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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
News anchors, including from Fox News, forcefully called out Trump early Wednesday morning after he prematurely declared himself the victor of the 2020 election — New York (CNN Business)News anchors forcefully called out President Donald Trump early Wednesday morning after he prematurely declared himself …
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
On Wednesday, Fox is eagerly supporting Trump's attempted election theft, priming its audience to treat the ongoing counting of ballots as evidence of fraud — With the presidential election still up in the air as ballots continue to be counted in key states, President Donald Trump …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Election results show media's failures in covering the Latino vote and that Trump successfully convinced huge swaths of the US that the media spins fake news — By early morning Wednesday, there was a lot that millions of anxious Americans didn't know. — Mainly, they didn't know who the president-elect is.
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
WSJ converted an internal tool for reporters into Talk2020, which lets readers search a database of transcripts to see what the candidates said about an issue — When I was growing up, every holiday meal was interrupted, at least once, by someone leaving the table to gather supporting materials …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Remembering premature media projections in 2000 of the winner of the Bush-Gore race, and how media executives say they will be incredibly careful, this time — Twenty years ago this week, I begged my bosses to stop the presses so we could avoid reporting a huge story that wasn't true …
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
TV news networks say they gamed out how to handle initial vote tabulations that could be misleading and are prepared to push back on false claims by candidates
TV news networks say they gamed out how to handle initial vote tabulations that could be misleading and are prepared to push back on false claims by candidates
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Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:
Canada proposes to regulate global streamers like Netflix and Disney+ in the country, requiring them to invest $800M+ in Canadian content creators by 2023 — Ottawa unveiled Bill C-10 to collect $800 million from foreign streaming platforms by 2023 to tell Canadian stories.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Comcast is in talks with Walmart to develop and distribute smart TVs, as the cable giant looks to become a dominant hub for streaming apps — Under the terms being discussed, the retail giant would promote TV sets running Comcast software and receive share of recurring revenue
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Sinclair Broadcast Group Q3: revenue was up 37% YoY to $1.54B, net income of $161M, and political ad revenue grew $6M from Q3 2019 to $109M — “While core advertising trends in our broadcast segment continue to face challenges due to the pandemic, we did see improvement as we moved through the quarter."
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Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap:
Anchor Linsey Davis says ABC News Live streaming service averaged 23M monthly viewers from March to August, up 118% from the previous six months — Anchor Linsey Davis tells TheWrap that timing and the ability to deliver context without time constraints led viewership to surge
Nicholas Quah / Hot Pod News:
Q&A with Casey Newton on Spotify's need to articulate a content policy after the latest Rogan-Jones episode and its transition from infrastructure to publisher — I've been following Casey Newton's work for closely quite some time now, particularly over the past few years as he's zeroed …
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Chris Erik Thomas / Study Hall:
Q&A with FiveThirtyEight visual journalist Jasmine Mithani on its new model that incorporates some lessons from 2016, its mascot Fivey Fox, and more — Mithani, part of the team behind FiveThirtyEight's popular election forecast, talks about education, doomscrolling, and rejected mascots.
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: AT&T in talks to sell a significant minority stake in DirecTV, AT&T Now, and U-Verse pay-TV, where the buyer would run pay-TV distribution operations — - AT&T is considering selling significant minority stake in DirecTV, AT&T Now and U-Verse pay-TV operations.
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