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3:30 AM ET, September 14, 2020

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KPCC public radio reporter Josie Huang was arrested while covering the ambush shooting of two deputies in LA, on charges of “interfering with a lawful arrest”  —  Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies arrested KPCC/LAist Correspondent Josie Huang Saturday night while she was covering …
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Internal documents from The Intercept regarding exposed source Reality Winner show an extreme level of newsroom mismanagement, hubris, and a whitewashed probe  —  Internal documents show how a source ended up in jail — and the fallout in the newsroom.  —  Where were you when you first heard about the Snowden leak?
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Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Warner Bros. delayed sharing daily box office grosses for Tenet over worries they could be misinterpreted, breaking industry norms and angering rival studios  —  People who closely follow box office earnings have noticed a surprising lack of transparency surrounding ticket sales for “Tenet …
Ronan Shields / Adweek:
Amazon has added Twitch inventory to Amazon Advertising, making it easier for media buyers to include Twitch audiences in their programmatic ad campaigns  —  The streaming network is now part of Amazon Advertising  —  Twitch inventory has been opened up to Amazon Advertising customers.  Source: twitch
Discussion: @adweek, @lordsp and @aexm
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
YouTube to make engaged-view video ad conversions, which occur after users view 10+ seconds of a skippable ad but don't click, a standard metric this year  —  Advertisers have been challenged to determine the impact of video ad campaigns on conversions when they can't compare them across ad formats.
Discussion: NewsLab
Matt Donnelly / Variety:
How work on an indie film set has changed after new COVID-19 protocols, including talent isolation, single-serve craft services, and a COVID compliance officer  —  As Hollywood crawls toward some version of normalcy amid the coronavirus pandemic, we at Variety have been curious …
David Robb / Deadline:
Study: in 2019-2020, 42% of streaming shows had a female protagonist vs. 27% on cable; 32% of streaming shows had female directors, up from 15% the year before  —  Shows made for streaming services are much more likely to employ women in front of and behind the cameras than programs …
Discussion: @melissakxly4
Emily Birnbaum / Protocol:
Interview with FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, on reforming Section 230 and whether the process around Trump's social media EO has become corrupt  —  Jessica Rosenworcel won't talk about what everyone really wants her to talk about.  She can't.  But what she says about everything else speaks volumes …
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Congressional report finds USA Today's Susan Page, who is to moderate a VP debate, hosted an event at her home honoring Medicare boss Seema Verma in Nov. 2018  —  An online backlash following reports of Verma's PR spending.  But it didn't underwrite Page's party, which USA today says was …
Sarah Manavis / New Statesman:
Goodreads has held on to its dominant spot online despite being nearly unusable, but its reign is now being challenged by competitors, including The StoryGraph  —  On a typical day, a long-time user of Goodreads, the world's largest community for reviewing and recommending books, will feel like they're losing their mind.
Clare Malone / New York Magazine:
Profile of Ben Smith, NYT's Media Equation columnist, who is deeply devoted to scoops, intrigued by raw power, and is unafraid of making people uncomfortable  —  Puckish chaos agent" is how Charlie Warzel describes his former BuzzFeed News boss and current New York Times colleague Ben Smith. "
 
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