jaffer / Just Security: TikTok and the First Amendment — It's unfortunately commonplace around the world for governments …
Karl Bode / Techdirt: The US Government Has Not Justified A TikTok Ban
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social: Thank you, @jameeljaffer, for finally raising the crucial issue of First Amendment rights in connection with the xenophobic fever to ban TikTok and with it the voices of millions of Americans. — There's a Problem With Banning TikTok. …
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: Will TikTok CEO's congressional testimony stave off a US ban?
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Twitter plans to wind down its legacy verified program, first introduced in June 2009, and remove legacy verified checkmarks starting on April 1, 2023 — Musk-owned social network also will start charging businesses and organizations $1,000/month for verified status
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@verified: On April 1st, we will begin winding down our legacy verified program and removing legacy verified checkmarks. To keep your blue checkmark on Twitter, individuals can sign up for Twitter Blue here: https://twitter.com/... Organizations can sign up for https://twitter.com/...... https://twitter.com/...
Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra: Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to hide their blue checkmarks to avoid the shame https://boingboing.net/... https://twitter.com/...
Ian Bogost / The Atlantic: Blue Check Marks Were Always Shameless
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: Twitter to un-verify people who don't pay $8/month starting on April Fools' Day
Terry Moran / @terrymoran: Glad to see the original blue checkmark go away. It served no real purpose, except as a focus of preening vanity on one side, sneering resentment on the other. To be fair, though, @Twitter should change the designation from “Twitter Verified” to “Twitter Paid.” https://twitter.com/...
Redi Tlhabi / @reditlhabi: Take your blue tick! You have already messed up the platform! We don't see tweets from our people & they don't see ours. But YOUR suggestions and ads somehow sneak through despite “turn off.” Let's not forget the “I'm so grateful to Luciano. I invested $1 & made $100 000!” Tsek! https://twitter.com/...
Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__: Alternate idea: pay me to put the checkmark back on my profile after April 1. Pay me many American dollars.
Mike Drucker / @mikedrucker: lol imagine your website's paid service being such embarrassing dog shit used by awful people that you have to make a way to hide it https://twitter.com/...
Taylor Lewan / @taylorlewan77: I remember training for the combine and getting verified. I truly thought I made it. Sad day for Twitter Taylor https://twitter.com/...
@esperacchi: It's incredibly funny that Twitter is aware that blue subscriptions are sort of inherently humiliating https://twitter.com/...
N. K. Jemisin / @nkjemisin: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah ahaha ::wheeze, slaps table:: hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! It's like he wants us all to leave. https://twitter.com/...
Laura Kate Dale / @laurakbuzz: Okay, so the “dismantling of lords and peasants” system of paid verification actually boils down to “You can pay to get boosted in the algorythm, but also hide that you paid for that boost and keep that secret, appearing to simply be naturally popular on the platform” https://twitter.com/...
Matt Binder / @mattbinder: lol but don't worry you'll still be able to find the people paying yet hiding their checkmark via the Blue Verified filter in Twitter search so you can block them https://twitter.com/...
Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor@mastodon.social: The Musk site will remove my blue checkmark soon, which is fine with me. I'm keeping the account open, but posting only an occasional reminder that I've moved here. — Why keep an account? …
Ron Perlman / @perlmutations: Yes folks for only $450 you too can appear famous and important. Just think, only $450!! Plus your fingerprints. Plus a DNA sample. Plus your pin numbers. ACT NOWWWW!!! https://twitter.com/...
Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Twitter Blue subscribers may be able to hide their blue checks
Eva / @evacide: This is the natural end-game in the process of turning the blue check from a verification of identity to a source of ridicule and shame. https://twitter.com/...
Dan Primack / @danprimack: The organization verification cost is $1k per month, which will difficult and/or prohibitive for certain small businesses, nonprofits and local government groups. https://twitter.com/...
Vinny Thomas / @vinn_ayy: imagine paying for a secret shape https://twitter.com/...
Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Which Sucker Companies Are Going To Pay Elon Musk $1,000/Month To Get An Ugly Gold Badge?
@datruthdt: The purpose of verification was completely lost in all this. The point is to protect people from impersonators. Random Joe with 100 followers doesn't need to be verified because he doesn't have people being stupid pretending to be him or role playing as him. https://twitter.com/...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / @aoc: Last time they tried this someone pretended to be Eli Lilly and tanked their stock price by pretending insulin was free https://twitter.com/...
Andy Boxall / @andyboxall: If this actually happens, the blue check will become the official logo of that man's fan club, or an alert you're about to get scammed. https://twitter.com/...
Scott Hanselman / @shanselman: Maybe the real blue checks were the friends we made along the way https://twitter.com/...
