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6:15 PM ET, March 23, 2021

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 Top News: 
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Verizon Media Group plans to rebrand most media franchises as Yahoo products and group them together on Yahoo+, a subscription platform  —  Verizon Media Group, the media division within Verizon, has 3 million people that pay for subscriptions across its portfolio of Yahoo-related products …
Amy Mitchell / Pew Research Center:
Survey of 12K US adults: 43% got political news in the past week from Fox News, 10% from Newsmax, 7% from OAN; vast majority of the latter two also watched Fox  —  While Fox's audience spans ideologies on the right, its new challengers attract mainly conservatives
Reuters:
Cineworld, owner of Regal Cinemas, strikes multi-year deal with Warner Bros. guaranteeing a 45-day theatrical window in the US starting in 2022  —  (Reuters) - Cineworld's U.S. chain Regal will reopen next month after prolonged closures caused by the pandemic, in time for big-budget release …
Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Disney revamps its schedule and will release Cruella and Black Widow to Disney+ when they open in theaters, via “Premier Access” with a $30 fee for subscribers  —  As moviegoing slowly begins to rebound in the U.S., it appears Hollywood studios aren't yet ready to release …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Study of subscriber retention techniques at 526 news organizations across the US: just 41% “make it easy” for subscribers to cancel their subscriptions online  —  Bad news for people who hate using the phone: Just 41% of U.S. news publishers “make it easy” for subscribers to cancel …
Kate Kaye / Digiday:
As publishers adopt single ID systems to replace third-party cookies, they are falling short in asking for users' consent and transparency about data use  —  Publishers, advertisers and ad tech companies are rallying around identity tech such as Unified ID 2., a system developed …
Matt Taibbi / TK News:
A skeptical look at Tim Wu's ideas about the First Amendment and Big Tech, now that he's at the National Economic Council, and why speech advocates should worry  —  Columbia law professor Timothy Wu wonders if the First Amendment is “obsolete,” and believes in “returning the country to the kind …
Tom Jones / Poynter:
Interview with Katie Couric on hosting Jeopardy!, her upcoming memoir, and building a company to produce a newsletter, a podcast, and other original journalism  —  She has a daily newsletter.  She has a podcast.  She produces original journalism on her website.  Is there anything Katie Couric isn't doing?
 
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Brat TV, a digital studio that originally focused on YouTube, has licensed its content to Peacock and expects to grow its revenue this year from $15M to $35M
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Daily Mail owner DMG Media has not signed a deal with Google as the “money isn't adequate and the terms are too restrictive,” per editor emeritus Peter Wright
John Williams / New York Times:
Paris Review names Emily Stokes, currently a senior editor at The New Yorker, as its new editor-in-chief
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Researchers translating text from Hawaii's 100+ forgotten native-language newspapers are discovering a treasure trove of historical climate data
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Eric Spinato, the head booker and senior story editor for the Fox Business Network who worked primarily with Maria Bartiromo, dies from the coronavirus
Julia La Roche / Yahoo Finance:
TIME Magazine to auction three covers as NFTs including one asking “Is Fiat Dead?” and plans to add a “pay by crypto” option for its subscribers within 30 days