Media Trust Among Conservatives Plummets
Tue, Aug. 31, 2021
By Jon Gingerich
A recent Pew Research Center analysis illustrates a divide in media trust in America that’s widening among partisan lines.
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A recent Pew Research Center analysis illustrates a divide in media trust in America that’s widening among partisan lines.
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Rupert Murdoch unloads Knewz, online news aggregator that shut down in July, to Dylan Howard, former 'catch & kill' editor of the National Enquirer... Germany's Axel Springer is in talks to pick up an ownership stake in Politico in a potential $1B deal... Mask up, says Fox News chief Suzanne Scott.
Dominion, voting machine company, adds Newsmax Media and Herring Networks (the owner of One America News Network) to the list of those it has sued regarding claims that the company rigged the 2020 election in favor of president Biden... The New York Times posts positive numbers for Q2 2021 as regards both subscription and advertising revenue... The E.W Scripps Company hires former CNN International vice president for editorial Eric Ludgood to lead Newsy, its national news platform.
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Only about eight percent of the pitches sent to journalists ever result in a published article, according to a recent study by PR software platform Propel.
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CNN is launching a subscription streaming service, CNN+... Rolling Stone hires The Daily Beast's Noah Shachtman as editor-in-chief... Netflix axes three marketing execs over criticisms they made of other employees on Slack.
Comcast has named Broderick Johnson, a veteran of the Clinton and Obama administrations, executive VP for both public policy and digital equity.
USA Today becomes the last major US daily to put up a paywall... Bloomberg appoints Jason Angrisani as global chief marketing officer... News Corp-backed news aggregation site Knewz shuts down 18 months after its launch.
The Wall Street Journal pulls the plug on its Greater New York section, which focused on local news... Condé Nast agrees to contract with New Yorker union employees, averting a strike... Jared Kushner signs book deal with HarperCollins imprint.
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Americans who are the most confident in their ability to spot “fake news” online are the most likely to fall for it, according to a recent study.
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Print media remains a preferred medium for reading newspapers, magazines and books among a large number of Americans, according to a recent survey.
Fox News Channel serves fans treat of Tucker, Sean, Laura 24/7...Amazon buys MGM for $8.5B... The Associated Press reviews its social media policy following the firing of a 22-year-old news associate for violating it.
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Alden Global Capital’s bid to acquire Tribune Publishing has been successful... New York Public Radio fires Bob Garfield, who has co-hosted its “On The Media” program for 20 years, over what NYPR calls a “pattern of behavior that violated New York Public Radio’s anti-bullying policy.”... Allen Media Group sues McDonald's charging discrimination in ad buys.
Matthew Hutchison will move to Dow Jones as chief communications officer on May 24. He's an alum of Forbes, FleishmanHillard, Tribune, Dell/WPP, CBS, Viacom, Apple and Sony.
Sally Buzbee, who has been executive editor and senior vice president at AP since 2017, is taking the reins as executive editor at the Washington Post, effective June 1.
The New York Times adds 301,000 digital subscribers during Q1, its smallest increase since Q3 2019... Twitter purchases Scroll, an app that lets users read online articles minus interruptions from ads and pop-ups... New York Daily News staffers vote 55-3 to be represented by the NewsGuild of New York.
The Los Angeles Times names Kevin Merida executive editor, succeeding Norman Pearlstine, who stepped down from the role in December... Meredith Corp. unloads TV stations via $2.7B deal with Grey Television... Vice Media hires ABC's Van Scott for VP of communications job.
A perceived public trust in journalism has been steadily on the rise since Trump’s first year in office, but relatively few journalists believe that Americans’ trust in the press will change significantly with our new Presidential administration, according to an annual media survey conducted by Cision.
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