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Claire Atkinson / NBC News:
Sinclair axes Boris Epshteyn, its chief political analyst who was once a Trump aide, to add time for “critical and relevant issues” and investigative journalism — Sinclair, which owns 193 stations in the U.S., said it wants to focus on local news and investigative journalism.
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Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
YouTube bans videos that “maliciously insult” people based on their race, gender, or sex, and will remove some of Steven Crowder's videos targeting Carlos Maza — The change comes after controversy around a right-wing comedian's homophobic slurs aimed at a gay Latino journalist.
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New York Times:
Lawyers say Harvey Weinstein and The Weinstein Company board reached a tentative $25M settlement with most of his alleged victims; $12M+ would pay legal costs — After two years of legal wrangling, Harvey Weinstein and the board of his bankrupt film studio have reached a tentative $25 million …
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Local news is in trouble, but it's not dying; growth has happened for nonprofits and partnerships, and local broadcast newsroom staffing remains steady so far — We started 2019 with Gannett layoffs at local newspapers, we're ending 2019 with Gannett layoffs at local newspapers …
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John Keefe / Quartz:
Data from 2015-2019: 23% of stories that were Pulitzer winners or finalists were published in December, possibly due to rush to meet the December 31 deadline — Here's a secret: Some of the year's best investigative journalism will drop this month. — I'm not saying I know of a forthcoming …
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@jack:
Twitter is funding bluesky, an independent effort to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media, with the goal of Twitter being a client of it — Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for Twitter to ultimately be a client of this standard. 🧵
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Hadas Gold / CNN:
Facebook confirms that a bug caused tens of thousands of now restored ads to disappear from its political ad library, days before UK's general election — London (CNN Business)Tens of thousands of political ads went missing from Facebook's archive this week, according to researchers …
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
A look at Apple News' power in the UK election: editorial curation remains opaque despite big influence on news outlets and the delivery of millions of alerts — Service has around 11m users a month in UK but faces much less scrutiny that other outlets — On Monday night …
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Over 400 staffers of Tribune Publishing signed a petition to the company's board, seeking investment in newsrooms, consideration of good purchase offers, more — It was late in the day November 19 that employees of Tribune Publishing's newspapers got word: Its troncked-up former chairman Michael Ferro …
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The Guardian:
A look at the diminished reporting capacity of two of Scotland's key newspapers as the Herald plans further cuts and the Scotsman struggles to find a buyer — They once dominated discourse but the Herald and Scotsman now struggle to hold power to account — Two decades ago …
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Joy Mayer / Trusting News:
Gannett's regional-based data and investigations team built a Wordpress tool that allows “trust nuggets”, or parts of FAQs, to be embedded throughout stories — One thing journalists have gotten better about over the years is writing “behind the story” pieces for long projects.
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Lab:
Profile of LION Publishers, which aims to help its member community of about 250 local indie online publishers become sustainable, as it is awarded a $1M grant — After leaving her job as the managing editor of a newspaper owned by Digital First Media “due to differences with this company's management” …
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