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New York Times:
Facebook warns it will block Australian users and news organizations from sharing news stories on Facebook and Instagram if the ACCC's proposal passes — The move, a response to pressure to pay publishers when their stories are posted on the social network, could add to internet silos springing up around the world.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
As CNN's Daniel Dale and others get more TV airtime to highlight Trump's lying, the effectiveness of fact-checking at changing minds is questionable — Daniel Dale met President Trump's convention speech with a tirade of truth Thursday night — a tour de force of fact-checking …
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@ryanstruyk, @sulliview, @jayrosen_nyu, @rasmus_kleis, @capeannsky, @joshgerstein, TechCrunch, @blackamazon, @ananny, @richeisen, @dangillmor, @soledadobrien, @emilybell, @mantzarlis, @sulliview, CNN and Lefsetz Letter
Akhil Arora / NDTV Gadgets 360:
Netflix is offering free access to select original content for non-subscribers, on Android and web but not on iOS, with a 30-second skippable ad for Netflix — Available on Android and computer browsers globally. — Snapchat — HIGHLIGHTS — Netflix is offering limited free access …
Nancy Tartaglione / Deadline:
Tenet had a $53M opening at the worldwide box office, which includes 40 markets and Canada; the film is scheduled to open in the US and China on Sept. 4 — SUNDAY UPDATE: Christopher Nolan's Tenet has surged to a $53M opening at the worldwide box office which includes 40 overseas markets and Canada.
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The Week, The Guardian, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Forbes and UPROXX
Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Months after many media orgs issued statements supporting BLM and promised to improve diversity and inclusion, some say it “feels very much like lip service” — Was it all just lip service? That's the question employees inside media companies are starting to ask about their employers' diversity and inclusion pledges.
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@rachelysanders, @kerrymflynn and @petersontee
David Folkenflik / NPR:
VOA journalists accuse Michael Pack of endangering reporters after he said VOA is “a great place to put a foreign spy” in an interview with the Federalist — A group of veteran journalists for the Voice of America delivered a letter of protest Monday denouncing their parent agency's new CEO …
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Nieman Lab, @alinebarros2, @raju, @davidfolkenflik, @rachellarris, @anthony, @pwidakuswara, @davidfolkenflik, @froomkin, The Guardian, @brianstelter, @bradleyrsimpson and Axios
Pew Research Center:
Survey: 72% of US adults say news orgs do an insufficient job informing audiences about funding sources; 63% see skepticism of the news media as healthy — 72% of U.S. adults say news organizations do an insufficient job telling their audiences where their money comes from
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@asmitch, courthousenews.com, @pewresearch, Poynter, @benspielberg, @pewresearch, @pewresearch and @pewjournalism
Jessica Bartlett / Boston Business Journal:
WGBH say it is rebranding as GBH to reflect a growing focus on digital platforms; the W reflected that it had a broadcast license east of the Mississippi River — WGBH announced it's rebranding as “GBH” to reflect a growing focus on digital platforms. — The rebrand goes into effect Tuesday …
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@kerrymflynn, @bosbizdon, @felixsalmon, @felixsalmon, WGBH.org and @bgoldst
Ben Smith / New York Times:
An interview with Andrew Sullivan, who says he's earning ~$500K/year on Substack, after his positions on race and genetics pushed him out of mainstream media — He's one of the most influential journalists of the last three decades, but he's shadowed by a 1994 magazine cover story that claimed to show a link between race and I.Q.
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@benyt, @katzonearth, @palafo, @mckaycoppins, @summeranne, @ggreenwald, @asteadwesley, @asteadwesley, @carigervin, @hkesvani, @rgay, @lollardfish, @emptywheel, @kyleworton, @emptywheel, @uhshanti, @jkirchick, @blackamazon, @karol, @asteadwesley, @baseballcrank, @kendrawrites, @nberlat, @wajahatali, @athertonkd, @ambrown, @whstancil, @whstancil, @thetomzone, @sunraysunray, @davidklion, @jmartnyt, @jamisonfoser, @alexburnsnyt, @adamweinstein, @whstancil, @matthewsitman, @elongreen, @ericboehlert and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
As the pandemic led big companies to slash ad budgets, UK's ITV and Channel 4 created schemes to subsidize smaller ad buyers, with over 50 participating — With the public told to stay at home, high streets shut and travel halted, many of the UK's biggest advertisers from McDonald's …
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@v_praveen
Megan Lebowitz / Nieman Reports:
After Assad's regime made Syria inaccessible for journalists, the country's citizen journalists stepped in, creating safety concerns and ethical dilemmas — After Assad's regime made the country inaccessible for journalists, Syrian citizens stepped in, creating safety concerns and ethical dilemmas
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@megan_lebowitz and @jamesgeary
Thomas Macaulay / The Next Web:
Stanford launches Cable TV News Analyzer, a free AI-powered online service for querying the screen time of public figures or specific topics on cable TV news — THE STANFORD CABLE TV NEWS ANALYZER USES COMPUTER VISION TO IDENTIFY PUBLIC FIGURES ON THE IDIOT BOX
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Brown Institute, Stanford News, @jeremyscheel1, @brendannyhan and @janinezacharia