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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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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 — He can't make his disinfectant remarks go away. So he's trying to douse them with doubt. — President Donald Trump …
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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.
Kevin Lerner / Nieman Lab:
As information about the coronavirus pandemic is evolving so rapidly, journalists should get used to conveying uncertainty in long-developing, ongoing stories — On April 4, a Los Angeles Times story about the varying effects of the novel coronavirus contained a remarkable paragraph:
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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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Reed Richardson / Mediaite:
WH unsuccessfully tried to force CNN's Kaitlan Collins to move to the back row at Friday's briefing; Acosta: an official threatened to involve Secret Service — The White House attempted to force CNN's Kaitlan Collins to give up her assigned seat and move to the back row of the briefing room on Friday …
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Bloomberg:
Profile of AT&T's new CEO John Stankey, who started as a customer service rep at the company and has overseen an exodus of executives as the head of WarnerMedia — - John Stankey is famous for tackling sensitive issues head-on — ‘Incredibly complex company’ may be hard for anyone to manage
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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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Cinnamon Janzer / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists are growing increasingly concerned amid the pandemic over the CDC's restrictive press policies that have limited access to its scientists for years — On the morning of Tuesday, February 25, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, the director of the National Center for Immunization …
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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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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.
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Charlie Beckett / Polis:
Q&A with Viktoriia Samatova, head of applied innovation at Reuters, on how the news org employs AI and her role working at the intersection of AI and journalism — Viktoriia Samatova is the Managing Director of the Applied Innovations Team at Reuters Technology. She is based in Toronto, Canada.
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