Mediagazer: VA lawmakers propose a bill that would limit public high school administrations' ability to censor student journalists, following similar laws in other states (Hannah Natanson/Washington Post)

12:50 PM ET, January 13, 2020

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Bethany Minelle / Sky News:

2020 Oscars nominees are the least diverse since the 2015 #OscarsSoWhite backlash, with no female best director nominees and only one black nominee for acting — It's the least diverse line-up since the #OscarsSoWhite backlash in 2015, after which the academy diversified their membership.

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Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:

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Patrick Cremona / Radio Times:

Joker leads Oscars with 11 nods including best picture, becoming the most nominated comic-book movie ever, surpassing The Dark Night's 8 nominations in 2009 — The 11 nominations scored by Todd Phillips' film surpassed the record set by Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight more than a decade ago

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Hannah Natanson / Washington Post:

VA lawmakers propose a bill that would limit public high school administrations' ability to censor student journalists, following similar laws in other states — Kate Karstens knew she'd nailed the story when the Yale-bound son of a school board member confessed to skipping class more than two dozen times — without consequences.

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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:

Study: 53% of international publishers say daily news podcasts will be important in 2020, and 50% say reader revenue will be the most important income source — Nieman Lab's not the only one that does predictions for 2020 (oh hey, check out our predictions for 2020!):

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Cecilia Kang / New York Times:

Behind the bipartisan bill that would exempt news orgs from antitrust laws to let them band together in negotiating with tech giants — Lawmakers from both parties blame companies like Facebook and Google for the struggles of local newspapers. — CORNELIA, Ga. — When a sport utility vehicle swerved …

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Jonathan Swan / Axios:

In an interview with Laura Ingraham, Trump says he's been talking to “a very, very good writer, reporter”, Bob Woodward, for an upcoming book — In his Friday interview with Fox News' Laura Ingraham, President Trump let slip he's been talking to Bob Woodward for an upcoming book.

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Mariella Brown / Society of Editors:

Every national UK newspaper editor and several regional and broadcast editors sign an open letter calling on Boris Johnson to review changes to daily briefings — An open letter signed by every national newspaper editor as well as several prominent regional and broadcast editors has been sent …

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Cecilia D'Anastasio / Wired:

StreamElements: Twitch's “Just Chatting” category for non-gaming streamers was the most popular category for the first time in December with 81M hours watched — After years of ridicule, streamers who ‘just chat’ prove that there's room for gabbing, not just gaming, on the platform.

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Leo Schwartz / Columbia Journalism Review:

Profile of Jesús Cantú, a former journalist and the information chief for Mexico's president who continues to speak for him amid his anti-press rhetoric — Jesús Cantú, a former journalist, speaks for Mexico's anti-press president

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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:

Interview with journalist Nick Martin on starting The Informant, a newsletter and news site dedicated to covering hate and right-wing extremism in the US — “I'd never want to be in the position of doing like The New York Times style of writing about the Nazi next door who sometimes eats at Applebee's."

Discussion: The Informant, @nickmartin, @spj_tweets, @nickmartin, @philipdisalvo and @niemanlab

Agence France-Presse:

Two journalists for local TV station Al-Dijla were killed in Basra, Iraq, on Friday, where they had been covering months of anti-government protests — Basra (Iraq) (AFP) - Hundreds of Iraqis on Saturday mourned two reporters shot dead the previous evening in the country's southern city of Basra …

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