In a move that shows how strategically important newsletters have become, The New York Times updated its policies saying staff need clearance before starting free or paid newsletter ventures. 

The Times has always had a policy on outside projects like book deals and speaker engagements. Formalizing its stance on newsletters is a sign of how crowded and competitive the space has become.

Check out Scott Nover’s piece on what these updated policies mean for other media organizations.

In case you missed this from yesterday, my colleagues Ronan Shields and (newly joined) Stephen Lepitak and I covered Google’s reveal that federated learning of cohorts—its answer to audience targeting post-third-party cookies—will not work in Europe. 

As one publisher said to me, after pointing out that the original AdExchanger article had been doing the rounds: “the optics don’t look good.”

Read on about what this means for how publishers view their future experiments with FLoCs.

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The online giant will delay FLoC experiments in Europe over privacy requirements.

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