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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
The Fox News “cabinet”, which seemingly shapes US policy, has given virtually unvarnished praise for the Suleimani strike, with the exception of Tucker Carlson — If President Donald Trump tuned in to Fox News after ordering Thursday night's successful U.S. operation to kill …
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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
With coverage of Suleimani's death, cable news outlets have again shown they're “hard-wired” to support war, promoting military and government perspectives — In the early hours of the morning, local time, state media in Iraq reported that Qassem Suleimani …
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Amanda Meade / The Guardian:
Murdoch-owned newspapers in Australia are accused of downplaying massive bushfires, and The Australian has been consistent in pushing climate change denialism — Herald Sun relegates bushfires to page 4 while Courier Mail brings good news via ‘Onion Oracle’
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Jonah Peretti / BuzzFeed:
BuzzFeed CEO lists his priorities in staff memo: more primary documents and source material to build trust in news, investment in social experiences, and more — BuzzFeed's core strength has always been our ability to adapt and innovate as the world changes.
Tina Nguyen / Politico:
Sources: The Hill's owner seeks investors or buyers for the publication, which has faced questions about accuracy of posts by ex-staffer John Solomon on Ukraine — Jimmy Finkelstein, owner of The Hill, is shopping his publication, whose op-eds alleging various conspiracy theories about Ukraine …
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Taylor Lorenz / New York Times:
A look at the Hype House “collab house”, a collective of 19 young influencers renting an LA mansion, whose TikTok group handle amassed 3M followers in ~10 days — The city is home to a land rush of “collab houses,” where the content creators are getting younger and younger.
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Michael Calderone / Politico:
NYT editorial page editor James Bennet says a Bret Stephens column advancing a race-based theory of “Jewish genius” was fully edited before publication — Amid criticism of a column praising “Jewish genius,” James Bennet defends the paper's standards and procedures. — The New York Times building.
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Bradley Johnson / Ad Age:
Since 2009, internet media's share of US media jobs has risen from 11% to 36%, while newspapers' share fell from 35% to 17% and magazines' from 16% to 11% — Overall, U.S. media employment has fallen by 20,000 jobs since 2009. What's up? Internet jobs. What's down? Everything else
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Cody Toombs / Android Police:
Google is ending its print-replica magazine service, launched in 2012 as the Play Magazines app, and is refunding payments to users — The venerable Egon Spangler once said, “print is dead.” The statement may have been premature, but today it feels a little more on point because Google …
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
Disney pulls local news broadcasts from around a dozen ABC-owned stations from the streaming news app NewsOn, the first major launch partner to leave the app — Disney has pulled local news broadcasts from around a dozen ABC-owned stations from the streaming news app NewsOn as the company forges ahead …
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
2020 resolutions for the media: challenge lies, ignore Trump's ad-libbed drivel, explain how politics affects people, critique ideas regardless of their sources — New Year's resolutions can be hard to keep. At least, they are for this humble columnist. To counteract that …
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
Apptopia: TikTok's in-app purchase revenue grew from $20M in Q3 to $50M in Q4 2019, a 310% rise YoY — According to newly released third-party data, TikTok has reason to dance. — The famous, short-video application saw its in-app purchase revenue rise 310% on a year-over-year basis according …
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