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Journalism & Media
October 08, 2019

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In Today's news:   Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg to launch a digital media company, progressive radio station WBAI-FM announces layoffs and major news networks struggle to book Republican politicians for interviews.
Top Stories

Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg to launch The Dispatch
Mike Allen / Axios / Oct 8, 2019


Layoffs and canceled shows at WBAI-FM, a New York radio original
Ben Sisario / The New York Times / Oct 7, 2019


News anchors fight back against GOP senators’ refusal to condemn Trump
Michael Calderone / Politico / Oct 7, 2019

Newspaper News

How the Buffalo News stayed ahead of the insider trading story that took down a congressman
Savannah Jacobson / Columbia Journalism Review / Oct 8, 2019

Media Business

Group Nine to acquire PopSugar, continuing wave of digital media tie-ups [Subscription Required]
Benjamin Mullin, Lukas I. Alpert / The Wall Street Journal / Oct 7, 2019


Media mergers highlight arbitrary private valuations
Kia Kokalitcheva, Sara Fischer / Axios / Oct 8, 2019


View: One subscriber or 48,000 pageviews: Why every journalist should know the “unit economics” of their content
Matt Skibinski / Nieman Journalism Lab / Oct 7, 2019

Press & Government

View: As interviews get tougher, Team Trump doubles down on avoidance
Margaret Sullivan / The Washington Post / Oct 7, 2019

Online Media

RealClear Media has a secret Facebook page to push far-right memes
Maxwell Tani, Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast / Oct 7, 2019


CBS News will produce a short-form ’60 Minutes’ for Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times / Oct 8, 2019


Jeffrey Katzenberg’s mobile start-up, Quibi, makes a deal with ESPN
Nicole Sperling / The New York Times / Oct 7, 2019

International

Iran confirms arrest of Russian journalist held for 6 days
The Associated Press / Oct 7, 2019


Facebook woos European news publishers with $300k video program
Lucinda Southern / Digiday / Oct 8, 2019


Hong Kong journalist hit by Molotov cocktail during protests
Yaron Steinbuch / New York Post / Oct 7, 2019

 

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, Elizabeth Grieco, Maya Khuzam, Elisa Shearer, Galen Stocking, Mason Walker and Kirsten Worden.

 
 
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