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Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorMichelle Lee, Allure’s top editor for the last five and a half years, is joining the Netflix marketing team in a newly created editorial and publishing role.Lee announced her jump to Netflix, where she will be global VP of editorial and publishing, in an Instagram post Monday.Lee in late July will join the Netflix marketing group headed by chief marketing officer Bozoma Saint John, the market veteran who previously worked at companies including Apple and Endeavor.

Naman Ramachandran The BBC board will launch a review into its editorial practices after the Dyson report on the 1995 Princess Diana interview on the “Panorama” program.The BBC said on Monday: “As members of the BBC board we were, like so many others, concerned by the findings in Lord Dyson’s report into the 1995 ‘Panorama’ interview with Diana, Princess of Wales.We accepted Lord Dyson’s findings in full and reiterate the apology we have offered to all those affected by the failings identified.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaMatthew Belloni, the former editorial director of the Hollywood Reporter, has joined the management team of a new media startup that will cover finance, politics, technology and entertainment. His landing spot has been the subject of much speculation since Belloni left the Reporter in a dispute with the trade publication’s owners over editorial coverage.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorBuzzFeed hired Litty Samuel, previously director of development for video at Meredith, as executive director of editorial video for BuzzFeed content.She takes over the role from Maycie Timpone, formerly BuzzFeed’s head of video and social media, who left last September to join Instagram as U.S.

Fox News Senior Political Analyst Brit Hume is calling out big social media companies for banning President Trump's accounts based on what he says are "pure editorial judgments."  "These social media companies have a legal right to do this, but they should not then pose as open platforms entitled to legal protections from the legal risks faced by publishers," he wrote in a tweet Friday night.  The tweet was in response to Twitter's announcement that it would permanently suspend the president's

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorAfter an extraordinary day of violence and political discord in the nation’s capital, at least two governors and a growing list of civic leaders are calling for Donald Trump’s immediate removal from office even though the President only has two weeks left to serve after he failed to win reelection.Gov. J.B.

“We have made staggering numbers of gun arrests, taking guns off the streets from felons,” New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said Tuesday, “but when you look, three days later, four days later, those individuals are back on the street committing more gun violence.” Too many bad guys — gang members, in particular — are walking the streets. In the past, cops could get them jailed and, often enough, imprisoned after catching them once.

Tom Lowell has been tapped as executive vice president and managing editor of news at Fox News, where he will oversee all daytime news editorial and news resources.

Duchess Meghan has written a deeply personal and brave account of suffering a miscarriage.In a powerful article for The New York Times titled "The Losses We Share," the Duchess of Sussex revealed that she had lost her unborn, second child in July.Starting the piece with a description of a typical morning looking after son Archie, Meghan wrote, "After changing his diaper, I felt a sharp cramp.

ESPN has shuttered its esports editorial vertical. "We have made the difficult decision to cease operations for our dedicated daily esports editorial and content," a spokesperson said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterVariety has reorganized its growing editorial operations, advancing and promoting a number of senior editors as the global entertainment brand expands the scope of its coverage.Claudia Eller will resume her role as Editor-in-Chief as of Oct. 26.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Iconic Talent Agency, which specializes in repping craft talent in film and TV, has taken the wraps off Iconic Editorial, a new subsidiary that will provide the company’s roster of editors access to commercial and branded entertainment projects.The idea came from ITA founder and ex-WME partner Devin Mann amid the current coronvirus pandemic, which saw commercial opportunities grow via remote workflows, and his clients — including Oscar winner Tom

editorial called Trump “reckless” and placed the blame for his coronavirus diagnosis — which came at the same time as First Lady Melania Trump’s — squarely on him.“No matter how you feel about Trump’s performance as president — and we feel pretty strongly that it has been a disaster — this is another crisis for a nation reeling from a year that almost seems apocalyptic: Trump’s impeachment, COVID-19, a popular outcry over racial injustice, the deaths of John Lewis and Ruth Bader Ginsburg,

