UPDATED, 1:08 PM: Encino resident Robert D. Chain pleaded guilty today to seven counts of making violent threats against Boston Globe employees in retaliation for the newspaper's editorial response to political attacks on the media. Read details of the case below. Chain’s sentencing is set for September 23 in…

The Boston Globe’s editorial board is trying to organize a national media campaign that will condemn President Donald Trump’s attacks on the media in op-eds to run on Aug. 16. So far, the Globe claims, at least 70 outlets have agreed to participate. “We are not the enemy of the people,'' said Marjorie Pritchard…

With the election finally behind us, several of the nation's most important newspapers took this awkward moment to begin major staff cutbacks this week, and it's the world of culture and pop culture, not merely the ink-stained journalists, that will feel the impact. The decline and fall of newspapers like the New York…

Spotlight has been in the Oscar hunt since Toronto Film Festival audiences gave it a long, thunderous standing ovation. At the heart of the film is a team of dogged journalists whose exposé of the shameful Boston Archdiocese cover-up of pedophile priests led to the forced resignation of the all-powerful Cardinal…

The Boston Globe has unveiled the Spotlight Investigative Journalism Fellowship, a $100,000 grant aimed at supporting the work of investigative journalists. The fellowship will be funded by Participant Media and Open Road Films with support from First Look Media; Open Road is the distributor of the pic, which centers…

Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this occasional column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business. FLEMING: I'm back from the Toronto Film Festival, a messy affair where deals took forever, and two films — the Aretha Franklin…

EXCLUSIVE: Open Road  is teaming with Participant Media, eOne, and Anonymous Content on Spotlight, a drama that Tom McCarthy will direct about the Boston Globe investigation into pedophile priests and a shameful cover-up in the Catholic Church that allowed them to prey on children for years. Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdam…