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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
CBS News hires Mick Mulvaney, who served as Donald Trump's acting chief of staff from January 2019 to March 2020, as a contributor to provide 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 …
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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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Eli Blumenthal / CNET:
Apple will start live streaming its first MLB games on April 8, saying the matchups in the first 12 weeks will be available “for free, only on Apple TV Plus” — Max Scherzer's Mets debut against the Washington Nationals will air on Apple TV Plus.
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Daniel Kaplan / The Athletic:
Sources: the NFL is working on a subscription streaming service, tentatively called NFL+, 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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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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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Condé Nast employees form a union, covering 500+ editorial and video production workers across 11 publications, and ask the company 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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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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Tim Baysinger / Axios:
Report: the NFL has held talks with Hollywood companies about a partnership with NFL Films to launch a sports studio — 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.
Thom Geier / The Wrap:
Black News Channel, which shut down March 25, files for bankruptcy; Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan was principal investor, with a reported $50M commitment — Black News Channel — which shut down operations on Friday, just two years after making a splashy debut — has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Florida.
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Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic:
A look at the wildly inconsistent content made by RT America, Russia's effort to reach viewers in the US, after years of archives were banned by YouTube — You can still watch Russian-propaganda television if you really want to. RT, the English-language news network funded by the Kremlin …
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