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INBELLA<p>Jay-Z and Diddy Assault Case Dismissed <a href="https://www.inbella.com/907899/jay-z-and-diddy-assault-case-dismissed/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">inbella.com/907899/jay-z-and-d</span><span class="invisible">iddy-assault-case-dismissed/</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/AlexSpiro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlexSpiro</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/AntigoneCuris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntigoneCuris</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/buzbee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>buzbee</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Carter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Carter</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/CelebritiesTopics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CelebritiesTopics</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Combs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Combs</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crime</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/diddy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diddy</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/HypeMen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HypeMen</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/JaneDoe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JaneDoe</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/JayAndSilentBob" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JayAndSilentBob</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/JayZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JayZ</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/JohnDoe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnDoe</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/RocNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RocNation</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/SeanCombs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeanCombs</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/SexualHarassmentInTheUnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SexualHarassmentInTheUnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Shawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shawn</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/TheRoot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheRoot</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/TonyBuzbee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TonyBuzbee</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/ViolenceAgainstWomenInTheUnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ViolenceAgainstWomenInTheUnitedStates</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>The Washington Post said Friday that newly named editor Robert <a href="https://c.im/tags/Winnett" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Winnett</span></a> has decided NOT to take the job and remain in Britain instead, <br />another upheaval at a news outlet where a reorganization plan has gone disastrously wrong.</p><p>The Post’s CEO and publisher, Will <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lewis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lewis</span></a>, announced Winnett’s decision to withdraw in a note to staff on Friday morning, <br />and said a recruitment firm would be hired to launch a search for a replacement immediately.</p><p>The financially struggling Post had announced Winnett would take over as editor of the core newsroom functions after November’s presidential election, <br />while it was also setting up a “third newsroom” devoted to finding new ways for its journalism to make money.</p><p>Three weeks ago, then-executive editor Sally <a href="https://c.im/tags/Buzbee" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Buzbee</span></a> said that she would quit rather than take a demotion to head this revenue-enhancement effort. </p><p>Former Wall Street Journal editor Matt <a href="https://c.im/tags/Murray" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Murray</span></a> was brought on as her interim replacement and future leader of the “third newsroom.”</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/washington-post-editor-england-telegraph-quits-e650409305a2f1011926306791bc97b1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/washington-</span><span class="invisible">post-editor-england-telegraph-quits-e650409305a2f1011926306791bc97b1</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Paper accuses incoming editor of using stolen private records </p><p>The Washington Post has published an investigation that accuses its own future editor of using the work of a self-described &quot;blagger&quot; who stole private records to order.</p><p>Under the headline <br />“Incoming Post editor tied to self-described ‘thief’ who claimed role in his reporting”, <br />the newspaper claimed that Robert <a href="https://c.im/tags/Winnett" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Winnett</span></a> used material from a self-confessed &quot;blagger&quot;, John <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ford" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ford</span></a>, while working as a journalist on the Sunday Times during the 2000s.</p><p>Winnett, who runs the Daily Telegraph’s newsroom, is due to become the editor of the Washington Post in the autumn.</p><p>If the British journalist does take up the post, he will inherit a publication in turmoil, filled with journalists who have been digging through Winnett’s record as a reporter.</p><p>The Washington Post’s near 3,000-word report relies heavily on a 2018 interview with Ford published by the Guardian, in which the former actor gave numerous examples of his extensive work as a “blagger” for the Sunday Times.</p><p>The US outlet has now directly linked some of these examples to Winnett, who worked at the weekend outlet during the 2000s before moving to the Telegraph.</p><p>It suggests exclusive stories by Winnett about a takeover of Leeds United, Tony <a href="https://c.im/tags/Blair" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Blair</span></a>’s finances, and the client list for a new Mercedes-Benz model were all connected to work by Ford.</p><p>Ford has described himself as a <br />👉“common thief” who was a master of mimicry and would put on accents to talk banks into handing over information. <br />👉Although such blagging is against the law, it can often be legally justified if there is a public interest in the information that is revealed.</p><p>He specialised in blagging financial and phone records but also got his hands dirty on behalf of the Sunday Times. <br />During the early 2000s he would root through the bins of New Labour figures while hunting for stories, with Alastair Campbell’s refuse a particularly good source of stories.</p><p>He worked for the newspaper for many years before accepting a police caution for a bodged attempt in 2010 to blag a pre-release copy of Tony Blair’s autobiography from the book’s publisher. <br />He was paid £2,100 by the Sunday Times for the failed blag but his work for the paper dried up after the arrest, which took place amid growing scrutiny of the dark arts of British journalism.