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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, CNN 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, @tomgara, @wsj, @mathewi, @lalpert1, @ethan_kraft, @anthony, @asharma, @samitsarkar, @hshaban, @srussolillo, @oliverdarcy and The Wrap
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Frederic Filloux / Monday Note:
A look at VC firm a16z's media and podcast offerings, led by ex-Wired editor Sonal Chokshi, which feature an array of voices across 500+ episodes — Andreessen-Horowitz firm has developed a sophisticated podcast system. Its mission: becoming the go-to place to understand the future.
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@raju, @sub8u, @kncukier and @kevinokeefe, more at Techmeme »
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 …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Lincoln Project signed with UTA to develop Lincoln Media and sources say it's weighing offers from studios, podcast networks, a path akin to Crooked Media's — The Lincoln Project is looking to beef up its media business after the election, sources tell Axios.
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@schneidremarks and @mdudas
Tony Semerad / Salt Lake Tribune:
Salt Lake Tribune to move to a weekly print edition at the end of 2020 as its decade-long print, delivery, and ad partnership with the Deseret News expires — In a historic change, The Salt Lake Tribune will stop printing and delivering a daily edition at year's end and switch to a weekly printed newspaper delivered by mail.
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@annehelen, @sammy_roth, @johndehlin, @dlboardman, @davidshepardson, @juliaritchey, @bjaminwood, @ryanchittum and @brianstelter
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 …
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@jayrosen_nyu
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 »
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, Al Jazeera and Mediaite
James Shotter / Financial Times:
Poland's ruling party, which co-opted public media, wants to reduce foreign ownership of private media, a move critics say stifles independent journalism — Critics of conservative-nationalist ruling camp say targeting foreign ownership is unjustified — Since the re-election of Andrzej Duda …
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@rasmus_kleis, @notesfrompoland, @risj_oxford, @lykkefriis and @tiagodf
Eric Newcomer / Newcomer:
Bloomberg tech reporter Eric Newcomer quits to launch Newcomer, a subscription newsletter on Substack offering “contrarian optimism” on startups and VCs — I'm launching a subscription newsletter about startups and venture capital — Silicon Valley needs an irreverent insider writing …
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@mims, @ericnewcomer, Talking Biz News, @caseynewton, @can, @ericnewcomer, @kantrowitz and @markmilian
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