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Joanne O'Connor / Keeping the Receipts:
Carole Cadwalladr's libel trial shows how UK courts are being used to stifle public interest journalism, renewing calls for anti-SLAPP legislation — There's more at stake than who picks up the legal bill in the trial of Banks vs. Cadwalladr. Press freedom is on the stand too — the Citizens
Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A: Monica Samayoa of the Uproot Project, a network of environmental journalists of color, on covering climate change effects on communities of color and more — Each month, Covering Climate Now speaks with a different journalist about their experiences on the climate beat …
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What's New in Publishing, @tiffanycamhi, @opbmorning, @uproot_project, @m0nica10, @cjr and @aaronscottopb
John F. Harris / Politico:
John Harris reminisces about the early days of Politico on its 15th anniversary and argues that media institutions need to reclaim their agenda-setting power — As we approached the 15th anniversary of POLITICO, I plunged into old files expecting to find a lot that would make me cringe.
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Politico:
Sixteen media thinkers, including Tom Scocca and David Folkenflik, make predictions about the state of the media in the next 15 years — It's almost conventional wisdom right now that the news media is in a fast-moving crisis, with mainstream news sources collapsing and Americans increasingly divided …
Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
Hundreds of German publishers, including Axel Springer, say Google is breaking EU law with its move to phase out third-party cookies from Chrome by next year — Axel Springer among the media groups demanding that Brussels intervene on search giant's plan — Google is facing a fresh complaint …
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Janko Roettgers / Protocol:
Netflix COO says the company is “open to licensing large game IP”; job listings hint it may launch Fortnite-like live service games with regular content updates — Two months after launching mobile games to all of its members, Netflix is looking to double down on gaming …
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@randolphpitts, @jank0, @jank0, @jank0, @somospostpc, @pathedger18, Digiday, Light Reading, CNN and TechCrunch
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John Whitehouse / Media Matters for America:
OANN owner Robert Herring Sr. posts a video acknowledging that AT&T is dropping the network and urges viewers to ask Spectrum, Dish, and others to carry OANN — Earlier this week, my colleague Bobby Lewis looked at One America News Network's future after the deranged conspiracy theory channel was dropped by AT&T / DirecTV.
Andrew Dickson / New York Times:
How UK stage theater companies are using AR and VR to broadcast productions to viewers at home as the pandemic pushes companies to experiment with new art forms — The Interactive Storytelling Studio at the National Theater in London is using technology to bring a miniature musical to viewers' homes.
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@hesherman, @nytimestech, @nytimesarts and @jangles, more at Techmeme »
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
A look at likely First Amendment ramifications of the Sarah Palin v. NYT libel case, set to begin Monday, as reporters face aggressive defamation allegations — The trial comes at a time when those who argue that news outlets should pay a steeper price for getting something wrong are more emboldened than they've been in decades.
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Shraddha Chakradhar / Nieman Lab:
Study: local crime stories in three major US dailies were less likely to challenge police after George Floyd's murder than general police reform stories — Racial justice was a central theme of 2020, with protests and demonstrations sweeping streets across the U.S. But how did these events …
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@lexialex, @niemanlab, @cynthiabenjamn and @mediasmarts
Anya Schiffrin / Columbia Journalism Review:
An update on interventions designed to help journalism, like municipal advertising in the US, tax credits, and ripple effects of Australia's news bargaining law — A year after publishing our 2021 report “Saving Journalism: A Vision for the Post-Covid World,” our researchers went …
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@columbia, @vwpickard, @columbiasipa, @poynter, @cjr, @sdp, @deanbaker13, @columbia, @damianradcliffe and Poynter
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Nielsen: in 2021, Criminal Minds on Netflix was the most-viewed on-demand TV show in the US, and CoComelon was second; Luca on Disney+ was the most-viewed movie — Netflix has pumped billions of dollars into original programming — but overall, its library of older licensed TV shows far …
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