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Pew Research Center
Journalism & Media
February 21, 2020

Daily Briefing of Media News [link removed]
In Today's news: LA Times offers buyouts, Twitter unveils new anti-misinformation efforts, and a look at coverage of a controversy in news deserts.
Top Stories
Los Angeles Times is offering buyouts to staffers with at least two years of employment ([link removed])
Kerry Flynn / CNN / Feb 20, 2020

Twitter is testing new ways to fight misinformation — including a community-based points system ([link removed])
Ben Collins / NBC News / Feb 20, 2020

A pipeline runs through Southern news deserts ([link removed])
Lyndsey Gilpin / Columbia Journalism Review / Feb 21, 2020

Local News
Newsonomics: In Memphis’ unexpected news war, The Daily Memphian’s model demands attention ([link removed])
Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab / Feb 20, 2020

View: Is Alden the archvillain crushing local news? It’s a little more complicated. ([link removed])
Rick Edmonds / Poynter / Feb 20, 2020

Social Media
His daughter’s murder keeps circulating on YouTube, so he’s filing an FTC complaint ([link removed])
Samantha Cole / Vice / Feb 20, 2020

View: How conservatives learned to wield power inside Facebook ([link removed])
Craig Timberg / The Washington Post / Feb 20, 2020

Press & Government
Twitter says new rules would likely mean disclaimer for Mike Bloomberg’s debate video ([link removed])
Jesselyn Cook / HuffPost / Feb 20, 2020

Political ads are flooding Hulu, Roku and other streaming services, revealing loopholes in federal election laws ([link removed])
Tony Romm / The Washington Post / Feb 20, 2020

Trump ads will take over YouTube’s homepage on election day ([link removed])
Mark Bergen, Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg / Feb 20, 2020

Media Ethics
These students are learning about fake news and how to spot it ([link removed])
Alina Tugend / The New York Times / Feb 21, 2020

View: I waited in line for Ken Auletta ([link removed])
Eddy Martinez / Columbia Journalism Review / Feb 20, 2020

International
A viral email about coronavirus had people smashing buses and blocking hospitals ([link removed])
Christopher Miller / BuzzFeed / Feb 20, 2020

Burnt radio stations and 18-month newsprint blockades: Inside the slow culling of Nicaragua’s free press ([link removed])
Caroline Houck, CD Goette-Luciak / Vox / Feb 20, 2020


The Daily Briefing of Media News is edited by Amy Mitchell and Katerina Eva Matsa and compiled by Pew Research Center staff, including: Michael Barthel, Jeffrey Gottfried, Elizabeth Grieco, Maya Khuzam, Elisa Shearer, Galen Stocking, Mason Walker and Kirsten Worden.


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