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iHeartRadio’s new original podcast, “Haileywood,” host Dana Schwartz spoke to writer Martha Frankel, who revealed she had a bad experience with the “Expendables” star 25 years ago. Frankel received an assignment to interview Willis for the site Movieline in London at the time.

A Scot hasn't 'felt comfortable' going back to his local boozer of 14-years after reporting a high-profile BBC journalist to the cops.

SoCal Journalism Awards, including Online Journalist of the Year. “In covering the entertainment business and its personalities and often scooping other publications with breaking news, TheWrap’s founder and editor-in-chief, Sharon Waxman, is the Online Journalist of the Year,” wrote the judges for the award, which is administered by the L.A.

Meghan McCain, 36, didn’t hold back against Katie Couric, 64, in her latest column for DailyMail, published on Friday October 15. The former View co-host accused the broadcast legend of being biased after she admitted to editing out a portion of an interview she did with late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg where the justice criticized NFL players like Colin Kaepernick for kneeling during the national anthem in a 2016 interview.

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The Irish have a long history of heading Down Under to start a new life for themselves and Catherine Murphy is no different.

Twitter a day earlier from a central Nevada military installation where he and other members of local tribes have long protested the proposed expansion of a U.S. Navy bombing range.Dewey won acclaim for his live footage of the 2016 demonstrations over the Dakota Access Pipeline near the Standing Rock Reservation, which straddles the North Dakota-South Dakota border.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Starz is developing a drama series about Texan citizen journalist “Lagordiloca” (an alias for Priscilla Villarreal) penned by playwright and filmmaker Hilary Bettis, Variety has confirmed.Inspired by Texas Monthly’s coverage about Villarreal, the show centers on the titular protagonist’s rise as a street journalist and modern-day folk hero in her border-town of Laredo, as she seized the power of social media and pushed the boundaries of the first amendment to expose

EXCLUSIVE: Starz has put in development Lagordiloca, a drama series that chronicles the rise of street journalist Priscilla Villarreal as she capitalizes on the power of livestream reporting to expose corruption, cartels, and serial killers in the border town of Laredo, Texas.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterDavid Kushner, a bestselling author and journalist whose stories are often developed for film and television, will publish his next book at Substack.Kushner’s magazine articles have inspired films like A24’s “Zola” and upcoming projects involving Christian Bale and Spike Lee.

Paramount+ has released a first-look trailer for their upcoming series “Guilty Party” from creator Rebecca Addelman (“Dead to Me”) and led by British actress Kate Beckinsale (“Underworld” franchise), who is taking a spin with comedy in the role of lead character Beth Burgess.

Lyra McKee. The Belfast reporter was tragically shot dead in April 2019 as she watched rioting in Derry.It was thought that dissident republicans were responsible for her death.The Mirror reports that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has now confirmed that two men have been charged with her murder.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe Hollywood Foreign Press Association has elected German journalist Helen Hoehne as its new president, the latest step in the org’s move to reform following controversies surrounding its operations. Hoehne, who previously served as vice president, will lead the HFPA’s recently announced expanded Board of Directors.HFPA members voted for Hoehne as its new president directly from the new Board membership, revealed last week.

Kate Beckinsale is looking for the truth.In Paramount+'s upcoming «genre-bending» series, , Beckinsale plays disgruntled journalist Beth Burgess, who desperately tries to salvage her career by latching on to the story of a young mother, Toni Plimpton (newcomer Jules Latimer), who has been sentenced to life in prison for maiming and murdering her husband -- crimes she claims she didn't commit.

A relative of an editor from German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle was shot dead by the Taliban in Afghanistan in what the network is calling a targeted attack.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentTaliban fighters looking to exact revenge against journalists affiliated with Western media on Thursday shot dead the relative of an Afghan journalist for German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) who had left the country.

TheWrap-Up,” hosts Sharon Waxman and Daniel Goldblatt discussed another up and down week at the box office, how “Jeopardy!” managed to bungle its new host hire and this year’s TheGrill panel.Then, Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad joined the podcast to discuss her ordeal as the target of a kidnapping plot by the Iranian government. She also talked about using her platform to help the women of Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover.

