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Jay Rosen / The Verge:
Q&A with ex-CSO of Facebook Alex Stamos on why big newsrooms should have threat modeling teams, how media is amplifying disinformation with its coverage, more — An interview with Facebook's ex-security chief — Editor's note: We're barreling toward the 2020 election with big unresolved problems …
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
BBC reports median gender pay gap of 6.2% and a 55:45 gender split in on-air roles; BAME make up 26.8% of on-air contributions but only 9.8% of off-screen ones — Director general Tim Davie says he wants “a modern, highly efficient BBC that truly reflects Britain” as the public broadcaster …
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
BBC report 2019/20: £3.52B in licensing fees, down 5% YoY; deficit of £119M; BBC Studios profit grew 14% YoY to £181M; must save extra £125M due to COVID-19 — U.K. broadcaster BBC has talked up its value in a “tougher than ever marketplace,” in the words of chair David Clementi …
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Trump says he will be resuming weekly appearances on Fox and Friends, as he did until 2015, though co-host Steve Doocy says Fox hasn't committed to that — New York (CNN Business)President Trump says he is resuming his weekly visits to “Fox & Friends,” the morning show that gave …
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
In a filing, Fox News' Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, and other Fox staffers to be deposed in October in Seth Rich case, over the network's role in debunked reporting — A new court filing says the Fox stars have agreed to answer questions on their role in spreading conspiracy theories about the murdered DNC staffer.
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Jason Gurwin / The Streamable:
ViacomCBS will rebrand CBS All Access as Paramount+ early next year and expects to expand internationally, starting in Australia, Latin America, and the Nordics — Announces 5 New Originals, Plans to Expand Internationally in 2021 — It's official, CBS All Access is changing its name to Paramount+ next year.
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Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap:
SiriusXM CEO Jim Meyer to retire at the end of 2020 and be replaced by Jennifer Witz, current head of sales, marketing, and operations — Sean Sullivan is leaving CFO role at AMC Networks for same position at Sirius — Jim Meyer is retiring as CEO of SiriusXM on Dec. 31, the company announced Tuesday.
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Tatiana Cirisano / Billboard:
Spotify partners with Songkick and Ticketmaster to add virtual event listings hosted on any platform to artist profiles and to the Concerts hub on the app — Spotify has partnered with concert discovery app Songkick and Ticketmaster to add virtual event listings to the platform …
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Jason White / Facebook Journalism Project:
Facebook announces an additional $5M investment in local news orgs serving marginalized communities and programs that focus on developing news entrepreneurs — Local news organizations across America are doing tremendous work under extremely challenging conditions.
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Patrick Frater / Variety:
Conviva: steaming video consumption in Asia grew just 2% YoY in Q2, compared to an average of 63% globally; Europe grew 134% YoY and North America grew 57% — Streaming video consumption in Asia grew a barely perceptible 2% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2020.
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 …
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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