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3:35 PM ET, March 24, 2022

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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
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
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  —  Complexly has 55 million social media subscribers and over 5 billion views on YouTube alone.  —  Welcome!  I'm Simon Owens and this is my media newsletter.
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  —  Amid increasing global regulations over app stores and their commission structures, Google today announced the launch …
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  —  Spotify launched its Loud & Clear website in March 2021, with the aim of “increasing transparency” around its payouts to the music industry.
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  —  23 март а 2022  —  Oksana Baulina, a journalist for The Insider, died under fire in Kyiv.
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  —  Dynamic Slate Gives Subscribers a Front Row Seat to Breaking News, Exclusive Interviews and In-Depth Reporting
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  —  Ukrainefacts.org has gathered hundreds of fact-checks on the invasion.  Clara Jiménez Cruz explains how the project works and why it matters
Paresh Dave / Reuters:
Google says it will bar ads from appearing next to websites, apps, and YouTube channels that exploit, dismiss, or condone Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine  —  Alphabet-owned (GOOGL.O) Google will not help websites, apps and YouTube channels sell ads alongside content that it deems exploits …
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Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well

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