Email not displaying correctly? View it on our website.

Pew Research Center
Journalism & Media
August 18, 2020

Daily Briefing of Media News share on Twitter
In Today's news:  Media companies launch voting efforts ahead of the November election, Byron Allen to buy Honolulu ABC affiliate KITV and Tribune reporters raise concerns about the closing of newsrooms.
Top Stories

Media giants launch voting efforts ahead of the election
Sara Fischer / Axios / Aug 17, 2020


Media mogul Byron Allen buying Honolulu ABC affiliate KITV for $30M
Janis L. Magin / Pacific Business News / Aug 17, 2020


The newsroom was the beating heart of a local newspaper. What’s lost when the owner shuts it down?
Elahe Izadi / The Washington Post / Aug 18, 2020

Media Business

‘This is not your grandfather’s Patch’: Lookout Local wants to be the modern local news of Santa Cruz
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday / Aug 17, 2020


Meredith sues Sports Illustrated rights holder theMaven for over $1 million
Tyler Jett / Des Moines Register / Aug 17, 2020

About Misinformation

View: Is QAnon taking over America? Not so fast
Adam E Enders, Joseph E Uscinski / The Guardian / Aug 18, 2020

Online Media

Google may have to search for answers on newspaper closings
Lucas Manfredi / Fox Business / Aug 17, 2020

Newspaper News

PA Post merges with Spotlight PA to create largest statewide news organization in Pennsylvania
The Lenfest Institute / Aug 17, 2020


UNC-Chapel Hill’s student newspaper sums up school’s coronavirus policy with an f-bomb
Paulina Firozi / The Washington Post / Aug 18, 2020


Kamala Harris cartoon in Murdoch paper Is denounced as racist
Katie Robertson / The New York Times / Aug 17, 2020

International

Belarus media strike: ‘if we can’t do honest journalism, we won’t work’
Shaun Walker / The Guardian / Aug 17, 2020


How the pandemic is throwing international reporting into crisis
Megan Janetsky / Poynter / Aug 17, 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.

 
 
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It does not take policy positions.
© PEW RESEARCH CENTER | 1615 L Street NW, Suite 700, Washington, D.C. 20036
No longer want to receive this newsletter? You can manage your subscriptions.
To remove yourself from ALL Pew Research Center emails, please unsubscribe here.