L.A. Times Names ESPN’s Kevin Merida Executive Editor

ABC’s Shark Tank and Fox’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown tied in the demo wars for Friday night, with the season finale of Shark Tank edging out wrestling by virtue of its larger audience.

“Les Colombes” is on display through July at the Washington National Cathedral. Timed-entry tickets are $10, with current availability only for daytime visits in June; additional tickets, including times in July, are expected later this month.

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ESPN’s coverage of the Los Angeles Lakers’ 103-100 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday in the NBA Play-In Tournament drew an average of 5.62 million viewers, which the network said was its most-watched game since the pre-pandemic 2019 Western Conference Finals.

Endeavor Content on Monday named Sharon Liggins as its senior vice president of communications, a newly created role with the studio. She joins from Ava DuVernay’s collective ARRAY, where she served as VP of publicity.

Donald Trump.In an interview, Buzbee stressed her commitment to diversity and to telling stories in a compelling way across many formats.“The challenge of journalism everywhere is to meet audiences where they are and make our journalism as accessible and sharp and transparent as possible,” she said.

The Washington Post has named Sally Buzbee, who has spent her career at the Associated Press, as its next executive editor, succeeding Marty Baron.

made the announcement to the newspaper’s staff on Tuesday. She becomes the first woman to lead the 144-year-old news organization.“Sally Buzbee has an exceptional record of achievement and a tremendous wealth of experience in leading a global news organization,” Ryan said in a memo to staff.

Despite national media attention and name recognition, Caitlyn Jenner drew low support in the most recent  UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll, their first since she got into California’s gubernatorial race.

Sophie Turner shows off her long legs in a cute khaki dress as she arrives for dinner out at Craig’s restaurant in Los Angeles on Friday night (May 7).

Yamiche Alcindor, White House correspondent for PBS NewsHour, will become the new moderator of Washington Week, the PBS public affairs show.

The Los Angeles Times has found its new lead editor. Kevin Merida, who has lead ESPN's The Undefeated vertical since 2015, has been named executive editor of the 139-year-old newspaper.

Kevin Merida, ESPN senior vice president and editor-in-chief of the Undefeated, has been named the next executive editor of the Los Angeles Times.

NEW YORK -- The Los Angeles Times on Monday said that ESPN executive Kevin Merida, an editor with extensive newspaper experience, will be its new executive editor.Merida has been editor in chief of ESPN's The Undefeated, a site that examines race and culture as well as sports. He spent 22 years as a journalist at The Washington Post.He replaces Norman Pearlstine, who stepped down late last year.

Donald Trump's personal lawyer, and his dealings in Ukraine.The corrections, to stories that ran last Thursday or Friday, take back reports that the former New York City mayor had been warned by the FBI that he was the subject of a Russian operation to influence the American election.NBC's online correction on Saturday was the most extensive, and it required both the headline and top of a story that ran a day earlier to be rewritten.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are freaking out after news that the once engaged couple has been hanging out. Sources told Page Six that the couple has been spending time together in Los Angeles following her break up from Alex Rodriguez.

WASHINGTON – The National Black Justice Coalition, a D.C.-based LGBTQ rights organization, issued a statement on Monday disclosing that an unarmed 32-year-old black man who was shot as many as 10 times by a sheriff’s deputy in Spotsylvania County, Va., on April 21 is gay.

New event cinema company Iconic Events — led by an impressive roster of exhibiton industry veterans — has named Steve Bunnell to serve as its CEO. The Los Angeles-based venture also said it has enlisted theatrical circuits representing over 1,000 locations to the expanding network of theaters playing its programming.

Donald Trump.Flatiron Books announced Wednesday that it had acquired Baron's “Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post." The Post is owned by Amazon.com founder and frequent Trump target Jeff Bezos.Baron will explore his eight years with the paper and look into larger issues of the press and its role in democracy.“Marty Baron has had an unparalleled career in journalism, overseeing some of the most consequential news coverage in a generation," Flatiron editor Zachary Wagman said