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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…

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…

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”…

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…

As president of Volkswagen of America, he pushed the “Think Small” ad campaign that helped create a counterculture icon.Carl H. Hahn, a German automobile executive who helped transform the humble Volkswagen Beetle into an American pop culture icon and one of…

Like so many anxious filmmakers the week before the start of the Sundance Film Festival, Erica Tremblay was tucked inside a dark room in Los Angeles, prepping the final sound mix for her feature debut, “Fancy Dance.”Ms. Tremblay has one of…

Conversations between R.N.C. officials and television executives signal that the contours of the Republican nominating contest are shaping up.Despite a field of candidates who regularly bash the news media and a continuing tussle with the Commission on Presidential Debates, Republican leaders…

“Game Theory,” his HBO talk show, has pulled off the difficult feat of mixing sports and comedy with a political bite. Now he’s trying to up his game by going unscripted.You know Bomani Jones is about to say something funny, deadly…

Last fall, the university’s law school joined other top programs in dropping out of the magazine’s annual list. The medical school’s dean said the rankings “cannot meaningfully reflect” the school’s goals.Harvard Medical School will no longer submit data to U.S. News…

The verdict was a rare legal victory for Ms. Ressa, founder of the news site Rappler, who has been under pressure from the Philippine authorities for years.MANILA — The journalist and Nobel laureate Maria Ressa was acquitted of tax evasion on…

In a security filing, Disney was harshly critical of Nelson Peltz, saying he had “no strategy, no operating initiatives, no new ideas and no plan.”Robert A. Iger is coming out swinging.Mr. Iger, chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, counterattacked the…

Late Monday morning, two police officers drove up a gravel driveway to a mobile home in Benton, Tenn., a tiny town in the foothills of the southern Appalachians, to question Susan Meachen, a 47-year-old homemaker and author of romance novels.She had…

The parent company of CoinDesk, one of the first news sites focused on the industry, faces questions about the operations and financial health of some of its subsidiaries.On Nov. 2, the cryptocurrency exchange FTX was worth tens of billions of dollars.…

The entertainment genre of historical drama is flourishing — and riddled with inaccuracies. The untrue parts are leading to more public spats and lawsuits.The following stories are not based on real events. In fact, they’re completely made up — even thought…

The tech mogul’s company has hired Whisper Advisors, an advisory firm, to find potential buyers for the digital publication.The tech mogul Barry Diller was one of the first billionaires to experiment with digital journalism in the 2000s, teaming up with longtime…

Nelson Peltz wants the company to revamp its streaming business and focus on increasing profits. Disney wants shareholders to vote against his effort to get a seat on the board.The activist investor Nelson Peltz is pushing for a Disney board seat,…

Tuesday’s viewership, of 6.3 million, was the lowest since NBC started broadcasting the awards show in 1996.On the one hand, the ratings were only marginally worse compared with the last telecast of the Golden Globes.On the other hand, viewership for the…

The appointment of Ms. Blumenstein, a deputy managing editor at The Times, is a part of a broad overhaul of the news division at NBCUniversal.NBCUniversal has appointed Rebecca Blumenstein, a deputy managing editor at The New York Times, as the president…

The winning films, TV shows, actors and production teams at the 2023 Golden Globe Awards.Going into a typical awards show, the big question is, of course, who and what will win the top honors. This year’s Golden Globes ceremony was not…

He was managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine and a top editor at Politico before overseeing The Times’s popular political newsletter.Blake Hounshell, an influential political journalist who was managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine and a top editor at Politico before…

Ticket prices won’t exactly be less, but the cost of some activities and perks will be adjusted, after complaints about the cost of visits.In an acknowledgment that it may have pushed too hard on its domestic theme parks for profit, angering…

A typical lesson that Saara Martikka, a teacher in Hameenlinna, Finland, gives her students goes like this: She presents her eighth graders with news articles. Together, they discuss: What’s the purpose of the article? How and when was it written? What…

The Florida governor easily won re-election despite little engagement with mainstream news outlets, another sign of partisan division ahead of the 2024 presidential race.Assigned to cover the re-election campaign of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, Miles Cohen, a young ABC News…

The C.E.O., Robert A. Iger, said in a memo that he thought the move would benefit the company’s culture and creativity.Starting on March 1, the Walt Disney Company will require employees to report to the office four days a week, a…

Karen Cooper, who took over the nonprofit cinema in 1972 and transformed it into a $6 million-a-year operation, will step down in July after five decades.When Karen Cooper took over Film Forum in 1972, the theater was a projector and 50…

Both artists introduced new digital versions of their albums, bringing a tight race to a typically sleepy week on the Billboard charts.The R&B singer and songwriter SZA has edged out Taylor Swift to hold at No. 1 on Billboard’s album chart…

This weekend the narrative around the Buffalo Bills player flipped, from soul-searching about the violence of America’s most popular sport to something more hopeful.Last week came the horror of watching Damar Hamlin, the Buffalo Bills safety, suffer cardiac arrest live on…

The reporter, Dion Rabouin, who is Black, was handcuffed and placed in a police vehicle after conducting interviews outside a bank in November.The Phoenix Police Department has opened an internal investigation into the detainment of a Wall Street Journal reporter who…

He covered wars, revolutions and diplomatic breakthroughs for CBS, NBC and The New York Times. He also served, briefly and unhappily, as a State Department spokesman.Bernard Kalb, a veteran correspondent for CBS, NBC and The New York Times who also made…

Prestige shows like “The White Lotus” grab a lot of the headlines and rave reviews. But viewers still like to settle in with the familiar.Just a few years ago, it looked as though shows in which a group of characters confront…