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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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Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
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
Variety:
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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CNN:
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
Steven Waldman / Trust, Media and Democracy:
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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Playbill:
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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Jeanine Poggi / Ad Age:
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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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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Nicholas Quah / Nieman Lab:
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
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, Los Angeles Times, Deadline and Variety
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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@kristenhare, @kristenhare, @yamphoto and @poynter
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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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 — 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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