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Journalism & Media
June 17, 2020

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In Today's news:   Tensions rise at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Google threatens to cut ad revenue from two publications for failing to moderate their comment sections, and Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook users can now opt out of political ads.
Top Stories

The standoff between owners and journalists that’s eviscerating Pittsburgh’s biggest newspaper
Paul Farhi, Elahe Izadi / The Washington Post / Jun 16, 2020


Google is threatening to cut ad revenue from ZeroHedge and The Federalist for violating its policies on race-related content
Aaron Holmes / Business Insider / Jun 16, 2020


Facebook will let users opt out of political advertisements
Ahiza García-Hodges / NBC News / Jun 16, 2020

Newspaper News

The A.P. apologizes for ‘Thought for Today’ from Jefferson Davis
Rachel Abrams / The New York Times / Jun 16, 2020


Decision day is coming for the future of Tribune Publishing
Rick Edmonds / Poynter / Jun 17, 2020

Television News

How Fox News’s Harris Faulkner showed the way for political journalism
Bill Grueskin / Columbia Journalism Review / Jun 16, 2020

Social Media

Civil rights groups push for Facebook ad boycott [Subscription required]
Deepa Seetharaman / The Wall Street Journal / Jun 17, 2020


Russian disinformation operation relied on forgeries, fake posts on 300 platforms, new report says
Craig Timberg, Ellen Nakashima / The Washington Post / Jun 16, 2020


View: Facebook groups are destroying America
Nina Jankowicz, Cindy Otis / Wired / Jun 17, 2020

International

Inside the great British TERF war
Hannah Ewens, Ashton Attzs / Vice / Jun 16, 2020


Covid-19 prompts record digital audience for UK national press with 6.6m extra daily readers
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette / Jun 17, 2020


View: This is how democracy dies
Sheila Coronel / The Atlantic / Jun 16, 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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