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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 …
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
In updated editor's note, Newsweek apologized for an op-ed questioning Harris' eligibility, calling it a tool for racism after staffers demanded it be retracted — The apology nevertheless fell far short of staffers' demands that the magazine retract and remove the supposedly erudite exploration of 19th century Supreme Court rulings.
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Jamie Smyth / Financial Times:
Google warns Australians that the government's proposal to make it pay for news content would put user privacy at risk, threaten free Search and YouTube results — Internet group has also paused licensing deals with outlets due to proposed regulation — Google has warned …
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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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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.
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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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, @mukhtaryare and @sahanjournal
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.
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Gabe Fleisher / Columbia Journalism Review:
The Wake Up to Politics daily newsletter, with nearly 50,000 subscribers, remains focused on offering an alternative to insidery, partisan, political journalism — I read my first book about politics when I was six years old. See How They Run, by Susan Goodman, was, appropriately …
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@cjr, @cjr and @wakeup2politics
Will Oremus / OneZero:
Interview with India's Nikhil Pahwa, the founding editor of MediaNama who pushed against Facebook's Free Basics, on heavy-handed state control of the internet — “It's almost like we have China envy.” — Six years before India shook the global internet by banning TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps …
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Taylor Lorenz / New York Times:
Some social media influencers in collab houses describe a toxic environment in a predatory industry as they tried to work with talent management firm Influences — Young people come to Los Angeles in droves with dreams of fame and fortune. Once they're discovered, it's not always sunny.
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom: 45% of UK adults get their news via social media, down from 49% last year, while Google News use rose from 13% to 17%; 35% get news from print newspapers — The number of people in the UK getting news from social media and Google search has declined in the past year, although Google News use is up according to Ofcom.
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