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2:05 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 …
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 55M followers across social media 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.
The Guardian:
UK's The Sun posted a £51M loss and £318.6M revenue in 2021; its publisher NGN spent £49M on legal fees relating to phone-hacking in the year to June 2021  —  Covid and advertising shifts hurt profits, as News Group Newspapers seeks to end ongoing managed hearings
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.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google Play debuts a pilot to let select partners, starting with Spotify, offer a third-party billing option globally; Google's commission cut was not disclosed  —  Amid increasing global regulations over app stores and their commission structures, Google today announced the launch …
Eduardo Suárez / Reuters Institute for the Study …:
Q&A with Clara Jiménez Cruz, the CEO of Spanish fact-checking org Maldita.es, on creating UkraineFacts.org, a website updated by journalists from 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
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.
Paresh Dave / Reuters:
Google says it will bar ads from appearing next to websites, apps and YouTube channels that exploit, dismiss or condone the Russia-Ukraine war  —  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  —  Announcement from Editor-in-Chief Matt Kaminski:  —  I'm delighted to share some exciting news today: Dafna Linzer will be joining POLITICO as Executive Editor.
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  —  Meera, who has been the Director of our Journalist Fellowship Programme since September 2017, will take up her new role in June
 
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