Adam Tinworth / One Man & His Blog: The Tickpocalypse is upon us
Aakash Chopra / @cricketaakash: What if most of the accounts that were verified by @Twitter (to protect their identity and prevent impersonation) decided not to sign up for Twitter Blue?? Create a legacy and then kill the legacy yourself the Twitter way. 😍 https://twitter.com/...
Neelesh Misra / @neeleshmisra: Verification is a way to prevent impersonation. Preventing my impersonation is the responsibility of Twitter. I am not going to pay you to do your job. I will not pay to remain verified. You want to take my blue check mark today, please do. @elonmusk @verified https://twitter.com/...
Marcel / @basicallyidowrk: Social media is dying. It's pay to play on every app. https://twitter.com/...
Caitlin O'Kane / CBS News: Twitter is officially ending its old verification process on April 1. To get a blue check mark, you'll have to pay.
Valerie Bertinelli / @wolfiesmom: He must be trying to make twitter obsolete. It's the only explanation. Every single decision he has made has put this app deeper in it's grave. https://twitter.com/...
Kate Aronoff / @katearonoff: While there is an unverified class, I am in it, while there is a shitposting element, I am of it, and while there is a suspended account, I am not free https://twitter.com/...
@froomkin: I wonder if every organization is going to start paying a grand to @elonmusk — or none. https://variety.com/...
Benjamin Allbright / @allbrightnfl: This will end whatever the blue check mark thing is for me. I never asked for it, I don't understand why people care enough to pay for it. Only thing it evenr meant to me was that you knew I was actually me and not an imitator or parody account. https://twitter.com/...
Peter Gleick / @petergleick: On April 1st, having a blue check mark will simply mean you're a sucker. I won't miss it. https://twitter.com/...
Mike Petriello / @mike_petriello: Cool! Surely if I click on this for more information, the app will .. uh .. hmm. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
James Fallows / @jamesfallows: Back last fall, the prevailing opinion was: Virtually no one with a “verified” account will care if Twitter takes it away. Still think that's true. And as it becomes purely a paying proposition, *why* would it be worth paying to keep?? https://twitter.com/...
Shauna / @goldengateblond: all it means now is “I'm dumb enough to pay a billionaire's bills” so ok https://twitter.com/...
Richard Signorelli / @richsignorelli: This will actually devalue the check-mark and will end up being another costly failure. Twitter to Revoke Legacy Verification Blue Check-Mark Badges in April - Variety https://variety.com/...
John Scalzi / @scalzi: Oh, well. Twitter Blue isn't worth $8 a month to me, and I've already put alternate verification of my identity in my Twitter bio. https://variety.com/...
Charles Gaba / @charles_gaba: Having a blue check is about to go from telling others you are who you say you are to telling others you're an idiot who willingly gives $96/year to a billionaire for no reason. https://twitter.com/...
George Hahn / @georgehahn: Bye, Twitter. I'm out. https://twitter.com/...
Stephanie Mlot / PCMag UK: Twitter Plans to Kill ‘Legacy Verified’ Checkmarks on April 1
Ed Zitron / @edzitron: So if they take away all the blue checks and just leave the paid for blue checks does musk not realise that removes almost the entire reason anyone bought them in the first place
Kate Duffy / Insider: AOC criticizes Elon Musk for plans to remove Twitter's legacy blue checkmarks on April Fool's day
@marshall89hd: Part of the whole reason for verification was to stop a name/likeness from being impersonated to scam others for example.. was delighted I got my account to a good enough standing to get verified. But.. that was for nothing and deemed as corrupt. Cheers Elon pal 👍 https://twitter.com/...
Ford Fischer / @fordfischer: I pay for Twitter Blue, and I actually did so well before the Elon takeover as well. I agree that legacy checkmarks need to be vastly more accessible, and were inequitably granted. But this website will be unusable if imposter accounts are indistinguishable. https://twitter.com/...
Julia Hava / @binchcity: this whole situation is so sneetch-coded https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Drew Gooden / @drewisgooden: the only value of a twitter blue checkmark now is that people might mistake you for someone who is actually notable. if you get rid of every other checkmark, then the twitter blue checkmark literally means nothing. they're actually devaluing their own product by doing this. https://twitter.com/...
Chris Taylor / @christaylor_nyc: lol https://twitter.com/...
@blackamazon: the next election will be hell. I'm about to go to another meeting announcing the abandonment of supporting DEI and epistemology and there's no actual methodology or support for the vacuum about to come and it will be used to get rid of POC https://variety.com/...
William Gallagher / AppleInsider: Starting April 1, all a Twitter blue checkmark will mean is the user is paid
Yvette Nicole Brown / @ynb: Take it. Take it TODAY. You won't get a thin dime from me for this white-supremacist-run piece of bird crap. Quote me. #FreeSpeech https://twitter.com/...
Adam Weinstein / @adamweinstein: Such an auspicious start date! https://twitter.com/...
