Mediagazer: Following Trump's talk to “reopen America”, media's framing around saving either lives or jobs is dangerous, as public health is necessary in a healthy economy (Jon Allsop/Columbia Journalism Review)

Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:

Following Trump's talk to “reopen America”, media's framing around saving either lives or jobs is dangerous, as public health is necessary in a healthy economy — On March 24, President Trump told a Fox News virtual town hall that he'd love to have America “opened up and just raring to go” by Easter.

Discussion: New York Post, Poynter, Reason and Washington Post

Alex Sherman / CNBC:

Sources: Vox Media to announce furloughs of ~100 employees this week, with possible pay cuts for highest earners and other cuts including freelancers, vendors — - Vox is discussing furloughing about 100 employees as it seeks to cut costs amid coronavirus quarantines.

Discussion: The Wrap, @sdkstl, @sherman4949 and @freeblackgirl

John Ourand / Sports Business Daily:

ESPN confirms it is asking about 100 commentators to take a temporary pay cut; sources: ESPN is asking talent to take a 15% pay cut over the next three months — ESPN has asked its 100 most highly paid commentators to take voluntary 15% pay cuts over the next three months …

Discussion: Poynter, New York Post, Variety, @andrewmarchand, @andrewmarchand, Ad Age, @ourand_sbj, The Hill, CNN, Broadcasting & Cable, TVNewser, Awful Announcing, The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter and Chicago Sun-Times

Ben Smith / New York Times:

Interview with NYT's Dean Baquet on why the paper waited weeks to cover a sexual assault allegation against Biden and edited the article to appease his campaign — Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The New York Times, said the article was published when there was enough reporting …

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William J. Broad / New York Times:

Investigation finds a decade-long health disinformation campaign by Russia, using social media and news outlets like RT, to sow confusion and hurt institutions — A decade of health disinformation promoted by President Vladimir Putin of Russia has sown wide confusion, hurt major institutions …

Discussion: Boing Boing and Breitbart, more at Techmeme »

Cristiano Lima / Politico:

Reddit's new transparency hub discloses the identities of its political advertisers since Jan. 2019, how they target users, and amount spent on each campaign — Reddit will begin publicly disclosing its political advertisers and how much money they shell out in a new transparency hub …

Discussion: TechCrunch, @viacristiano, The Verge, Mashable and reddit, more at Techmeme »

Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter:

Filing: Disney signs a one-year $5B revolving credit agreement with Citibank; the company now has access to $13B+ following similar credit agreements last month — The company now has access to more than $13 billion in credit, should it be needed. — The Walt Disney Co. is bolstering …

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Ayush Tiwari / Newslaundry:

Amid lockdown in India, The Quint furloughed about 45 staff, Times of India laid off some employees, and national dailies like Indian Express announced pay cuts — The Quint employees speak of an uncertain future, a Life staffer described the decision as ‘inhuman’.

Discussion: @rita_banerji, @seemi_pasha, @eramagha, @karnikakohli, @sighyush, @quilledwords, @mnshap and Free Press Journal

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

Photographers, confined to seven spots in the WH briefing room due to social distancing, get creative in capturing historic moments during COVID-19 briefings — It took just seconds for the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to undo two hours of work by New York Times photographer Doug Mills.

Lauren Feiner / CNBC:

Meg Whitman says Quibi had 1.7M downloads in its first week and is accelerating plans to let the app cast to TVs due to the lockdown — - New mobile streaming service Quibi saw 1.7 million downloads in its first week, CEO Meg Whitman said on CNBC's “Squawk on the Street” Monday.

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Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:

The comic book industry has been hit hard by COVID-19 as stores close and the distribution of new titles grinds to a halt, creating uncertainty about the future — A key distributor has halted deliveries and shops are shuttered, putting the entire industry in jeopardy: “A lot of people are going to lose their livelihoods.”

Discussion: Melville House Books and IndieWire

Bloomberg:

YouTube says viewership of videos classified as “news” has increased 75% YoY in the recent weeks — - Executive Mohan says Google unit ‘vigilant’ on misinformation — Video hub pulls #filmyourhospital clips claiming virus is hoax — News viewership on YouTube soared 75% …

Discussion: Digital TV Europe and @retailprophet