At the helm of the top media outlets in the nation are all men. The Washington Post's Media Columnist Margaret Sullivan explains the conditions facing women in news, and ways to close the gender gap in newsroom mastheads.
"I think there are more women in powerful positions in media than there ever have been before," says Sullivan. "The problem is at the very, very top of those very powerful news organizations it's pretty rare for a woman to have broken through."
Men wrote 52 percent of bylined news articles and opinion pieces about reproductive issues in the nation’s 12 most widely circulated newspapers and news wires. Meanwhile, women penned 37 percent, according to the 2017 Women's Media Center Report. Men won 84 percent of a century’s worth of Pulitzer Prizes, while women won only 16 percent according to Women's Media Center.
On how the #MeToo movement has impacted newsrooms, Sullivan says, "to say this whole thing gone too far is really misguided." She goes on to say, "I think what's really going to rule the day is that this major reckoning we're having in our society and how extremely important it is and how it was brought about by courageous journalists and courageous women."
Female stories "have to be told by women, otherwise there's going to be a disconnect," says actress Meghan Rienks. The movie, which follows a group of high school girls who reunite to complete a bucket list, was created by women.
The former Fox News reporter Lauren Sivan says she was able to speak out against the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein because she didn't rely on him for a job. But it was harder when it came to speaking out about her former boss Roger Ailes. "It was a lose-lose for any woman who wanted to come forward," she says.
The Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski threatened to sue the Academy after it voted to expel him from its ranks, calling the #MeToo movement "total hypocrisy." Jennifer Cunningham, a senior editor at the entertainment news site Bossip, said changes to the Academy membership rules don't help Polanski.
The entertainment company was trading down Wednesday morning, despite posting better-than-expected earnings on Tuesday. The biggest drag could be coming from "concern around ESPN and the decline in subscribers there," says Jason Ware, chief investment officer and chief economist at Albion Financial Group.
The actress says the greatest thing about playing the iconic Wizard of Oz character is her "transformation" through the show, which "challenges me as an actor." Cooper made her Broadway debut in the long-running hit musical last year.
Once people get over the name, they find that the show is actually "sexy, funny, and conversational," says the actor DeRon Horton, who plays Lionel Higgins on the Netflix series about race on campus at a fictional Ivy League university.
The Chrisley clan explains when to use phrases like "bless your heart" and "yonder." Season six of the USA Network show launched on Tuesday.
This year's theme was "Heavenly Bodies," inspired by the Catholic Church, giving celebrities plenty of room for fun interpretations.
The blockbuster hit from Marvel added hundreds of millions of dollars to Disney's bottom line in the second quarter, giving the company's movie studio business a 21 percent quarterly increase. The new "Avengers" movie and soon-to-be released "Star Wars" films will continue to help the media company's revenues, says Jack Kramer, co-founder and co-CEO of MarketSnacks.
The Google cheif Sundar Pichai opened the company's annual developer conference by addressing the burger emoji's misplaced cheese and the beer emoji's floating foam. It shows how seriously users take pictorial communication that Pichai would kick off his keynote by talking about emojis, says Jeremy Burge, chief emoji officer at Emojipedia.
