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Pew Research Center
Journalism & Media
August 13, 2019

Daily Briefing of Media News share on Twitter
In Today's news:   Verizon sells Tumblr, a look at how The Wall Street Journal is building an incubator into its newsroom and Australian media executives criticize Australia’s press freedom laws.  
Top Stories

Verizon sells Tumblr just two years after acquiring social network
Alex Hern / The Guardian / Aug 12, 2019


How The Wall Street Journal is building an incubator into its newsroom, with new departments and plenty of hires
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Journalism Lab / Aug 12, 2019


Media chiefs slam Australian press freedom curbs
The Associated Press / Aug 13, 2019

Election 2020

Washington Post editor responds to Bernie Sanders: Your ‘conspiracy theory’ is wrong
Oliver Darcy, Annie Grayer, Greg Krieg / CNN / Aug 12, 2019

Press & Government

‘Everyone owes Robert Mueller a dinner … for all of this’
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico / Aug 12, 2019


NYT top editor: Trump racism headline was a ‘F*cking Mess’
Lloyd Grove, Maxwell Tani, LACHLAN CARTWRIGHT / The Daily Beast / Aug 12, 2019

Media Ethics

View: Examining the media coverage involving Jeffrey Epstein
David Folkenflik / NPR / Aug 12, 2019


View: Mass shooters seek notoriety, and we, the media, provide it. Is there another way?
Frank Shyong / Los Angeles Times / Aug 12, 2019

Television News

CNN’s Chris Cuomo threatened to throw a man down stairs for calling him ‘Fredo,’ comparing it to the n-word
Meagan Flynn / The Washington Post / Aug 13, 2019

Sports News

Longtime NFL reporter Ed Werder rejoins ESPN, two years after company included him in layoffs
Chris Bumbaca / USA Today / Aug 12, 2019

Media Business

The unions are (still) coming, and now starting to bargain together
Christine Schmidt / Nieman Journalism Lab / Aug 12, 2019

International

In Russia, days of fake news and real radiation after deadly explosion
Andrew E. Kramer / The New York Times / Aug 12, 2019


You must be this conservative to ride: The inside story of Postmedia’s right turn
Sean Craig / CANADALAND / Aug 12, 2019

 

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, Elizabeth Grieco, Elisa Shearer, Galen Stocking and Mason Walker.

 
 
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