Mediagazer: Sources: a consortium of PE firms, including Elliott Management, is in advanced talks to buy TV-ratings company Nielsen for about $15B including debt (Wall Street Journal)

11:20 AM ET, March 15, 2022

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Sources: a consortium of PE firms, including Elliott Management, is in advanced talks to buy TV-ratings company Nielsen for about $15B including debt — Deal could value Nielsen at around $15 billion including debt — A consortium of private-equity firms including Elliott Management Corp …

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Danika Fears / The Daily Beast:

Marina Ovsyannikova, editor of Russian state TV network Channel One, interrupted its evening broadcast with an anti-war sign and was subsequently arrested — She rushed into the Channel One Studio with a sign proclaiming, “Don't believe propaganda. They're lying to you."

The Hollywood Reporter:

Discovery's CFO says HBO Max and Discovery+ will be bundled early in the Discovery and WarnerMedia merger and will eventually be combined into one service — The streamers will be bundled early on as part of the merged media giant, before both services become a single direct-to-consumer platform.

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:

Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott says the network's correspondent Benjamin Hall has been injured and hospitalized while reporting outside Kyiv — “We have a minimal level of details right now,” Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott wrote to staff Monday, adding that Hall had been hospitalized.

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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News says cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski was killed on Monday in Ukraine during the incident that also left correspondent Benjamin Hall hospitalized

Discussion: @johnrobertsfox, @grynbaum and Barrett Media

Bloomberg:

Analysis: TV shows make up ~75% of Netflix's top 10 lists, the average hit fades after two weeks or less, and Asian hits overlap the least with other markets — Nobody in Hollywood knows for sure what works on Netflix. — The company releases statistics like “26 million people watched this show in the first 28 days.”

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Hollywood Reporter:

Filing: Discovery CEO David Zaslav's 2021 compensation package topped $246M, driven by stock options, vs $37.7M in 2020, making him one of the highest paid CEOs — The company disclosed latest annual compensation details for its top executives, with the calculation for Zaslav getting …

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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Some First Amendment experts hope some libel suits against right-wing outlets will succeed, showing the value of “actual malice” or “reckless disregard” rules — Some legal experts say it is time to draw a sharp line between protected speech and harmful disinformation.

Discussion: Reason, @zachdespart, @tomscocca, @tribelaw, @jkosseff, @daphnehk, @sarafischer, @davidfolkenflik, @davidfolkenflik, @jkosseff, @rweingarten and @peterjblack

Tarpley Hitt / Gawker:

Sources: Insider's global managing editor told its departing staff to stop sending goodbye emails as many high-ranking employees left over the past few months — In early 2021, the Wall Street Journal ran a story titled: “Business Insider Did Nothing When the Pandemic Hit. It Worked."

Discussion: @stevekovach, @colombochar, @alex, @film_girl, @tomaxwell, @benkesslen, @jamesfdennin, @film_girl, @gawker, @leahfinnegan and @yoda

Elsa Keslassy / Variety:

TikTok becomes an official partner of the Cannes Film Festival, which will give users exclusive content and launch #TikTokShortFilm, a global in-app competition — While it banned selfies on the red carpet several years ago, Cannes is looking to draw global eyeballs and will provide TikTok users …

Discussion: @variety and @thedragonfeeder

Sara Fischer / Axios:

MPA: streaming made up 72% of the $99.7B global streaming and theatrical movie market in 2021, up from 46% in 2019; streaming subscriptions hit 1.3B, up 14% YoY — A sharp uptick in paid online video subscriptions and original content production for streaming platforms has helped …

Discussion: Variety, Deadline and MediaPost, more at Techmeme »

Los Angeles Times:

Los Angeles Times names Sara Yasin as a managing editor, beginning April 18; Yasin is currently managing editor of BuzzFeed News — Sara Yasin has been named a managing editor for the Los Angeles Times. Yasin will oversee the daily news operation as part of The Times leadership team beginning April 18.

Katie Robertson / New York Times:

Gina Chua is named executive editor of Justin Smith and Ben Smith's media startup; Chua has been executive editor at Reuters since April — Ms. Chua has been the executive editor of Reuters and in charge of its editorial operations. — Gina Chua, a top editor at Reuters …

Discussion: The Hill, @benyt, @emilybell, @ginaskchua and @joshsternberg

TIME:

Time Magazine confirms that Brent Renaud was on an assignment in Ukraine for a Time Studios project focused on the global refugee crisis when he was killed — From TIME Editor in Chief and CEO Edward Felsenthal and President and COO of TIME and TIME Studios Ian Orefice:

Stefan Becket / CBS News:
American journalist Brent Renaud was killed and another journalist was wounded by Russian forces in the town of Irpin outside the Ukraine capital on Sunday

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