Mediagazer: Local newsletter network 6AM City is now in 24 cities and has 1M subscribers; COO says a newsletter launch costs $250K-300K with a 75% profit margin by year 3 (Esther Kezia Thorpe/What's New in Publishing)

12:20 AM ET, March 16, 2022

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Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and Ukrainian journalist Oleksandra Kuvshynova were killed in the incident that injured Fox correspondent Benjamin Hall — New York (CNN Business)Two journalists were killed while reporting in Ukraine on Monday, including Pierre Zakrzewski, a longtime Fox News photojournalist.

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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

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Esther Kezia Thorpe / What's New in Publishing:

Local newsletter network 6AM City is now in 24 cities and has 1M subscribers; COO says a newsletter launch costs $250K-300K with a 75% profit margin by year 3 — After expanding to an extra 16 cities last summer, 6-year-old hyper-local newsletter publisher 6AM City has seen exponential subscriber growth …

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The Guardian:

A Russian court fines Marina Ovsyannikova ~$280 for her anti-war video statement before her on-air protest; she was held without legal counsel for 12 hours — Fine of about £215 is relatively light sentence for protest that shocked Russian TV viewers and earned plaudits from western leaders

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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

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Mia Sato / The Verge:

Several Patreon creators say Vimeo is asking them to pay for custom plans costing thousands of dollars a year, as Vimeo shifts focus to large corporate clients — Popular Patreon creators are being hit with unexpected Vimeo price hikes as Vimeo shifts corporate strategy

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Ethan Shanfeld / Variety:

FCC rule requiring broadcasters to disclose foreign government-sponsored programming goes into effect Tuesday — Starting Tuesday, broadcasters are required to disclose foreign government-sponsored programming. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unanimously adopted …

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Financial Times:

Sources: two British publishers have removed references to Taiwan and other banned topics in books intended for western readers so they can be printed in China — References to Taiwan, Hong Kong and other subjects deemed sensitive by Beijing are excised — Two British publishers …

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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 — A sharp uptick in paid online video subscriptions and original content production for streaming platforms has helped …

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Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal:

EU approves Amazon's $6.5B MGM acquisition, says the deal won't reduce competition as the companies don't overlap in content and MGM content is not a must-have — Regulators conclude deal wouldn't significantly harm competition in Europe — European Union antitrust officials gave …

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