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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Reuters Institute: of 100 orgs in Brazil, South Africa, Germany, UK, and US, only 18% of top editors are non-white, diverging from population demographics — In the six weeks since George Floyd's killing in Minneapolis and the resulting Black Lives Matters protests that erupted around the country …
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Disney has dramatically cut ad spending on Facebook and Instagram; Disney was Facebook's top US advertiser for H1 2020, per an estimate — Hundreds of advertisers have paused spending on social network due to concerns about hate speech, divisive content
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@jason_buck, @ethanwsj, CNET, Bloomberg, Reuters, @jason_kint and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Thomas Meaney / The Guardian:
Inside Bild Zeitung, Germany's largest tabloid, from its days of attacking the left in the 1960s to its targeting of Angela Merkel today — The newspaper Bild has long poured vitriol on the country's left-wingers and ‘do gooders’. But now it has a new target: the chancellor. By Thomas Meaney
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@jep_ and @danieldrepper
Carolyn Giardina / Hollywood Reporter:
In a letter to Congress, broadcasters associations from all 50 states, DC, and Puerto Rico push for relief aid for local media in upcoming COVID-19 bills — According to the letter, some local broadcasters have lost as much as 90 percent of their ad buys. — Associations representing …
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National Association of Broadcasters, @thr and TV Technology
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Andrew Sullivan announces launch of the Weekly Dish on Substack beginning next week; includes a column, a “dissent section” to that column, and a podcast — The good news is that my last column in this space is not about “cancel culture.” Well, almost.
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Katherine Bell / Quartz:
Business journalism needs to question its assumptions about economies, examine the purpose of businesses, and orient toward solving big problems — Editor-in-chief of Quartz. — Future of Finance — New technology is upending everything in finance. — Halfway through 2020, the world is in many kinds of trouble.
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@rasmus_kleis, @heatherlandy, @missanabeem, @zseward and @katherineabell
Harrison Mantas / Poynter:
Fact-checkers describe pandemic misinformation, from country-specific untruths to false cures, and say they are building new tools for faster responses — The analysis offers a glimpse into the global spread of misinformation about the pandemic — In the midst of fighting misinformation about COVID-19 …
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@factchecknet
Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Ex-NBC Sports analyst Jeremy Roenick, who was fired in Feb. after making sexual remarks about coworkers, sues the network, claiming anti-straight discrimination — Hockey star Jeremy Roenick sued NBC Sports for wrongful termination on Friday, claiming the network discriminated …
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The Daily Beast:
Sources: Fox News' Black employees are openly confronting management over its anti-Black rhetoric; Lachlan Murdoch personally approved Carlson's Neff remarks — INTERNAL STRIFE — A heated early June call between Fox execs and Black staffers was just the beginning of an internal revolt …
Mike Fleming Jr / Deadline:
Netflix commits to a $200M+ budget, its largest ever, to produce The Gray Man, a Russo brothers thriller meant to be the start of a new franchise — EXCLUSIVE: Fresh from an earnings report that saw it add 10 million subscribers during the pandemic, Netflix has just set its most financially ambitious feature film so far.
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Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology from Alex Kantrowitz:
How tech companies place favorable newspaper op-eds, purportedly from small business owners, think tanks, and academics, without disclosing their involvement — For years, the tech giants and organizations they fund have pushed op-eds from small business owners, think tanks …
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Beyond Search, @mariafarrell, @michhham, @ozm and @looserooster
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Research finds Democrats and Republicans have many news sources in common, but critics say how these sources are read and shared on social media may be partisan — “(Almost) everything in moderation”? New research by Princeton's Andy Guess finds that Democrats and Republicans read a lot …
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