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Ashley Feinberg / Slate:
Transcript of NYT's recent staff meeting, in which execs grappled with queries about a front-page headline on Trump and avoided deep criticisms of NYT's role — In a transcript of the newspaper's crisis town-hall meeting, executive editor Dean Baquet grapples with a restive staff and outside scrutiny.
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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”
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
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@mlcalderone, @tomgara, @johnmcquaid, @kfile, @waywardwinifred, @politico, @rachelbitecofer, @jayrosen_nyu, @politico and @alxthomp
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
The Drudge Report has changed its ad partner, dropping Intermarkets in favor of a new company, Granite Cubed, owned by longtime Drudge associate Margaret Otto — The Drudge Report, with its Web 1.0 design offering a single page of links, is one of the enduring internet media business success stories.
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@jbenton and @thezedwards
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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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.
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@niemanlab and @jbenton
Ryan Glasspiegel / The Big Lead:
Employees at The Ringer announce on Twitter that management has agreed to voluntarily recognize their union, three days after the plans were announced — While Bill Simmons has still yet to say anything publicly about the announcement from earlier this week that editorial staffers for The Ringer …
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@ringerunion and @thebiglead
Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
Nick Owens, a senior editor for UK's Sunday Mirror resigned after allegedly groping a female journalist in a pub; sources: he was given the option to resign — Sunday Mirror staff were told deputy editor Nick Owens left the newspaper after an “incident” involving alcohol with a female member of staff.
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@markdistef, @markdistef and @markdistef
Allison Weis / USA Today:
Journalism student explains why she wants to be in the news media despite barriers including unpaid internships, layoffs, low pay, and attacks by Trump — Despite the unpaid internships, low salaries and relentless assaults by our world leaders, the journalism industry isn't dying. It's just changing.
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@will_potter and @journostuff
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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Talking Biz News, Financial Times, @fcourt, @wblau, @lizziepaton, @charliebeckett, @edmundlee and MediaPost
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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@shalini, @wsj, @loudmouthjulia, @patiencehaggin, @patiencehaggin, @asharma and Beet.TV, Thanks:@beet_tv
Knight Foundation:
Survey: Americans are “very” (66%) or “somewhat” (26%) concerned that if a large company bought their local news org, the owners' views would influence coverage — This piece was originally published on Gallup.com on August 15, 2019.
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Jennifer Duke / Sydney Morning Herald:
Seven West Media says its CEO Tim Worner has resigned, appoints James Warburton, who worked at Seven until 2011 before leaving for rival Channel Ten, as new CEO — Seven West Media has appointed James Warburton to be its new chief executive. He replaces Tim Worner effective immediately.
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Mumbrella, Australian Financial Review, 9News, @kate_mcclymont, The West Australian, The Guardian, Reuters, AdNews and Crikey
Bryan Pietsch / Reuters:
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, an education group, urges DOJ to block the merger of textbook publishers Cengage and McGraw-Hill — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An education group seeking to increase access to college textbooks and research materials on Wednesday asked …
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