Mediagazer: Interview with Jemele Hill about starting a podcast network for Black women at Spotify, growth in Black audiences for podcasts, and hosting podcasts vs. TV (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

1:00 PM ET, January 18, 2021

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Interview with Jemele Hill about starting a podcast network for Black women at Spotify, growth in Black audiences for podcasts, and hosting podcasts vs. TV — Jemele Hill wants to talk about the power and peril of Black women. — Black women delivered the election to President-elect Joe Biden and flipped the state of Georgia blue.

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Analytics firm Zignal Labs: online misinformation about election fraud dropped 73% in the week after several social media sites suspended Trump and key allies — Zignal Labs charts 73 percent decline on Twitter and beyond following historic action against the president

Lionel Barber / Persuasion:

Journalists' desire for moral clarity in the face of Trump's dishonesty is understandable, but abandoning “bothsidesism” risks further polarizing people — Facing a dishonest president, journalists sought “moral clarity.” But the press must now resurrect a much-maligned principle: hearing both sides.

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Jenny Gross / New York Times:

Conservative publisher Regnery picks up a book by Sen. Josh Hawley after Simon & Schuster ended its contract to publish it in the wake of the Capitol attack — Regnery Publishing, a conservative publishing house, said Monday that it had picked up a book by Senator Josh Hawley …

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