Michael Calderone

Katie Couric, Margaret Sullivan Furious at Trump’s Insults to Journalists: ‘News Organizations Should Push Back, Hard’ What's the right response when President Trump calls a woman journalist "Piggy"? Or pronounces another woman journalist "a terrible person"?

Great @sharonwaxman.bsky.social column on Trump’s ugly personal attacks on journalists, with thoughts from @katiecouric.bsky.social and @sulliview.bsky.social

“They should not be tolerating this level of bullying and demeaning and insulting language,” says Couric

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Former Washington Post Editor Calls Trump’s Jamal Khashoggi Comments 'A Disgrace' | Exclusive Martin Baron, who was the Post’s top editor when the columnist was killed, tells TheWrap: “Just when you think Trump has gone as low as possible, he goes still lower”

Marty Baron condemns Trump’s Khashoggi comments: "A Disgrace"

“Just when you think Trump has gone as low as possible,” Baron tells me, “he goes still lower”

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As MS NOW Studios Take Shape, Network Stars Welcome a Post-NBC Future President Rebecca Kutler and anchors Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Michael Steele, Jen Psaki and Stephanie Ruhle talk about the 2025 elections and the network’s new future.

Network execs and hosts showed off the new MS NOW studios today and discussed last night’s election results

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Jubilation at Zohran Mamdani's Election Night Party: 'The Future Is in Our Hands' The newly elected New York City mayor gave a rousing speech focused on his ambitious, progressive agenda

My dispatch from Mamdani’s election night bash in Brooklyn

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Great question from Karen at yesterday’s NY Press Club event.

This was @thewrap.com piece I mentioned on stage

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Patrick Soon-Shiong Wants to Raise $500 Million for the LA Times, but Who Would Invest? | Analysis Patrick Soon-Shioing is circulating a private placement offering doc that is laden with the downsides that overshadow much happy talk.

My colleagues Tom Lowry & @calderone.bsky.social dug into the querulous bid by DrPatSoonShiong to raise $500 million to IPO the Los Angeles Times, bleeding $50 mill last year. As he demonstrates, the numbers don't add up, leading to the question: who would buy in? www.thewrap.com/la-times-pat...

Opinion | Democrats Need to Chill About the Electability of Women

One of the biggest problems facing Mikie Sherrill’s bid for governor may have nothing to do with Mikie Sherrill and everything to do with a certain pundit-class miasma about the supposed unelectability of women.

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Zohran Mamdani’s Flood-the-Zone Media Strategy Looks Like a Winning One | Analysis The NYC mayoral frontrunner is urging Democrats to “take the case to every person.” They should pay attention.

Looking at Zohran Mamdani's media strategy this past year, from a viral video speaking to Trump voters to speaking to Trump on Fox News, the NYC mayoral frontrunner has been remarkably consistent in hammering home his affordability message.

My @thewrap.com column:

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NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Guts Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

NBC News’ layoffs today include eliminating “teams dedicated to covering issues affecting Black, Asian American, Latino and LGBTQ+ groups.”

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It sure looks like the Voting Rights Act is doomed The Republican justices hunt for a reason to gut America’s most successful civil rights law.

It sure looks like the Voting Rights Act is doomed www.vox.com/politics/464...

Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon Lockout: What’s Lost When Reporters Leave the Building | Analysis As media outlets roundly reject Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon access rules, journalists talk to The Wrap about the media exodus–and still holding the military accountable

The Pentagon press corps has worked in the building since it opened during the second World War. Today, they're gone.

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Pete Hegseth’s Press Policy Is Driving Reporters Out the Door As media outlets roundly reject Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon access rules, journalists talk to The Wrap about the media exodus–and still holding the military accountable

“We always knew what a great responsibility we had,” says one Pentagon reporter as major news orgs reject Hegseth's new press policy and are expected to exit the building.

My first piece for @thewrap.com up now:

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Excited to be starting next week... I'll be editing and writing, so send tips!

2025 Conference on Journalism - Registration - The New York Press Club The New York Press Club and New York Press Club Foundation are proud to present the 2023 Conference on Journalism brought to you in partnership with the Journalism Association of New York.

.@sulliview.bsky.social will cap this year's Fall Journalism Conference, where she'll talk to @calderone.bsky.social on all these journalism!

Be there for this fantastic event on Nov. 1!

Tickets now available:

Thanks Luke

It's true... I’ve been honored to run the Hive for the last several years, working with some of the best in the business. I'm immensely proud of the work we did through two presidential elections and a pandemic, and amid the persistent news cycle churn—will be rooting for the VF team going forward.

