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Sources: Katzenberg pitched Apple, WarnerMedia, and Facebook about buying Quibi, but so far had no takers; Quibi has between 400K and 500K subscribers now — Six months after launching his revolutionary video-streaming service, Quibi, Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg is looking for a buyer.
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Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
Twitter announces changes to clamp down on US election misinfo, like blocking retweets of misleading content from candidates and accounts with 100K+ followers — Move is latest escalation of anti-misinformation measures in run-up to presidential vote — Twitter has announced …
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Five suspended USAGM officials are suing it, CEO Michael Pack, and some senior aides, alleging they're breaking the law by pursuing a Pro-Trump agenda for VOA — Five suspended officials at the U.S. Agency for Global Media are suing the agency, its new CEO and several of his most senior aides …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Interview with James Murdoch on why he “pulled the rip cord” by resigning from News Corp board, declining a role at Disney, not watching Succession, and more — Increasingly uncomfortable with News Corp's politics and profit motives, Rupert's younger son chose chickens and sheep over Fox …
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@benyt, @jimrutenberg, Variety, @brianstelter, @nytimes, @georgetakei, @shawnmccreesh, @sicarswell, @johnlevenstein, @kenvogel, @jkbjournalist, @abigaildisney, @johncleese, @raju, @cernovich, @halsparks, Deadline and The Wrap
Gina Kolata / New York Times:
New England Journal of Medicine condemns Trump in its first-ever political editorial, following Scientific American's first-ever presidential endorsement — Editors at the world's leading medical journal said the Trump administration “took a crisis and turned it into a tragedy.”
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New England Journal …, @richarddawkins, @david_gergen, @courtneyr, @sarahriggsamico, @picardonhealth, Wired, Forbes, PRESS RUN, NPR and Gizmodo
Robert Gearty / Fox News:
Two Daily Caller reporters say they were beaten with nightsticks by police as they reported on an anti-police protest Thursday night in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin — ‘It was excessive force for sure,’ Shelby Talcott said — Fox News Flash top headlines for October 9
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@gpingersoll, @richiemcginniss, @espiers, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Breitbart and Mediaite
Yvonne Leow / RJI Stories:
The mixed results from the surge in local news grants indicate that funders and founders need a clearer funding pipeline, perhaps mirroring VC tech funding — Tech and philanthropic institutions are giving thousands of $5,000 to $250,000 grants to individual newsrooms, but... then what?
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Lauren Harris / Columbia Journalism Review:
The decline of local news outlets has also impacted epidemiologists, who depend on them as an important resource to monitor and prevent disease outbreaks — Two years ago, Helen Branswell wrote for STAT that “When Towns Lose Their Newspapers, Disease Detectives are Left Flying Blind.”
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@cjr, @lharriswrites, @niemanreports, @lebassett and @spj_tweets
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
NYT's Caliphate, under internal review, included an odd storytelling sequence and possible exploitation of a Yazidi girl put on the phone with an alleged rapist — In Chapter 9 of the 2018 podcast series “Caliphate,” New York Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi speaks with an Islamic State detainee in an Iraqi prison.
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@erikwemple, @adamwren, @biancajoanie, @lailaalarian, @mclendaniel, @williams_paige, @peterbale, @bgrueskin, @joshsternberg, @rbkhoury and @ggreenwald
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at The Lancet's past editorial decisions, like the infamous study linking vaccines and autism, and the stakes of publishing research during the pandemic — Should medical journals enter the political realm? — In late May, The Lancet, a leading British medical journal …
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@loucorsius, @senseaboutsci, @jon_allsop, @jon_allsop, @jon_allsop, @jon_allsop, @jon_allsop and @jon_allsop
Carly Stern / Storyboard Posts:
Q&A with Katie Engelhart, who wrote for California Sunday about a nursing home battling COVID-19, on getting details for an inside view without going on site — Katie Engelhart on the reality of nursing homes and the undercovered issue of elder care in America: “We all think we won't end up in a nursing home.”
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@knibbs, @niemanreports and @niemanlab
Emily Flitter / New York Times:
Profile of Matt Levine, whose newsletter on Bloomberg, Money Stuff, has ~150K subscribers and mixes deadpan humor with technical explanations — Finance journalism isn't known for its writerly voices. Matt Levine, the author of Money Stuff, is an oddball exception.
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Weekend Reccs, @mikeisaac, @craigmod, @davidlat, @tseides, @gerritd, @film_girl, @veenavenugopal, @marktercek, @devpend, @sruhle, @levfinlol, @eiffeltyler, @alexgoldmark, @vicfleischer, @aixiicee, @spac_insider, @andrewparker, @abigailshrier, @lizzieohreally, @matt_levine, @jacquiemcnish, @elienyc, @mdc, @bharatramamurti, @shiraovide and @praddenkeefe
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