
Media
N.J. Civic Information Consortium could get first cash infusion in Murphy’s revised budget
Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law creating the consortium in 2018, but it still has not received state dollars as promised. That could change now.
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WURD celebrates its founder and Black women in politics
Philly’s only Black talk radio station was created to improve the health and wealth of the community. It’s annual Founder’s Day included a panel on women in politics.
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As journalists work from home, their newsrooms are shutting down
Tribune Publishing, the parent company of local news outlets across the country is closing the physical offices of five newspapers permanently.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newsroom votes overwhelmingly to strike
Union members at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette voted overwhelmingly to go on strike Monday after years of stalled contract negotiations.
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Trump bans dealings with Chinese owners of TikTok, WeChat
President Donald Trump has ordered an unspecified ban on “transactions” with the Chinese owners of the consumer apps TikTok and WeChat.
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Facebook, citing virus misinformation, deletes Trump post
The post in question featured a link to a Fox News video in which Trump says children are “virtually immune” to the virus.
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Class action lawsuit claims TikTok steals kids’ data and sends it to China
A lawsuit alleging that TikTok collects and sends American users' data to China could cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars.
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‘You have these stories’: Philly first to launch national program to diversify media industry
This summer, PhillyCAM became the first to launch a new national pre-apprenticeship program to create a pipeline of diverse talent in TV, film and news.
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Free Library adds searchable archives of 10 Black American newspapers
Interested Philadelphians can now access “a more complete story of American history.”
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Arts2Work: New program aims to help people of color find media jobs
Arts2Work is the first federally-registered National Apprenticeship Program in Media Arts and Creative Technologies. The pre-apprenticeship program calls PhillyCAM home.
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4 key takeaways from Washington’s big tech hearing on ‘monopoly power’
Democratic Rhode Island Rep. David Cicilline said Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple operate like monopolies and need to be broken up or regulated.
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Twitter restricts Donald Trump Jr.’s account over COVID-19 misinformation
Twitter confirmed the restriction in a subsequent tweet, emphasizing the action was a temporary limit on some of his account's features and not a permanent suspension.
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Report: Television personality Regis Philbin dies at 88
Philbin died Friday, just over a month before his 89th birthday. He died of natural causes, according to a family statement to the magazine.
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Twitter removes thousands of QAnon accounts, promises sweeping ban on the conspiracy
Twitter says it is taking sweeping action against the conspiracy theory QAnon, removing more than 7,000 accounts associated with the group and banning links related to QAnon.
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‘We’re embarrassed’: Twitter says high-profile hack hit 130 users
Up to eight accounts also had their private information compromised in a high-profile breach earlier this week, according to Twitter.
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