Mediagazer: In Q&A, NYT's international president discusses why it chose Korea as its new Asia hub and says it began contingency plans to leave Hong Kong three years ago (Sarah Kim/Korea JoongAng Daily)

5:10 PM ET, October 30, 2020

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Glenn Greenwald / Greenwald:

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David Bauder / Associated Press:

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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:

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BBC:
BBC issues social media guidelines prohibiting staff from criticizing colleagues, “virtue signaling”, and expressing personal opinions on public policy, more

Lara O'Reilly / Digiday:

Interview with Petra Wikström, director of public policy at Schibsted, on joining the Coalition for App Fairness to pressure app store owners to change rules — Nordic publishing giant Schibsted became one of 20 new members of the recently formed Coalition for App Fairness earlier this month.

Angel Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times:

LA Times launches Latinx Files, a free weekly newsletter to highlight issues facing the Latinx community as part of its effort to cover underrepresented stories — You've probably seen the numbers: Nearly half of Los Angeles County, nearly 40% of California and nearly a fifth of the United States is Latino.

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Kim Lyons / The Verge:

YouTube reports $5B in Q3 ad revenue, up 30% YoY from $3.8B, has more than 30M paid music and premium subscribers; YouTube TV has more than 3M subscribers — Parent company Alphabet reported better-than-expected third quarter ad revenue results — Google parent company Alphabet's third …

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Helen Coster / Reuters:
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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Amazon reports Q3 “other” category revenue, which mostly covers its ad business, of $5.4B, up 51% YoY, and subscription services revenue of $6.58B, up 33% YoY

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Addy Baird / BuzzFeed News:

Maine's tight Senate race has helped offset pandemic losses for local news with the Bangor Daily News seeing a 3,000% increase in political ad spending vs. 2014 — WASHINGTON — Two years ago, when Republican Sen. Susan Collins announced that she would vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh …

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Pew Research Center:

Among six public US newspaper companies, ad revenue fell by a median 42% YoY in Q2; circulation revenue fell by 8% YoY; labor expenses in four fell a median 20% — The financial state of the U.S. news media in the second quarter of 2020 … The coronavirus outbreak has had a major impact …

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Makena Kelly / The Verge:

Profile of FCC's Brendan Carr, a key figure in the Republican fight against Big Tech and potential FCC chairman if Trump is reelected — SHARE All sharing options — Ted Cruz was shouting at Jack Dorsey. — “Who the hell elected you and put you in charge of what the media are allowed …

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Sarah Kim / Korea JoongAng Daily:

In Q&A, NYT's international president discusses why it chose Korea as its new Asia hub and says it began contingency plans to leave Hong Kong three years ago — Stephen Dunbar-Johnson, international president of The New York Times Company, said the high level of press freedom in Korea …

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Ludovic Blecher / The Keyword:

Google releases final impact report of its €150M , five-year Digital Innovation Fund, which supported 662 digital news projects in Europe through 2019 — Five years ago, as we saw news publishers shifting towards digital formats and trying new ways of doing things in the internet era …

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Rest of World:

Filipino activists and journalists want Facebook to tackle deadly disinformation coming from the government, resulting in enemies being “red-tagged” and killed — Targeted by government misinformation, activists are asking Facebook to do more to tackle a deadly epidemic of “red-tagging”

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Sara Fischer / Axios:

Twitter has labeled a tweet from Russia's RT as disputed and possibly misleading, as it included a video saying voter fraud could delegitimize the US election — Twitter on Thursday labeled a tweet from Russian state media outlet RT (formerly Russia Today) that included …