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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Facebook, Google, and Twitter are making the same mistakes big news outlets made decades ago, trying to placate hyperpartisan critics who are “working the refs” — The new referees in American politics are Facebook, Google and Twitter, and they would be wise to pay attention to lessons the old media tried to learn.
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Olivia Solon / NBC News:
Internal docs: Facebook removed “strikes” so that at least 2 conservative pages, from PragerU and Diamond & Silk, dodged penalties under misinformation policies
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Bloomberg:
Hong Kong police have arrested pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai as well as his sons and Next Digital execs under its new national security law — - Lai's media group had backed pro-democracy demonstrations — His two sons, media executives also arrested: report
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Galileo Cheng / @galileocheng:
[Thread] Police in Hong Kong are raiding the Next Media Building, amid the arrest of Jimmy Lai and six others under a national security law passed in late June — Police now entering Next Media Bldg to search upon @JimmyLaiApple arrest #NationalSecurityLaw https://hk.on.cc/... https://twitter.com/...
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: after its corporate restructuring announced Friday, about 800 layoffs are expected in WarnerMedia's HBO and Warner Bros. divisions, starting Monday — WarnerMedia is expected to let go of at least 800 staffers at its Warner Bros. and HBO operations as part of a broad restructuring put in place by the unit's CEO, Jason Kilar.
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Noam Cohen / Wired:
A look at Wikipedia's growing skepticism towards Fox News, designated as a generally unreliable source on politics and science in July — The move offered a new model for moderation. Maybe other platforms will take note. — When Karen Bass, a Congresswoman from Los Angeles …
Alex Barker / Financial Times:
With 2,500 claims of improper use of unlicensed music on Twitch in June, the Artists Rights Alliance, a trade body, criticizes Jeff Bezos' “wilful blindness” — Rights holders call on Amazon founder to address use of unlicenced music on streaming platform
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The Guardian:
BBC's Tony Hall apologizes after the N-word was used during a TV news broadcast, following mass complaints; BBC had initially refused to apologize last month — Play Video — The BBC's director general, Tony Hall, has apologised after the N-word was used in a TV news broadcast …
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Ethan Zuckerman / The Atlantic:
Trump, who has dominated US media coverage since 2016, and the pandemic, which has dominated coverage in 2020, are crowding out almost all other topics — Over the past six months, it has seemed like every news story is about the coronavirus, or President Donald Trump's failed response to it.
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Steven Perlberg / Digiday:
Some publishers worry about the end of the “Trump Bump” in traffic, ratings, and subscriptions if he loses to Biden, as the pandemic decimates the ad market — It had been more than a decade since the New York Times launched a brand advertising campaign, but 2017 felt like the right moment.
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Seb Joseph / Digiday:
The Trade Desk and Roku, the two largest independent ad tech companies, now have a combined market cap of $42.8B, vs. $35.1B for Omnicom, WPP, IPG, and Publicis — As traditional agency holding groups flounder, their smaller rivals can't stop growing — even during a pandemic-induced downturn.
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Megan K. Stack / New York Times:
Profile of journalist Behrouz Boochani, who as a detainee exposed human rights abuses in Australia-run offshore detention center for refugees after fleeing Iran — He fled Iran's Revolutionary Guard. He exposed Australia's offshore detention camps — from the inside. He survived, stateless, for seven years.
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Andy Paras / @andyparas:
[Thread] A look at SC's newspaper war amid media contraction, as The Post and Courier and McClatchy's The State add reporters, sometimes poaching from Gannett — THREAD: A full-blown newspaper war is happening right now in South Carolina involving its 3 largest papers and their owners. Newspaper wars are as old as papers themselves, but over the last few decades they've *mostly* gone the way of the darkroom ...
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