NYT Trans Coverage Wars • Putin’s Nuclear Threats • Project Veritas Ousting
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How Richard Rushfield’s The Ankler Took On Hollywood
Good morning from the Hive newsroom! Richard Rushfield’s troublemaking entertainment-business newsletter, The Ankler, already has the attention of major Hollywood executives with its sardonic view of the industry. Joe Pompeo explores Rushfield and Ankler CEO and editor in chief Janice Min’s grand ambition for the Substack-based project: becoming the world’s premier entertainment-news resource, with 100,000 paying subscribers. In other media news, New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters organized a new letter, signed by several high-profile journalists, hitting back at the staff union for how it defended staffers criticizing the paper’s trans coverage, Charlotte Klein reports.
Meanwhile, James O’Keefe has been ousted from far-right activist group Project Veritas, Caleb Ecarma writes. Bess Levin finds Donald Trump calling for a “mental competency test” for presidential candidates. And Vladimir Putin is escalating his nuclear brinkmanship, “suspending” Russia’s participation in its last nonproliferation pact with the United States, Eric Lutz notes. Thanks for reading!
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How Richard Rushfield’s The Ankler Took on Hollywood
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Rushfield’s sharp-tongued missives have earned him a bold-faced subscriber list. (“I read it the second I see it pop up,” says Richard Plepler.) But can Rushfield and coconspirator Janice Min scale his scrappy newsletter into a big business?
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