Media

After a period of openly using movies to display progressive values, studios seem to be heeding a message from many ticket buyers: Just entertain us.

By Brooks Barnes

Vivian Jenna Wilson’s remarks, in an exclusive interview with NBC News, were a response to Mr. Musk’s comments about her transgender identity.

By Aimee Ortiz

The company is trying to make the league accept its match of Amazon’s bid to broadcast games starting with the 2025-26 season.

By Tania Ganguli

The SAG-AFTRA union wants higher pay for the use of voices and images and protection from losing jobs to artificial intelligence.

By Brooks Barnes and Kellen Browning

The litigation stems from a March 10 interview in which George Stephanopoulos, the network’s star anchor, referred to a civil case brought against Mr. Trump by E. Jean Carroll.

By Michael M. Grynbaum

Rupert Murdoch, the patriarch, has moved to change the family’s irrevocable trust to preserve his media businesses as a conservative force. Several of his children are fighting back.

By Jim Rutenberg and Jonathan Mahler

The league rejected a bid by Warner Bros. Discovery to match Amazon’s offer.

By Tania Ganguli, Kevin Draper and Nicole Sperling

Guided by a keen sense of timing, she covered wars, sports, riots, politics and more for The A.P. in the ’70s, when few women worked as news photographers.

By Trip Gabriel

Born into a patrician family, he used Harper’s and later his own Lapham’s Quarterly to denounce what he saw as the hypocrisies and injustices of a spoiled United States.

By Robert D. McFadden

Organizers avoided disruption by agreeing to give performers on temporary contracts a greater cut of broadcast royalties.

By Aurelien Breeden

He brought to his writing a sharp sense of humor, honed in stand-up comedy clubs, and never pulled punches even though he was an unabashed Democrat.

By Sam Roberts

President Biden, who has been sidelined with Covid, is set to address the nation this week.

By Stuart A. Thompson

Progressive publications said President Biden’s decision to withdraw from the 2024 election was heroic. Conservative commentators suggested that if he is unable to campaign, he should step down from the presidency, too.

By Santul Nerkar

Ms. Kurmasheva, a Russian American working for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, had been charged in relation to an antiwar book she edited.

By Ivan Nechepurenko

A judge also threw out a separate lawsuit against the network brought by a specialist in Russian disinformation.

By Michael M. Grynbaum

The celebrated 1990s police procedural is coming to Peacock in August.

By Maya Salam

President Biden’s decision to bow out after a disastrous debate confirms that in a TikTok era, TV is still the biggest political arena.

By James Poniewozik

The film was a global phenomenon and seemed to herald a new era of embracing stories by, about and for women.

By Nicole Sperling

Donald Trump sued the Pulitzer Prize Board over its 2022 statement reaffirming its decision to award a prize for coverage of the 2016 Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.

By Rebecca Robbins

Viewership peaked on Thursday night starting around the 15-minute mark of Donald Trump’s speech, as he delivered a vivid reconstruction of last weekend’s assassination attempt.

By John Koblin

The organization, and its influential film festival, may stay in Park City, Utah, or move to another location like Atlanta or Cincinnati.

By Nicole Sperling

Once again, a show with little following has become hugely popular once it starts streaming on Netflix.

By John Koblin

The former Fox News host, who is now firmly a part of Donald Trump’s inner circle, appeared to relish his return to the limelight.

By Michael M. Grynbaum

He used his platforms on CNN and Fox Business to share baseless conspiracy theories. His tenure at Fox ended after the network was sued for defamation over claims of voting machine fraud.

By Alex Williams and Michael Levenson

A lawsuit that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni won is one of several she has filed against critics. Press-freedom groups say it is a concerning practice.

By Elisabetta Povoledo

Shows like “Bridgerton” and “The Roast of Tom Brady” performed well for the streaming service, which now has 278 million subscribers worldwide.

By Nicole Sperling

After time away from the spotlight, the right-wing host is increasingly welcomed by Trump’s inner circle. He also made a surprise visit to Fox’s convention studio.

By Michael M. Grynbaum and Jim Rutenberg

Carlos Espina is among a new kind of social media personalities whom politicians, especially those in the Biden White House, view as modern-day broadcasters.

By Sapna Maheshwari and Ken Bensinger

A production technique gave the impression that Rachel Maddow and other star anchors were reporting in Milwaukee, not from 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

By Michael M. Grynbaum

The agreements, set to begin after next season, could potentially pay the league about $76 billion over 11 years.

By Tania Ganguli and Kevin Draper

The media titan’s attendance in Milwaukee was another extraordinary turn in his contorted relationship with Donald J. Trump.

By Jim Rutenberg

A branding expert, he deployed the “I’m lovin’ it” campaign globally in 2003 to bring customers and sales back to the fast-food giant when it was in a slump.

By Richard Sandomir

Mr. Watson, who denied lying to investors and lenders, faces up to 37 years in prison.

By Danielle Kaye

Conservative commentators applauded former President Donald J. Trump’s vice-presidential pick. Liberal outlets focused on J.D. Vance’s past criticisms of his new running mate.

By Santul Nerkar

At a concert in Australia, Kyle Gass made a comment suggesting that he wished the shooter had not missed former President Trump during an assassination attempt.

By Maya Salam

His best seller about Marines in Iraq, members of a “disposable generation,” was made into an HBO mini-series. He focused on subjects outside mainstream media coverage.

By Alexandra E. Petri

Pete Wells is moving on from his role as the Times restaurant critic, a job with many rewards and maybe too many courses.

By Pete Wells

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