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Sara Fischer / Axios:
A look at how media outlets are responding to COVID-19: remote work and interviews, shifting conferences to virtual forums, talk show tapings without audiences — Newsrooms are creating contingency plans to make sure that they can adequately inform the public about the novel coronavirus while keeping their own employees safe.
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Dominic Patten / Deadline:
As multiple news outlets adopt work-from-home policies, CBS News' president says two employees have tested positive for COVID-19 and offices will be cleaned — (UPDATED WITH NBC NEWS STATEMENT) With a number of members of the media in America and around the globe already sequestered due …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Rupert Murdoch, who at 89 still exerts influence at Fox News, could save lives and viewers by ordering the network to emphasize the seriousness of COVID-19 — The insidious feedback loop between President Trump and Fox News is no secret. — When Trump says “jump,” the network leaps into action.
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
Never has conservative media's contempt for facts and science been more dangerous, as Fox News puts lives at risk by minimizing the danger from coronavirus
Never has conservative media's contempt for facts and science been more dangerous, as Fox News puts lives at risk by minimizing the danger from coronavirus
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New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, Vanity Fair, @samseder, @normative, The Week, @k8brannen, @_arianna, @walshfreedom, @johnupton, @maxboot and The Daily Beast
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Comscore announces a partnership with Twitch to measure activity like minutes spent and content minutes per ad minute, starting with audiences in US and Canada — Measurement firm Comscore announced this morning a partnership with Amazon-owned game streaming site, Twitch.
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Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
MPA: global entertainment market reached a record $100B+ in 2019: box office hit $42.5B, digital and mobile entertainment brought in $58.8B, up 14% YoY — The global entertainment market — consisting of theatrical and home entertainment — has surpassed $100 billion in revenues …
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Variety:
A look at the unprecedented crisis that media conglomerates like Disney face because of COVID-19, as streaming companies face obstacles to producing content — The cancellation of SXSW on March 6 due to the coronavirus epidemic sent shockwaves through the entertainment industry.
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Reuters:
Source: Brian Lesser has resigned as chief executive of AT&T's advertising unit Xandr, which launched a TV ad-buying tool earlier Wednesday — (Reuters) - Brian Lesser, chief executive of AT&T Inc advertising unit Xandr, has resigned, according to a source familiar with the matter …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
AT&T's Xandr says AMC Networks, WarnerMedia, and Disney joined Xandr Invest, its self-serve ad-buying platform, which will be available for 2020 “upfronts”
AT&T's Xandr says AMC Networks, WarnerMedia, and Disney joined Xandr Invest, its self-serve ad-buying platform, which will be available for 2020 “upfronts”
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
How local newspapers in San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa, and Philadelphia are covering coronavirus, which has become a local story — When global becomes local: — On Thursday, Feb. 27, journalists at The Seattle Times held a meeting to talk about how they'd cover the coronavirus.
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Peter White / Deadline:
CBS All Access to launch Tooning Out the News on March 16; animated characters will mock the news of the day in short daily segments and a weekly full episode — Animated anchor James Smartwood will start mocking the news later this month after CBS All Access set a premiere date for Stephen Colbert …
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Source: Byron Allen has made an all-cash bid on Tegna worth about $8.5B, which values the broadcaster at $4.4B — Tegna is one of the biggest broadcasters in the industry — Budding media mogul Byron Allen has made a bid for broadcaster Tegna Inc. that values the owner of 62 local television stations …
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Broadcasting & Cable, MediaPost, Deadline, Los Angeles Times and Variety
Alexandria Williams / Quartz:
Inside TikTok's strategy to get a foothold in Africa: signing up Instagram and YouTube creators, hiring staff in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa, and more — Early this year, the short video app TikTok joined Nairobi Garage, a leading coworking space in Nairobi's Kilimani district.
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Ben Collins / NBC News:
Investigation finds that books dominating Amazon's search results on COVID-19 are often plagiarized from news outlets, with authors lacking verifiable IDs — The listings highlight the challenge that Amazon has faced as consumers have turned to the company for a variety of goods and information.