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8:20 AM ET, March 12, 2024

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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen: the 96th Oscars averaged 19.5M viewers in the US, up 4% YoY, the biggest audience for any awards show since 2020, when the Oscars drew 23.64M viewers  —  The 96th Academy Awards draw 19.5 million viewers, the most for any awards show since 2020.  —  The 2024 Oscars were the most watched in four years.
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Steve Dent / Engadget:
Netflix won only one Oscar award, for Wes Anderson's short film, and Apple TV+ won zero, despite 32 combined nominations; Universal won big with Oppenheimer  —  The streamers combined for 32 nominations but Netflix won just a single award.  —  Despite combining for 32 nominations …
Associated Press:
Mstyslav Chernov's 20 Days in Mariupol won the Oscar for best documentary, a first for AP and PBS' Frontline  —  Mstyslav Chernov's “20 Days in Mariupol,” a harrowing first-person account of the early days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, won the best documentary Oscar on Sunday night.
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
G/O Media sells Deadspin to European company Lineup, which won't keep the sports news outlet's staff; CEO Jim Spanfeller says G/O didn't actively shop Deadspin  —  The beleaguered media company has sold its key sports property off to a European publisher who will gut the website and replace its staff.
Reuters:
Getty, Reuters, AP, the AFP, and other news outlets withdraw a photo issued by the UK's Princess of Wales, after analysis suggested the photo had been altered  —  Several leading news organisations have withdrawn a photograph issued by Kensington Palace of Kate, Britain's Princess of Wales …
BBC:
The BBC names Jonathan Aspinwall as the new executive editor of Newsnight; Aspinwall currently runs BBC News Podcasts  —  He will lead Newsnight as it evolves into a debate, discussion and interview-based programme. … Jonathan Aspinwall has been announced as the new Executive Editor of Newsnight.
Discussion: Deadline
Cath Virginia / The Verge:
Q&A with Mona Chalabi about winning a Pulitzer for her in-depth reporting about Jeff Bezos' wealth, using data visualization to tell a story, and more  —  Finding the human stories behind the numbers. … A bloodied press jacket.  A body shrouded in white.
Mathew Scott / The Hollywood Reporter:
Alibaba Digital Media and Entertainment Group plans to inject $640M into Hong Kong's entertainment industry, across movies, TV dramas, events, and more  —  Movies, TV dramas, events and scholarships were announced as part of the Chinese giant's shift into support for the territory.
 
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Josh Hoffman / CBC News:
Saltwire Network, which owns 23 Atlantic Canada newspapers, files for creditor protection, citing debt of CA$94M+ and assets of ~CA$33M, as lender files a claim
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Authors Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian, and Stewart O'Nan sue Nvidia over allegedly using their work to train NeMo, and say Nvidia “admitted” to using the books
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Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
Leichtman: the largest pay TV providers in the US ended 2023 with about 71.3M subscribers, losing ~5M subscribers YoY, and down from 91.5M at the end of 2018
Discussion: Broadband TV News
Sam Roberts / New York Times:
William Whitworth, who wrote revealing profiles in The New Yorker before working as the EIC at The Atlantic from 1980 to 1999, died on March 8 at age 87
Scharon Harding / Ars Technica:
Roku faces a backlash after appearing to lock the devices of users who don't agree to its new Dispute Resolution Terms, asking them to write a letter to opt out