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Amid WarnerMedia-Discovery merger and streaming wars, ‘great storytelling always wins’ Written by Danielle Chiriguayo, produced by Angie Perrin Listen 9 min MORE “Everybody's trying to get people's attention, and everybody's trying to become that first destination. … At the end of the day … if you create good content, people are gonna flock to that. Great storytelling always wins,” says Alejandro Rojas, director of applied analytics at Parrot Analytics. Photo by Shutterstock. This week, AT&T announc...

the Wind, TCM host Eddie Muller notes Malcolm X's mention of the film in his 1965 autobiography. "I was the only Negro in the theater, and when Butterfly McQueen went into her act, I felt like crawling under the rug," the activist wrote. Some intros examine the expectation of who an audience for a film might be — in the case of classic movies, producers were thinking almost exclusively of white audiences. "It's important to come face-to-face with that uncomfortable idea that what many of us have considered safe is the opposite of that for other people," says TCM host Alicia Malone. "One per...

When Cody Heller created “Dummy,” it had the ingredients of a hit show. The comedy starred popular actress Anna Kendrick, and its story about a woman’s interactions with her boyfriend’s sex doll certainly had potential for water cooler talk. But just six months after “Dummy” debuted on Quibi, the streaming service announced it was shutting down, causing more than 75 programs to go dark in December. “The saddest part of it was, ‘Oh, no. Now “Dummy” is just gone — disappeared,‘" Heller said. “There’s no way to watch it now, and it all happened so fast.” Advertise...

Plants come with pretty good security alert systems against pests and maladies. But entomologist Fiona Goggin wants to give them an upgrade to mount faster, more robust defenses against diseases and nematodes that attack them through the soil. Goggin is a professor of entomology in the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture's research arm, and Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences. She has spent years studying the interactions of plants and insects with an eye toward developing safe biological pest control. Th...