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media reporter @vanityfair , champion of the transition lens, charlotte_klein @condenast .com or DM for Signal
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Scoop: The New York Times is conducting a leak investigation—a rare move for the paper—following The Intercept's report on a yet-to-air episode of The Daily addressing claims of sexual violence committed by Hamas on Oct 7.
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I wrote about online harassment of female journalists, and how news organizations are grappling with the increasingly vicious situation. Thanks to everyone who spoke to me for this piece
@lilsarg
@wagatwe
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NewsGuild president Susan DeCarava sent a letter to NYT publisher A.G. Sulzberger today accusing Times management of targeting journalists “for their national origin, ethnicity and race” in the leak investigation
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New: Trump campaign denies press credentials for several journalists
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“In what I am sorry to say is an ironic development, Dr. Fauci has just told us he tested positive for COVID this morning,” NYT Washington bureau chief Elisabeth Bumiller emailed staff this morning. Fauci had an on-the-record lunch with the Washington bureau yesterday.
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New: back in March aboard his campaign plane, Trump got so irritated with
@VaughnHillyard
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New: A series of Slack messages shows there was immediate concern inside the New York Times over the paper's framing of the Gaza hospital blast
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Here's a look inside Jazmine Hughes's departure from New York Times Magazine, as newsrooms contend with staff speaking out on the Israel-Hamas war:
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Weeks later, NYT staffers still have questions about that Elizabeth Holmes profile:
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Media scoop:
@TaylorLorenz
is leaving the New York Times for the Washington Post, where she’ll be a columnist on the Features staff
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I took a deep dive into New York Times Games:
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NEW: A number of prominent NYT journalists fired back against Guild leadership in a letter today
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CNN political director David Chalian tells me the network is approaching their town hall with Trump just as they would any other candidate
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The recently unsealed Jeffrey Epstein documents are a result of a five-year legal battle waged by the Miami Herald. My piece:
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I wrote about the moment MSNBC is having—firing on all cylinders just as its competitors face a period of instability:
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Asked for comment about the Fox News chyron describing Biden as a "wannabe dictator" who had "his political rival arrested," a spokesperson for the network told me: “The chyron was taken down immediately and was addressed.”
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Here's Columbia Journalism School Dean Jelani Cobb's memo to faculty. "We believe that journalists have a fundamental right to cover the news. Your efforts turned those sentiments into reality."
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Caught up with
@AricToler
, the digital researcher who worked with NYT to find the suspected Pentagon documents leaker. Quite the way to land your first bylines in the Gray Lady!
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Spoke to the intrepid student journalists at Harvard and Penn, who've been beating big-time reporters to the punch with their coverage of their embattled presidents:
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In the final minutes of today's town hall, WaPo publisher Fred Ryan announced there'd be layoffs coming and then fled the room. As one staffer put it to me: “Could you get worse internal PR than this?”
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News: Poppy Harlow is leaving CNN
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One year later, the New York Times still hasn't hired a media columnist (or a media editor). Here's a look at where things stand:
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I wrote about recent clashes inside the New York Times, where a debate ostensibly about transgender coverage became a sort of Rorschach test for frustrated staffers:
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Cameras are currently banned in federal courtrooms, preventing the public from witnessing Trump's criminal trials. Legal experts are calling for that to change:
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The Politico Pulitzer snub has been a hot topic among reporters this week. I tried to figure out what happened:
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The Times recently hired Theranos chronicler John Carreyrou, but delayed announcing it by a few days, as there was concern that Holmes would get spooked by the news
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My look inside the new Rolling Stone:
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Side note: also at Tuesday’s meeting, biz editor Ellen Pollock said she is no longer actively looking for a new media columnist.
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New York Times management addresses the NewsGuild’s “series of false accusations” about the leak investigation in a memo to staff:
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A decade later, The Information, fueled by subscriptions, has survived—and seemingly paved the way for a new cohort of outlets offering niche industry reporting at a premium price.
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Management “is pretty clearly existentially scared about the Tech union," says one NYT union member.
