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Ben Smith / New York Times:
The US election will present media with major challenges including delayed vote tallies due to a rise in mail-in ballots and Trump tweets falsely alleging fraud — We may not know the results for days, and maybe weeks. So it's time to rethink “election night.”
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Frank E. Lockwood / Arkansas Online:
The RNC says journalists will be barred from attending the GOP convention in Charlotte, NC from August 21-24 due to the state's COVID-19 health restrictions — WASHINGTON — When Republicans renominate Donald Trump for president in Charlotte, N.C., on Aug. 24, journalists won't be on hand to witness it …
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Angelina Chapin / The Cut:
Veteran AP reporter Errin Haines, Emily Ramshaw, and others launch The 19th, covering politics and inequality from a diverse perspective with a 99% female staff — When Errin Haines first heard about Breonna Taylor's death in mid-May, she knew the story deserved more attention.
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
WaPo demographic report: 57% of its overall workforce is white, the same as in 2015, while 20% is Black, a decrease from 27% over the same period — The Washington Post for the first time publicly released demographic information for its newsroom and business operations.
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Vogue:
For the first time, Vogue's 26 global editions will unite “under the theme of hope”, with letters and essays on LGBTQ rights, COVID-19, climate crisis, and more — For the first time in Vogue's 128-year history, all 26 magazine editions unite in solidarity under the theme of hope.
Nathan J. Robinson / Current Affairs:
Paywalls at top-tier publications like NYT and New Yorker can make accessing the truth harder, ceding ground to free publications that spread misinformation — Paywalls are justified, even though they are annoying. It costs money to produce good writing, to run a website, to license photographs.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
How FiveThirtyEight plans to visually represent uncertainty in its 2020 presidential election polling data and improve upon the infamous 2016 bar chart — One of the more challenging things to represent in journalism is uncertainty. Walter Cronkite ended his newscasts with “That's the way it is …
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Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:
James Murdoch is resigning from the board of News Corp, effective immediately, due to disagreements over editorial content and other strategic decisions — The mogul sent a letter of resignation on Friday afternoon. — Former 21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch has resigned from the board of News Corp.
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New York Times:
With flagging interest in her briefings from Trump and most TV networks, it's unclear what purpose Kayleigh McEnany is filling beyond berating the news media — President Trump does not always watch her briefings, and even his allies say she risks being known more for “hitting the press with a two-by-four” …
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Christopher Brennan / Monday Note:
As the presidential election looms, US media risks focusing too much on horse race domestic coverage, ignoring pivotal developments abroad — Unfortunately, the systems that give people in the US their news are set up for presidential elections in the worst way
New York Times:
Ad analytics platform Pathmatics: Facebook's top 100 advertisers spent $221.4M from July 1 through July 29, down 12% YoY from the $251.4M they spent in 2019 — Major advertisers on Facebook reduced their spending by millions of dollars in July, but not enough to significantly damage the platform's revenue.
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CNN:
Reporters on covering the NBA from inside the “NBA Bubble”, the quarantine zone inside Disney World that is housing 20 reporters and 22 teams through October — New York (CNN Business)Shortly before Joe Vardon started covering last year's NBA playoffs, the sports journalist took his family to Walt Disney World.
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