Laura Wagner
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New York, NY, United States
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CNN's Brian Stelter Tries A New Job
Brian Stelter, CNN’s chief media reporter and guy who thinks kids who saw their friends murdered in school should tone down their anti-gun rhetoric, seems to have taken on a new job at the network in recent days. Stelter’s been hard at work as a crisis management consultant for his bosses and colleague Chris Cuomo, […] → Read More
The Reckoning At The Appeal Was A Long Time Coming
What’s played out at The Appeal in the last few days is nothing short of a drastic reversal of power, sparked by fed-up staffers’ demands for protections, transparency, and accountability. A non-profit that for years largely answered only to Rob Smith is suddenly being forced to answer to the dozens of employees who make its work possible. And while the shift seemed to happen abruptly and then… → Read More
Incoming TNR Editor Lays Out Boring Vision For Magazine In "Depressing" Meeting With Staff
In a meeting with staffers yesterday, the newly announced editor of The New Republic, current Daily Beast columnist Michael Tomasky, laid out his vision for the magazine. It is everything the formerly new TNR was not. → Read More
Jonah Peretti Lays Off 47 HuffPost Staffers In Latest "Bloodbath"
BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti, who acquired HuffPost from Verizon in a deal that was announced last year with the promise that HuffPost would thrive in partnership with BuzzFeed, announced in an all-hands meeting today that 47 U.S. HuffPost staffers, including eight managers, would be losing their jobs in order to “drive longterm sustainability.” Thirty-three of […] → Read More
Los Angeles Times Editor Out Following Scandal-Plagued Tenure
Norm Pearlstine, who presided over plagiarism and sexual harassment scandals, issued a memo to staff saying "I believe my work is done." → Read More
GSA Administrator Emily Murphy Alive, Mad We Emailed Her
The government bureaucrat holding up the peaceful transfer of presidential power refuses to explain herself. → Read More
New Yorker Suspends Jeffrey Toobin for Zoom Dick Incident
In a statement to VICE, Jeffrey Toobin apologized for the "embarrassingly stupid mistake." → Read More
New York Times to Staff: You Can Only Trash Colleagues If You Have a Column
After Bret Stephens regurgitated criticisms of his colleagues’ 1619 Project, NYT brass held a meeting to clarify who at the paper can write about what. → Read More
The Hydraulic Press Channel Is the Internet Sensation of Our Time
We spoke to the creative minds behind the channel about the human need to destroy. → Read More
LA Times Editor Norm Pearlstine Resigns Following Ethics Scandals
“Finally,” one staffer tells VICE News. → Read More
Tribune Publishing Out-Evils Itself With Phishing Email Promising Bonuses
The company sent staffers a fake email touting executive bonuses of up to $10,000 for "commitment to excellence." → Read More
Vox Media Agrees To Settle Worker-Exploitation Lawsuits for Millions
Hundreds of unpaid and lowly paid bloggers who worked for SB Nation will split $2.5 million. → Read More
LA Times Staffers Demand Internal Investigation, Claim Retaliatory Environment
"We have many questions that must be addressed," more than 50 women wrote in one recent HR complaint. → Read More
LA Times Places Columnist Arash Markazi on Leave Amid Plagiarism Investigation
The investigation began after members of the newspaper’s sports department sent a letter to management demanding action. → Read More
Bari Weiss Is Leaving the New York Times
The writer and editor has self-expelled from the newspaper, she tells VICE. → Read More
Journalism's Top Ethics Expert Isn't Concerned With Right and Wrong
As journalists wage a civil war, America's leading media ethicist doesn't seem to quite understand what anyone is fighting about. → Read More
'New York Times' Staffers Grill Leadership Over Tom Cotton Op-Ed During All-Hands
"In publishing the Tom Cotton piece, haven't we effectively validated depictions of Black Americans as terrorists in exercising their First Amendment rights to protest police brutality?" → Read More
Stop Saying People Have “Fallen Ill”
They’re being felled. → Read More
Workers Are Fed up With Sinclair Broadcast Group's Greed
Lagging behind competitors, the right-wing news network offered out-of-work sports broadcast technicians piddly loans. → Read More
ESPN and Michael Jordan Run the Longest-Ever Michael Jordan Ad
"The Last Dance" makes the people who made it look great. → Read More