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12:45 AM ET, August 7, 2021

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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
At a panel, Jay Rosen and The Correspondent's Rob Wijnberg discuss lessons learned and why the startup failed, partially due to an excessive focus on marketing  —  “It's important to speak truth.  It's not that important to speak about truth as part of your brand."
Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
[Thread] Politico owner Robert Allbritton emails staff about his opposition to a union, cites inflexibility and a loss of speed in reacting to new circumstances  —  Politico's Robert Allbritton just emailed staff detailing his opposition to unionization,saying he hopes employees “will conclude after studying this question that a union is not in the publication's interests, our reader's interests, or in the interests of individual employees.” https://twitter.com/...
Cristiano Lima / Washington Post:
In a letter to Zuckerberg, the FTC called Facebook's initial claim it cut off NYU researchers' access to comply with an FTC privacy agreement as “inaccurate”  —  The Federal Trade Commission has dismissed as “inaccurate” Facebook's claim that it cut off a group of researchers' access …
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Gilad Edelman / Wired:
Mozilla's analysis says Facebook's justifications for cutting off access to researchers running NYU's Ad Observatory project “simply do not hold water”
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Memo from CNN's Jeff Zucker: the company has fired three employees in the last week who had been coming into the office unvaccinated  —  CNN said on Thursday that it had fired three employees who violated its coronavirus safety protocols by going to the office unvaccinated …
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
The State Department has a refugee plan for Afghans who worked for US news outlets, but workers still face violence or onerous travel if they seek resettlement  —  In July, a coalition of news organizations and press groups—including the New York Times, the Washington Post …
Kim Hart / Axios:
Policy paper proposes revamping the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to fund a wide range of content producers, including independent journalists  —  The concept of a new media ecosystem that's non-profit, publicly funded and tech-infused is drawing interest in policy circles as a way to shift …
Karolos Grohmann / Reuters:
IOC says no one, including athletes, is allowed to share videos from the Olympics on social media in order to protect broadcasters' rights  —  Sharing videos from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on social media is not allowed, even for athletes, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) …
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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Gotham Awards will no longer award acting prizes by gender, replacing best actor and best actress prizes with outstanding lead performance;
Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day:
Interview with Substack CEO Chris Best on incentives for good and bad online behavior, subscriptions vs. annoying micropayments, and hidden Substack gems
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Matt Skibinski / NewsGuard:
NewsGuard/Comscore on digital ad spending: $2.6B goes to “misinformation” sites globally each year; for every $2.16 sent to US newspapers, misinfo sites get $1
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Texas Tribune names Sewell Chan as its editor-in-chief, starting October 18; Chan currently oversees the LA Times' editorial board and opinion section
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
South Park creators Trey Stone and Matt Parker sign a six-year, $900M+ deal with ViacomCBS for 14 spinoff movies for Paramount+ and episodes for Comedy Central