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No Other Land co-director Yuval Abraham says co-director Hamdan Ballal has been freed after being beaten by Israeli settlers and arrested by soldiers — Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian co-directors of Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, has been freed after being detained and beaten …
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Court docs: a federal judge has ordered USAGM to restore operational grants to RFE/RL, after the outlet sued to stop the blocking of funds allocated by Congress — A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) to stop depriving Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty …
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Trump withdraws the nomination of Media Research Center founder L. Brent Bozell III to head USAGM, naming him instead to serve as US ambassador to South Africa — President Donald Trump on Tuesday withdrew his nomination of Leo Brent Bozell III to lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM).
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
PBS CEO Paula Kerger and NPR CEO Katherine Maher are set to testify to Congress on March 26 at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's “Anti-American Airwaves” hearing — Top executives from the public media networks are bracing for a hearing on Wednesday organized by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen: YouTube made up 11.6% of all US TV use, the most of among media providers; viewers over age 50, accounted for 36% of time spent watching YouTube on TV — The service supplants Disney atop the Nielsen list for the second time. — YouTube commanded more TV time than any other media provider …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Megyn Kelly plans to launch podcast network MK Media, starting with shows hosted by Mark Halperin, columnist Maureen Callahan, and commentator Link Lauren — The first three creators to join the MK Media network will be journalist Mark Halperin, culture columnist Maureen Callahan and influencer Link Lauren.
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
How the AP is managing to cover the White House while it awaits a decision on its ban: reliance on pool reports and dependence on foreign AP correspondents — The news organization has relied on work-arounds after being barred from events for not using “Gulf of America,” but on Thursday will have another chance to make its case.
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
The Daily Mail crosses 250K digital subscribers, including more than 163K Mail+ subscribers, and appoints Celia Duncan as its first global women's editor — The Mail has crossed the quarter-of-a-million digital subscribers mark after expanding its Mail+ partial paywall into America.
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Ruth Michaelson / The Guardian:
A prosecutor in Turkey remands eight journalists to custody, reversing a decision to release them after they were arrested for covering anti-government protests — Arrests condemned as ‘unlawful’ by press freedom groups, highlighting growing repression amid demonstrations against President Erdoğan
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India's Finance Minister says the country will scrap a 6% tax on digital advertisements, easing costs for US tech giants, as a way of soothing US trade concerns — India will scrap a tax of 6% on digital advertisements online, the finance minister said on Tuesday, easing costs for U.S. tech giants …
Al Jazeera:
Separate Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed two media workers: Hossam Shabat, a journalist who worked for Al Jazeera Mubasher, and Mohammad Mansour — Mohammad Mansour, who worked for Palestine Today, has also been killed in a separate Israeli attack.
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
3D tech company Infinite Reality acquires Napster for $207M; Infinite's CEO says that the file-sharing phenomenon will be used for marketing in the metaverse — A quarter century ago, Napster was notorious on the internet for allowing people to swap songs for free, long before the music industry …
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