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Pew Research Center
Journalism & Media
August 14, 2019

Daily Briefing of Media News share on Twitter
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
Edmund Lee / The New York Times / Aug 13, 2019


Layoffs hit several GateHouse newsrooms
Tom Jones / Poynter / Aug 13, 2019


Facebook funding 2 new BuzzFeed News shows
Sara Fischer / Axios / Aug 13, 2019


Older Americans, black adults and Americans with less education more interested in local news
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
Casey Newton / The Verge / Aug 13, 2019


YouTube is testing a members-only videos feature
Tim Peterson / Digiday / Aug 14, 2019

Newspaper News

New York Times demotes editor after ‘serious lapses’ on social media
Michael Calderone / Politico / Aug 13, 2019


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

Online Media

Spotify’s podcast dashboard comes out of beta
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
Lauren Johnson / Business Insider / Aug 13, 2019

Television News

The time has come for Black News Channel
Harry A. Jessell / TVNewsCheck / Aug 14, 2019

Media Ethics

View: The Twitter-fed disaster over Epstein’s death demands a solution: Slow news
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.
Allison Weis / USA Today / Aug 13, 2019

International

Myanmar’s other reporters
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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