Vox Media to Lay Off 6% of Staff as Pandemic Drags On

Regis Philbin was a stand-up friend through good times and bad!

Media City earlier today.

Celebrities, friends, and fans are paying tribute to Regis Philbin following his death on Friday.

Aloe Blacc and Vic Mensa are among the host of artists that have both contributed to a new benefit album, ‘Defund the Sheriff’.It was birthed as a part of a campaign to shift funding from police and incarceration in Los Angeles County toward other public services following the recent Black Lives Matter demonstration sparked by the death of George Floyd.Created in collaboration with and produced by JusticeLA, Schools Not Prisons, Question Culture, and Reform LA Jails, the record is part of a

Vic Mensa, Lauren Jauregui, Aloe Blacc and more lent their voices to Defund The Sheriff (The Album), a musical compilation tied to the campaign to defund the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and allocate those funds to other local resources.JusticeLA, #SchoolsNotPrisons, Question Culture and Reform LA Jails produced Defund The Sheriff, which criminal justice speaker and musician Mike de la Rocha and formerly incarcerated Question Culture CEO Richie Reseda executive produced.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterAndrew Scott will star in new lockdown play Three Kings, live-streamed from London’s Old Vic theatre July 29 – August 1.Stephen Beresford has written the show for the Fleabag and Sherlock actor.

Naman Ramachandran “Fleabag” star Andrew Scott will headline “Three Kings,” a new play written for him by Stephen Beresford (“Pride,” “The Last of the Haussmans”) that’s set to stream from London’s iconic The Old Vic theater.The play follows eight-year-old Patrick and the revelations and events that ensue when his absent father returns unexpectedly and sets him the challenge of ‘The Three Kings.’The Old Vic artistic director Matthew Warchus (“The Caretaker”) will direct the play, which will

Since getting her start through a chance meeting with Gucci Mane, Atlanta-based audio engineer Kesha Lee has worked on chart-toppers like Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” and Migos’ “Bad and Boujee” and is now the go-to audio engineer for rappers including Playboi Carti and Lil Uzi Vert. She spent the past two-and-a-half years working on.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorVox Media, the media company whose brands include New York Magazine, Vulture, The Verge and SB Nation, is cutting 6% of its workforce, laying off about 70 employees.According to a memo sent to company staff Thursday, CEO Jim Bankoff said the majority of the employees being laid off were furloughed in May (when Vox Media said it was furloughing 9% of its employees for a three-month period).Bankoff said Vox Media has already brought back (or will soon) nearly 30% of

In a surprising move, former Glee star Lea Michele has deleted her Twitter account. Lea has ditched her Twitter handle, @leamichele, but has decided to keep her Instagram page active.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmStephen King’s latest bestselling four novella collection If It Bleeds has quickly garnered three option deals, with a fourth in the offing because it involves a preexisting character who just starred in an HBO series adaptation.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterHBO Max has ordered a 12-episode season of “Young Love,” an animated series based on the characters from Matthew A. Cherry and Sony Pictures Animation’s Oscar-winning animated short, “Hair Love.”Creator Cherry will showrun the series with Carl Jones, the animation creative best known for “The Boondocks” and “Black Dynamite”; Blue Key Entertainment’s Monica A.