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Colin Kaepernick is joining Medium's board to write about racism — edition.cnn.com

The athlete-turned-civil-rights-activist is set to join the board at Medium, the blogging platform led by Twitter co-founder Ev Williams. Kaepernick, who repopularised the protest movement of taking a knee, is especially well-placed to join the board, with his past few years of activism providing him with an insight into how people want to consume media about racism. He launched Kaepernick Publishing earlier this year to give Black writers the space to "control their narratives and retain ownership."

This - and the mea culpas from legacy titles including the NYT and Washington Post around their treatment of both race as a topic or in terms of representation internally - show that the media industry is attempting to change for the better. It's still not enough, but it's a start.

Conduct on social media may look different for journalists in the future. Let’s start figuring it out now — www.poynter.org

Last week I wrote an article for DCN arguing that journalists need to be more available and opinionated on social media, not less. I stand by that, but I didn't actually advance any practical ways to make it the norm for the industry. Now, though, the director of college programming for Poynter Barbara Allen has done just that, taking the angle that we need to look to our young journalists for the answer.

Daily Mail eclipses the Sun to become UK's top-selling paper — www.theguardian.com

We suspected this was coming when News UK pulled their circulation figures from the ABCS. We also argued that doing so wouldn't stop news like this getting out. Now, the Guardian reports that The Mail has ended The Sun's 42-year reign at the top of the UK circulation table - adding more pressure to a title that has been hit hard by Covid-19 and falling print numbers.

France's top court rejects core of law targeting online hate speech — www.reuters.com

France's top court rejected most of a draft law that would have compelled social media giants such as Facebook and Twitter to remove any hateful content within 24 hours, it said on Thursday. Any discussion on this topic - rightly - runs into the morass that is the debate around free speech. There's no easy answer here.

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Wessenden Marketing's Jim Bilton on how the pandemic has impacted newspaper and magazine retail — voices.media

Jim Bilton of Wessenden Marketing tells us about how the pandemic has impacted newspaper and magazine retail, about who might be left standing after the dust settles and how they will need to reboot their distribution strategies.

We're funded! Thank you to all our Ko-Fi backers! — ko-fi.com

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