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Ben Smith / New York Times:
How ex-NYT reporter-turned-novelist Alex Berenson is capitalizing on COVID-19 skepticism, catching the eye of Elon Musk and Fox News and selling 100K+ booklets — Anger at lockdowns and mask mandates provides fertile ground for arguments about the best way to fight the virus.
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Tom Jones / Poynter:
Fox News' Chris Wallace conducted what might be the best TV interview yet with Donald Trump, by being prepared and not hesitating to call out Trump — The Poynter Report is our daily media newsletter. To have it delivered to your inbox Monday-Friday, click here.
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Anthony Feinstein / Reuters Institute …:
Study by the Reuters Institute for Journalism: around 70% of journalists reporting on COVID-19 say they are suffering from some levels of psychological distress — Many reporters are struggling to cope with the emotional demands of covering the pandemic, write Meera Selva and Anthony Feinstein
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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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Washington Post:
Female sports reporters recall experiences of sexual and verbal harassment while working, almost always from men, following a story on Washington's NFL team — Lindsay Jones, an NFL reporter for the Athletic, read The Washington Post's investigative report Thursday that detailed allegations …
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Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Interview with Alex Trebek, longtime game show host of Jeopardy! who for many represents the inherent value of facts amid fractured ideological media bubbles — In his new memoir, the longtime “Jeopardy!” host delivers clues and facts about himself, and looks back on his life as he struggles with advanced pancreatic cancer.
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Tara Kelly / Poynter:
Following school closures in March, Danish news startup Koncentrat launched a free, interactive, daily TV show to teach teens media literacy skills — An interactive daily show, broadcast online and regional TV, allowed 13-to-17-year-olds to talk to media experts and war correspondents from home
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New York Times:
As #OscarsSoWhite and #MeToo highlight Hollywood disparities, actors with disabilities share their thoughts on being passed over for roles, the future, and more — Actors with disabilities are rarely tapped to play disabled characters. Ali Stroker, Marlee Matlin and others share their views …
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Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
After CNN blurred the faces of US federal police in Portland, Jake Tapper says “someone misunderstood an instruction”; CNN has done similar recently — CNN aired a viral video on Sunday of U.S. secret police kidnapping people in Portland, Oregon—a tactic that White House officials …
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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 …
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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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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