@muellershewrote: So to keep my blue check, I have to pay a sad billionaire $11 a month? Welp, it's been a good run, blue check. It's not me. It's you. Don't let the door hitcha. https://twitter.com/...
@variety: Elon Musk's Twitter also will start charging organizations $1,000/month for verified status https://variety.com/...
Sara Luterman / @slooterman: I'm really looking forward to it being easier for weirdos to impersonate me. This is a great decision with no possible downsides. https://twitter.com/...
Patrick Daugherty / @rotopat: At New Twitter, no one can question our commitment to making useful, necessary features absolutely worthless https://twitter.com/...
Mikki Kendall / @karnythia: You're going to make it cool to not be verified. This is going to be hilarious https://twitter.com/...
Lindsey Ok / @lindseyyok: Goodbye blue check mark that I earned after years of hard work and now apparently have to pay for. Not happening https://twitter.com/...
Ashton Pittman / @ashtonpittman: Nah, y'all can have your silly little meaningless check marks back. They will soon have no meaning except “I paid $8 for Twitter.” https://twitter.com/...
Dana Loesch / @dloesch: Maybe you guys could fix the suppression and shadow banning first before asking for money. https://twitter.com/...
Max Tani / @maxwelltani: Please talk about and impersonate Max Tani. It is important that people pretend to be Max Tani, a very important person who deserves to be talked about and impersonated. https://twitter.com/...
Kevin M. Kruse / @kevinmkruse: As of April 1st, only the fools will have checkmarks. https://twitter.com/...
@eve6: Humbly requesting that you remove ours immediately so people don't think we're a white nationalist with 30 followers https://twitter.com/...
Ananya Bhattacharya / Quartz: Twitter is about to start purging unpaid blue ticks
Martin Baron / Washington Post:
Objectivity is a journalistic principle and is neither a false balance, a false equivalence, both-sidesism, nor neutrality, but a call for open-minded reporting — Martin Baron was executive editor of The Post from January 2013 through February 2021 and, before that, editor of the Boston Globe for more than 11 years.
Discussion:
@lollardfish, @kendrawrites, @dcwoodruff, @delwilber, @lyman_brian, @anupkaphle, @dvnjr, @jeffjarvis, @lfung, @saletan, @joshkraushaar, @nickkristof, @mike_hixenbaugh, @ebboyd, @jonathanchait, @ryanjthomas83, @froomkin, @brizzyc, @sewellchan, @carlosnyt, @abgutman, @kaitlynjakola, @rjcc, @mariaramirezny, @ijbailey, @ijbailey, @ijbailey, @ijbailey, @ijbailey, @tatecurtis, @ijbailey, @ktumulty, @ktumulty, @ijbailey, @jayrosen_nyu and @bylenasun
Discussion:
David M. Perry / @lollardfish: Let's just take the headline. We do want objective judges and doctors. Decades of work has shown that we don't have them because objectivity isn't really possible. No human lives in a void where their decisions are simply abstract. https://twitter.com/...
@kendrawrites: There are many things wrong with this opinion piece but something he doesn't consider is there's no such thing as perfect information. Doctors rely on hunches because it's rare to turn up with symptoms so specific they can only be caused by one thing https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Chase Woodruff / @dcwoodruff: Number one sign of an insular and poorly reasoned piece is the total inability to name, quote and engage directly with the arguments your (supposedly numerous!) interlocutors are making https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Del Quentin Wilber / @delwilber: Great essay on importance of objectivity. @PostBaron is wise: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Brian Lyman / @lyman_brian: Baron is correct that Walter Lippmann's idea of journalistic objectivity was A) not neutrality and B) a reaction to the failure of the older neutrality model to fight the propaganda of World War I. The problem is that Lippmann never clearly defined that. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Anup Kaphle / @anupkaphle: “Increasingly now, journalists — particularly a rising generation — are repudiating the standard to which we routinely, and resolutely, hold others.” @PostBaron on objectivity in journalism: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Don Van Natta Jr / @dvnjr: Every journalist, ex-journalist and non-journalist should read this spirited, important defense of objectivity by @PostBaron. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis: As you read Marty Baron on objectivity, you'll want to reread @wesleylowery. They are in dialog in print over the idea and execution of this journalistic McGuffin: https://www.nytimes.com/... We want objective judges and doctors. Why not journalists too? 1/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Lisa Fung / @lfung: ‘Our profession would benefit from listening more to the public and from talking less at the public, as if we knew it all... In journalism, we could use more humility — and less hubris.’ Great op-ed from @PostBaron https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Will Saletan / @saletan: “Objectivity is not neutrality,” @PostBaron explains. “It is not giving equal weight to opposing arguments when the evidence points overwhelmingly in one direction.” It's a “method of testing information — a transparent approach to evidence.” Exactly. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Josh Kraushaar / @joshkraushaar: Marty Baron: “Failure to achieve standards does not obviate the need for them. It does not render them outmoded. It makes them more necessary. And it requires that we apply them more consistently and enforce them more firmly.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Nicholas Kristof / @nickkristof: .@PostBaron weighs in on the debate about objectivity in journalism. He emphasizes the importance of reporting, of starting with questions rather than answers. Good piece: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Mike Hixenbaugh / @mike_hixenbaugh: This line actually summarizes the exact view held by many in the “rising generation” of journalists who are being criticized in this piece: “The method is objective, not the journalist.” Who's arguing otherwise? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
E.B. Boyd / @ebboyd: This argument is based on a false—or naive—premise: That judges and doctors don't approach their work with a framework for understanding the world. Everyone has a framework. That's not the same thing as *having an agenda.* But no one is a blank slate of “objectivity.” 1/ https://twitter.com/...
