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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…

HBO has acquired U.S. rights to Leah Wolchok’s documentary Very Semi-Serious: A Partially Thorough Portrait Of New Yorker Cartoonists, with the pic premiering on the network December 7 following an Oscar-qualifying theatrical run starting November 20 in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The pic, which had its…

EXCLUSIVE: A nearly 80-year-old article in The New Yorker about the first documented haunted house has scared up a deal at Fox Searchlight. Searchlight will develop a movie from Voices Through The Trumpet, a two-part article written by Carl Carmer. JT Petty has been set to write, and Alison Greenspan is producing with…

UPDATED, 5:57 PM: In round three of his coverage of l’affair Abramson, New Yorker media reporter Ken Auletta pulled back from his claim that the first female executive editor of the New York Times was ousted by publisher and chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. after raising issues about getting lower compensation than her…

Senior contributing writer Jodi Enda’s  in-depth examination of strategies newsrooms use to try to stay solvent won the prestigious prize today at Syracuse University’s Mirror Awards luncheon — an annual affair that attracts New York’s media elite. The event paid off for the school this year: The family of Dick Clark…

The author of an in-depth exploration into the events that led to the 2003 toppling of a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad won the first John M. Higgins award for enterprise reporting at today’s Mirror Awards reception in New York. Peter Maass, who wrote the piece for The New Yorker with support from Pro Publica…

EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features is making a rights deal for David Grann’s massive article in the May 28 issue of The New Yorker, The Yankee Commandante, with George Clooney attached to direct. He will produce with his Smokehouse partner Grant Heslov. The article is about William Alexander Morgan, an American who helped…

Embargoes are dumbass, and even more so when they involve matters of no consequence like showbiz. And still more so when the movie review at issue was positive like David Denby’s critique of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo in The New Yorker. In my opinion, no film reviewer should ever agree to embargoes because doing…