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Phil Griffin is stepping down as the longtime president of MSNBC, to be replaced early next year by rising NBC News executive Rashida Jones.

Lester Holt laughed when his colleagues proposed that he spend a couple of nights locked up in the Louisiana State Penitentiary for an NBC News 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.

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.

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...

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.

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...