ABC News apologized Monday for mistakenly running a video that apparently was taken at a gun range in Kentucky with a report about Turkish attacks in northern Syria. “We’ve taken down video that aired on ‘World News Tonight Sunday’ and ‘Good Morning America’ this morning that appeared to be from the Syrian border immediately after […]

LOS ANGELES — In a sign of just how much streaming is changing Hollywood, movie fans will soon be able to rent and buy films for viewing at home — from a movie theater chain. AMC Entertainment, the largest multiplex operator in the world, will introduce an iTunes-style online video store in the United States […]

NBC News pushed back against the investigative journalist Ronan Farrow on Monday, denying his allegations that the network tried to conceal complaints about the former “Today” host Matt Lauer and obstruct Mr. Farrow’s reporting into the film mogul Harvey Weinstein. “We have no secrets and nothing to hide,” the NBC News president, Noah Oppenheim, wrote […]

ImageCreditLuis Mazón BEHIND THE BYLINE Meet Marc Lacey, the Times Editor Who Will Moderate Tuesday’s Democratic Debate Interview by Oct. 14, 2019 The Reader Center has started an interview series, Behind the Byline, to introduce you to Times journalists. Is there a reporter, photographer or editor whom you would like to get to know? Tell […]

Fed up with the coverage on his favorite cable news station, President Trump decided late this summer that a direct intervention was needed. So he telephoned the chief executive of Fox News, Suzanne Scott, and let loose. In a lengthy conversation, Mr. Trump complained that Fox News was not covering him fairly, according to three […]

WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren is playing a game of dare with Facebook. The Democratic presidential candidate bought a political ad on the social network this past week that purposefully includes false claims about Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, and President Trump to goad the social network to remove misinformation in political ads ahead of the […]

LOS ANGELES — While Harvey Weinstein awaits trial on five felony charges related to allegations of sexual abuse, his brother, Bob, has announced his re-entry into Hollywood. On Friday, the younger of the two brothers revealed to the trade publication Deadline Hollywood that he would be starting a new production company with a focus on […]

To critics who accuse Fox News of being uniformly pro-Trump, the network often points to the blunt-truth reporting of Shepard Smith, its veteran chief news anchor, whose coverage of the Trump White House stood out on a channel known best for conservative opinion. Starting now, Fox News will need to point to somebody else. In […]

Philip Gips, a graphic artist who created many celebrated movie posters, including those for “Rosemary’s Baby” and “Alien,” which hinted at the terror audiences would experience but gave away nothing of the films’ plots, died on Oct. 3 in a hospital in White Plains. He was 88. His son Michael said the cause was complications […]

A change of ownership at amNewYork, a free New York tabloid meant for subway reading, went into effect on Friday. Along with the change, there were layoffs, with the number of newsroom employees cut to seven from 16. Newsday Media Group sold the paper this month to Schneps Media, a New York publisher of more […]

In a step-by-step account in his new book, the investigative journalist Ronan Farrow accuses high-level executives and producers at NBC News of interfering with his monthslong effort to report on the film mogul Harvey Weinstein, an investigation that would become part of the prizewinning series he published in The New Yorker after leaving the network […]

James Murdoch, the former chief executive of 21st Century Fox, has taken a small stake in Vice Media, the irreverent media brand focused on millennials and entertainment. Mr. Murdoch, who already sits on Vice’s board, made the investment as part of Vice’s recent acquisition of Refinery29, a women’s lifestyle publisher, according to a person familiar […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple removed an app on Wednesday that enabled protesters in Hong Kong to track police, a day after facing intense criticism from Chinese state media for it, plunging the technology giant deeper into the increasingly politicized atmosphere in China. Apple said it was removing the app, called HKmap.live, from its iPhone App […]

For more than 20 years, Matt Lauer was a star anchor of NBC’s most profitable franchise, “Today.” His downfall came in November 2017 when the network fired him after receiving a complaint of sexual misconduct against him. The accusation was soon followed by others. Now, the circumstances of that firing have resurfaced in a book […]

How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? Vivian Yee and Hwaida Saad, who report on the Middle East and are based in Beirut, Lebanon, discussed the tech they’re using. Vivian, you were previously a New York metro reporter and a national immigration reporter. How has your […]

