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8:50 PM ET, August 8, 2021

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Scott Deveau / Bloomberg:
Activist investor Dan Loeb says his optimism of Disney+ has borne out, calls for Disney theatrical content to stream on Disney+ for no extra fee on release day  —  Activist investor Dan Loeb is calling on the Walt Disney Co. to do more to leverage its leadership position in sports …
Samuel Danzon-Chambaud / Columbia Journalism Review:
How nine news outlets used automation for reporting on the pandemic, from continuously updated charts to automated stories sent to Slack for journalists' review  —  For all the news organizations that have adopted automated journalism over the last decade or so, the COVID-19 pandemic …
Jaden Edison / Poynter:
Interview with Stacy-Marie Ishmael, ex-EIC of Texas Tribune, on her experience of navigating 2020 as a newsroom leader and professional burnout  —  Working through one crisis after another presents questions about sustainability, not just burnout. … When Stacy-Marie Ishmael moved to Austin …
Max Willens / Digiday:
Parsely study of 1,400 publishers: in H1, traffic to sites that have 30K to 1M page views per month was down 40% compared to 2019 and down 27% at smaller sites  —  Going into 2020, publishers wondered whether their site traffic, after being lifted all year by a nearly relentless news cycle, might come down to earth.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
At a panel, Jay Rosen and The Correspondent's Rob Wijnberg discuss lessons learned and why the startup failed, partially due to an excessive focus on marketing  —  “It's important to speak truth.  It's not that important to speak about truth as part of your brand."
Cristiano Lima / Washington Post:
In a letter to Zuckerberg, the FTC called Facebook's initial claim it cut off NYU researchers' access to comply with an FTC privacy agreement as “inaccurate”  —  The Federal Trade Commission has dismissed as “inaccurate” Facebook's claim that it cut off a group of researchers' access …
Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
[Thread] Politico owner Robert Allbritton emails staff about his opposition to a union, cites inflexibility and a loss of speed in reacting to new circumstances  —  Politico's Robert Allbritton just emailed staff detailing his opposition to unionization,saying he hopes employees “will conclude after studying this question that a union is not in the publication's interests, our reader's interests, or in the interests of individual employees.” https://twitter.com/...
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Robert Rodriguez's El Rey Network, a Latino-focused cable TV channel that shut down in 2020, to reboot as a free OTT streaming service, partnering with Cinedigm  —  Launched in 2013, El Rey Network at its peak reached over 40 million pay-TV households.  The cable channel …
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Memo from CNN's Jeff Zucker: the company has fired three employees in the last week who had been coming into the office unvaccinated  —  CNN said on Thursday that it had fired three employees who violated its coronavirus safety protocols by going to the office unvaccinated …
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
The State Department has a refugee plan for Afghans who worked for US news outlets, but workers still face violence or onerous travel if they seek resettlement  —  In July, a coalition of news organizations and press groups—including the New York Times, the Washington Post …
 
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Kim Hart / Axios:
Policy paper proposes revamping the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to fund a wide range of content producers, including independent journalists
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HFPA adopts a new set of bylaws to reform the organization, including an expansion of its board of directors and of membership criteria to increase diversity
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John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Researchers studying 300,000 YouTube viewers from 2016-2019 suggest that radicalization via algorithm is not widespread; most stick to their ideological corners