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Fox News' Jennifer Griffin defended her reporting confirming The Atlantic's story on Trump's comments about veterans, after Trump called on Fox to fire her — Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin defended her reporting confirming The Atlantic's story detailing …
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Reporters who write they “confirmed” The Atlantic's story on Trump's troops comments conflate journalistic “confirmation” with “hearing the same idle gossip” — One of the most humiliating journalism debacles of the Trump era played out on December 8, 2017, first on CNN and then on MSNBC.
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Trump announced on Twitter on Friday that the Defense Department “will NOT be cutting funding to @starsandstripes magazine” — The Pentagon has ordered the shut down of the military's independent newspaper, Stars and Stripes, despite objections by Congress, per the AP.
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Leaked memo orders dissolution of military news outlet Stars and Stripes with final issue on Sept. 30, though Congress hasn't approved proposal to cut subsidy
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Sources: China stopped renewing credentials for journalists working for US news orgs and hinted at expulsions if Trump takes action against Chinese media in US — CNN, The Wall Street Journal and Getty Images are affected. Chinese officials told journalists their fate depends …
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Report: WarnerMedia's plan for a cheaper ad-supported HBO Max tier is being complicated by cable distributor contracts and concerns about hurting the HBO brand — As WarnerMedia gears up for the release of a planned ad model for its recently launched HBO Max product, its parent company …
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Media must start preparing the public for the possible election-night uncertainty now and resist answering the question “who won?” until it is settled — I learned about the hazards of election night the hard way. In late 2000, only a year into my job as the Buffalo News's top editor …
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A look at The Ballot, a bimonthly digital magazine devoted to covering elections outside the US that hires freelancers who live in the countries they report on — “I often say to the writers, ‘Write this as if it were a letter to your friend.’” — For many journalists in the United States …
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Service journalism, traditionally the remit of lifestyle magazines, is moving past how-to pieces and product reviews to offer actionable advice on pandemic news — Service stories used to exist apart from, and as a respite to, the news. In pandemic times, that no longer make sense.
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College newsrooms are breaking from journalistic norms amid protests, with better support for staffers and communities of color and challenges to “objectivity” — In early June, as Black Lives Matter activists protested police brutality and killings, the editors of The Maneater …
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Q&A with Ann Sarnoff, head of WarnerMedia Studios and Networks Group, on Tenet's debut in theaters, the HBO Max launch, and pausing production of The Batman — As the Christopher Nolan film hits theaters in the U.S. and Batman Robert Pattinson tests positive for coronavirus, Ann Sarnoff says …
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Facebook's pre-election ban on political ads will likely suppress key speech and is a de facto ban on campaigns responding on Facebook to late-breaking news — On Thursday, Facebook announced a set of U.S. election season changes to political advertising and content moderation.
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To pre-empt government censorship, 15 OTT services in India, including Disney Hotstar, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, and MX Player adopt a self-regulation code — Fifteen Indian streaming services and digital content companies have adopted a self-regulation code to pre-empt government censorship …