Megan Greenwell
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journalist. writing a book about how private equity affects workers and communities for @deystreet . deputy director @princetonsjp .
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Spending time with people who have spent their careers restoring burned records was some of the most fun I've ever had reporting, and my research on my grandfather took all sorts of surprising twists. I hope you'll check out the story. 💜
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During a cross-country move, my mom lost the menorah that my 17-year-old grandfather smuggled out of Germany when he escaped after Kristallnacht. Today, nearly three years after that move and exactly two weeks before Chanukah, she found it in the attic. I'm verklempt.
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Never going to stop watching Allie Long eat a page of the USWNT lawsuit while Ashlyn Harris says "pay us bitch."
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And with that, it's over. Deadspin no longer employs a single writer or editor. I am gutted but so very proud of this group of people.
Deadspin was a good website.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was seen as such a longshot against Joe Crowley that the
@nytimes
didn't dedicate a single article to her campaign.
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"Nazi flags and confederate flags are flying at the U.S. Capitol as part of a riot incited by the President" is really... a combination of words.
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Having your own students arrested for trespassing — a crime only because you suspended their right to be on campus — is just so obviously, horribly beyond the pale literally no matter what they were protesting.
Genuinely one of the most disgusting documents in the history of American higher education
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after seeing 'get out' in a very white crowd, all of us cheering wildly for chris, i keep remembering this, from elif batuman's 'the idiot.'
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I wrote a goodbye blog that's actually about digital media in 2019. Please keep reading Deadspin, because the best people still work there.
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It’s very striking and disheartening that a letter pleading for better coverage is being deliberately interpreted by a handful of prominent journalists as a demand for no coverage.
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I think it’d be good for more people to know that the exact same private equity executives responsible for destroying hundreds of jobs at Vice — Fortress Investment Group — are also responsible for destroying thousands of jobs at Gannett newspapers.
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@jimbrady
we worked at the washington post at the same time, so you've met me many times, but believe me, i was never under the impression you gave a shit what i thought.
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bari, i have no desire to be involved here, but your synopsis of the events of 2004/2005 is unfair. you weren't simply "advocating for students' rights," you were calling professors racist. i know because i wrote or edited most of the stories about it.
I want to address a baseless accusation being peddled by
@ggreenwald
and others on this platform. When I was an undergraduate student at Columbia, I advocated for the rights of students to express their viewpoints in the classroom.
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It has come to my attention that not enough of you watched my new favorite athlete Christina Clemons qualify for the Olympics last night while wearing earrings shaped like bags of Cool Ranch Doritos.
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Not sure it’s fair to assume he had people teargassed for the sake of a photo op. Seems like he may well have planned the photo op for the sake of having people teargassed.
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Bari Weiss trying to get a Palestinian professor fired, 2005 vs. Bari Weiss attacking people who say the NYT should not publish articles advocating for military suppression of dissent, 2020. (I cannot believe I have had these woman's takes in my brain for 15 years.)
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The agony of these pediatricians waiting for a mass casualty event that never arrived because an AR-15 doesn’t leave survivors. My god.
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it’s never not enlightening to remember how many rich white men enthusiastically choose “there’s no need to pay people a living wage” as the hill they want to die on.
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It's been nearly 24 hours since I saw this and I'm still LIVID. Taking on more work for less money will not save you when the hedge fund in charge decides they don't need journalists. And it's deeply unethical for a self-appointed senior statesman to say otherwise.
Jeff Pearlman urges young journalists to ‘make yourself indispensable’
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It seems like maybe you all need this video of Theo denying that’s he’s even a tiny bit sleepy.
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Grant Wahl wasn’t kind only to colleagues. Years ago, I watched a teen ask him a mildly impertinent question about his responsibility to grow women’s soccer, and his answer was unforgettably gracious and thoughtful. And then he told the kid to email him so they could talk more.
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I am begging someone to report the feature on the romance novelist who faked her own death to sell books, used a sockpuppet account to become the moderator of her own Facebook group for two years, then announced she was actually alive and writing more books.
