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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The media, which never fully reckoned with the mistakes of 2016, is on a course to help Trump turn “Obamagate” into the 2020 version of Clinton's emails — It's becoming clear that journalists never fully reckoned with the mistakes of 2016 campaign coverage.
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Ronan Farrow, while producing revelatory reporting, often omits inconvenient details in his stories and at times suggests conspiracies he cannot prove — He has delivered revelatory reporting on some of the defining stories of our time. But a close examination reveals the weaknesses …
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Megan Graham / CNBC:
A reporter set up a bogus news website, scraping stories from CNBC, and says it was shockingly easy to generate ad revenue using various ad tech companies — - In recent years, it's become common for fraudsters to make ad-supported “news” sites with content scraped from legitimate publishers.
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@megancgraham, @davemorgannyc, @newsceo, @emilybell, @jason_kint, @megancgraham, @digitalshields, @profcarroll, @slpng_giants and @megancgraham
John Koblin / New York Times:
Comedy Central, a factory for A-list comedians, is in decline, losing almost all its top executives and, sources say, shifting to unscripted, cheaper shows — The network that made the careers of Dave Chappelle, Stephen Colbert and Amy Schumer has laid off top executives while looking to make shows that are cheaper to produce.
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@koblin, @nytimesbusiness, @henereyg and @nytimes
Barton Gellman / The Atlantic:
Reporter describes being under surveillance and investigation by the US government after receiving documents from Snowden and how it affected his personal life — “What time exactly does your clock say?” asked the voice on the telephone, the first words Edward Snowden ever spoke to me aloud.
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Scott Roxborough / Hollywood Reporter:
Several European countries, including Iceland, the Czech Republic, Poland, and France, have reopened for film and TV shoots with varying safety guidelines — Several European countries, including Iceland, the Czech Republic, Poland and France, have begun to allow film and television production under new COVID-19 guidelines.
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New York Times, Variety, @erik_hayden, @miafarrow, @lexialex and Vanity Fair
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Trump ratchets up his attacks on a local news reporter, again sharing footage of the reporter being verbally abused by anti-lockdown protesters in Long Island — Four days after the video first caught his attention, President Donald Trump is ratcheting up his attacks on a local news reporter …
Dan Kennedy / wgbh.org:
Boston Globe now has nearly 205K subscribers, up from 145K before the pandemic, though most new subscriptions were sold for ~$1/month for the first six months — The Boston Globe now has more than 200,000 digital subscribers, editor Brian McGrory said at a Zoom gathering of the Society …
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Digiday, @curtwoodward, @danzedekdesign, @gustlovina, @ddpan, @tednesi, @vgmac, @dankennedy_nu and @rasmus_kleis
Axios:
US Sec. of State Pompeo alleges that China threatened to interfere in US journalists' work in Hong Kong and warned doing so may risk Hong Kong's status with US — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a statement on Sunday warning China the U.S. would take action if authorities interfere …
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Vox, United States Department …, @freedomnowla, Reuters, @stengel, @baldingsworld, Fox News and The Atlantic
Howard Polskin / Columbia Journalism Review:
How Washington Examiner's editorial head Hugo Gurdon increased site traffic with a factory-like team producing over 100 short, digestible news stories per day — At ten thirty on the morning of Thursday, February 13, Hugo Gurdon, editorial director of the Washington Examiner, opened his daily editorial meeting.
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@cjr, @cjr and @oliverdarcy
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Bauer Media says it is looking at whether to move ten of its magazines in the UK to a digital-only format, merge, sell, or close them — Magazine publisher Bauer Media plans to close, merge or sell ten of its titles it says will not be sustainable once the Covid-19 crisis is over.
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@missbarton and @johnharris1969
Max Willens / Digiday:
Digital publishers say the ad market is currently split between small and huge deals, eliminating $100,000-$300,000 deals that most large publishers rely on — The coronavirus is causing many publishers to experience of bifurcation of their ad sales that's led to an evaporation of the mid-sized deal.
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