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Journalism & Media
May 29, 2020

Daily Briefing of Media News share on Twitter
In Today's news:   CNN journalist arrested on air during Minneapolis protests, Twitter labels a Trump tweet as 'glorifying violence,' Google announces local newsrooms that will receive funding, new research on Americans' self-confidence in fact-checking COVID-19 news.
Top Stories

CNN journalist, crew released after arrest in Minneapolis
Brian Steinberg, Leo Barraclough / Variety / May 29, 2020


Twitter labels Trump tweet as ‘glorifying violence’
Mark Scott / Politico / May 29, 2020


Google relief fund to help 5,000 local newsrooms worldwide during Covid-19 crisis
Freddy Mayhew / PressGazette / May 28, 2020


Around three-in-ten Americans are very confident they could fact-check news about COVID-19
Jeffrey Gottfried / Pew Research Center / May 28, 2020

Press & Government

Trump signs executive order targeting protections for social media platforms
Axios / May 28, 2020


Fox’s Sean Hannity emerges as critic of Minneapolis police
David Bauder / The Associated Press / May 28, 2020


View: Trump’s social media regulations would silence conservatives and give legacy media all the power
Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner / May 28, 2020

Social Media

Fact-checkers support Twitter labels, but more than that, they want transparency
Harrison Mantas / Poynter / May 29, 2020


Trump says right-wing voices are being censored. The data says something else
Oliver Darcy / CNN / May 28, 2020

Media Ethics

View: The Backstory: Journalists report news. But we’re also people. George Floyd’s death brings pain, frustration.
Nicole Carroll / USA Today / May 29, 2020

Local News

Fox TV stations create a “pop-up news channel” to cover the pandemic
Andrew Heyward / Knight-Cronkite News Lab / May 28, 2020


How KPCC embraced its role as LA’s help desk—and what we’ve learned along the way
Caitlin Hernandez / KPCC-LAist / May 28, 2020

International

Moscow court jails journalist for one-person protest during coronavirus lockdown
Tom Balmforth / Reuters / May 28, 2020


The Toronto Star’s owner once dreamed that it would be a nonprofit. Now it’s being sold to a private equity firm.
Magda Konieczna / Nieman Journalism Lab / May 28, 2020


How the free press worldwide is under threat
Gill Phillips / The Guardian / May 28, 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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