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Pew Research Center
Journalism & Media
April 20, 2020

Daily Briefing of Media News share on Twitter
In Today's news:   Senators call for local media funding in stimulus, Australia to order Facebook and Google to pay media outlets for news content, and a look at how U.S. relations with China complicated American journalists' ability to report there.
Top Stories

GOP, Democratic senators call for more assistance to local media in coronavirus stimulus
Justin Wise / The Hill / Apr 19, 2020


Australia will compel Facebook and Google to pay media outlets for news content
Kim Lyons / The Verge / Apr 19, 2020


The U.S. tried to teach China a lesson about the media. It backfired.
Ben Smith / The New York Times / Apr 19, 2020

Media Business

Vox Media is cutting pay and furloughing 9% of employees
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch / Apr 17, 2020


View: What will a post-COVID-19 media look like? I asked my students.
Frederic Filloux / Monday Note / Apr 19, 2020

Press & Government

FCC seeks Supreme Court hearing of media ownership dereg smackdown
John Eggerton / Broadcasting and Cable / Apr 17, 2020


View: Some Americans are misinformed about the coronavirus. How responsible is the media?
Meredith Conroy / FiveThirtyEight / Apr 20, 2020

Election 2020

View: How Facebook works for Trump
Alexis C. Madrigal, Ian Bogost / The Atlantic / Apr 18, 2020

International

BBC’s Covid-19 reporters: ‘I wanted to show the reality but was deeply troubled by what I saw’
Rachel Cooke / The Guardian / Apr 19, 2020


The government is becoming U.K. news publishers’ most important client
Lara O'Reilly / Digiday / Apr 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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