CNN public editor: Should CNN journalists unionize?
Newsrooms are unionizing faster than ever, driven by economic uncertainty and their need for more influence over diversity––of content and staffing. Axios reports that in 2020, “More than 1,800 journalists across unions from the NewsGuild and the Writers Guild (of America) unionized… That’s up from roughly 1,500 the year prior.”
Conspicuously missing from that trend: cable news. As a result, Anderson Cooper is covered by union protection when he goes to work at CBS, but not when he returns to CNN. As a former producer who has worked in both union and non-union newsrooms, I can attest to the value collective negotiation provides individual workers as well as the editorial process. (Unfortunately, the advantages weren’t clear until I was hired at MSNBC, which is not organized.)
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Dick Kay, a no-nonsense, incisive inquisitor who had one of the longest political reporting careers in Chicago, died early Thursday at 84.
He had been found unresponsive in his favorite recliner at his St. Charles home Monday, according to his familys, and taken to Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital in Geneva, where he died. The cause of death was a brain hemhorrage, his son Eric Snodgrass said.
Mr. Kay had a stentorian voice that sliced through the noise at crime scenes and news conferences like a bass baritone in an opera. It seemed to command answers, even from those who might have preferred to slink away.
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When Universal Pictures tapped stage veteran James Whale to direct a film adaptation of Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein in 1931, he needed to find the perfect monster. The right actor obviously had to look frightening, but that wouldn’t be enough. There needed to be a touch of humanity underneath the walking patchwork of corpses.
Boris Karloff rose to the challenge by playing the unloved creature with both tenderness and menace. A box office smash,
Frankenstein made Karloff a superstar, especially within the horror genre. Here are 13 things you should know about the screen legend.
What s the difference between the Globes, the Oscars and the SAGs?
From CNN s Lisa Respers France
Awards season is super busy for us entertainment journalists (think multiple Super Bowls without the snacks that come along with that big game) and while there are plenty, the big three when it comes to acting are the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild Awards and the granddaddy if them all, the Academy Awards a.k.a. the Oscars.
But how are they different?
Glad you asked.
Regina King speaks onstage during the 93rd Annual Academy Awards at Union Station on April 25 in Los Angeles. Todd Wawrychuk/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images
What The Cast Of The Addams Family Did After The Show Ended
What The Cast Of The Addams Family Did After The Show Ended Matthew Peyton/Getty Images
By Michael Palan/May 9, 2021 1:54 am EDT
Charles Addams gave birth to The Addams Family as a cartoon in The New Yorker, but the clan truly became a fixture in American pop culture when they invaded television screens from 1964-1966.
(All together now)
Mysterious and spooky,
The Addams Family.
Vic Mizzy s catchy theme song for The Addams Family caught on with audiences and made monster stars out of its monstrous cast. Dying a quick death after only two seasons, the cast moved on with their careers, some with continued success, and others, not so much, but none could ever escape their Family ties with the show.