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Jeff Zucker‘s Abu Dhabi-controlled investment group RedBird IMI is likely to be blocked by new legislation that bans the ownership of U.K. newspapers and news magazines by foreign governments.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Sports news and commentary Deadspin has been sold again — and its entire staff has been laid off. Deadspin, once owned by Gawker Media, became part of G/O Media in 2019. In a memo to company staff Monday, G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller announced that Deadspin was sold to European firm Lineup Publishing.

Catherine, Princess of Wales (aka Kate Middleton) was photographed once again in a very rare sighting.

Kate Middleton is speaking out in a new statement after it was discovered that her Mother’s Day photo was digitally altered before being sent to press.

After the palace released a photo of Catherine, Princess of Wales (AKA Kate Middleton) and her children amid growing speculation about her whereabouts, there’s only more conspiracies brewing.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Studiocanal, the European powerhouse behind “Paddington,” has created a genre label dedicated to the development, production and distribution of horror, thriller, sci fi and action films and TV series. The company has hired Jed Benedict, a well-known executive who previously worked for the U.K. distribution banner Elysian Film Group, to run the new label.

StudioCanal said today that it has set plans to launch a new film and TV genre label led by Jed Benedict, who will rejoin the company to lead the brand. 

Ofcom has said it has “significant concerns about GB News’ editorial control of its live output” after rapping the network for Laurence Fox‘s highly misogynistic rant on Dan Wootton‘s show.

Sonia Rovai and Annamaria Morelli have been named as the new bosses of Wildside and The Apartment, respectively.

NBC News announced that it has expanded the leadership roles of three executives.

Variety Staff Follow Us on Twitter Variety has promoted Rachel Seo to Social Media Editor, recognizing her considerable contributions to the growth of the brand’s editorial activity across major social media platforms. Seo joined Variety in July 2022 after working in event marketing for ViacomCBS’ VidCon live media division.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Gemma Garcia has been named the new head of Noticias Telemundo, Telemundo’s news division, a move that puts an executive with deep experience in digital content and distribution in charge of the company’s news operations She will report directly to Luis Fernández, chairman of NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises. Garcia will oversee Noticias Telemundo’s news programming, editorial units, digital news properties, newsgathering and bureaus in the United States and Latin America.

Subrata De, one of the most high-ranking executives at Vice Media, is leaving as the youth-skewing company.

So many celebrities went from the 2024 BAFTAS to the British Vogue And Tiffany & Co. Celebrate Fashion And Film Party 2024 on Sunday night (February 18).

Catherine Bray In the grasslands of Southern Ukraine, between Crimea and mainland Ukraine, a natural history researcher named Yura (Dmytro Bahnenko) is hoping to track down and photograph a groundhog. If he succeeds, the land can be protected as a European reserve. This apparently simple premise — the kernel at the outset of “The Editorial Office” — can’t begin to hint at the rugged tapestry of thematic and topical threads that Roman Bondarchuk’s second narrative feature proceeds to weave together, the unique product of both the director’s vision and ambition, and also of the circumstances under which it gestated.

Diego Ramos Bechara editor Batman comic book writer James Tynion IV announced the launch of a new independent multimedia production company, Tiny Onion, with plans to create content across television, film, animation and publishing. The company will seek to assemble top talent in the realm of behind-the-scenes comic book creation — their goal is to establish an independent editorial and design team to enhance their clients’ work via curation and packaging before presenting them to various publishing partners throughout the industry.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Spotify is leaning into catalog programming with the launch of its first-ever catalog hub, Spotify Classics, curated by the streaming service’s editorial team. The program, which will be highlighted as a hub on the platform starting today, seeks to define more recent albums that the editorial team has deemed as streaming classics.

There’s some news about Bravo’s Winter House.

Gwyneth Paltrow is known for loving clean and non toxic products….and there’s one she highly recommends that you can get from Amazon for just under $20!

Gwyneth Paltrow is known for loving clean and non toxic products….and there’s one she highly recommends that you can get from Amazon for just under $20!

Rowan Atkinson was blamed for the slow sale of electric car sales during a speech in the House Of Lords this week (February 6).The Mr Bean actor was mentioned in The House of Lords during a meeting with the environment and climate change committee.Thinktank group The Green Alliance spoke about the main obstacles the government faces in its aim to phase out petrol and diesel cars before 2035. They claimed an article written by Atkinson published last summer helped to damage the cause.The article, published in The Guardian, was titled: “I love electric vehicles – and was an early adopter.

Taylor Swift was photographed out to dinner with some celeb pals last night, and her outfit caught the attention of her fans!

Modeling can be an incredibly lucrative career.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Media and entertainment veteran Kim Williams is to be appointed the next chairperson of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Australian federal prime minister Anthony Albanese’s office announced on Wednesday. Williams takes over from the departing Ita Buttrose and will have a five-year mandate. He joins at a moment when the ABC is enduring a moment of editorial turbulence.

Gwyneth Paltrow is known for loving clean and non toxic products….and there’s one she highly recommends that you can get from Amazon for just over $15!

Michaela Zee Nearly 400 union members who work at Condé Nast brands will be holding a 24-hour work stoppage on Tuesday to protest negotiation practices that they claim are unlawful. The work stoppage coincides with the announcement of the 2024 Oscar nominations, which will take place Tuesday morning at 8:30 a.m. ET.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Sports Illustrated has been hit with mass layoffs — which will potentially eliminate the entire editorial team of the nearly 70-year-old sports media brand. The union that reps SI’s editorial workers, which is affiliated with the NewsGuild of New York, said in a post on X that on Friday staff members of Sports Illustrated were notified that its parent company, the Arena Group, “is planning to lay off a significant number, possibly all, of the Guild-represented workers at SI, a result of Authentic Brands Group (ABG) revoking Arena’s license to publish SI.” In 2019, Authentic Brands Group purchased Sports Illustrated from Meredith for $110 million (before Meredith was acquired by IAC’s Dotdash).

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Anna Wintour, Condé Nast’s longtime fashion doyenne, is famous for a singular style trademark — her sunglasses. Indeed, Wintour didn’t take off her sunglasses the entire time she met with employees of Pitchfork this week to tell them they were losing their jobs after Condé Nast had decided to subsume the music criticism site into GQ, according to one now-former employee in attendance.

Pitchfork, one of the strongest music news and reviews publications over its 30-year-old online history, is being folded into men’s magazine GQ, owner Condé Nast said Wednesday.

EXCLUSIVE: A pair of UK execs are unveiling a plan to bring TV commissioning and brands closer together, as they launch London-based content agency and production firm House of Oddities (HOO).