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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Inside The New York Times as it debates its coverage of Trump's racism and the well intentioned but ineffective desire to “show and not tell” — New York (CNN Business)Last Friday, employees at The New York Times (NYT) received an email from Dean Baquet, the newspaper's executive editor.
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Michael Calderone / Politico:
Behind Nate Silver's persistent criticism of his ex-employer NYT, for its 2020 polling analysis and Trump coverage, that he denies is due to a personal grudge — Nate Silver made his name as The New York Times' data guru, creating the methodology that predicted Barack Obama's reelection.
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@mlcalderone, @alxthomp, @politico and @jayrosen_nyu
Jessica Toonkel / The Information:
Sources: Axios is beta testing software to help companies create newsletters for employees and hopes to sell companies the software on a subscription basis — Digital media publisher Axios is planning to enter a new business that includes selling software for helping companies create newsletters for their employees.
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
More advertisers are preventing ads from appearing on political content online; out of 2,637 advertisers, 560 blocked the word “Trump”, 1,085 blocked “shooting” — ‘Bomb,’ ‘immigration,’ ‘racism’ and ‘Trump’ are among keywords marketers insist should not appear near their ads
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Beet.TV, @shalini, @patiencehaggin, @asharma and @patiencehaggin, Thanks:@beet_tv
James Walker / Press Gazette:
Financial Times has bought a minority stake in paywalled B2B news website The Business of Fashion, which says it has 35,000 paying members and over 100 staff — The Financial Times has bought a minority stake in B2B news website The Business of Fashion, which sits behind a paywall.
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MediaPost, Financial Times, Talking Biz News, @fcourt, @wblau, @charliebeckett, @edmundlee and @lizziepaton
Cristina Tardáguila / Poynter:
Facebook is expanding its third-party fact checking program to Instagram, starting with US, and will downplay posts deemed fake on its Explore and Hashtag pages — Starting today, Instagram users can report false content and expect certified fact-checkers to analyze its veracity.
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Nieman Lab, @factchecknet and @mosseri, more at Techmeme »
Rachel Glickhouse / ProPublica:
ProPublica releases a guide on how newsrooms can collaborate around large datasets, announces it is open-sourcing its software and making it available this fall — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica's Big Story newsletter …
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@gijn and The Keyword
Miranda Green / The Hill:
New policy rolled out by the US Interior Department's inspector general puts strict limits on the office's interactions with reporters — A new policy rolled out by the Interior Department's inspector general puts strict limits on the office's interactions with reporters.
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@western_values, @wilderness, @susanpage and The Rural Blog
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap:
Stephanie Grisham gave her first TV interview as White House press secretary to “America This Week” host Eric Bolling, well over a month into her tenure — Well over a month into her new gig, Stephanie Grisham did her first television interview as White House press secretary this week …
Middle East Eye:
UK admits that This Is Woke, a “media/news company” that engages in “critical discussions around Muslim identity” is in fact a covert counterterrorism programme — This glitzy, youthful ‘news company’ warns of the dangers of fake news. In fact, it's part of the Home Office's Prevent strategy
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@markdistef, @stefsimanowitz, @mikestuchbery_, @rasmus_kleis, @markdistef, @hichamyezza, @joshajhall, @are_eb, @ilyas_nagdee and @middleeasteye
James West / Mother Jones:
Sources: FBI agents began investigating American Media earlier this year, at the direction of prosecutors from the SDNY, over possible Saudi influence peddling — Earlier this year, federal investigators began requesting corporate documents and questioning staff at American Media Inc. …
Patrick Strudwick / BuzzFeed:
A transgender employee of The Guardian resigned last month accusing it of being “an incredibly transphobic organisation”; a second employee quit weeks later — “It suddenly became real,” one trans staff member told BuzzFeed News. “I'm entering this building with people who are denying my humanity.”
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Sources: CBS's and Viacom's TV production entities to remain separate for now, with CBS TV under Joe Ianniello, and Paramount TV under Jim Gianopulos — Because they were once part of one media company that was split into two, the newly reunited CBS and Viacom's assets fit together with little overlap.
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Wall Street Journal, @kennethturan, Variety, @matthewstoller, @bloombergtv, @jbflint and @wsj
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