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The studio’s first venture into live performance follows the move by Audible, Amazon’s audio subsidiary, to stage works at the nearby Minetta Lane Theater.A24, the independent film and television studio barreling into next weekend’s Academy Awards with a boatload of Oscar…

Meena Kotwal started a news outlet focused on Dalit and other marginalized groups in India, hoping that telling their stories would help improve their lives.The injustices were all too common. In one part of India, a vendor’s stall was broken up, depriving…

Teenagers and young adults are flummoxed. The reason it keeps happening involves an online prompt and product design.More than a decade ago, Qu’ana Underwood, then a middle school student in Philadelphia, joined Facebook. But as other social media platforms appeared, Facebook…

The latest release by the Colombian pop star is the first Spanish-language LP by a woman to open at the top of the Billboard 200.In December 2020, Bad Bunny made history on the Billboard charts with the first No. 1 album…

Anyone buying a ticket for a concert, baseball game, Broadway play or flight has experienced it: Seats are now priced with dizzying complexity, with costs in some instances changing minute by minute, based on demand.But movie theaters? In many ways, they…

She was one of the first Black female journalists at The New York Times and The Washington Post. The Times put her on the staff of a women’s news section.Bernadette Carey Smith, who in the 1960s was one of the first…

Even in today’s highly partisan media world, experts said, the lack of coverage about the private comments of Fox’s top executives and hosts stands out.Fox News and its sister network, Fox Business, have avoided the story. Newsmax and One America News,…

The Florida governor granted a rare interview to The Times of London, one of several Murdoch media properties he’s spoken with as he prepares a possible presidential bid.Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, a sulfurous critic of the news media, has all…

Praised by critics as the inventor of contemporary Italian television, he also used his position to take on the Sicilian Mafia, which tried to kill him.ROME — Maurizio Costanzo, for decades one of Italy’s leading prime-time talk show hosts and most…

Executives and top hosts found themselves in a bind after Donald Trump began pushing unfounded claims about election fraud, court filings show.Five days after a pro-Trump mob attacked the U.S. Capitol, a board member of the Fox Corporation, Anne Dias, reached…

Elon Musk’s repeated job cuts are stoking new fears that there aren’t enough people to triage Twitter’s problems.After Elon Musk bought Twitter last year and eliminated thousands of its employees, many users were so alarmed by the cuts that #RIPTwitter and…

Rupert Murdoch, the conservative media mogul, spoke under oath last month in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems.Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the conservative media empire that owns Fox News, acknowledged in a deposition that several hosts…

The leadership change comes as Vice Media’s investors seek a buyer for the company.Vice Media named two co-chief executives on Monday, turning to internal leaders to steer the company as it gets closer to a sale.Bruce Dixon, the company’s chief financial…

The ad drew accolades when it first aired in 1971 but also, more recently, derision. A Native American advocacy group that acquired the rights to the ad said it would be “put to bed.”A man dressed in Native American clothing paddles…

Scott Adams, who created the syndicated comic strip, also said that white people should “get the hell away from Black people,” prompting criticism from editors across the country.Hundreds of newspapers across the country will stop running the “Dilbert” comic strip after…

The chief at Condé Nast, which only occasionally discusses its financial results, said ad revenue grew year over year, while subscriptions and e-commerce fell short of goals.Roger Lynch, the chief executive of Condé Nast, the publisher of Vogue, The New Yorker…

Ms. Dubuc is leaving the media company, which is exploring a sale of some or all of the business, after nearly five years there.Nancy Dubuc, the chief executive of Vice Media, who attempted to improve the company’s culture and steady its…

One recent Saturday morning at Steps on Broadway, a rehearsal studio on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, ballet dancers pirouetted to recordings of classical piano music while an instructor guided them.Some of the dancers were retired pros practicing at the…

In addition to having a roster of authors that included Gail Sheehy, David Levering Lewis and Lech Walesa, he spoke out for the rights of writers worldwide.John Macrae III, a dashing publisher who gambled on groundbreaking books and dauntlessly defended authors…

The broadcaster announced English soccer’s biggest moments, including 10 World Cups.John Motson, the soccer commentator whose animated voice was inseparable from many of the sport’s biggest moments over his 50 years at the BBC, died on Thursday. He was 77.The BBC…

These shows, full of passionate reporting, will leave you better informed and perhaps less prone to doom paralysis.Feelings of despair about the climate crisis have become so commonplace that “eco-anxiety” is now an emerging field in psychology, and apocalyptic visions of…

While the deluge has become a nuisance, the stories are easy to spot. The writing is “bad in spectacular ways,” one editor said.It could be a tale from science fiction itself: a machine that uses artificial intelligence to try to supplant…

Thought to be Brazil’s first Black TV journalist and a rare female anchor, she was a trailblazer in a country with a long history of racism.RIO DE JANEIRO — Glória Maria, considered Brazil’s first Black television journalist, who toppled barriers for…

The nonprofit media organization, which has a staff of about 1,100 people, said the layoffs were required because of a slowdown in advertising and a drop in corporate sponsorships.NPR will lay off 10 percent of its staff to make up for…

A Texas entrepreneur, he co-founded the media giant Clear Channel, owned pro sports teams and created more than 400 businesses in a variety of industries.Red McCombs, a former Texas used car dealer who became a billionaire entrepreneur by venturing into an…

