Ben Mullin
@BenMullin
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@nytimes media reporter | 530-961-3223 | [email protected] | Signal: benmullin.13
Manhattan, NY
Joined November 2010
In recent months, there have been questions about whether the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would go into "hibernation" -- biding its time in case new funding eventually became available. That won't happen. The board of the CPB has voted to dissolve the organization.
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Kennedy called The New York Times on this occasion. From “Getting It Wrong,” by @wjosephcampbell:
Same thing happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis After a week of (impressive!) secrecy, JFK was getting ready to go on TV and tell the public that the Soviets had placed nuclear missiles in Cuba At that point, multiple newspapers got the scoop. JFK made some phone calls and
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First in @semafor: NYT, WaPo learned of the secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin but held off publishing what they had at the administration's request to avoid endangering US troops
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Good time to follow @cohenluc, Reuters’s SDNY reporter who spent considerable time in Venezuela.
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⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️PENTAGON PIZZA INDEX SUDDENLY SKYROCKETING!! 770% ABOVE NORMAL AT PAPA JOHNS NEAR THE PENTAGON!!
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the Bozeman Daily Chronicle now has an A.I. columnist named Bo Zangeles… https://t.co/CHFAf6Lj7v
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.@NPRinskeep publishes a thoughtful response to my profile of Katherine Maher: “Public radio may be stronger in 2026” https://t.co/LyKvak4nDY
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“The ‘W’ in the logo for New York magazine is visible where her head once was.”
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Catherine Almonte Da Costa was part of a photo shoot on the mayor-elect’s inner circle. The next day she resigned amid an uproar over antisemitic statements she had posted on social media years...
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Happy new year! If there's something going on at your media company you think the public needs to know about, drop me a line on Signal: benmullin.13
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Nice job pushing Trump for details on his health — including his hearing difficulty, his swollen ankles, the bleeding/bruising on his hands & his mid-meeting dozing — from the @wsj. & props to @AnnieLinskey, who was chastised by Dems for reporting on Biden’s age related decline.
Trump says that he bruises easily because he takes 325mg of aspirin/day, & has rejected his doctors’ advice to take less. “They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood,” Trump said. “I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart.” https://t.co/UpFtoKKUPM
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A little procedural update here on the New York Times Co. lawsuit against the Defense Department over the October press restrictions that led to massive turnover in the building's press corps. 1/
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THERE WILL BE FEASTING. AND DANCING. IN JERUSALEM NEXT YEAR https://t.co/KmwDNQetUm
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The Mountain Goats · The Sunset Tree · Song · 2005
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Soderbergh erasure
"The internet isn't written in pencil, Mark. It's written in ink." I've talked a lot about THE SOCIAL NETWORK over the years. This is the clearest expression of why I think it's important. https://t.co/XFtI7hueLF
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scoop: this spring, the leaders of NPR and PBS discussed a compromise that might have allowed local stations to keep some of their funding at the expense of foregoing money for national programs. NPR chose not to pursue it, for First Amendment reasons. https://t.co/gpcFWhdAPs
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Katherine Maher has taken an unyielding approach to NPR’s biggest battles — which has sometimes put her at odds with her colleagues in public media.
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I wrote about David Hoffmann last year here: https://t.co/gqFEDEvKhP
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David Hoffmann has already bought 5 percent of one of America’s largest newspaper companies. Now, he wants to control the whole thing.
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