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Journalism & Media
August 11, 2020

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In Today's news:  Newspaper Guild members vote to strike at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, new documents show QAnon groups have millions of members on Facebook and Iran shuts down a newspaper after it published remarks by an expert questioning official figures on coronavirus cases
Top Stories

Newspaper Guild members vote to strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Tim Schooley / Pittsburgh Business Times / Aug 11, 2020


QAnon groups have millions of members on Facebook, documents show
Brandy Zadrozny, Ari Sen / NBC News / Aug 10, 2020


Iran shutters newspaper after expert questions virus numbers
The Associated Press / Aug 10, 2020

Online Media

Podcast boys club: Only 21% of top-charting shows have a female host [Subscription required]
Samson Amore / The Wrap / Aug 10, 2020


View: People are using Facebook and Instagram as search engines. During a pandemic, that’s dangerous.
Tommy Shane / Nieman Journalism Lab / Aug 10, 2020

Press & Government

View: With Biden likely to pick a Black woman as VP, here’s how the media can avoid playing into sexist and racist tropes
Margaret Sullivan / The Washington Post / Aug 10, 2020

Newspaper News

New York Times CEO Mark Thompson says he expects the end of the physical newspaper in 20 years
Alex Sherman / CNBC / Aug 10, 2020


View: An only-in-California problem: why your newspaper delivery driver could disappear
The Fresno Bee / Aug 10, 2020

Sports News

The civil war tearing Sports Illustrated apart
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast / Aug 10, 2020

International

Algerian journalist sentenced to 3 years for reporting on protests
Adam Nossiter / The New York Times / Aug 10, 2020


Belarus is trying to block parts of the internet amid historic protests
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Vice / Aug 10, 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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