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Journalism & Media
August 10, 2020

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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.
Michael M. Grynbaum / The New York Times / Aug 9, 2020


Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under new security law
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
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune / Aug 7, 2020

Media Ethics

WAMU general manager resigns after tumultuous summer at the public radio station
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
Caleb Ecarma / Vanity Fair / Aug 7, 2020


3 Bon Appétit journalists of color leave Test Kitchen over alleged racially discriminatory practices
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?
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
Mark Oprea / NPR / Aug 10, 2020


G/O Media, owner of The Onion and Deadpsin, lays off 15 video staffers
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap / Aug 7, 2020


View: Why Wikipedia decided to stop calling Fox a ‘reliable’ source
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
Steven Perlberg / Digiday / Aug 10, 2020

International

Beirut’s journalists report on the explosion that tore through their lives and city
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
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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