LONDON: BBC Chair Rona Fairhead Faces Lawsuit Over Channel Closure
It seemed that maybe the saga of BBC Three was drawing to a close. Despite a spirited campaign headed up by programme-makers Jimmy Mulville and Jon Thoday, the supervisory BBC Trust decided in June to provisionally More...
Daniel Libeskind to be CNN Style’s First Guest Editor
World-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind joins CNN for month-long editorship exploring the interplay between architecture and emotion, CNN reports CNN Style is a “new international destination for More...
Donald Trump’s war with Univision gets nasty
– – Donald Trump’s fight with Univision is heating up. On Friday he published an anchor’s personal phone number, called for the resignation of a top executive and banned all of the More...
The BBC is testing iPlayer that can be controlled With Your Mind
In a blog post, Cyrus Saihan, the Head of Business Development for the BBC’s Digital division, explains how the corporation has teamed up with the company This Place to create the prototype application More...
CNN Boss Jeff Zucker: Look Out Fox, MSNBC
– – CNN’s ratings have clearly improved since bottoming out in 2014. But now the news channel has made a monster comeback under the leadership of its international president Jeff Juker. Zucker, More...
Journalist Mohammed Fahmy Files $100 Million Lawsuit Against Al Jazeera
– – Al-Jazeera English journalist Mohammed Fahmy, who spent after more than a year in prison in Egypt on terrorism-related charges, claims to have filed a civil suit against the network in Canada. Fahmy’s More...
Moshe Safdie: The Architect Shaping Singapore
SINGAPORE (CNN) —Israeli born, Canadian educated and now based in the United States, Moshe Safdie is the quintessential global citizen. Over a distinguished career, the internationally acclaimed 76-year-old More...
Tom Hanks’ Son Threatens Howard Stern
Howard Stern is at it again. His latest feud is with Tom Hanks son Chet, a rapper who goes by the name Chet Haze. Apparently Chet Hanks’ problems with Stern resulted from comments that the later made More...
Lennar CEO Stuart Miller Predicts Robust Housing Market
Lennar CEO Stuart Miller told CNBC that housing is looking up but there is a “long runway” ahead. “Housing market continues to improve at a slow and steady pace, ” Miller told CNBC. More...
Uber Loved by Institutional Investors, Loathed By Regulators
Even though Uber has been berated and even banned in several cities worldwide, its valuation is still bursting, and the car service is still attracting high-profile private investment, according to CNBC. Series More...