The embattled Southern Poverty Law Center, which has won two Academy Awards for its documentaries and has advised numerous TV shows on hate crimes, has lost another top executive. Richard Cohen, who headed the SPLC since 2003, said Friday that a search for his successor is underway. His announcement comes a week after…

A portrait of TV producer Mark Burnett that focuses on how his reality show The Apprentice burnished Donald Trump’s image also claims that the long-rumored tape of the President uttering a racial slur does not exist. The New Yorker story spoke with several staffers on Trump’s former NBC show, The Apprentice. Although…

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for the state’s Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to resign following allegations that he physically abused romantic partners. Four women accused Schneiderman of abusing them while in romantic relationships in an account published by The New Yorker. Two of the women who spoke on the…

Out of the many in-depth stories covering Harvey Weinstein and his alleged sexual misconduct, New York Times and The New Yorker have proven to deliver excellence when it comes to reporting on the scandal. The two publications have won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for their Weinstein stories that served as a…

The Harvey Weinstein scandal and the advent of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements has forever changed Hollywood going forward. Should older films be reevaluated under the new rules, and is there a place for subversive comedy anymore? Molly Ringwald, teen star of John Hughes' classic '80s coming of age trilogy Sixteen Ca…

Ronan Farrow’s investigative stories about Harvey Weinstein for The New Yorker magazine’s print and online editions were jointly rewarded today with a nomination for the National Magazine Award in the category of Public Service. Finalists for what are commonly regarded as the Pulitzer Prizes for the magazine world…

The impact of 2017’s wave of sexual harassment allegations and revelations is already changing Hollywood, according to a story in this week’s The New Yorker. Article author Dana Goodyear writes that the #MeToo movement has caused show business to ask itself who is safe to work with and who might blow up tomorrow. An…

UPDATED with statement from accuser’s attorney: CNN contributor Ryan Lizza has been suspended from the cable news network shortly after The New Yorker gave him the axe for what the magazine called “improper sexual conduct.” “We have just learned of The New Yorker’s decision,” a CNN spokesperson told Deadline. “Ryan…

As the Harvey Weinstein scandal continues to unravel, more and more information continues to surface, with the most recent being his hiring of a private investigation firm to collect information about the women who accused him of sexual misconduct and reporters who were investigating his past. According to a new…

UPDATED with full statement: The New Yorker was first to publish a statement signed by “select members of the Weinstein Company staff” in the wake of that magazine’s exposé on the company’s co-founder Harvey Weinstein. The group, which did not sign individual names but is said by the magazine to number about 30, says…

In 2015, the NYPD mounted a sting operation against TWC head Harvey Weinstein, using a wired-up Filipina-Italian model named Ambra Battilana Gutierrez after she filed a complaint with the department that she had been groped by the executive. An article written for The New Yorker by Ronan Farrow – himself a vocal…

In a media year dominated by coverage of the presidential campaigns and the election of Donald J. Trump, the unapologetically progressive monthly Mother Jones, edited by Clara Jeffery, was named Magazine Of The Year today by the American Society Of Magazine Editors. And in an equally stunning awards ceremony, ASME…