Brian Lowry

6 days ago | thewrap.com | Brian Lowry

The squabbling panel show lives most robustly in social media, but its “Crossfire”-like partisan talk often feels more like verbal wrestling than enlightened debate May 8, 2025 @ 10:00 AM Abby Phillip (center) is the host of "CNN NewsNight." While it’s difficult to distill the challenges CNN faces down to a single hour, “NewsNight” encapsulates the inherent puzzle that the network and other legacy media must solve, and the elusive quest to find a toehold in that shrinking space known as the...

6 days ago | sg.news.yahoo.com | Brian Lowry

While it’s difficult to distill the challenges CNN faces down to a single hour, “NewsNight” encapsulates the inherent puzzle that the network and other legacy media must solve, and the elusive quest to find a toehold in that shrinking space known as the political middle. “Americans with different perspectives aren’t talking to each other, but here they do,” host Abby Phillip says, by way of introducing the nightly program. But do they, really?

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Brian Lowry

While it’s difficult to distill the challenges CNN faces down to a single hour, “NewsNight” encapsulates the inherent puzzle that the network and other legacy media must solve, and the elusive quest to find a toehold in that shrinking space known as the political middle. “Americans with different perspectives aren’t talking to each other, but here they do,” host Abby Phillip says, by way of introducing the nightly program. But do they, really?

1 week ago | thewrap.com | Brian Lowry

News outlets that appeared to downplay the film were channeling their sources, but they may have revealed blind spots when it comes to Black-centered movies May 6, 2025 @ 6:15 AM When “Sinners” opened to very good if not overwhelming box office numbers, the film’s performance elicited several skeptical reactions from the entertainment press.

1 week ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Brian Lowry

When “Sinners” opened to very good if not overwhelming box office numbers, the film’s performance elicited several skeptical reactions from the entertainment press. In doing so, those outlets and their industry sources might have made a case for the value of diversity, at a time when DEI efforts at media companies have come under siege by the Trump administration. Writer-director Ryan Coogler’s period horror film has provided a welcome spring surge for Hollywood.