Josh Sternberg

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Executive Editor at Morning Brew.

"I been around awhile. I lived in town awhile. I threw it down awhile. And the town threw down on me." - Phish

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Josh Sternberg

more to the point none of the coverage seems to note this fairly remarkable fact, especially amid all the talk of unity or whatever

The pre-Trump GOP has been memory-holed

Mastercard has donated $70 million to Standup to Cancer, according to the MLB segment. Mastercard brought in $6.35 billion in revenue, $3.01 billion in net income, in Q1.

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Never heard of Homes dot com until this years Super Bowl (it ran a couple spots). And hadn’t seen any commercials since. Until just now during the All Star game. Interesting media buying strategy.

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Kevin M. Kruse

Do you think that it’s bc Republicans have gotten what they’ve wanted: overturn Roe; overturn Chevron; a 6-3 court for a while, so it’s hard to get excited for a platform that is really bad and a party leader who is a convicted felon?

MLB actually got the All Star game uniforms right! Always appreciate the league unis instead of individual team unis.

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Justin Hendrix

Really caught me off guard!

After seeing a commercial during the All Star game about the RNC: 9yo: “is Trump worse than Nixon?” Wife: “how do you know about Nixon?” 9yo: “Futurama”

Mind numbing to think it’s been a dozen years since Clint Eastwood got on stage at the Republican National Convention and had a breakdown, talking to … a chair. How far we’ve come as a nation.

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Richard Lawler

It’s a terrible race! With the result of publishers conflating traffic for audience. One of the legs of that race is when publishers force editors to keep their eyes glued to Google trends — if we had a dollar for every time mgmt said “this is popping on GT” we’d have our own island somewhere!

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Karl Bode

I did appreciate the dek in the April story that said Musk’s promises rarely come to fruition.

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Richard Lawler

I think the race for scale, proven to be not great, has forced editors to make decisions not in the best interest of their audience. (I did appreciate the dek in the April story) IMO, Your best coverage is when you go narrow and deep. And I can see Musk-burp stories as breadcrumb pieces.

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Kevin M. Kruse

has all the trappings of a perfect national political media story: diner! local tension! horserace (do you think he can win) vs stakes!

WaPo: "President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices..." However, this graf is not needed; it's editorialization, at best. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

New research from the Chicago Fed reached what they describe as a surprising conclusion: At least until the end of the decade, North America’s auto production footprint isn’t expected to change much at all. www.emergingtechbrew.com/stories/2024...

Report: EV transition won’t upend auto production footprint in North Americawww.emergingtechbrew.com “The industry is accommodating the pretty remarkable production mix that we’re expecting by reconfiguring existing assembly facilities,” the author of a new Chicago Fed report told Tech Brew.

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Glenn Fleishman

shingy!

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Unhoused person slain at national gathering of political party tied to Supreme Court justices who just criminalized living unhoused.

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel confirms that a Columbus, Ohio, police officer detailed to the RNC shot and killed a homeless Black man (earlier reported to be in his early 20s) more than half a mile from the RNC arena. The man was known by the nickname Jehovah and took care of a pit bull named Isis.

Ohio police officer shoots, kills person in Milwaukee outside of RNC perimeter, sources saywww.jsonline.com The man killed by Ohio officers near the RNC on Tuesday was well-known in the neighborhood, several witnesses told the Journal Sentinel.

Musk just posted on Twitter he's moving one of his companies from California to Texas. A donut says a) every single media company will run it as news; b) it never happens Pretty easy exacta if you ask me.

Here's a game: publish everything Musk says because it's SEO juice, even acknowledging that Musk's "promises have often failed to come true"; then when that promise inevitably doesn't come true publish another story - more clicks, more ad impressions, more signups. (No need to cover every burp)

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Radley Balko

wonder if they'll mention the million americans who died on his watch between march 2020 and january 2021.

First bankruptcy, and now a federal investigation. www.healthcare-brew.com/stories/2024...

Steward is under federal investigation over alleged fraudwww.healthcare-brew.com Steward Health Care is facing allegations of fraud following accrued debts and a bankruptcy filing.

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Karl Bode

Thought of you on this one. bsky.app/profile/josh...

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮

And it’s always the same bylines.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮

Relatedly: bsky.app/profile/josh...

It takes 17 grafs to show how the first 16 (let alone frame) is all political journalistic onanism. Why is it on Biden to "cool the temperature" when 17 grafs says, well, Trump "has encouraged violence"? www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/u...

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AP: Sen. Bob Menendez convicted of taking bribes paid in gold and a luxury car. Verdict still being read at corruption trial.

The chumbox has now entered the Apple ecosystem. www.axios.com/2024/07/16/t...

Exclusive: Taboola to sell ads for Applewww.axios.com Most people know Taboola as the company responsible for placing chumbox ads at the bottom of many news stories online.

New retail industry portmanteau dropped: spaving, a merging of “spending” and “saving” where consumers are enticed—you’re $9.37 away from free shipping!—to save more by spending more. www.retailbrew.com/stories/2024...

How ‘spaving’ became the latest inflation spending infatuationwww.retailbrew.com Spend-more-to-save-more promotions are trending with retailers, but financial advisors tell consumers to beware.

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Anthropic -- the supposedly "ethical" A.I. company -- is operating a rip-off machine. www.wired.com/story/youtub...

Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AIwww.wired.com “It’s theft.” A WIRED investigation found that subtitles from 173,536 YouTube videos, siphoned from more than 48,000 channels, were used by Anthropic, Nvidia, Apple, and Salesforce to train AI.

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Josh Sternberg

Mostly agree except on reflection I feel like the three-day combo of the shooting, the Cannon decision, and the Vance pick was a powerful reminder of how miserable and exhausting it was to live with one goddamn thing after another when this guy had the spotlight for four straight years

I think Trump getting shot and being photographed with a defiant fist in the air, bloodied and unbowed, will actually lead to zero changed votes. He might be the only person in the universe that would be true of.

This is a first; never got a phone call from 111-111-1111 before.

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Rob Mitchum

tom came to play that night lol. also, love this series; makes me feel real old. also, if you're doing a big thing for cypress, and you're taking guests/talking to folks, happy to help!