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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
CBS News' co-president Neeraj Khemlani told morning news show staff that CBS needed to hire more Republicans; sources: Mulvaney's hire sparked 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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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 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
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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 campaign against the social network, especially TV stations — 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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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
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Axios:
Lee Enterprises quietly laid off at least eight employees, including top editors, across five newsrooms in the past two months, following Alden's takeover bid — Lee Enterprises has been quietly laying off top editors and other staff across its local papers.
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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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
The BBC sets a goal of 25% of its staff coming from low socio-economic backgrounds by 2027 and says it will need to find £285M in annual savings by 2027/2028 — U.K. broadcaster BBC has revealed ambitions of a more representative workforce as part of its Annual Plan that was published on Wednesday.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify expands Blend, which lets two friends merge their tastes in a playlist, to up to 10 users and selected artists, including BTS and Charli XCX — Spotify's popular playlist creation tool, Blend, is getting its biggest update since its offiical launch last year.
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Nick Vivarelli / Variety:
Italy extends the 90-day window between theatrical release and streaming to all films, expanding from only Italian films with government subsidies — The announcement was made by Italian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini during a Rome confab on the state of the country's film industry held …
Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Insider Intelligence: ad spending in Russia will total $3.55B in 2022, down 49.7% from 2021, well below the 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 will plunge this year …
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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 while lacking 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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