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Pew Research Center
Journalism & Media
January 26, 2021

Daily Briefing of Media News [link removed]
In Today's news: Twitter launches new forum to combat misinformation, some digital media companies have discussions about going public via SPACs and Politico staffers send a letter to their publisher voicing displeasure with a recent editorial by Ben Shapiro
Top Stories
Twitter launches ‘Birdwatch,’ a forum to combat misinformation ([link removed])
Brandy Zadrozny, Ben Collins / NBC News / Jan 25, 2021

SPAC boom could finally provide an exit ramp for digital publishers like Buzzfeed and Vice Media ([link removed])
Alex Sherman / CNBC / Jan 25, 2021

100+ Politico staffers send letter to publisher railing against publishing Ben Shapiro ([link removed])
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast / Jan 25, 2021

Media Business
Business Insider did nothing when the pandemic hit. It worked. [Subscription Required] ([link removed])
Lukas I. Alpert / The Wall Street Journal / Jan 25, 2021

Twitter acquiring newsletter publishing company Revue ([link removed])
Sara Fischer / Axios / Jan 26, 2021

Newspaper News
An Idaho newspaper editor struggled to get Excel access for staff. After tweeting about it, she was fired. ([link removed])
Teo Armus / The Washington Post / Jan 26, 2021

“We can’t have that”: Inside The New York Times’ firing of Lauren Wolfe ([link removed])
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair / Jan 25, 2021

Television News
WGN America to rebrand as NewsNation: An “unbiased” competitor to cable news giants ([link removed])
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter / Jan 25, 2021

Press & Government
White House enlists ASL interpreters for daily press briefings ([link removed])
Alana Wise / NPR / Jan 25, 2021

Rupert Murdoch, accepting award, condemns ‘awful woke orthodoxy’ ([link removed])
Katie Robertson / The New York Times / Jan 25, 2021

Local News
News media workers are concerned about local news’ sustainability, but few see ads as the best answer, Medill survey finds ([link removed])
Mark Jacob / Poynter / Jan 25, 2021

Research
Facebook gives researchers targeting data on 1.3m political ads ([link removed])
Issie Lapowsky / Protocol / Jan 25, 2021

International
Facebook News launches in the UK, the first international market for its curated news portal ([link removed])
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch / Jan 25, 2021


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, Naomi Forman-Katz, Jeffrey Gottfried, Maya Khuzam, Jacob Liedke, Elisa Shearer, Galen Stocking, Mason Walker and Kirsten Worden.


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