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Under its new owner, Twitter has done away with its press department. One reporter who writes about the company compares it to a “giant black box.”Little about Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter was conventional, aside from the fact that he paid…
The boy band topped the Billboard album chart for the first time thanks to an array of collectible CDs for sale.Riding intense fan interest in its collectible CDs, the K-pop quintet Tomorrow X Together scored its first No. 1 album on…
The publication has come under scrutiny in recent years over its suppression of stories about Donald Trump in the 2016 campaign.The National Enquirer, the celebrity tabloid behind the “catch and kill” suppression of damaging stories about Donald J. Trump during the…
The company reports quarterly earnings on Wednesday, and Wall Street is expecting it to lay out a new streaming strategy and operating structure.When it comes to reporting quarterly earnings, Robert A. Iger is an old pro. He has done it 58…
In 2021, the global music company BMG was looking for a hit in France’s growing hip-hop market when its executives came up with a strategy: They would sign Freeze Corleone, a rising rapper on the Parisian scene with an aura of…
Google’s parent company reported its fourth consecutive drop in quarterly profit, weeks after culling 6 percent of its work force to cut costs.Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has settled into a period of stalled growth as economic uncertainty reverberates across Silicon Valley.…
In 1973, she was the first woman hired by The New York Times to be a full-time staff photographer.Joyce Dopkeen, who in 1973 became the first woman to be hired by The New York Times as a full-time staff photographer, beginning…
Michael F. Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, cited national security, adding to bipartisan pressure on the Chinese-owned video app.Senator Michael Bennet, Democrat of Colorado, called on Apple and Google Thursday to remove TikTok from their app stores because of national security concerns,…
The ruling is a defeat for the Federal Trade Commission, which used a rare antitrust argument to try to block Meta’s acquisition of a small start-up.A federal judge has rejected the Federal Trade Commission’s request to stop Meta, Facebook’s parent company,…
The company, which is in the midst of shifting to become a metaverse business, also forecast revenue would beat Wall Street predictions.Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, has spent months cutting costs at his company to appease investors, fix its…
Bustle Digital Group, which publishes Gawker, said it would shut down the recently revived site after “a surprisingly difficult” start to the year.Gawker is dead. Again.Bustle Digital Group, which publishes Gawker, said on Wednesday that it would shutter the recently revived…
The star’s first solo tour since 2016 will start May 10 in Stockholm.For the first time since 2016 — a world before Beychella, Covid-19 and “Renaissance” — Beyoncé will headline a solo tour, the singer announced in a social media post…
The maker of Snapchat also swung to a loss in the latest quarter and projected that its sales would decline.Snap, the maker of the messaging app Snapchat, on Tuesday posted its slowest-ever rate of quarterly growth and projected that its sales…
The organization investigated whether an Oscars campaign for the “To Leslie” actress Andrea Riseborough had violated rules.The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said on Tuesday that it would not rescind Andrea Riseborough’s Oscar nomination for best actress, after an…
The yet-to-be-cast “Superman: Legacy” will begin a story that unfolds across at least 10 interconnected movies and TV shows, with Batman, Swamp Thing and others.Superman is returning to theaters — only now, along with saving the world, he has to prove…
The departure of Madeline McIntosh, who has led the country’s largest book publisher since 2018, is the latest shake-up for the company during a turbulent period.Madeline McIntosh, one of the most powerful figures in American book publishing, is stepping down from…
The move came as part of cost-cutting measures under which the news service is also ending its radio programming in 10 other languages, including Persian, Chinese and Hindi.The BBC’s Arabic Radio aired its last broadcast on Friday, ending 85 years of…
The revival of the 1980s show is the most popular new sitcom in years. Even some of the people behind it are surprised by its early ratings success.In recent years, network executives have rebooted and revived decades-old TV series at will,…
Andrea Riseborough got the nod for the little-seen “To Leslie.” The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is reviewing whether her A-list campaign violated rules.When the Oscar nominations were announced last week, one of the most surprising was Andrea Riseborough’s…
The cable network will be called Paramount+ With Showtime, and its programming will soon be integrated into the Paramount+ streaming app.Showtime, the premium cable network known for popular series like “Homeland” and “Dexter” and once a viable rival to HBO, is…
The former president, now free to post again on Facebook and Twitter, has increasingly amplified far-right accounts on Truth Social. Experts on extremism worry that he will bring this approach to a far wider audience.In September, former President Donald J. Trump…
With partners on NBC and then CBS, and with a rapid, opinionated style, he was heard during every N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament from 1975 to 2008.Billy Packer, the sharp-eyed, opinionated lead college basketball analyst for NBC and CBS whose commentary was…
T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach, who co-hosted “GMA3,” were both married when they began a romantic relationship.The “GMA3” anchors T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach are leaving ABC News, the network said on Friday evening, concluding a nearly two-month tabloid spectacle sparked…
Anthropic specializes in generative artificial intelligence, a hot investment in Silicon Valley. The new funding could value the company at roughly $5 billion.Anthropic, a San Francisco artificial intelligence start-up, is close to raising roughly $300 million in new funding, two people…
We can’t get enough of wholesome grandmothers cooking on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. But how do they feel about it?I only intended to watch one of the snack-size shorts from the new season of Grandmas Project, a web series in which…