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Here's a look at how journalists are preparing to cover Trump on trial, and behind-the-scenes negotiations for media access to the camera-free proceedings:
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Almost a year since Uvalde. Spoke to
@ShimonPro
about the work he's been doing, and unique position he's found himself in
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Here's the full letter to NewsGuild of NY president Susan DeCarava; the effort was organized by
@jwpetersNYT
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Here's a look inside The Morning, the New York Times’ flagship newsletter: hugely popular with readers, a source of tension among some reporters, and, per top leaders, more of what the traditional paper needs.
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Wrote about how mainstream outlets have been handling RFK Jr.'s candidacy thus far, and the challenge of covering it:
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I wrote about the state of Supreme Court coverage, and the shift we may be seeing:
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In an email to the Post newsroom on Tuesday afternoon, executive editor Sally Buzbee says, "We do not tolerate colleagues attacking colleagues either face to face or online."
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Roughly 500 media columns later, Margaret Sullivan is leaving the Washington Post. A brief chat with the departing columnist:
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Caught up with the graduate students at Columbia Journalism School, who've gotten a crash course in breaking news, capturing the Hamilton Hall occupation and the NYPD’s crackdown, while surviving on pizza and operating on little sleep.
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My look at the disconnect between how CNN’s top talent and the network’s rank and file are dealing with life after Zucker:
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Fred Ryan’s departure from the Washington Post comes as Bezos has been much more engaged with the Post, holding Zoom meetings with senior leaders where, at times, Bezos sharply questioned Ryan. Some details here:
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“I’ve tended to campaign for jobs that I wanted, and I’m not ashamed of that,” said
@Sulliview
. Dispatch from last night's discussion between the veteran media columnist and
@MollyJongFast
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New: email that Joe Kahn and Katie Kingsbury just sent to NYT newsroom and Opinion staff. “We do not welcome, and will not tolerate, participation by Times journalists in protests organized by advocacy groups or attacks on colleagues on social media and other public forums.”
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Took a deep dive into media’s favorite suburb, where the board of the local newspaper resembles “the Pulitzer committee,” as
@rudoren
put it.
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Wrote about the UFO bombshell that wasn’t:
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AP journalists Evgeniy Maloletka and Mstyslav Chernov’s reports from Mariupol have shaken the world. "This is a story that they are telling from the perspective of people who are watching their country be attacked,”
@JuliePace
tells me:
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A coalition of more than 50 news organizations has been quietly working behind the scenes to obtain public records about the Uvalde shooting:
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The NYT is on the hunt for its next media columnist. My look at the early buzz:
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The unraveling of FTX and shattered mythology of Sam Bankman-Fried has raised questions about the media's role in propping him up. My piece:
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The Washington Post is at a crossroads. I wrote about the state of play at the newspaper:
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I profiled Alyssa Farah Griffin, who is striving to be The View's next conservative post-McCain. “I’m not somebody who drank the Kool-Aid for five years and then magically found Jesus on January 6," she told me. Maybe just a few sips every now and then.
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Party-hopping on the Potomac! Here's my roving write-up of White House Correspondents' Weekend:
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today is my last day at nymag — I will miss it so much! but I’m so excited to be joining
@vfhive
as a staff writer, where I’ll be covering politics, media, and tech. I start Monday!
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The Times is still trying to figure out how to build upon the success of The Daily—potentially, sources tell me, with an afternoon edition:
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Wrote about some of the uncertainty surrounding the GOP primary debates. “It strikes me that they’re way behind schedule on everything,” one media executive said of the RNC.
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"There are moments in history where I think the reality—the visual reality of this sort of carnage—may be the only way to really move citizenry and politicians to the action that clearly is needed,"
@dlboardman
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Some details on a contentious NYT all-staff meeting yesterday, where employees sought answers about the disbanding of the Sports desk:
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"Most of us have experienced firsthand Trump making complete assholes out of all of us," said
@Olivianuzzi
, who isn't rushing to Mar-a-Lago. "I will fully engage with this when I know what I am engaging with."
