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@nytimes media reporter | 530-961-3223 | benjamin.mullin @nytimes .com

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Today's my first day as a media reporter for @nytimes ! Send me scoops! My email is benjamin.mullin @nytimes .com, and you can message me on Signal confidentially at 530-961-3223.
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Inbox: Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, donate $4.7 million to NPR to create new regional newsrooms.
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New: More than one hundred prominent actors, writers and producers are protesting NBC News’s decision to carry a town hall meeting with President Trump on Thursday night opposite a previously scheduled Joe Biden town hall on rival ABC News. From @JBFlint
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Scoop: USA Today is removing 23 articles from its website this afternoon after an investigation into accusations of fabrication by a reporter, Gabriela Miranda. Story TK.
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New: The @rcfp and more than 30 news organizations, including The New York Times, Dow Jones and The Washington Post, have written to the chief of the Marion Police Department to condemn its raid on the Marion County Record:
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Around the world, journalists are murdered with impunity on a regular basis. This isn't funny.
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@madebymagnolia "ah no, sorry"
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BREAKING: BuzzFeed news is shutting down. @peretti ’s memo:
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More news in here: @TaylorLorenz has been moved from the features staff to the technology team. Cameron Barr, the WaPo's No. 2 editor, has been asked to review her articles before publication ?
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new: About 50 NPR employees sign a letter to CEO Katherine Maher and top editor Edith Chapin calling for, among other things, a public rebuke of the “factual inaccuracies and elisions” in Uri Berliner’s Free Press essay.
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Politico editors email staff on just-published titanic Supreme Court scoop: "We are confident of the authenticity of the draft."
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Inbox: Washington Post is reducing its workforce by approximately 240 positions
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@Bernstein A new type of wife guy emerges
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NEWS: In a new note to staff, BI global editor in chief @nichcarlson says, “I stand by our story and the work that went into it.”
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Of course that’s your contention. You’re a 1st-year media reporter just out of J-school. You probably just got done watching “Page One” and you’re obsessed with falling print revenue. You’ll be writing about that till next month when you’re convinced digital subs are the future…
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@richard_normal already here!! playing giant jenga with a retriever
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Grateful to @WSJ for four amazing years and excited for what’s next at @nytimes !
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In some great news, we're thrilled to announce two stars💫💫 are joining the media reporting desk. Welcome @BenMullin and @jwpetersNYT !
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New: The horrific images on Twitter this weekend crossed a line for users like Pat Holloway, who told me she has seen some terrible things over a 30-year career as a photojournalist but never anything like this.
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Someone is going to build a great media company out of the ashes of the last two months. The amount of talent on the market right now is unreal.
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Quibi, the streaming service founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg, is exploring strategic options including a possible sale, sources say. Story coming to wsj dot com.
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Jeff Bezos didn’t understand why Washington Post editor Marty Baron needed so many new editors. So, Marty Baron got creative: A profile of Jeff Bezos, newspaper baron, with @katie_robertson
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NEW: BI parent Axel Springer says it’s going to take “a couple of days” to “review the processes” around BI’s stories related to Neri Oxman, an academic and Bill Ackman’s wife, even though “the facts of the reports have not been disputed.”
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Tidbit: In remarks that instantly leaked, Vice C.E.O. Bruce Dixon warned staff that "we will not tolerate constant external leaks to the press moments after we communicate."
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In a town hall with remaining staff today, Vice CEO Bruce Dixon said that news has a future at Vice. He gave the example of “a potential Vice sub brand under CNN, or how the Athletic’s relationship works with the NYT.” Last part is confusing - the Times acquired the Athletic?
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*big journalism man puffs pipe, pats tummy* kid, if you want a job in this business you gotta do what i did: be born 5 decades ago into a completely different industry where the rules were completely different and the money grew on trees. now go get ‘em’
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News: Employees at the Los Angeles Times are beginning to be notified that they are being laid off.
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Scoop: Business Insider parent Insider Inc. is in talks to acquire a controlling stake in newsletter startup @MorningBrew that values the company at over $75 million, sources say. Story coming to wsj dot com.
