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Key figures from US media, including Dean Baquet, Ben Smith, Jorge Ramos, and Margaret Sullivan, describe their fears and ideas for covering the 2020 election — Key figures from major US newspapers, news sites and TV describe their fears about covering this year's election - and ideas on how to get it right
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
News media's coverage of the Trump administration's conflict with Iran will be a test of lessons learned from the reporting preceding the 2003 Iraq war — Still living down the 2003 Iraq war disgrace, under pressure from multiple sides, and dealing with a truth-challenged administration …
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Washington Post, New York Times, Politico, Rolling Stone, Media Matters for America, @mehdirhasan, @brianstelter and @vanityfair
Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
News Corp to sell Unruly, the video advertising platform it acquired for around £115M in 2015, to the ad tech company Tremor International — Rebekah Brooks will join the board of Tremor International as part of News Corp's deal to offload Unruly, Sky News learns. — City editor @MarkKleinmanSky
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Memo: Viacom Digital Studios President Kelly Day, who has led VDS since its start in fall 2017, to exit role; Viacom veteran Stefanie Schwartz named EVP and GM — ViacomCBS has changed up the leadership of Viacom Digital Studios, Variety has learned: Kelly Day, who has served as VDS's president since …
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@xpangler, Deadline, Seeking Alpha, The Wrap and Hollywood Reporter
Ben Strauss / Washington Post:
Sports Illustrated staff say they plan to unionize with NewsGuild, raising concerns about direction under Maven; organizers say 90%+ of staff signed petition — The staff of Sports Illustrated plans to unionize, it told management on Monday, saying it wants a greater say in the future …
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@si_union, @postsports, @four4thefire, @maggiomatt, @si_union, @jennyvrentas, Awful Announcing and The NewsGuild - CWA
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Schneps Media, which recently purchased Metro New York and amNew York, to merge both of NYC's free papers under the new name amNewYork Metro starting January 6 — Fifteen-year-old Metro New York, one of the city's two freebie daily papers, will disappear following the sale of assets to Schneps Media …
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Columbia Journalism Review, @kristindakota and New York Times
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
Portland Press Herald cutting Monday edition before weekends is unusual, but it makes sense as it has fewer ads, lower circulation, and Sunday labor is pricey — Those of us who have followed the transition of newspapers from print to free digital and, now, to paid digital have long predicted …
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Amazon expands Fire TV Edition to soundbars, car infotainment systems, set-top boxes, and more, and says Fire TV platform now has over 40M MAUs — It was only a few months ago that Amazon took the wraps off over 20 new Fire TV devices to fill out its growing portfolio, including a refreshed Fire TV Cube …
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TechCrunch and The Streamable, more at Techmeme »
BuzzFeed News:
A look at the worldwide industry of PR and marketing firms, which offer disinformation services including fake accounts, false narratives, and pseudo news sites — Peng Kuan Chin pulled out his phone, eager to show the future of online manipulation. — Unseen servers began crawling the web for Chinese articles and posts.
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@craigsilverman, @astroehlein, @lydia130613, @peterjukes, @slpng_giants and @farmgeek
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
UK Tax Tribunal rules that The Times' digital subscription revenue is VAT-exempt because its website, like a newspaper, is rarely updated — Rupert Murdoch's firm satisfies tax tribunal that subscriptions should be zero-rated — Rupert Murdoch's newspaper group could be set …
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@janemartinson, @danbarker, @kadhim and @jimwaterson
NBC News:
Los Angeles District Attorney says Harvey Weinstein has been charged with raping one woman and sexually assaulting another in separate incidents in 2013 — The charges come on the eve of jury selection in a criminal trial against Weinstein in New York, where he has been charged with felony sexual assault.
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New York Times, Gothamist, @jodikantor, @nytimes, @msnbc, @eorden, @jodikantor, MTV and BBC
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Vice UK had revenues of £17.3M in 2018, down from £25.7M in 2017, with losses of £3.9M, up 75% YoY; Vice UK blames Brexit uncertainty for the growth of losses — Pre-tax losses at millennial media brand Vice UK have grown by 75 per cent in 2018, according to the company's latest full-year financial figures.
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