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'My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile': Enormous Documentary Sequel
16+ min ago (1040+ words) Following her mammoth five-hour odyssey “My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow,” Julia Loktev’s sequel remains just as riveting, if not more so, in its continued depiction of journalists escaping the Russian government. Its predecessor’s endpoint (one Loktev…...
New York Times' Kyle Buchanan Exits Paper to Launch Podcast
1+ week, 2+ day ago (245+ words) New York Times pop culture writer and awards columnist Kyle Buchanan has left the newspaper after eight years. I can exclusively report that Buchanan is launching a new video podcast about Hollywood, “The Kyle Buchanan Show,” in mid-October. His last…...
Vertical Media on Track to Generate $150 Billion in 2026 as the Booming Sector Fights Crowded Content Field and High Subscriber Acquisition Costs
1+ week, 6+ day ago (328+ words) Meta, ByteDance and YouTube projected to generate 94% of vertical revenue outside of China this year There’s no doubt that 2026 will go down as a milestone year for the growth in popularity of vertical media content in the U.S. The sector…...
Asghar Farhadi Condemns Politicians and Media for Focus on ‘Difference’ and ‘Hate’: ‘Why Do You Think a Mother in Afghanistan Is Different Than Your Mom?’
2+ week, 21+ hour ago (612+ words) The director is at the Sarajevo Film Festival, where he praised Mike Leigh and condemned filmmakers who are only focused on chasing success “They don’t say [how] moms everywhere have the same emotions towards their kid, but the way they…...
CBS News Chief Correspondent Matt Gutman Accused of Sexual Harassment by Former ABC Field Producer
2+ week, 6+ day ago (212+ words) Matt Gutman, CBS News’ chief correspondent, has been accused of sexual harassment in a wrongful-termination lawsuit filed by a former co-worker at ABC News. Variety has reached out to representatives for ABC and Gutman for comment. According to Said’s lawsuit,…...
Ken Burns on ‘Waking the Dead,’ Cutting Trump-Era Echoes and Why His Obama Film Can Wait
2+ week, 6+ day ago (443+ words) “You wake the dead.” Ken Burns offered that succinct description of his filmmaking at the Edinburgh Intl. Film Festival on Friday, where the veteran documentarian dug into the craft behind bringing history to life and made a claim for the…...
LISTEN: Retired Athletes Blake Griffin and Ryan Kalil Return to Sports as Team Owners and TV Producers in YouTube Docuseries ‘We Are Osos’
2+ week, 6+ day ago (265+ words) President and Chief Media Analyst Never tell Ryan Kalil or Blake Griffin to stay in their lanes. Since moving on from their playing days in the NFL and NBA to running the production company Mortal Media, they’re about to add…...
Scott Pelley, Sharyn Alfonsi Take Journalist-in-Residence Roles at Columbia University
1+ mon, 20+ hour ago (273+ words) The stopwatch keeps ticking after “60 Minutes.” Sharyn Alfonsi and Scott Pelley were both named journalists-in-residence at Columbia University‘s School of Journalism Monday, a position that will be in place for the 2026-2027 academic term. The two former “60 Minutes” correspondents will…...
Variety Wins 20 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, Including Print Journalist of the Year
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (488+ words) Variety won 20 first-place trophies Sunday night at the 18th annual National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards, up from the 14 the publication scored in last year’s competition. Among the accolades was a Print Journalist of the Year win for chief music critic…...
The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Who Has the Entire NBA Spooked
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (987+ words) Pablo Torre would like to set the record straight. “I’m getting stopped on the street regularly by people saying, ‘Leave Jalen Brunson alone,’” Torre says. “It’s been a consistent theme as a New Yorker of people threatening me. Even Rick…...