Jonathan Chait / @jonathanchait: Marty Baron engages with, and persuasively refutes, the popular criticisms of objectivity in journalism https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Ryan Thomas / @ryanjthomas83: This is thoughtful, as is the piece criticizing objectivity. But it strikes me that this list of traits - fairness, honesty, rigor - are things that both advocates and critics of objectivity would broadly agree on, which suggests that we need to stop using the term “objectivity” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@froomkin: Much of what @postbaron writes here is inarguably true. But for all his fancy talk, objectivity as practiced in our elite newsrooms is a construct of comfortable white cis men. It is full of false equivalence and cowardice and complacency. 1/x https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Carrie Brown / @brizzyc: Sigh. I swear, there is something about the word “objectivity” that causes people to lose even the slightest grasp of nuance or complexity. I just...serenity now! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Sewell Chan / @sewellchan: Must-read essay by @PostBaron on objectivity in journalism: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Carlos Lozada / @carlosnyt: “Failure to achieve standards does not obviate the need for them. It does not render them outmoded. It makes them more necessary. And it requires that we apply them more consistently.” The great @PostBaron renews the case for journalistic objectivity: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Abraham Gutman / @abgutman: We want doctors to be objective. We don't want doctors who say: here is the evidence, I can't recommend treatment. We want to know their opinion. Same with judges, they don't only repeat the law. If that's objectivity, sign journalists up too! https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Kaitlyn Jakola / @kaitlynjakola: “Critiquing objectivity” vs. “showing humility” is a false dichotomy: Journalists who call out inherent bias *necessarily* display humility, acknowledging what we perceive as humans is filtered through lived experiences; thus, “objective truth” is a concept of limited usefulness https://twitter.com/...
Richard Lawler / @rjcc: @mediagazer @PostBaron Open minded https://twitter.com/...
@mariaramirezny: “There is an immense universe beyond the lives we ourselves have lived. And if there are constraints on our ability to understand a world beyond our own, we as journalists should strive to overcome them,” writes @PostBaron. Every word of this👏👏👏 https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@ijbailey: But what grates at me the most is this idea that Baron and those of like mind want to adhere to standards and those of us who challenge their view of “objectivity” don't. Heck, I'm surprised he didn't just slur us as “woke.” Guess I should give him a point for that. 12/
@ijbailey: The cute distinction is that the reporter is biased, because we all have biases, but that the process is objective - as though you can really separate the two. We need to acknowledge the complexity of what we do, and the flaws inherent in our processes - because we are human. 8/
@ijbailey: He also got upset when top-notch black reporters challenged him. If you read his piece and the detailed definition of “objectivity” he lays out, I would have to agree with it - in a vacuum. But I know how “objectivity” has played itself out in the real world time and again. 3/
@ijbailey: He calls for more humility. But he and others of like mind express little of that humility inside newsrooms or in discussions about “objectivity.” Not only that, they falsely assert that those of us who dare disagree with them don't really want standards. And that's hogwash. 4/
Curtis L. Tate / @tatecurtis: @ijbailey It's a strange hill to die on.
@ijbailey: If your “objectivity” leads you to suspend a reporter who survived a sexual assault from covering sexual assault stories because she demands high journalistic standards, it's an objectivity I want no part of, for instance. 9/
Karen Tumulty / @ktumulty: This follows an earlier @postopinions column by @lendownie — https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Karen Tumulty / @ktumulty: Two former editors of the @washingtonpost find themselves on different sides of a central debate in journalism today. From @postbaron: We want objective judges and doctors. Why not journalists too? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@ijbailey: While reading this, you should understand that Baron's definition of “objectivity” included him being upset at folks like me for calling out The Post for its handling of a reporter on the issue of sexual assault. 1/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
CT Jones / Rolling Stone:
A look at the impact on TV writers when streaming services cancel their shows and erase entire projects, some after filming was done, treated as tax write-offs — Ahead of ongoing WGA negotiations, several TV writers tell Rolling Stone the burst of the streaming bubble has them nervous …
Discussion:
@tvgrimreaper, @menendezrand, @brigliebs, @wgawest, @missvimendes, @zoectjones, @ameksin, @wgawest, @rollingstone and Deadline
Discussion:
@tvgrimreaper: The answers to all your questions is money. - Don Ohlmeyer https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@menendezrand: “Since 2022, at least 35 projects have been canceled and removed from streaming service HBO Max. This includes shows that had already been given a renewal and some that were close to or completely done filming.” https://www.rollingstone.com/ ...