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterVariety has won five Eddie & Ozzie Awards, presented by Folio:, for editorial and design excellence. No gala was held this year due to the pandemic.Variety’s April 29 issue, titled “The Great Depression,” which chronicled the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on workers across the entertainment industry, was honored with an award for business-to-business full issue as well as for its cover illustration.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentBursting onto the Latin American film-TV scene in the second half of last decade, Colombia’s Fidelio Films has struck a development and co-production deal with Stories, the burgeoning film-TV arm of Spain-based publishing giant Editorial Planeta.The news comes as Fidelio prepares to present at Spain’s Conecta Fiction, a Europe-Latin America TV production forum, the supernatural drama series “Tenebris,” which won an Our Local is Global grant from

released internal diversity statistics Thursday and vowed to increase roles for reporting on race and justice, among other steps toward inclusivity-boosting.Maribel Perez Wadsworth, president of news at Gannett Media, wrote, “By the end of the year, we will have created 20 national and 40 local jobs focused on social justice, disparities and inclusion to augment our coverage of race at the intersection of every critical institution, including education, health care, criminal justice and the

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorToday, Amazon Music announces the hire of Raymond Leon Roker as its global head of editorial. He will “lead all aspects of Amazon Music’s editorial content strategy across music, video, and voice,” according to the announcement, be based in Los Angeles and will report to Ryan Redington, director of Amazon Music.

Former 21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch has resigned from the board of News Corp., the parent company of the Wall Street Journal. In a letter of resignation filed Friday afternoon, Murdoch wrote: "My resignation is due to disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company’s news outlets and certain other strategic decisions." James Murdoch had been on News Corp.'s board of directors since 2013.

wrote in the letter, which was disclosed in an SEC filing. “My resignation is due to disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company’s news outlets and certain other strategic decisions.”It’s not immediately clear what editorial content Murdoch was referring to.“We’re grateful to James for his many years of service to the company.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorNews Corp. said Friday that James Murdoch, the son of founder Rupert Murdoch, is exiting the board of directors due to unspecified differences over editors content, the latest in periodic bouts of family drama around the media dynasty.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterJames Murdoch, former chief executive of 21st Century Fox and son of Rupert Murdoch, has resigned from the News Corp.

in response to a letter earlier this week from 280-plus staffers of the paper and parent company Dow Jones that criticized the opinion section and called for better labeling of opinion pieces and stronger fact-checking of op-eds.“It was probably inevitable that the wave of progressive cancel culture would arrive at the Journal, as it has at nearly every other cultural, business, academic and journalistic institution.

Ubisoft Toronto, has resigned from his position following a wave of assault and sexual harassment allegations against him.A Kotaku report, which was published on Monday (July 7), detailed the allegations against Béland.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot on Thursday published in a blog post an internal letter he wrote to staff members about the recent accusations of harassment and discrimination that targeted certain individuals at the company in recent weeks. The letter, titled "Change Starts Today," declared "The situations that some of you have experienced or witnessed are absolutely not acceptable.

Nota del editor: Tremenda Nota es el medio socio del Los Angeles Blade en Cuba. Este editorial salió en su sitio web el 29 de julio.

 Kylie Jenner ’s latest photoshoot did not happen in a luxury photo studio but rather her backyard. That’s right! The youngest of the Kardashian-Jenner clan shared a couple of photos from her Vogue Czechoslovakia feature looking glammed up in an electric blue ensemble.

Austin Daboh joining Atlantic Records UK, Apple Music has briskly moved to fill the role of head of editorial in the key UK and Ireland markets. Replacing Daboh is Ryan Newman, who joined the music streaming giant in mid-2018 as a music manager before rising to head of artist relations in January 2019."MASSIVE congratulations to Ryan Newman who has been made Head of Editorial for Apple Music," tweeted Daboh on Tuesday.

James Bennet, who was considered a top candidate to succeed Dean Baquet as executive editor of The New York Times, has resigned from his position as editorial page editor amid an intense backlash to a column his section published on Wednesday. The column, written by a conservative Republican U.S.

NEW YORK -- The New York Times’ editorial page editor has resigned amid outrage over an op-ed by a Republican senator who advocated using federal troops to quell protests — outrage that only grew when it was revealed the editor had not read the piece before publication. The paper announced Sunday that James Bennet, who had overseen the Times' opinion pages since 2016, had stepped down effective immediately.

memo to NYT staff by publisher A.G. Sulzberger.

By Manori Ravindran

The Hollywood Reporter has found its new editorial director. Nekesa Mumbi Moody, who has served as global entertainment and lifestyles editor at the Associated Press since 2012, has been named to the top editorial role atThe Hollywood Reporter.

By Dave McNary

The Hollywood Reporter has found its new editorial director. Nekesa Mumbi Moody, who has served as global entertainment and lifestyles editor at The Associated Press since 2012, has been named to the top editorial role at The Hollywood Reporter.

By Claudia Eller