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8:45 PM ET, March 30, 2022

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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
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
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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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” …
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.
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.
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 …
Discussion: @megancgraham
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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U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:
Indiana's attorney general settles with Abdul-Hakim Shabazz, editor and publisher of IndyPolitics.org, agreeing to let Shabazz attend future press conferences
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Wayne Friedman / MediaPost:
Nielsen: Fox News' total daily viewers grew 22% YoY to 1.6M in Q1, the only cable news network to gain viewers in the quarter; MSNBC fell 48% and CNN fell 52%
Discussion: TVNewser
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Wall Street Journal:
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
Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal:
Nielsen agrees to be acquired by a group of private equity firms, led by Brookfield and Elliott, in a deal valuing it at $16B, or $28 per share, including debt