Ozy Media Chairman Marc Lasry Steps Down, Raising Heat On Maligned Digital Startup

Will Matthew McConaughey soon be putting on a bat suit? In a new interview with radio DJ Zane Lowe during the Advertising Week New York event, the Academy Award-winning actor addressed rumours that he’s slated to be the next Batman.

Matthew McConaughey soon be putting on a bat suit? In a new interview with radio DJ Zane Lowe during the Advertising Week New York event, the Academy Award-winning actor addressed rumors that he's slated to be the next Batman.When asked about the possible upcoming role, McConaughey seemed caught off guard.«I am? First I've heard of it, but it happens this way sometimes!» he said in response to the casting rumors. When Lowe suggested that maybe the internet got it wrong, McConaughey chimed in

NEW YORK -- The lead character of television's most popular drama exited the show Monday without a fuss, and without the immediate ratings bump that would be expected if there had been.“NCIS” star Mark Harmon, who has played Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs since the CBS drama began in 2003, had his final night as a regular character on Monday's show.

EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Hopkins and Jeremy Strong are set to join the cast of Focus Features Armageddon Time with James Gray writing and directing. Anne Hathaway is also on board as are newcomers Banks Repeta along with Jaylin Webb and Ryan Sell. The film is currently in production in New York.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon celebrate the premiere of their new film, the long-time collaborators are looking back at their lasting friendship.Affleck and Damon walked the red carpet at the New York premiere of at the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Saturday, and spoke with ET about how their friendship has evolved over the quarter-century since their first big project, .For Affleck, the years have seemingly flown by, because for them, they've never really stopped spending time

New York Yankees season might have been a strikeout, but chef Marcus Samuelsson’s show, out every Tuesday on the YES Network app, is a grand slam.In “Home Plate,” Samuelsson, 50, ventures out to a diverse selection of NYC’s best mom and pop eateries chosen by former Yankees — Bernie Williams, 53, and David Cone, 58 — the New York Liberty’s Rookie of the Year Michaela Onyenwere, 22, along with Lorraine Bracco, 67, and Steve Schirripa, 64, of “The Sopranos.” “It’s all we love about the city.

Matthew McConaughey has been on the fence about a possible run for governor of Texas for months now, and he discusses his feelings about entering politics in the latest edition of the New York Times podcast “Sway”.

Stephen Labaton, an executive at Booz Allen Hamilton and former correspondent for The New York Times, has been named executive vice president of communications for the NBCUniversal News Group.

It appears Grimes may have pranked the paparazzi who were following her around after her recent breakup with Elon Musk.

less than a week since The New York Times piece, the digital media company that raised a reported $83 million since 2012 is being abandoned by employees, senior executives and investors, including respected TV journalist and producer Katty Kay, investors Laurene Powell Jobs, Ron Conway and Marc Lasry, who resigned this week as chairman of the board just weeks after joining.Ozy billed itself as a modern media venture that was “ahead of the curve.” This week it has faced a daily onslaught of

Embattled digital media company Ozy Media said it will shut down, just days after a New York Times column exposed a range of dubious and even potentially criminal behavior by its executives.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeFormer BBC News anchor and correspondent Katty Kay, who had just joined Ozy Media in late June, has announced her exit following the recent controversy swirling around revelations of the digital company’s practices.“Yesterday morning I handed in my resignation to Ozy Media,” Kay wrote on Twitter.

said in a statement posted to Twitter just after appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” earlier in the day to talk about former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham’s forthcoming tell-all. “I had recently joined the company after my long career at the BBC, excited to explore opportunities in the digital space.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeOzy Media CEO Carlos Watson has informed the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences that he will no longer host the documentary portion of the 42nd News & Documentary Emmy Awards on Wednesday night.Watson’s decision to step down comes following a New York Times report on Monday questioning the validity of Ozy’s various traffic claims, and revealing that Ozy co-founder Samir Rao had posed as a YouTube executive, touting Ozy’s success, during a

a New York Times exposé on the operations of his company. “Carlos Watson has graciously reached out to us and asked to be removed from his hosting duties tomorrow night so as not to distract the focus from the talented nominees in the documentary categories of the 42nd News & Documentary Emmy Awards,” a representative for the program told TheWrap.

New York Times.The site was founded in 2013 by Carlos Watson, its CEO, and Samir Rao, now COO. According to the article by media columnist Ben Smith, who said he previously met Watson when he was the editor of Buzzfeed, Rao impersonated a Google executive on a fund-raising call with Goldman Sachs, supposedly vouching for the success of Ozy’s YouTube channel.

Amber Mark has announced details of her debut album ‘Three Dimensions Deep’ – listen to first single ‘What It Is’ below.The New York-based singer, songwriter and producer will share her first full-length on January 28 next year via EMI/PMR Records.Speaking of the creation of the album in a statement, Mark said: “’Three Dimensions Deep’ is a musical journey of what questions you begin to ask yourself when you start looking to the universe for answers.“I can only go as deep as the third dimension