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3:10 PM ET, March 24, 2022

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Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
Michael Grade, a UK Conservative member of the House of Lords who held senior posts at the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4, will be named as Ofcom chair  —  Choice of veteran broadcasting executive appears to bring chaotic recruitment saga to an end  —  Michael Grade has been named as the government's choice …
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 …
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.
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.
CNN:
CNN+ unveils its initial programming schedule after the March 29 launch, with 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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Melissa Cooke / Politico:
Politico names Dafna Linzer as executive editor, starting in Washington on April 25; Linzer was most recently managing editor for politics at NBC News and MSNBC
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Disney says it has sold out all 60 of its commercial slots around the Oscars, spanning 14 categories; sources: ABC has sought $1.7M to $2.2M for a 30-second ad
Winston Cho / Hollywood Reporter:
WGA West and a coalition of unions, which includes the Teamsters, ask the FTC to block Amazon's MGM acquisition because Amazon will likely shut down MGM's Epix
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism:
Internews Europe names Meera Selva, currently the deputy director at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, as its CEO, starting in June