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9:55 AM ET, March 25, 2022

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Samuel Stolton / Politico:
EU lawmakers reach a provisional agreement on the DMA, which will mandate messaging service interoperability, prohibit self-preferencing practices, and more  —  EU officials have agreed on landmark rules clamping down on anti-competitive abuses by the world's largest technology platforms …
Tarpley Hitt / Gawker:
How unclear guidelines at The Cut for staffers who want to produce sponsored content for outside clients has led to tensions and one firing  —  A few weeks ago, a subset of journalists were duking it out over the word “brand,” and specifically whether writers should have one.
The Guardian:
The UK's The Sun posted a £51M loss and £318.6M revenue in 2021; its publisher NGN spent £49M on legal fees tied to phone-hacking in the year to June 27, 2021  —  Covid and advertising shifts hurt profits, as News Group Newspapers seeks to end ongoing managed hearings
Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
At least four Russian state TV employees have resigned over the invasion of Ukraine; 62% of Russians relied on state TV for news in 2021, down from 90% in 2014  —  At least four state television employees have publicly resigned, citing regret for their roles in promoting false narratives about Ukraine.
Kellen Browning / New York Times:
Netflix says it is buying Boss Fight Entertainment, a mobile game developer with 130 employees; it is Netflix's third studio purchase since last summer  —  The acquisition is the company's third since it announced plans to move into video games last summer.
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
The UK picks Michael Grade, a Conservative House of Lord member who had senior posts at the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4, as Ofcom chair; MPs will likely approve him  —  Choice of veteran broadcasting executive appears to bring chaotic recruitment saga to an end
Greg Burns / Medill Local News Initiative:
The Baltimore Banner, the nonprofit startup funded by hotel magnate Stewart Bainum, plans to launch in June and aims for 100K subscribers within four years  —  Nonprofit start-up charts course for local-news donors  —  While many other local media organizations operate out of basements …
MIT Technology Review:
A look at Intrepid Response, an app Minnesota police used to collect data on journalists at protests and share it across agencies  —  In April of last year, a freelance photojournalist named J.D. Duggan was covering a protest in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis, when things took a disturbing turn.
Simon Owens / Simon Owens's Media Newsletter:
A look at Complexly, an educational media company run by YouTube stars Hank and John Green that has 55.2M social media followers and 5B+ views on YouTube  —  Welcome!  I'm Simon Owens and this is my media newsletter.  You can subscribe by clicking on this handy little button:  —  Let's jump right into it...
Naomi Andu / The Objective:
Inside the turmoil at the nonprofit Texas Observer, where only 4 editorial staffers remain from the 13 there in September, after resignations and one firing  —  Inserted between the pages of the Texas Observer's Nov./Dec. edition, mailed to readers two months late, was a letter explaining …
 
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Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters:
Swedish streaming company Nent says its streaming service Viaplay will have live sports when it launches in the UK later this year
Jon Lafayette / Next TV:
The Media Rating Council says Nielsen's effort to get its national and local TV ratings services reaccredited won't be finished until at least Q3
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CNN:
CNN unveils CNN+'s programming schedule for the first month after its March 29 debut, spanning live and on-demand programming plus special breaking news reports
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Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Spotify reports 2021 royalty payments: $7B+ paid to music rightsholders, up from $5B in 2020, as 1,040 artists made $1M+/year and 16.5K artists made $50K+/year
Eduardo Suárez / Reuters Institute for the Study …:
Q&A with Clara Jiménez Cruz, the CEO of Spanish fact-checking site Maldita.es, on creating UkraineFacts.org, a website updated by journalists in 70 countries
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google Play pilots a third-party billing option to select partners globally, starting with Spotify; Google says user choice billing still involves a service fee
The Insider:
Oksana Baulina, a journalist for Latvia-based The Insider who once worked for Russia's Anti-Corruption Foundation, was killed after a rocket strike in Kyiv
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

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Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November
 
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