Media

Masha Gessen was found guilty of spreading “false information” and sentenced to eight years in prison over remarks made in 2022 about the Russian military.

By Neil MacFarquhar

Claims that President Biden and his allies ordered the attack on Donald J. Trump, or that Mr. Trump staged the attack, started quickly and spread fast across social media.

By Tiffany Hsu, Sheera Frenkel and Ken Bensinger

The change immediately led to questions about whether NBC was blocking the program, which has been loyal to President Biden, for political considerations.

By Jim Rutenberg and Benjamin Mullin

The drama surrounding the president’s bid for re-election has captured voters’ interest.

By Michael M. Grynbaum

Some liberal news organizations have started playing up Ms. Harris’s perceived strengths. Conservative ones have stepped up their criticisms of her.

By Santul Nerkar

Some far-right commentators have long argued that Democratic Party elites were plotting to replace President Biden. Now those commentators say they’ll be proved correct.

By Stuart A. Thompson

A muckraking journalist, he helped write a revisionist account of Rudolph Giuliani’s role as mayor before and after the terrorist attacks.

By Sam Roberts

The animated film about a young teenage girl and her complex emotions has passed the $1.25 billion mark globally and is expected to keep growing.

By Maya Salam

Directed by Greg Berlanti, the film amounts to a Hollywood experiment: Is there still room at the multiplexes for original movies aimed at grown-ups.

By Brooks Barnes

Hallmark+, which arrives in September, will include free greeting cards and a “Hallmark Hunk” competition show.

By Brooks Barnes

In a nearly hourlong appearance, President Biden hit back at questions about his fitness for office and engaged in long discourses on China and Gaza.

By Michael D. Shear

Her eye for talent (Leonard Cohen, Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt) made her a force in a mostly male business. It was she who introduced Bob Dylan to the Band.

By Clay Risen

The interview will air in prime-time on NBC on Monday, the first night of the Republican National Convention.

By Michael M. Grynbaum

The film was supposed to hit theaters on Aug. 16, but that plan was scrapped after the first chapter of the Western saga disappointed at the box office.

By Nicole Sperling

Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews, who ascended to the role last year, will be a senior adviser on coverage through the presidential election.

By John Koblin

The network’s C.E.O., Mark Thompson, has promised a more robust digital strategy as people flee traditional cable packages.

By John Koblin

The ABC anchor, in a surreptitious recording, said, “I don’t think he can serve four more years.”

By Michael M. Grynbaum

David Ellison is poised to soon run Paramount Pictures, among other entertainment assets. But what does that mean in a fractured cultural landscape?

By Brooks Barnes

He left college to try out acting. Now, he’s set to become one of the most powerful people in Hollywood.

By Benjamin Mullin

The deal, approved by Paramount’s board, would usher in a new chapter for the company, which owns CBS and the movie studio behind “Top Gun.”

By Benjamin Mullin and Lauren Hirsch

ABC News tweaked its transcript of an intriguing moment in its Friday interview with the president after the Biden administration and news outlets raised questions.

By Michael D. Shear and Michael M. Grynbaum

A former reporter of The Marion County Record has settled a lawsuit following a raid on the weekly newspaper last year that garnered widespread attention.

By Emmett Lindner

Respectfully but firmly, the ABC anchor pressed President Biden on the basic questions that Americans had asked themselves over the past week.

By Michael M. Grynbaum

A high-stakes moment for the president could also be the most consequential interview of the star anchor’s career.

By Michael M. Grynbaum

A founder of the influential music magazine The Fader, he also bridged the worlds of hip-hop and the Fortune 500 with his innovative marketing agency.

By Alex Williams

Just weeks after the Paramount’s controlling shareholder and Skydance scuttled their talks about a potential deal, the two media companies have tentatively agreed to a merger.

By Benjamin Mullin and Lauren Hirsch

Many conservative commentators have said President Biden’s performance during the debate was a sweeping validation of the alarm bells they’d been ringing for years about his age.

By Ken Bensinger

When Chet Hanks first used the phrase “white boy summer,” it was meant to be fun and playful, he said. Now it has been appropriated around the world by white supremacists and other hate groups.

By Steven Lee Myers

Liberal outlets criticized the ruling as a biased move from a conservative Supreme Court. Conservative commentators admonished Democrats for opposing it.

By Santul Nerkar

Carlos Watson was questioned after Ozy investors, former employees and bankers testified for the prosecution in his trial.

By Danielle Kaye

Mr. Diller, a digital media pioneer, lost a bidding war for Paramount Pictures decades ago. Now, he’s making a run at its parent company.

By Lauren Hirsch and Benjamin Mullin

The president’s son has argued that the network violated a New York law by showing the explicit images without his permission.

By Michael M. Grynbaum

Terence Samuel, a veteran journalist, had been in the role for a year.

By Katie Robertson

Netflix and Amazon are driving a small bump in the market for TV shows after a major slowdown.

By John Koblin

The first woman to serve as the paper’s national editor, she focused on issues of race, class and poverty, drawing prizes, and rose to the newsroom’s top echelon.

By Trip Gabriel

In his brazen quest for total transparency, the WikiLeaks founder paved the way for a world in which no secret is safe and no institution trusted.

By Mattathias Schwartz

In “All the Worst Humans,” Phil Elwood recounts a career spent engineering headlines for some of the world’s villains.

By Jim Windolf

It was the smallest TV audience for a presidential debate since 2004, but CNN’s telecast was still among the highest-rated programs of the year.

By Michael M. Grynbaum

The MSNBC host Joe Scarborough urged him to consider dropping out. So did other pundits the president had long viewed as his strongest allies in the news media.

By Michael M. Grynbaum

The anchors mostly receded into the background on Thursday night. That was exactly what CNN leadership had in mind.

By Michael M. Grynbaum

The case, which cut to the heart of the league’s media strategy, centered on a subscription service that aired out-of-market games for roughly $300 a year.

By Ken Belson

With an emphasis on younger viewers, he established the networks as serious rivals to ABC, CBS and NBC, which had ruled television for nearly 40 years.

By Trip Gabriel

“The Apprentice,” a dramatized origin story about Donald J. Trump, has faced fierce criticism from the former president and his allies.

By Brooks Barnes

A scramble for the Infowars host’s meager assets pits Sandy Hook victims’ families against one another in court.

By Elizabeth Williamson

He joins after leading The Texas Tribune for three years.

By Katie Robertson

Anna Wintour called Vogue Germany’s latest cover star, 102-year-old Margot Friedländer, a “meaningful” subject.

By Ruth La Ferla

Partisan media outlets this week are already fixating on Thursday night’s first presidential debate — and how their preferred candidate could prevail.

By Santul Nerkar

NBC will offer a customized, daily highlight reel with A.I.-generated narration that sounds like the longtime broadcaster.

By John Koblin

Evan Gershkovich of The Wall Street Journal has endured 15 months in prison by reading letters and Russian classics, while the authorities have not publicly offered any evidence that he was a spy.

By Neil MacFarquhar, Milana Mazaeva and Ivan Nechepurenko

A class-action lawsuit over the cost of Sunday Ticket subscriptions underscored how valuable broadcast deals have been for the league’s success.

By Ken Belson