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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Trump admin orders hospitals to bypass CDC and send COVID-19 info to a database not open to the public, raising questions about reporter and researcher access — Hospitals have been ordered to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and send all patient information …
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR's Q2 radio audience fell ~25% YoY; podcast downloads and app use rose ~25% YoY; NPR on track to make more from underwriting on podcasts than on radio shows — Broadcast ratings for nearly all of NPR's radio shows took a steep dive in major markets this spring, as the coronavirus pandemic kept …
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
McClatchy's average daily operating revenue fell 28% from February to the end of May, showing the challenges that newspapers are facing during the pandemic — When McClatchy declared bankruptcy in February, its debts were crushing, but its operating numbers weren't so bad.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Memo: Vox Media is laying off 6% of its workforce, or around 70 people, mostly affecting Curbed, SB Nation, IT and office operations, and events staff — Vox Media, whose brands include New York Magazine, Vulture, The Verge and SB Nation, is cutting 6% of its workforce, laying off about 70 employees.
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Pew Research Center:
Pew: employment at digital-native outlets rose to 16,000 newsroom staff in 2019, but was still far lower than 34,950 at newspapers or 30,120 at broadcast TV — Digital-native news outlets - those “born on the web” - have seen a wave of cuts since the outbreak of the coronavirus as financial troubles continue to roil the news media.
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Financial Times:
Online ad sales are expected to drop between 19-23% this year, hindering digital outlets from turning expected profits and threatening consolidation — Tougher environment for likes of BuzzFeed and Vice raises prospect of more consolidation — It was supposed to be the year that digital publishers finally turned a profit.
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@tonytassell and @annaknicolaou
Veronica Penney / New York Times:
Facebook classifies climate change news as opinion, meaning peer-reviewed science, industry statements, and disinformation aren't fact-checked — Critics say a company policy that exempts opinion articles from fact-checking amounts to a huge loophole for climate change deniers.
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Vox, @juddlegum, @evelyndouek, @juddlegum, @mikescollins, @nytnational, @johnpodesta, @towcenter, @peterwsinger, @scottpwaldman, @dfrlab, @jessphoenix2018, @juddlegum and bookforum.com
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge:
Twitter says most verified accounts should be able to tweet again, after limiting the functionality on some verified accounts earlier while investigating hack — Update: “Most accounts should be able to Tweet again” — Twitter completely disabled the ability for many accounts to send …
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
NewsWhip: among the top 100 articles on Facebook in Q2, coverage of BLM protests and COVID-19 appeared most frequently; NBC and BBC were the top publishers — Coverage of Black Lives Matter protests and the coronavirus pandemic pushed engagement on Facebook to an all-time high this quarter.
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@paulyq
Kelly McBride / NPR:
NPR's Morning Edition should not have allowed AG Barr to make false statements in a segment on mail-in voting without adding context and fact-checking — NPR's four-member “election security team” is responsible for covering all things about American voting, from access, to fraud to innovations and investments in the process.
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@carolinedraws, @nprpubliceditor, @rickhasen, @phoenixwmn, @gregpinelo, @susan_hennessey, @marshallcohen and Politico
Ad Age:
Dan Peres, former Detail editor-in-chief, named editor-in-chief of Ad Age — Former Details editor-in-chief will oversee print, digital, social, video, podcasts and events — Dan Peres has been named editor-in-chief at Ad Age overseeing editorial across all the publication's expressions …
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@tomgara, @lisatozzi and The Salamanca Press
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Twitch signs deal to distribute Entercom sports talk shows in the form of live, interactive video broadcasts, starting with six US stations — Sports radio talk shows, long a staple of AM/FM dials, are coming to Twitch — in the form of live, interactive video broadcasts.
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Radio & Television …, @breadlinegerry, @entercompr and Barrett Sports Media
Lara O'Reilly / Digiday:
Six months after launch, news aggregator Knewz has been downloaded 28K times, per Sensor Tower; Google Analytics indicates 4.9M+ monthly unique visitors in June — It's been a little under six months since News Corp announced the launch of its news aggregator website and app Knewz (pronounced “news”.)
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@digiday
New York Times:
NYPD proposes changes that would let it suspend reporters' credentials if they're seen as not complying with orders or if they “interfere” with police work — The Police Department's proposed new rules threaten press freedom. — The editorial board is a group …
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@maragay, @nytopinion, @nytopinion, @keithpowersnyc, @suzannenossel, @nyccomptroller, @brentnyt, rules.cityofnewyork.us and New York Post
Mark Sullivan / Fast Company:
TikTok launches a Be Informed campaign featuring videos by popular makers, aimed at educating users on how to recognize misinformation — TikTok videos are quick bursts of comedy, home-made ingenuity, dancing, weirdness, and personality that make user-created content look like a really good idea again.
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