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The Digital World Is a Powder Keg. Julian Assange Lit the Fuse.
In his brazen quest for total transparency, the WikiLeaks founder paved the way for a world in which no secret is safe and no institution trusted.
By Mattathias Schwartz
In his brazen quest for total transparency, the WikiLeaks founder paved the way for a world in which no secret is safe and no institution trusted.
By Mattathias Schwartz
In “All the Worst Humans,” Phil Elwood recounts a career spent engineering headlines for some of the world’s villains.
By Jim Windolf
It was the smallest TV audience for a presidential debate since 2004, but CNN’s telecast was still among the highest-rated programs of the year.
By Michael M. Grynbaum
The MSNBC host Joe Scarborough urged him to consider dropping out. So did other pundits the president had long viewed as his strongest allies in the news media.
By Michael M. Grynbaum
The anchors mostly receded into the background on Thursday night. That was exactly what CNN leadership had in mind.
By Michael M. Grynbaum
The case, which cut to the heart of the league’s media strategy, centered on a subscription service that aired out-of-market games for roughly $300 a year.
By Ken Belson
With an emphasis on younger viewers, he established the networks as serious rivals to ABC, CBS and NBC, which had ruled television for nearly 40 years.
By Trip Gabriel
“The Apprentice,” a dramatized origin story about Donald J. Trump, has faced fierce criticism from the former president and his allies.
By Brooks Barnes
A scramble for the Infowars host’s meager assets pits Sandy Hook victims’ families against one another in court.
By Elizabeth Williamson
He joins after leading The Texas Tribune for three years.
By Katie Robertson
Anna Wintour called Vogue Germany’s latest cover star, 102-year-old Margot Friedländer, a “meaningful” subject.
By Ruth La Ferla
Partisan media outlets this week are already fixating on Thursday night’s first presidential debate — and how their preferred candidate could prevail.
By Santul Nerkar
NBC will offer a customized, daily highlight reel with A.I.-generated narration that sounds like the longtime broadcaster.
By John Koblin
Evan Gershkovich of The Wall Street Journal has endured 15 months in prison by reading letters and Russian classics, while the authorities have not publicly offered any evidence that he was a spy.
By Neil MacFarquhar, Milana Mazaeva and Ivan Nechepurenko
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A class-action lawsuit over the cost of Sunday Ticket subscriptions underscored how valuable broadcast deals have been for the league’s success.
By Ken Belson
To make “Horizon,” he put his own money on the line and left “Yellowstone,” the series that revived his career — all with little Hollywood support.
By Nicole Sperling
Amid challenges in Hollywood, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences renewed its chief executive’s contract a year early.
By Robin Pogrebin
We’ll have 60 Times reporters. Here’s how we plan to cover the presidential debate.
By The New York Times
The company’s latest internal memo about its corporate culture is more about how it expects employees to behave than what it wants to become.
By Nicole Sperling
One network is in charge of every aspect of the Biden-Trump debate, a major shift from previous years. Tens of millions of viewers are expected to be watching.
By Michael M. Grynbaum
As a journalist, singer, label owner and radio producer, he fostered a community of musicians on the outskirts of Americana.
By Clay Risen
The actor and director is turning his attention to his ambitious film series about post-Civil War America.
By Maya Salam
Robert Winnett will stay at The Daily Telegraph, after reports raised questions about his ties to unethical news gathering practices.
By Benjamin Mullin and Katie Robertson
Progressive publications have quoted extensively from Dr. Fauci’s new book, heralding him as a hero for his work during the pandemic. Conservative outlets have cast him as a villain.
By Santul Nerkar
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The company said the disclosures support its argument that a law signed by President Biden in May is unconstitutional.
By Sapna Maheshwari
He turned “an insignificant trade house” into a powerhouse, publishing best sellers like “The Silence of the Lambs” and “All Creatures Great and Small.”
By Sam Roberts
The visual effects supervisor, hurt in one of three recent accidents on Amazon film sets, has sued, but the company says it is not to blame.
By Nicole Sperling and Matt Stevens
Sunday’s show had the second-lowest viewership for a Tonys telecast since records have been kept.
By John Koblin
The newspaper has been reeling from successive revelations about Robert Winnett, its incoming editor, and Will Lewis, its chief executive.
By Benjamin Mullin and Katie Robertson
The company’s TNT channel and the N.B.A. have long been inextricably linked, but that may end after next season. Plus, Charles Barkley is retiring.
