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In my time at The Intercept, I’ve watched the newsroom increasingly become dominated by management and bureaucrats whose numbers continue to swell as the number of people who actually produce news dwindles. While the Intercept now has one poor copy editor for the entire website, it employs two staff attorneys, as well as a legal fellow, a chief strategy officer, a chief digital officer, a business coordinator, a senior director of development and an associate director of development, a product manager, a senior director of operations, a chief of staff, and a chief operating officer. And for the first time in The Intercept’s history, as of Monday, the new editor-in-chief now answers to the CEO.
The company’s org chart, pictured below, provides a sense of how top-heavy it has become with business hires (basically the entire left half). Organizational chart for The Intercept current as of April 26, 2024. (Credit: The Intercept)
This orgy of management largesse has coincided with layoffs of the editor-in-chief, managing editor, national security editor, copy editor, photo editor, multiple senior editors, social media editor, as well as writers and reporters. There are passionate editors and writers left who still want to do news, like Ryan Grim and Ali Gharib, but they are toiling under the impossible odds of the new management regime.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-im-resigning-from-the-intercept
Klip is awesome. I’m so glad he went out on his own to do what he does best.
I don’t know who Raisi is nor am I following Ken so closely that I’m aware of everything he says or does. Also I’m not the crass comment police.
From what I’ve seen he does good work. I don’t think there’s ever been a public figure who doesn’t fuck up once in awhile, and if there is they’re a fucking liar or good at hiding their flaws.
I’m aware of what happened. I’ve read that article.
I’m not sure what you think that has to do with what I said.
It’s not as simple as
I haven’t seen any bad articles.
They aren’t going to just flip a switch and go from writing good articles to bad articles. It’s going to be more of, what articles do they not write?
For all Glenn Greenwald’s flaws, the thing that made him leave The Intercept was the pushback he got from all these people in the part of the organization that Ken talks about that don’t do reporting but somehow keeps growing, that his stories were making Biden look bad and that it was helping Trump.
That’s classic behavior from Manufacturing Consent. Choosing to not publish stories or not cover certain topics.
I think the same thing happened to Jeremy Scahill. His big interview with one of the top leaders in Hamas was part of Dropsite News’ debut.
The Intercept probably didn’t want to run that article.