McKay Coppins

McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins

I spoke with @hari at @AmanpourCoPBS about my new cover story on Alden Global Capital—its secretive leaders, its record, and its dismantling of local journalism. https://t.co/WHb6zsR7GI — PolitiTweet.org

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Bainum did tell me he'd spent a good amount of time talking to people at a range local news startups and thinks they deserve more funding. https://t.co/tR4OR2Lj7Y — PolitiTweet.org

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Good thread here by the publisher of Mother Jones on the viability of the nonprofit news outlet Stewart Bainum is building in Baltimore. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Even if you have never set foot in China, Hikvision’s cameras have likely seen you...Its cameras watched over apartment buildings in New York City, public recreation centers in Philadelphia, and hotels in Los Angeles." https://t.co/sjG0K31e7l — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AMLwhere: I’ll be joining ⁦@mckaycoppins⁩ on ⁦@1a⁩ shortly to talk about his story on Alden and what’s happening to local news. Listen… — PolitiTweet.org

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I went on NPR's @MorningEdition to talk about Alden Global Capital and what happens to a community when its local newspaper is gutted. https://t.co/Jr1rhWZ5u5 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Jon_Allsop: For @CJR, I wrote something off of @mckaycoppins's reporting on the Baltimore Banner, an ambitious nonprofit news site that… — PolitiTweet.org

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@AliciaMenendez Thank you for having me on! Always a pleasure. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AliciaOnMSNBC: "When [local journalism] vanishes... people in power have one fewer check on them... Local newspapers [also] bind commun… — PolitiTweet.org

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@ibflorea It was fun! I had low expectations and then I watched it with the family and my wife and I were both like “wait this is… good?” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @longform: "A Secretive Hedge Fund Is Gutting Newsrooms" Inside Alden Global Capital. https://t.co/1RjN1D5ai1 (@mckaycoppins) https://t.… — PolitiTweet.org

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I have a special signal I give to my kids whenever I go on TV, which they watch for religiously. Luckily, I made the signal “adjusting my glasses” which I do like 200 times per interview anyway, so they think the entire TV hit is for them. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JeffreyGoldberg: On the Heath Freeman model of newspaper ownership: "The profits generated by Alden’s newspapers did not go toward reb… — PolitiTweet.org

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@swodinsky @TheAtlantic you're welcome/i'm sorry? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AdamSerwer: Read this great @mckaycoppins story on how "investors" are destroying great newsrooms the same way so many other American i… — PolitiTweet.org

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He's right about this: The reporters who have stayed at the Chicago Tribune (and all of Alden's newspapers) are working extremely hard and deserve credit for that work. To understand the circumstances in which they're laboring, read our story: https://t.co/tR4OR2Lj7Y — PolitiTweet.org

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Per @RobertFeder, the Chicago Tribune's recently hired EIC sent this note to staff yesterday after my story came out: https://t.co/kpycbbAY0P https://t.co/wiFGQ3AkpL — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @elimeixler: So many appalling-not-shocking lines in @mckaycoppins’ Alden master-read: “A story circulated…possibly apocryphal—that when… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @johnwenzel: Chilling report by @mckaycoppins on why non-media people should be alarmed by @denverpost's vulture owners gutting more new… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AMLwhere: I’ve been gone from the Chicago Tribune a long time and sometimes think I’m inured, but this paragraph and this story evoked… — PolitiTweet.org

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@LeighGiangreco Thank you, Leigh. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nickconfessore: Shot: @mckaycoppins on the secretive investor and his protégé who are getting rich by gutting newspapers around America… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AnnaCBross: Brilliantly reported by @mckaycoppins. And that cover shoot: per photo director Luise Stauss, lighting had to be carefully… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @davidfolkenflik: In deep dive on Alden, the owner of & threat to some 200 papers, ⁦@mckaycoppins⁩ notes its takeover of Tribune was fin… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JimFriedlich: Tread 1/ @TheAtlantic @mckaycoppins superb deep-dive into Alden Global Capital’s wanton destruction of American newspaper… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Sulliview: I’ve read (and written) a lot about the demise of local newspapers but very little as searing as this @mckaycoppins piece in… — PolitiTweet.org

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The last thing I'll say for now is that I'm grateful for all the time local reporters—both those who've left Alden-owned papers and those who are still there—gave me while I was working on this piece. They're doing important (and often thankless) work, and deserve a lot of credit — PolitiTweet.org

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Some news: Next year, hotel magnate Stewart Bainum Jr. will launch a digital nonprofit news outlet, The Baltimore Banner, with a staff of 50 journalists and an annual operating budget of $15 million—a direct challenge to the Alden-owned Baltimore Sun. https://t.co/tR4OR2Lj7Y https://t.co/Qec6lUOVM4 — PolitiTweet.org

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“The practical effect of the death of local journalism is that you get what we’ve had, which is a halcyon time for corruption and mismanagement and basically misrule,” David Simon, the famous Baltimore Sun alum and creator of The Wire, told me. https://t.co/tR4OR2Lj7Y https://t.co/sDNulFtyAV — PolitiTweet.org