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Journalism & Media
May 15, 2020

Daily Briefing of Media News share on Twitter
In Today's news:   Quartz to lay off about 40% of staff, Microsoft includes NewsGuard in its browser, and Russia accuses several outlets of disinformation about coronavirus death toll.
Top Stories

Quartz to lay off 80 employees
Marc Tracy / The New York Times / May 14, 2020


NewsGuard becomes free for all Microsoft Edge users
Jason Perlow / ZDNet / May 14, 2020


Russia accuses NYT, FT of publishing ‘disinformation’ on nation’s COVID-19 death toll
Joe Concha / The Hill / May 14, 2020

News Magazines

The Atlantic’s executive editor talks conspiracy theories, journalistic norms, and new products for all those new subscribers
Sarah Scire / Nieman Journalism Lab / May 14, 2020

Online Media

How the Washington Examiner became a traffic monster
Howard Polskin / Columbia Journalism Review / May 15, 2020


View: Why is Facebook so afraid of checking facts?
Ethan Porter, Thomas J. Wood / Wired / May 14, 2020

Media Business

View: Coronavirus is killing quality journalism – here’s one possible lifeline
George Brock / The Conversation / May 14, 2020

Press & Government

Split-screen America is back: Whistleblower and Flynn case
David Bauder / The Associated Press / May 14, 2020


View: Lawsuit blaming Fox News for coronavirus is a threat to press freedom
Quin Hillyer / Washington Examiner / May 14, 2020

Newspaper News

Washington Post employees will work from home until after Labor Day
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian / May 14, 2020

Media Ethics

“I feel like they are trying to murder us”: Struggling Buzzfeed feels targeted by the Times death star
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair / May 14, 2020


View: Media, regulators, and big tech; indulgences and injunctions; better approaches
Ben Thompson / Stratechery / May 14, 2020


View: The New York Times surrendered to an outrage mob. Journalism will suffer for it.
Pamela Paresky, Jonathan Haidt, Nadine Strossen, Steven Pinker / Politico / May 14, 2020

International

Quebec newsroom launches co-op to fend off bankruptcy
David Maas / International Journalists' Network / May 14, 2020


Fresh spending and pay cuts at FT despite 50,000 new sign-ups during Covid-19 crisis
Charlotte Tobitt / PressGazette / May 14, 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, Maya Khuzam, Elisa Shearer, Galen Stocking, Mason Walker and Kirsten Worden.

 
 
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