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7 years
The mood among NYT copy editors is grim today as they're being told they will no longer have jobs at the newspaper:
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News: G/O Media is moving Deadspin to Chicago and suspending negotiations with unionized employees. Here's the letter from Jim Spanfeller.
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sharks, im asking for $30,000 to fund my crippling addiction to little trinkets
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Scoop: The Washington Post Guild has authorized a 24-hour walkout for next Thursday, complete with a picket line outside the office. Guild announced the walkout internally after securing 700 commitments.
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New: Fox News refused to run an ad linked to the MyPillow Guy’s baseless election fraud claims, so he said he’s pulling his ads.
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Scoop: Google is testing a new tool, known internally as "Genesis," that can write news articles. It has been demo'd for The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. w/ @nicoagrant
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Linda Yaccarino hadn’t been officially named Twitter C.E.O. when Elon Musk threw her her first curveball. W/ @tiffkhsu , @sapna , @RMac18 and @koblin !
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Scoop: the investigation into Gabriela Miranda revealed she took steps to deceive investigators, including producing inauthentic recordings:
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Scoop: USA Today is removing 23 articles from its website this afternoon after an investigation into accusations of fabrication by a reporter, Gabriela Miranda. Story TK.
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The lawyer for the Marion Record just told me that today's victory "does nothing to recompense the paper for the violation of its First Amendment rights when the search was conducted, and, most regrettably, does not return Joann Meyer.” w/ Kevin Draper
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some news: @sulliview will be the next executive director of the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics at Columbia Journalism School
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Scoop: Vox Media has a substantial portion of its cash at Silicon Valley Bank. The media angle, w/ @eringriffith :
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. @oliverdarcy from @CNN asks why @infowars gets an account on Facebook if Facebook is serious about fighting fake news? News Feed product guy says that Inforwars is in line with the company's standards and points out importance of free speech in community
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Life cycle of reporting: -I'm shit, I don't have anything -Got a tip! -2 weeks of anxiety trying to confirm -Feverish writing -Publication -Feel good for 5 minutes -I'm shit, I don't have anything
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wheres kornacki….i want to see him with some red yarn and a poster of joe alwyn
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NBC is doing LIVE coverage like it’s an ELECTION NIGHT
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when my editor asks when i'm going to file
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NEWS: Another editor has quit The Messenger. Her statement:
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Each episode of Pod Save America is downloaded 1.4 million times:
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In the wake of the recent social media dustups involving WaPo journalists, Executive Editor Sally Buzbee sends a memo to journalists admonishing them to treat each other with respect and kindness:
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News: I'm joining the @wsjCMO team later this month as a reporter covering digital media and advertising. I'm really excited! Send scoops!
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Scoop: A politics editor has quit The Messenger less than a week into its launch. Here's what he told me about the site.
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New: memo from Gannett CEO Mike Reed announcing “voluntary severance” and other austerity measures at the company:
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NEW: @InsiderUnion and @nyguild respond to Axel Springer’s investigation into Business Insider’s Neri Oxman stories: “We are disappointed to see Axel Springer publicly call the integrity of its journalists into question in response to attacks on our members’ coverage of Neri
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Scoop: The New York Times has reached a deal to acquire Serial Productions, maker of the hit podcast Serial. An announcement could come as soon as tomorrow ayem. Story TK.
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Scoop: @theintercept is cutting 15 positions, and EIC Roger Hodge is departing
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GQ watered down, then removed, an article critical of Warner Bros. Discovery C.E.O. David Zaslav after his spokesman complained about the story:
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After 3 Fox News journalists were fired upon, reporters at CNN and Fox News teamed to search for the ones who were still missing. The Ukraine war has gotten very dangerous for journalists, who are relying on each more than ever to stay safe. W/ @alexbruell
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scoop: Gannett will stop using AP content in its publications on March 25, according to a memo from chief content officer Kristin Roberts. "This shift will give us the opportunity to redeploy more dollars...where we might have gaps."
