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Journalism & Media
August 27, 2020

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In Today's news:   News networks balance convention coverage amid competing large stories, a look at how student journalists are approaching college reopenings, and Hong Kong raises concerns as it rejects journalist’s visa.
Top Stories

How the Republican National Convention was nearly lost in a day of news
Tom Jones / Poynter / Aug 27, 2020


‘We’re living the news’: Student journalists are owning the college reopening story
Elissa Nadworny, Lauren Migaki / NPR / Aug 26, 2020


Hong Kong rejects journalist’s visa, stoking press freedom concerns
Anne Marie Roantree, Jessie Pang / Reuters / Aug 27, 2020

Media Business

‘The second wave’: Publishers see the value of providing education through newsletter courses
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday / Aug 27, 2020

Press & Government

How Twitter detectives and citizen journalists identified the alleged Kenosha shooter
Adi Robertson / The Verge / Aug 26, 2020


View: Kellyanne Conway undermined the truth like no other Trump official. And journalists enabled her.
Margaret Sullivan / The Washington Post / Aug 26, 2020

Media Ethics

Tucker Carlson condemned after suggesting 17-year-old Kenosha shooter took up arms to “maintain order”
Siladitya Ray / Forbes / Aug 27, 2020


CNN analyst draws social media ire for ‘Karma’ tweet
Joe Concha / The Hill / Aug 26, 2020


View: How the Macalester College student newspaper advocated for racial justice by examining its school’s history
Taylor Blatchford / Poynter / Aug 26, 2020

About Misinformation

Black voters are being targeted in disinformation campaigns, echoing the 2016 Russian playbook
Craig Timberg, Isaac Stanley-Becker / The Washington Post / Aug 26, 2020

International

New Zealand media put Christchurch gunman in his place with focus on victims
Eleanor Ainge Roy / The Guardian / Aug 27, 2020


“TikTok does not have the same environment for media partners as Snapchat”
Isabelle Osborne / journalism.co.uk / Aug 26, 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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