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Sarah Ellison
@sarahellison
Staff writer, the Washington Post, former Vanity Fair, WSJ. Author of War at the Wall Street Journal. sarah.ellison(at)https://t.co/Ce1woumIr1 or cell/Signal: 917-400-1092
Mar 26, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
SCOOP-->A Qatari royal invested about $50 mln in right-wing cable channel Newsmax. Top editorial brass told employees to avoid critiquing the emirate: "We were not allowed to criticize Qatar," one person told us. From @DavidKenner @jocwapo and me. wapo.st/3xbV1FI At the time, a coalition of countries led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE had established a diplomatic and economic blockade against Qatar, accusing it of supporting terrorist groups across the Middle East. Qatar had counted on its relationship with the United States for protection.
Nov 10, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Yes, Rupert Murdoch has turned on Trump. It's been years in the making. A quick thead: Remember, he never really liked him: , as we all know, Rupert settled in for a nice ride during the Trump administration. Above all, Rupert is a businessman and a pragmatist and Trump was good for business.
Apr 7, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Dean Baquet just announced a major shift in policy for NYT reporters on Twitter. Per an internal memo: "A Reset in our approach to Twitter," he writes: that "maintaining a presence on Twitter and social media isn ow purely optional for Times journalists." Here's the memo... Image
Jun 20, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
How Trumpworld obsessions with media and loyalty coalesced in a battle for ⁦@VOANews⁩. My latest washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi… Bannon exulted over Michael Pack’s confirmation and first-week personnel moves. “He has accomplished in one day what people have been trying to do for 15 years.”
Jun 11, 2020 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
Here's my profile of Heath Freeman, the hedge fund manager at Alden who might be the most hated man in newspapers and whose firm controls about 200 of them. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi… He gave me his first-ever interview and I was surprised to hear him say he wanted to be remembered as someone whose team “saved the newspaper business.”