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Journalism & Media
December 10, 2020

Daily Briefing of Media News share on Twitter
In Today's news:   US government says Facebook needs to sell Instagram and WhatsApp, Newsmax tries to poach some staff at Fox News and a new report says forty-two journalists and media workers have been killed so far in 2020 while trying to do their jobs.
Top Stories

The US government says Facebook needs to sell Instagram and WhatsApp
Craig Silverman, Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News / Dec 9, 2020


Newsmax tries to poach Fox bookers
Alayna Treene / Axios / Dec 9, 2020


Journalists federation says 42 media workers killed in 2020
Mike Corder / The Associated Press / Dec 9, 2020

Election 2020

Google to lift political ad ban on Thursday [Subscription required]
Emily Glazer / The Wall Street Journal / Dec 9, 2020

Press & Government

View: The marketplace for fantasy is reshaping conservative media, just like it reshaped conservative politics
Philip Bump / The Washington Post / Dec 9, 2020

About Misinformation

Normalization of vaccine misinformation on social media amid COVID ‘a huge problem’
Catherine Sanz / ABC News / Dec 10, 2020


View: In 2021, it’s time to refocus on health and science misinformation
Claire Wardle, Diara J. Townes / Nieman Journalism Lab / Dec 8, 2020

Newspaper News

Austin American-Statesman journalists announce plans to unionize
Craig Huber / Spectrum News 1 / Dec 9, 2020

Media Business

Fox News Media to launch weather streaming service
Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter / Dec 9, 2020

International

The dead professor and the vast pro-India disinformation campaign
Abid Hussain, Shruti Menon / BBC / Dec 10, 2020


Al Jazeera journalist files hack and leak suit against Saudi Arabian and UAE crown princes
Maggie Miller / The Hill / Dec 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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