Author Susan Meachen died from suicide 2 years ago. Except it turns out she didn’t. What an absolute piece of shit
#authors
#MentalHealthMatters
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Deadspin was a good website.
ESPN big time reporters are promoting Disney+ on Twitter
1. ESPN does do journalism, but it also does business.
2. These reporters do journalism, but they also do business.
3. If the company that pays you millions, asks you to promote its top project, not much of a choice.
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Just before Kristallnacht, when he was 17, my grandfather fled his home in Berlin and was later stripped of his citizenship by Nazi decree.
Last week, after an 18-month process, the German government approved my application for restoration of citizenship. 🥲
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Even if you know what happened, *watching* cops flee because they heard gunfire in a classroom full of children, then refuse to take a single step back down that hallway for 44 minutes, is stomach-churning.
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I’m genuinely tickled that rather than write job descriptions for the new and improved Deadspin, they copied and pasted the ones I wrote as part of the vision of the site they despised.
Seriously, did I not understand the issue before? I thought that Deadspin was specifically supposed to "stick to sports."
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Dave McKenna, a non-tweeter, has also resigned from Deadspin. Dave is quite simply one of the greatest sportswriters in history. What an incalculable loss.
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lol holy shit
I stand with the former
@Deadspin
workers who decided not to bow to the greed of private equity vultures like
@JimSpanfeller
. This is the kind of greed that is destroying journalism across the country, and together we are going to take them on.
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Periodic reminder that my book about how private equity is hollowing out and destroying every aspect of our existence comes out next year.
I increasingly feel like the only or at least the most important story is how private equity is hollowing out and destroying every aspect of our existence
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since APPARENTLY this needs to be clarified, I didn't say the Times never mentioned her. she was included in a couple of political roundup pieces, and there was an editorial criticizing Crowley for not debating her. both are different from an article about the race.
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Nine years ago today I came thisclose to unmatching a hot doctor on Tinder because it turned out he lived across a damn ocean. Good thing I didn’t!
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The most recent story I wrote for the New York Times was (correctly!) held for two days at the last minute because an unrelated news event would have made it appear to be in bad taste.
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Report for America, which funds of hundreds of local journalists, will no longer support positions at Gannett, Alden, or any newspapers owned by private equity or hedge funds because "that business model isn’t the future for robust local news."
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people are a little scattered tonight (we did some pre-mourning drinking last night) but if you venmo me at megangreenwell I’ll get drinks when we get together.
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PAY THEM.
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Professional news: Aug. 23 is my last day at
@Deadspin
. I'll have a new thing to announce next week, but for the moment I'm going to feel sad that I'm leaving and very grateful that I got to work with this group of brilliant weirdos.
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i wrote my first
@esquire
feature, about how a college sophomore made
@dog_rates
the only good thing on twitter.
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@joonlee
Man, it’s one thing to see the team move, but the outright contempt for A’s fans from both the team and the league makes me think I’m just out on baseball altogether.
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Better framing: If NYC closes schools and continues to give restaurant owners and workers *no way to survive without indoor dining,* *the government's* priorities are screwed up on all fronts.
If NYC closes schools and continues to allow indoor dining our priorities are totally backwards.
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Here's a list of all the absurdly talented Deadspin people on the job market, and a little to recommend each of them:
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It’s been a while since we have been graced with such a beautiful case of Tweeting Through It, maybe this website can be saved after all.
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Rather than tweeting something ill-advised about anything going on in media, I present you this photo of Theo discovering how baths work.
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I am no Harvard professor, but it seems to me if you're asked to sign an open letter when you don't know all the facts, a good response might be "I'm sorry, I can't sign an open letter when I don't know all the facts."
More than half of the 38 Harvard professors who signed an open letter backing an accused sexual harasser on the college's faculty now say they no longer stand by the statement.
