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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.
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New York Post, Poynter, Reason and Washington Post

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.
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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 …
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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

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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@ryangrim, @benyt, @louisemensch, @justinryoung, @moorehn, Vanity Fair, @alexsalvinews, @krystalball, @ggreenwald, @moorehn, @heminator, @byronyork, @evanmcmurry, @sulliview, @briebriejoy, @jackshafer, Slate, The Bread Line, The Week, New York Post and Breitbart

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 …
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Boing Boing and Breitbart, more at Techmeme »

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

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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Seeking Alpha, Deadline, Variety and Variety

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’.
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@rita_banerji, @seemi_pasha, @eramagha, @karnikakohli, @sighyush, @quilledwords, @mnshap and Free Press Journal

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.

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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Ad Age, Apptopia Blog, Multichannel News, @jbenton, The Verge, @stevekovach, @stevekovach, Light Reading, MediaPost, Forbes, Vanity Fair, Adweek, Variety, The Streamable and La Wikly, more at Techmeme »

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.”
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Melville House Books and IndieWire

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% …
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Digital TV Europe and @retailprophet