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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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CNBC:
Netflix names Ted Sarandos co-CEO, appoints Chief Product Officer Greg Peters as COO — Netflix is promoting its chief content officer Ted Sarandos to co-CEO, the company announced Thursday. The 20-year Netflix veteran will join current chief executive Reed Hastings in the role.
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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Netflix reports Q2 revenue of $6.15B, up 24.9% YoY, and expects 2.5M net subscriber additions for Q3 vs analyst estimates of 5.27M; stock down 9%+ after hours — - Analysts counted Netflix among the safer bets during stay-at-home orders in the U.S. and the company showed substantial subscriber growth last quarter.
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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.
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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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Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
The Atlantic estimates events will make up 5-10% of revenue this year vs. 20% they comprised previously, aims to attract 1M attendees to its Atlantic Festival — The Atlantic's annual September festival is the brand's largest event of the year, accounting for approximately a third …
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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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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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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Maxwell Strachan / VICE:
The LA Times has placed sports columnist Arash Markazi on paid leave after employees complained of plagiarism, misrepresentation, and misuse of social media — The investigation began after members of the newspaper's sports department sent a letter to management demanding action. — MS
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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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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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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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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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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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Committee to Protect Journalists:
Belarus police detain at least 17 journalists covering protests in support of opposition candidates — Belarusian authorities should stop harassing, detaining, and charging members of the press covering protests in the country, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
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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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