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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Fox News opts for opinion programming over airing impeachment trial and broadcast networks stick to regular programming, unlike CNN and MSNBC — New York (CNN Business)Executives at Fox News shielded the channel's audience on Wednesday night from the impeachment trial proceedings playing …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Democrats' impeachment trial tactic of repeating the same arguments mirrors the cable news business model of finding news and analyzing it ad nauseam — Steve Doocy isn't famous for self-awareness. He's the blond fellow on the couch of “Fox & Friends.” It's his job to say things that ridicule Democrats and bolster Republicans.
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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Emma Tucker named Sunday Times editor, the first woman in the role since 1901 — Times deputy editor replaces Martin Ivens, who joins Times Newspapers board — The Sunday Times has appointed Emma Tucker as its first female editor in more than a century.
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PBS NewsHour:
Jim Lehrer, a longtime PBS news anchor who moderated a dozen presidential debates and wrote about 20 novels, has died at 85 — PBS NewsHour co-founder Jim Lehrer, a giant in journalism known for his tenacity and dedication to simply delivering the news, died Thursday at the age of 85.
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Wall Street Journal:
Amazon claims Prime Video has ~65K titles, but 66% of those are user uploaded, including thousands of short instructional clips and conspiracy theory videos — Streaming service touts its large collection of titles, but a majority are uploads—and questionable films are in the mix
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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Interview with Kary Antholis, a former HBO executive who now publishes Crime Story, a true crime site and podcast covering crime stories centered in LA — And hopefully to make some good TV along the way. Kary Antholis' site Crime Story uses “a much more thematic, character-driven …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK Culture Secretary launches investigation into whether DMGT's £49.6M purchase of the i paper adversely affects plurality of views in the UK newspaper market — Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan has formally intervened in Mail and Metro owner Daily Mail and General Trust's £49.6m purchase of the i paper from JPI Media.
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
The FT leads in female representation in top media jobs: five of its eleven top leaders are women, who make up 45% of its global management, up from 11% in 2016 — Gender representation at the very top of the journalism pyramid has been deeply unequal since...forever.
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Jim Rich, formerly EIC for the New York Daily News, has been appointed EIC of Deadspin, the G/O Media site where the entire staff resigned last fall — Jim Rich is stepping in to lead the site months after the entire staff resigned to protest the chief executive of parent G/O Media
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Li Yuan / New York Times:
As coronavirus spreads, many media outlets in China that played key roles in revealing the 2003 SARS outbreak have been silenced or sidelined by government — Beijing has responded faster to the new threat than it did with SARS, but it still silences and punishes those who veer from the official line …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
NBC's Olympics unit teams up with Snapchat again, with plans to produce 70+ episodes across four daily Snapchat shows covering the 2020 Tokyo Olympics — NBC is again turning to Snapchat as part of monetizing its Olympics media rights — coveting the app's millions of millennials and Gen Z users.
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Hamilton Nolan / Columbia Journalism Review:
CJR's new “public editor” for The Washington Post notes the newspaper's profitability, and lingering wage issues, as it blends serious stories with clickbait — It would be trite to force an Amazon metaphor onto the Washington Post in my first column just because they are both owned by the same rich guy.
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