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The Independent:
FT reporter Mark Di Stefano accessed confidential Zoom calls at The Independent and Evening Standard where staff were informed of pay cuts and furloughs — Media correspondent eavesdropped on Zoom meetings as staff were told sensitive news of pay cuts and furloughs during pandemic
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The Financial Times has suspended media and technology correspondent Mark Di Stefano — The Financial Times has suspended recently hired Mark Di Stefano as media and technology correspondent. The tenacious reporter joined from Buzzfeed where he covered media and politics.
Ben Smith / New York Times:
As Condé Nast struggles to find a successful business model amid COVID-19, former editors Graydon Carter and Robert Gottlieb still draw large pension checks — The theatrical flourishes and lavish lifestyles of the great media figures of a generation seem ill suited to the moment.
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Pew Research Center:
Pew survey of US adults: while 92% say they are following COVID-19 news, 69% of those over 65 are doing so “very closely” compared to 42% of 18-29-year-olds — An overwhelming majority of all U.S. adults (92%) said in late March that they were fairly or very closely following news …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube to host a free digital film festival from May 29 to June 7, with 20 partners including Cannes, Tribeca, Sundance, Berlin, and Venice film festivals — With COVID-19 shuttering film fests worldwide, YouTube has stepped in to launch a 10-day digital film festival this spring with 20 partners …
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Andy Lack / NBC News:
The chairman of NBC News and MSNBC says Trump has put the “bully in bully pulpit” by attacking reporters but “the heart of journalism has never been stronger” — At this dark hour, Americans are scared. They're hungry for accurate information and the unvarnished truth.
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Eryn Carlson / Nieman Reports:
A look at “speculative journalism”, used to give audiences an insight into complex or abstract events and imagined futures, and its potential drawbacks — This narrative technique can help audiences think about the future in more concrete terms.
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Joe Hagan / Vanity Fair:
In his first interview since leaving MSNBC, Chris Matthews admits he made a sexist comment to a guest that led to his early retirement — Biden has to absorb Sanders's ideas “to his heart.” Klobuchar is his ideal V.P. And the article that hastened his exit was “highly justified.”
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Peter Kafka / Vox:
Faced with multiple crises, Trump has returned to a familiar media strategy: blasting out pointless digressions or outright lies to distract and confuse people — Trump speaks at his April 23 coronavirus briefing. Bill Bryan, an official at the Department of Homeland Security, sits nearby.
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CNN:
Obituary desks at newspapers are expanding all across the US in an effort to convert somber death toll statistics of COVID-19 into deeply personal human stories — New York (CNN Business)A few weeks ago, The Chicago Tribune had four reporters and a single editor working on obituaries.
Kristi Eaton / Poynter:
Hobbyist publications are thriving by dedicating content related to the pandemic and creating a sense of a community among readers under stay-at-home orders — Health, food, and home and garden titles, among others, have seen an abundance of readers and social media engagement in the pandemic
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Joy Press / Vanity Fair:
TV showrunners and crew members reflect on the week of March 9 when all production across the US ground to a halt after the COVID-19 danger became real — By March 6, Rikers had started to feel dangerous. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is filmed on a soundstage at Chelsea Piers, in Manhattan.
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