By Tania Ganguli, Kevin Draper and Nicole Sperling
Titles like Adventure Journal, Mountain Gazette, Summit Journal and Ori are aimed at “people who just don’t want to be on their phones anymore.”
By John Branch
Years before becoming The Post’s publisher, Will Lewis assigned an article based on stolen phone records, a former reporter said.
By Justin Scheck and Jo Becker
The main event will be broadcast on CBS and livestreamed for Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers. A simulcast will also air at Damrosch Park in Manhattan.
By Michael Paulson
In his decade at ABC, long the doormat network in prime time, he helped guide it toward the No. 1 spot. He later produced “Nashville” and won an Emmy for “Friendly Fire.”
By Richard Sandomir
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The Amazon founder has expressed his support to Will Lewis, the C.E.O., who has faced widespread criticism this month.
By Benjamin Mullin and Katie Robertson
Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google, said he never discussed a potential acquisition of the digital media start-up.
By Danielle Kaye
Conservative media outlets used the new inflation data, which was lower than expected, to criticize President Biden’s handling of the economy. Liberal media outlets celebrated it.
By Santul Nerkar
Urban Tandoor, an Indian restaurant in southwest England, is using terrible music video parodies made by its staff to bring in new and younger guests.
By Isabella Kwai
Our reporter surveyed a quarter of Tony voters before Sunday’s ceremony. One certainty: Sondheim’s onetime flop seems destined for redemption.
By Michael Paulson
After a career as a satellite dish installer, he found success with RFD-TV, a 24-hour cable channel aimed at farmers and ranchers.
By Trip Gabriel
The network has hit an unusually fallow period. Executives hope “House of the Dragon,” which returns Sunday, could be the start of a new winning streak.
By John Koblin
As the leader and spokesman for Reporters Without Borders, he rescued some, sought refuge for others and lobbied for pluralism in the press.
By Sam Roberts
The deal is a rare example of a traditional Hollywood studio owning a movie theater chain.
By Danielle Kaye
Many claims about the laptop’s contents have not been proved, but it played a role in the prosecution of Mr. Biden over a firearm purchase.
By Katie Robertson
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There were several hitches in the last week as Skydance, Paramount and its parent company, National Amusements, reached the final stages of negotiations.
By Benjamin Mullin and Lauren Hirsch
The ride was closed last year because of its connection to a racist film. Disney overhauled it to focus on Tiana, Disney’s first Black princess, drawing praise and backlash.
By Brooks Barnes and Todd Anderson
Word puzzles on LinkedIn. Logic challenges in The Washington Post. For news publishers and tech sites looking to both entice and engage users, games are serious business.
By Mike Isaac
“Floyd Collins,” a musical about a trapped spelunker and the media circus surrounding his failed rescue, had a brief Off Broadway run in 1996.
By Michael Paulson
He called himself a “professional listener,” and he tended to develop lifelong relationships with the artists he worked with.
By Giovanni Russonello
Dr. Mosley, a British medical journalist and documentary maker, disappeared last week while on a trip on the Greek island of Symi.
By Isabella Kwai and Niki Kitsantonis
As a historic presidential election looms, several of America’s largest and most powerful newsrooms are now being led by English journalists. Why?
By Michael M. Grynbaum
Will Lewis, the chief executive, pledged to employees to “improve how well I listen,” while Matt Murray, the new editor, tried to reassure staff members.
By Benjamin Mullin and Katie Robertson
Conservative media outlets criticized the executive order as being too lenient, while the liberal outlets that covered it said it was harmful to migrants.
By Santul Nerkar
The host departs this week after more than four decades leading one of the most watched shows on syndicated American TV.
By Maya Salam
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False narratives and conspiracy theories about climate change, immigration and Ukraine are spreading via politicians and foreign operatives.
By Tiffany Hsu
“Bad Boys: Ride or Die,” the latest entry in a nearly three-decade- old franchise, will be Smith’s first wide-release film since he slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars in 2022.
By Marc Tracy
David Folkenflik of NPR wrote that the offer, in exchange for agreeing to stop his coverage of a phone hacking scandal, was made “repeatedly — and heatedly.”
By Katie Robertson and Benjamin Mullin
Reporting from more than 80 countries, he combined close observation with sharp conclusions about misdeeds or abuse of power. He was an author as well.
By Adam Nossiter
Mr. Mosley, a popular science journalist, disappeared while on a walk on the Greek island of Symi. He was last seen at a bus stop on Wednesday afternoon.