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Adams also has the backing of a powerful political machine! Nobody who followed this race ever thought it was about Twitter follower counts or “Twitter progressivism;” this is a dumb straw man.
Eric Adams has less than 2% of Andrew Yang’s Twitter followers and is on track to win more than twice as many votes in NYC. Lol
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Nothing but respect for the guy who just called me from “U.S. Customs.”
him: “Do you know why I’m calling?”
me: “Yeah, because you’re scammers.”
him (deep sigh): “Yeah, we’re scammers, fuck off.”
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I've been obsessing over private equity — how it works and how it affects workers and communities — for a few years now, so I'm very excited to be writing a book about it!
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It’s the one-year anniversary of the best essay I’ve ever read. Deadspin was a good website, but
@drewmagary
remains a good human, and we are all so lucky he is still here.
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Why anyone would pay the Deadspin Idiots to blog the moronic takes they've saved up for months is beyond me, but
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hey
@jack
maybe you have not seen all the rape threats barstool people have sent me on your platform, but you might consider checking them out.
Together with
@barstoolsports
, we’re bringing you a Twitter-only monthly sports show called Barstool Live, featuring the hosts of Pardon My Take, plus former
@NFL
All-Pro Pat McAfee.
#NewFronts
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Deadspin now has a pitch guide, which includes actual examples of pitches we green-lit—with explanations of why they worked—instead of vague platitudes about what makes good stories.
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The journalists of
@ColumbiaSpec
and
@WKCRFM
are the best of the best; I’m in awe of what incredible work they’re doing while also trying to keep themselves and each other safe. Isabella is running her newsroom better than many professionals.
BREAKING: NYPD BEGINS SWEEP OF OCCUPIED HAMILTON HALL, ARRESTS PROTESTERS
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The last year or so has seen the death or decimation of ESPN the Mag, OTL, Deadspin, and SB Nation, not to mention dozens of local newspaper sports sections. Even if you don't watch games, losing outlets committed to reporting on the sports industry will affect you too.
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[NYT real estate story]
HUSBAND: I'm a teacher
WIFE: And I'm a stay-at-home mom
HUSBAND: Our budget is $1.7 million, plus $1.3 mil to renovate.
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It seems like you all need to see what happened when I accidentally dropped a noodle on Theo’s head.
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The margin by which AOC is the smartest politician in the country on strategy/messaging/communication is a thousand miles wide.
This is some cold truth from
@AOC
. If NYC were in a swing state, its election administration would be a national outrage.
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If you have questions about why G/O Media's CEO is scared of reader feedback, or his understanding of the company's union contract, or why he seems to hate the sites he bought, a good place to ask would be jim
@g
-omedia.com.
our bosses heard from so many of you that they’ve disabled forwarding for this email address. direct action works, and they’re scared of it.
we’ve spent the morning planning next steps. stay tuned, and thank you for standing with us.
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Just going to tweet my own damn blog every time those ghouls do something else to fuck up great websites.
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Hahahaha holy shit they finally killed my blog about how incompetent they are.
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Professional news part 2: I am very excited to go edit and work with all the intimidatingly smart people there.
Some most excellent news: the brilliant
@megreenwell
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@wired
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I published this a year ago today. I’m so glad that media has since solved all its problems and made it look incredibly dated.
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Barry is the heart and soul of Deadspin, one of the best writers anywhere, and a visionary leader. This is the stupidest decision.
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Surely it will shock you to learn that Gregg Doyel didn’t QUITE take the right lesson from his well-deserved public humiliation.
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Thinking about when my husband
@djheller
spent weeks helping care for patients fighting Covid in a *tent in Central Park* because government failures overcrowded every hospital in NYC.
Trump has gotten in a car so he can wave to supporters outside Walter Reed. As you can see from footage, this meant multiple agents riding in a car with Trump while he carries the coronavirus
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It is fucking shameful that craven morons are continually allowed to buy good publications and then destroy them with no regard for journalism or even making money.
