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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
CBS News hires Mick Mulvaney, who served as Trump's acting chief of staff from January 2019 to March 2020, as a contributor of political analysis — CBS News has hired Mick Mulvaney, who served as acting chief of staff during Donald Trump's presidency, as a contributor.
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Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal:
A consortium of PE firms, led by Brookfield and Elliott, will acquire Nielsen for ~$16B, or $28 per share, including debt — Brookfield, Elliott close to agreement to pay $28 a share for TV ratings company — Nielsen Holdings PLC is nearing a sale to a group of private-equity firms …
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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Condé Nast employees form a union, covering 500+ editorial and video production workers across eleven publications, and ask for voluntary recognition — For years, employees at Condé Nast — the influential publisher of glossy titles such as Vogue, Vanity Fair and GQ …
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Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Apple's Oscars win for CODA and Ted Lasso's success shows TV+'s boutique approach is paying off with tastemakers; Apple paid $25M for CODA's distribution rights — Launched in 2019, Apple TV+ produces far less content than its biggest streaming rivals — Apple Inc.'s boutique-store approach …
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Tara Parker-Pope joins The Washington Post as editor of a new Wellness Department, after nearly 15 years as health columnist and founding editor of NYT's Well — Announcement from Executive Editor Sally Buzbee, Managing Editors Cameron Barr and Steven Ginsberg and Managing Editor of Diversity and Inclusion Krissah Thompson:
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Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Early Nielsen data: Oscars had 15.4M viewers, the second-lowest ever but up 56% from the record-low 9.85M in 2021; Will Smith's slap didn't increase viewership — Even with a marked rebound in viewership, the 2022 Oscars was the second-least-watched year for the awards show.
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify tests a vertically scrolling feed for podcasts in its app with 60-second previews chosen by machine learning, using tech from its 2021 Podz acquisition — Spotify acquired podcast discovery platform Podz last summer for roughly $49.4 million, per a Securities and Exchange Commission filing …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
RFE/RL says its sites' page views from Russia grew, despite Russia's ban, to 26M and YouTube views spiked to 237M in the first three weeks of the war — Radio Free Europe, the U.S.-funded operation that got its start by piping American-flavored news through the Iron Curtain in 1950 …
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A.J. Katz / TVNewser:
Q&A with CNN+ programming head Rebecca Kutler about its official launch at 7am ET Tuesday, its approach to breaking news, and how it's different from CNN — After months of programming announcements and chatter in media circles, roughly $100 million in development and a team of 500 staffers …
Brian Morrissey / The Rebooting:
Skift, which cut a third of its staff and saw revenue fall 40% in the pandemic, rebuilt its workforce, found a new client base, and is more profitable than ever — Plus: lean media, manufactured growth vs organic growth, and programmatic helping independent media in Ukraine
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Daniel Kaplan / The Athletic:
Sources: the NFL is working on NFL+, a subscription streaming service that would include games, radio, podcasts, and team content — There is Apple TV Plus, Paramount Plus and Disney Plus, not to mention scores of streaming services without the plus in their monikers.
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The SF Minute:
Axios acquires The SF Minute, a newsletter started in 2021 by Nick Bastone, and will rebrand it as Axios San Francisco in the next couple of months — Hey there, San Francisco. — I'm thrilled to announce that Axios has acquired The SF Minute! — It's big news, I know.
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
A profile of right-wing video service Rumble, which had $6.5M revenue in the first nine months of 2021 and is providing Trump's Truth Social with tech support — The company, supported by Donald Trump, Peter Thiel and other prominent conservatives, wants to help build a “new internet” independent from Silicon Valley's titans.
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