New Teen Vogue editor-in-chief Alexi McCammond apologises for ‘idiotic’ anti-Asian tweets

Ethan Shanfeld Early in the pandemic, actor Christine Chang was attacked in a grocery store. She told her story to “New Amsterdam” co-executive producer and writer Y.

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On Thursday, CAA kicked off the month of April with the CAA Amplify Town Hall to address the surge of violence against Asians and Asian Americans. These acts of violence and harassment have been on the forefront in the past week with the Atlanta shootings and the most most recent attack in New York City where a man brutally attacked 65-year-old Vilma Kari while saying racist remarks.

The Emmy award-winning Top Chef kicks off in 18th season on April 1 and Padma Lakshmi has hosted the reality competition for 17 of them (she was asked to do the first season but was unable to — we get into that in the episode). Throughout the run of the Bravo series, Lakshmi has seen — and eaten — a lot. She stopped by Deadline’s New Hollywood Podcast to spill all the tea about the series and how it’s been like for her in the past 17 seasons.

Violence against Asian Americans has risen dramatically over the past year. The coalition Stop AAPI Hate has tracked nearly 4,000 incidents of discrimination over the past year alone, as NPR reported earlier this month, though experts and advocates stress that the actual number is likely much higher.

Bowen Yang is speaking out about the violence against Asian Americans.

Rihanna   coming?Fans of the 33-year-old singer have desperately been waiting for her to release a new album, and while doesn't seem to be happening just yet, it sounds like we can at least look forward to a single.

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The Tonight Show host has previously faced a 15-year campaign by the activist group Media Action Network For Asian Americans (MANAA) after he made a string of derogatory comments about the Asian community.Appearing on a Zoom call with Guy Aoki, head of Manaa, Leno said: “I am issuing this apology.“I do not consider this particular case to be another example of cancel culture but a legitimate wrong that was done on my part.”The comedian was most recently criticised in 2019 for reportedly joking

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorBuzzFeed announced Danielle Belton, currently the top editor of G/O Media’s The Root website, as the new editor-in-chief of HuffPost.Her appointment comes after BuzzFeed earlier this month laid off 70 HuffPost employees — eliminating nearly 30% of the site’s U.S. newsroom positions — and took other cost-cutting moves following the acquisition of HuffPost from Verizon Media.

“Raya And The Last Dragon” star Kelly Marie Tran is addressing anti-Asian racism and hate on the latest episode of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”.

NEW YORK -- The Paris Review has a new editor, only the sixth since being founded in 1953, but its third since 2017. Emily Stokes, currently a senior editor at The New Yorker, succeeds Emily Nemens, who announced earlier this month that she was leaving to work on a new book.“Emily (Stokes) will honor the Review’s tradition of discovery,” Mona Simpson, publisher of The Paris Review, said in a statement Tuesday.

A dream show for Bill Maher Friday dwelled for a big chunk of the hour on his favorite topic, cancel culture, with two likeminded panelists egging each other on in defense of would-be Teen Vogue editor Alexi McCammond and irritation at Turner Classic’s “reframed” movies.

EXCLUSIVE: Acclaimed director Roger Spottiswoode is set to premiere his latest film, “a love poem to New York,” at a time when some have questioned the city’s post-pandemic future.

Former Axios reporter Alexi McCammond will not join Teen Vogue as editor in chief next week after submitting her resignation on Thursday. "My past tweets have overshadowed the work I've done to highlight the people and issues that I care about...

Alexi McCammond, who was to take over as the next editor in chief of Teen Vogue, has instead resigned amid a furor over offensive tweets she posted as a teenager resurfaced.