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Edmund Lee 🐿️ 🗞️
@edmundlee
Sensibility is cheap. Reporting is expensive.
edmundlee.substack.com
Joined August 2008
A disease specialist in Seattle had the ability (and instinct) to test for coronavirus as early as January. Officials told her she wasn’t allowed to test. She did it anyway and found a bunch of cases. So what happened? They told her to stop.- It’s worse than you thought. Facebook gave: -Microsoft names of users’ friends without consent -Netflix and Spotify got to read users’ private messages -Amazon got user contact info via friends. Big story from @gabrieldance @laforgia_ @nickconfessore
- 15 calls in the last hour plus. 12 negative. 3 positive. 1 suggested the op-ed writer needs to "be hung." Here all day folks.
- NEW: Anna Wintour has championed diversity for years. But some at Vogue describe a workplace that sidelined and tokenized them. The racism they faced was often coded and subtle; sometimes blunt. That culture stemmed from Ms. Wintour they said:
- Trump ordered 30-day travel ban from Europe to the US — but the UK is excepted. Completely bizarre since Britain has more coronavirus cases than many European countries
- The New York Times has filed a motion to intervene to get access to the FBI search warrant for Mar-a-Lago. There is clear public interest. Plus, Trump has said the search was an "assault." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
- When a big company you cover basically tells you you're not getting access to certain executives because they feel you've been too mean in your coverage, well, that's the only motivation you really need as a journalist, so 🍸
- Replying to @edmundleeI interviewed 18 current and former staffers who describe a very white work environment, not just in staff makeup but in aesthetic and approach. Under Ms. Wintour, Vogue welcomed a certain type of employee — someone who is thin and white, typically from a wealthy family they said
- I worked at Bloomberg News for three years where I did some of the best work of my career. Big stories like this, from my experience, are vetted by top editors, including managing and executive editors, and often the EiC. Nothing went out without their approval.Jennifer Jacobs—one of the two Bloomberg reporters who bylined the embargo-breaking Gershkovich piece—has been fired, according to a source familiar with the situation.
- BuzzFeed, Vice, HuffPost, Mic — what went wrong? Look past the gloom. It’s not the dire crisis media critics have claimed. Consider Vox, The Information, Axios. No amount of digital tricks can take the place of old school methods.