LOS ANGELES — “The Aeronauts,” an adventure film about swashbuckling 19th-century hot-air balloonists, was built for the big screen. Led by an Oscar winner, Eddie Redmayne, and a “Star Wars” star, Felicity Jones, it has real cinematic sweep, with sequences that take place miles above sea level. In May, Amazon Studios announced that the movie […]

Marlon James’s novel “Black Leopard, Red Wolf,” an epic fantasy about a bounty hunter on the trail of a mysterious boy, on Tuesday was named one of the five fiction finalists for the National Book Award. James, who won the Man Booker Prize in 2015 for his novel “A Brief History of Seven Killings,” is […]

For decades, WBAI-FM has remained a proudly scrappy alternative in New York’s radio market, a bastion of left-wing political commentary and community voices rarely heard elsewhere on the dial. That identity was cast into doubt on Monday when the station’s owner, the nonprofit Pacifica Foundation, abruptly laid off most of WBAI’s staff and replaced its […]

The Whitney Museum of American Art has again reached within its ranks to select a pair of curators to steward its Biennial exhibition in 2021, which aims to reflect the current social, political and cultural moment through art. The curators, announced on Monday, are both relatively recent additions to the museum’s staff. David Breslin, who […]

LOS ANGELES — Quibi’s latest partner is ESPN. The sports network, part of the Walt Disney Company, has agreed to join the likes of NBC News in providing content for the soon-to-launch short-form video platform from Jeffrey Katzenberg, a onetime chairman of Walt Disney Studios and a founder of DreamWorks. ESPN’s contribution, a daily sports […]

Streaming hits dominate the top of the Billboard chart this week, with the North Carolina rapper DaBaby taking No. 1. But the biggest winner may be the Beatles. “Kirk,” DaBaby’s second LP, with guest spots by Migos, Chance the Rapper and Gucci Mane, opened with the equivalent of 145,000 sales in the United States, according […]

Time’s Up, the advocacy organization founded by powerful women in Hollywood as the #MeToo movement roiled the nation, announced on Monday that it had appointed Tina Tchen, a lawyer and former chief of staff to Michelle Obama, as its new chief executive. Ms. Tchen was a founder of the organization’s signature initiative: a legal-defense fund […]

EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. — Beyond a thicket of dahlias, Katie Couric climbed through a tangle of vines to pick a squat little eggplant. Each week during the summer in this beach hamlet, she takes inventory of her vegetable garden, and on a mid-September Saturday, the patch of soil was s bursting with shishitos, jalapeños, and […]

Nir Eyal does not for a second regret writing Silicon Valley’s tech engagement how-to, “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products,” even as he now has a new book out on how to free ourselves of that same addiction. In his original manual for building enthralling smartphone apps, Mr. Eyal laid out the tricks “to subtly […]

Lu Yingxin has been singing “My People, My Country” for the past week. An earnest propaganda anthem from 1985, the song typically wouldn’t stand a chance against Taylor Swift, K-pop and other modern tunes the 18-year-old college student and her friends like to listen to. Then, on Sunday, Ms. Lu and her roommates saw a […]

The moon shines through a window, its light falling on a chair and a table holding a bottle and three tomatoes. A toy horse, a locomotive and a Santa Claus ornament sit among discarded ribbons and ornaments. A car approaches from the distance along a wooded lane on a rainy night, its headlights and their […]

On many websites, readers who scroll to the very end of an article are likely to encounter rows of small advertisements belonging to a weird subgenre of digital marketing known as chumbox ads. Named for the angler’s practice of using bits of dead fish to lure other fish, these ads comprise arresting images and baffling […]

LOS ANGELES — Dear Netflix: Keep your money. That is the message the Walt Disney Company sent by banning advertising from Netflix on its entertainment television networks — principally ABC and Freeform — as it prepares to introduce its own Netflix-style streaming service, Disney Plus. Disney will continue to accept Netflix ads on its ESPN […]

Imagine for a moment that Adam Neumann, the co-founder of WeWork and until several days ago its chief executive, came to you looking for a job. He is barefoot (he has been photographed walking around Manhattan this way), he talks about his ambition to live forever, to lead the free world and to “solve the […]

