Author: Michael

McClatchy Media hit its newsrooms nationwide with significant layoffs on Thursday, with some newspapers gutted by a third of their staff. The layoffs came just months after the company’s push into AI with a controversial editorial tool that led to widespread revolt among staffers, as previously reported by TheWrap. The 168-year-old newspaper owner houses Pulitzer Prize-winning local outlets like the Bee, the Miami Herald and the Charlotte Observer, among many others. In an internal memo to staff first shared publicly by the New York Times’ Katie Robertson, management said that an internal analysis found that consumer revenue declined 41% while…

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Dan Schneider has lost the appeal in the “Quiet on Set” documentary defamation lawsuit filed against Warner Bros. Discovery and Sony. The legal team for Warner Bros. Discovery and “Quiet on Set” producer Sony was successful in directing the trial court to accept an anti-SLAPP motion filed against Schneider, which protects the organizations from suits that limit their free speech. Schneider filed the defamation suit back in May 1, 2024, arguing that “through the use of voiceovers, photos, videos, graphics, editing and production,” the documentary “implies a false relationship between these subjects and leads a reasonable viewer to inaccurately conclude…

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I often forget that Julianne Moore is in her 60s. The actress seems to have somehow stopped the clock, and I feel like I need to copy her beauty routine so I can age like her. Thankfully, not everything she uses is a splurge. She even opts for a drugstore cleanser that’s ridiculously affordable. Moore shared her full skincare routine with Vogue, and admittedly, it’s not simple. “My skincare routine has gotten more and more complicated as I get older,” Moore said. However, her cleansing step remains straightforward with the Cetaphil Daily Facial Cleanser Fragrance Free. “I travel a lot,…

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Megyn Kelly took shots at Sandra Bullock on Thursday for being afraid for her kids’ safety because they’re Black. The “Megyn Kelly Show” host went after the “Practical Magic 2” star for comments made during the film’s press tour. The actress said she was “uber paranoid” for the safety of her two children – who are both Black – in America right now. Kelly was quick to take issue with that, saying Bullock is feeding into the real problem. “She has two children, both adopted, I think, from Louisiana. She wants you to believe, just like LeBron James said that…

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