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Meghan Markle said during a Friday interview that the current "toxicity" of journalism is responsible for a search for salacious gossip rather than truth. Markle and her husband, Prince Harry, are the subjects of a recently released biography, Finding Freedom, that details the reasons behind the couple’s split from…

Will there ever be another great journalism film? Given the chaos in both movies and the news media—audiences polarized, anonymous sourcing resurgent, Twitter rampant, prevailing narratives debunked (or not)—the temptation is to say, no, probably not. But common sense says the next great media movie is bound to…

Many newspaper subscribers all over the country were without copies of their papers on Saturday after a cyberattack causes some major problems with printing and delivery of several newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun as well as the San Diego Union-Tribune. According to…

The plot of Der Spiegel‘s reporting scandal continues. After the German magazine fired award-winning journalist Claas Relotius after he admitted to writing fabricated stories, an investigation was launched and now two senior editors have been suspended. The weekly German news publication said that the editors Matthias…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg insists that he runs a technology company that simply passes along other people’s content, not a media one that shapes messages. But as it faces complaints about its responsibility for helping people to fool users with fabrications disguised as news, the social media power today unveiled…

In what is the most gruesome attack against an U.S. journalist in Egypt so far, CBS News is reporting that its chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan suffered “a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating” on Friday, the day Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak stepped down. She was covering the festivities in Tahrir…

LAObserved.com just posted a memo from Sallie Hofmeister, the LA Times‘ incredibly mediocre Assistant Managing Editor for Arts & Entertainment. More interested in celebrity coverage than substantive beat reporting, Hofmeister exhorts her showbiz blog staff to try to have “an original thought” from time to time…

People magazine will bestow just bestowed the coveted title of “Sexiest Man Alive” on Ryan Reynolds for this year marking its 25th anniversary. Which is a marketing wet dream not just for Reynolds’ talent agency CAA and PR firm 42West but also for Warner Bros. The studio has just released this new trailer (below) for G…

Andy Coulson, UK Prime Minister David Cameron's communications director, was interviewed Friday by Metropolitan Police over the growing British tabloid phone-hacking scandal. Three years ago, Coulson stepped down as editor of the weekly Sunday tabloid News of the World, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp…

UPDATE: It’s finally official: The Hollywood Reporter announced today that Elizabeth Guider is stepping down as Editor after three years at the helm of the newsroom. Guider had been told she was out almost as soon as THR parent e5 Global Media CEO Richard Beckman took over in January, then was left twisting in the…

I’ve known Richard Johnson for seemingly forever. Yet I never thought he’d leave NYC or even the New York Post despite many lucrative job offers over the years. And several scandals under his watch… But the paper announced today he’s exiting the editorship after nearly 25 years and “moving to Hollywood to work on new…

Wall Street Journal Editor Robert Thomson is making Los Angeles bureau changes. Most interesting to Hollywood is naming a new Bureau Chief and a new Entertainment News Editor. Edited memo follows: “The tone of life in Hollywood is about to take a turn for the sophisticated with the appointment of Rob Guth, our…