Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
3:45 AM ET, May 3, 2020

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
NYT launches online campaign encouraging people to support their local newsrooms with a searchable database of for- and nonprofit local news orgs in the US  —  The Times marketing team launched a campaign Friday  —  The New York Times marketing team launched a campaign online …
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
LA Times Guild accepts 20% cut in pay and hours for its members for 12 weeks starting May 10, saving the paper $2M+; the guild represents nearly 440 journalists  —  Los Angeles Times' newsroom guild agreed Friday to accept a 20% reduction in pay and hours for its members amid a devastating decline …
RELATED:
Aaron Freedman / American Prospect:
Five years ago, unions barely existed in digital media, and now 35 digital media brands are unionized; organizing continues amid the pandemic  —  Five years ago, unions barely existed in digital media.  Today, they may save the industry from the worst of the COVID-19 depression—and provide a model to other working professionals.
Pew Research Center:
Pew survey of US adults: national news is major source of info on COVID-19 for 56%, local news for 46%; 50% find it hard to tell what's true about the outbreak  —  Americans continue to pay close attention to news about the coronavirus outbreak both nationally and locally.
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump's new press secretary Kayleigh McEnany held the first official White House press briefing since March 11, 2019, and claims “I will never lie to you”  —  President Trump's new press secretary Kayleigh McEnany held her first White House briefing on Friday, the first official press briefing since March 11, 2019.
Reuters:
Sources: NBCUniversal has reportedly started discussing cost-cutting measures, including significant layoffs across its media and entertainment properties  —  (Reuters) - Comcast Corp (CMCSA.O) owned NBCUniversal is evaluating a significant reduction of staff across its portfolio of media …
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: theSkimm, a news-curation startup known primarily for its current-events newsletter, is laying off about 20% of its staff of about 130 employees  —  Founders Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin pledge to take pay cuts, plan only one round of layoffs  —  TheSkimm, a news-curation …
Discussion: @ashkan
Ben Smith / New York Times:
News Corp says David Rhodes, a former Fox News exec and once CBS News president, has been advising News Corp's UK operation, speculating a return to Fox News  —  David Rhodes, a news executive who has held leadership roles at CBS News and Bloomberg, has been advising the media empire's British operation.
Teresa Mioli / Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas:
On World Press Freedom Day, press advocates mark the occasion with online events and social media campaigns focused on journalist security during the pandemic  —  As it has done with most things, the current COVID-19 pandemic has made its mark on the annual celebration of World Press Freedom Day …
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism:
Independent News Emergency Relief Coordination, chaired by Reuters Institute, launches to help funders provide relief to independent news orgs amid the pandemic  —  Funders and others come together to coordinate emergency funding relief.  The Reuters Institute will chair the group and provide analysis
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
Report for America's co-founders explain decision to send journalists to Gannett and McClatchy outlets, saying doing so better serves readers and communities  —  How much support do newspapers owned by cost-cutting corporate chains deserve?  It's a dilemma.
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 3:45 AM ET, May 3, 2020.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Bobbie Johnson / MIT Technology Review:
Pandemic conspiracy theories are being spread using Wayback Machine links of content already discredited by fact-checkers and even deleted
Mark Di Stefano / @markdistef:
Financial Times media and technology correspondent Mark Di Stefano, who had been suspended for accessing confidential Zoom calls at rival publications, resigns
 Earlier Picks: 
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Charlie Plowman, owner of Outlook Newspapers, buys the assets of three recently shut down papers from the California Times; 14 laid off staff won't be rehired
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Pence's staff threatens to punish a VOA reporter who tweeted that Pence's office told journalists to wear masks on a clinic visit, a rule Pence didn't follow
Ben Smith / New York Times:
CNN, MSNBC, and others so far failed to book Biden accuser Tara Reade, while she turned down offers from Hannity; source: Reade is in talks with Chris Wallace
 

 
From Techmeme:

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg:
Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time, reaching a valuation of $2.15T after rising 10% on April 26, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015

Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and others join a board for advising the DHS on deploying AI safely within US critical infrastructure
 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page