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Pew Research Center
Journalism & Media
August 10, 2020
Daily Briefing of Media News [link removed]
In Today's news: Fox News leads prime-time ratings in a tumultuous year, Hong Kong media executive Jimmy Lai is arrested, and former Tribune Publishing CEO to be named CEO of McClatchy.
Top Stories
Boycotted. Criticized. But Fox News leads the pack in prime time. ([link removed])
Michael M. Grynbaum / The New York Times / Aug 9, 2020
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under new security law ([link removed])
Lily Kuo, Helen Davidson / The Guardian / Aug 10, 2020
Former Tribune Publishing CEO to take helm of McClatchy when that newspaper chain emerges from bankruptcy ([link removed])
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune / Aug 7, 2020
Media Ethics
WAMU general manager resigns after tumultuous summer at the public radio station ([link removed])
Paul Farhi, Elahe Izadi / The Washington Post / Aug 7, 2020
Women’s group warns media execs: Avoid sexist, racist coverage of Biden’s V.P. pick ([link removed])
Caleb Ecarma / Vanity Fair / Aug 7, 2020
3 Bon Appétit journalists of color leave Test Kitchen over alleged racially discriminatory practices ([link removed])
Austa Somvichian-Clausen / The Hill / Aug 7, 2020
About Misinformation
What’s up with all the news photos that make beaches look like Covid hotspots? ([link removed])
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Journalism Lab / Aug 7, 2020
Online Media
Youngstown, Ohio, lost its only paper. A ‘zombie’ news site wants to fill the void ([link removed])
Mark Oprea / NPR / Aug 10, 2020
G/O Media, owner of The Onion and Deadpsin, lays off 15 video staffers ([link removed])
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap / Aug 7, 2020
View: Why Wikipedia decided to stop calling Fox a ‘reliable’ source ([link removed])
Noam Cohen / Wired / Aug 10, 2020
Press & Government
View: ‘There’s no antagonist’: News outlets mull the possible end of their editorial and business-side ‘Trump Bump’ bonanza ([link removed])
Steven Perlberg / Digiday / Aug 10, 2020
International
Beirut’s journalists report on the explosion that tore through their lives and city ([link removed])
Lucy Westcott / Committee to Protect Journalists / Aug 7, 2020
BBC chief Tony Hall apologizes after staff & viewer outrage over reporter’s use of the n-word ([link removed])
Jake Kanter / Deadline / Aug 9, 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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