How JB Pritzker Is Fighting to Stop Trump From Redrawing the Map The pugnacious Illinois governor, who is shielding Texas lawmakers avoiding a vote on partisan redistricting efforts at home, tells Vanity Fair, “I knew on day one this time around, we had to fight ag...

I wrote about Gov Pritzker and the Texas redistricting fight

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Bernice King Speaks Out as the Government Releases Files About Her Father, Martin Luther King Jr. The declassification of a new round of MLK records conjures her mother Coretta’s words: “They keep trying to assassinate your father over and over again.”

We have an exclusive piece from Bernice King as the government releases MLK assassination files

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“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

"I wondered which border I had crossed without my knowledge" -- Rumeysa Ozturk, imprisoned for writing an op-ed in the Tufts University student newspaper. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

For the first time since she was freed from an immigration prison, Rümeysa Öztürk speaks. And she does so by ... writing:

"Writing is the heart of freedom of expression. Unbelievably, this single opinion piece, published in our student newspaper, would lead to my arrest and detention."

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

In a powerful first-person account, Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up for the first time about her shocking arrest and 45 days in an ICE detention center.

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Finally, a “Hillbilly Elegy for People Who Hate JD Vance” Former Obama speechwriter David Litt on the lessons Democrats can learn from the manosphere.

Former Obama speechwriter David Litt has some ideas about what Democrats can learn from the manosphere.

On Birthright Citizenship, the Supreme Court Gives Trump a Blunt Tool to Hammer Judges The president applauded the conservative majority’s 6-3 ruling limiting nationwide injunctions to stop executive orders, a move sure to sow chaos and open the door to unchecked lawlessness. As Justice...

Here’s my takedown of the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship non-ruling:

Amy Coney Barrett takes balkanized, neo-Confederate approach where you’re only protected in areas where states or individual plaintiffs can sue—and nowhere else.

No way to run a railroad, let alone a nation of laws.

Make no mistake:

In all but nullifying nationwide, “universal” injunctions in these cases, where a uniform rule of law for birthright citizenship is gravely needed, the Supreme Court chose chaos.

Yes, the right still exists. But a lot of needless confusion, fear, and litigation lie ahead.

“Bullish for Tech”: Wall Street’s Most Tireless Optimist Isn’t Rattled by Trump, Musk, or Conflict in Iran As Trump bombs Iran and Musk melts down, Dan Ives says the future looks bright—for tech stocks, anyway.

In an exclusive interview with VF, Wall Street tech analyst Dan Ives talks Musk’s return to Tesla, the AI boom, and the market impact of the Israel-Iran conflict: “The market has gotten used to chaos and uncertainty.”

Kamala Harris, Recalling “Devastating” Day of Dobbs Decision, Urges Women to “Keep Fighting” The former vice president made a surprise visit to a conference of abortion storytellers, whose “voices,” she tells Vanity Fair, “are vital to our nation in the ongoing fight for reproductive freedom....

“For the first time, it became clear that young women today will have fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers,” @kamalaharris.com tells @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social on Dobbs anniversary. “But even in the face of that loss, we keep fighting.”

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Trump and His Advisers Can’t Get The Message Straight on Regime Change in Iran JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and others say strikes on Iran aren’t meant to bring down Iran's leaders. But on Truth Social, their boss appears say otherwise.

JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and others say strikes on Iran aren’t meant to bring down the country’s leaders. But on Truth Social, Trump appears to say otherwise.

A Minor-League Pitcher Is Leading the Charge to Oust Joni Ernst After Ernst dismissed concerns over Medicaid cuts with a glib, “We’re all going to die,” a Democratic Iowa state representative named J.D. Scholten launched a campaign to flip her Senate seat—after he...

Sioux City Dispatch: Eric Lutz catches up with Democratic Senate hopeful @jdscholten.bsky.social in the bullpen

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The Israeli Reporter Getting the Scoop on Trump’s High-Stakes Diplomacy ‘Axios’ journalist Barak Ravid has been breaking news on negotiations with everyone from Hamas to Iran to Ukraine—just ask Zelenskyy—while making his presence felt in Washington. He talks with VF abou...

Get to know @barakravid.bsky.social, one of the go-to reporters on US/Israel/Iran right now via this @nataliekorach.bsky.social profile

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Elon Musk Keeps Stiffing People. She Keeps Suing Him Shannon Liss-Riordan is one of the country’s most renowned labor lawyers. Lately, she’s also developed a specialty in “billionaire justice.”

Elon keeps stiffing people. She keeps suing him.

Really fun interview with Shannon Liss-Riordan, the renowned labor lawyer, on how she's carving out a subspecialty in "billionaire justice." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/s...