Nick Confessore
@nickconfessore
Reporter for @NYTimes, staff writer at @NYTmag, @MSNBC political analyst. Also at @nickconfessore.bsky.social.
Great discussion with Jack. Take a listen —>
The closure of Michigan's DEI office, announced today, is a real and symbolic blow to the entire movement. Many factors led to this, but @nickconfessore's investigation is surely one. You can hear all about it in our conversation on College Matters. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unw…
$SNAP CEO back in 2022 on TikTok: "They spent billions upon billions of dollars acquiring users & buying content to subsidize both sides of that marketplace....No startup could afford to invest billions & billions of dollars in user acquisition like that around the world"
Important context for the TikTok ban: the app’s adoption wasn’t a viral phenomenon and was driven by an unprecedented amount of user acquisition spending. TikTok was Snap’s largest advertising client in 2018 (I’ve heard the same is true for Facebook / Meta), and ByteDance was…
A really thought-provoking package from the Monthly, examining new approaches to racial justice in higher ed in a post-affirmative action world.
The decades-long effort to push elite colleges to be more diverse has failed. Here’s a better strategy: demand more support for the underfunded colleges that already graduate most Black and Hispanic students, and plenty of white students as well...🧵 (1/5) washingtonmonthly.com/2025/01/05/ope…
Also, good detail in this @melmason @alexdrnieves story - Bass team didn't quickly refute the "she cut the LAFD budget" story, which was absolutely everywhere politico.com/news/2025/01/0…
A mole within Fox sent the Trump camp all questions he would be getting at a Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum town hall in January 2024, allowing him to workshop his answers ahead of time, including his "I'm not going to have time for retribution" line cnn.com/2025/01/08/med…
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Well, the pilot program for platform screen doors for just 3 stations cost $100 million.
It’s kind of brushed over now but the “mostly apolitical voter” was more Democratic than Republican as late as 2020. This shift only really accelerated post-COVID. nytimes.com/2024/05/24/ups…
SCOOP: Tyson Foods has subpoenaed two news organizations, demanding they turn over notes and contacts with local farmers whom Tyson Foods put out of business. I've never seen such aggressive subpoenas issued by a major corporation to news media. investigatemidwest.org/2024/12/17/tys…