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The Objective StaffOctober 23, 2020

Keep your pants on, everyone (and quit defending the male journalists who don’t)

Plus: The SacBee wants those sweet, sweet clicks, the Dallas News Guild wins its vote to unionize, and “when bison merit 80% of the airtime afforded to Asian American history, it calls into question not only the leadership of public television but also who gets to tell these stories, and why.”

News sites that turn off commenting don’t drive users to social media instead, a study finds

Sarah ScireOctober 22, 2020

How the Minneapolis Star Tribune made the best of a canceled state fair

Carve-your-own butter sculptures, Minnesota trivia, and cheese curd-flavored chapstick were among the Star Tribune’s virtual offerings. (Replicating the llama costume contest proved a bit too difficult.)

Robert Hinck, Robert Utterback and Skye CooleyOctober 22, 2020

Russian, Chinese, and Iranian media are turning on Trump, an analysis of foreign news outlets suggests

Two key moments from the 2020 campaign — the first debate and Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis — are particularly illustrative.

Overwhelmed by covering organized misinformation campaigns? The Media Manipulation Casebook is a great place to start

Hanaa' TameezOctober 20, 2020

Prism, a news site led by women of color, centers the voices of marginalized people in its reporting

“If you’re going to shift narratives in this country, you need people to actually read what you’re doing.”

Joshua BentonOctober 19, 2020

Is Facebook too big to know? The Markup has a plan (and a browser) to wrap its arms around it

The Citizen Browser Project will pay 1,200 Americans to let The Markup monitor the choices that tech company algorithms are making for them. “What are they choosing to amplify? And what are they choosing not to amplify?”

Marc-André ArgentinoOctober 19, 2020

Facebook and YouTube’s moves against QAnon are only a first step in the battle against dangerous conspiracy theories

Get ready for “lighter propaganda.”

To cover voting and all its “subplots” over the next three weeks, FiveThirtyEight turns to a “slower-than-usual liveblog”

Dan KennedyOctober 15, 2020

Here’s how entrepreneurial local journalists are fighting back against Alden Global Capital

“I just determined that I would rather do anything else in life than to dismantle a proud newsroom and lay off my friends and colleagues and eventually be laid off myself.”

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