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“What the Hell Happened Here?”: The New York Times’ Elizabeth Holmes Profile Is Causing Drama in the Newsroom
Good morning from the Hive newsroom! Charlotte Klein uncovers simmering drama at The New York Times over the paper’s soft-focus profile of Elizabeth Holmes. Klein reports the Times delayed announcing its hiring of John Carreyrou, the Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter whose articles led to Holmes’s downfall, because of the profile. “You have to ask, on our side, what the hell happened here?” one Times journalist tells Klein of the article.
In politics, Eric Lutz finds Ron DeSantis seemingly trying out a new pitch to voters in Iowa: Boring is the new charismatic. Plus, Molly Jong-Fast caught up with writer E. Jean Carroll and her lawyer Robbie Kaplan about their latest legal case against Donald Trump, and what it was like to go to trial with rape allegations against the former president. Thanks for reading.
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“What the Hell Happened Here?”: The New York Times’ Elizabeth Holmes Profile Is Causing Drama in the Newsroom
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As Holmes headed to jail Tuesday, business editor Ellen Pollock was put on the spot to defend a soft-focus profile of the disgraced Theranos founder, telling staff she didn’t “give a fuck” about the criticism.
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