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Richard Parsons resigns as CBS board member and chairman, citing complications in his fight with myeloma; board appoints Strauss Zelnick as interim chairman — Richard Parsons has resigned from the CBS Corp board of directors, including his role as interim chairman which he undertook …
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New York Times, Variety, Broadcasting & Cable, CNN, @wsj, Roland Martin, @businessinsider, The Daily Beast and The Wrap


UK, France, Germany issue joint statement, say Saudis need to provide credible facts about Khashoggi's death; Turkey will release investigation details on Tue. — Joint statement from UK, France and Germany says Riyadh needs to urgently clarify what happened to journalist
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Washington Post, CNBC, @naderalihashemi, @brianstelter and Reuters


To fight “fake news”, news outlets should ban reporters from doing anything on social media beyond sharing stories; snark and blatant opinion reduce trust — While speaking at my alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, I was asked by several students how to restore faith and trust in media.
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Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has pulled out of the News Xchange 2018 conference in Edinburgh after BBC invited Steve Bannon as a speaker — First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has pulled out of an Edinburgh conference after learning that former Trump strategist, Steve Bannon, has been invited to speak.
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HuffPost UK and The Guardian


UK study: poorer people consume less news than the wealthy and are less likely to go directly to news sites; no brand among 32 had significantly more poor users — News is more unevenly distributed in the UK than income is, according to new research from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.


Research shows ISIS and al-Qaeda have shifted away from YouTube for disseminating propaganda following the platform's 2017 crackdown against extremist content — BEFORE MOST PEOPLE even knew that terrorist outreach was happening online, YouTube was a top recruitment venue for jihadi terrorist groups.


Study: of 1,220 Twitter users, Republicans who followed a liberal Twitter bot became substantially more conservative; conservative bots didn't change Democrats — Echo chambers aren't what's polarizing America. — There's a simple story for how the media is driving political polarization.


Interview with Robbie Kaplan, who is representing the creator of the Shitty Media Men list, Moira Donegan, in her defense against writer Stephen Elliott — On Monday, renowned attorney and Time's Up legal-defense fund co-founder Robbie Kaplan announced that she'd be representing Shitty Media …


Q&A with Matt Taibbi on releasing his serialized book The Fairway via email subscription, the media's over-coverage of Trump, and reporting from Russia — Taibbi says the difference between the campaign and today is “we replaced a million hours of Trump with a million hours of ‘Trump is bad.’”
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@perlberg


An interview with the executive producer of Slate Live on choosing venues and cities, setting ticket prices, what separates live shows from recordings, and more — While it seems like every publisher, from The New York Times to Vox, is making significant investments in podcasting …


Jay Rosen interviews Nienke Venema of SDM, a Correspondent investor granted veto power to ensure the outlet remains ad-free and committed to its 5% profit cap — In my recent post, What The Correspondent will add to the American press, I explained in detail why I decided to work …
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@jayrosen_nyu, @ejpfauth, @the_corres and @jayrosen_nyu


UK to let producers like Netflix bid for £60M fund, taken originally from BBC budget to pay for rural broadband, to create children's TV, more — Government plans to give private firms public money that came from BBC budget — Private media firms such as Netflix and Amazon …