Nero’s Slacker: The Anonymous BBC News Snark Account That Got An Entire Newsroom Talking

deadline.com:

Just when Twitter appeared to be losing its lustre for the mainstream media elite, along comes an account that has got Britain’s biggest newsroom talking.

Enter Nero’s Slacker, an anonymous sh*tposter who is roasting BBC News bosses and colleagues one X update at a time — and getting a flurry of attention. “I thought the days of good old-fashioned snark accounts were dead until Nero’s Slacker,” laughed one BBC News journalist, the 94th person to point out the account to Deadline this week.

Set up in October, Nero’s Slacker is a reference to the Caffè Nero coffee shop that overlooks the revolving doors of New Broadcasting House, the BBC’s London headquarters.

Sipping on a black Americano and wreathed in cigarette smoke, they are posting acerbic observations about colleagues and newsroom skulduggery.