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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
CBS News' co-president Neeraj Khemlani told morning news staff the network needed to hire more Republicans; sources: Mulvaney's hire caused an internal backlash — CBS News's decision to hire former Trump administration official Mick Mulvaney as a paid on-air contributor is drawing backlash within …
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Christopher Ingraham / The Why Axis:
CBS News offering Mick Mulvaney as an impartial news analyst without disclosing his past or current conflicts of interest is the latest example of its GOP bias
CBS News offering Mick Mulvaney as an impartial news analyst without disclosing his past or current conflicts of interest is the latest example of its GOP bias
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Washington Post:
Meta paid a GOP consulting firm for a campaign to turn the US public against TikTok, including placing op-eds and letters to the editor in regional news outlets — Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate …
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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
Hundreds of local news outlets repeated negative stories about TikTok amid Meta's smear campaign against the app; local TV stations were the primary culprits — Facebook hired a large consulting firm to undermine its competitor TikTok, The Washington Post's Taylor Lorenz and Drew Harwell reported in an eye-popping scoop on Wednesday.
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Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple now lets “reader” apps link to websites for creating or managing user accounts, after the company gives access to an External Link Account Entitlement — Apple today informed developers of “reader” apps that they are able to sign up for access to an “External Link Account Entitlement” …
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James Cridland / Podnews:
A leaked YouTube presentation for podcast publishers shows the company is working on a podcasts homepage with RSS feed ingestion, audio ads, analytics, and more — - Exclusive: YouTube is planning tighter integration, monetisation and analytics for podcasts
Meduza.io:
A look at the journalism projects of Russian journalists who formerly worked for Dozhd and Ekho Moskvy, now publishing on Substack, Telegram, and YouTube — Following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian authorities have imposed military censorship in all but name, annihilating the entire domestic free press.
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Axios:
Lee Enterprises quietly laid off at least eight employees, many of them top editors, across five newsrooms in the past two months, after Alden's takeover bid — Lee Enterprises has been quietly laying off top editors and other staff across its local papers.
Steve Zurier / SC Media:
Network equipment maker Ubiquiti sues cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs for $425M, claiming he falsely accused the company of “covering up” a cyberattack — Ubiquiti on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against industry blogger Brian Krebs for $425 million in damages for allegedly falsely accusing …
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Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Insider Intelligence: ad spending in Russia will hit $3.55B in 2022, down 49.7% from 2021, well below the previously expected 7.5% increase for the year — Research firm Insider Intelligence projects ad spending in Russia will total $3.55 billion in 2022 — Advertising spending in Russia …
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U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:
IndyPolitics.org editor and publisher Abdul-Hakim Shabazz drops his lawsuit against Indiana AG Todd Rokita after Rokita lets him attend future press conferences — Abdul-Hakim Shabazz, editor and publisher of the online news site IndyPolitics.org, said he was singled out and barred …
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Tony Silber / MediaPost:
Bonsai, the Toronto-based e-commerce platform used by BuzzFeed, Vox Media, Refinery29, and others, raises a $21M Series A led by Framework Venture Partners — Bonsai, the Toronto-based ecommerce platform used by BuzzFeed, Vox Media, Refinery 29 and others, announced today it has raised $21 million …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources blame Netflix's struggles in India on hiring executives who insist on micromanaging projects and who lack strong ties to the country's movie industry — Two-and-a-half years after it launched in India, Netflix Inc. had its first big hit. Based on a sprawling novel …
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