During a career spanning nearly five decades, Bob Woodward has interviewed several presidents, dozens of cabinet officials and, most famously, W. Mark Felt, an associate F.B.I. director who helped him piece together the narrative that led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon. But Mr. Woodward, a longtime Washington Post reporter who is an […]

LONDON — Europe’s top court said on Thursday that individual countries can order Facebook to take down posts, photographs and videos not only in their own countries but elsewhere, in a ruling that extends the reach of the region’s internet-related laws beyond its own borders. The European Court of Justice said Facebook could be forced […]

Sports Illustrated, which set a standard for sportswriting and photography during its 20th-century heyday, was transferred to a new company Thursday. Along with the change, there were layoffs, according to three people with knowledge of the moves. The number of those who lost their jobs under the magazine’s new steward, Maven, a digital platform company […]

The 2020 campaign ad wars have begun. CNN rejected a pair of provocative ads from President Trump’s re-election campaign on Thursday, saying the 30-second spots deriding the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry — one deeming the effort “nothing short of a coup” — contained inaccuracies and unfairly attacked the network’s journalists. It is unusual but not […]

LOS ANGELES — Hollywood’s latest comic book movie, “Joker,” arrives in multiplexes on Thursday night, and it has all the makings of a juggernaut. The R-rated film, which portrays the DC Comics villain as sharing the psychological traits of real-life mass shooters, is expected to collect at least $80 million in the United States and […]

Mac Conner, a prodigious illustrator whose realistic, colorful and often dramatic paintings for major magazines and advertisers helped lend a distinctive look to postwar popular culture, died on Sept. 26 at his home in Manhattan. He was 105. His death was confirmed by a family spokeswoman. Mr. Conner thrived as an artist from the late […]

“Sesame Street” is moving to a new streaming home. New episodes of the 50-year-old children’s television franchise will appear first on HBO Max, the streaming app from Warner Media that will debut next year, the company announced on Thursday. And for the first time, much of the enormous back library of “Sesame Street” will also […]

When the comic book writer and artist Todd McFarlane introduced readers to Spawn in 1992, he had little idea that he and the character would still be at it 27 years later. That longevity has come with an added perk: On Wednesday, Oct. 9, Spawn No. 301 will arrive in comic book stores and make […]

LONDON — Europe’s top court said on Thursday that an individual country can order Facebook to take down posts, photographs and videos and restrict global access to that material, in a ruling that has implications for how countries can expand content bans beyond their borders. The European Court of Justice’s decision came after a former […]

“Are you talking to me?” President Trump asked, his brow creased in disgust. He was staring at Jeff Mason, a Reuters reporter whom Mr. Trump had called on moments earlier during an East Room news conference with the president of Finland. Such events, with the American president joined by a fellow head of state, are […]

ImageThe next Democratic debate will take place on Oct. 15.CreditErin Schaff/The New York Times The New York Times and CNN will co-host the next Democratic debate, on Oct. 15, at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio — the first presidential campaign debate that The Times has planned and hosted in more than a decade. What do […]

Martin Bernheimer, a classical music critic noted for witty, withering writing that won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1982, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 83. The cause was sarcoma, his wife, the theater critic Linda Winer, said. “Historically,” Mr. Bernheimer wrote in the Financial Times in 2008, “the best critics […]

Brendan Dassey was 17 years old when he was convicted of helping his uncle murder and sexually assault Teresa Halbach, a photographer, in a Wisconsin salvage yard. He was 26 when the Netflix series “Making a Murderer” made that case — and the concerns about how it was handled — a global sensation. Now, weeks […]

Last year you may have been addicted to Beyoncé. But nowadays you’re more into Lizzo. You also once went through a phase of being obsessed with houseplants, but have lately gotten into collecting ballpoint pens. People’s tastes and interests change. So why should our Google data histories be eternal? For years, Google has kept a […]

How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? Ali Watkins, who covers crime and law enforcement in New York, discussed the tech she’s using. What are your go-to tech tools for work? I’ll be the first to admit: I’m a curmudgeon when it comes to tech. I […]