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4:45 AM ET, March 31, 2022

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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  —  This morning a CBS News contributor went on air to discuss a wealth tax proposal in Joe Biden's budget, which was released this week.
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.
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” …
James Cridland / Podnews:
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 …
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 …
Discussion: @megancgraham
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 …
Discussion: IndyPolitics.Org
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 …
 
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Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
Nielsen: Fox News' daily viewers grew 22% YoY to 1.6M in Q1 2022, the only cable news network to gain viewers in the quarter; MSNBC fell 48% and CNN fell 52%
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Nick Vivarelli / Variety:
Italy extends the country's 90-day window between theatrical release and streaming to all films, expanding from only Italian films with government subsidies
Joseph Cox / VICE:
Scammers are advertising access to Meta's Media Partner Portal, used by media and PR agencies to resolve issues, to get Facebook and Instagram users verified
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Sources: China is planning expanded restrictions on its $30B live-streaming industry, including capping daily tipping and tightening content censorship
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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