“SOS” is now the longest-running No. 1 album by a woman since Adele’s “25” seven years ago.SZA, SZA, SZA, SZA, SZA, SZA, SZA, SZA, SZA.For a ninth time, “SOS,” the latest release by the R&B singer-songwriter SZA, is No. 1 on…

The kingdom’s courts are meting out harsher punishments than ever to citizens who criticize the government, with prosecutions built on Twitter posts ending in prison sentences of 15 to 45 years.RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — One day in November 2015, Saad Almadi…

Rachel Maddow is teaching her to use a TelePrompTer, so far with mixed results. Mika Brzezinski offered tips on pinning down squirrelly guests. Nicolle Wallace invited her to editorial meetings and Andrea Mitchell is tutoring her on interviewing techniques.Jen Psaki spent…

CNN’s chairman, Chris Licht, said in a Monday night memo that the anchor “has agreed to participate in formal training” after making on-air comments widely regarded as sexist.The CNN anchor Don Lemon will return to his regular morning-show role on Wednesday,…

Mr. O’Keefe had been the face of the group of conservative provocateurs since he founded Project Veritas in his father’s garage in suburban New York in 2010.James O’Keefe, who as the leader of the conservative group Project Veritas used theatrical stunts,…

The Times was honored for its coverage of the war in Ukraine and a photo of war victims, as well as for its reporting on private schools for Hasidic Jews in New York.The New York Times won three George Polk Awards,…

The justices are set to hear a case challenging Section 230, a law that protects Google, Facebook and others from lawsuits over what their users post online.Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old California college student, was studying abroad in Paris in November 2015…

His fantastical work for The New Yorker, New York and Playboy made him a hot commodity in the last golden era for magazines and their illustrators.By 2013, the celebrated Hungarian-born illustrator Istvan Banyai had achieved a place of prominence and influence…

As a Time magazine bureau chief, he was pivotal in the publication of revelatory taped interviews with the ousted premier that had been smuggled out of the Soviet Union.Jerrold Schecter, a journalist who in the late 1960s helped smuggle to the…

It was the 36th day of what was supposed to be a 30-day shoot in New Orleans, but the cast and crew of the rock drama “Daisy Jones & the Six” were still at it.They were filming a scene, set in 1977, in which…

Mr. Lemon’s assertion that Nikki Haley was not “in her prime” had been widely viewed as sexist.Don Lemon, the CNN morning-show anchor, faced an internal rebuke from the chairman of his own network on Friday after his on-air comments about women…

Mr. Lemon’s assertion that Nikki Haley was not “in her prime” had been widely viewed as sexist.Don Lemon, the CNN morning-show anchor, faced an internal rebuke from the chairman of his own network on Friday after his on-air comments about women…

The comments, by Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and others, were released as part of a defamation suit against Fox News by Dominion Voter Systems.Newly disclosed messages and testimony from some of the biggest stars and most senior executives at Fox News…

Twice an All-Star, he played on four teams over four decades and won two World Series titles. Then he took his baseball smarts and gift of gab into the TV booth.Tim McCarver, a durable big-league catcher who played in four decades,…

The company knew the new technology had issues like occasional accuracy problems. But users have prodded surprising and unnerving interactions.When Microsoft introduced a new version of its Bing search engine that includes the artificial intelligence of a chatbot last week, company…

Lisa LaFlamme was dismissed after a decades-long TV career, not long after she stopped dyeing her hair, setting off debates across Canada about sexism, ageism and going gray.TORONTO — Lisa LaFlamme had barely settled in at the back of the cafe…

The Hollywood multitasker provided a steady hand at a somewhat tumultuous time for the talk show. He will be replaced by Mark Consuelos, the husband of “Live” co-host Kelly Ripa.Ryan Seacrest announced on Thursday that he was leaving “Live with Kelly…

He was called in to do damage control for celebrities in a negative spotlight, but his specialty was working with gay stars, athletes and others.Howard Bragman, a publicist who, like many in his line of work, often helped the famous and…

“The dumb money era is over” as layoffs, budget cuts and scuttled deals challenge a long-booming industry.When the celebrity-backed media company Religion of Sports — founded by Tom Brady, Michael Strahan and Gotham Chopra — debuted in 2018, getting into the…

Unlike many of its rivals, Netflix has not pursued showing live games. Instead, it has invested in series on professional auto racing, tennis and now golf.By the fourth season of Netflix’s documentary series about Formula 1, “Drive to Survive,” the streaming…

In the 1960s and ’70s, he created indelible images of the city’s combustible mix of art, rock ’n’ roll, new Hollywood and social ferment.Julian Wasser, the artful and rakish photojournalist who chronicled the celebrity culture of Los Angeles that began percolating…

As the Elon Musk-owned social media service encounters interruptions and bugs, Chinese dissidents and activists said they feared they were being muzzled.In November, Bao Pu, a veteran human rights activist who was visiting Beijing, posted videos on Twitter of university protests…

Walt Disney has been dead for nearly 57 years. In the coming weeks, however, he will begin greeting museum visitors on two continents.As part of its 100th anniversary marketing-palooza, the Walt Disney Company used archival video and artificial intelligence tools to…

The R&B singer-songwriter has matched Taylor Swift’s run with “Folklore,” the last time a female artist held the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s chart for eight weeks.SZA is not done with No. 1 yet.After a one-week dip to second place on…