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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Amid widespread criticism, the New York Times' Dean Baquet acknowledges its “bad” front page headline about Trump's speech following mass shootings — Amid criticism of its “Trump Urges Unity Against Racism” headline, the executive editor says he “understood” concern, but hopes people read the “strong” coverage beneath.
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Gabriel Snyder / Columbia Journalism Review:
Dean Baquet acknowledges some subscribers expect The NYT to take an adversarial role against Trump, doesn't see this moment in history as particularly aberrant — Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The New York Times, was at home on Monday night—as was the rest of the paper's senior leadership …
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Jeff Jarvis / Medium:
Lessons for journalists in light of Beto O'Rourke's anger at media for asking obvious questions to which we know the answers — O'Rourke, then Ocasio-Cortez, then Glaude give journos a lesson in their field and their nation — This post began with Beto O'Rourke's lesson. Then I added Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
By parroting Trump's claims without context, journalists are letting Trump off the hook for stoking hate with his rhetoric — Yesterday, Donald Trump—flanked, in the Diplomatic Room of the White House, by Vice President Mike Pence and a portrait of George Washington—addressed the nation …
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Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Tech news site The Markup reinstalls editor Julia Angwin along with six of the seven editorial staffers who quit in protest over Angwin's firing in April — It has been a turbulent few months for The Markup, a news start-up with ambitions to combine investigative and data-driven journalism to cover the world of technology.
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Jason Gurwin / The Streamable:
Disney CEO says Disney+ will have a $12.99 bundle that includes ad-supported Hulu and ESPN+ when it launches on November 12 — The Streamable is reader-supported and may earn an affiliate commission when you sign up with our links. — On today's, 2019 Third Quarter Earnings Call Disney …
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Emily McCormick / Yahoo Finance:
Disney misses with Q3 revenue of $20.2B vs. $21.4B expected, with an operating loss in its direct-to-consumer unit of $553M, expected to widen to $900M in Q4 — reported third-quarter results that missed consensus expectations, as costs mounted for the entertainment conglomerate ahead …
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Kelsey Sutton / Adweek:
eMarketer: number of US households without traditional pay TV expected to swell to 40.2M in 2019, up 19.2% YoY, and to over 56M by 2023 — Number of pay TV households expected to dip to 86.5 million this year — The number of households giving up traditional pay television subscriptions continues to increase at a rapid clip.
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Hilary Russ / Reuters:
Amazon's Twitch signs a deal with the NBA to be its exclusive digital partner for streaming USA Basketball games globally through 2020 — NEW YORK (Reuters) - The National Basketball Association on Tuesday said that Amazon.com Inc's Twitch would be its exclusive digital partner for streaming USA Basketball games globally through 2020.
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR announces newsroom job cuts affecting fewer than 10 people as part of a restructuring; SVP of News Nancy Barnes says no plans exist for further cuts — NPR's newsroom is eliminating some jobs as part of a restructuring effort that adds positions in other areas to “more fully lean …
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Matt Lopez / The Wrap:
Viacom-owned Pluto TV adds more channels based on Viacom's popular franchises, including MTV and Comedy Central, plus “pop-up” channels around live events — A slate of channels from MTV, CMT, TV Land, and Comedy Central will launch on Pluto TV, the Viacom-owned streaming service announced on Tuesday morning.
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Claire Atkinson / NBC News:
Foreign journalists struggle to communicate mass shootings in the US to their audiences, who think Americans are “crazy” for not enacting gun control measures — “I've been living in the United States for 17 years and the number of massacres that I have to cover has been endless …