Vietnam War that was made into a Hollywood movie, has died. He was 79.A native of Refugio, Texas, Galloway spent 22 years as a war correspondent and bureau chief for United Press International, including serving four tours in Vietnam.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorJennifer Eckhart is launching a second act after leaving Fox Business last year: The former TV producer and journalist is hosting “Reinvented,” a weekly podcast series in which she interviews people who have overcome serious obstacles on their path to success.“Reinvented With Jen Eckhart” is set to debut Aug. 23, with Grammy-winning artist Sean Paul as her first guest.

BBC journalist was stunned when she received a phone call directly to her mobile from the Taliban while she was live on air. Newsreader Yalda Hakim, who was born in Afghanistan and has worked for the BBC for nine years, looked flustered as she picked up the call.

Tamron Hall has been working in broadcast journalism since the early ‘90s after graduating from Temple University in 1992. She started her career at KBTX in Bryan, Texas, before working her way up at Chicago’s WFLD and eventually joining MSNBC and NBC News in 2007.

EXCLUSIVE: George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures has landed the film rights to Across the River: Life, Death, and Football in an American City, the latest work of non-fiction from award-winning sports journalist Kent Babb.

read the review here), it does give an inside look into how one family was affected.Check out more of TheWrap’s interview with Marika Gerrard and “Whirlybird” director Matt Yoka above, and the trailer for the documentary below.

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Chris Willman Music WriterPatricia Kennealy-Morrison, a key figure in the early days of rock journalism who also figured heavily in Doors lore as the partner of Jim Morrison, and who later became a prolific novelist, has died at age 75. Her death occurred in late July, although different dates have been given.

Patricia Kennealy-Morrison was an author and journalist who was in a relationship with rock star Jim Morrison (1943–1971) of the Doors.Kennealy-Morrison became a rock music journalist as a young woman, bringing a new seriousness to rock criticism as one of the first women in the field. She interviewed Morrison in 1969 for Jazz & Pop, the magazine she edited and contributed to.

Piers Morgan has three sons and his children have all chosen very different career paths. The Life Stories host, 56, who has been spending the summer in the South of France and at his country pad in East Sussex, shares sons Spencer, 28, Stanley, 24, and Albert, 20, with his ex-wife Marion Shalloe who he was wedded to for 17 years between 1991 and 2008.

Los Angeles Times. An electrical engineer and computer analyst, Pearl and her husband Judea Pearl were thrust into the international spotlight in 2002 when Al-Qaeda extremists kidnapped their son Daniel while on assignment in Pakistan and executed him nine days later.Pearl and her husband were still advocating on their son’s behalf in the Pakistani judicial system at the time of her death.

pic.twitter.com/xDmcBFflJjGill also bizarrely doubled down on the take with a (also now erased) follow up tweet that said, “to clarify, children means under 18.

LONDON -- A British journalist and her publisher faced defamation claims in a London court on Wednesday from billionaire Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich and other wealthy Russians over a book about the rise of President Vladimir Putin.Catherine Belton’s book, “Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West,” charts the rise to wealth and power of former KGB agent Putin and a circle of associates after the breakup of the Soviet Union.Abramovich says the book’s

Lily Rabe is set as a lead in Showtime’s upcoming anthology series The First Lady, starring Viola Davis — who also executive produces — Michelle Pfeiffer and Gillian Anderson. Cathy Schulman serves as showrunner. Susanne Bier (The Undoing) will direct and executive produce. The role reunites Rabe with Bier, who recently directed the actress in HBO’s The Undoing limited series.

Naomi Osaka responded to Megyn Kelly after Kelly criticized her recent magazine and Japan covers.It all started when conservative commentator Clay Travis took a jab at 23-year-old Osaka on Twitter in light of her withdrawing from the French Open in May after being fined $15,000 for not participating in the tournament's media requirements.

Jason Sudeikis has earned praise (and a recent Emmy nomination) for his portrayal of the title character in Apple TV+ comedy “Ted Lasso.”

wrote, “The world is watching Cuban authorities arrest & beat dozens of peaceful protesters & independent voices, including @DinaStars_. Many remain missing; we join their families & call for their immediate release.

the New York Times reported. According to the Times, a fifth person, arrested in California, was accused of actively aiding the would-be kidnappers but did not otherwise participate.

United Kingdom to Iran. The identities of the alleged victims were not released.According to the indictment, all of the targeted victims had been critical of Iran.Although not charged in the kidnapping plot, Niloufar Bahadorifar, also known as Nellie, was arrested July 1 in California on charges that she has provided U.S.