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4:35 AM ET, March 13, 2022

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Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
Biden administration is working with Gen Z For Change, a nonprofit advocacy group, to brief top TikTok stars about the war in Ukraine  —  On Thursday afternoon, 30 top TikTok stars gathered on a Zoom call to receive key information about the war unfolding in Ukraine.
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David Gilbert / VICE:
Investigation finds a campaign coordinated in a secret Telegram channel to pay Russian TikTok influencers to post videos pushing pro-Kremlin narratives  —  An investigation by VICE News uncovered a coordinated campaign to pay Russian TikTok influencers to post videos pushing pro-Kremlin narratives.
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Project Veritas released sting videos of NYT's natsec reporter Matthew Rosenberg badmouthing colleagues; sources: the videos caused tensions in NYT newsroom  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  RUSSIA-UKRAINE LATEST ...  - IN THE WEST: The U.S., EU and G-7 countries are revoking “most favored nation” …
Tatiana Siegel / Rolling Stone:
Texts, emails, and interviews document the deep ties among Jeff Zucker, Allison Gollust, and Andrew Cuomo, and Zucker and Trump's earlier relationship  —  Texts, email exchanges, and 36 sources tell the true story behind the downfall of TV's ultimate operator
J. Clara Chan / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at the kids' podcast market as Spotify releases a slate of children's programming and Wondery rolls out a subscription tier just for children's podcasts  —  Why studios, streamers and audio platforms are doubling down on children's programming.  —  During the early days of the pandemic …
Discussion: hotpodnews.com
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Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg:
Russia moves to designate Meta as an “extremist organization”; source says WhatsApp won't be affected as it is a means of communication
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Bloomberg Media had 370K digital subscribers at the end of 2021, up from 250K the year before, and 316K print subscribers; total revenue rose 48% YoY  —  Attribute its success to fighting the digital wars on many fronts at once and building a sound guiding strategy and patiently sticking to it.
Victoria Song / The Verge:
Mark Bernstein, a prominent Russian Wikipedia editor, is detained in Belarus for “distributing fake anti-Russian information” after being doxxed on Telegram  —  The editor was doxxed on Telegram prior to the arrest  —  The Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption of Belarus …
Adam B. Vary / Variety:
CEO Bob Chapek says Disney will pause Florida political donations and apologizes to LGBTQ staff for not being a stronger ally in debate on “Don't Say Gay” bill  —  After weeks of internal strife and external controversy surrounding the Walt Disney Company's lack of public response to the …
Kipp Jones / Mediaite:
OANN owner Herring Networks sues DirecTV and its parent AT&T for breach of contract, alleging “liberal organizations” pressured AT&T to drop OANN from lineup  —  Far-right One America News is suing DirecTV and its parent company AT&T for breach of contract …
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CNN+ is launching March 29  —  People who are interested in CNN Plus finally have a date when they can add it to their streaming repertoire.  The WarnerMedia-owned cable-news outlet intends to launch the subscription broadband service on March 29.  —  The detail — perhaps the last piece …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
WHCA renames the Merriman Smith Award after finding that Smith, a former WHCA president, upheld restrictions on Black and female journalists
Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
YouTube says it is blocking access to YouTube channels associated with Russian state-funded media globally, expanding from across Europe
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Saudi blogger Raif Badawi has been released from prison, 10 years after he was jailed for criticizing religious figures and promoting liberal views of Islam
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Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Sony, Warner Music, Universal Music, and Live Nation suspend operations in Russia
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Ali Kucukgocmen / Reuters:
A Turkish court sentences journalist Sedef Kabas to more than two years in prison for tweeting a proverb that was allegedly insulting to Erdogan
Financial Times:
EU and the UK open an antitrust probe into Google and Meta's Jedi Blue deal on online ads; EU is also probing whether Google acted without Meta's knowledge
Angela Fu / Poynter:
A study comparing abstracts from scientific papers with corresponding news articles finds that journalists tend to understate claims made by the authors