Brig Muñoz-Liebowitz / @brigliebs: @RollingStone Thank you @RollingStone and @zoectjones for covering what's happening to the TV writing community!
@wgawest: “It is a crisis point for writers in terms of the viability and sustainability of writing as a career. The goal is to get a contract for our members that addresses their concerns, puts money back in writers' pockets and fairly compensates them for the value that they create.” #1u
Virgínia Mendes / @missvimendes: @zoectjones this is such a great article. I had the chance to interview a couple of tv writers and the truth is that's a constant fear on the back of their heads! Congrats 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@zoectjones: For TV writers, getting cancelled has long been apart of the gig. But ahead of the ongoing WGA contract negotiations, several writers and creators of canceled HBO Max shows told me they're worried about what could happen if shows disappear altogether https://www.rollingstone.com/ ...
Anya Meksin / @ameksin: The brilliant @brigliebs points out that if our shows are removed from streamers, we don't even have any archival records of our work. No files, no dvds. Nothing to show our kids when we're old. No chance for a show to become a sleeper classic over time. https://twitter.com/...
@wgawest: “The industry has changed. Companies have done everything they can to push writers' pay down as little as possible,” WGA Chief Negotiator Ellen Stutzman tells @RollingStone https://www.rollingstone.com/ ... #WGAStrong
NPR:
NPR stops producing the Invisibilia, Louder Than a Riot, Rough Translation, and Everyone & Their Mom podcasts, and cuts 10% of staff to close a $30M+ budget gap — NPR moved this week to cut 10 percent of its staff and stop production of a trio of acclaimed seasonal podcasts - Invisibilia …
Discussion:
@karenbates, @radiogrego, RADIO ONLINE, @jesshopp, @jasonbnpr, @totalvibration, @idislikestephen, @ninaberries, @gabrielspitzer, @geedee215, @sid_madden, @sid_madden, @chiaraeisner, @joannakakissis, @y00ree, @mrsslrss, @hazelcills, @leilafadel, Current, Inside Radio, The Hill, @davidakaye, RAIN News, @mikekatzif, @totalvibration, @rhainacohen, @jackcorrbit, @dennismhogan, @petersagal, @muldermedia, @themattadams, @nwquah, @reblavoie, @mollymotoole, @chrishaxel, @_natalieescobar, @kathmschmidt, @w7voa, @emmaeunjoo, @yowei_shaw, @yowei_shaw, @resnikoff, @brandonetc, @athertonkd, @i_oriion, @brihreed, @aubreynpr, @hannarosin, @deggans, @aspiegelnpr, @gabrieljr, @blowryontv, @samjmintz, @haleaziz, @davidfolkenflik, Fox News and MediaPost
Discussion:
@karenbates: It was a good run—21years—but it's just about done. Tough economic realities meant NPR had to let go of some 100 employees. I was among that number. I am sad that I won't be working with some of the fabulous people who make NPR. But I am grateful to have work that meant so much. https://twitter.com/...
Gregory Warner / @radiogrego: how to say goodbye to a show that you've made for 6 years? I'll be trying to figure that out. 🙏🙏🙏 to those who have joined me on this ride, so so so many of you. And ❤️to my NPR colleagues who lost their jobs, I'm one of you. I'm sorry. Stay strong. Reach out if you want.
Jessica Hopper / @jesshopp: Marissa was such high value to the @nprmusic team and I always love her takes and newsletters. FUCK. https://twitter.com/...
Jason Beaubien / @jasonbnpr: After more than 2 decades at #NPR, I'm leaving the network to spend more time with my goats. It's been an incredible ride with some amazing people. Exciting endeavors (journalistic, hedonistic, other-istic) lie ahead. #NPRLife
Lars Gotrich / @totalvibration: One of the great joys of this job is making things with brilliant, kind people. On rare occasion, some of those people become your best friend — the lifelong kind. This one hurts a lot. https://twitter.com/...
Stephen Thompson / @idislikestephen: Marissa is brilliant and funny, always prepared, hard-working, collaborative, and all-around fantastic to have around. Every time a producer or editor has said to me, “You'll be working with Marissa on that,” I've been like, “Oh, then it'll turn out great, that's cool!” https://twitter.com/...
Nina Gregory / @ninaberries: to all my friends at @NPR i'm here from the future to assure you it gets better! the marketplace values your skills and experience - and you might even find they value you much more than a non-profit ever could...
