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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Sources: Trump allies including a White House lawyer first approached WSJ with their Hunter Biden story, but WSJ couldn't corroborate claims about Joe Biden — Inside the White House's secret, last-ditch effort to change the narrative, and the election — and the return of the media gatekeepers.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
60 Minutes used Lesley Stahl's in-conversation responses, narration, and clips of Trump from rallies to fact check his comments in the interview aired on Sunday — Lesley Stahl told President Trump up front: “You know, this is ‘60 Minutes.’ And we can't put on things we can't verify."
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Will Thorne / Variety:
Sunday's 60 Minutes with Biden and Trump interviews drew 16.8M total viewers, the show's largest audience since Stormy Daniels' interview in 2018 — The dual Biden and Trump interviews, the latter of which the President cut short, drew a total of 16.8 million total viewers on CBS and scored …
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The Wrap, @alexweprin, Forbes and Mediaite
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: BuzzFeed is on target to break even this year for the first time since 2014, with significantly less revenue than 2019 offset by $30M in cost cuts — Digital media company's revenue damaged during pandemic as layoffs, other cuts shore up bottom line
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@scottnover, @wsj, @tomgara, @mathewi, @lalpert1, @ethan_kraft, @anthony, @asharma, @samitsarkar, @hshaban, @srussolillo, @oliverdarcy and The Wrap
William D. Cohan / Air Mail:
A look at Vice following Shane Smith's departure in late 2017, shifting from edgy coverage under Nancy Dubuc while struggling to become profitable — Shane Smith convinced Rupert Murdoch and Disney that his company was, as the kids say, the sh!t. Until it wasn't. How did Vice blow it—and trash billions in valuation?
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@jeremymbarr, @jeremymbarr, Twelve Thirty Six, @mikebarnicle, @alxthomp, @tattytats and @benyt
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Fox News confirms “a few positive” exposures to COVID-19, after report says its president and some top anchors were advised to quarantine due to exposure — Fox News Media confirmed “a few positive” exposures to the coronavirus among its employees in the wake of a New York Times report …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube revamps its mobile apps with gestures like swiping up for fullscreen and expands video chapters by adding lists with chapter preview images — YouTube today is rolling out a series of updates to its player page on mobile devices. The changes relocate some elements, add new features …
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@glenngabe and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »
Wall Street Journal:
From Go90 and Vessel to Fullscreen, Quibi was yet another high-profile failed attempt to create a streaming platform focused on short-form content — Streaming platform pitched high-production shows in format dominated by user-generated content — The demise of the mobile-streaming platform Quibi …
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@jbflint, @wsj, @maxwellelliot and @karaswisher
Doug Mack / The Counter:
How the “Rust Belt Diner” genre of journalism became the “Trump Country Diner” in 2016, driven by a sense that media failed to understand the mood of rural US — Steph Chambers/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP — The “Rust Belt Diner” genre of journalism isn't new.
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@douglasmack, Nosh Box, @marcuskdowling, @douglasmack, @jayrosen_nyu, @niemanlab, @thecounter, @paulocanning, @douglasmack, @profmusgrave and @thecounter
Emily Atkin / HEATED:
Analysis of 30 news articles on the last presidential debate's climate policy exchange shows 25 used Trump's pro-oil framing while 5 hit on the cost of inaction — HEATED analyzed 30 news articles about Biden's climate policy, and found that 25 adopted Trump's preferred framing. — 1 hr
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Bloomberg, @emorwee, UPROXX, Mediaite and Al Jazeera
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A with historian Rick Perlstein about media's framing errors, including “bothsidesism”, why horserace coverage is treating 2020 like a normal election, more — In late August, Sam Dolnick, an assistant managing editor at the New York Times, tweeted a link to an episode of The Daily …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The Atlantic published a lengthy magazine story by disgraced New Republic editor Ruth Shalit as Ruth S. Barrett with no disclosure about her checkered past — A new story from the Atlantic explores the culture of niche sports in Fairfield County, Conn. — parents trying to turn their offspring …
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@mathewi, @markobbie and @rescon1
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