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Media reporter @nytimes | Aussie in NYC | Email me: katie.robertson @nytimes .com

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Have media goss? A hot tip? You can contact me confidentially on Signal:
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Politico employees have been advised to be vigilant about who enters elevators with them at the office, and to consider removing any personal details from social media accounts that identify them as Politico staff, according to an internal memo
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New: The New York Times says a group of colleagues and their families in Afghanistan, 128 people in all, have made it to safety
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NEW: Messages and testimony from Fox News stars and execs show their private disbelief over Trump's voter fraud claims, while the network continued to promote many of those lies on the air
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NEW: A reporter on the New York Post’s Hunter Biden story refused to attach his byline to it, sources say, as the tabloid’s staff question the article’s credibility
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The Washington Post has added a correction tonight to the top of the @geneweingarten column
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Inbox from @nytimes : Employees not required back in offices before July 6, 2021
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Here’s the note from NYT’s @meslackman to staff tonight on our colleagues from Afghanistan
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Rudy Giuliani, a source for the Post's story (as noted by the Post itself), told The New York Times he chose The Post because “either nobody else would take it, or if they took it, they would spend all the time they could to try to contradict it before they put it out.”
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Felicia Sonmez's letter of termination from the Washington Post cited "insubordination, maligning your co-workers online and violating The Post’s standards on workplace collegiality and inclusivity."
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NEW: Alexi McCammond has parted ways with Teen Vogue just two weeks after being appointed the new editor in chief, amid a wave of internal and external concerns over past racist and homophobic tweets
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BREAKING: Fox News has abruptly settled the defamation case brought by Dominion, after a trial jury was selected and lawyers waited in the courtroom to give their openings
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SCOOP: The Washington Post is on track to lose money this year, sources say. It been unable to boost subscribers back to the 3 million it had in 2020 -- and CEO Fred Ryan has floated cutting 100 newsroom positions. Story here from me and @BenMullin
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New: Staff at @WSJ were told today that the company won't be mandating a broad office return, and instead team leaders will figure out what the "hybrid and flexible" work arrangements should be for their group
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Another reporter on the story had little to do with the writing or reporting of it, according to 3 people with knowledge of how it was prepared. She learned that her byline was on the story only after it was published, the people said.
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This is big: A union of more than 500 Condé Nast employees has won formal recognition -- all of Condé's publications are now unionized
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Out of 26 most popular conservative media outlets, only 4 have mentioned the revelations from recent court filings that Fox News hosts privately did not believe the election fraud claims their network was airing w/ @stuartathompson
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BREAKING: The New York Times and the Times Guild have agreed on a contract, after more than 2 years of heated negotiations. Immediate raise of up to 12.5% (covering 2021-23), with raises of 3.25% in 2024 and 3% in 2025
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SCOOP: The New Yorker, Pitchfork and Ars Technica unions have reached a deal with Condé Nast after 2.5yr of negotiations, including wage increases & a minimum salary of $60,000 by 2023
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Editors in The New York Post’s newsroom now regularly hand down anti-Trump story assignments and the editor in chief gets involved to make sure the tone is right, sources told me
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Updated story here on Felicia Sonmez's firing from @washingtonpost , including that she was fired today over email (below)
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Scoop: G/O Media has sold The Onion. The company told employees in an email today that it was bought by a new company called Global Tetrahedron and the site's staff will be kept on
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WSJ DC staffers ask for more clarity in the meeting, managing editor Liz Harris refuses. "Hope you had a good time in Davos," someone in the room says
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NEWS: The Wall Street Journal's DC bureau finally told this morning there will be a restructure, in a meeting that lasted >5m. Managing ed Liz Harris says she'll send emails to people affected today, then a summary of changes after the individual meetings. No other details given
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BREAKING: Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson says $787.5 million settlement. “The truth matters, lies have consequences,” he says.