</p><p>According to the Post, when Ford was arrested he turned to his old colleague Winnett for help. <br />The journalist allegedly helped find him a lawyer, obtained an untraceable phone for future communications “and reassured Ford that the ‘remarkable omertà’ of British journalism would ensure his clandestine efforts would never come to light”.</p><p>The Washington Post, owned by the Amazon founder Jeff <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bezos</span></a>, has been in turmoil since the appointment last year of a new chief executive, Will <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lewis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lewis</span></a>.</p><p>Lewis, a former editor of the Daily Telegraph, has been tasked with turning around the newspaper’s fortunes and improving its financial position after years of heavy losses. <br />His arrival has instead prompted renewed attention on his past links to the News UK phone-hacking scandal.</p><p>In recent weeks Lewis has been accused of trying to kill stories by his outlet about his links to phone hacking, contributing to the departure of the former editor Sally <a href="https://c.im/tags/Buzbee" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Buzbee</span></a>. <br />A spokesperson for Lewis has denied that the publisher put pressure on his editor.</p><p>Lewis has now tasked Winnett, a former colleague, with leading the US newsroom. <br />The duo worked together on the 2009 MPs’ expenses scandal, which dominated the news for weeks after the Telegraph paid £110,000for a stolen disc featuring politicians’ spending data. <br />The decision to pay for the information has raised eyebrows<br />👉 in the US, where buying up stories is against journalistic norms.</p><p>Lewis has been damning of the current state of the Washington Post. <br />According to Vanity Fair, he recently told the outlet’s journalists: <br />“We are losing large amounts of money. Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff. I can’t sugarcoat it any more. So I’ve had to take decisive, urgent action to set us on a different path, sourcing talent that I have worked with that are the best of the best.”</p><p>News UK said: “The Sunday Times has a strong record of investigative journalism over decades and has employed many contributors and researchers to work on stories, or parts of stories. The paper strongly rejects the accusation that it has in the past retained or commissioned any individual to act illegally.<br />“Some allegations related to the research work of John Ford have been aired previously and we cannot comment on the specifics of these new allegations, which all predate 2011.”</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/jun/17/washington-post-accuses-incoming-editor-robert-winnett-of-using-work-of-blagger?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/media/article/</span><span class="invisible">2024/jun/17/washington-post-accuses-incoming-editor-robert-winnett-of-using-work-of-blagger?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Weeks before the embattled executive editor of The Washington Post abruptly resigned on Sunday, <br />her relationship with the company’s chief executive became increasingly tense.</p><p>In mid-May, the two clashed over whether to publish an article about a British hacking scandal with some ties to The Post’s chief executive, Will <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lewis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lewis</span></a>, <br />according to two people with knowledge of their interactions.</p><p>Sally <a href="https://c.im/tags/Buzbee" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Buzbee</span></a>, the editor, informed Mr. Lewis that the newsroom planned to cover a judge’s scheduled ruling in a long-running British legal case brought by Prince Harry and others against some of Rupert <a href="https://c.im/tags/Murdoch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Murdoch</span></a>’s tabloids, the people said.</p><p>As part of the ruling, the judge was expected to say whether the plaintiffs could add Mr. Lewis’s name to a list of executives who they argued were involved in a plan to conceal evidence of hacking at the newspapers. </p><p>Mr. Lewis told Ms. Buzbee the case involving him did not merit coverage, the people said.</p><p>When Ms. Buzbee said The Post would publish an article anyway, he said her decision represented a lapse in judgment and abruptly ended the conversation.</p><p>The interaction rattled Ms. Buzbee, who then consulted with confidants outside The Post about how she should handle the situation. </p><p>When the judge ruled several days later, on May 21, that Mr. Lewis could be added to the case, The Post published an article about the decision.</p><p>Mr. Lewis did not prevent the article from publishing. </p><p>But the incident continued to weigh on Ms. Buzbee just as she was considering her future at the paper, according to the two people with knowledge of her decision-making process. </p><p>Her eventual decision to resign has shaken one of the country’s top news organizations.</p><p>The interaction over the court ruling was not the primary reason for her resignation. </p><p>Ms. Buzbee had already been mulling her future at The Post because of a plan by Mr. Lewis to reorganize the newsroom that he laid out to her in April, the people said. </p><p>Mr. Lewis had offered Ms. Buzbee a job running a new division focused on social media and service journalism, according to the people. </p><p>She considered that a demotion, since her job as executive editor included overseeing all parts of the news report.</p><p>Mr. Lewis was appointed by Jeff <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bezos</span></a>, The Post’s owner and the founder of Amazon, late last year to remake the publication as it reeled from a steep audience decline and annual losses in the tens of millions of dollars. </p><p>For the past few months, Mr. Lewis, who was previously the chief executive of News Corp’s Dow Jones, which publishes The Wall Street Journal, has been formulating a strategy to overhaul the business.</p><p>He decided to split the editorial ranks into three divisions: <br />- a core newsroom that covers politics, business and other topics; <br />- an opinion section; and <br />- a new division that would focus on social media, like video storytelling, as well as service journalism, including wellness and lifestyle coverage. <br />(The Post is currently divided into two parts, news and opinion.)</p><p>In offering Ms. Buzbee a role running the social media and service journalism division, according to people familiar with her thinking, Mr. Lewis told her she could weigh in on the recruitment of the editor to oversee the core news operation. </p><p>He later informed her that he had selected Robert Winnett, an editor at The Daily Telegraph who had previously worked with Mr. Lewis, the people said.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/business/media/washington-post-buzbee-lewis.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2024/06/05/busines</span><span class="invisible">s/media/washington-post-buzbee-lewis.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>