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Great to see the print version of my New York Times Games story! Read it in the latest issue of Vanity Fair, or here:
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My roving report from this weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner festivities, where glitzy parties and Gaza protests collided:
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Sally Buzbee looks back on her first year leading the Washington Post. My profile:
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The New York Times and its staff union finally agreed to a contract. Some details on how it all went down:
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News: Layoffs began at the Washington Post this morning. Staff impacted were notified via email
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News: NYT has hired Miami Herald’s
@NickNehamas
as a campaign reporter + the beat writer on the emerging candidacy of DeSantis. As I wrote last week, Florida experience is seen as a real draw for news orgs looking to staff up on DeSantis:
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My look inside The New York Times, as it grapples with what AI means for journalism
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An email from a top awards columnist to studios and strategists is the current talk of the town:
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Interesting to see this blanket byline on NYT’s Brittney Griner update, as more than 1,100 employees are staging a historic walkout:
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Ahead of Trump's "very big announcement," I checked in with journalists on the Trump beat to see how they're thinking about covering another run:
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Here’s some context on the media coalition, from a few weeks back:
Just in: Texas Tribune, CNN and more than a dozen other major news organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Texas Department of Public Safety to obtain public records relating to the Robb Elementary School massacre. Here's my full story
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Here's a look at Politico at this moment of heightened ambition and anxiety. With a new owner and global mandate, and increased competition in DC, management is pushing staff to up their game—and rankling some along the way:
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I interviewed ABC News president Kim Godwin—her first sit-down addressing a series of controversies and crises at the network:
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I wrote about the new Gawker—slated to launch early fall—and what alumni think of the resurrection. “The Bryan Goldberg of it all is the $64,000 question,” says
@weareyourfek
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Spoke to Sarah Koenig and Dana Chivvis about the latest season of
@serial
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The New York Times is asking reporters to supe up their author bios. “The masthead feels it’s especially important to highlight the human aspect of our work as misinformation and generative AI proliferates," per an internal email.
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DeSantis and his team have started engaging a bit more with the campaign press corps—some of whom wonder privately whether it's too late:
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You won't be able to watch the Fox v. Dominion trial, which kicks off Monday. I wrote about the implications of the media restrictions:
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Wrote about how Western outlets covered Navalny's death and how it offers a glimpse into the challenge of getting reliable information out of Russia:
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The Blake Bailey allegations published by NYT raised a lot of questions. Did some digging into who knew what and when:
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NEWS: The Daily Beast is no longer for sale, CEO Heather Dietrick told staffers today.
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A look into some of the decisions that newsrooms must make in covering Russia’s war on Ukraine:
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Forget mornings at the Park Slope Y! I wrote about our new nightlife-loving mayor
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“This is the people’s court and they should be able to see what it is doing,” says
@neal_katyal
. "This shouldn’t be a partisan issue—everyone benefits from increased transparency."
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Such a good piece. “The services or goods they offer all make our days easier, maybe they even make our days possible. But we’re sacrificing something in return, namely a shared sense of responsibility to others.”
I’ve been wrestling with my own use of Amazon lately, and realize that individual consumer decisions can’t solve major structural problems on their own. But I do think we could learn to accept some inconvenience
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Trump books are back. I wrote about the flurry to come and how the market has changed:
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Interesting to see conservative media now piling onto Alyssa Farah Griffin for a year-old rebrand. Seems Jan. 6 hearings are breaking through. It's an effort “to scare other people from coming forward," Farah Griffin tells me.
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My look into this week's social media meltdown at the Washington Post:
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I wrote about media companies dipping their toes into the NFT market. "If it doesn’t make sense,”
@zseward
says of the frenzy, “it probably doesn’t make sense."
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Inbox:
@NPR
is “turning away from Twitter,” a spokesperson says, because “we are not putting our journalism on platforms that have demonstrated an interest in undermining our credibility and the public's understanding of our editorial independence.”
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I spoke to Martha MacCallum ahead of Fox’s GOP debate:
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“Hey Gray Lady, time to pay me”—here’s a look at today’s walkout at the New York Times
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New: The Daily Show’s Roy Wood Jr. is the featured entertainer at this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner
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I wrote about Grid News and this cyclical moment in media start-up land:
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A quick chat with
@SollenbergerRC
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