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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Multiple staffers protested a NYT op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton calling for the US military to be used against protesters; many said it endangered black NYT staffers  —  “Running this puts Black @NYTimes staff in danger,” dozens of Times employees tweeted in solidarity on Wednesday evening.
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Sara Nathan / Page Six:
Source: Quibi has already cut overtime for its lowest-level staffers and quietly let go of others; Quibi has raised over $1.7B in funding  —  Quibi staff are seething on the savanna after Reese Witherspoon was paid $6 million to narrate a nature show on the troubled platform where her husband works.
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Journalists need to avoid simplifying the complicated stories of protests across the US, even as people try to interpret based on their established beliefs  —  Like most Americans, I am nowhere near any violence right now.  Nevertheless, I am hearing and seeing violence on a series of screens …
Melena Ryzik / New York Times:
Profile of Zane Lowe, whose Beats 1 interviews steer clear of naked promotion in favor of deeper, emotional conversations, using his OCD and anxiety as examples  —  The D.J.'s interviews on Apple's Beats 1 have gone from promotional stops to opportunities for deep thoughts, anchored by an impulse to share his own story.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:   Apple, which traditionally uses podcasts to distribute corporate news, launches its first entertainment podcast, The Zane Lowe Interview Series
Mattia Peretti / Polis:
Publishers around the world, including AFP, the Guardian, and WSJ, join JournalismAI Collab, a six-month project to prototype AI-powered journalistic solutions  —  Experiment: “A procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact."
Discussion: @charliebeckett
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Staff at UK publisher Reach are considering legal action after indefinite forced 10% pay cuts due to COVID-19 even as execs got ~£300K bonuses, £1.18M in shares  —  Daily Mirror, Daily Express and local newspaper staff furious after bosses get £300,000 in bonuses and £1.18m in shares
Discussion: HoldtheFrontPage
Luke Ottenhof / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists are concerned over the lack of labor reporters when their watchdog coverage is most needed, as the pandemic has increased threats to workers' rights  —  A normal day of reporting on labor in America is busy.  But these are not normal days.  —  Precarious labor conditions under …
The Information:
Sources: The Athletic and AT&T's Bleacher Report are weighing deals with online betting sites, referring readers for a cut of any resulting revenue  —  Over the past few years, online publishers have turned to commerce marketing as an important source of revenue.
Discussion: @jaycodon
Associated Press:
US Park Police says it's placed two officers on administrative leave after video showed them attacking two Australian journalists as it investigates the assault  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Park Police said it has placed two officers on administrative leave after video showed …
The Daily Beast:
Sources: Trump and Jared Kushner encouraged the National Enquirer in 2017 to push a debunked conspiracy theory about the death of an aide to Joe Scarborough  —  OBSESSION  —  Trump is so hellbent on smearing the MSNBC host that he had Jared push the Enquirer to publish the lies, sources told The Daily Beast.
 
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Casey Newton / The Verge:
Snap says it has stopped promoting Trump's account in Discover, after a tweet from days ago about protesters at the White House meeting “ominous weapons”
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