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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
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Canada's $50M Local Journalism Initiative is funding 168 reporting positions, most at established outlets, as critics ask why more didn't go to smaller outlets — The country's $50 million Local Journalism Initiative is funding more than 160 reporting positions across the country.
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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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Ayesha Tanzeem / Voice of America:
Pakistan's detention of the owner and EIC of GEO News, a popular news channel and website in the country, raises concerns among press freedom advocates — ISLAMABAD - One of Pakistan's biggest media tycoons has been in custody for two months in a case involving alleged corruption in a 34-year-old land deal.
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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism:
Reuters Institute: of 226 news outlets across 23 EU countries, those orgs with higher accuracy assessments from experts tend to have higher public trust ratings — French Economy and Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire is seen on a TV screen during a television interview at the Bercy Finance Ministry …
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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.
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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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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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@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.
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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 …
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