Mediagazer: Discovery's CFO says HBO Max and Discovery+ will be bundled early in the Discovery and WarnerMedia merger and will eventually be combined into one service (The Hollywood Reporter)

5:35 PM ET, March 14, 2022

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Sources: a consortium of PE firms, including Elliott Management, is in advanced talks to buy TV-ratings company Nielsen for about $15B including debt — Deal could value Nielsen at around $15 billion including debt — A consortium of private-equity firms including Elliott Management Corp …

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Danika Fears / The Daily Beast:

A woman interrupted an evening broadcast on Russian state TV network Channel One with an anti-war sign; some say she is Channel One editor Marina Ovsyannikova — She rushed into the Channel One Studio with a sign proclaiming, “Don't believe propaganda. They're lying to you."

David Corn / Mother Jones:

Leaked Kremlin memo to state-friendly media outlets says “it is essential” to feature Tucker Carlson in their coverage of the Ukraine war “as much as possible” — On March 3, as Russian military forces bombed Ukrainian cities as part of Vladimir Putin's illegal invasion …

The Hollywood Reporter:

Discovery's CFO says HBO Max and Discovery+ will be bundled early in the Discovery and WarnerMedia merger and will eventually be combined into one service — The streamers will be bundled early on as part of the merged media giant, before both services become a single direct-to-consumer platform.

TIME:

Time Magazine confirms that Brent Renaud was on an assignment in Ukraine for a Time Studios project focused on the global refugee crisis when he was killed — From TIME Editor in Chief and CEO Edward Felsenthal and President and COO of TIME and TIME Studios Ian Orefice:

Stefan Becket / CBS News:
American journalist Brent Renaud was killed and another journalist was wounded by Russian forces in the town of Irpin outside the Ukraine capital on Sunday

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Bloomberg:

Analysis: TV shows make up 75% of Netflix viewing, the average hit disappears after two weeks or less, and Asian hits have the least overlap with other markets — Nobody in Hollywood knows for sure what works on Netflix. — The company releases statistics like “26 million people watched this show in the first 28 days.”

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Cecilia Kang / New York Times:

Interviews with former employees of RT America, some of whom say they were given free rein and blame the “US government war machine” for its shutdown — Until RT America ended abruptly, life as a journalist there was “actually so normal.” — For eight years …

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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 — “We have a minimal level of details right now,” Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott wrote to staff Monday, adding that Hall had been hospitalized.

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Tarpley Hitt / Gawker:

Sources: Insider's global managing editor told its departing staff to stop sending goodbye emails as many high-ranking employees left over the past few months — In early 2021, the Wall Street Journal ran a story titled: “Business Insider Did Nothing When the Pandemic Hit. It Worked."

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Rebecca Rubin / Variety:

MPA: consumer spending for theatrical and home entertainment reached $99.7B in 2021, close to pre-pandemic levels, mostly thanks to growth in streaming services — Consumer spending in the global entertainment market — consisting of theatrical box office and home entertainment …

Discussion: MediaPost and Deadline

Los Angeles Times:

Los Angeles Times names Sara Yasin as a managing editor, beginning April 18; Yasin is currently managing editor of BuzzFeed News — Sara Yasin has been named a managing editor for the Los Angeles Times. Yasin will oversee the daily news operation as part of The Times leadership team beginning April 18.

Jane Croft / Financial Times:

Kazakh mining giant ENRC drops its libel suit against FT and journalist Tom Burgis, after a UK judge dismissed a separate claim against HarperCollins and Burgis — Kazakh mining group drop libel claim against newspaper and its reporter over book on ‘dirty money’

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