Mediagazer: For 2021, technology journalism could improve if reporters examine their use of sources, work to understand academic research, and question their assumptions (Mike Ananny/Nieman Lab)

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Mike Ananny / Nieman Lab:

For 2021, technology journalism could improve if reporters examine their use of sources, work to understand academic research, and question their assumptions — “Could technology journalists be in service of something better than more speech, improved content moderation, unbiased algorithms, and consensual surveillance capitalism?"

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Aisha Majid / Press Gazette:

Aaj Tak Live News, CricBuzz, and News Break are the most downloaded news apps globally in 2020, with CNN and BBC among the top 15 — The BBC News app was downloaded 2.2 million times in 2020 making it the most popular newly-installed news app in the UK during the year.

Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:

A look at Complex Networks' Collective, an audience insight panel launched in 2020 for B2B projects like custom research, trend reports, and ad campaign help — Successful media companies are ones that give readers what they want as well as anticipate their needs.

Discussion: @jonathan_h and @andrewmedal

Fulya Ozerkan / Agence France-Presse:

A private Turkish TV station that aired pro-Kurdish opposition views has shut down less than a month after launch, the editor claims due to government pressure — A private Turkish TV station that aired pro-Kurdish opposition views has shut down less than a month after launch …

Discussion: @fulyaozerkan and @randahabib

Nicole Sperling / New York Times:

As streaming platforms like Netflix have grown, political films they used to seek out, like The Dissident, on the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, are being shunned — Bryan Fogel's examination of the killing of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi had trouble finding a home among the companies …

Matthew Keys / The Desk:

A look at MyBundle.TV, a recommendation engine that helps people pick streaming services from dozens on the market and offers a white-label version for ISPs — Jason and Daniel Cohen built MyBundle.TV to help customers move away from expensive cable TV packages.

Discussion: @matthewkeyslive and @matthewkeyslive, Thanks:@matthewkeyslive

New York Times:

Profile of veteran radio host Delilah, whose daily call-in show lets listeners open up on air and has the largest audience among radio shows hosted by women — With snippets of love, loss and struggle soothed by music, she has become one of American radio's most popular — and trusted — voices.

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James Risen / The Intercept:

Snowden and Assange deserve presidential pardons, but so do the eight government officials charged by the Trump Administration in leak cases — In 2007, the Bush administration's Justice Department sent me a letter saying it was conducting a criminal investigation into …

Discussion: @jameeljaffer, @johnruddick2, @cjr, @jordanuhl, @theintercept, @michikokakutani and @cjr

New York Times:

Bollywood is also starting to shift to streaming with 28 major films skipping theaters this year, though they represent only a fraction of the films made yearly — India's film industry, which relied on theatrical releases, is experimenting with going straight to streaming services such as Amazon, Netflix and Disney's Hotstar.

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Umberto Gonzalez / The Wrap:

Variety apologizes to Carey Mulligan for its “insensitive language and insinuation” after she says its review was “basically saying that I wasn't hot enough” — Variety has apologized for using “insensitive language” about Carey Mulligan in its review of her new film “Promising Young Woman.”

Sam Biddle / The Intercept:

In unsealed court docs, Facebook managers appeared to admit to major flaws in ad targeting capabilities in 2016 and wondered if they were misleading advertisers — Facebook is currently waging a PR campaign purporting to show that Apple is seriously injuring American small businesses through its iOS privacy features.

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David Folkenflik / NPR:

In the corrective episode of Caliphate, The Daily's Michael Barbaro failed to reveal that two of The Daily's producers also worked on Caliphate — Late last week, The New York Times issued one of its biggest mea culpas in years. The nation's leading newspaper returned a Peabody award …

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Caitlin Dewey / Slate:

How cooking sites navigate tedious SEO techniques and moderate reviews to get their recipes on Google's featured carousel or on the first page of search results — Meathead Goldwyn has some long-standing beef with Google. — For the past nine years, the pitmaster and publisher of AmazingRibs.com …