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FiveThirtyEight: 4½ hours ago

Survey: people who watch Fox are much likelier to believe Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election and Russia didn't, compared to viewers of other news networks

Rob Williams / MediaPost: 11 hours ago

MPA five-year study of 135 magazines: since 2014, mobile rose from 21% to 37% of total magazine audience, print and desktop readership dropped from 61% to 44%

Media Matters for America: 17 hours ago

Study of 2,000 tweets by major media outlets about Trump in July: of 653 tweets referencing a false statement, 50% disputed the claim, up from 35% in January

David Bauder / Associated Press:

Michael Bloomberg says reporters at his company concerned about a ban on investigating him need to accept that their paychecks come with some restrictions

Media Matters for America:

Study of 2,000 tweets by major media outlets about Trump in July: of 653 tweets referencing a false statement, 50% disputed the claim, up from 35% in January

Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab:

By the end of summer 2020, five big newspaper chains could roll up into two, run by investment companies with little attachment to the newspaper business

FiveThirtyEight:

Survey: people who watch Fox are much likelier to believe Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election and Russia didn't, compared to viewers of other news networks

Rob Williams / MediaPost:

MPA five-year study of 135 magazines: since 2014, mobile rose from 21% to 37% of total magazine audience, print and desktop readership dropped from 61% to 44%

wellcome.ac.uk:

Charity-funded online science and health magazine Mosaic is shutting down on December 10 after five years

Max Willens / Digiday:

WSJ had its biggest day of subscription sales ever Black Friday, Wired and Barron's on Cyber Monday; New York had its best four-day sales stretch that weekend

Kelsey Sutton / Adweek:

Survey of 2,000+ US users: 50% plan to subscribe to new OTT services, of which 64% intend to downgrade/cancel existing subs; say they spend ~$76/month on video

Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:

Internal memo: after the recent cuts, Gannett CEO Paul Bascobert expects more layoffs, and says “it will take a few months to work through this process”

Yomi Kazeem / Quartz:

NY-based Nigerian journalist Omoyele Sowore, who was charged with treason in Nigeria in Aug., rearrested by government agents a day after his release on bail

Gene Maddaus / Variety:

DOJ files a brief supporting Irving Azoff's lawsuit alleging price-fixing by a radio trade group, which could upend the system of music licensing for radio

Gene Maddaus / Variety:

Federal judge indicates he'll let a trial proceed in an antitrust complaint by three major Hollywood agencies against the Writers Guild of America

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