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Journalism & Media
November 12, 2019

Daily Briefing of Media News share on Twitter
In Today's news:  Student journalists at Northwestern face backlash for apology, Twitter announces exceptions to its political ad ban and staff at Hearst Magazines announce plans to form a union with the Writers Guild America East.
Top Stories

Student journalists at Northwestern apologized for photographing protesters. Then, the backlash began.
Katie Shepherd / The Washington Post / Nov 12, 2019


Twitter will make exceptions to its political ad ban. Here’s one of them.
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed / Nov 11, 2019


Hearst Magazines staffers unionizing across two dozen publications, forming giant for Writers Guild of America
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast / Nov 11, 2019

Sports News

View: I was fired from Deadspin for refusing to ‘stick to sports’
Barry Petchesky / The New York Times / Nov 11, 2019

Television News

TV’s evening-news battle spills out of its time slot
Brain Steinberg / Variety / Nov 11, 2019


Fox legal analyst Napolitano emerges as Trump critic
David Bauder / The Associated Press / Nov 11, 2019

Press & Government

Watergate hearings were a TV spectacle. Now veteran journalists are demanding PBS offer the same access.
Meagan Flynn / The Washington Post / Nov 11, 2019

News Magazines

The Boomers’ media behemoth
Sara Fischer / Axios / Nov 12, 2019

Media Business

The Athletic, Axios raising money as rivals consolidate
Jessica Toonkel, Tom Dotan / The Information / Nov 11, 2019


Liberty Media wants to build up podcasting business [Subscription Required]
Micah Maidenberg / The Wall Street Journal / Nov 11, 2019

International

Twitter takes steps to keep UK election ‘healthy and safe’
Paul Sandle / Reuters / Nov 11, 2019


Al Jazeera to Facebook: Get your shit together on disinformation
David Uberti / Vice / Nov 11, 2019


In Germany, focusing on this metric let a newspaper increase reader loyalty (and subscribers too)
David Maas / Nieman Journalism Lab / Nov 12, 2019


The BBC has apologized after using old footage of Boris Johnson laying a wreath
Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed / Nov 11, 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, Jeffrey Gottfried, Elizabeth Grieco, Maya Khuzam, Elisa Shearer, Galen Stocking, Mason Walker and Kirsten Worden.

 
 
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