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Summer Said / Wall Street Journal:
Saudi Arabia sentences five people to death and convicts three others to 24 years in prison for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi — The dissident journalist was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul — Saudi Arabia sentenced five people to death and convicted six others for the murder …
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Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
The New York Times says it does not think corrections to its 1619 Project are warranted, in response to a letter from five historians that requested corrections — Five historians recently wrote to the New York Times Magazine, asking the architects of its comprehensive 1619 Project …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Bytedance is considering setting up a global headquarters for TikTok outside of China, as part of its effort to shake off its Chinese image — Singapore, London and Dublin are among cities being considered; no U.S. city made shortlist — Bytedance Inc. is considering setting …
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Dish ups the price of both of Sling TV's packages, Orange and Blue, by $5 to $30 each per month, while adding Fox News, MSNBC, and HLN to Sling Blue — The cheap days of Sling TV are over — The cheap days of Sling TV are over. Dish's internet TV service is raising the price …
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Stephanie Sengwe / The Streamable:
Starz will stay on Comcast's Xfinity TV in last minute deal, as parent firms announce Lionsgate content will be on Peacock and NBCU content will be on StarzPlay — Comcast and Starz have finally reached a new carriage deal days before their Dec. 31 deadline.
American Press Institute:
Survey: Americans likelier to understand national issues than local ones; 42% of those paying for news understand important issues vs. 31% of those not paying — The vast majority of Americans value their right, as well as that of the press, to question authority figures.
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Journalism too often treats the center as inherently sensible, despite eventual solutions regularly being outside the boundaries of what either party favored — The media has a bigger problem than liberal bias. — John F. Harris is about as mainstream as the mainstream media gets.
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Spencer Kimball / CNBC:
Editor-in-chief of Christianity Today says the magazine has gained three times as many subscribers as it's lost after he called for Trump's removal from office — - Christianity Today Editor in Chief Mark Galli acknowledged to MSNBC on Sunday that the magazine has lost subscribers in the wake …
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New York Times:
Amid a crisis in local news, eight journalists who left newsrooms in 2019 reflect on the stories left in their notebooks — Amid a crisis in local news, eight journalists who left newsrooms in 2019 reflect on the stories left in their notebooks. Photographers who also lost their jobs captured them on their former beats.
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Pablo Boczkowski / Nieman Lab:
If Trump gets reelected, November 4, 2020 will be a day of reckoning for mainstream journalism and beliefs about the media's political power in setting agendas — “These notions of media theory are premised on an information-centric view of the power of communication.
Wall Street Journal:
An analysis of millions of articles from the 2010s shows how big stories evolved, via patterns of words linked with news terms like “Facebook” or “immigration” — A lot can happen in a decade — to people, companies and countries. In the 2010s, reputations were burnished and destroyed.
Joni Deutsch / Nieman Lab:
For podcasting to remain open and vibrant, there needs to be an emphasis on making content accessible, more democratization of tools to build podcasts, and more — “2020 will undoubtedly be a big podcast year for movie stars, presidential candidates, and the like.
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