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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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Al Jazeera:
DHS tightens visa restrictions for journalists from China, limiting visas for Chinese reporters to 90 days, with the option for extension — New visa restrictions seen as a retaliatory measure after China expelled American journalists from three US newspapers.
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The Week, The Guardian, @raju, Law360 and Wall Street Journal
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.
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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 …
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@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,” …
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Variety:
How streamers like Bytedance have prospered in China while the country has lost 20% of its theatrical release capacity and 5K+ film and TV companies — Things got weird on the Chinese Internet in January. — With at least 760 million of the nation's residents — a group more than twice …
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.
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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 …
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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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