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Staffers ask Zuckerberg what would happen if Trump uses Facebook to dispute the election; some staff say they have evidence of favoritism for right-wing pages — Facebook employees collected evidence showing the company is giving right-wing pages preferential treatment when it comes to misinformation.
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Twitter says it will start labeling government-linked media accounts, as well as “key government officials”, from China, France, Russia, the UK, and US — Twitter says it will no longer “amplify” tweets by state-controlled media organisations, by excluding them from its recommendation systems.
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Twitter, @twittersupport, @sdkstl, @nickpickles, Business Insider, The Verge, CNN, @hadas_gold and @twittersupport, more at Techmeme »
Rachel Premack / Business Insider:
Three Bon Appétit Test Kitchen stars say they will no longer appear in videos; their statements follow staff concerns about equitable pay and diversity efforts — - Three of Bon Appétit's Test Kitchen stars are departing the famed video channel.
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Variety, @priyakrishna, Deadline, MediaPost, New York Times, The Wrap, Eater and New York Post
The Wrap:
ViacomCBS to launch a paid international streaming service in early 2021 starting with Australia, Latin America, and Nordic countries — ViacomCBS is launching an international streaming service in early 2021, the company announced during its second-quarter earnings call Thursday.
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Variety, Adweek, Multichannel News and IGN
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Ken Doctor's Lookout Local, a network of local digital outlets, to launch first in Santa Cruz in the fall with $2.5M in grants and an LAT content partnership — As promised last fall, Ken Doctor is turning from reporting and analyzing the trials of the local news industry to creating Lookout Local …
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Nieman Lab, @scottbrodbeck and Lookout Local
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Advance Publications is considering moving Condé Nast out of One World Trade Center, where it has a 25-year lease, to address “current market conditions” — Conde Nast, which only finished moving into its HQ at One World Trade Center in 2014, is scouting midtown Manhattan for a potential new HQ.
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Apekary / Ariana Pekary:
An MSNBC producer who quit her job describes how ratings pressure distorts commercial TV news, amplifying fringe voices and stoking division even amid crisis — “Just quit.” — That's the advice Alec gave a year and a half ago when I expressed concerns about my job. — “You just quit.
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Nathan Bomey / USA Today:
Gannett Q2: $437M net loss; revenue of $767M, down 28% YoY; print ads down 45% YoY to $188M, digital ads down 27% YoY to $104M; digital subs up 31% YoY to 927K — USA TODAY owner Gannett reported a net loss of about $437 million in the second quarter as businesses cut back on advertising amid …
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@raju and Business Wire
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Pence's pool reporter Wednesday wasn't a WH press corps member, but a Heritage Foundation VP and editor of the think tank's news site, the Daily Signal — Instead of a member of the White House press corps, the role of pool reporter was filled by Robert B. Bluey, a vice president at the Heritage Foundation.
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@lachlan, @anniekarni and @robertbluey
Dominic Sunnebo / Kantar Worldpanel:
In Q2, 44% of new SVOD subscriptions were taken by households with existing ones; Amazon Prime Video had 23% of new SVOD subs, up 14% QoQ, and HBO Max had 10% — Amazon saw its share of new streaming video on-demand subscribers in the United States surge more than 23% during …
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The Wrap, @kantar, Observer and Multichannel News
Kate Irby / The Fresno Bee:
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Rep. Devin Nunes cannot sue Esquire and Hearst for defamation over a 2018 story about his family's farm in Iowa — Rep. Devin Nunes cannot sue Esquire magazine over a 2018 story that described his family's farm in Iowa, a federal judge ruled Wednesday …
Dave Davies / NPR:
Q&A with WaPo's Margaret Sullivan, author of Ghosting the News, on the decline of local news, how orgs like Report for America are helping, and more — More than 2,000 newspapers have shut down in recent years, and some regions have become news deserts.
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Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
NBC Entertainment Chairman Paul Telegdy is leaving following a shakeup, after claims he fostered a toxic culture; Frances Berwick to lead NBCU content strategy — The conglomerate is searching for an executive to oversee a new entertainment programming unit.
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Adweek, The Wrap, New York Post, @thewendylee, @adriennelaw, Los Angeles Times, @kimmasters and @dylanbyers
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
NYT says it has added 669K new digital subscribers in Q2 and its digital revenue, at $185.5M, exceeded print revenue, at $175.4M, for the first time — The pandemic squeezed advertising for the web as well as print, but subscription growth was the best ever for a quarter.
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Business Wire:
NYT reports Q2 net income of $23.7M, down 6% YoY, revenue of $403.8M, down 7.5% YoY, with ad revenues down 43.9%, and has a total of 6.5M subscribers
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