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Pew Research Center
Journalism & Media
November 06, 2019

Daily Briefing of Media News share on Twitter

In Today's news:   ABC News defends its Epstein coverage following anchor’s remarks in leaked video, media outlets defend anonymity of Trump whistleblower, cultural clashes on censorship take host within TikTok.
Top Stories

ABC News defends its Epstein coverage after leaked video of anchor




Media outlets reject Rand Paul’s demand that they identify Trump’s whistleblower




Inside TikTok: A culture clash where U.S. views about censorship often were overridden by the Chinese bosses



Press & Government

Florida county to revisit rejection of digital New York Times for libraries



Online Media

After Deadspin chaos, an executive exits




Trump fans are so mad at Matt Drudge they’re trying to make a MAGA rival to his ‘left-wing’ site




First Media cuts staff and pivots back to social videos




View: Turn out blogging is hard



Media Business

Comscore names board member to take over as CEO [Subscription required]



Social Media

Facebook’s Zuckerberg holds line on political ads, but microtargeting could change




View: Twitter chose to ban political ads. But pressuring Facebook to do the same could backfire.



Media Ethics

Journalists at ground zero on 9/11 have been getting sick. But there is help




View: NBC needs a transparent, external investigation of its failure to air Ronan Farrow’s #MeToo reporting



 

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