Mediagazer: Adalytics: brand safety technology from companies like Grapeshot and Moat marked 30.3% of NYT, 21.4% of The Economist, and 51.7% of Vice articles as “unsafe” (BRANDED)

11:15 PM ET, December 20, 2020

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Voting machine companies including Smartmatic have hired high-powered libel lawyers and, legal experts say, have strong cases if they sue Fox, Newsmax, and OAN — Voting machine companies threaten “highly dangerous” cases against Fox, Newsmax and OAN, says Floyd Abrams.

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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:

Lou Dobbs aired a fact-check of his own election conspiracies, after Smartmatic threatened legal action; sources: Pirro, Bartiromo will air the same fact check — Fox Business host Lou Dobbs has recently taken to raising questions about voting machine companies, which have been cast …

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Leaked docs show how China stage-managed what appeared on its domestic internet to make coronavirus look less severe in the early days of the outbreak — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.

Charles Kaiser / The Guardian:

Interview with Arthur Sulzberger Jr, who retires as NYT chairman this month, and AG Sulzberger about turning around the paper, keeping it in the family, more — Against the odds, a unique American institution has thrived. Its chairman is retiring but the paper will stay in the family

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BRANDED:

Adalytics: brand safety technology from companies like Grapeshot and Moat marked 30.3% of NYT, 21.4% of The Economist, and 51.7% of Vice articles as “unsafe” — Welcome back to BRANDED, the newsletter exploring how marketers broke society (and how we can fix it).

Discussion: @swodinsky, @chrysopoetics, @ilhanniaz, @brooklynmarie, @masonpelt, @nandoodles, @cwarzel, @media_evan, @brooklynmarie and adalytics.io

Pranay Prabhat / NYT Open:

A look at the NYT's first-party data program for its direct-sold ads; NYT says ad campaigns that used it performed as well as those using third-party data — The New York Times launched an advertising data program for our direct-sold ads business that uses our own data and data science techniques.

Gabby Deutch / NewsGuard:

NewsGuard names news sites with most online engagement in 2020: NBCNews, NYT top among trustworthy sites; Breitbart, TheBlaze for COVID-19 and election misinfo — NewsGuard's Top Ten Disinformers - and Top Ten Straight Shooters With The Most Online Engagement — Facts did not always flourish in 2020.

Discussion: @rsm, @anirbanroy, @retractionwatch, @daveyalba, @theinclinepgh, @retractionwatch, @larrypotash and @gsdeutch

Mark Jacob / Local News Initiative:

An analysis puts the overall increase in digital circulation for news outlets in 138 markets at 51.2%, from Nov. 2019 to Nov. 2020; print circulation fell 12.9% — Newsroom Challenge for 2021: Keep New Customers in the Fold and Find More — The pandemic and other major news events …

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Ben Taub / New Yorker:

A look back at Daphne Caruana Galizia's murder in Malta, and how her sons used her unfinished work to crack the murder case, bringing down Malta's government — After a journalist was assassinated, her sons found clues in her unfinished work that cracked the case and brought down the government.

Discussion: @andrewgiambrone, @jane_gerster, @pcaruanagalizia, @robertjdenault, @davidakaye, @rebecca_vincent, @bentaub91, @opensociety, @gaiasquarci, @bentaub91, @pcaruanagalizia and @bentaub91

Andrew Liptak / Polygon:

Several writers of movie tie-in novels say they haven't been paid royalties for their work since Disney acquired Marvel, Lucasfilm, and 20th Century Fox — This November, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, a professional organization for genre authors …

Discussion: Context is King, @chuckwendig, @polygon, @malindalo, @dogpatchpress, @andrewliptak and Formerly Dangerous

Ashley Carman / The Verge:

The rush for podcast-generated IP that can be sold to Hollywood is driving demand for podcasts like Caliphate, which may ignore facts for “cinematic experience” — The need for IP pushes facts aside — The New York Times' Caliphate podcast was a hit — until it wasn't.

Discussion: @caseyriankelly, @reckless, @shomarq and @ashleyrcarman

Michael Schneider / Variety:
The New York Times has agreed to return the Peabody Award it won for Caliphate, following its retraction of core elements of the podcast series

Discussion: @erikwemple, @silvermanjacob, @katie_robertson, @pspoole and New York Times

David Folkenflik / NPR:
NYT retracts the core of Caliphate after a review finds that the podcast gave too much credence to its central character and reassigns Rukmini Callimachi

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