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NEW: The Village Voice has been bought by Brian Calle, LA Weekly's owner. He plans to relaunch the iconic publication's website in January and run quarterly print editions
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Student journalists have taken down two prominent university figures in the past two weeks -- today it was Stanford University's president, following investigative reporting from Theo Baker ( @tab_delete )
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NEW: New York Times tech workers (about 650 employees) have formed a union
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Our full story on the Tucker Carlson exit, a decision made by Lachlan Murdoch and Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott By Jeremy Peters, @grynbaum and me
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NEW: The New York Times worked with the Qatari govt to get Afghan employees and their families out of Kabul — part of a global rescue effort alongside The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. More here (with @grynbaum and @tiffkhsu ):
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Most brutal break-up message since Carrie’s Post-it note (from @gabrielsherman in @VanityFair )
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What’s the German word for that feeling of unmitigated joy when the plane doors close and there’s no one in the seat next to you
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NEW: With President Trump headed toward a likely defeat, top editors at the New York Post told some staff members this week to be tougher in their coverage of him, sources told me
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NEW: Senior editors at The New York Post have told staff not to use any reporting from CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post or The New York Times in their stories, listing just those four outlets but not offering an explicit explanation
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NEW, from just-released filings in Dominion v Fox News lawsuit: Rupert Murdoch acknowledged in his deposition that hosts endorsed election fraud lies: “I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it in hindsight”
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NEW: The New York Times is indefinitely postponing its return to office (originally Sept 7) and making vax proof mandatory for those who want to go in voluntarily
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Everyone in NYC peeking at their company’s job boards today 👀
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NEW: The Los Angeles Times just told newsroom staffers that it’s cutting 74 positions
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The New York Times's historic front page for tomorrow:
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NEW: Journalists at @BusinessInsider , now known as Insider, have formed a union
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NEW: “NewsNation” debuted in Sept as an “unbiased” newscast. Now journalists there tell me they fear it's becoming a “mini Fox News” as two of its top editors quit abruptly amid concerns over the involvement of Bill Shine
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NEW: The New York Times is disbanding its Sports desk and integrating more coverage from The Athletic. NYT editors said no layoffs were planned and Sports journalists will move to other roles in the newsroom. w/ @koblin
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~ personal news ~ Thrilled to be joining @jimwindolf 's ace team as a media reporter for the @nytimes . Hit me with your news/gossip
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Scoop: Two top producers from Tucker Carlson’s former show left Fox News this week. I’m told they were already in discussions to leave before the “wannabe dictator” chyron on Tues. A third senior Tucker staffer quietly left the company last month.
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Washington Post CEO Fred Ryan is concerned about low productivity in the newsroom, according to our sources. He asked for Zoom records and found there were fewer meetings on Fridays. He also monitors badge swipe reports as he pushes for RTO w/ @BenMullin
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SCOOP: More than 40 BuzzFeed workers have filed a mass arbitration action today against the company — asking for ~$4.6m in damages — after they say it bungled its IPO and prevented them from trading their shares
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NEW: The Washington Post just sent staff members an email welcoming three new hires -- while layoffs are going on at the company today
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WSJ staff told today by the publisher that they can go into the office voluntarily from mid-Sept, and vaccinations will not be mandatory
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The editor's note atop yesterday's WSJ editorial, which labelled the story of a 10yo who had been raped and needed an abortion a 'fanciful tale'
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I nearly left my desk plant when we left the office in March so.. I'm glad I didn't.
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More here — this is the email Jim Spanfeller, CEO of G/O Media, sent out today. And yes I’m told Global Tetrahedron is in fact a real company
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SCOOP: New York City’s public pension funds sued Fox Corporation, saying it neglected its duty to shareholders by opening itself up to lawsuits from the persistent broadcasting of falsehoods
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In an interview, Marty Baron says the biggest challenge facing media is the “level of conspiracy thinking that has become entrenched with a substantial portion of the American public” w/ @marcatracy
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The Wall Street Journal, which just had sweeping cuts to its DC bureau, now has over 4m total subs (up 7% YoY), according to News Corp earnings. Dow Jones (WSJ publisher) EBITDA up 17% to $163 million, its highest quarter since 2007, the company reports.
