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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Sources: VOA head Michael Pack has signaled that he will not approve visa extensions for dozens of foreign journalists working for the outlet in the US — Dozens of foreign nationals working as journalists in the U.S. for Voice of America, the federal government's international broadcaster …
Steven Perlberg / Digiday:
A look at Protocol's first months in a crowded tech journalism ecosystem, the challenge of applying the Politico playbook, divisions between the EIC and staff — In April, reporters and editors at Protocol, the new technology publication launched by the owner of Politico, gathered for a “weekly huddle” video call.
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Maya Tribbitt / Bloomberg:
Global Disinformation Index study: websites spreading COVID-19 misinfo will get at least $25M this year from ad platforms run by Google, Amazon, and others — Digital advertising platforms run by Google, Amazon.com Inc. and other tech companies will funnel at least $25 million …
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@stollmeyereu, @disinfoindex, GDI and Business Insider
Nick Statt / The Verge:
Sensor Tower: of the ~910K users that signed up for Quibi's 3-month free trial in April, only 8%, ~72K, converted to a paid subscription after the trial ended — The struggling streaming video platform has a not-so-great conversion rate — Streaming service Quibi only managed to convert …
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Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
New Hong Kong security law limits outlets' reporting, including access to court proceedings; China has established an HK bureau overseeing foreign news agencies — A little over a week ago, China unveiled and immediately implemented a draconian new law cracking down on dissent in Hong Kong.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Joy Reid will host The ReidOut, a new nightly show on MSNBC, starting July 20, becoming the only Black woman hosting a nightly evening show on a major network — She becomes one of the few Black women to anchor a major American evening news program. The move was made by new leadership at NBC News …
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Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Sources: Dataminr, an official Twitter partner, relayed tweets and other social media posts about BLM protests directly to police, contrary to earlier claims — Leveraging close ties to Twitter, controversial artificial intelligence startup Dataminr helped law enforcement digitally monitor …
Chicago Reporter:
Chicago PD shuts down its arrest API, used by journalists to access arrest data, after Chicago Reporter used it to reveal that CPD had inflated looting claims — Blocking access to key law enforcement data hinders critical accountability efforts by journalists and researchers and ultimately limits discourse on public safety.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
The Harper's letter rejects public shaming and consequences for speech, calling them censorship, when they're forms of the counterspeech it claims to support — There's a slightly bizarre Letter on Justice and Open Debate that Harper's Magazine is publishing, signed by a long list of famous people …
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Columbia Journalism Review, Mediaite, Reason, Los Angeles Times, @funkaoshi, The Daily Beast, @rosenthalmaggie, @ronhogan, GEN and Boing Boing
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New York Times:
How the Harper's letter grew from a core of about 20 people, led by Thomas Chatterton Williams, and how blowback built especially to J.K. Rowling's inclusion
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Jacob Bernstein / New York Times:
Former employees at fashion magazine V accuse EIC Stephen Gan of sexism, racism, homophobia, and verbal abuse — Former employees at V, the title he helped found, are criticizing his leadership there, as an industry reconsiders past norms of judgment and exclusion.
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@lizziepaton, @media_evan, @tim__fitzgerald, @unwrinkling, @amguarnieri_ and @jessicaschiffer
Edmund Lee / New York Times:
Profile of Parrot Analytics, which uses Google queries, Facebook Likes, pirated downloads, and Wikipedia traffic to determine the popularity of streaming shows — Unlike Nielsen, which measure audience size, Parrot Analytics says it can track viewer enthusiasm. That's more important to subscription services.
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@sanditonsister2, @waredseger, @edmundlee and @edmundlee
Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak:
EU court rules that online platforms like YouTube need not hand over to rights holders the email or IP addresses of users who upload pirated content — YouTube's millions of users upload staggering amounts of content to the site every day and while most of it doesn't present any issues …
Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Google News Initiative and LION Publishers pilot a free 8-week virtual boot camp on journalism entrepreneurship, run by Phillip Smith, from Sept. 21 to Nov. 9 — The biggest challenge for news entrepreneurs often isn't building a news product — it's developing a sustainable business model.
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