“She was named to the job nearly two months after Alexi McCammond, a former Axios journalist, resigned after more than 20 Teen Vogue staff members publicly condemned tweets she had posted a decade earlier.”

“In the days and weeks after President Biden’s inauguration, without endless provocations from the man who occupied such a vast swath of our attention for the better part of five years, news consumption started to feel more and more, what’s the word — healthy? Liberated? Sane?”

“A company — like a house — is worth what someone will pay for it. Alden’s $630 million bid was filed Dec. 31. In the four months-plus that have passed no one has yet come forward with a firm higher or comparable bid…Hedge funds like Alden operate as buyers of last resort for companies and assets no one else wants.”

It won’t delete your account. But “you’ll encounter limited functionality…You won’t be able to access your chat list, but you can still answer incoming phone and video calls.” Then, “after a few weeks of limited functionality, you won’t be able to receive incoming calls or notifications and WhatsApp will stop sending messages and calls to your phone.”

“We claim our seat at the table with management for a significant goal: to maintain and grow the biggest, most authoritative news organization in the region. Journalists must have a stronger voice to make that happen, especially at this critical time of flux in our news business.”

“Interns will gain experience and mentorship from the award-winning investigative newsroom while covering topics related to abuses of power and betrayals of public trust.”

“Normal people — with regular lives and real jobs — have soap operas and reality shows. People who are Extremely Online have Substack…for a certain subset of the American elite—a group of people who are concentrated in journalism, academia, and related fields…following the lives of these people is what they do instead of watching General Hospital or The Bachelor.”

“The nearly $3 billion valuation under consideration would be a discount compared with the $5.7 billion valuation set in Vice Media’s last major equity-investment round, a $450 million infusion from TPG in 2017…There is no guarantee that institutional investors will want to fund the proposed Vice Media transaction.”

“One former pandemic reporter told me she quit writing about the coronavirus because doing it for a year ‘ruined me.’ A former political reporter at a major cable news network who covered the congressional response to COVID told me she left her job after ‘eight months of being exhausted and hating my job and wanting to quit journalism entirely…I think the standard, at least for [my network], was to work very hard and be miserable and not complain about it.'”

“She recalled an incident involving an Asian man who looked ‘exceptionally like’ her father. ‘I saw him be humiliated and beaten and called slurs for collecting cans in a neighborhood,’ Lim said. ‘And I just watched it on a loop thinking to myself, “My God, this could so easily be my own father.” When you see something that looks like you, it’s almost impossible not to relate.'”