Aug. 10, 2021 By Carolyn Micheli CINCINNATI – The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) has appointed Adam Chase to the role of vice president and general manager for WTKR, Scripps’ CBS affiliate in Norfolk, Virginia, effective Monday, Sept.
May 25, 2021 By Kari Wethington CINCINNATI – As the Scripps National Spelling Bee prepares to make its return to TV screens across the country beginning June 12, more than 200 spellers are preparing to showcase their skills in the competition’s first-ever hybrid virtual and in-person competition.
Mank, Lee Isaac Chung for
Minari, Emerald Fennell for
Promising Young Woman and Aaron Sorkin for
The Trial Of The Chicago 7. Zhao is only the second woman ever to win this award in the DGA’s 73 years of handing out awards like this, with the other being Kathryn Bigelow for
The Hurt Locker in 2009, which also makes Zhao the first woman of color to ever win the top prize from the DGA.
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Elsewhere in the awards, Darius Marder’s good weekend went on, with
Sound Of Metal’s BAFTA win setting up a win for First-Time Feature at the DGAs. On the TV side of things, Lesli Linka Glatter won in the dramatic category for
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If Alex Cranz were a participant in this post, she would almost certainly include a photo of the “bye bitch” vape she has or any number of GIFs that are surely criminal in at least half a dozen states at whoever was being roasted. Unfortunately for all of us, after five years, she is not a roaster but the roastee. Her talent at sharing cringeworthy GIFs was surpassed only by her skills as a journalist. Scroll Cranz’s archive is like whiplash from anything related to consumer tech to a shockingly wide range of fantasy and sci-fi coverage to a post inexplicably headlined “I Thought It Was an Ugly Titty Purse.” That, in essence, is Cranz. Incredibly focused energy and dedication to a number of beats, punctuated by something that makes you chuckle, shake your head, and then want to learn all about it. To say Cranz is only a good journalist with a mild obsession with
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Sam Sanders’ NPR show is a low-key program that isn’t aiming for the prestige podcast pocket, so in a way, it’s the perfect counterprogramming to
Reply All’s “Test Kitchen” series on the so-called racial reckoning at
Bon Appétit (a series that was, ironically, canceled halfway through its run after
Reply All itself faced a similar reckoning). In this episode, Sohla El-Waylly, former
BA chef and now the star of
Off-Script With Sohla, speaks candidly with Sanders about her decision to resign from
BA last summer, insisting that her actions have not led to real change, just real conversation, which is only the tip of the iceberg. “Don’t put a lot of pressure on yourself to try and change something that’s been a problem for hundreds of years,” Sohla advises. Instead, “fight for one story at a time” and make a difference on an individual level. Sanders, meanwhile, speaks to the “crazy-making” that can result from achieving career succ