Fox Corp. Taps Former Disney+Hotstar Exec Varun Narang As Chief Product Officer

Trevor Noah is the newest international personality to cast a light on the ongoing farmers’ agitation in India. If Rihanna and Greta Thunberg missed the mark in getting their points across, leave it to this late-night host to familiarize the westerners with what’s going on in the country.

Fox Corp. has signed Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott to a multi-year contract extension.

Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch said Fox News is not about to adjust its political orientation despite a bumpy period during and after the 2020 presidential election and a recent slip in its ratings.

Fox Corp. beat Wall Street expectations in its second fiscal quarter, with revenue of nearly $4.1 billion improving 8% from the year-earlier period.

Caribou has announced a new remix album of songs from last year’s ‘Suddenly’ – hear a new Koreless remix of ‘Never Come Back’ below.The new remix album, also featuring Four Tet, Floating Points, India Jordan, Logic1000 and many more, will be released digitally on March 12.Discussing the new release, Dan Snaith – aka Caribou – said in a statement: “Sometimes remixes are commissioned to be marketing tools or to make the music functional in a club.

NEW DELHI -- It took just one tweet from Rihanna to anger the Indian government and supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaFirst Look Media has appointed Ian Stratford as its new chief legal officer and head of business affairs. Prior to joining First Look Media, Stratford served as SVP, associate general counsel at Endeavor where he helped found Endeavor Content, the agency’s production, financing and sales arm.

Smartmatic said on Thursday that it filed a $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox Corp., claiming that Fox News “irreparably harmed” its reputation when some of their news personalities and guests pegged the company as responsible for rigging election results.

Naman Ramachandran Social media platform Twitter is the eye of a political storm in India after the federal government came down hard on it for unblocking accounts supporting the long-running protests by farmers.On Monday, the Indian government’s Ministry of Home Affairs required and obtained the temporary suspension of several Twitter accounts including: actor and activist Sushant Singh; investigative news organization The Caravan; activist Hansraj Meena; CEO of government broadcaster Prasar

Singer Rihanna took to Twitter on Tuesday to call attention to the months-long farmers’ protest in India that included tens of thousands of farmers camping on roads in the dead of winter around New Delhi and a violent clash last weekend at the capital’s Red Fort complex.

Riot Games has appointed Hulu veteran Gaude Lydia Paez to lead its global communications team. In her new role as senior vp of global communications and corporate affairs, Paez will report to president Dylan Jadeja and oversee the League of Legends developer's social responsibility efforts in addition to communications strategies.

EXCLUSIVE: Rebel Girls, the entertainment brand best known for the children’s book series and podcast Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls has added former Warner Bros. and Disney exec Soo Koo and Lilly Workneh, former editor-in-chief of Blavity News, as, respectively, chief creative/marketing officer and head of digital content.

Roc Nation Sports, the sports-focused division of Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter's Roc Nation, has hired former New York Mets general manager and CAA agent Brodie Van Wagenen to serve as COO and head of strategy and business development. Van Wagenen will report to Carter andRoc Nation Sports president Juan Perez.

Channel 4 has promoted its programming boss Ian Katz to chief content officer in a sweeping reorganization aimed at helping the UK broadcaster secure 40% of its £985 million ($1.3 billion) revenue from sources other than traditional TV advertising by 2025.

Sunday’s “Swamp Rangers” radio program, radical anti-LGBTQ activist Scott Lively declared that God stripped Donald Trump of the presidency because of Trump’s promotion of the LGBTQ agenda by giving a gay man, Richard Grenell, prominent positions within his administration.Lively was an ardent supporter of the former president and had hoped that Trump would use his presidency to destroy the LGBTQ movement by enacting Russian-style anti-gay laws in the United States.

direct to your inboxA thug who beat up his former headmaster is back behind bars for dealing drugs from his house in Rochdale.Jermaine Bullen, 37, left Kieran Heakin unconscious and lying in a pool of blood after he delivered countless punches and kicks to his head. He was locked up indefinitely for public protection in 2010 for the attack inside an Indian restaurant.

Also Read: Ron Howard to Direct Biopic on Master Chinese Pianist Lang Lang“Ron and Brian have built one of the most admired, truly creatively-led companies in the business and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed our partnership in documentaries over the years,” Wilkes said in a statement.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterBrian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment has promoted Justin Wilkes to chief creative officer.Currently the head of the prolific Imagine Documentaries division, Wilkes’ expanded role was announced internally on Monday by Howard and Grazer. He will now work closely with film, TV, docs, branded entertainment, kids and family, and international programming.