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9:25 AM ET, March 15, 2022

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Danika Fears / The Daily Beast:
A woman interrupted an evening broadcast on Russian state TV network Channel One with an anti-war sign; some say she is Channel One editor Marina Ovsyannikova  —  She rushed into the Channel One Studio with a sign proclaiming, “Don't believe propaganda.  They're lying to you."
Wall Street Journal:
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 …
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.
Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
MPA: consumer spending for theatrical and home entertainment reached $99.7B in 2021, close to pre-pandemic levels, mostly thanks to growth in streaming services  —  Consumer spending in the global entertainment market — consisting of theatrical box office and home entertainment …
Discussion: MediaPost and Deadline
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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
Bloomberg:
Analysis: TV shows make up 75% of Netflix viewing, the average hit disappears after two weeks or less, and Asian hits have the least overlap 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.”
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 …
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."
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.
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.
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.
Jane Croft / Financial Times:
Kazakh mining giant ENRC drops its libel suit against FT and journalist Tom Burgis, after a UK judge dismissed a separate claim against HarperCollins and Burgis  —  Kazakh mining group drop libel claim against newspaper and its reporter over book on ‘dirty money’
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Leaked Kremlin memo to state-friendly media outlets says “it is essential” to feature Tucker Carlson in their coverage of the Ukraine war “as much as possible”  —  On March 3, as Russian military forces bombed Ukrainian cities as part of Vladimir Putin's illegal invasion …
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:
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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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Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
A fundraising campaign organized by journalism groups for Ukrainian media raised $4M in a little over two weeks, including $1.5M for the Kyiv Independent
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Keith Stuart / The Guardian:
Nostalgia for magazines of the 1980s and 1990s and the rise of independent printing companies are fueling the return of video game magazines in print
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Al Jazeera:
Analysis: Meta let Jio Platforms subsidiary New Emerging World of Journalism run ads with misinfo promoting Modi's BJP but took down opposition's surrogate ads
Rest of World:
Behind the rise of Kuaishou's short-form video app Kwai in Brazil, where it has amassed 45M+ monthly active users by appealing to people with blue collar jobs
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
Interviews with former employees of RT America, some of whom say they were given free rein and blame the “US government war machine” for its shutdown