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Journalism & Media
December 18, 2020

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In Today's news:   Axios pushes into local news, The New York Times retracts podcast series, and Facebook rolls back News Feed feature that boosted mainstream news outlets.
Top Stories

Axios buys Charlotte Agenda, a digital start-up, as part of push into local news
Edmund Lee / The New York Times / Dec 17, 2020


‘New York Times’ retracts hit podcast series ‘Caliphate’ on ISIS executioner
David Folkenflik / NPR / Dec 18, 2020


Facebook rolls back ‘nicer’ News Feed that boosted mainstream publishers
Kim Lyons / The Verge / Dec 17, 2020

Media Business

How Vogue’s international approach to audience data helped it reach record readers
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday / Dec 18, 2020


McClatchy’s four Washington state papers join forces in unionization effort
Angela Fu / Poynter / Dec 17, 2020


Washington Post to add more than 150 jobs next year, bringing newsroom to record size
Celine Castronuovo / The Hill / Dec 17, 2020

Technology & News

Platforms and publishers: The great pandemic funding push
Nushin Rashidian / Columbia Journalism Review / Dec 17, 2020


Gawq wants to burst your ‘echo chamber’ with its smarter news app
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch / Dec 17, 2020


Vice becomes first media publisher to launch on OnlyFans
Sara Fischer / Axios / Dec 17, 2020

Local News

This local journalist spent most of 2020 unemployed. Here’s how he made it through.
Kristen Hare / Poynter / Dec 17, 2020

International

Google says Australian law on paying for news is unworkable
Rod McGuirk / The Associated Press / Dec 18, 2020


Chinese journalist who documented Communist history is detained in Beijing
Amy Qin / The New York Times / Dec 18, 2020

 

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