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Poynter has an amazing tuition-free program for journalists of color, but we need way more applicants! Please apply:
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Some Los Angeles Times journalists who participated in today’s walkout are telling me they have been locked out of their company email and Slack messaging systems.
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“I just got hired by The Wall Street Journal. I’m the Moscow correspondent. I’m in the bureau. I did the thing.” - @evangershkovich @katie_robertson ’s profile of Evan, the first American reporter jailed on spying charges since the end of the Cold War:
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Scoop: Sports Illustrated has a new publisher! He told me he’s planning to hire back some of the laid-off employees and continue the print magazine.
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Some news: Employees at The Los Angeles Times are walking out tomorrow for a day in protest of the proposed job cuts. The scope of the proposed cuts have alarmed LAT journalists I’ve spoken to, who have said they threaten to reverse the progress the LA Times has made to expand
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scoop: NPR's top editor said in a meeting with the new CEO and show hosts Wednesday that she didn't want to make Uri Berliner a "martyr." We're told that everyone at the network is mindful of the disaster created by Juan Williams' firing in 2010.
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Politico has sold to Axel Springer for more than $1 billion, people familiar say.
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@delia_cai Whose fault is it
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News: The LA Times Guild has called an emergency meeting today in light of the possibility of another major round of layoffs at the L.A. Times. “This is the big one.”
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No media reporter covers their own organization more scrupulously and aggressively as David Folkenflik, in my opinion.
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David Folkenflik
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The opposite, @drjbhattacharya I have contractual protections to go where the facts take me in covering NPR and to do reporting insulated from any influence from corporate or news leadership. No other outlet affords more protection for self-coverage.
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You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me
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This is unusual. It did not happen during similar walk-outs by employees of The New York Times and The Washington Post. Some Los Angeles Times journalists have told me that this has made coordinating coverage for tomorrow difficult.
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Some Los Angeles Times journalists who participated in today’s walkout are telling me they have been locked out of their company email and Slack messaging systems.
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scoop w/ @koblin and @trippmickle : Jon Stewart's show on Apple is ending due to creative differences — potential show topics on China and artificial intelligence were points of contention
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Gallatin County Sheriff’s office says it's investigating an assault report against Gianforte:
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NEWS: The Washington Post has held talks internally about acquiring The Guardian, The Economist and The Associated Press, but they haven't resulted in deals
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One thing I think media leaders don’t fully appreciate is the extent to which news organizations are impossible to run by fiat. A newsroom is a living thing that basically operates by consent of the people inside it, and you cannot do your job effectively if they don’t trust you.
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I’m told NYT Editorial Page Editor James Bennet apologized for the “Send in the Troops” op-ed situation on the call just now. Says he’s using the moment to rethink the way things are done in opinion.
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BREAKING: CNN had closed its offices as Covid cases spike. Here’s President Jeff Zucker’s note to staff
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Big, BIG Wall Street Journal news: Emma Tucker, the new EIC, has told staffers they’re dropping the WSJ style convention of including company suffixes. Style hive, turn out. “We have decided that their value is outweighed by the clutter that they often create”
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Scoop: Kevin Hart is the latest Hollywood entrepreneur to tap into the private-equity boom. His media company, Hartbeat, has raised $100 million from Abry Partners at a ~$650 million valuation
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7 years
New: @MotherJones is launching a $500,000 crowdfunding campaign to investigate any Trump-Russia ties:
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Sad news: Less than half the staff of the Center for Public Integrity will be notified today that they’re going to be laid off. This comes as the nonprofit newsroom is trying to right itself after a difficult year.
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I love this time of year. The tinsel, the lights, the Yuletide spirit, the Big Journalism Projects coming in just under the wire
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release me from this hell
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Letter of recommendation: the @Poynter instagram account, which is serving the dankest memes of any media-focused nonprofit
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I’m always saying this
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The New York Times
3 years
Breaking News: Evidence is mounting that a tiny subatomic particle is being influenced by forms of matter and energy that are not yet known to science but which may nevertheless affect the nature and evolution of the universe.
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