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Bernard Kalb, a veteran television journalist that worked at CBS and NBC News, has died. He was 100.

Bob Nalbandian, whose journalism and film career chronicled the ups and downs of the heavy metal scene in print, film and online, died Friday, December 30 in Redding, California at age 58.

The journalism world lost a legend this week.

TV icon and journalist Barbara Walters has died, according to multiple reports. She was 93.

Barbara Walters, the television journalist, 20/20 host and creator of The View, has died. She was 93.

Christo Grozev, the investigative journalist featured in the Navalny documentary, has been put on Russia’s “wanted” list.

Ashley Graham is clapping back at mean AF body shamers!

Controversial Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz says she has been suspended from Twitter upon order of its owner, Elon Musk.

The soccer community continues to mourn the tragic death of journalist Grant Wahl.

Grant Wahl‘s death is no longer being suspected of foul play according to his brother Eric.

A new time slot! Rhiannon Ally is one of the latest additions filling in on GMA3 following the reported romance between coanchors T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach.

A second journalist has “died suddenly” while working at the World Cup soccer tournament in Qatar.

A journalist covering the FIFA World Cup died “suddenly” in recent days, a Qatar newspaper has reported, with the announcement on Saturday following by a day reports of the death of U.S. journalist Grant Wahl.

The BBC journalist who conducted Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s engagement interview has responded to Markle’s claim that it was an “orchestrated reality show”.

Becoming the news. Good Morning America anchor T.J. Holmes and his coanchor Amy Robach gained national attention after rumors swirled of the twosome’s alleged relationship.

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first look at BAFTA-nominee Maxine Peake (The Village) as the late, fearless Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya in feature Anna.

Award-winning Indian journalist Ravish Kumar has stepped down from his role at broadcaster NDTV, which is in the process of a hostile takeover by Indian billionaire Guatam Adani. 

Censorship concerns in China have reached boiling point as protests rage after a BBC journalist was “beaten and kicked by police” and footage showed the state broadcaster altering World Cup coverage to avoid showing mask-less crowds.

Days before the midterm elections, Americans concerned about alleged voter suppression efforts in Georgia and other states will get the chance to see a documentary that puts the issue into sharp relief.

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K.J. Yossman Emmy Award nominated journalist and anchor Anelise Borges has signed with CAA, Variety can exclusively reveal. Borges, who speaks four languages fluently including French, Spanish and Portuguese, has reported from more than 30 countries, covering war, migration, dictatorships and Europe’s identity crises. She boasts over a decade of experience in the field. She has worked at Euronews, TRT and France 24 covering topics including the war in Syria, the European refugee crisis and the Greek economic bailout. While based in Istanbul, she covered the Middle East, Africa, and Europe, breaking stories and reporting from the field.

Slain journalist James Foley has been honored with a stone memorial outside the church he attended while growing up in New Hampshire. Foley, a freelance journalist, was among a group of Westerners brutally murdered in Islamic State captivity in Syria in 2014. He grew up in Wolfeboro and attended St.

. The site was dedicated to Finke’s firsthand accounts of how she saw the entertainment business.  Deadline was founded in 2006, and later purchased by Penske in 2009.

Deadline Nikki Finke has died at age 68.According to her family, Finke died in Boca Raton, Fla. on Sunday morning after a prolonged illness, as confirmed by Deadline.Finke grew up in Sands Point on Long Island before graduating from Wellesley College.

Penske Media Corp. purchased Deadline for a reported $14 million, with her remaining editor-in-chief and continuing her reporting and commentary.Finke was legendary in her day, writing scoops on her Deadline blog that often proclaimed “Toldja!” when something she’d reported turned out to be true.But although she was required daily reading in Hollywood, Finke was also feared and hated by many, as she became notorious for threatening sources and trading one piece of information to get another more damaging piece of information.Among the targets of her often personal-seeming grievances were then-NBC chief Ben Silverman, the former head of the William Morris agency and many other Hollywood power players of the early oughts.She suffered from lifelong diabetes and was notoriously reclusive because of her discomfort over being overweight, having been a society debutante as a young woman.