Gabriel Spitzer / @gabrielspitzer: I'm afraid I am one of the casualties. Working w/the team @NPRShortWave for the past year has been a beautiful dream, and unfortunately now it's time to wake up. Please do send me your job listings/freelance opportunities. And you should keep listening to the show; I sure will. https://twitter.com/...
@geedee215: KGB been at NPR for two decades; she's my last remaining colleague from the original Code Switch team. She deserved way better than an email.
@sid_madden: Just got outta therapy. This week has been the strangest knot of emotions. Dazed, proud, enraged, gutted. Two weeks into Season 2, we learned today that @LouderThanARiot is being canceled and that the entire production staff has been laid off.
@sid_madden: Thank you for the kind words. Although I appreciate them, @rodneyology and I still have jobs rn. pls send your support to @gabbybulgarelli @sorayashock @samjleeds @manosundaresan
Chiara Eisner / @chiaraeisner: I was laid off @NPR as part of the massive cuts. I loved the i-team and wanted to stay for years, but here we are. Please let me know if you're looking for a multimedia, bilingual reporter w/ experience investigating environment, healthcare, tech, immigration & criminal justice.
Joanna Kakissis / @joannakakissis: Few at @npr can take a straightforward pitch + elevate it, through intensive reporting + careful architecture, into a masterpiece of storytelling the way @roughly + @radiogrego can. I am gutted we're losing @roughly + its amazing team.🧵 1/4 https://twitter.com/...
@y00ree: I hope @NPR does the right thing by these shows and including IP in severance packages https://twitter.com/...
Marissa Lorusso / @mrsslrss: I was one of the people laid off from NPR during this brutal round of layoffs. I'm gutted and heartbroken that I won't be able to continue working at @nprmusic on stories I love with people I admire so much. https://www.npr.org/...
Hazel Cills / @hazelcills: This has been a truly exhausting and frankly sick layoff process. We are losing ridiculously talented people and I genuinely do not know what the fuck NPR is going to do without them. https://www.npr.org/...
Leila Fadel / @leilafadel: We finally know. We lose beautiful work and incredible talents, including the teams that put on the incredible work brought to us from @Roughly @LouderThanARiot @NPRinvisibilia and Everyone & Their Mom. All cancelled. https://www.npr.org/...
Jared Gans / The Hill: NPR cancels four podcasts amid layoffs
David Kaye / @davidakaye: NPR does some of the best public interest journalism in the country (& world) and has easily the best public music program in @nprmusic's tiny desk, and it's struggling economically. show @NPR some love with $$$, people! https://twitter.com/...
Brad Hill / RAIN News: NPR completes promised layoffs, discontinues four podcasts in “existential” cost reduction
Mike Katzif / @mikekatzif: Today has been hard. Still processing the talent and artistry and crucial voices we just lost. Just so sad for my pals and colleagues. https://twitter.com/...
Lars Gotrich / @totalvibration: I'm numb. I'm angry. I still have a job, but many of my brilliant colleagues and friends do not. They will tell their stories when ready. But to top it all off, NPR canceled podcasts prominently featuring brown, Black and queer voices and producers. https://www.npr.org/...
Rhaina Cohen / @rhainacohen: 3 of the 5 shows I've worked on in my current role at NPR have been cancelled. So many exceptionally talented colleagues were laid off. I'm mourning their departure & the divestment from the kind of narrative journalism that made me fall in love with audio https://www.npr.org/...
Jack Corbett / @jackcorrbit: quick, media companies hire the incredible people npr just fumbled https://twitter.com/...
Dennis Hogan / @dennismhogan: Some context: federal money from grants make up a low single digit percentage of NPR revenue. We have so defunded our culture sector over decades that NPR is public in name only. How can we expect public journalism to fulfill its mission if we don't fund it? https://twitter.com/...
Peter Sagal / @petersagal: NPR is making no announcements about who lost their jobs today, instead letting people break the news themselves. It's better that way, but still tough to hear about them, one by one. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Mulder / @muldermedia: My time at NPR is coming to an end. Proud of the last 12(!) years, despite the recent rocky months. Very much looking forward to a break. Layoffs this week are affecting 10% of NPR.
Matt Adams / @themattadams: louder than a riot invisibilia rough translation everyone & their mom i've worked with every team, each were inspiring and creative and some of the most hardworking. they deserved better. same with those who are no longer at npr after today. https://www.npr.org/...
Nick Quah / @nwquah: fuckin horrible https://www.npr.org/...
Rebecca Lavoie / @reblavoie: It is a mistake to make commercial advertising the only revenue plan for your longform journalism projects. Stations have figured this out, why couldn't NPR? https://twitter.com/...
Molly O'Toole / @mollymotoole: Sad for the state of our industry and those who have dedicated themselves to journalism, often thanklessly. I'm sorry @NPR colleagues. | NPR cancels 4 podcasts amid major layoffs https://www.npr.org/...
