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Pew Research Center
Journalism & Media
March 02, 2020

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In Today's news:   MSNBC’s Chris Matthews absent from South Carolina coverage after facing sexual harassment allegations, the president criticizes the media coverage of the coronavirus, and a group of Redditors combats misinformation.
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MSNBC’s Chris Matthews absent from air amid sexual harassment allegations




Trump criticizes media for coverage of coronavirus




‘I have a duty to do this’: Meet the Redditors fighting 2020’s fake news war



Social Media

How health officials and social media are teaming up to fight the coronavirus ‘infodemic’



Press & Government

How he did it: A journalist uncovers the Afghanistan Papers




Fox News legal analyst: Trump libel lawsuit against the New York Times is ‘dead on arrival’



Media Ethics

Democrats and Republicans both worry about foreign misinformation campaigns. But Republicans also blame journalists.




View: To our fellow newsrooms: stop surrendering to online attacks on your reporters



Election 2020

BuzzFeed News is hiring three teenagers to bring Gen Z voices into the US election coverage




View: The Pied Pipers of the Dirtbag Left want to lead everyone to Bernie Sanders



International

AAP’s future in doubt as Nine and News Corp reconsider investment



 

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.