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Journalism & Media
May 19, 2020

Daily Briefing of Media News share on Twitter
In Today's news:   Fox News receives support from the NCTA in lawsuit accusing it of posing a threat to public health, news publishers ask for contributions as revenues take a hit and SmileDirectClub sues NBC News.
Top Stories

Association representing major networks backs Fox News in lawsuit accusing it of posing threat to public health
Justine Coleman / The Hill / May 18, 2020


‘We need you to fill the gap’: Publishers are making a hard sell for subscriptions
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday / May 19, 2020


SmileDirectClub sues NBC over news report, seeking $2.85 billion [Subscription Required]
Benjamin Mullin / The Wall Street Journal / May 18, 2020

Media Ethics

The Times’ Smith versus The New Yorker’s Farrow: The great powers of liberal journalism go to war
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair / May 18, 2020

Media Business

Media cuts weigh on industry morale
Sara Fischer, Scott Rosenberg / Axios / May 19, 2020


View: In this moment of multiple crises, we need strong local journalism
Frank Blethen / The Washington Post / May 18, 2020

Coronavirus

What happened when Jerry Falwell Jr. took on journalism over COVID-19
Bob Norman / Columbia Journalism Review / May 18, 2020

Newspaper News

‘Our priority can’t be to sell advertising’ – Washington Post rethinks revenues in lockdown
John McCarthy / The Drum / May 18, 2020


View: The answer to the media industry’s woes? Publicly owned newspapers.
Victor Pickard / The Washington Post / May 18, 2020

International

EU’s Breton tells Facebook’s Zuckerberg the fake news buck stops with him
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters / May 18, 2020


Bauer to close, merge or sell ten magazines as Covid-19 ‘accelerates trends’
Charlotte Tobitt / PressGazette / May 18, 2020


More than 150 Australian newsrooms shut since January 2019 as Covid-19 deepens media crisis
Amanda Meade / The Guardian / May 17, 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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