Between posts about conspiracy theories and right-wing grievances was an unusual advertisement: a photo of former President Donald J. Trump holding a $1,000 bill made of gold, which he was apparently offering free to supporters.But there were a few catches: The…
His observations about his 3-year-old daughter’s viewing habits led him to join Joan Ganz Cooney in creating a program that revolutionized children’s television.Lloyd Morrisett, a psychologist whose young daughter’s viewing habits inspired the creation of the revolutionary children’s educational television program “Sesame Street,”…
The layoffs will affect 274 people, the company said.Dotdash Meredith, the publishing giant that owns publications including People, InStyle and Better Homes & Gardens, said on Thursday that it would cut 7 percent of its staff, the latest media and tech…
The kind of independent movies that the festival showcases have struggled at the box office, spurring worries about what the market would be like this year.The past two years have been a time of major upheaval in the film business —…
Keeping its head down has not paid off for the company, which now faces regulatory pressure on many fronts. So it is starting to speak out.WASHINGTON — Last week, TikTok’s chief executive, Shou Zi Chew, met with several influential think tanks…
In a good movie year — and whatever you may have heard, 2022 was such a year — I find it an agony to compile a Top 10 list. There are just too many good and great films, too many titles…
Meta said the suspensions of Donald Trump’s accounts would be lifted “in the coming weeks,” with measures in place to discourage repeat offenses. Twitter reinstated Mr. Trump last year.Just over two years after Donald J. Trump’s accounts were suspended from Facebook…
Most of the evidence in the case has remained under seal at the request of Fox’s lawyers.The New York Times on Wednesday asked a judge to unseal some legal filings that contain previously undisclosed evidence in a defamation suit brought against Fox…
Rupert Murdoch has halted his plans to combine the two parts of his media empire.News Corp, one of Mr. Murdoch’s media companies, said in a statement on Tuesday that he had determined that combining it and the Fox Corporation was “not…
She brought a narrative eye and a social consciousness to her work, whether covering refugee crises, celebrities or fashion. But much of it might have been lost.Marilyn Stafford’s journey from aspiring Broadway singer and actress to noted photojournalist and fashion photographer…
The Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit, which a group of states joined, was the fifth by U.S. officials against the company since 2020.The Justice Department and a group of eight states sued Google on Tuesday, accusing it of illegally abusing a monopoly…
A further 30 open positions will not be filled. The overall size of the newsroom is expected to return to its current level after The Post makes new hires in the affected departments.The Washington Post laid off 20 people from its…
He was the longtime editor and later publisher of The Nation and wrote an acclaimed book about the Hollywood blacklisting era that aimed to root out Communists.Victor S. Navasky, a witty and contrarian journalist who for 27 years as either editor…
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a news network originally set up as a C.I.A. operation early in the Cold War, is experiencing a renaissance and making a case for its independence.Anyone who didn’t live through the Cold War might find the Portuguese…
The candy brand announced that Maya Rudolph would replace its promotional cartoon characters, which have been the focus of a partisan backlash.M&M’s, the ubiquitous candy brand owned by Mars Wrigley, announced on Monday that it would take “an indefinite pause” from…
She collaborated on the melodies for signature commercials that sang the praises of McDonald’s, Coca-Cola and other brands.Ginny Redington Dawes, a songwriter whose compositions included memorable advertising jingles like the chipper McDonald’s declaration “You, You’re the One” and Coca-Cola’s boast that…
Deepfake technology — software that allows people to swap faces, voices and other characteristics to create digital forgeries — has been used in recent years to make a synthetic substitute of Elon Musk that shilled a cryptocurrency scam, to digitally “undress”…
She was well known in the San Francisco area for focusing on subjects like racism, sexism and drugs, in columns that sometimes angered sports stars.Gwen Knapp, a prominent sports reporter and columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer and The San Francisco Chronicle…
Toward the end of her life, Nikki Finke, the journalist who struck fear into the hearts of Hollywood power players, believed she was onto one last story.“She said she wanted to write a piece about dying,” Diane Haithman, a friend and…
Vice, which has struggled to achieve profitability in recent years, has formed a special committee to find suitors.After Vice Media secured a new round of financing in 2017 that valued the company at $5.7 billion, Shane Smith, one of its founders,…
The company, which publishes New York Magazine, The Verge and numerous other brands, joins a parade of tech and media companies cutting back its staff amid economic uncertainty.Vox Media, which owns brands like The Verge, SB Nation and New York Magazine,…
A dispute over photos of bare chests with the nipples covered, posted on Instagram by a transgender and nonbinary couple, has prompted a call for the platform to clarify its content guidelines.Content creators have long criticized Facebook and Instagram for their…
Mr. Hastings will become the streaming giant’s executive chairman. Greg Peters will join Ted Sarandos as a co-chief executive.Reed Hastings, one of the founders of Netflix, has helmed the company since before it was a streaming service, when its business model…
With questions hovering about the financial performance of the news organization, its billionaire owner checked in with senior leaders.The Washington Post has been battling declining ad revenue and stalled online subscription growth. The question hovering over it in recent months: What…
The cases could significantly affect the power and responsibilities of social media platforms.For years, giant social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have operated under two crucial tenets.The first is that the platforms have the power to decide what content to…