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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Sources: Fox News agreed to pay a former assistant of Kimberly Guilfoyle more than $4M to settle a complaint about Guilfoyle's sexually inappropriate behavior — As President Donald Trump heads into the 2020 elections, he faces a daunting gender gap: according to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Google will pay publishers $1B+ through 2023 to create and curate high-quality journalism for the new Google News Showcase, starting in Germany and Brazil — Google will pay publishers more than $1 billion over the next three years to create and curate high-quality journalism for a new set …
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Liz Wolfe / Reason:
NYT, which faced staff unrest and an editor's exit after running Sen. Cotton's op-ed on US protests, posted an op-ed praising China's crackdown on HK's protests — “The West tends to glorify” pro-democracy protesters “as defenders of Hong Kong's freedoms, but they have done great harm …
Jack Stubbs / Reuters:
Sources: Russia's IRA is running a news site on US politics, reposting conservative content and paying US freelancers to write on politically sensitive issues — LONDON (Reuters) - The Russian group accused of meddling in the 2016 U.S. election has posed as an independent news outlet …
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Sarah Coble / Infosecurity Magazine:
FBI and CISA say foreign intelligence may use online journals, including “pseudo-academic” ones, to sow discord in the runup to the 2020 election — Americans were warned today that online journals may be used to spread lies and sow social discord in the buildup to the 2020 presidential election.
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The GroundTruth Project:
A coalition representing 3,000+ US newsrooms is pushing a way to support local journalism with tax credits for subscriptions or donations to nonprofit newsrooms — A coalition representing more than 3,000 local newsrooms today took the unusual step of backing a plan for the government …
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Irving Washington / Online News Association:
Online News Association, OpenNews, and the Maynard Institute announce the Vision25 initiative to build anti-racist and collaborative newsrooms — Today, we're announcing Vision25: Building Racial Equity in Newsrooms, a catalyst in a social change movement that seeks to build journalistic institutions …
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Dade Hayes / Deadline:
In letter to Congress, directors and Hollywood trade bodies say 69% of small and mid-sized theater companies will go bankrupt or shutter without government help — Dozens of established filmmakers joined with the Directors Guild of America, the National Association of Theater Owners …
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Francesca Chambers / @fran_chambers:
The Commission on Presidential Debates says it is considering adding “additional structure” to the format “to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues” — The Commission on Presidential Debates speaks: https://twitter.com/...
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
In an interview on Wednesday, Chris Wallace conceded he was initially reluctant to step in during the Trump-Biden debate, saying he doesn't favor muting mics
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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Portland tech news site Digital Trends has laid off at least 13 editorial staffers, including Lisa Marie Segarra, Meira Gebel, and Mathew Katz — Portland technology news site Digital Trends has laid off at least 13 editorial staffers. — Among those laid off was Lisa Marie Segarra …
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Charlie Beckett / Polis:
Sweden's national radio broadcaster is pairing journalists' pre-publication ratings of news stories with an algorithm to improve the personalization for users — How can we produce more relevant news stories and at the same time promote the values of outstanding public service journalism?
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter:
ABC is instituting inclusion standards, overseen by Executive VP Simran Sethi, to increase inclusion of underrepresented groups on screen and behind the screen — Exec vp development and content strategy Simran Sethi has been working alongside entertainment president Karey Burke on the detailed protocols for a year.
Freya Drohan / Daily Front Row:
Condé Nast hires its first-ever chief of diversity and inclusion officer, Yashica Olden, and reverses the pay cuts it implemented in April — Condé Nast has announced Yashica Olden as its global chief diversity and inclusion officer, a new role recently created by the legacy publishing company.
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