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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Memo: Vox Media to furlough 9% of staff and cut pay 15%+ for staff making $130K+ from May 1 to July 31, freeze wages and stop 401k match until the end of 2020 — Vox Media is furloughing 9% of its staff from May 1 through July 31, with health insurance premiums being fully covered, a source familiar with the moves tells Axios.
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Jason Washing / The Keyword:
Google says it's waiving ad serving fees for news publishers globally on Ad Manager for five months — During times of global crisis, people rely on quality journalism to stay informed and safe. And the ads that appear alongside news coverage help fund the journalists who write breaking news stories …
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Ann Cooper / Journalist's ResourceJournalist's Resource:
Q&A with CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon on recent press restrictions from governments over COVID-19 coverage and the lack of pushback from western leaders — As political leaders around the globe battle the coronavirus, a growing number of national governments are using the crisis …
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The Guardian:
UK analysts say the shock of the pandemic will permanently reshape habits for consuming news and entertainment, as media revenue and production of TV shows fall — TV and news website audiences are sky-high but, with few ads or new shows, future looks fraught
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
In memo, NPR CEO says NPR is facing a $30M to $45M budget deficit for FY 2021 as sponsorship money, which made up 33% of revenue from 2015 to 2019, dries up — National Public Radio sponsorship revenue shrinks in economic environment reeling from the coronavirus crisis
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Julian Wyllie / Current:
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting's board approves a plan to give half of its $75M federal relief funds to public TV and the other half to public radio — CPB's board of directors unanimously approved a plan to divide the corporation's $75 million in federal emergency relief funds between public television and radio stations.
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@currentpubmedia and Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
The LA Times' parent company is closing three community newspapers, the Glendale News-Press, Burbank Leader, and La Cañada Valley Sun, laying off 14 staffers — The Los Angeles Times' parent company, California Times, is folding three award-winning community newspapers that serve …
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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
The Guardian and Kaiser Health News partner on Lost on the Frontline, a crowdsourced project documenting the lives of health care workers who died from COVID-19 — The joint Guardian-Kaiser Health News project also wants to include other hospital staff, home health aides, and nursing home workers.
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Nicholas Diakopoulos / Columbia Journalism Review:
As journalists make predictions beyond elections amid the pandemic, they face a new ethical dilemma and must consider their own role in influencing outcomes — univac, the first general-purpose digital computer, was put into production in 1951. By 1952 journalists at CBS were already using …
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Pew Research Center:
Pew study of open-ended responses to a survey in early March reveals significant confusion and suspicion about information on the risks and origins of COVID-19 — During the early days of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States, about half of Americans (48%) said they had encountered …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Reporters grounded from the political campaign trail worry about missing swing-state voters' voices, after outlets pledged to avoid the same mistakes from 2016 — The boys (and girls) aren't on the bus. That means no face-to-face interviews with swing-state voters, no hotel-bar meetings …
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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
NUJ calls on UK to confer “asset of community value” status on local papers so they can be preserved via community ownership, among ideas to save the industry — Local and national titles could close without support, says journalists' union — National newspapers could close unless …
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