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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Since 2016, Trump's ongoing spectacle has slowed the decline of legacy media, but this election, regardless of who wins, marks the end of an era for the media — Trump made the legacy media great again. Here's what's next for them. — There's a media phenomenon the old-time blogger Mickey Kaus calls …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
With fears that Trump may prematurely claim victory, journalists must do something that is not in their nature: be patient and not join a rush to judgment — Almost two months before the 2016 presidential election, Dave Wasserman, an editor at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, wrote a prescient piece.
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Columbia Journalism Review:
A review finds that less than half of 1,100 posts across Facebook and Instagram containing falsehoods debunked by third-party partners bore fact-checking labels — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, has been back in Congress this week to talk about the need to reform how social-media platforms moderate content …
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New York Times:
NYT brings back “the needle” but only for Georgia, N. Carolina, and Florida, and says it won't offer a single needle for the overall election due to mail voting — We'll have live estimates for Florida, Georgia and North Carolina. — For many Times readers …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Quibi mulled options like a freemium model and had 450,000 subs paying $4.99/mo., far less than the 7.4M it targeted for its first year, when it closed — The instincts of Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, who headed the start-up, proved wrong — When Jeffrey Katzenberg …
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
TikTok signs deal with Sony to let its users keep using songs from Sony's labels; source: TikTok is paying Sony significantly more now than in its previous deal — TikTok has secured the rights to recordings from thousands of artists, including Beyonce and Travis Scott …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Twitter says it will use at least two sources, from among ABC News, AP, CNN, CBS News, Decision Desk HQ, Fox News, and NBC News, to call US election results — Twitter on Monday provided more details about its policies around tweets that declare election results, and named the seven outlets …
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
A look at a typical week for former CNN reporter Peter Hamby, who moved to Snapchat in 2015 and hosts Good Luck America, a politics show with 2.5M subscribers — Peter Hamby hosts “Good Luck America” on Snapchat. “My North Star is really the low-information news consumer,” he says.
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The Guardian:
UK High Court rules against Johnny Depp in his libel suit against The Sun and its publisher News Group Newspapers, which described him as a “wife beater” — Pirates of Caribbean actor had sued newspaper publisher for damage to his reputation — The Hollywood actor Johnny Depp …
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
The Atlantic retracts a story by Ruth Shalit Barrett, after updating her byline and saying it regrets commissioning a story and giving her a “second chance” — In pointing out errors and fabrications in a wildly popular story about niche sports, the magazine said it was wrong …
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Steven Perlberg / Digiday:
NYT says the NYT Cooking newsletter, its second most popular newsletter, has 4M subs; monthly unique visitors to Cooking are up 66% YoY during the pandemic — As the world shut down this spring, The New York Times dropped the paywall to its What To Cook collection.
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
AP says it will be more transparent with calling US elections, explaining how its experts make decisions and why they hold off declaring a winner in tight races — NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press, one of several news organizations whose declarations of winners drive election coverage …
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Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Reuters survey: 42% of news leaders globally say improving ethnic diversity in their newsroom is the highest diversity priority, while 18% say gender diversity — More than four out of ten newsroom employees believe ethnic diversity is the highest diversity priority in the next year …
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