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Alice Rao as has been named senior vice president of publicity by Hallmark Media. She is based in Los Angeles and reports to Chief Communications Officer Annie Howell. Overseeing the company's publicity team, Rao spearheads publicity campaigns that promote Hallmark Media's networks and services…

One of the more unexpected shifts in media habits during the pandemic, at least for me, has been a new interest in those little bird-box book libraries that inhabit front lawns in the quieter neighborhoods here. I regularly pass a dozen of them on a circuit of five or six miles around Santa Monica and Brentwood…

Evan Shapiro, a veteran TV executive who is now president of National Lampoon and a college professor, has seen the media, entertainment and technology universe grow increasingly complex. So, in preparing to teach a new class about the business at Fordham this fall, he did what any explorer would: He made a map…

President Donald Trump is threatening to stop the daily White House coronavirus briefings — not because of public outcry over his comments about injecting disinfectants, or because his statements are being used against him in Joe Biden attack ads — but because reporters ask too many “hostile questions.” Trump took to…

UPDATE: In his Oval Office speech, President Donald Trump announced a 30-day suspension of travel from Europe, excluding the United Kingdom. But he did not offer further details. As it turns out, the suspension applies to 26 European countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France…

If any good is to come of the coronavirus outbreak, and just now it is hard to see even a glimmer of good, we might consider this: The media will have a shot at redemption. Japan is closing its schools. Saudi Arabia has put Umrah on hold. Cruise ships are dead in the water. And yes, the international movie box-office…

A violent video recently shown at a Trump resort shows a gunman made to look like President Trump hunting down the president’s critics and members of the media. The video was shown last week during a conference of the president’s supporters at the Trump National Doral Miami, the New York Times reported Sunday…

Three months ago, I supposed the next great movie newsroom drama would look more like Absence of Malice than All The President's Men. Who knew that Clint Eastwood, filmdom's Great Disruptor, would so soon be on his way to making sense of that supposition? Just last week, Warner Bros. confirmed that Eastwood was poised…

When other forms of comedy fail—and they've failed a lot lately, with the box-office splat of films like Booksmart and Long Shot—the New York Times subscription blitz is usually good for a stray laugh. At least 41 times since March 19 (and I probably missed some), the Paper of Record has peppered my in-box with…

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…

Donald Trump’s morning tweet-tantrum was particularly wild today, an apparently violent reaction to his administration’s Contraction-gate clean-up. “Fake News Media is going Crazy! They make up stories without any backup, sources or proof. Many of the stories written about me, and the good people surrounding me, are…

Remember that tweet, six long days ago, when President Donald Trump called for a review of NBC’s broadcast license after it aired unflattering stories about him? We barely can either — but FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who has remained conspicuously silent as Trump has amped up attacks on the media from the Oval Office…