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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
CBS News hires Mick Mulvaney, who served as Trump's acting chief of staff from January 2019 to March 2020, as a contributor of political analysis — CBS News has hired Mick Mulvaney, who served as acting chief of staff during Donald Trump's presidency, as a contributor.
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Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal:
Nielsen agrees to be acquired by a group of private equity firms, led by Brookfield and Elliott, in a deal valuing it at $16B, or $28 per share, including debt — Brookfield, Elliott close to agreement to pay $28 a share for TV ratings company — Nielsen Holdings PLC is nearing a sale …
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Condé Nast employees form a union, covering 500+ editorial and video production workers across eleven publications, and ask for voluntary recognition — For years, employees at Condé Nast — the influential publisher of glossy titles such as Vogue, Vanity Fair and GQ …
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India stopped Washington Post columnist Rana Ayyub from attending journalism events abroad, claiming she laundered the COVID-19 relief money she crowdfunded — In February, media reports had claimed that the Enforcement Directorate had attached Ayyub's bank deposits in connection with a money-laundering case.
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Daniel Kaplan / The Athletic:
Sources: the NFL is working on NFL+, a subscription streaming service that would include games, radio, podcasts, and team content — There is Apple TV Plus, Paramount Plus and Disney Plus, not to mention scores of streaming services without the plus in their monikers.
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Eli Blumenthal / CNET:
Apple TV+ will start live streaming its first MLB games on April 8
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Apple's Oscars win for CODA and Ted Lasso's success shows TV+'s boutique approach is paying off with tastemakers; Apple paid $25M for CODA's distribution rights
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Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Nielsen: the Oscars had 16.6M viewers, the second lowest ever but up 58% from the record-low of 10.4M in 2021; Will Smith's slap increased the audience by 555K — But the largest audience of the night was tuned in earlier, during Troy Kotsur's win for best supporting actor.
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Brian Morrissey / The Rebooting:
Skift, which cut a third of its staff and saw revenue fall 40% in the pandemic, rebuilt its workforce, found a new client base, and is more profitable than ever — Plus: lean media, manufactured growth vs organic growth, and programmatic helping independent media in Ukraine
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Rachel Sanders / The Nation:
A eulogy for the young, VC-funded, vital newsroom at BuzzFeed News some 10 years ago, and a reflection on the newsroom's disenchantment with BuzzFeed's IPO — Much of the News staff has been written off as dead weight on the payroll. What, after all, is a Pulitzer worth on a balance sheet?
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify tests a vertically scrolling feed for podcasts in its app with 60-second previews chosen by machine learning, using tech from its 2021 Podz acquisition — Spotify acquired podcast discovery platform Podz last summer for roughly $49.4 million, per a Securities and Exchange Commission filing …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
RFE/RL says its sites' page views from Russia grew, despite Russia's ban, to 26M and YouTube views spiked to 237M in the first three weeks of the war — Radio Free Europe, the U.S.-funded operation that got its start by piping American-flavored news through the Iron Curtain in 1950 …
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Tim Baysinger / Axios:
Report: the NFL has held talks with Hollywood companies about a partnership with NFL Films to launch a studio for sports content — Exit Content Preview … - “There's increasing demand for that type of content on streaming platforms and elsewhere,” NFL chief media and business officer Brian Rolapp told SBJ.
Washington Post:
Tara Parker-Pope joins The Washington Post as editor of a new Wellness Department, after nearly 15 years as health columnist and founding editor of NYT's Well — Announcement from Executive Editor Sally Buzbee, Managing Editors Cameron Barr and Steven Ginsberg and Managing Editor of Diversity and Inclusion Krissah Thompson:
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