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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Trump admin orders hospitals to bypass CDC and send COVID-19 info to a database not open to the public, raising questions about reporter and researcher access — Hospitals have been ordered to bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and send all patient information …
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@charlesornstein, CNN, @sherylnyt, @schwanksta, Letters from an American, The Nation, Raw Story, Boing Boing, Breitbart, The Independent, Fast Company, Fox News, Vanity Fair, NPR, Mediaite, Global Research, The Week and Gizmodo
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge:
Twitter says most verified accounts should be able to tweet again, after limiting the functionality on some verified accounts earlier while investigating hack — Update: “Most accounts should be able to Tweet again” — Twitter completely disabled the ability for many accounts to send …
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VICE, TechCrunch, CNN, MIT Technology Review, Los Angeles Times, The A.V. Club, Business Insider, @ericgeller, @nash076, @jason_koebler, @baekdal, @dancow and Reuters, more at Techmeme »
David Folkenflik / NPR:
NPR's Q2 radio audience fell ~25% YoY; podcast downloads and app use rose ~25% YoY; NPR on track to make more from underwriting on podcasts than on radio shows — Broadcast ratings for nearly all of NPR's radio shows took a steep dive in major markets this spring, as the coronavirus pandemic kept …
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Newser, The Hill, @mattlargey, @scottdetrow, @gbrumfiel, @bobbyallyn, @rfinnerty1, @davidfolkenflik, Understandably and @digiphile
Veronica Penney / New York Times:
Facebook classifies climate change news as opinion, meaning peer-reviewed science, industry statements, and disinformation aren't fact-checked — Critics say a company policy that exempts opinion articles from fact-checking amounts to a huge loophole for climate change deniers.
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@evelyndouek, bookforum.com, @juddlegum, @nytnational, @johnpodesta, @towcenter, @scottpwaldman, @dfrlab and @juddlegum
Ad Age:
Dan Peres, former Detail editor-in-chief, named editor-in-chief of Ad Age — Former Details editor-in-chief will oversee print, digital, social, video, podcasts and events — Dan Peres has been named editor-in-chief at Ad Age overseeing editorial across all the publication's expressions …
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@tomgara, @lisatozzi and The Salamanca Press
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Twitch signs deal to distribute Entercom sports talk shows in the form of live, interactive video broadcasts, starting with six US stations — Sports radio talk shows, long a staple of AM/FM dials, are coming to Twitch — in the form of live, interactive video broadcasts.
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Radio & Television … and Barrett Sports Media
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Facebook confirms it will launch Instagram Reels, its answer to TikTok, in the US, UK, Japan, Mexico, and ~50 other countries in the coming weeks — Instagram confirmed it's preparing to soon launch its TikTok competitor, known as Reels, in the U.S. The company expects to bring the new video feature …
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NBC News, New York Post, The Media Nut, @daveweigel, @hshaban, @hshaban and NPR, more at Techmeme »
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
NewsWhip: among the top 100 articles on Facebook in Q2, coverage of BLM protests and COVID-19 appeared most frequently; NBC and BBC were the top publishers — Coverage of Black Lives Matter protests and the coronavirus pandemic pushed engagement on Facebook to an all-time high this quarter.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Memo: Vox Media is laying off 6% of its workforce, or around 70 people, mostly affecting Curbed, SB Nation, IT and office operations, and events staff — Vox Media, whose brands include New York Magazine, Vulture, The Verge and SB Nation, is cutting 6% of its workforce, laying off about 70 employees.
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CNN, Folio, The Wrap, CNBC, The Daily Caller, @sherman4949, @louisbien and @joshsternberg
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Amazon launches a new livestreaming option for influencers on its Amazon Live service, a home shopping network-style video feed on Amazon's retail site — Amazon is giving live streamers a new way to earn commissions on purchases of products showcased in their streams.
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@brianroemmele, more at Techmeme »
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
The Casper Star-Tribune will stop Monday and Tuesday print editions, leaving Wyoming as perhaps the first state without a local paper printed on Monday mornings — Wyoming has six “daily” newspapers, but now none of them will actually print a paper seven days a week.
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@raju, @niemanlab and Casper Star-Tribune
Eliana Miller / Poynter:
Some online outlets fail to clearly and uniformly label opinion, leading to reader confusion and complaints over opinions and political agendas in reporting — In print, it's fairly clear what's an opinion piece and what's a news article. Online, things aren't so clear.
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@orskov, @poynter, @creativenewman, @elysetoribio and @poynter
Taryn Finley / HuffPost:
COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter protests have empowered Black journalists to hold companies accountable and push for more news dedicated to Black communities — Several Black writers and editors have used this moment to spur change within their current and former newsrooms.
Discussion:
@ivieani, @_tarynitup and New York Times
Max Willens / Digiday:
Salaried reporters embrace platforms like Substack, seeing the newsletter as a way to communicate directly with readers, test new ideas, and nurture obsessions — The reporter-written newsletter has become an obsession among freelancers looking to scrounge up support wherever they can find it.
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Simon Owens's Tech …, @sohear, @kantrowitz, @michellemanafy, @mattnavarra and @bnox
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