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Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterVariety has won five Eddie & Ozzie Awards, presented by Folio:, for editorial and design excellence. No gala was held this year due to the pandemic.Variety’s April 29 issue, titled “The Great Depression,” which chronicled the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on workers across the entertainment industry, was honored with an award for business-to-business full issue as well as for its cover illustration.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentBursting onto the Latin American film-TV scene in the second half of last decade, Colombia’s Fidelio Films has struck a development and co-production deal with Stories, the burgeoning film-TV arm of Spain-based publishing giant Editorial Planeta.The news comes as Fidelio prepares to present at Spain’s Conecta Fiction, a Europe-Latin America TV production forum, the supernatural drama series “Tenebris,” which won an Our Local is Global grant from

released internal diversity statistics Thursday and vowed to increase roles for reporting on race and justice, among other steps toward inclusivity-boosting.Maribel Perez Wadsworth, president of news at Gannett Media, wrote, “By the end of the year, we will have created 20 national and 40 local jobs focused on social justice, disparities and inclusion to augment our coverage of race at the intersection of every critical institution, including education, health care, criminal justice and the

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorToday, Amazon Music announces the hire of Raymond Leon Roker as its global head of editorial. He will “lead all aspects of Amazon Music’s editorial content strategy across music, video, and voice,” according to the announcement, be based in Los Angeles and will report to Ryan Redington, director of Amazon Music.

Former 21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch has resigned from the board of News Corp., the parent company of the Wall Street Journal. In a letter of resignation filed Friday afternoon, Murdoch wrote: "My resignation is due to disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company’s news outlets and certain other strategic decisions." James Murdoch had been on News Corp.'s board of directors since 2013.

wrote in the letter, which was disclosed in an SEC filing. “My resignation is due to disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company’s news outlets and certain other strategic decisions.”It’s not immediately clear what editorial content Murdoch was referring to.“We’re grateful to James for his many years of service to the company.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorNews Corp. said Friday that James Murdoch, the son of founder Rupert Murdoch, is exiting the board of directors due to unspecified differences over editors content, the latest in periodic bouts of family drama around the media dynasty.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterJames Murdoch, former chief executive of 21st Century Fox and son of Rupert Murdoch, has resigned from the News Corp.

in response to a letter earlier this week from 280-plus staffers of the paper and parent company Dow Jones that criticized the opinion section and called for better labeling of opinion pieces and stronger fact-checking of op-eds.“It was probably inevitable that the wave of progressive cancel culture would arrive at the Journal, as it has at nearly every other cultural, business, academic and journalistic institution.

Ubisoft Toronto, has resigned from his position following a wave of assault and sexual harassment allegations against him.A Kotaku report, which was published on Monday (July 7), detailed the allegations against Béland.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot on Thursday published in a blog post an internal letter he wrote to staff members about the recent accusations of harassment and discrimination that targeted certain individuals at the company in recent weeks. The letter, titled "Change Starts Today," declared "The situations that some of you have experienced or witnessed are absolutely not acceptable.

Nota del editor: Tremenda Nota es el medio socio del Los Angeles Blade en Cuba. Este editorial salió en su sitio web el 29 de julio.

Austin Daboh joining Atlantic Records UK, Apple Music has briskly moved to fill the role of head of editorial in the key UK and Ireland markets. Replacing Daboh is Ryan Newman, who joined the music streaming giant in mid-2018 as a music manager before rising to head of artist relations in January 2019."MASSIVE congratulations to Ryan Newman who has been made Head of Editorial for Apple Music," tweeted Daboh on Tuesday.

James Bennet, who was considered a top candidate to succeed Dean Baquet as executive editor of The New York Times, has resigned from his position as editorial page editor amid an intense backlash to a column his section published on Wednesday. The column, written by a conservative Republican U.S.

memo to NYT staff by publisher A.G. Sulzberger.

By Manori Ravindran

The Hollywood Reporter has found its new editorial director. Nekesa Mumbi Moody, who has served as global entertainment and lifestyles editor at the Associated Press since 2012, has been named to the top editorial role atThe Hollywood Reporter.

By Dave McNary

The Hollywood Reporter has found its new editorial director. Nekesa Mumbi Moody, who has served as global entertainment and lifestyles editor at The Associated Press since 2012, has been named to the top editorial role at The Hollywood Reporter.

By Claudia Eller

By Variety Staff

Laura Monks and Tom Lewis have been upped to co-managing directors, Decca Records Group, Decca president Rebecca Allen announced Feb. 21, along with a wave of other promotions at the company. Both will continue reporting to Allen.

By Tom Grater

Rachel Whitney, formerly of YouTube, is joining Spotify as the Head of Editorial for Nashville, she announced in a social media post (which recently has become a method of the streaming giant announcing new employees).  A source close to the situation points out that the company now has two female executives at the helm of its Nashville office — Whitney joins head of artist & label services Brittany Schaffer, who signed on with the company in December of 2017.

By Dade Hayes