Statement from Washington Post Executive Editor Sally Buzbee:

@drewharwell

Tell Sally to get on Mastodon and stop looking backwards. ๐Ÿ˜‰

Then, tell WaPo's owner that you guys need your own instance. I'm pretty sure he knows where to get cheap cloud platforms. ๐Ÿ˜

@BeegyPsi @drewharwell

Tangent: a while back, I saw a Mastodon thread in which a number of people were pointing out that if media outlets start hosting their own Mastodon instances, chances are that they would not allow journalists who leave their company to automatically export their follower-lists to their new platforms.

I found that point rather thought-provoking.

@athorn @BeegyPsi @drewharwell I would imagine there any journalist worth their investigative salt would dual post their work?

@TheSirFin @BeegyPsi @drewharwell

If their employer allows them to, yes.