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Ruhle Replaces Williams on MSNBC; ‘Morning Joe' Expanded
Stephanie Ruhle is replacing Brian Williams on the weeknight MSNBC broadcast ‘The 11th Hour,’ and the show ‘Morning Joe’ will expand to four hours
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Rashida Jones Named Next President of MSNBC
Phil Griffin is stepping down as the longtime president of MSNBC, to be replaced early next year by rising NBC News executive Rashida Jones.
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Lester Holt Spends 2 Nights in Prison for Special Report on Criminal Justice Reform
For two nights, Holt slept in a cell in Angola’s death row, alongside prisoners who were locked inside except for an hour a day of recreation in the prison yard. The man in the cell next to him hadn’t been outside in four years.
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Peggy Lipton, ‘Mod Squad' and ‘Twin Peaks' Star, Dies at 72
Peggy Lipton, a star of the groundbreaking late 1960s TV show “The Mod Squad” and the 1990s show “Twin Peaks,” died of cancer Saturday. She was 72. Lipton died surrounded by her family, her daughters, Rashida and Kidada Jones, said in a statement. “We are heartbroken that our beloved mother passed away from cancer today,” they said. “She made her...
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'Lost' and Found: Sofia Coppola, Bill Murray to Reunite for ‘On the Rocks'
Sofia Coppola and Bill Murray will reunite 16 years after the Oscar-winning ‘Lost in Translation’ in the splashiest feature film yet announced by Apple.
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#MeToo: Hollywood Is Still Soul Searching a Year After Weinstein
After Rashida Jones exited Pixar’s “Toy Story 4” in 2017 she noted that the studio, after 25 years in business, had not made a single feature film directed by a woman, calling it “a culture where women and people of color do not have an equal creative voice.” So when Pixar co-founder and CEO John Lasseter stepped down earlier this...
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Time Out: Tessa Thompson Clarifies Lena Dunham Beef Over Time's Up Initiative
Over the weekend, “Thor: Ragnarok” star Tessa Thompson shared a picture of a group of activists and celebrities–including Tarana Burke, Rosario Dawson, Brie Larson and Rashida Jones–crowded together to celebrate their hard work on Time’s Up, the anti-sexual harassment movement backed by 300 prominent women in Hollywood.
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Beyoncé, Louis C.K. and NBC Bay Area Among Peabody Awards Honorees
The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit joins the likes of Beyoncé, Louis C.K. and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as one of this year’s 30 Peabody Award honorees.
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NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit Wins Coveted Peabody Award for “Tenacious Reporting”
An NBC Bay Area investigative series into the misuse of school officers is being honored with a prestigious Peabody Award.
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Peabody Awards Ceremony to Air June 2 on Both PBS and Fusion
The Peabody Awards says it has partnered with PBS and the Fusion network for a special TV broadcast of the 76th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony. The red-carpet event will take place May 20 in New York. A joint broadcast of that program is scheduled to air June 2. The collaboration marks the first time the awards ceremony will be telecast...