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Journalism & Media
August 15, 2019

Daily Briefing of Media News share on Twitter
In Today's news:  New York Public Radio announces a new leader, a look at how Chinese media are covering the Hong Kong protests and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg discusses what is next for Tumblr.
Top Stories

New York Public Radio names a new leader, Goli Sheikholeslami
Ben Sisario / The New York Times / Aug 14, 2019


China state media present their own version of Hong Kong protests
Emily Feng / NPR / Aug 14, 2019


Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on what’s next for Tumblr
Nilay Patel / The Verge / Aug 14, 2019

Press & Government

New policy at Interior’s in-house watchdog clamps down on interactions with press
Miranda Green / The Hill / Aug 14, 2019

Media Business

America’s largest union of journalists is doing a rewrite of its leadership election
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab / Aug 14, 2019

Newspaper News

‘There is no more real newspaper in the city of Worcester,’ Mayor Joseph Petty says after GateHouse cuts longtime Telegram & Gazette columnist Clive McFarlane amid series of layoffs
Aviva Luttrell / MassLIve / Aug 14, 2019


View: Inside The New York Times as it debates its coverage of Trump and racism
Oliver Darcy / CNN / Aug 14, 2019

Research

Americans with less education are more likely to say that local news is important to them (and to get it from TV)
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Journalism Lab / Aug 14, 2019


Working together better: Our guide to collaborative data journalism
Rachel Glickhouse / ProPublica / Aug 14, 2019

International

Facebook is going after fake news in local African languages
Yomi Kazeem / Quartz / Aug 14, 2019


Suspects in Slovak journalist’s killing face more charges
Tatiana Jancarikova / Reuters / Aug 14, 2019


Two transgender employees of The Guardian have quit over its “transphobic” reporting
Patrick Strudwick / BuzzFeed / Aug 15, 2019


The ‘woke’ media outfit that’s actually a UK counterterror programme
Ian Cobain / Middle East Eye / Aug 15, 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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