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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:
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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Deadline, @barackobama, Variety, Variety, The Playlist and @blakehounshell
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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Joshua Benton / @jbenton:
[Thread] A rebuttal of Lawrence Lessig's newly filed lawsuit against the NYT, in which he alleges that a headline and opening paragraph in a story defames him — This is just so disappointing: @lessig is suing The New York Times for the new legal category of “clickbait defamation.” 1/x https://twitter.com/...
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Medium, @astepanovich, @mmasnick, @mathewi, @onekade, @fordm, @theophite, @chanders, @biellacoleman, @digiphile and @rodboydilm
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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@erichoov, @haleywells28, @fenitn, @rainesford, @brianstelter and @robinhanson
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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American Press Institute, @scottwongdc, @flitteronfraud, @davidhulen, @stanfordc and The Rural Blog
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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@jeffjarvis, @risj_oxford, @kate_musgrave, @adriana_lacy, @ronaldvasquezg8, @filip_struharik, @filip_struharik, @dcnorg, @risj_oxford and @marklittlenews
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Fox Television Stations debuts Fox Soul, an ad-based online channel aimed at African Americans with live original talk and informational shows from 6-10PM PT — Fox Television Stations has unveiled Fox Soul, an ad-supported streaming channel that blends original talk and lifestyle series …
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The Wrap, Broadcasting & Cable, The Streamable, Deadline and Los Angeles Times
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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Mediaite, Poynter, @jsccounterpunch and The Guardian
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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@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.
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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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@cjr, @glojo_nyu, @cjr and @cjr
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