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12:00 PM ET, March 28, 2022

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Coda wins three Oscars, including Best Picture, giving Apple its first Oscar and making Apple TV+ the first streaming service to win the awards' highest honor  —  Apple made history by nabbing Hollywood's most coveted honor, as “CODA” won the Oscar for best picture at Sunday's Academy Awards.
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The New York Times wins its first Oscar for The Queen of Basketball, which won the Academy Award in the Documentary Short Subject category  —  The Op-Doc “The Queen of Basketball” won in the Documentary Short Subject category at the 2022 Academy Awards.  —  The Op-Doc “The Queen of Basketball” …
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Interview with Chris Wallace on leaving Fox News, whose questioning of the truth became “unsustainable”, expanding beyond politics on his CNN+ show, and more  —  As he starts a new streaming show at CNN, the longtime TV anchor reflects on his decision to leave Fox News after 18 years.
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Morning Brew co-founder says its daily newsletter has 4M subscribers and the company generated about $50M in revenue during 2021, up from $20M in 2020  —  - Morning Brew's primary newsletter has surpassed 4 million subscribers after hitting 3 million just eight months ago.
New York Times:
Ukraine's Zelensky was interviewed by Russian journalists; Moscow ordered the story quashed, but Meduza and others based outside Russia have since published it  —  It was a remarkable moment in the war in Europe: President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine gave a 90-minute-long Zoom interview …
Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
The FT launches FT Edit, a £0.99 per month smartphone edition offering eight curated articles at 8am on weekdays and select weekend content  —  The Financial Times has launched FT Edit, a streamlined app it hopes will attract an audience beyond its traditional, professional readers.
Katherine Rosman / New York Times:
A profile of Penske Media CEO Jay Penske, who has become “the Rupert Murdoch of entertainment publications” as the owner of Variety, THR, Deadline, and more  —  A quiet Hollywood power broker with a famous name goes on a buying spree that has given him Rolling Stone, South by Southwest and a private island.
Jacob Granger / Journalism.co.uk:
The EJC launches the Solutions Journalism Accelerator, a three-year program providing $4M+ in grants and mentorship to media organizations across Europe  —  As news organisations wrestle with distrusting audiences and a problem-centric news agenda, a new accelerator offers European media …
Reuters:
Novaya Gazeta says it will suspend operations until the end of Russia's “special operation” in Ukraine, after receiving a second warning about its reporting  —  Russia's Novaya Gazeta newspaper, whose editor Dmitry Muratov was a co-winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize …
Justin Carter / Gizmodo:
Crunchyroll says next week it will end its ad-supported simulcast of new anime episodes for free users, after its acquisition by Sony's Funimation last August  —  Starting with next week's slate of spring anime, you'll have to fork over cash.  —  Alerts  —  For anime fans …
Raksha Kumar / Reuters Institute for the Study …:
Q&A with Malaysiakini co-founder and CEO Premesh Chandran, who stepped down in February, on independent media in Malaysia, replicating its business model, more  —  “Technology and advertising have to be a primary element,” says the Malaysian outlet's founder in his first interview after stepping down
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
A coalition of UK newspapers asks the UK government to tackle SLAPPs and add a “serious harm” requirement for privacy claims
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Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
News UK will launch TalkTV, led by Piers Morgan's Uncensored and Sharon Osbourne's The Talk, on April 25 in the UK, the US, and Australia
Molly Olmstead / Slate:
Q&A with Daniel Silliman, an editor at Christianity Today, “the flagship magazine of American evangelicalism”, on reporting on sexual harassment at the magazine
Trone Dowd / VICE:
Republicans in several states have introduced and passed bills that could ultimately punish people for recording or publishing images or video of the police
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Tom Ambrose / The Guardian:
A UK judge refuses News of the World publisher News Group Newspapers' bid to reject new phone-hacking claims and end litigation 15 years after the scandal broke
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on libraries' “licensing plague”, the growing challenge of crawling newspapers, building permanence, and more
Rachel Treisman / NPR:
The RSF says Russian forces have kidnapped, detained, and tortured dozens of Ukrainian journalists; an editor says her 75-year-old father is being held hostage
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
A judge dismisses Felicia Sonmez's lawsuit accusing The Washington Post of discrimination by barring her from reporting sexual assault stories; Sonmez to appeal
Antoinette Siu / The Wrap:
Black News Channel, which launched in February 2020, shuts down after missing its March 25 payroll; sources: the network has shed 120+ staffers since Christmas
 

 
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Scott Stein / CNET:
Meta opens its VR OS, now called Horizon OS, to third parties, and says Asus and Lenovo plan Horizon OS-compatible headsets; Meta plans an Xbox branded Quest

Emilia David / The Verge:
Microsoft launches Phi-3 Mini, a 3.8B-parameter model that competes with GPT-3.5, and plans to release Phi-3 Small and Phi-3 Medium with 7B and 14B parameters

James Rundle / Wall Street Journal:
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