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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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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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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Days after the El Paso shooter echoed language used by Fox News hosts, Tucker Carlson says white supremacy is “actually not a real problem in America” — New York (CNN Business)A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here.
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Lis Power / Media Matters for America:
Analysis: Fox News had over 70 references to an “invasion” of migrants in 2019, including 55 clips of Trump and 21 mentions by Fox News hosts — On August 3, a shooter opened fire at a Walmart in El Paso, TX, killing 22 individuals and injuring dozens more.
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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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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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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Viacom says it will acquire Paws Inc., the holding company that owns the IP rights to Garfield, allowing it to create new shows and spinoffs — The entertainment company wants fodder for programming it can show and sell to streaming services — Viacom Inc. has sunk its claws into another hit franchise.
William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair:
Insiders say Vice CEO Nancy Dubuc is angling to sell Vice to CBS-Viacom as its valuation, which was as high as $5.7B two years ago, sinks to ~$1.5B — The millennial media behemoth is struggling, and Dubuc, says one insider, has been “cozying up” to Shari Redstone. But CBS-Viacom isn't biting—yet.
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Fox says it will buy Bento Box, a producer of animated content making shows for Netflix and Apple, in what a source says is a deal worth $50M or less — Deal to fortify Fox's pipeline for animation, which has been a staple of its prime-time lineup for decades
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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 …
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Nippon.com:
Japanese newspaper readership continues to decline as the average number of daily general-interest papers printed in 2018 dropped by ~2M, or 5%, to 36.8M — Newspaper readership continues to decline in Japan. In 2018, the average daily number of general-interest newspapers printed plunged by almost 2 million or 5.0% to 36,823,021.
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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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