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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
As CNN's Daniel Dale and others get more TV airtime to highlight Trump's lying, the effectiveness of fact-checking at changing minds is questionable — Daniel Dale met President Trump's convention speech with a tirade of truth Thursday night — a tour de force of fact-checking …
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
An interview with Andrew Sullivan, who says he's earning ~$500K/year on Substack, after his positions on race and genetics pushed him out of mainstream media — He's one of the most influential journalists of the last three decades, but he's shadowed by a 1994 magazine cover story that claimed to show a link between race and I.Q.
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Akhil Arora / NDTV Gadgets 360:
Netflix says it is offering select original content free to non-subscribers, on Android and web, with a 30-second skippable ad for Netflix — Available on Android and computer browsers globally. — Snapchat — HIGHLIGHTS — Netflix is offering limited free access to several original series …
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Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
As the pandemic led big companies to slash ad budgets, UK's ITV and Channel 4 created schemes to subsidize smaller ad buyers, with over 50 participating — With the public told to stay at home, high streets shut and travel halted, many of the UK's biggest advertisers from McDonald's …
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Nancy Tartaglione / Deadline:
Tenet had a $53M opening at the worldwide box office, which includes 40 markets and Canada; the film is scheduled to open in the US and China on Sept. 4 — SUNDAY UPDATE: Christopher Nolan's Tenet has surged to a $53M opening at the worldwide box office which includes 40 overseas markets and Canada.
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
VOA journalists accuse Michael Pack of endangering reporters after he said VOA is “a great place to put a foreign spy” in an interview with the Federalist — A group of veteran journalists for the Voice of America delivered a letter of protest Monday denouncing their parent agency's new CEO …
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Pew Research Center:
Survey: 72% of US adults say news orgs do an insufficient job informing audiences about funding sources; 63% see skepticism of the news media as healthy — 72% of U.S. adults say news organizations do an insufficient job telling their audiences where their money comes from
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Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
A spike in print book sales, up 12% from early June and mid-August, and capacity issues at printing companies are forcing publishers to scramble to meet demand — Capacity issues at the two largest printing companies are among the factors creating havoc for authors and publishers.
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Victor Luckerson / New Yorker:
Amid the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, some Black-owned bookstores have reported sales boosts as high as 400%
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Max Willens / Digiday:
As Pages eligible for Facebook's in-stream ads grow, some brands say its brand safety tools lag behind YouTube, as Facebook focuses on increasing ad inventory — Ad buyers are getting nervous about how crowded Facebook's in-stream video program has grown lately.
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Alan Charlish / Reuters:
Profile of Stsiapan Putsila, a 22-year-old vlogger from Belarus who runs Nexta Live, one of the country's main news sources with over 2M Telegram subscribers — WARSAW (Reuters) - It started five years ago with a music video uploaded by a teenage blogger on YouTube.
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Ethan Anderton / /Film:
Marvel Studios and ABC showed Black Panther without commercials on Sunday along with a tribute to Chadwick Boseman — Fans around the world are still reeling from the shocking, tragic death of actor Chadwick Boseman. The Black Panther actor passed away at the young age of 43 …
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Variety:
Black sports journalists, who have been criticized for commenting on racial injustice in recent years, now see reporting on social issues as part of their jobs — When the Milwaukee Bucks refused to take the court for their playoff match-up against the Orlando Magic Wednesday night …
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Sam Byford / The Verge:
Google Images now lets users search for photos by licensing type and adds a Licensable badge on images linking to licensing requirements and where to buy rights — Google says it'll help users find images more “responsibly” — Google is rolling out an update to Google Images designed …
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