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WSJ staff told in an email today that while their return to office is still voluntary, there WILL be bagels + fruit + cold brew (journalism perks remain very different to banking/tech..)
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And in even more news today: Lachlan Murdoch drops his defamation case against the small Aussie publisher Crikey, two days after Fox settled w/ Dominion for an eyewatering amount of money
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NEW: Axios hires star Politico reporter Alex Thompson ( @AlexThomp ) as national political correspondent. News outlets are jostling for talent ahead of 2024 — I'm told Thompson turned down offers at WaPo, Politico and Semafor
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New: Washington Post staff just told there will be a phased return to office, with some people on Jan 31 and the rest on Feb 15. The Post will be mandating boosters and requiring weekly testing at the office.
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NEW: @AOC and @ewarren have pulled out of The New Yorker Festival in solidarity with @newyorkerunion members, who are planning a digital picket line
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A majority of New York Times tech workers have voted in favor of certifying their union - meaning @NYTGuildTech becomes the biggest tech union in the country
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Lachlan Murdoch, whose Fox empire is facing two blockbuster defamation lawsuits in the U.S., threatens an Aussie news site with the same
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Los Angeles Times spokeswoman just told me: "Dr. Soon-Shiong and his family continue to invest in and plan for the future of the Los Angeles Times, and do not plan to sell."
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“What he was doing was incredibly important. It was a story that really needed to be told because we need to understand it.” I spoke to friends of Evan Gershkovich, the WSJ reporter detained in Russia
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Jeffrey Toobin's out at @NewYorker - story coming
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WSJ’s new editor in chief, Emma Tucker, emailed staff today to say the paper is dropping honorific titles, a change coming into effect at midnight
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"Bosses wear Prada, workers get nada." Condé Nast unionized employees march in front of Anna Wintour's house in an escalation of an ongoing fight over wages and benefits
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The Gabby Petito case has generated relentless media coverage, raising the question of why disappearances of people of color don't often get the same attention
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There's always a local angle
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NEW: Washington Post staff were told today that draft social media guidelines will be sent around tomorrow and the Post will hold listening sessions over the next several days for people to have input on them
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BREAKING: Rupert Murdoch withdraws Fox and News Corp merger proposal
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INBOX: @Choire Sicha is stepping down from the @nytimes Style desk (after transforming it) to help expand the NYT's newsletters
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UNC's board of trustees votes 9-4 to grant tenure to @nhannahjones -- story coming shortly
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New Yorker union employees are walking off the job for a day over what they say was an "insulting" response to wage proposals from management
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The first print issue of the Village Voice in more than 3 years hit newsstands this weekend As @mikeymusto explains it: “New York is back, The Voice is back, I’m back.”
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Wall-to-wall TV coverage of an historic indictment, with many hosts on Fox News jumping in to defend Trump. "The country is not going to stand for it. And people better be careful. And that’s all I’ll say about that," Jesse Waters said on "The Five"
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Scoop: Newspapers owned by Alden Global Capital will no longer endorse political candidates in their opinion pages. Will be announced in an editorial appearing in the papers as soon as tomorrow
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Scott Galloway (⁦ @profgalloway ⁩) has a new show on Bloomberg’s ⁦ @Quicktake ⁩ streaming service and … this deleted video gives some … insight into what to expect?
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Sitting next to a woman who has taken herself out for a solo dinner of moules frites followed by steak frites and we need more people like her
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INBOX: The Atlantic says it now has more than 1 million subscriptions and is profitable
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“Every day is very hard — every day we feel that he is not here.” I spoke with the parents of Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who has been detained in Russia for one whole year today, arrested while doing his job
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