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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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CBS News says a third New York-based staffer has tested positive for COVID-19; the person had worked with two other employees who previously tested positive — “Yesterday was a day where we were tested,” CBS News president Susan Zirinsky told employees in a memo on Thursday.
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@jesspatterson, MediaPost, Adweek and Deadline


Disney adds Florida's Disney World and Disneyland Paris to closures, starting Sunday until end of the month; Disneyland California also is temporarily closing — Disneyland and Universal Studios Hollywood are temporarily closing starting March 14 because of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Los Angeles Times, Orlando Sentinel, Hollywood Reporter, New York Times, Deadline, Los Angeles Times, /Film, MediaPost, @amandahallwink, @naseemmiller, @elainelow, @elainelow, @kateaurthur, Mediaite, @dyllyp, Breitbart, io9, INSIDER, @megjameslat, The Verge, @mattdpearce, Boing Boing, @sdkstl, @ctvwinnipeg, Fast Company and New York Post


Univision's Jorge Ramos, possibly exposed to COVID-19, withdraws as a moderator for Sunday's Democratic debate, which has moved from Arizona to Washington, DC — (CNN)The Democratic debate scheduled for Sunday will be moved from Arizona to Washington, DC, the Democratic National Committee announced Thursday.
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TVNewser, Vanity Fair, Breitbart, @briannedmr, Axios, @mlcalderone and The Wrap


Lessons from the first two years of Report for America: demand from journalists is strong, individual reporters can have massive impact, big challenges remain — The appetite for a “public service” approach is strong but the on-the-ground challenges in newsrooms are real — Report for America has grown rapidly.
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@mediatwit and @knightfdn


Broadway theaters suspend all performances starting at 5pm today through April 12, under the direction of NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo — The closure is effective at 5 PM tonight, and will last through April 12. — Broadway theatres will go dark beginning 5 PM, March 12, by order of Governor Andrew Cuomo.
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Deadline, Broadway News, @stephaniejblock, @anaismitchell, Variety, @ditzkoff, IndieWire, @sdkstl, Broadway News, New York Post, @chloe_melas and Crain's New York Business


NBC, CBS, and WarnerMedia cancel live upfronts, the events scheduled through mid-May to entice advertisers, due to COVID-19; they will stream or televise events — They will stream their events instead, while NBC will also televise its presentation — NBCUniversal, CBS and WarnerMedia …
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Adweek, Adweek, Deadline, Broadcasting & Cable, @koblin, MediaPost, Vanity Fair, @brianstelter and @tvgrimreaper


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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MediaPost, Comscore, Inc. and Adweek, more at Techmeme »


Irish broadcaster RTE to release a show in five languages, following in the footsteps of Wondery and iHeartMedia, which announced similar plans in August — Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 249, dated March 10, 2020. — Spotify's Gimlet Media hires a new head of content.
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@jeromobot


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, Los Angeles Times, Deadline and Variety


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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@kristenhare, @kristenhare, @yamphoto and @poynter


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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The Streamable, Numlock News, Wall Street Journal, The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter and IndieWire


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 — President Trump has been widely and correctly excoriated for the way he is dealing with the novel coronavirus. By minimizing the danger, he heightens it.
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New York Times, @samseder, @badfoxgraphics, @normative, @andrewkirell, Columbia Journalism Review, Poynter, @k8brannen, The Week, Vanity Fair, @_arianna, @walshfreedom, @johnupton and @maxboot
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