diff --git a/samples/react-news/README.md b/samples/react-news/README.md
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--- a/samples/react-news/README.md
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@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # News
+
 SPFx Webpart to display News from SharePoint site(s)
 
 ## SharePoint News Posts with SPFx
@@ -95,4 +96,4 @@ For questions regarding this sample, [create a new question](https://github.com/
 
 Finally, if you have an idea for improvement, [make a suggestion](https://github.com/pnp/sp-dev-fx-webparts/issues/new?assignees=&labels=Needs%3A+Triage+%3Amag%3A%2Ctype%3Abug-suspected&template=suggestion.yml&sample=react-news&authors=@ReactIntern&title=react-news%20-%20).
 
-<img src="https://telemetry.sharepointpnp.com/sp-dev-fx-webparts/samples/React-News" />
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+<img src="https://telemetry.sharepointpnp.com/sp-dev-fx-webparts/samples/React-News" />
diff --git a/samples/react-news/assets/sample.json b/samples/react-news/assets/sample.json
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index 000000000..da6d5922f
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+++ b/samples/react-news/assets/sample.json
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+[
+  {
+    "name": "pnp-sp-dev-spfx-web-parts-react-news",
+    "source": "pnp",
+    "title": "News",
+    "shortDescription": "SPFx Webpart to display News from SharePoint site(s)",
+    "url": "https://github.com/pnp/sp-dev-fx-webparts/tree/main/samples/react-news",
+    "longDescription": [
+      "Web part pulls all SharePoint News Posts that the logged in user has access to view"
+    ],
+    "creationDateTime": "2021-04-02",
+    "updateDateTime": "2021-04-02",
+    "products": [
+      "SharePoint",
+      "Office"
+    ],
+    "metadata": [
+      {
+        "key": "CLIENT-SIDE-DEV",
+        "value": "React"
+      },
+      {
+        "key": "SPFX-VERSION",
+        "value": "1.12.1"
+      }
+    ],
+    "thumbnails": [
+      {
+        "type": "image",
+        "order": 100,
+        "url": "https://github.com/pnp/sp-dev-fx-webparts/raw/main/samples/react-news/assets/Single-View-Default.png",
+        "alt": "Single view default"
+      },
+      {
+        "type": "image",
+        "order": 100,
+        "url": "https://github.com/pnp/sp-dev-fx-webparts/raw/main/samples/react-news/assets/Stack-Style-Default.png",
+        "alt": "Stack style"
+      },
+      {
+        "type": "image",
+        "order": 100,
+        "url": "https://github.com/pnp/sp-dev-fx-webparts/raw/main/samples/react-news/assets/Several-Sites-Author-Hidden.png",
+        "alt": "Several sites author hidden"
+      },
+      {
+        "type": "image",
+        "order": 100,
+        "url": "https://github.com/pnp/sp-dev-fx-webparts/raw/main/samples/react-news/assets/Pagination.png",
+        "alt": "Pagination"
+      }
+    ],
+    "authors": [
+      {
+        "gitHubAccount": "ReactIntern",
+        "pictureUrl": "https://github.com/ReactIntern.png",
+        "name": "Alison Collins"
+      }
+    ],
+    "references": [
+      {
+        "name": "Build your first SharePoint client-side web part",
+        "description": "Client-side web parts are client-side components that run in the context of a SharePoint page. Client-side web parts can be deployed to SharePoint environments that support the SharePoint Framework. You can also use modern JavaScript web frameworks, tools, and libraries to build them.",
+        "url": "https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/spfx/web-parts/get-started/build-a-hello-world-web-part"
+      }
+    ]
+  }
+]
diff --git a/samples/react-news/release/component-dependency-audit/react-news.json b/samples/react-news/release/component-dependency-audit/react-news.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dde4577d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/react-news/release/component-dependency-audit/react-news.json
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+{
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+          "isDirectDependency": true
+        },
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+        },
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+        },
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+        },
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+}