Nikki Finke, the veteran entertainment journalist who founded Deadline in 2006 and helped grow it into a major player among Hollywood trades, died Sunday morning in Boca Raton, FL after a prolonged illness. She was 68.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer Nikki Finke, a tenacious journalist who revolutionized entertainment reporting with what became the Hollywood trade website Deadline, died Sunday morning in Boca Raton, Flor. after a prolonged illness. She was 68. After spending the beginning of her career reporting on everything from Moscow (for the Associated Press) to Washington, D.C. (for Newsweek), in 2002, Finke started a column for L.A. Weekly called Deadline Hollywood, which she took online in March 2006 as Deadline Hollywood Daily in an effort to better cover up-to-the-minute news. Rather than focus on celebrity or content, Finke placed a singularly unforgiving spotlight on the studio executives and high-powered agents who make the industry run. She was unafraid to call out what she believed to be ill-conceived or substandard decision-making in the bluntest possible terms, and her take-no-prisoners approach made her site a must-read in a media ecosystem Finke saw as excessively fawning and credulous.

WATCH: Jeffrey Dahmer speaks about his arrestIt’s widely understood that the American murderer was beaten to death by a fellow inmate at Wisconsin's Columbia Correctional Institution, a man named Christopher Scarver.Scarver was in jail for shooting a man and was cleaning the prison gym when he was left unsupervised with Dahmer and one other inmate.He killed Dahmer and the other man, Jess Anderson, with a 50-centimetre-long metal bar that weighed just over 2 kilos according to the New York Post."[Dahmer] crossed the line with some people—prisoners, prison staff. Some people who are in prison are repentant—but he was not one of them," Scarver later told the outlet."I turned around, and [Dahmer] and Jesse were kind of laughing under their breath.

has publicly spoken up in defense of journalist Gabriella Karefa-Johnson after hit out at the Vogue editor for her commentary on his Paris Fashion Week Yeezy show, which featured widely condemned “White Lives Matter” T-shirts.Taking to her Instagram Stories after the show, Karefa-Johnson shared a text conversation with a friend as she unpacked her reaction to West's runway choices.Initially she wrote that she was “fuming” and described the show as “indefensible” before saying that she felt West's vision was misguided.“He was trying to illustrate a dystopian world in the future when whiteness might become extinct or at least would be in enough danger to demand defense,” she said in the screen shots. “But the danger is that, this very premise, the idea that white supremacy is in danger of extinction…is what justifies mass incarceration, murder en masse, indeed even the advent of slavery.”“I guess I get what he was trying to do...

Gigi Hadid is not holding back on her feelings about Kanye West.

most Trump staffer memoirs, is still to be written. The showman may not escape prison. The world may not escape his second term.

Marina Ovsyannikova, the Russian TV news producer who staged an anti-war protest live on state TV last March, has escaped house arrest according to multiple reports. It’s unclear how Ovsyannikova slipped away or where she went, but she apparently has her 11-year-old daughter in tow.

EJ Panaligan editor Focus Features has shared the trailer for upcoming biographical drama “Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies” from director Michael Showalter. The film stars Jim Parsons as Michael Ausiello, a real-life entertainment journalist who experiences the death of his partner, Kit Cowan (played by Ben Aldridge) over a prolonged 11-month period due to terminal cancer. The film’s story, which was penned by screenwriters David Marshall Grant and Dan Savage, is based on Ausiello’s 2017 book of the same name. In the book, Ausiello chronicled the last year of his partner’s life and their 13-year relationship before Cowan died of a rare form of neuroendocrine cancer in February 2015.

Naman Ramachandran The BBC has revealed wide-ranging savings proposals across its World Service that will result in the closure of 382 positions and the relocation of journalists from London to Asia and Africa. The move is part of a push towards digital and a wider savings plan. Under the proposals, some half of the BBC’s 41 language services will be digital only. The relocation proposals include the Thai service moving from London to Bangkok, the Korean service to Seoul, the Bangla service to Dhaka and the “Focus On Africa” TV bulletin to broadcast from Nairobi. “Changing audience needs around the world – with more people accessing news digitally – go alongside a challenging financial climate. High inflation, soaring costs, and a cash-flat licence fee settlement have led to tough choices across the BBC, and the BBC’s international services need to make a saving of £28.5 million [$30.7 million], as part of the wider £500 million of annual savings and reinvestment to make the BBC digital-led,” the BBC said in a statement.

If you look at the previous two films from director Ali Abbasi, “Border” and “Shelley,” you are probably taken aback by the visual style and unique storytelling used by the filmmaker. And you probably wouldn’t assume that his next film would be a David Fincher-esque serial killer thriller.

EXCLUSIVE: House Of The Dragon star Emma D’Arcy, Industry actor Harry Lawtey and Willow star Ellie Bamber have joined Maxine Peake (The Village), Oscar nominee Ciaran Hinds (Belfast) and Jason Isaacs (The Death Of Stalin) in feature thriller Anna (formerly known as Mother Russia).