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Journalism & Media
April 16, 2020

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In Today's news:   NBC Nightly News experiments with kids’ news programming, Snopes scales back amid coronavirus-era disinformation swells, and Guardian Media Group announces furloughs and other spending cuts.
Top Stories

‘NBC Nightly News’ launches kids’ edition (EXCLUSIVE)
Brian Steinberg / Variety / Apr 15, 2020


There are so many coronavirus myths that even Snopes can’t keep up
Elahe Izadi / The Washington Post / Apr 15, 2020


Guardian group takes action to protect business in face of £20m half-year revenue shortfall
Freddy Mayhew / PressGazette / Apr 15, 2020

Media Business

Here’s how WBUR raised $1 million in 13 hours with a pledge drive rethought for pandemic times
Sarah Scire / Nieman Journalism Lab / Apr 15, 2020

Coronavirus

Photojournalists struggle through the pandemic, with masks and long lenses
Marc Tracy / The New York Times / Apr 15, 2020


Life at CNN: Skeleton staff, record ratings and vanishing ads [Subscription required]
Benjamin Mullin / The Wall Street Journal / Apr 15, 2020

Newspaper News

Advance Local announces pay cuts, furloughs and 401(k) matching suspensions in response to the coronavirus
Rick Edmonds / Poynter / Apr 15, 2020


The Times’ “Those We’ve Lost” is the coronavirus version of 9/11’s “Portraits of Grief”
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair / Apr 15, 2020

Media Ethics

Fox News asks court to toss lawsuit calling network a public health risk
John Kruzel / The Hill / Apr 15, 2020


View: The ethics of predictive journalism
Nicholas Diakopoulos / Columbia Journalism Review / Apr 15, 2020

International

Spanish fact-checkers targeted after WhatsApp limits forwarding
Cristina Tardáguila, Susan Benkelman / Poynter / Apr 16, 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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