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HBO CEO Casey Bloys apologized Thursday to a room of journalists following a Rolling Stone report that he instructed staffers to create fake social media accounts to troll TV critics who gave poor reviews to HBO shows. During a press event Thursday to unveil HBO and Max’s programming slate for …

The walls of the silos separating sectors are no more. To me, this is thanks to new media. My definition of new media is the ever-changing use and choices of media — for all ages and cultures. Technology is and will continue to be constantly evolving. With new media, you …

The London tabloid world has traditionally been a sort of journalism Bizarro World, where entrapment is standard practice and news is manufactured on a profit-driven whim, often at the expense of innocent victims. For two decades, Mazher Mahmood strode over this ethics-starved world like a corrupt colossus, enabled by his …

During the pandemic, Michelle Wolf had a revelation: I need to get the fuck out of America. She was tired of the New York City grindset, working to live and living to work, and asked herself, “What do I have other than work?” She wanted a family, community, genuine connection. …

Oswaldo Quinones has looked forward to receiving red envelopes in his mailbox for almost two decades. He subscribed to Netflix’s DVD service back in 2004, around the same time Blockbuster reached its peak with 9,000 global stores (and not long after Blockbuster turned down an offer to buy Netflix for …

Recently, I Googled a keyword associated with the media coverage of Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas, the millennial power couple who recently announced they were ending their four-and-a-half-year marriage on Instagram following weeks of speculation. There was a story attributing the split to the couple’s “very different lifestyles,” with a …

As Woody Allen took the press conference stage for his recent film Coup de Chance, the disgraced filmmaker was given a lengthy standing ovation by the (largely European) media assembled in the room — arguably the most rapturous reception any filmmaker received. It was difficult to watch. During the press …

There are movie stars and then there is Tom Cruise. Forty years a star, enough classics to make listing even a few here pointless, and, now, someone who can stake a legitimate claim to saving Hollywood (or at least jolting some life into that lazy, bloated monstrosity). Last year’s Top …

Sometimes you can just feel it when a celebrity is entering a flop era. I vividly remember watching Katy Perry using drag queens as props on Saturday Night Live in 2017, accompanied by a rapper who had recently used a homophobic slur, dressed in a hideous Beetlejuice-style striped jacket, and …

Whether you’re a musician, an actor or an entrepreneur, at some point, you might look to hire a publicist and seek press opportunities to best tell your story. After engaging with your publicist to craft a compelling pitch, you’ll likely start receiving media opportunities, but are you ready? For some, …