By Isabella Kwai and Niki Kitsantonis
BNN Breaking had millions of readers, an international team of journalists and a publishing deal with Microsoft. But it was full of error-ridden content.
By Kashmir Hill and Tiffany Hsu
Will Lewis, the chief executive of The Washington Post, objected to coverage of a legal development involving him in a phone hacking case.
By Benjamin Mullin and Katie Robertson
Working for The Associated Press, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his sequence of photos showing the president being struck by a bullet while three others fell wounded.
By Richard Sandomir
The tech website’s publisher, G/O Media, sold Gizmodo to the digital media and tech company Keleops.
By Katie Robertson
After a wave of lawsuits accusing Mr. Combs of sexual assault, the two are “completely separated and dissociated from each other,” the company’s chief executive said.
By Julia Jacobs
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Robert Winnett is virtually unknown in the U.S. and keeps a low profile in his native Britain, too. This fall, he will oversee the newsroom of Woodward and Bernstein.
By Michael M. Grynbaum
In columns and notably “The New York Times Book of Wine,” he introduced Americans to European and premium domestic varieties in the 1970s and ’80s.
By Clay Risen
Sally Buzbee, who has been editor of The Washington Post since 2021, chafed at a major reorganization by the newspaper’s chief executive.
By Benjamin Mullin and Katie Robertson
A self-described activist-journalist, he was for many years the national affairs correspondent for the community-focused Pacifica network.
By Trip Gabriel
Once a week, Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart are luring viewers back to basic cable.
By Michael M. Grynbaum and John Koblin
Matt Murray, the former editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal, will take her place temporarily.
By Katie Robertson and Benjamin Mullin
For Barry Levine, a former top journalist at the supermarket tabloid, the former president’s trial was its own kind of tear-jerker.
By Jacob Bernstein
Hugo McCloud has gone from designing fountains and furniture to his fifth show with an established New York gallery.
By Robin Pogrebin
Since Google overhauled its search engine, publishers have tried to assess the danger to their brittle business models while calling for government intervention.
By Nico Grant and Katie Robertson
In prime time, MSNBC scored a rare Nielsen victory. Earlier, when the news broke, Fox News attracted the biggest live audience.
By Michael M. Grynbaum
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The singer and actress said she was “heartsick and devastated” about the decision, which comes on the heels of a hit Netflix movie and persistent rumors about her marriage.
By Maya Salam
It was the latest example of journalists having to weigh the news value of a major political moment against the challenges of reporting on a candidate who regularly speaks in falsehoods.
By Michael M. Grynbaum
Conservative outlets blasted former President Donald J. Trump’s criminal conviction as a sham, while liberal outlets divided on the import.
By Santul Nerkar
Every major TV network broke in to daytime programming to present a rare moment of political and legal suspense.
By Michael M. Grynbaum and John Koblin
The case concerns Mary L. Trump’s disclosure of financial documents to a team of reporters at The New York Times.
By Michael M. Grynbaum
A study found that hundreds of sites, many without obvious Kremlin links, copied Russian propaganda and spread it to unsuspecting audiences ahead of the E.U. election.
By Tiffany Hsu and Steven Lee Myers
A billionaire who was critical of Disney’s management, Mr. Peltz lost an expensive battle for a place on the company’s board.
By Lauren Hirsch
Next season could be the last for TNT’s influential and beloved studio show, and Charles Barkley, for one, will not be going quietly.
By Tania Ganguli
The two leaders have looked for money-saving measures since joining the digital tabloid in April.
By Benjamin Mullin and Katie Robertson
The former G.O.P. presidential candidate, who has invested in BuzzFeed, believes the company needs to pivot. He wants to see commentators like Tucker Carlson in its lineup.
By Benjamin Mullin
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Memorial Day weekend ticket sales in North America are expected to total $125 million, down 40 percent from last year.
By Brooks Barnes
His Moon Knight was a hit in the 1970s, 30 years after he began his career. Bloodshot, another popular superhero, followed two decades later.
By George Gene Gustines
Ads are here, there — almost everywhere — on streaming services now.
By John Koblin
Ted Sarandos helped lead Netflix to victory in streaming, but the war for your attention isn’t over.
By Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Videos of parents demonstrating their moves have been a surprise hit on a site where youth rules — perhaps because the trend isn’t played for laughs.
By Maya Salam
In this month’s roundup, true stories of air disasters (and why they’re so rare), as well as love letters to life in the skies.
By Emma Dibdin
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