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7:30 PM ET, March 31, 2022

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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Internal report: a now-fixed Facebook bug led to a “massive ranking failure” that increased views of harmful content up to 30% over the past six months  —  A group of Facebook engineers identified a “massive ranking failure” that exposed as much as half of all News Feed views to …
New York Times:
The chief White House photographer under Trump planned to publish a book but was preempted by Trump, who published his own book without specific photo credits  —  The former chief White House photographer made plans to publish a book of Trump photos.  The former president had other plans.
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Layla A. Jones / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
A look at the legacy of the Eyewitness and Action News local news formats, which originated in Philadelphia and reinforced community of color stereotypes  —  A MORE PERFECT UNION is a special project from The Philadelphia Inquirer examining the roots of systemic racism through institutions founded in Philadelphia.
The New York Times Company:
The New York Times announces a team dedicated to personalizing its home screen based on location and reading history and testing new content packages  —  A group of editors joins the Home team to work with Product leaders on a path to providing a more valuable reader experience.
Discussion: @dkiesow, @klcpegher and @thebrianpark
Lauren Forristal / The Streamable:
Hulu's deal with Epix ended on March 23; the 2015 agreement let Hulu offer hundreds of movies from Paramount, MGM, Lionsgate, and several other studios  —  One of the biggest contributors to Hulu's film library is no longer part of the service.  —  The Streamable has confirmed that Hulu's deal …
Karlene Lukovitz / MediaPost:
Like HBO Max before it, CNN+ is not yet available on Roku; CNN+ is also not on Android TV, Google TV, TV platforms from Samsung and LG, nor PlayStation and Xbox  —  Like WarnerMedia's HBO Max before it, its new CNN+ streaming service debuted without app support on Roku, the largest streaming platform.
Discussion: The Streamable
William James / Reuters:
The UK sanctions 14 more Russian entities, including RT owner TV-Novosti, Sputnik owner Rossiya Segodnya, RT's managing director, and Sputnik's EIC  —  Britain on Thursday announced sanctions on 14 more Russian entities and people, including on state media organisations behind RT and Sputnik …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Cox Media Group agrees to sell 12 TV stations to Imagicomm, a broadcast affiliate of INSP, a cable network that runs movies, classic TV shows, and Westerns  —  Cox Media Group, the media company that's majority-owned by affiliates of Apollo Global Management and minority-owned by Cox Enterprises …
Discussion: TVNewsCheck
 
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Reed Albergotti / Washington Post:
Some oligarchs are using the UK's data privacy law, itself designed to curb ad tracking of consumers, to sue journalists who cover them, even in the US
Andrew Kersley / Press Gazette:
Newly named Ofcom chair Michael Grade tells MPs that he will “leave his opinions at the door”, after previously accusing Ofcom staff of being “woke warriors”
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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
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