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Journalism & Media
January 07, 2020

Daily Briefing of Media News share on Twitter
In Today's news:   Facebook bans deepfakes ahead of the 2020 election, Sports Illustrated staffers announce intention to unionize and a federal judge blocks a request by freelance journalists in California to exempt them from a new labor law.
Top Stories

Facebook bans deepfakes, but new policy may not cover controversial Pelosi video
Drew Harwell, Tony Romm, Isaac Stanley-Becker / The Washington Post / Jan 7, 2020


Sports Illustrated staffers announce intention to unionize
Kerry Flynn / CNN / Jan 6, 2020


Federal judge holds freelancers to new California labor law
Don Thompson / The Associated Press / Jan 6, 2020

Press & Government

View: “The march to war is a hell of a drug”: With Trump’s Iran conflict, the media is under a microscope
Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair / Jan 6, 2020


View: Sleepwalking into 2020
Ed Pilkington, Jim Waterson, Adam Gabbatt, Savannah Jacobson, Lauren Harris, Akintunde Ahmad / Columbia Journalism Review / Jan 6, 2020

Newspaper News

California’s oldest weekly newspaper saved from folding
CBS 13 / Jan 6, 2020

Online Media

Disinformation for hire: How a new breed of PR firms is selling lies online
Craig Silverman, Jane Lytvynenko, William Kung / BuzzFeed / Jan 6, 2020


Tumblr is rolling out an internet literacy initiative to help combat misinformation and cyberbullying
Julia Alexander / The Verge / Jan 6, 2020

International

We’re entering a new golden age of China journalism
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios / Jan 7, 2020


VAT ruling on Times digital edition could save News UK millions
Jim Waterson / The Guardian / Jan 6, 2020


Awash in disinformation before vote, Taiwan points finger at China
Raymond Zhong / The New York Times / Jan 6, 2020

 

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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