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Brian Welk / The Wrap:
Trump mocked MSNBC's Ali Velshi at a rally for being shot with a rubber bullet while covering protests in May; MSNBC says Trump's comments endanger journalists — MSNBC says that Donald Trump is endangering the lives of journalists after the president mocked reporter Ali Velshi for getting shot …
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
A look at Jeff Zucker's role in boosting Trump for better CNN ratings in 2015 and 2016, and how Trump's misdeeds fuel the network's prime-time broadcasts now — The coziness between the TV executive and Mr. Trump is a Frankenstein story for the cable news era. But then the monster got away.
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BuzzFeed News:
How BuzzFeed News and ICIJ analyzed a trove of leaked FinCEN docs that included 2.1K+ suspicious activity reports from banks covering $2T+ worth of transactions — Twenty-two thousand pages of never-before-released government documents. Hundreds of thousands of transactions. More than $2 trillion.
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Scott Feinberg / Hollywood Reporter:
HBO trounced Netflix at the Emmys, with 30 wins to 21, as Schitt's Creek won nine awards, likely due in part to a boost from earlier seasons arriving on Netflix — The Hollywood Reporter's awards columnist Scott Feinberg dissects the results. — It was an Emmys unlike any other on Sunday night …
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
SPJ and Trans Journalists Association launch a race and gender hotline for journalists to ask LGBT, Black educators and reporters about appropriate phrasing — Is it “Black” or “black”? (Or African-American? Or kill the hyphen?) Hispanic, Latino, Latino, Latin@, or Latinx?
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Ashley Carman / The Verge:
Facebook says it will let people claim ownership of images and issue takedown requests across Facebook and Instagram, starting with select partners — The days of reposting images on Instagram might be over — Facebook is going to let people take more control over the images they own and where they end up.
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Kim Jaewon / Nikkei Asian Review:
South Korean media outlets, which have long struggled to monetize their online content, are studying global peers like The New York Times to spur digital growth — Studying global peers and leveraging COVID credibility could spur online growth — SEOUL — When The New York Times was looking …
Glen Owen / Daily Mail:
Sources: Charles Moore, a former Daily Telegraph editor and a vehement BBC critic, is the favorite to become the new BBC chairman in February — It would be the BBC's worst nightmare made real - a fox-hunting, Old Etonian Brexiteer being appointed its chairman on a platform of abolishing the licence fee.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Fox is willing to spend as much as $2B/year to retain rights to NFL's Sunday games; research suggests Fox currently pays $1.1B/year for Sunday rights — - It's one of several media giants vying for new NFL deals — League's agreements with TV networks begin expiring next year
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Q&A with Chuck Todd on Twitter critics, Trump, and his new Peacock series, as Meet the Press again finishes season as the top-rated Sunday public affairs show — When “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd hears that his name is trending on Twitter, he knows it probably isn't good.
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Clive Thompson / Wired:
YouTube taught its recommendation system how to recognize and demote conspiratorial videos, but organic link-sharing and bot promotion are thwarting its efforts — From flat-earthers to QAnon to Covid quackery, the video giant is awash in misinformation. Can AI keep the lunatic fringe from going viral?
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Matthew Carney / ABC:
Former China bureau chief for Australia's ABC shares how China's authorities threatened to detain his 14-year-old daughter to pressure him over ABC's coverage — It was late on a Friday evening and I was about to head home from the ABC's Beijing office when the telephone rang.
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Joe Rogan / @joerogan:
[Thread] Joe Rogan apologizes for claiming “people got arrested lighting fires in Portland” during a podcast, says “I repeated it without looking into it” — I fucked up on the podcast with Douglas Murray and said that people got arrested lighting fires in Portland. That turns out to not be true. I was very irresponsible not looking into it before I repeated it. I read one story about a guy getting arrested for lighting fires...