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Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:
A look at the Gannett/GateHouse deal, which is far from ideal for either company or their readers; neither company has offered a big vision aside from cost cuts — What will the largest local news company need to do and be to be successful in the 2020s? Neither Gannett nor Gatehouse …
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Lulu Garcia-Navarro / The Atlantic:
The El Paso shooting was the deadliest attack on Latinos in recent history, yet national headlines and TV chyrons downplayed that fact and emphasized Trump — I've been a professional journalist for 20 years. But this week, the media failed Latinos in America during what was perhaps our darkest hour in my lifetime.
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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
11 current and past YouTube moderators say popular creators like Logan Paul often get special treatment in the form of looser interpretations of guidelines — Moderators describe a chaotic workplace where exceptions for lucrative influencers are the norm. — SAN FRANCISCO …
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Interview with “Archie Carter”, a writer who pranked Quillette with a now-pulled essay while posing as a blue-collar member of Democratic Socialists of America — “Archie Carter,” who pretended to be a blue-collar member of the Democratic Socialists of America …
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Rae Ellen Bichell / kunc.org:
Longmont, a city in Colorado, is doing a feasibility study on how to change the way its library is funded, in a way that might also help fund local journalism — Many parts of the Mountain West are news deserts — and it's getting worse. More than 20 counties in our region have no local newspaper.
Julia Alexander / The Verge:
Disney pivots its Fox strategy after a number of flops, putting Fox's Marvel movies under Marvel Studios and scrapping indie projects from the Searchlight unit — X-Men, Deadpool, and Fantastic Four will exist under Marvel Studios — 21st Century Fox's current film strategy …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Glow, a platform for podcast creators to set up payment options for fans to fund their shows, raises $2.3M seed from Katzenberg's WndrCo, Greycroft, and others — Glow Technologies, a startup whose platform lets podcast creators set up payment options for fans to fund their shows …
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Jacqui Banaszynski / Storyboard Posts Archive:
Q&A with Michael Kruse, senior staff writer at Politico on covering his first Trump rally in Greenville in a “sweaty, panicky, fatigue-fighting sprint” — Politico Magazine's Michael Kruse leans on tried-and-true storytelling techniques (and a good editor) to deliver “something else” from a news event
Daniel Green / Journalism.co.uk:
How First News, UK's only newspaper for preteens and teenagers, tries to cover stories like Brexit and climate crisis without overwhelming its young readers — From Brexit to the climate crisis, 60 per cent of UK's 12-15-year-olds are interested in news. But how do you report for younger audiences without overwhelming them?
Committee to Protect Journalists:
CPJ and RCFP file a FOIA lawsuit seeking docs about a US Customs agent's contact with NYT's Ali Watkins regarding an investigation to identify leakers — Yesterday, the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP) filed a lawsuit …
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Brian Fung / CNN:
Sources: Trump's draft executive order calls for new FCC regulations narrowing CDA Section 230 protections for social media platforms when they suppress content — Washington (CNN Business)A draft executive order from the White House could put the Federal Communications Commission in charge …
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Pew Research Center:
Study: 46% of adult social media users say they're worn out by the number of political posts and discussions seen on social media, up 9 points from summer 2016 — Well over a year before the 2020 presidential election, many social media users in the United States are already exhausted …
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