EXCLUSIVE: The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival – the country’s longest running all-documentary festival – is preparing to launch an innovative new Filmmaker Forum.
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Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Selina Wang, who served as CNN’s only reporter on the ground during the coronavirus-challenged Beijing Winter Olympics, will soon become one of ABC News’ key personnel in a very different arena: The White House. Wang, who had been with CNN since 2020, was named ABC News’ new senior White House correspondent Tuesday, during the Disney news unit’s daily editorial meeting.
“I’m honored to join the extraordinary team of journalists at ABC,” says Wang. “As I arrive in Washington after my time reporting overseas, I’m reminded of what a privilege it is to work in a country where there is freedom of the press.
I look forward to working alongside my new colleagues in covering one of the most consequential stories of our time.” Wang stood out during the coronavirus pandemic, and was the only American broadcaster reporting on the ground in China during the historic anti-zero-COVID protests. She provided extensive coverage of how China’s security forces clamped down on demonstrators, filmed her own experience dealing with health surveillance and long government quarantines, and was the first to deeply investigate the extreme measures people took to flee China and its COVID policies.
“She has reported on key stories from China and the Asia-Pacific region, leading coverage on China’s economic, political and societal transformation and its evolving relationships with governments and leaders around the world,” said ABC News President Kim Godwin. Wang also worked for CNN as a Tokyo-based correspondent, where she covered the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, leading the network’s coverage from Japan.
EXCLUSIVE: The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival – the country’s longest running all-documentary festival – is preparing to launch an innovative new Filmmaker Forum.
A woman whisked her pal away for an overseas birthday treat and it cost a fraction of the price of a train ticket to London. Rebecca Kellett, 37, surprised her pal Lauren Priest, 31, with an overseas trip to Northern Ireland.
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Mark Marshall, the executive who led NBCUniversal’s ad-sales outreach on an interim basis, will take the role officially. Marshall, who was given oversight of NBCU’s ad-sales after former leader Linda Yaccarino departed abruptly to take the CEO role at X, the social-media company previously known as Twitter, will report to Mark Lazarus, chairman of the company’s media operations.
.In a knit Tory Burch polo and khaki slacks, the Scandal star hung out with Vice President (who should wear that powder blue suit more often, IMHO), and obviously, fans of the Shondaland show ate it up.“Whew the you did up in that house!” YouTuber Kalen Allen commented on the post. The “Washington in Washington” moment also drew dozens of jokes on the “it's handled” catchphrase.
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will celebrate its 2023 Gold and Silver Circle Inductees at the 44th Annual News & Documentary Awards on September 27-28 in New York.
Mitchel Musso, best known for playing Oliver Oken in the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana, was arrested in Texas.
Emmerdale's Amy Nuttall has 'split from her cheating husband Andrew Buchan for a second time' as he 'failed to stick to the marriage rules' she issued him after his 'affair' with Leila Farzad.The soap star, 41, is reportedly 'gutted' but definitive that their 11-year marriage is over after Andrew, 44, didn't fulfil the demands she's believed to have set out in order to help rebuild their relationship. She's reportedly asked the Broadchurch actor to leave their family home for the second time since February when it was first revealed that he had had an alleged secret romance with his BBC crime thriller Better Together co-star, Leila. A source told The Sun: 'It took a lot for Amy to give the marriage another chance but she thought it was worth one final roll of the dice.
show, based on the Archie Comics character of the same name, she was aching for more mature gigs as the ABC series progressed. However, the now-47-year-old’s magical, squeaky-clean image was tarnished when she posed half-naked for the cover of Maxim magazine in 1999 — and she was accused of breaching her TV contract because of it.On top of that, she was nearly fired, too.She claimed she found out she was being sued by the network at the premiere of her 1999 rom-com “Drive Me Crazy” — calling it the “worst day” of her life on a recent episode of the “Boy Meets World” rewatch podcast “Pod Meets World.”She also revealed to hosts Danielle Fishel, Rider Strong and Will Friedle that, as a result of her sexy cover shoot, she was even almost booted from her role in the horror parody film “Scary Movie” — something that she allegedly also found out on the red carpet.The Long Island native, who appeared as Sabrina in a 1997 episode of “Boy Meets World,” said that she was waiting for a post-premiere car ride when she got the news.“I get a call in the limo,” she said.
