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A Polish radio station triggered controversy after dismissing its journalists and relaunching this week with AI-generated “presenters.” (ABC News / AP)Read More

If a 9-year-old boy loses his coat–trekking into winter weather wearing only a T-shirt–is it the end of the world? No, but it’s the beginning of a bitter smackdown in which Mom accuses Dad of being a garbage parent. The kid, deeply troubled at overhearing the fight, vows silently never to take off his replacement…Read More

While Halloween night is when the ghosts, goblins, and adult-sized Blueys come out to play, the rest of October is for staying inside and binging on scary streaming content. But which streamers deliver the most tricks–and treats–for your subscription budget? ADWEEK’s resident horror experts ranked the Top 10 digital destinations for horror movies and series…Read More

It has been an epic season for the WNBA. Record-breaking attendance, viewership, and engagement; all signs pointing up and to the right for overdue investment fueling women’s sports. In New York City, the stars are shining bright, fresh off the heels of the New York Liberty’s first-ever franchise championship win. And while we expect to…Read More

Instagram has a new head marketer. Jake O’Leary has joined Instagram as global head of marketing, Meta confirmed to ADWEEK. He will lead marketing for the Instagram app, Instagram’s creators, and Threads. O’Leary’s purview has been covered by Eshan Ponnadurai, Meta’s VP and president of consumer marketing, who oversees marketing across multiple properties owned by…Read More

Some problems are easy to solve, others are difficult, requiring a lot more labor, willpower, resources and coordination.

Some problems have simple solutions, while others are complex in what it takes to move forward.

The trivial problems are fun. They’re simple to solve and don’t require much effort. Yes, please, go solve them.

We’re tempted to focus on the problems that are complicated but apparently easy. Somehow, a tweet or a scientific paper or some other announcement is all that it will take to unknot this situation. Tempting, but unlikely. If all it took to solve an easy problem was telling people the solution, we probably would have solved it already.

The other temptation is to seek out problems that are difficult to solve and complicated to organize around. After all, a herculean problem like this is so hard that no one can fault you if you don’t succeed.

What truly matters, though, are the important problems. The ones that aren’t rocket science, but need a significant amount of guts, emotional labor and community coordination to solve. They’re here. Right in front of us. Simple but difficult. But worth it.

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Top of the Ticker: CNN’s chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward and her crew were briefly detained by a rebel militia in the Darfur region of Sudan earlier this month. Ward wrote about her harrowing 48-hour experience in a post on CNN’s website recounting why they were in that area, how they were captured, and how…Read More

Earlier this year, restaurant critic Pete Wells excused himself from the table after twelve years. In his last essay for The New York Times, he paints a bleak portrait of a hyper-optimized restaurant industry and dining culture devoid of personal exchanges, humanity and friction. Wells also takes issue with the rise of TikTok foodfluencers, where…Read More

“We have to look for women’s histories in unexpected places,” said Aurora James, subject of the latest installment of video series Resume Rewind, sponsored by entertainment wiki hosting service Fandom. “One of those places is fashion.” James is the founder and creative director of luxury lifestyle and accessories brand Brother Vellies and founder of The…Read More

Friday, Oct. 18 Only 30,000 total viewers separated the 4 p.m. ET shows on Fox News and MSNBC–Your World with Neil Cavuto and Deadline: White House with Nicole Wallace, respectively. (All times Eastern.) In the Adults 25-54 demo, though, Cavuto was the clear winner. 25-54 Demographic (Live+SD x 1,000) Total Day: FNC: 235 | CNN:…Read More