Media & Communication: Research Guide

The service is part of a major push to find paying customers for the network’s journalism.

She was a writer and a top editor at publications as diverse as The Nation, Vogue and Entertainment Weekly. She also helped found Grand Street and reboot Vanity Fair.

The N.B.A. Hall of Famer is guest-editing a new magazine that aims to redefine how we see athletes.

French actor, 76, convicted of assaulting set dresser and assistant director during film shoot in Paris in 2021Gérard Depardieu has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two women during a film shoot in 2021 and given an 18-month suspended prison sentence, in a turning point for the #MeToo movement in France.Depardieu, France’s biggest film star who has made more than 200 films and TV series, is the highest-profile figure in the French film industry to be convicted of sexual assault after years of the country being accused of being slow to take women’s claims of abuse seriously. Continue reading...

Amazon brand will offer more than 100 artificial intelligence-generated voices in English and other languagesAudible has announced plans to use AI technology to narrate audiobooks, with AI translation to follow.The Amazon-owned audiobook provider has said it will be making its AI production technology available to certain publishers via “select partnerships”. Continue reading...

Big tech companies have exploited human language for AI gain. Now they want us to see their products as trustworthy collaboratorsAfter publishing my third book in early April, I kept encountering headlines that made me feel like the protagonist of some Black Mirror episode. “Vauhini Vara consulted ChatGPT to help craft her new book ‘Searches,’” one of them read. “To tell her own story, this acclaimed novelist turned to ChatGPT,” said another. “Vauhini Vara examines selfhood with assistance from ChatGPT,” went a third.The publications describing Searches this way were reputable and fact-based. But their descriptions of my book – and of ChatGPT’s role in it – didn’t mat..

The writer and director, whose credits also include Bonnie and Clyde, Superman and Places in the Heart, died at his New York City homeOscar-winning writer and director Robert Benton has died at the age of 92.He won his two Academy awards for divorce drama Kramer vs Kramer. His longtime assistant and manager confirmed his death to the New York Times. Continue reading...

Featuring moving interviews from the relatives of victims and chilling new footage of a handcuffed Fred locating the bodies at Cromwell Street, a new Netflix documentary pushes the true crime genre to its limitDez Chambers waited 15 years to get the news she didn’t want. All that time, she thought her missing little sister, Alison, might still be out there. Dez would watch documentaries about homelessness to see if perhaps she’d recognise a face, and even attempted the Salvation Army’s family tracing service. “It was hope,” she says from her home in the Netherlands.Hope faded one day in 1994. Calling her from the UK, Dez’s mother-in-law cried down the phone. There was panic, ther..

The Welsh club’s third successive promotion was powered by a hit docuseries, not the other way aroundThe filming started before the bid to buy Wrexham from its supporters’ trust was even formalized. Which means that Welcome to Wrexham, the docuseries tracing the stunning rise of a fifth-tier Welsh club under the ownership of a pair of Hollywood celebrities, existed as a show before it was actually a sporting project.It was always content first. Continue reading...

Some will argue the actor’s legacy of landmark film roles should not be tainted by his conviction for sexual assault. But it willIt seems strangely appropriate that 76-year-old French movie star Gérard Depardieu was found guilty of sexual assault and given an 18-month suspended prison sentence on the eve of the 78th edition of the Cannes film festival. Both Cannes and Depardieu, born in the 40s, belong to an old world, but it seems only one of them has managed to adapt to the times we live in, especially since the #MeToo movement.For anyone who followed the trial closely, it was never in doubt that justice would prevail and that a French monument was about to fall. Once the accusers, two ..

The second season of Nathan Fielder’s singular series takes even bigger swings and while there has been criticism of his techniques, it remains an act of magicWhat do couples counseling, a reality-singing competition, three cloned Yorkies, the content moderation of Paramount+ Germany and aviation safety all have in common? Virtually nothing, except the interest of television mastermind Nathan Fielder, who braids such disparate concepts together in the galaxy-brained second season of The Rehearsal.In just four episodes, the genre-bending show of elaborate simulations – essentially, extremely realistic role-playing in the name of preparing people for uncomfortable situations – has provid..

Will Jonathan Ross be too gobby? Will David Olusoga be a chess master? And will Charlotte Church be banished for doing sound baths? The Celebrity Traitors lineup has landed at last. Here’s who will win … and who will bombThis autumn sees the release of Celebrity Traitors, a new edition of the beloved BBC reality show starring a fleet of household names. It’s a risky move for all who signed up, in that the show has the potential to seriously warp how they’re viewed by the public for years to come. But who will flounder and who will flourish? Here’s the Celebrity Traitors lineup in full, ranked in reverse order of their likely success. Continue reading...

As artificial intelligence is incorporated into more newsrooms, journalists must ensure they use AI with transparency so that it does not undermine their credibility.

Natural disasters prompt a flood of social media posts. AI can help sift the wheat of helpful information from the chaff of chitchat and misinformation.

The new service will combine the company’s TV shows, cable channels and broadcast network, including National Football League games.

The first American pontiff urged reporters to choose “the path of a communication of peace” in his first address to the news media as the leader of the Catholic Church.

In his first audience with journalists as the pontiff, Leo renewed pleas for a more peaceful world. He also spoke to Ukraine’s president on Monday.

The New York City Campaign Finance Board withheld the funds after concluding that former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo most likely coordinated ad language with a super PAC.

Queen of pop will partner with the streamer and Deadpool & Wolverine film-maker for a project on her life and musicA television series on Madonna is in development at Netflix – with participation from the trailblazing pop star.The 66-year-old singer is partnering with Netflix and the Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy for a limited series about her life and music. Continue reading...

Peers back amendment to data bill requiring AI companies to reveal which copyrighted material they have used The government has suffered another setback in the House of Lords over its plans to let artificial intelligence firms use copyright-protected work without permission.An amendment to the data bill requiring AI companies to reveal which copyrighted material is used in their models was backed by peers, despite government opposition. Continue reading...