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Journalism & Media
September 18, 2020

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In Today's news:   Twitter expands QAnon restrictions to politicians, TikTok downloads to be blocked on Sunday, and a look at a new nonprofit outlet in West Virginia.
Top Stories

Twitter expands QAnon restrictions to include candidates, elected officials
Jack Brewster / Forbes / Sep 17, 2020


Trump to block U.S. downloads of TikTok, WeChat on Sunday – officials
David Shepardson / Reuters / Sep 18, 2020


A new nonprofit newsroom, Mountain State Spotlight, wants to be the watchdog for West Virginia
Sarah Scire / Nieman Journalism Lab / Sep 17, 2020

Social Media

Facebook says it removed 1 million groups in past year for breaking rules
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News / Sep 17, 2020


View: What even is ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’ on platforms?
Shannon McGregor / Wired / Sep 17, 2020

Press & Government

“Remember hanging chads? That’s play-doh!”: Election night may be just the beginning of the real 2020 drama
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair / Sep 17, 2020

Television News

CNN tests a ‘drive-in’ town hall with Joe Biden
Brian Steinberg / Variety / Sep 17, 2020


‘Meet the Press’ host Chuck Todd is first in viewers — and Twitter critics. Here’s why
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times / Sep 18, 2020


Fox News anchor apologizes for co-hosts cutting off Gingrich’s George Soros rant
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast / Sep 17, 2020

Radio News

Joe Rogan repeats debunked claim that ‘left-wing people’ are starting Oregon wildfires
Tim Elfrink / The Washington Post / Sep 18, 2020

Technology & News

‘Re-architecting the entire process’: How Vice is preparing for life after the third-party cookie
Lara O'Reilly / Digiday / Sep 17, 2020


SmartNews’ Kaisei Hamamoto on how the app deals with media polarization
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch / Sep 17, 2020

Research

For COVID-19, as with everything else, Americans on the right and left live in different universes when it comes to trusting the media
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab / Sep 17, 2020


Americans have heard more about clashes between police and protesters than other recent news stories
John Gramlich / Pew Research Center / Sep 16, 2020

International

Australian documents reveal how News Corp, Mail and other publishers plan to battle tech giants on global scale
William Turvill / PressGazette / Sep 17, 2020


‘We’re about hiring journalists’: Insider Inc. launches third global news hub in Singapore
Lucinda Southern / Digiday / Sep 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.

 
 
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