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Sid Bedingfield / Washington Post:
A look at the history of Black journalism and its longstanding activist tradition — The White press helped destroy democracy in the South. Black journalists developed an activist tradition because they had to. — In the mid-20th century, Walter Hussman Sr. transformed a handful …
Josef Adalian / Vulture:
Interview with Conan O'Brien, who ended his 28-year run as host of a nightly talk show on June 24, on his career, his future project for HBO Max, and more — The first time I interviewed Conan O'Brien, it was the winter of 1994 and he had just finished taping an episode of Late Night.
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Jackson Ryan / CNET:
Inside the intense debate among Wikipedia editors to include the coronavirus lab leak theory on COVID-19 pages, as the theory has gained more media attention — Building a better encyclopedia requires consensus and neutrality, but behind the scenes, editors wrangle with the pandemic's most contentious question.
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK's largest commercial publisher Reach says it will hire an online safety editor, the first of its kind in UK, to tackle “endemic” abuse of its journalists — Reach has created an online safety editor role, the first of its kind in the UK, to tackle “endemic” abuse and harassment of its journalists “head on”.
Ali Breland / Mother Jones:
Journalists say Amazon's PR team uses aggressive, manipulative, and sometimes outright deceptive tactics to intimidate and mislead reporters — It was a slow news day at Gizmodo, the tech website where Dell Cameron worked. Without a story of his own to report he decided to aggregate …
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Josef Adalian / Vulture:
Analysis of seven major streaming services shows Netflix remains the leader but newer services like HBO Max and Disney+ have momentum with original programming — Netflix's streaming supremacy is being challenged as never before. The digital TV universe has dramatically expanded …
Ted Williams / Axios Charlotte:
Founder of The Charlotte Ledger, a local business newsletter that started as an experiment, says it now generates ~$12.5K/month in revenue from 2,000 paid subs — Views: — Local business newsletter The Charlotte Ledger now generates around $12,500 in monthly recurring revenue …
Shirin Ghaffary / Vox:
Google is showing a warning on some searches that it may not have reliable sources to show, usually on trending topics — The company is notifying people when they search for rapidly evolving topics. — Google is testing a new feature to notify people when they search for a topic that may have unreliable results.
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Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC:
BuzzFeed announces plans to go public via SPAC merger, targeting a $1.5B valuation, and will acquire digital publisher Complex Networks for $300M — BuzzFeed, a 15-year-old digital media company, announced Thursday it plans to go public via a merger with a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
AG Garland says he is planning an informal directive and new regulations to ban federal prosecutors from subpoenaing reporters or their phone or email records — Attorney General Merrick Garland has endorsed the idea of legislation to create an enduring ban on federal prosecutors subpoenaing reporters …
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Bob Papper / RTDNA:
Research: POC make up 27.7% of local TV news workforce in the US; all local TV newsrooms have women on the news team; 85% of radio news workforce is white — TV — For the fifth year in a row, representation of people of color in local TV news improved overall and, for the fourth year in a row …
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Karen Fischer / The Verge:
How Navajo Nation radio stations connected with listeners during the pandemic, dealt with folk remedies for COVID, and helped with donations — KTNN radio station's headquarters in St. Michaels, Arizona is less than ten minutes away from the Navajo Nation capital of Window Rock …
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