Chris Haxel / @chrishaxel: It's so frustrating to see some of NPR's best, most deeply-reported shows get the ax. Good journalism takes time, which means it's expensive. But it's a worthy investment. https://twitter.com/...
Natalie Escobar / @_natalieescobar: I have been so angry and so devastated all day. We are losing so many people whose talents and insights NPR desperately needed. And we are losing podcasts that were successfully bringing in the “young, diverse audiences” NPR says it wants to reach. https://www.npr.org/...
Kathleen Schmidt / @kathmschmidt: This is really awful. https://twitter.com/...
Steve Herman / @w7voa: Details on the decimation of @NPR. https://twitter.com/...
Emma Choi / @emmaeunjoo: I can't believe that I got laid off and had a midterm on the same day https://twitter.com/...
@yowei_shaw: Sending strength & love to everyone at @NPR, especially those laid off. These people are the best of the best, and have been through an excruciating month while still putting out the critical news and programming so many depend on. You are my inspiration. Solidarity forever 💚
@yowei_shaw: Well, looks like my time with NPR is up. Gutted that @NPRinvisibilia the show I love & have given 7+ yrs of my life to has “stopped production”. Gutted to not get to work with my brilliant teammates. Gutted that me & some 100 colleagues I admire have lost our jobs. This sucks.
Ned Resnikoff / @resnikoff: Extending solidarity to any journalists caught up in the newest round of layoffs https://twitter.com/...
Brandon Carter / @brandonetc: 4 podcasts axed. 100+ people laid off. i am aching for my former colleagues and friends at NPR. a gut punch to an organization full of the best people. hiring managers: please scoop up these talented folks. you will not regret it. https://www.npr.org/...
Kelsey D. Atherton / @athertonkd: “a yawning budget gap that stands in excess of $30 million” that's 38% the purchase price of a single F-35A https://jscalc.io/... https://www.npr.org/...
Orion Rummler / @i_oriion: “The layoffs also affect people who work behind the scenes to produce the shows and podcasts, design visual elements for the web, conduct audience research, and do the myriad other functions required of a major news network.” https://www.npr.org/...
Allison Aubrey / @aubreynpr: Not an easy day here. We're losing some invaluable colleagues. My heart goes out to everyone affected #NPRlayoffs https://www.npr.org/...
Hanna Rosin / @hannarosin: Damn. Farewell my beloved and beautiful @NPRinvisibilia @aspiegelnpr @lmillernpr @yowei_shaw @abbywendle https://www.npr.org/...
@deggans: For those who have been asking me about NPR's staff reductions, I remain employed. I have been told everyone affected by the changes in our news division has been notified. Our media correspondent, David Folkenflik, has a story on the changes: https://www.npr.org/...
Alix Spiegel / @aspiegelnpr: Raising a glass to all the hands that made Invisibilia. All the creative thoughtful souls who tried for her and cried for her and hopefully - helped some people along the way. https://www.npr.org/...
Gabe Rosenberg / @gabrieljr: Ugh my heart. The podcasts are the names you might recognize, but I know there's so many brilliant producers, digital folks, and more behind the scenes who deserve better than this. https://twitter.com/...
Brian Lowry / @blowryontv: Covering bad news at your own shop is one of the toughest jobs in journalism. And unfortunately, a lot more journalists have had to experience that in the last few years. https://twitter.com/...
Sam Mintz / @samjmintz: Honestly a striking comment from director of union representing NPR workers, and not the usual kind of union rhetoric that accompanies layoffs. “They had to do something. It's real.” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Hamed Aleaziz / @haleaziz: Awful, awful news. https://twitter.com/...
David Folkenflik / @davidfolkenflik: Tough day at NPR: Four podcasts canceled, 10 percent of workforce laid off. We'll learn more about who is leaving the network in hours and days to come. My story: https://www.npr.org/...
Ray Schultz / MediaPost: NPR Cancels Podcasts Amid Layoffs, Budget Gap
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News fires Tucker Carlson producer Abby Grossberg after she alleged in court filings of being coerced into giving misleading testimony in the Dominion case — Fox News cut ties with Abby Grossberg Friday, Variety has learned, after the booker and producer for such hosts as Tucker Carlson …
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Nina Burleigh / @ninaburleigh: Ex producer defies Fox attorneys' efforts to manipulate her testimony, alleges (surprise!) “rough culture within Fox News' corridors, with women treated badly and Carlson staffers making crude remarks about women and Jews.” https://variety.com/...
Sharon Knolle / The Wrap: Fox News Fires Producer Who Sued the Network Over Dominion Case
Kim Insley / @kiminsley: 1. If she was fired for telling the truth in court, I hope she is covered under some form of whistleblower legislation. 2. Better to be fired than risk perjury charges 3. Can we please stop calling it Fox “News”? Their own staff don't believe what they put out there. https://twitter.com/...
