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A.G. Sulzberger / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's new rhetorical attack, accusing the NYT of “a virtual act of treason”, crosses a dangerous line in his campaign against a free and independent press — The Founders considered it the gravest of crimes. Tossing the charge around is irresponsible and wrong.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Twitter disabling location data for tweets is a win for privacy but a loss for journalists, researchers as it helped find eyewitnesses and track disinformation — When Twitter wants to announce a change in how it does things, how should they announce it? With a tweet, naturally …
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CNN:
Sources: Rupert Murdoch, co-chairman of Fox Corporation, is recovering from pneumonia, but is doing well and is expected to call into a board meeting on Friday — New York (CNN Business)Rupert Murdoch, the 88-year-old billionaire media mogul, is recovering after a bout with pneumonia …
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@oliverdarcy
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
News sites across the political spectrum, from the Daily Caller to AlterNet, form the Digital News Alliance, an ad network to target politically engaged readers — Digital News Alliance combines left-leaning, conservative and centrist publishers — Political advertising makes strange bedfellows.
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Mediaite, Nieman Lab, The Wrap, The Drum, @karenmcgrane, The Daily Caller and Washington Free Beacon
Mike Farrell / Multichannel News:
Fuse Media to exit Chapter 11 in the coming weeks after a federal court approves its bankruptcy exit plan, which includes reducing debt by ~$200M — Court approves exit plan, programmer says will emerge in the ‘coming weeks’ — Latino and multicultural youth-oriented programmer Fuse Media …
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Radio & Television …
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Branded content project: among nearly 40 local news organizations, 23.1% generated $10K-$100K, 20.5% generated $1M-$5M in 2018 from branded content — The Local Media Consortium and Local Media Association recently announced results from their first Branded Content Project …
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
WGA stops negotiations with the Association of Talent Agents, in favor of individual talks with top nine agencies as it seeks a ban on packaging fees for agents — The Writers Guild of America has called off negotiations with the Association of Talent Agents in favor of pursuing individual talks …
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Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times and The Wrap
Olivier Holmey / Nieman Lab:
Three-year-old French news site Les Jours serializes the news, breaking long-form investigative stories down into accessible, nail-biting episodes — “Serial” isn't just a podcast: It's also the format hook Les Jours uses to bring some of the lessons of drama to long-form investigative reporting.
Stephen Gregory / The Epoch Times:
The Epoch Times publisher defends the outlet from questions by NBC reporters, says they were asking about Trump coverage, ties to Falun Gong, and staffing — Last week, we were contacted by two NBC reporters who posed a series of highly inappropriate questions.
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@jj_mccullough, @stephenepoch and @maxwelltani
Marc Malkin / Variety:
Film and television critics associations form a coalition, Critics Groups for Equality in Media, to foster greater diversity in entertainment journalism — A coalition of film and television critics associations are teaming up help foster greater diversity in entertainment journalism.
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AwardsCircuit.com and Los Angeles Times
Aaron Gell / GEN:
A former New York Observer EIC describes the experience of working under Jared Kushner as the newspaper's fortunes dwindled, partially due to Kushner's neglect — What I learned about power, real and imagined, from Trump's ‘senior adviser’ and son-in-law — you want to understand Jared Kushner …
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@plettre and @aarongell
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Instead of moving kids content to YouTube Kids, where existing problems could be replicated, YouTube Kids should invest in curation and product development — Facing mounting pressure over failures to protect children from inappropriate content, Google is reportedly considering a number of changes to its video sharing site YouTube.
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