Mediagazer: Reporters need to change their election coverage to consider whether Trump could steal the 2020 election and focus on voter suppression and fact-rejection (Dan Froomkin/Press Watch)

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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

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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 …

Edmund Lee / New York Times:

The hedge fund set to own McClatchy cut 1,600 employees and shut down 30+ papers since taking over Canada's largest newspaper chain Postmedia in October 2016 — Since Chatham Asset Management took over Postmedia, Canada's largest newspaper chain, 1,600 employees have been laid off and more than 30 papers shut down.

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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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Memo: Bloomberg EIC John Micklethwait says outlet publishes too many mediocre and/or long enterprise stories, stories should be shorter than 400 words or 900+ — Bloomberg News editor in chief John Micklethwait sent the following to the editorial staff on Wednesday:

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Profile: Henok Degfu, founder of Ethiopian news outlet ZeHabesha, on his arrests for reporting, escape while facing defamation lawsuits, running pub from Minn — Henok A. Degfu is probably the only editor in Minnesota whose reporters used to file stories by internet, but have now switched to reading him notes over the phone.

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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 …

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Hulu is launching Ad Manager, a self-service tool targeted at SMBs with an ad budget of $500 or more, to make it easy to buy ads on its service — - Hulu is launching a “self-service” tool to make it easier for small and medium-sized businesses to buy ads on its service.

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Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:

Reporters need to change their election coverage to consider whether Trump could steal the 2020 election and focus on voter suppression and fact-rejection — Donald Trump isn't running anything remotely like a normal presidential campaign. He's not appealing to a wide swath of the electorate.

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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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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Columbia Journalism Review:

Thee activists detail their experiences presenting the idea of police abolition to national audiences for the first time — Mychal Denzel Smith, Josie Duffy Rice, and Alex Vitale on the limits and opportunities of considering police abolition in an election year

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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”.)

Discussion: @digiday

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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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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