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Bloomberg's Jennifer Jacobs escorted out of Trump campaign Iowa press event on Monday, after a Dec. campaign pledge to no longer credential Bloomberg reporters — President Trump's re-election campaign escorted a Bloomberg News reporter from an event in Iowa, following a pledge no longer …
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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Ahead of today's caucuses in Iowa, there is ample indication that media is repeating all the framing errors that shaped coverage in 2016
Ahead of today's caucuses in Iowa, there is ample indication that media is repeating all the framing errors that shaped coverage in 2016
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FiveThirtyEight, New York Times, @jon_allsop, @ryanlawler, @cjr, @mathewi and The Week
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed News:
The numbers from the spiked Des Moines Register poll in Iowa circulated among some journalists, and some of them say the poll quietly influenced their coverage
The numbers from the spiked Des Moines Register poll in Iowa circulated among some journalists, and some of them say the poll quietly influenced their coverage
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Adam Wren / Politico:
LGBT reporters covering Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay mainstream presidential candidate, say they bring a unique perspective that straight reporters lack
LGBT reporters covering Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay mainstream presidential candidate, say they bring a unique perspective that straight reporters lack
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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
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
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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Alphabet breaks out revenue numbers for YouTube ads for the first time, says they generated $4.7B in Q4 revenue and $15.15B in fiscal 2019, up from $11.16B YoY — - Google broke out numbers for YouTube and Cloud for the first time Monday. — YouTube ads generated $15.15 billion in revenue in 2019 …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sundar Pichai says YouTube Music and YouTube Premium together have more than 20M paying subscribers, and YouTube TV has more than 2M subscribers in the US — YouTube Music and YouTube Premium together have more than 20 million paying subscribers, and YouTube TV — Google's …
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Pippa Crerar / Mirror.co.uk:
Journalists from every major UK broadcaster and paper walk out 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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Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News:
Cards Against Humanity has purchased ClickHole from G/O Media for an undisclosed cash sum; ClickHole employees will become the majority owners of the site — Cards Against Humanity, the card game company, purchased Clickhole.com from its owners at G/O Media on Monday for an undisclosed amount …
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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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Meghna Rao / Splice:
The Ken, a one-story per weekday subscription news site in India, says it will unbundle its Southeast Asian offering from its Indian offering — They now have reporters across Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines. — When the team at India's The Ken …
Kate Feldman / New York Daily News:
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh announces on his show that he has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer and will miss some shows during his treatment — Rush Limbaugh, the loudmouthed conservative radio host, announced on his show Monday that he has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
BuzzFeed News is recruiting three “Teen Ambassadors”, aged 16 to 19, to create TikTok and Instagram videos as part of the site's 2020 election coverage — BuzzFeed News is looking for a few good teens. The news division of the popular entertainment site is recruiting a brand …
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Gary Baum / Hollywood Reporter:
Profile of ex-National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard, who is repositioning himself as a Hollywood player despite being a key part of many sordid scandals — The former ‘National Enquirer’ editor has been a key player in the era's most sordid scandals, from Trump's hush-money payments …
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@garymbaum and @patrickbigpix
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
A look at DirecTV's problems as AT&T increasingly treats the once best-in-class pay TV service, which lost nearly 3M subscribers in 2019, like a relic — Last summer, a 14,000-pound satellite named T-16 was shot into space. — With little fanfare, it joined the orbiting fleet …
Matt Donnelly / Variety:
HBO Max acquires “On the Record”, the documentary about a Russell Simmons accuser that Oprah pulled from Apple TV+ — Following a thunderstorm of Oprah Winfrey-related controversy and a successful Sundance film festival premiere, “On the Record” has secured domestic distribution at HBO Max.
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Giles Hattersley / British Vogue:
Naga Munchetty talks about the aftermath of speaking out against Trump's racist remarks, being at the center of a BBC crisis, institutional racism, and more — When queen of breakfast TV Naga Munchetty spoke out against Donald Trump's racist remarks, she didn't expect to become the centre of a BBC crisis.
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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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