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Des Moines Register, CNN cancel release of final Iowa Poll results ahead of caucuses, after Pete Buttigieg's campaign complained he wasn't included in one call — The release of the highly anticipated survey was canceled after complaints from Pete Buttigieg's campaign that he was not included in at least one phone call.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
A look at Iowa Starting Line, a small local news site in Des Moines that has rivaled The Des Moines Register for scoops and influence ahead of the Iowa caucuses — Iowa Starting Line began as a man and his laptop. It's now a rare success story in the ailing world of local news.
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Campaign coverage ahead of Iowa caucuses was dominated by the impeachment as ABC, CBS, and NBC nightly news devoted 10 minutes of airtime vs 86 minutes in 2016 — New York (CNN Business)A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here.
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Sources: last year WaPo editor Marty Baron threatened to fire reporter Wesley Lowery after he posted a series of tweets about racism in the Tea Party — The newspaper's Kobe Bryant tweet mess last week wasn't the first time WaPo bosses got into heated clashes with reporters over social-media policy.
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Emily Peck / HuffPost:
Sources: handling of Felicia Sonmez's tweets is the latest example of unequal treatment of men and women at WaPo, also reflected in its coverage and pay gap — There's an “understated respectability” that is “secretly pernicious,” said one woman. — Washington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez received death …
Pippa Crerar / Mirror.co.uk:
Journalists from every major UK broadcaster and newspaper walkout after attempts to remove those from left-of-center publications from a Downing Street briefing — Members of every major national news outlet left a Downing Street briefing in protest in an escalation of tensions between Boris Johnson's team and the media
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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Profile of The Dispatch, the newly launched conservative media outlet targeting the “center-right” with fact-based original reporting instead of cheap hot takes — Jonah Goldberg, the conservative author and longtime fixture at National Review, used to have a go-to metaphor …
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@jayrosen_nyu, @mckaycoppins, @elongreen, @johnghendy, @chriscpandolfo, @oliverdarcy and The G-File
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Publishers like the Guardian, The Times, and Le Monde are publishing fewer stories, leading to higher audience traffic, higher dwell times, and more subscribers — Increasingly, publishers are seeing that less is more when it comes to producing content. — Publishers including the Guardian …
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
A look at the Minneapolis Star Tribune's strategies for maintaining print revenue and growing paid digital subscribers as it aims for 150K digital subs by 2025 — The paramount business goal for many newspapers in 2020, metros especially, is building out a paid digital subscription base.
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@niemanreports, @apantazi, @callaghanpeter and @poynter
Adam Sherwin / inews:
BBC to launch a range of new podcasts including a Panorama podcast and Americast, a podcast about the 2020 Election with Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis — A ‘deep dive’ investigative Panorama podcast series will also be launched via BBC Sounds app — The BBC is launching a range of new podcasts …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Disney's Hulu grew twice as fast as Netflix in the US last year, easily surpassing 30M total subscribers — - Company will update investors on online effort this week — As the workday wound to a close Friday evening, employees from Hulu flocked to local watering holes across Santa Monica …
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Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
YouTube details how it's cracking down on election disinformation: removing doctored and misleading videos, as well as those questioning candidate's eligibility — Just in time for the Iowa caucuses, YouTube this morning clarified how it's cracking down on videos spreading falsehoods related to elections …
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Nasdaq:
Tribune Publishing says its CEO Timothy Knight is leaving and will be succeeded by EVP and CFO Terry Jimenez, who will also become its President — (RTTNews) - Tribune Publishing Co. (TPCO) said that its Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Terry Jimenez has assumed the role …
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