Independent agency Party Land is looking for Super Bowl work, and it has hired a saxophonist, a Real Housewife, and a jolly old elf to get the word out. Party Land is shaking things up with a series of Cameo videos featuring The Real Housewives of New York City star Sonya Morgan, musician Kenny G,…Read More
Former CBS Colorado sports anchor Mark McIntosh met the woman who donated one of her kidneys to him. The 65-year-old McIntosh was an on-air sports broadcaster at CBS Colorado from 1988 to 2006. McIntosh diagnosed with amyloidosis, a rare disorder caused by an abnormality of plasma cells in the bone marrow. The disease can cause…Read More
Frequent visitors to CNN’s website were greeted with a different kind of headline Tuesday–one that encourages them to pay in order to continue reading. (TVNewser) The Warner Bros. Discovery-owned news operation is putting a paywall on CNN.com, requiring U.S. users to pay $3.99 per month or a discounted rate of $29.99 per year for access….Read More
New York magazine writer Olivia Nuzzi is publicly accusing her ex-fiance, Ryan Lizza, a prominent political journalist with Politico, of orchestrating a harassment and blackmail campaign against her after their split and while Nuzzi had a personal relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (CNN) Nuzzi, who has been on leave from the magazine since the…Read More
Tech culture columnist Taylor Lorenz is striking out on her own, exiting The Washington Post to launch User Mag, her own publication on the Substack platform. (THR) The move comes less than two months after the newspaper launched an internal review following her social media post about President Joe Biden. Lorenz attended a White House…Read More
The U.S. is calling for the immediate release of Mech Dara, a Cambodian journalist arrested Monday and charged with incitement over recent social media posts. (The Hill) In a statement, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court Derek Schnell in the country’s capital said Dara, who has worked for local and international media, posted “provocative” and “false”…Read More
Youth-focused social-media company Snap grappled internally with how to warn users of its platform’s sextortion risks without striking fear in users and their parents, according to an unredacted version of a lawsuit New Mexico filed against the company in September. (WSJ) According to the suit, in November 2022, “Snap employees were discussing 10,000 user reports…Read More
Disney will combine ABC and Hulu’s scripted drama and comedy teams as part of a reorganization at the entertainment giant. (TheWrap) In a consolidation move six years in the making, ABC Signature is no more. The production unit is being shut down, with its operations folded into 20th Television under 20th TV president Karey Burke….Read More
The safety of journalists in the U.S. is no longer a given as members of the media face a slew of threats–including violence, online harassment, legal challenges, and attacks by police–that could coalesce to undermine press freedom, according to a new report published Tuesday by the Committee to Protect Journalists. (CPJ)Read More
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a rights group Tuesday that his imprisonment set a “dangerous precedent” for arresting journalists and criminalizing activities that were essential to the work of investigative journalists–his first public statement since being released from a British prison in June. (NYT)Read More
