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Jan 17, 2025 | 
straitstimes.com | Katie Robertson
NEW YORK - American actor and director Justin Baldoni filed a defamation lawsuit against Hollywood stars Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds on Jan 16, claiming that they tried to destroy him by accusing him of sexual harassment against the actress and then retaliation against her through a smear campaign. The lawsuit is the latest legal action in a feud tied to the romantic film It Ends With Us (2024), which starred Lively, 37, and Baldoni, 40, who also directed it.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Katie Robertson |Benjamin Mullin
Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of The Washington Post, whose decision to end presidential endorsements at the paper set off a firestorm inside and outside the paper last week, said Monday in his first comments about the change that it had been done to improve the newsroom’s credibility, not to protect his own personal interests. “Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election,” Bezos wrote in an essay published on the Post’s website.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Benjamin Mullin |Katie Robertson
A tropical storm was heading toward Florida’s Gulf Coast in late September when senior news and opinion leaders of The Washington Post flew into Miami for a periodic meeting with Jeff Bezos, the newspaper’s billionaire owner.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Alexandra Alter |Katie Robertson
Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal who was imprisoned in Russia for more than a year, is writing a memoir about his time in prison, his five years living in Moscow and Russia’s slide toward autocracy. The memoir will be published in the United States by Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House, with a tentative publication date in 2026.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
pressdemocrat.com | Katie Robertson
Olivia Nuzzi, the star political writer for New York magazine who was placed on leave after she disclosed her personal relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has accused her former fiance of a campaign of harassment and blackmail, according to court filings.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
bostonglobe.com | Katie Robertson
Jezebel, the famed feminist website, is set to return less than a month after it was shuttered. Paste Magazine, a music and culture outlet, acquired Jezebel on Tuesday and planned to start publishing on the site again as soon as Wednesday, said Josh Jackson, a co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Paste. “The idea of there not being a Jezebel right now just didn’t seem to make sense,” Jackson said.
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Jun 30, 2023 | 
bostonglobe.com | Katie Robertson
Fox News has agreed to pay $12 million to Abby Grossberg, a former Fox News producer who had accused the network of operating a hostile and discriminatory workplace and of coercing her into providing false testimony in a deposition. Parisis G. Filippatos, a lawyer for Grossberg, said that the settlement concluded all of Grossberg’s claims against Fox and the people she had named in her complaints, including former host Tucker Carlson and some of his producers.
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Jun 12, 2023 | 
bostonglobe.com | Katie Robertson
The Athletic, the sports news outlet owned by The New York Times, laid off nearly 4% of its newsroom on Monday. David Perpich, the publisher of The Athletic, and Steven Ginsberg, its executive editor, announced “a significant reorganization” of the newsroom in a note to the staff.
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May 2, 2023 | 
sanjuandailystar.com | Peter Baker |Katie Robertson
4 min readPresident Joe Biden applauds during the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, Saturday, April 29, 2023By Peter Baker and Katie RobertsonWhatever news gods decided that cable television stars Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon should be fired the same week that President Joe Biden was scheduled to give a funny speech ribbing the news media certainly were generous in providing fresh material.
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Apr 30, 2023 | 
seattletimes.com | Peter Baker |Katie Robertson
Whatever news gods decided that cable television stars Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon should be fired the same week that President Joe Biden was scheduled to give a funny speech ribbing the news media certainly were generous in providing fresh material. And Biden took advantage on Saturday night as he gleefully mocked some of his favorite foils.
