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Pew Research Center
Journalism & Media
July 24, 2020

Daily Briefing of Media News share on Twitter
In Today's news:   Tension at Wall Street Journal over editorials, two judicial rulings on the relationship between the press and police at protests, and new research on Americans who believe conspiracy theories about COVID-19.
Top Stories

“I’ve never seen anything like this”: Wall Street Journal staff erupts over race and opinion
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair / Jul 23, 2020


Judge temporarily bars federal officers from using force, threats, dispersal orders against journalists, legal observers
Maxine Bernstein / The Oregonian / Jul 23, 2020


Judge rules media outlets have to turn over images, footage of May Seattle protest that turned violent
Zack Budryk / The Hill / Jul 23, 2020


A look at the Americans who believe there is some truth to the conspiracy theory that COVID-19 was planned
Katherine Schaeffer / Pew Research Center / Jul 24, 2020

Social Media

After ad revenue drop, Twitter tells investors it’s eyeing subscription options
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch / Jul 23, 2020


“Hurting people at scale”: Facebook’s employees reckon with the social network they’ve built
Craig Silverman, Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed / Jul 23, 2020

Local News

View: If you want to see the contours of a national crisis, look at local reporting
Brett Murphy / Columbia Journalism Review / Jul 24, 2020

Television News

Wikipedia administrators caution editors about using Fox News as source on ‘contentious’ claims
Oliver Darcy / CNN / Jul 24, 2020


Chris Wallace is uniquely qualified to interview Trump — and uniquely independent at Fox News
Paul Farhi, Sarah Ellison / The Washington Post / Jul 23, 2020

Media Business

‘Keep the medium premium’: Podcaster creators mull raising their ad loads while preserving high listener engagement
Max Willens / Digiday / Jul 24, 2020


Seven-figure pay packages kept rolling in for newspaper CEOs in 2019, even as industry declines accelerated
Rick Edmonds / Poynter / Jul 23, 2020


BuzzFeed lays off 50 after pandemic hurts lucrative ad deals
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg / Jul 23, 2020

Technology & News

AP photographers will only shoot Sony from now on
PetaPixel / Jul 23, 2020

International

Hong Kong press body ‘extremely concerned’ after police fine journalists covering protest
Jennifer Creery / Hong Kong Free Press / Jul 24, 2020


How a new wave of podcasts is shaking up Chinese-language media
Shen Lu / Politico / Jul 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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