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Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs / New York Times:
How a 20-year-old junior at Arizona State University broke the news of the resignation of Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, in the school's student newspaper — An editor at Arizona State University's student newspaper beat everyone else to the news that Kurt Volker had stepped down.
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@nycsouthpaw, The Arizona State Press, Washington Post, @projomike, @aaron4az, @macloo, @therealwillyevs, @amanbatheja, @son_deerrf, @laurenpeikoff, @olivianuzzi, @katierogers, @bymoriah, @histoftech, Newser, The Week, Politico, CNBC, Fox News, ABC News and KTLA
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Pro-Trump media builds its own version of the narrative on Ukraine and impeachment, omitting facts and painting mainstream media as evil and corrupt — The pro-Trump media has wasted no time constructing their own version of events about Ukraine. — Mark Levin, the talk radio host …
Poynter:
Global Disinformation Index study finds that adtech companies spend ~$235M per year running ads on sites found by fact-checkers to publish misinformation — How misinformation makes money — There has been much written about how fake news websites and other sources make money from spreading misinformation.
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@dpfunke, @karlbode, @michellemanafy and @jerdemink
The Guardian:
BBC faces a growing backlash for censuring presenter Naga Munchetty for her response to racism; Ofcom to review her words against its own broadcasting code — Corporation faces staff revolt over response to presenter's Donald Trump remarks — The BBC is facing a growing crisis over its decision …
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
BBC defends Munchetty censure, saying it applied to her discussion of Trump's motivations for his racist comments, though she didn't directly call him racist
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@jayrosen_nyu, @jeremycorbyn, @ianjamesparsley, @afuahirsch, @mattprescott, @aurelmondon, @marcushwik and The Guardian
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
The Chernin Group buys a majority stake in Food52 for $83M, valuing the ecommerce and media startup which offers recipes and home-improvement tips at $100M+ — Food52, a media and e-commerce business, was founded by food journalists from the New York Times
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@rafat, @rafat, Vox, @benmullin and @benmullin
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
AT&T's John Stankey says DirecTV is rethinking its exclusive deal for NFL's Sunday Ticket package, which ends in 2022; sources: DirecTV loses $500M+/year on it — AT&T executive questions growth potential of football package; says the longtime cornerstone could be ‘less critical to the business over time’
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Greg Dool / Folio:
Interview with New York magazine EIC David Haskell, on the acquisition by Vox Media, which surprised many staffers, his first six months as EIC, and more — David Haskell on the Vox sale, succeeding Adam Moss and prioritizing journalism in a time of change.
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Carol Hunter / Des Moines Register:
Des Moines Register to reexamine how it reports on backgrounds of subjects after backlash due to profile of viral fundraiser that mentioned his offensive tweets — We took appropriate action because there is nothing more important in journalism than having readers' trust. — CONNECT
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BuzzFeed News, @dmregister, @realkiradavis, @clarajeffery, @mathewi, Deadline, KWWL-TV, @four4thefire, KCCI-TV, American Press Institute, Fox News, WHOTV, Reason, Breitbart, Newser, Mediaite, Washington Post and Boing Boing
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
The Financial Times has closed a WhatsApp group through which it shared one free story about markets per day, both to subscribers and non-subscribers — The Financial Times has closed its Whatsapp group through which it shared one free markets story per day with individuals who had signed up.
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@niemanlab
Vikas SN / The Economic Times:
Netflix is experimenting in India with making the first episode of its latest Indian original series available to non-subscribers, amid growing competition — Netflix is making available the first episode of its latest India original series ‘Bard Of Blood’ to non-members in the country for a limited time …
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@shukla_tarun and @tsuvik, more at Techmeme »
Faisal Kalim / What's New in Publishing:
A look at reader-supported Denník N, a Slovak newspaper that has built open source tools to drive subscriptions, aided by Google Digital News Initiative grants — Denník N is a Slovak digital and print newspaper, founded in January 2015 by journalists who were earlier working …
Discussion:
@pennyriordan1, @kvasinka and @wnip
Joe Otterson / Variety:
ICM Partners COO Justin Dearborn and HR Chief Cindy Ballard resigned from the talent agency this week, will remain onboard through the end of the year — Two top executives are out at ICM Partners. — Chief operating officer Justin Dearborn and chief human resources officer Cindy Ballard are leaving …
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