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6:55 AM ET, May 10, 2020

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Jeffrey M. Jones / Knight Foundation:
Gallup/Knight survey: 65% of US adults favor local news orgs receiving COVID-19 relief money, but their willingness to personally pay for local news remains low  —  The economic slowdown affecting the U.S. is worsening an already perilous financial situation for local news organizations, especially local newspapers.
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Pew Research Center:
Pew survey of US adults: 59% say news media provides information they need about COVID-19 while 24% disagree; partisan divide over media's usefulness persists  —  Even in crisis, Republicans and Democrats remain starkly divided in their attitudes toward journalists  —  How we did this
Bill Birtles / ABC:
China has forced out 19 foreign journalists in 12 months, including Chris Buckley, the respected Australian reporter for NYT who has covered China for 24 years  —  After 24 years reporting in China, Chris Buckley — a highly regarded and experienced foreign journalist …
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Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Some publishers cut back programmatic inventory to protect their long-term ad prices; the average US display ad CPM fell from $1.34 on March 1 to $0.91 on May 3  —  In a weak ad market, conventional wisdom would have publishers trying to sell more ads to offset lower ad prices.
Discussion: Aldo's Notes and @acfou
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
How the Newspaper Navigator AI agent has helped the Library of Congress digitize newspaper illustrations and photos and make them searchable  —  Historians interested in the way events and people were chronicled in the old days once had to sort through card catalogs for old papers …
Discussion: @aamyjames and Boing Boing
Ruth Michaelson / Columbia Journalism Review:
Ruth Michaelson, the Guardian reporter kicked out of Egypt for covering a study that modeled the COVID-19 outbreak in Egypt, describes her last days there  —  The warning that I would be expelled from Egypt began with a few simple words.  “They just want to see your visa,” …
Discussion: @arialavrilleux
Washington Post:
Megyn Kelly debuts first on-camera interview of Biden accuser Tara Reade on Kelly's YouTube channel, after Reade canceled scheduled appearances on Fox and CNN  —  Megyn Kelly says she became curious about Tara Reade from the intermittent and irregular bursts of news coverage about her accusations against Joe Biden.
Savannah Jacobson / Columbia Journalism Review:
Natasha Daly, a National Geographic reporter and editor, hopes to encourage healthy skepticism as she fact checks return-of-the-wild stories amid the lockdown  —  These days, people are desperate for good news.  Cheerful stories about animals reclaiming their territory—elephants roaming free in China …
Diana Falzone / VICE:
The five women who sued NY1 for age and gender discrimination in 2019 say they have had to endure retaliation that has created an even more toxic environment  —  Last June, five female anchors and reporters at the New York cable news channel NY1 sued their employer, alleging systemic gender and age discrimination.
Kerry Flynn / CNN:
Forced to cancel moneymaking in-person events, some media companies have switched with success to virtual events that have driven audience growth and revenue  —  New York (CNN Business)Fans of Bon Appétit's Test Kitchen chefs were invited to the “Best Weekend Ever” event in New York City last fall.
 
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Internal email: US News & World Report imposes 90-day furloughs affecting 10%-15% of the company's roughly 320 employees, a move that closely follows pay cuts
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
MoffettNathanson: pay TV subscriptions fell a record 1.8M in Q1, with 63% of US households subscribing, down to '95 level, as virtual and satellite TV implode
Kathryn Hopkins / WWD:
ENTtech Media halts Paper Magazine's print edition, lays of four staff, and implements pay cuts ranging from 20% to 30% for the highest paid employees
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
MGM takes a stake in podcast company Audio Up, which will produce and distribute up to five podcasts per year for MGM and give it first looks for adaptations
Victor Pickard / The Nation:
Converting post offices into places to produce community media, with public broadband, would strengthen the original USPS purpose of delivering news and ideas
Abby Ohlheiser / MIT Technology Review:
A look at the symbiotic ties of anti-vaxxers and COVID-19 conspiracy theorists with mainstream YouTubers, as the platform tries to regulate misinformation
CNN:
In June 2015, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany harshly panned Trump, calling his comments on Mexican immigrants “racist”, then defended him by July