@adriennelaw: Fox News Fired the producer who sued them over the hostile work environment and claimed she was bullied into her Dominion Voting deposition testimony. If this isn't text-book retaliation, I don't know what is. https://variety.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Filing: Vince McMahon reimburses the WWE $17.4M for costs the company incurred in its probe of misconduct claims against him and agrees to pay any future costs — McMahon, WWE's executive chairman and controlling shareholder, returned to the company in January after he “retired” from the company last year.
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Matthew Aguilar / Comic Book: WWE and Vince McMahon Come to Terms on Special Investigation Reimbursement
Jessica Schladebeck / New York Daily News: Vince McMahon reimburses WWE $17.4 million for investigation into misconduct allegations
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Vince McMahon Paid WWE $17.4M for Costs Tied to Misconduct Investigation
Kieran Fisher / Wrestling Inc.: Vince McMahon Reimburses WWE For Costs Relating To Hush Money Payments
@rockford_guy: Paying off your shareholders so you can have your job back that proves he didn't do it https://twitter.com/...
Bruce Haring / Deadline: Vince McMahon Will Reimburse WWE Board $17.4M For Its Sexual Misconduct Investigation
Scott Fishman / @smfishman: Yet with a sale he'll make it all back and then some and then some... https://twitter.com/...
Joshua Vinson / The Wrap: Vince McMahon Pays WWE $17.4 Million to Cover Sexual Misconduct Investigation Costs
Constant Méheut / New York Times:
A profile of Marina Ovsyannikova, the Russian journalist who was once a cog in Russia's propaganda machine but protested the war in Ukraine on live state-run TV — For 20 years, Marina Ovsyannikova worked for Russian state TV. What compelled her, shortly after Ukraine was invaded …
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@john_sipher, @hgoldman77, @danbeucke, @dabeard, @larrycharlesism, @constantmeheut and @sbengali
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John Sipher / @john_sipher: “In the minds of Russians, there had to be an image that all Americans were L.G.B.T. supporters who killed Black people and abused adopted children from Russia...” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Henry Goldman / @hgoldman77: The first principle of journalism: Tell The Truth Famed Antiwar Protester Was Once Cog in Russia's Propaganda Machine https://www.nytimes.com/...
Dan Beucke / @danbeucke: “Sitting in the newsroom, Ovsyannikova anxiously watched for opportunities to burst past the guards blocking the entrance to the set of ‘Vremya,’ Russia's most-watched news show. 'A guard was looking at her phone. I realized that was my chance.'"https://www.nytimes.com/ ...
David Beard / @dabeard: She knew Putin was a fascist, had started the war in #Ukraine, and ordered Russian media to lie to the people. “Staying and working for a criminal regime amounted to signing a pact with the devil. Your hands would be covered with Ukrainian blood.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Larry Charles / @larrycharlesism: Imagine if our American news propagandists came out and told the truth. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Sarah Larson / New Yorker:
A profile of Audie Cornish, the host of CNN podcast The Assignment, on her roots, her career as a journalist, NPR's culture, why she left the outlet, and more — Cornish has watched the media evolve, experiment, and experience dramatic layoffs. In “The Assignment,” her CNN podcast, she's trying to find a new way forward.
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@abbydphillip, @poppyharlowcnn, @asarahlarson, @1eaguilera, @sarahscire, @sbs_umass, @audiecornish, @marinafang and @mimapamundi
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Abby D. Phillip / @abbydphillip: Absolutely love this profile of my friend and brilliant colleague @AudieCornish Audie Cornish's Long Struggle to Remake the News | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/...
Poppy Harlow / @poppyharlowcnn: “Who are the people we don't hear from?” she said. “That's the bar. Let's get into it together.” ❤️ @AudieCornish https://www.newyorker.com/...
Sarah Larson / @asarahlarson: I wrote about the great @AudieCornish and her humane, incisive approach to journalism. https://www.newyorker.com/...
Elizabeth Aguilera / @1eaguilera: This is a perfect description of almost all media outlets, even the newer ones...bc run by traditional white media men. A little lipstick only. I said almost all. https://twitter.com/...
Sarah Scire / @sarahscire: “Her dad wanted to be an architect, but ended up working as a defense contractor. ('That's the American story.')” https://www.newyorker.com/...
@sbs_umass: In a @NewYorker profile, @UMassJournalism alum @AudieCornish discusses The Assignment, her insightful and captivating new @CNNAudio podcast, and talks about finding her path in journalism while attending @UMassAmherst: https://www.newyorker.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Audie Cornish / @audiecornish: tremendous thanks to @asarahlarson for her longtime work covering the podcast industry and for 😳this generous profile that highlights in every way the value of listening. https://www.newyorker.com/... via @NewYorker
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