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Pew Research Center
Journalism & Media
July 30, 2020

Daily Briefing of Media News share on Twitter
In Today's news:  McClatchy’s news VP clarifies journalists’ ability to show support for BLM, Google News releases new “for context” feature to combat misinformation, and new research on social media news users’ knowledge of and engagement with the news.
Top Stories

McClatchy journalists absolutely can show support for Black lives
Tom Jones / Poynter / Jul 29, 2020


Google’s new ‘for context’ links could give you the big picture around big news stories
Sean Hollister / The Verge / Jul 29, 2020


Americans who mainly get their news on social media are less engaged, less knowledgeable
Mark Jurkowitz, Amy Mitchell, Elisa Shearer, J. Baxter Oliphant / Pew Research Center / Jul 30, 2020

Press & Government

New Pentagon training refers to protesters, journalists as ‘adversaries’
Lara Seligman / Politico / Jul 29, 2020


What the lawyers who sue the press think of the press, and media law
Jonathan Peters / Columbia Journalism Review / Jul 30, 2020

About Misinformation

Does suppressing online conspiracy theorists work? Experts weigh in
Poppy Noor / The Guardian / Jul 30, 2020


View: The epistemic tragedy of coronavirus misinformation
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review / Jul 30, 2020

Media Ethics

Chris Hayes called out by NBC colleague for describing NYPD arrest as ‘kidnapping’
Joe Concha / The Hill / Jul 29, 2020


View: A lesson in automated journalism: Bring back the humans
Mark Stencel, Bill Adair / Nieman Journalism Lab / Jul 29, 2020

International

How a Ukrainian radio station put women first in its coronavirus coverage
Tara Kelly / Poynter / Jul 29, 2020


Investments in journalism, algorithms has Axel Springer’s five-year-old aggregator app Upday up over 30% in ad revenue
Lucinda Southern / Digiday / Jul 30, 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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