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One of the nation's top film critics, Justin Chang, is leaving the beleaguered Los Angeles Times, taking his fluid prose and winning personality to The New Yorker. Chang previously worked for years at Variety, from 2004 to 2016, when he moved to the LA Times. He starts his new position on Feb…

NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade is considered one of the greatest to ever play the game of basketball, winner of three NBA championships and a gold medal at the Olympic Games. For those accomplishments, he and the rare sports figures on his level earn widespread public adulation. "As athletes, we get…

Andy Borowitz’s satirical column in The New Yorker is coming to an end, as the publication has dropped the feature as part of cost cutting. Borowitz wrote on Facebook that “because of financial difficulties, The New Yorker has been forced to cut costs. As a result, it has decided to stop publishing…

Elon Musk says that he plans to make another move that will complicate news media outlets effort to draw traffic to their content on Twitter/X. He confirmed a report in Fortune that the platform will strip out the headline from story links so that the links are only from the article’s lead image…

Diane Guerrero, who played Maritza Ramos on the Netflix hit “Orange is the New Black,” worked at a bar where patrons would recognize her. "How could you tell this complete stranger how much you're getting paid for being on a television show?" she asked. "Because everyone's reaction would be, like, 'Oh, my…

Robert Gottlieb, the legendary editor at Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker who helped shape the work of many of the world’s greatest writers over the past six decades, has died, according to Knopf and The New Yorker. He was 92. Related Stories …

Not every film he did was great, Tom Hanks admits. In an interview published with The New Yorker on Sunday, Hanks said, “Let's admit this: We all have seen movies that we hate. I have been in some movies that I hate. You have seen some of my movies and you hate them.” Hanks was speaking on…

David Rohde, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who is executive editor of the New Yorker‘s digital site, is moving to NBC News as senior executive editor, national security, starting next month. This is the first major hire by Rebecca Blumenstein, who joined NBC News in January as…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar season used to boil down to one main thing for Condé Nast: Vanity Fair‘s party. While the famed bash is back this year, there’s also a more consequential reason for the company to feel festive: The New Yorker‘s record five nominations across all three short film categories. Stranger a…

EXCLUSIVE: New Yorker video producer Christopher Hwisu Kim is heading to the Sundance Film Festival this week as an all-expenses paid guest of The Black List and Cassian Elwes. "It’s an immense honor to be the recipient of the Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellowship, especially because E.S…

Polar bears are both a welcome and an unwelcome sight in the town of Churchill, Manitoba. They're welcome in the sense that each year the ursine creatures draw tourists to the area eager to see the bears as they migrate through Churchill on their way to winter feeding grounds on the Hudson Bay. And…

EXCLUSIVE: A trailer dropped today for the award-winning short documentary Holding Moses ahead of its release November 16 on the New Yorker's digital channels. The film takes viewers on an intimate journey with Broadway dancer Randi Rader as she reveals the emotional challenges of raising her young…