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Journalism & Media
June 24, 2020

Daily Briefing of Media News share on Twitter
In Today's news:   Bleacher Report CEO resigns following diversity concerns by staff, lawsuit alleges new CEO of U.S. Agency for Global Media broke federal law when he fired top staff, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation cuts 250 jobs and makes other changes due to budget cuts.
Top Stories

Bleacher Report CEO resigns after being pressed by staff about diversity
Ben Strauss / The Washington Post / Jun 24, 2020


Citing a breached ‘firewall,’ media leaders sue U.S. official over firings
David Folkenflik / NPR / Jun 24, 2020


ABC to cut 250 jobs, dump 7.45am radio news bulletin and axe ABC Life brand
Daniel Hurst / The Guardian / Jun 24, 2020

Media Ethics

Estimates of COVID-19’s impact on journalism fail to count freelancers, whose livelihoods have vanished overnight
Molly McCluskey / Poynter / Jun 23, 2020


View: A reckoning over objectivity, led by Black journalists
Wesley Lowery / The New York Times / Jun 23, 2020

Social Media

Trump’s strike at Twitter risks collateral damage inside the executive branch
Nancy Scola / Politico / Jun 24, 2020


Ad boycott of Facebook keeps growing
Tiffany Hsu / The New York Times / Jun 23, 2020


View: Tech platforms have a trust problem. Do they care?
Emily Bell / Columbia Journalism Review / Jun 23, 2020

Radio News

Amid cutbacks in public radio, WBUR faces questions about revenue, unionizing, and diversity
Nicholas Quah / Nieman Journalism Lab / Jun 23, 2020

International

Bauer to close magazine titles ‘unlikely to be sustainable’ after Covid-19
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette / Jun 23, 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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