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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 — Facebook has allowed conservative news outlets and personalities to repeatedly spread false information without facing …
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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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Elaine Low / Variety:
Interview with Jason Kilar on HBO Max, its importance in WarnerMedia's restructuring, streaming subscriber goals, and leaning into shorter theatrical windows
Hollywood Reporter:
WarnerMedia's new CEO Jason Kilar shakes up top ranks, with Bob Greenblatt and Kevin Reilly leaving; HBO Max GM Andy Forssell will lead a new HBO Max unit
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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.
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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Amber Thomas / The Pudding:
A journalist at The Pudding describes the data journalism outlet's publishing process, from how ideas are conceived to developing data-driven visual essays — When I started working at The Pudding, I was introduced to the concept of an “idea backlog”, or a place to keep track of the random thoughts …
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
AMC filed a complaint with the FCC accusing AT&T of favoring its own networks TNT and HBO and restricting the online distribution of AMC's content — The “Walking Dead” network asks the FCC to punish AT&T for favoring HBO and TNT over non-owned channels.
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Poynter:
As violence and a declining student interest in journalism imperil Mexico's news industry, NGOs and independent outlets are fueling new investigative projects — Si quiere leer este artículo en español, haga clic aquí. — A vanilla-infused breeze causes fragile palms …
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Lauren Harris / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with Kristen Hare on her coverage of media cuts during the COVID-19 crisis and future issues like returning to physical and accessible newsrooms — Since early April, Kristen Hare—a reporter who typically covers local news innovations for the Poynter Institute …
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Matt Rodbard / TASTE:
A look at the variety of in-depth food newsletters, as publishing tools like Substack grow and food magazines and newspaper food sections dwindle — Indie newsletters are booming, and they're home to some of the most exciting food writing today. — The motivations vary.
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Vittles, @emilyrnunn, @taste_cooking, @paulaforbes, @paulaforbes, @paulaforbes, @paulaforbes, @paulaforbes and @paulaforbes
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