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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Streaming services are bringing a ruthless culture to Hollywood, as seen when AT&T laid off hundreds at WarnerMedia, giving Bob Greenblatt basically no heads up — The streaming services are in charge, and bringing a ruthless new culture with them. — For decades, the best thing …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Verizon and Disney expand their partnership to give away a Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN bundle on two of Verizon's most expensive unlimited plans — Verizon, a key U.S. launch partner for Disney Plus, is reupping with the Mouse House on a brand-new deal: The telco will give wireless customers …
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Deadline, The Wrap, The Streamable, @aexm, @ballmatthew, Hollywood Reporter, @xpangler and @xpangler
Jamie Smyth / Financial Times:
Google warns Australians that a plan to make it pay for news content threatens privacy, free Search and YouTube; Australia says the open letter contains misinfo — Internet group has also paused licensing deals with outlets due to proposed regulation — Google has warned …
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Robert Andrews / Beet.TV:
Nielsen survey of 1,000 US adults: 64% say they watch local news while working from home, 40% listen to music via radio or streaming during work hours everyday — Music and news are the media formats to capture the day-times of a new generation of homeworkers during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research from Nielsen.
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@nielsen
Deborah Bloom / Columbia Journalism Review:
A group of ~20 local freelancers covering Portland protests teamed up as Portland Press Corps to ask for fair compensation from national media for their footage — On July 11, Garrison Davis was in downtown Portland, pointing his iPhone camera across a street at a group of roughly 30 law enforcement officers in camouflage.
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bookforum.com, @deborahebloom, @jareenai, @cjr, @jcstearns and @janebsinger
TIME:
Time says its digital revenue grew 58% YoY in Q2 and exceeded print revenues for the first time in its history — TIME President Keith A. Grossman sent the following note to staff Monday: — Team, — Over the past three months, we launched and tested different programs, partnerships …
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@kerrymflynn
Linda Qiu / New York Times:
NYT review of 22 Trump campaign TV ads that have aired since June found that 14 contained clearly misleading claims through selective editing and exaggeration — We reviewed all of the Trump campaign's television since June. Two-thirds contained clearly misleading claims or videos.
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@nytimes, @davidcorndc and @brianstelter
Nikita Richardson / Grub Street:
Interview with Tammie Teclemariam, a freelancer whose twitter feed became the “Page Six” of food media since she tweeted a photo of Adam Rapoport in brown face — Tammie Teclemariam appears, out of nowhere, through a kitchen window at the rear of a stately three-story house in Ditmas Park …
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@aleksnotalex, @saratardiff, @caseyjohnston, @4evrmalone, @emmaspecter, @kait_tiffany and @kerrymflynn
Bloomberg:
The Democratic National Convention will become a TV-only production in the COVID-19 era, with live feeds and prerecorded speeches replacing in-person events — - Coronavirus fears shrank year's biggest political events — A series of virtual speeches replace hobnobbing, lobbying
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CNN, New York Times, The Daily Beast, @danprimack, @emmakinery, Variety and Ad Age
Politico:
Reporters describe the positive and negative aspects of covering the presidential campaign under limited travel, like the loss of insights from chance meetings — In the mythology of political journalism, covering a presidential campaign is supposed to be a window into the soul of America.
Discussion:
@harrispolitico, @kthomasdc, @politico, @henryjgomez, @blakehounshell and @ajjaffe
New York Times:
As a US ban looms, TikTok partners with music distribution company UnitedMasters to let creators distribute songs directly to streaming platforms — Today, we start with a scoop about TikTok, the video-sharing app that's caught in the middle of the U.S.-China tech war. (Want this delivered to your inbox each day?
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TechCrunch and @andrewrsorkin
Sahan Journal:
Sahan Journal, a nonprofit news site about Minnesota's immigrants and refugees, describes growing its readership and newsroom since launching over a year ago — When we launched this nonprofit news site 12 months ago, we hoped we'd find readers, subscribers and donors.
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@chenueher, @sahanjournal and @mukhtaryare
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