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Pew Research Center
Journalism & Media
August 14, 2019

Daily Briefing of Media News [link removed]
In Today's news: CBS and Viacom agree to merge, layoffs begin in GateHouse newsrooms a week after their merger with Gannett, Facebook funding news shows for Facebook Watch, and new research on who pays the most attention to local news.
Top Stories
CBS and Viacom to reunite in victory for Shari Redstone ([link removed])
Edmund Lee / The New York Times / Aug 13, 2019

Layoffs hit several GateHouse newsrooms ([link removed])
Tom Jones / Poynter / Aug 13, 2019

Facebook funding 2 new BuzzFeed News shows ([link removed])
Sara Fischer / Axios / Aug 13, 2019

Older Americans, black adults and Americans with less education more interested in local news ([link removed])
Michael Barthel, Elisa Shearer, Elizabeth Grieco / Pew Research Center / Aug 14, 2019

Social Media
Twitter tests letting users follow topics in the same way they follow accounts ([link removed])
Casey Newton / The Verge / Aug 13, 2019

YouTube is testing a members-only videos feature ([link removed])
Tim Peterson / Digiday / Aug 14, 2019

Newspaper News
New York Times demotes editor after ‘serious lapses’ on social media ([link removed])
Michael Calderone / Politico / Aug 13, 2019

Tighten up that paywall! (And some other lessons from a study of 500 newspaper publishers) ([link removed])
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Journalism Lab / Aug 13, 2019

Online Media
Spotify’s podcast dashboard comes out of beta ([link removed])
Brian Heater / TechCrunch / Aug 13, 2019

Barstool Sports’ Dave Portnoy threatened to fire employees in anti-unionization tweets and challenged AOC to a debate on Twitter ([link removed])
Lauren Johnson / Business Insider / Aug 13, 2019

Television News
The time has come for Black News Channel ([link removed])
Harry A. Jessell / TVNewsCheck / Aug 14, 2019

Media Ethics
View: The Twitter-fed disaster over Epstein’s death demands a solution: Slow news ([link removed])
Margaret Sullivan / The Washington Post / Aug 13, 2019

View: I’m a journalism student in an era of closing newsrooms, ‘fake news.’ But I still want in. ([link removed])
Allison Weis / USA Today / Aug 13, 2019

International
Myanmar’s other reporters ([link removed])
E. Tammy Kim / Columbia Journalism Review / Aug 13, 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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