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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Sources: Trump allies including a White House lawyer first approached WSJ with their Hunter Biden story, but WSJ couldn't corroborate claims about Joe Biden — Inside the White House's secret, last-ditch effort to change the narrative, and the election — and the return of the media gatekeepers.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
60 Minutes used Lesley Stahl's in-conversation responses, narration, and clips of Trump from rallies to fact check his comments in the interview aired on Sunday — Lesley Stahl told President Trump up front: “You know, this is ‘60 Minutes.’ And we can't put on things we can't verify."
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Will Thorne / Variety:
Sunday's 60 Minutes with Biden and Trump interviews drew 16.8M total viewers, the show's largest audience since Stormy Daniels' interview in 2018 — The dual Biden and Trump interviews, the latter of which the President cut short, drew a total of 16.8 million total viewers on CBS and scored …
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The Wrap, The Wrap, Forbes, @alexweprin and Mediaite
Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: BuzzFeed is on target to break even this year for the first time since 2014, with significantly less revenue than 2019 offset by $30M in cost cuts — Digital media company's revenue damaged during pandemic as layoffs, other cuts shore up bottom line
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@scottnover, The Wrap, @samitsarkar, @srussolillo, @tomgara, @mathewi, @lalpert1, @ethan_kraft, @anthony, @asharma, @hshaban and @oliverdarcy
William D. Cohan / Air Mail:
A look at Vice following Shane Smith's departure in late 2017, shifting from edgy coverage under Nancy Dubuc while struggling to become profitable — Shane Smith convinced Rupert Murdoch and Disney that his company was, as the kids say, the sh!t. Until it wasn't. How did Vice blow it—and trash billions in valuation?
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@benyt, @alxthomp, @jeremymbarr, @jeremymbarr, Twelve Thirty Six and @tattytats
Wall Street Journal:
From Go90 and Vessel to Fullscreen, Quibi was yet another high-profile failed attempt to create a streaming platform focused on short-form content — Streaming platform pitched high-production shows in format dominated by user-generated content — The demise of the mobile-streaming platform Quibi …
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@jbflint, @wsj, @maxwellelliot and @karaswisher
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube revamps its mobile apps with gestures like swiping up for fullscreen and expands video chapters by adding lists with chapter preview images — YouTube today is rolling out a series of updates to its player page on mobile devices. The changes relocate some elements, add new features …
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Business Insider and @glenngabe, more at Techmeme »
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
The Atlantic published a lengthy magazine story by disgraced New Republic editor Ruth Shalit as Ruth S. Barrett with no disclosure about her checkered past — A new story from the Atlantic explores the culture of niche sports in Fairfield County, Conn. — parents trying to turn their offspring …
Discussion:
@mathewi
Doug Mack / The Counter:
How the “Rust Belt Diner” genre of journalism became the “Trump Country Diner” in 2016, driven by a sense that media failed to understand the mood of rural US — Steph Chambers/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP — The “Rust Belt Diner” genre of journalism isn't new.
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Nosh Box, @profmusgrave and @thecounter
Columbia Journalism Review:
A look back at the media's coverage of the Trump presidency, what has changed in the press, its failings, and how the press has simply not learned its lesson — In November 2017, the International Center for Journalists gave Fox News's Chris Wallace an award for excellence in journalism.
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American Press Institute, @mathewi, @aaschapiro and @cjr
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
ViacomCBS International Studios launches VIS Kids to expand its offerings to kid-focused short and longform content that will be sold to third parties — VIS Kids is designed to expand the studio's global kids content pipeline. — ViacomCBS' ViacomCBS International Studios (VIS) …
James Shotter / Financial Times:
Poland's ruling party, which co-opted public media, wants to reduce foreign ownership of private media, a move critics say stifles independent journalism — Critics of conservative-nationalist ruling camp say targeting foreign ownership is unjustified — Since the re-election of Andrzej Duda …
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@notesfrompoland, @risj_oxford, @lykkefriis and @tiagodf
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