Media & Journalism

For all the fulminations about the million-ton craphammer dropped on the Los Angeles Clippers and owner Steve Ballmer for trying to evade the NBA salary cap, almost nobody has yet identified the situation as the entertainment bonanza it is about to become. Yes, it's time for another edition of the game show to end all game shows, and maybe also to end everything else: Billionaires Eating Billionaires. You've seen it, because it airs reruns on basically every channel. A bunch of insanely wealthy

Welcome to the Defector College Football Watch Guide, where Israel Daramola and Ray Ratto will tell you which of the weekend’s college football games are worth giving a crap about. Ray: Week 0 is behind us, as well you might want it to be if you watched South Carolina State beat Savannah State 87-0 in Saturday. There will be more of that this week, undoubtedly, and every one of those games will serve as blessed relief from the hailstorm of turgid analyses about North Carolina being 1-0 without

We can officially stick a fork in the fallout stage of former Athletic reporter Dianna Russini's long and handholdy relationship with Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel. Russini resigned in disgrace and remains unemployed, while Vrabel suffered absolutely no professional consequences. And now The Athletic has completed its five-month review to determine whether her work was up to the company's ethical standards. Spoiler alert: It was mostly fine. The review was published Thursday morning and condu

Earlier this year, Curry Barker and Kane Parsons became young Hollywood phenoms in quick succession. An actor and sketch comedian, the 26-year-old Barker wrote, edited, and directed Obsession, which is the story of a meek romantic who uses a magical novelty toy to make his crush fall in love with him with predictably disastrous results. Parsons, at 21, directed Backrooms, a feature-length adaptation of his own creepypasta-inspired web series about a labyrinthine extradimensional space that serve

A nightmare has happened. Maybe you were minding your own business in the office when an earthquake hit, or maybe you were spelunking in some wretched cave never meant for humans to enter. Yet regardless of how you got here, you are now trapped and in need of urgent medical attention. There's too much debris to clear before a paramedic would be able to reach you ... a human paramedic, that is. But this guy? This guy eats rubble for breakfast. This is a giant burrowing cockroach, and it is app

The 35-page report released on Wednesday by the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, which contains a great deal of evidence that Kawhi Leonard and the Los Angeles Clippers circumvented the NBA's salary-cap rules, makes for some surprisingly fun reading. It includes some juicy and/or embarrassing emails and text messages sent by some of the parties involved in the Clippers' scheme, and my favorite part of the report is this one: In December 2021, Mr. Sanberg discussed with senior Aspiratio

She previously anchored CBS News’ flagship morning show from 2012 until May 2019.

Three communications leaders on turning major anniversaries into opportunities for cultural relevance and future growth.

Top executives from Albertsons, PayPal, Home Depot, and Instacart lay out their plans.

Tom Dundon and the Portland City Council remain in a standoff. In early August, the city approved a $120 million expenditure of public money for renovations of the Blazers' longtime home arena, located in the city's Rose Quarter entertainment district. The city's proposed terms included a new 20-year lease, a $3 million annual payment to the city (compensation for property taxes the team avoids by playing in a publicly owned arena), and for the team to commit to using unionized labor. Dundon's r

Disney adds Jennifer Creegan as head of marketing technology and operations.

Well, this is a bit surprising. Media Matters’ Matt Gertz writes, “Pete Hegseth hasn’t been on Fox News in 11 months.” It’s surprising for two reasons. First, Fox News is […] The post Where’s Pete Hegseth? Not on Fox News. appeared first on Poynter.

The deal is the chipmaker's second-largest acquisition as Nvidia stakes its future on open-source AI.

After Santiago Campos stepped offstage at the News Emmy Awards in New York in May, fresh from a speech criticizing CBS News and issuing a call to action for journalists, […] The post He’s an award-winning aspiring journalist. He rarely consumes mainstream news. appeared first on Poynter.

The difference between reaching people and moving them.

Anna Sproul-Latimer, a literary agent, on what a shrinking market means for journalists.

Resisting assumptions about the inevitable, and drifting your own way.

The real solution requires a connected system that combines identity, customer behavior, and business signals.

WNT gets boost in demo, and NBC crosses 7 million total viewers.

The CTV campaign used two agents, one for planning and one for buying