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12:50 PM ET, August 26, 2020

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Many RNC speakers, including Melania Trump, Covington Catholic teen Nick Sandman, and Gov. Kim Reynolds of Iowa, targeted the media and complained of bias  —  Many of the 2020 Republican National Convention's speakers have gone after the media, blaming outlets for targeting Trump supporters …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Sources: networks including ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN protested to Republican officials after the Trump campaign gave Hannity exclusive access to key RNC sites  —  Mike Pompeo will shatter tradition tonight as the first sitting secretary of state in at least 75 years to address a national party convention.
Josh Sternberg / The Media Nut:
Sources: Trump campaign could spend $1M+ on homepage takeovers of NYT in September, but the paper is yet to accept the ads because of inflammatory language
Sara Fischer / Axios:
MSNBC and CNN cut away from live coverage of the RNC several times on Monday night to fact-check claims made by speakers; Fox News cut away from some speeches
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Facebook warns advertisers they could see a 50%+ revenue drop due to Apple's forthcoming IDFA privacy changes in iOS 14, which clamp down on an ad tracking ID  —  Facebook is warning advertisers that they can expect weaker ad performance from iPhone users once iOS 14 comes out next month …
Denise Petski / Deadline:
BuzzFeed signs a first-look deal with Universal TV, with the studio producing scripted content based on stories published by BuzzFeed  —  Buzzfeed is making an expanded push into television, signing a first-look deal with Universal TV, in which the studio will produce scripted content based …
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
CBS News launches CBS Village, a multiplatform franchise for news division content about diverse groups like Black, Asian, LGBTQ, LatinX, women, and millennials  —  CBS News is launching CBS Village, an online destination for news division content about diverse groups, while it has made more additions …
Ethan Zuckerman / Center for Civic Media:
MIT's Center for Civic Media will close at the end of August after 13 years, with alumni continuing its work elsewhere  —  At the end of August 2020, the Center for Civic Media at MIT will close down.  Established in 2007 as the Center for Future Civic Media, the Center …
Krystie Lee Yandoli / BuzzFeed News:
A former TMZ employee has sued the site's parent companies, Warner Bros. Entertainment and EHM Productions, claiming gender discrimination and retaliation  —  “I want the culture to change.  I don't want anyone to leave that office and cry and feel like they're worthless," Bernadette Zilio told BuzzFeed News.
Jason Cherkis / Columbia Journalism Review:
A longtime crime reporter on coming up short in his 10 years on the beat and why media needs to rethink its approach towards covering the police  —  It was May 2003.  The photographer and I were in a grocery store parking lot in the better part of Washington, DC.  We chain-smoked and waited for disaster to strike.
Paul Karp / The Guardian:
Australian parliamentary inquiry says journalists should not be immune from “secrecy offences” but proposes new defenses for public interest journalism  —  Journalists should not be immune from secrecy offences but may gain new defences for public interest journalism …
Washington Post:
The collapse of the sale of AMI's Enquirer to the CEO of Hudson News, announced in spring 2019, raises questions of whether the tabloid became too hot to handle  —  In the spring of 2019, the National Enquirer appeared once again to be riding out another storm in its long, tumultuous history.
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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism:
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