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Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:
Netflix leads Oscars with 24 nominations, in part due to The Irishman's 10 nods, including best picture; Disney came second with 23 nods, followed by Sony's 20 — Can Netflix translate awards nominations to wins this time? That'll be the question in the entertainment industry …
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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.
Discussion:
New York Times, Los Angeles Times, NME, @mattgarrahan, @inclusionists, @nicsperling and @kpfallon
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
Discussion:
Los Angeles Times and Slate
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!):
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.
Discussion:
@haleywells28, @rainesford and @brianstelter
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.
Discussion:
Mediaite, Poynter, The Guardian and @jsccounterpunch
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 …
Discussion:
@jimwaterson, @mattkmoore, @markpack, @adambanksdotcom and @markdistef
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.
Discussion:
@cecianasta and Legendary Live Streaming, more at Techmeme »
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
Discussion:
@cjr, @glojo_nyu, @cjr and @cjr
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
Jason Lynch / Adweek:
FX on Hulu to launch on March 2; going forward, FX will premiere 2-3 episodes in the first week, even on its linear networks, then release episodes weekly — Company had ‘hit a ceiling’ as a basic cable network — Key Insights: — For more than a decade, FX Networks has honed its brand as a premium basic cable network.
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 …
Discussion:
@trbrtc, @trbrtc and Committee to Protect …
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