NEWS: Management at Sports Illustrated just informed its newsroom in meetings that half the staff has been laid off, according to a person present.
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Man, this is the best and pithiest summation I’ve ever seen of what private equity and hedge funds have done to local media.
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“Many people praised me for my bravery for having done this — to which I could only say: Millions of people do this kind of work every day for their entire lives — haven’t you noticed them?”
RIP to one of the all-time greats.
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I’m crying in an axe-throwing place lol this sucks so much.
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Wow, I can’t wait to read the world’s only living sports blog!
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The way my colleagues at walking out with their heads held high in the face of total cowardice on the part of their bosses is a fucking inspiration. I am so proud to be a Deadspinner.
finding myself incredibly moved by the integrity of everyone at deadspin. not something i think about a lot of people in media
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How come before I opened the mailbox I had no bills to pay, and now both the electric company and the internet company are demanding money?
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Yeah so one thing we’re not gonna do is call this move “classless” when Reese does it and celebrate it when Clark does it.
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who wants to fund my new job responding "🤔" to every tweet in which an open-secret creep proclaims how appalled he is by weinstein
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Samer was the conscience of Deadspin. He always has the best instincts on the trickiest issues, and everyone on staff looks up to him and follows his lead. He is a top-tier journalist and I was lucky to work with him.
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The hill I will die on is that job descriptions should not specify years of experience, and that doing so helps keep newsrooms homogenous. Specify skills, not age!
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@jimbrady
@JordanRaanan
@espnbob
Laura is a wildly skilled beat reporter who's also paid as a professional, and it's an exceedingly strange look for a middle-aged man to call a young woman "smug" for drawing attention to poor working conditions.
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It brings me no pleasure to announce that the writing advice about stopping for the day when you've got momentum — and, conversely, pushing through when you don't — (the craft people call this "parking downhill," apparently) REALLY fucking works.
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Today is Theo’s second adoption anniversary, please say happy day to Theo.
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I wrote about Bourdain.
Anthony Bourdain stood up for women without making it about him.
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Easy to blame Spanfeller, a moron, but this is also a VERY classic private equity "gameplan": Buy a thing, realize you have no idea how to grow it or even not ruin it, shut it down. RIP Jez, my first favorite website.
Media news: G/O Media is shutting down Jezebel after failing to find a buyer. Memo just went out from Jim Spanfeller:
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I don’t watch Jeopardy, but I am extremely invested in the guy who won three times but was apparently bad on the buzzer, then began a multi-week Facebook meltdown about how Jeopardy is not the REAL quizzing world and compared himself to Muhammad Ali.
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y’all have been very generous, I’m going to split whatever we don’t spend on drinks among the icons who forwent severance to stand up for Deadspin so they have a bit of a financial cushion.
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protip for (male) freelancers: if i haven't written back to your pitch yet, don't do this.
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I logged into NextDoor to check on Fireworks Discourse and
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Seems worth applying to these staff writer jobs at
@NiemanLab
both because it’s a chance to do interesting work (remotely!) for a great shop, and because they write job descriptions that include lines like this.
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that
@Thrillist
article we all loved about the burger place kept a domestic-violence conviction off the record and passed it off as “serious things that can happen in every family.” that is egregious journalistic malpractice.
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when you get lucky in an online lottery and your prize is medicine doled out by a brusque nun in a decommissioned Best Buy.
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Some personal news: Inspired by Martha Stewart, I will be accepting no more than three Zoom meetings a day and spending the rest of my time wandering around greeting farm animals.
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My father, Jim Greenwell, died this week. I was by his side with my sister and my mom, his wife of 40 years.
Dad could fix *anything* and was funny as hell and knew so much about so many things. Everyone loved to be around him.
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Kelsey was in the local paper and now we are in a fight. :(
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my spicy take of the day is that wearing sweatpants when working from home is FINE, it’s stupid to pretend you’re in an office when you’re not!
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This story is not new and I’m not the first to say this, but this is among the best feature ledes I’ve ever read.
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