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12:05 PM ET, March 14, 2022

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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  —  Washington — An American journalist was killed and another journalist was wounded by Russian forces in the town of Irpin outside …
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 …
The Hollywood Reporter:
Discovery's CFO says HBO Max and Discovery+ will be bundled early in the merger of Discovery and WarnerMedia 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.
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.”
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’
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  —  Until RT America ended abruptly, life as a journalist there was “actually so normal.”  —  For eight years …
New York Times:
The New York Times launches its first Telegram channel, dedicated to reporting on the war in Ukraine  —  To make our journalism more accessible to readers around the world, The New York Times has launched a new, dedicated channel on Telegram, a messaging platform with more than half a billion active users.
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Project Veritas released sting videos of NYT's natsec reporter Matthew Rosenberg badmouthing colleagues; sources: the videos caused tensions in NYT newsroom  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  RUSSIA-UKRAINE LATEST ...  - IN THE WEST: The U.S., EU and G-7 countries are revoking “most favored nation” …
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  —  Print media were once the lifeblood of the gaming community, and now a new generation of lovingly assembled periodicals are bringing the scene back to life
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  —  New Delhi, India - In the 2019 parliamentary elections, India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) fielded a Hindu ascetic accused of “terrorism”.
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  —  Kuaishou is chasing novela creators and working-class users in Latin America to keep up with the competition.
 
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Bloomberg Media had 370K digital subscribers at the end of 2021, up from 250K the year before, and 316K print subscribers; total revenue rose 48% YoY
Victoria Song / The Verge:
Mark Bernstein, a prominent Russian Wikipedia editor, is detained in Belarus for “distributing fake anti-Russian information” after being doxxed on Telegram
Wall Street Journal:
In yet more fragmentation of sports broadcasting rights, NBCUniversal's Peacock is finalizing a MLB deal for exclusive streaming rights to 18 early Sunday games
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Adam B. Vary / Variety:
CEO Bob Chapek says Disney will pause Florida political donations and apologizes to LGBTQ staff for not being a stronger ally in debate on “Don't Say Gay” bill
Tatiana Siegel / Rolling Stone:
Texts, emails, and interviews document the deep ties among Jeff Zucker, Allison Gollust, and Andrew Cuomo, and Zucker and Trump's earlier relationship
David Gilbert / VICE:
Investigation finds a campaign coordinated in a secret Telegram channel to pay Russian TikTok influencers to post videos pushing pro-Kremlin narratives