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5:30 PM ET, April 1, 2022

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: White House press secretary Jen Psaki plans to leave in May and is in exclusive talks to join MSNBC after she does  —  White House press secretary Jen Psaki is in exclusive talks with MSNBC to join the network after she leaves the White House around May, according to a source close to the matter.
Angela Fu / Poynter:
Unionized workers at the Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, and Bradenton Herald are staging a 24-hour work stoppage on Friday to protest long contract negotiations  —  Journalists at the Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald and Bradenton Herald are walking out after over a year and a half of first contract negotiations
Jessica Toonkel / The Information:
Sources: at a recent employee town hall and a management offsite meeting, Netflix executives cautioned employees to be more careful about spending and hiring  —  Netflix is tightening its belt.  —  In two separate meetings over the past few weeks, Netflix executives cautioned employees …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
A judge rules against Moira Donegan, creator of the viral Shitty Media Men list, in her attempt to block the libel suit against her using Section 230  —  A libel lawsuit over a widely circulated Google spreadsheet listing men in the news media who had allegedly committed sexual assault …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
A deep look at the benefits of content moderation in open forums, and how it can support free speech by creating spaces where more people feel free to talk  —  Obviously over the past few years there's been all of these debates about the content moderation practices of various websites.
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
In a 3-0 decision, the DC appeals court rejects former congressman Devin Nunes' effort to revive a $250M lawsuit accusing The Washington Post of defamation  —  A U.S. appeals court on Friday rejected former congressman Devin Nunes' effort to revive a $250 million lawsuit accusing the Washington Post …
Tim Baysinger / Axios:
Ex-Jalopnik journalists David Tracy and Jason Torchinsky launch The Autopian, an automotive news outlet, with backing from an LA car dealer  —  Exit Content Preview  —  On Friday, a pair of ex-G/O Media staffers — David Tracy and Jason Torchinsky — launched The Autopian …
Discussion: @jasontorchinsky and @kerrymflynn
Shraddha Chakradhar / Nieman Lab:
A look at the tense relationship between an Oregon elected official and local newspaper Malheur Enterprise, which he wants to buy after it investigated him  —  “I was tired of getting poked in the chest for not doing anything wrong.  And it was like, 'You know what?
Anna P. Kambhampaty / New York Times:
A look at @depthsofwikipedia, a viral social media account created by 22-year-old Annie Rauwerda that shares bizarre, amusing, and surprising Wikipedia snippets  —  On @depthsofwikipedia, Annie Rauwerda is compiling some of the crowdsourced site's most bizarre pages.
 
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Mark Hannah / Foreign Policy:
Journalists and media outlets in the US tend to be war hawks as they rely on military sources, not on civil society voices, and think war is morally clear-cut
Matt Tamanini / The Streamable:
Report: Amazon Prime Video will air 21 NY Yankees games, starting April 22 against Cleveland, available only in the NY region; the games won't be on linear TV
New York Times:
Shealah Craighead, Trump's chief White House photographer, planned to publish a book but was preempted by Trump, who published his own with no photo credits
Reed Albergotti / Washington Post:
Some Russian oligarchs are using the UK's data privacy law, intended to prevent ads from tracking consumers, to sue journalists who cover them, even in the US
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta confirms 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
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
Discussion: TVNewsCheck
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
Discussion: The Streamable