Ken Jennings is taking over hosting duties for the upcoming season of Celebrity Jeopardy!.
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor YouTube has enlisted an interesting partner to help it get the word out about its new rights to show NFL Sunday Ticket. Online sports bettor FanDuel will team up with the Alphabet-backed video-streaming outlet to make a limited-run promotional offer for the Sunday Ticket package, which offers access to NFL games not available on TV affiliates in specific markets.
Chloe Melas is joining NBC News as an entertainment correspondent based in New York.
Michael Oher, the inspiration behind, has been estranged from the Tuohys for about a decade now, according to attorneys for the Tuohys.Attorneys Randall Fishman and Steven Farese held a news conference Wednesday in Memphis, Tennessee to speak on behalf of the Tuohys amid Oher's lawsuit claiming in Tennessee court that Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy lied about adopting him and tricked him into making them his conservators shortly after he turned 18.When asked if Oher has been part of the Tuohy family or had any close contact with the Tuohys, Farese said «no.»«He's been estranged probably since for the last 10 years,» Farese added, «and becoming more and more vocal and more and more threatening.»Oher also alleged that the Tuohys used their power as conservators to negotiate a deal with 20th Century Fox that paid them and their biological children — Collins Tuohy and Sean Tuohy Jr. — millions of dollars in royalties from, which earned more than $330 million and starred Sandra Bullock, Quinton Aaron, Jae Head, Tim McGraw, Lily Collins and Kathy Bates.
Katie Price has said her mum Amy was “weeks from death” before she underwent a lifesaving lung transplant. Amy, 71, was diagnosed with idopathic pulmonary fibrosis in 2017, a condition in which the lungs become scarred and make breathing difficult. Katie’s mum underwent life-saving surgery last year, after a donor match was found.
Selina Wang is joining ABC News as senior White House correspondent after being based at CNN’s Beijing bureau as the network’s sole correspondent in China.
EXCLUSIVE: Former CNN journalist Saima Mohsin has won the right to take the news network to an employment tribunal in the UK with her claim of unfair dismissal and discrimination after she was injured on assignment in Israel.
NBC News’s Gabe Gutierrez is joining the network’s White House team as senior White House correspondent.
While he wasn’t necessarily gone per se, it does feel like Aaron Taylor-Johnson is back in a big way.
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews will take direct oversight of CBS News, the latest move in a broader restructure of operations at Paramount Global’s CBS business. Matthews, a CBS News veteran who once supervised the Washington bureau and had been put in charge of overall newsgathering, will now have top editorial oversight for CBS News across all platforms. She will oversee all CBS News programs, bureaus, global newsgathering, streaming and digital editorial, as well as standards and practices, special events, politics, elections and surveys, social, the race and culture unit and CBS News Radio.
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor The headlines coming out of CBS News will soon be guided by a new executive. Neeraj Khemlani, who arrived at the Paramount Global unit in 2021 to oversee CBS News and local stations along with Wendy McMahon, is leaving his role running the unit that produces “60 Minutes,” “CBS Evening News” and “Face The Nation,” among other programs.
In a series of recent Instagram pictures, Chloe Ferry has faced claims she's a 'bad role' model, with one even saying: "Please eat! Not a good look to show kids this is it." However, her fans were quick to defend the brunette in the comments section and showed their support. Flooding the TV star, who has previously appeared on hit shows such as Celebs Go Dating and Ex on the Beach, with lovely compliments, one wrote: "Don't listen to the negative comments Chloe. Do what makes you happy...