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6:10 PM ET, June 21, 2020

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Nicole Asbury / Poynter:
The AP updates its style to now capitalize “Black” when used in a racial, ethnic, or cultural sense for people who identify as Black  —  'For all the newsrooms waiting on AP to set the example, there's no excuse'  —  The Associated Press announced Friday afternoon it's changing …
Hayley Miller / HuffPost:
The Tennessean says it is launching an investigation into how a full-page anti-Muslim ad by a Christian doomsday cult was published in its Sunday print edition  —  The Tennessean said it's investigating how a full-page, anti-Muslim ad was published.  —  The Tennessean ― …
Discussion: The Tennessean and The Wrap
Aaron Mackey / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Proposals by Sen. Hawley and the DOJ to amend Section 230 protections would violate the First Amendment and bury tech platforms in legal cost and liability risk  —  Whether we know it or not, all Internet users rely on multiple online services to connect, engage, and express themselves online.
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Ben Smith / @benyt:
Memo: NYT will assemble a diverse advisory council to help develop a diversity and inclusion strategy; newsroom to create its own team to study diversity issues
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
“Police said” journalism far too often misses the reality of police dishonesty in crime reporting, to the detriment of the perception of Black communities  —  The headline in the self-proclaimed People Paper — the Philadelphia Daily News — spelled it out in black and white …
Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
Federal judge rejects DOJ's emergency request to block the publication of John Bolton's White House memoir The Room Where It Happened  —  A federal judge Saturday rejected the Justice Department's emergency request to block publication of John Bolton's White House memoir …
Maureen Ryan / Vanity Fair:
Assistants working for Sony, NBCU, and Warner Bros. say their pay has dropped by at least a third as they've come under pressure to underreport overtime hours  —  The industry talks a good game about inclusion, but people from marginalized communities are often the most vulnerable.
Charlotte Alfred / Nieman Reports:
Nonprofits are helping European media institutions address their diversity problems by matching refugee journalists from conflict countries with news outlets  —  “Diversity is not about political correctness, it's about the quality of media”  —  It all began with a Facebook post in early 2016.
Alexander Russo / Poynter:
The journalists who cover education generally fail to reflect the diversity of the students and communities they cover, but some outlets have improved numbers  —  Last summer, education reporter Jenny Abamu left WAMU, the Washington, DC-area NPR station, after only about a year on the job.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution partners with United Robots to generate real estate articles tailored to ZIP code, based on large data sets  —  To gather information and stories relevant to our readers, AJC editors and reporters for decades have spent time and energy looking at large sets of data …
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge:
Disney+ has quietly stopped offering new subscribers a free seven-day trial, ahead of its release of the Hamilton Broadway production recording  —  Pay to be in the room where it happens  —  Disney Plus has appeared to have quietly stopped offering new subscribers a free seven-day trial …
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Pamela McClintock / Hollywood Reporter:
Memo: AMC reverses course after “immediate outcry” from customers and will require moviegoers to wear masks when the company reopens about 450 theaters July 15  —  The country's largest cinema chain came under fierce scrutiny Thursday over comments made by its CEO.
Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal:
As BuzzFeed and other publishers experiment with texting to deliver news to readers, the immediate return on investment remains unclear  —  Media companies experiment with a different type of reader experience  —  When BuzzFeed News journalist Mat Honan began texting readers …
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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
The Daily Mail surpassed The Sun to become the UK's best-selling newspaper in May; Murdoch's Sun had been the best-selling paper for 42 years
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Twitter has suspended the account of far-right British commentator Katie Hopkins, who has written for Rebel Media and Mail Online and who had 1.1M+ followers
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Denise Balkissoon / Chatelaine:
A former journalist at Canada's Globe and Mail details her experience of racism and failed diversity initiatives amid a wider racial reckoning in Canadian media
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Twitch is growing as a platform for live music, which is now among its top 15 genres; report: Twitch users watched 27M hours of music in May, up 5X from Jan.