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The AP updates its style to now capitalize “Black” when used in a racial, ethnic, or cultural sense for people who identify as Black — 'For all the newsrooms waiting on AP to set the example, there's no excuse' — The Associated Press announced Friday afternoon it's changing …
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The Tennessean says it is launching an investigation into how a full-page anti-Muslim ad by a Christian doomsday cult was published in its Sunday print edition — The Tennessean said it's investigating how a full-page, anti-Muslim ad was published. — The Tennessean ― …
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Proposals by Sen. Hawley and the DOJ to amend Section 230 protections would violate the First Amendment and bury tech platforms in legal cost and liability risk — Whether we know it or not, all Internet users rely on multiple online services to connect, engage, and express themselves online.
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Q&A with Poynter's training and diversity director on newsrooms focusing on internal diversity, the role of professional organizations like AAJA, and more — This week's interview is with Doris Truong, Poynter's director of training and diversity — AKA, the person you should be calling …
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@niemanlab and @delia_cai
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Memo: NYT will assemble a diverse advisory council to help develop a diversity and inclusion strategy; newsroom to create its own team to study diversity issues
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“Police said” journalism far too often misses the reality of police dishonesty in crime reporting, to the detriment of the perception of Black communities — The headline in the self-proclaimed People Paper — the Philadelphia Daily News — spelled it out in black and white …


Federal judge rejects DOJ's emergency request to block the publication of John Bolton's White House memoir The Room Where It Happened — A federal judge Saturday rejected the Justice Department's emergency request to block publication of John Bolton's White House memoir …


Assistants working for Sony, NBCU, and Warner Bros. say their pay has dropped by at least a third as they've come under pressure to underreport overtime hours — The industry talks a good game about inclusion, but people from marginalized communities are often the most vulnerable.
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Nonprofits are helping European media institutions address their diversity problems by matching refugee journalists from conflict countries with news outlets — “Diversity is not about political correctness, it's about the quality of media” — It all began with a Facebook post in early 2016.
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The journalists who cover education generally fail to reflect the diversity of the students and communities they cover, but some outlets have improved numbers — Last summer, education reporter Jenny Abamu left WAMU, the Washington, DC-area NPR station, after only about a year on the job.
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@poynter, @poynter, @alexanderrusso and @alexanderrusso


The Atlanta Journal-Constitution partners with United Robots to generate real estate articles tailored to ZIP code, based on large data sets — To gather information and stories relevant to our readers, AJC editors and reporters for decades have spent time and energy looking at large sets of data …
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Disney+ has quietly stopped offering new subscribers a free seven-day trial, ahead of its release of the Hamilton Broadway production recording — Pay to be in the room where it happens — Disney Plus has appeared to have quietly stopped offering new subscribers a free seven-day trial …
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Memo: AMC reverses course after “immediate outcry” from customers and will require moviegoers to wear masks when the company reopens about 450 theaters July 15 — The country's largest cinema chain came under fierce scrutiny Thursday over comments made by its CEO.
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As BuzzFeed and other publishers experiment with texting to deliver news to readers, the immediate return on investment remains unclear — Media companies experiment with a different type of reader experience — When BuzzFeed News journalist Mat Honan began texting readers …
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