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3:00 AM ET, September 15, 2020

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Tim Peterson / Digiday:
Inside Turner Sports' plan to fix Bleacher Report's diversity problem, where a report found 10% of its staff were Black and there were none at VP level or above  —  This article is part of the Future of Work briefing, a weekly email with stories, interviews, trends and links about how work, workplaces and workforces are changing.
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Chris Jaffe / YouTube Blog:
YouTube says it is launching an early beta of YouTube Shorts, a 15-second video feature, in India  —  - By Chris Jaffe VP of Product Management Sep.14.2020 … YouTube has always been a place to be entertained — from your favorite dance trends, like Evolution of Dance, Roller Skate Dances …
LAist:
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 …
Vanessa Thorpe / The Guardian:
BBC will lay off all radio reporters and ask them to reapply for a smaller number of jobs in TV, radio, or digital, rather than as dedicated audio journalists  —  BBC radio voices have described and defined modern British history.  Live reports from inside a British bomber over Germany during …
Helen Stubbs / Gallup:
Survey: 69% of US adults are more concerned about bias in others' news sources than in their own; 56% feel their own sources have at least a fair amount of bias  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Six in seven Americans think there is at least a fair amount of political bias in news coverage in general …
Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Anchor says it is cracking down on copycat podcasters by improving the detection of stolen podcasts, adding new rules around monetizing shows, and more  —  ‘This is definitely a new type of attack for Anchor’  —  Anchor, a Spotify-owned company, is addressing the copycat podcast problem that's roiled the industry for the past month.
The Daily Beast:
Washington Post reported as genuine a fake FBI raid on infamous right-wing trickster Jack Burkman's house, staged by Jacob Wohl, before adding a correction  —  A Virginia man who responded to a Craigslist ad seeking actors to play FBI agents quickly discovered he'd been roped into yet another Wohl/Burkman hoax
CNN:
All major TV networks, including Fox News, stayed outside while Trump held an indoor rally with thousands of mostly-unmasked fans  —  News outlets exhibited more responsibility than the president.  —  I understand that Trump's “what pandemic?” attitude is shared by many of his supporters …
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's “Mulan” is struggling to find a foothold at the Chinese box offic, mustering an opening weekend of $23.2 million …
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.
 
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