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Ben Smith / New York Times:
While autocrats crack down on independent journalism in Malaysia, Russia, China, Egypt, the Philippines, Hungary, and elsewhere, the US looks the other way — Independent journalism is on the defensive, from Hungary to Malaysia. — Like many American media types, I spent a lot …
Kevin G. Hall / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Chatham Asset Management, McClatchy's largest creditor, has won an auction to buy the bankrupt local news company — Chatham Asset Management, the New Jersey hedge fund that is McClatchy Co.'s largest creditor, has won an auction to buy the bankrupt local news company.
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Audible's new chief content officer Brad Schwartz is out, after Audible employees found an old sexual-harassment lawsuit at Pop in which he was named — Brad Schwartz was supposed to help the Amazon division challenge Spotify in podcasting — About a month after Audible announced …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
In adapted excerpt from her forthcoming book, former Buffalo News chief editor Margaret Sullivan tracks its decline, a fate shared by newspapers nationally — Over her long career as a journalist, Margaret Sullivan has watched the decline of local news with growing alarm
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Fox News says the top writer for Tucker Carlson, Blake Neff, has resigned after details surface about years of his bigoted comments on an online forum — The top writer for Fox News host Tucker Carlson has for years been using a pseudonym to post bigoted remarks on an online forum …
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Kevin Draper / New York Times:
Black employees at ESPN, prompted by nationwide conversations on systemic racism, detail their own negative experiences with long-entrenched practices — In meetings and conversations among colleagues, ESPN employees have criticized the career pipeline and diversity of top leadership, eliciting a promise from executives to do better.
Bloomberg:
Following a YouTube algorithm change in 2019, Fox News' viewership more than doubled to 245M in June; Fox News also regularly tops Facebook's publisher charts — If you've watched a YouTube Inc. clip recently about Bill Gates' secret pandemic ploy or the dangers of anti-fascist protest movement Antifa …
Mark Jurkowitz / Pew Research Center:
Survey: US adults aged under 30 follow election and pandemic news less closely than older adults, are most critical over news coverage of George Floyd protests — The youngest adults, those ages 18 to 29, differ from older Americans in their news consumption habits as well as in their responses …
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Jeremy Arnold / Save Journalism Committee:
Deep dive into the recent tech vs media flareup, Taylor Lorenz, Balaji Srinivasan, and Vice's coverage, and why the media may not always be right in its framing — This story is about a particular piece of reporting. One that may not seem very important on the surface.
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Emily Bell / Columbia Journalism Review:
While many news orgs have celebrated the discomfort of Facebook, many haven't joined the ad boycott as few have the scale to forgo Facebook's distribution power — Mark Zuckerberg and Noam Chomsky are strange bedfellows in this political moment, but both found themselves on the same side …
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Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Chicago media orgs rethink business models and look for alternative funding during the pandemic: “There's never been a more challenging time for newsrooms” — The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on Chicago media. — From furloughs and layoffs to ceasing operations …
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Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
Inside Facebook's clubby network of invitation-only advertiser groups, called client councils, which use a mix of perks and pressure to keep brands close — Social media company uses a mixture of perks and pressure to keep brands close — Facebook likes to roll out the red carpet …
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