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8:20 AM ET, September 14, 2020

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KPCC public radio reporter Josie Huang was arrested while covering the ambush shooting of two deputies in LA, on charges of “interfering with a lawful arrest”  —  Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies arrested KPCC/LAist Correspondent Josie Huang Saturday night while she was covering …
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Internal documents from The Intercept regarding exposed source Reality Winner show an extreme level of newsroom mismanagement, hubris, and a whitewashed probe  —  Internal documents show how a source ended up in jail — and the fallout in the newsroom.  —  Where were you when you first heard about the Snowden leak?
Jeremy Fuster / The Wrap:
Disney's Mulan brings in $23.2M during its Chinese opening weekend, lagging behind the $30M brought in by Nolan's Tenet, likely due to piracy and media blackout  —  Disney remake's $23 million Chinese opening fails to top Christopher Nolan's latest film, which adds $6.7 million in domestic theaters
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Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Warner Bros. delayed sharing daily box office grosses for Tenet over worries they could be misinterpreted, breaking industry norms and angering rival studios  —  People who closely follow box office earnings have noticed a surprising lack of transparency surrounding ticket sales for “Tenet …
Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Tenet, the first major movie debut since the pandemic's start, passes $200M globally, despite lackluster North American box office sales of $6.7M in 2nd weekend  —  Christopher Nolan's “Tenet” crossed the $200 million mark globally, propped up by overseas grosses while U.S. cinemas struggle …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Red Ventures says it has agreed to buy CNET Media Group from ViacomCBS for $500M in a deal expected to close in Q4 2020  —  ViacomCBS is offloading CNET Media Group in a $500 million deal with digital-marketing company Red Ventures, which announced the deal Monday.
Ronan Shields / Adweek:
Amazon has added Twitch inventory to Amazon Advertising, making it easier for media buyers to include Twitch audiences in their programmatic ad campaigns  —  The streaming network is now part of Amazon Advertising  —  Twitch inventory has been opened up to Amazon Advertising customers.  Source: twitch
Discussion: @adweek, @lordsp and @aexm
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
YouTube to make engaged-view video ad conversions, which occur after users view 10+ seconds of a skippable ad but don't click, a standard metric this year  —  Advertisers have been challenged to determine the impact of video ad campaigns on conversions when they can't compare them across ad formats.
New York Times:
Profile of Vanessa Pappas, an ex-YouTube exec and TikTok's N. America chief since 2018, who took over as interim global chief amid its geopolitical predicament  —  Vanessa Pappas is keeping a focus on the app's community of creators and users as it deals with pressure from President Trump, Beijing and a possible sale.
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Congressional report finds USA Today's Susan Page, who is to moderate a VP debate, hosted an event at her home honoring Medicare boss Seema Verma in Nov. 2018  —  An online backlash following reports of Verma's PR spending.  But it didn't underwrite Page's party, which USA today says was …
David Robb / Deadline:
Study: in 2019-2020, 42% of streaming shows had a female protagonist vs. 27% on cable; 32% of streaming shows had female directors, up from 15% the year before  —  Shows made for streaming services are much more likely to employ women in front of and behind the cameras than programs …
Matt Donnelly / Variety:
How work on an indie film set has changed after new COVID-19 protocols, including talent isolation, single-serve craft services, and a COVID compliance officer  —  As Hollywood crawls toward some version of normalcy amid the coronavirus pandemic, we at Variety have been curious …
Emily Birnbaum / Protocol:
Interview with FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, on reforming Section 230 and whether the process around Trump's social media EO has become corrupt  —  Jessica Rosenworcel won't talk about what everyone really wants her to talk about.  She can't.  But what she says about everything else speaks volumes …
 
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