Will there ever be another great journalism film? Given the chaos in both movies and the news media—audiences polarized, anonymous sourcing resurgent, Twitter rampant, prevailing narratives debunked ...

There is a scene in the movie "Absence of Malice" where a woman steps out of her house at dawn and proceeds to pick up newspapers on the lawns of her neighbors. It was a futile, but very human, moment ...

Kurt Luedtke, who rose to be the top editor of a major American newspaper by the age of 33 and then abruptly left journalism to become an Oscar-winning Hollywood screenwriter on films such as “Out of ...

Mon, July 1, 2019 at 4:30 PM UTC Based on Marie Brenner’s Vanity Fair article The Ballad of Richard Jewell, and written by Billy Ray with Paul Walter Hauser in the title role, Eastwood’s film has ...

He led The Detroit Free Press at 33, then gave up journalism for Hollywood. “Absence of Malice” was one result; an Oscar for “Out of Africa” was another. By Katharine Q. Seelye Kurt Luedtke, a former ...

Three months ago, I supposed the next great movie newsroom drama would look more like Absence of Malice than All The President’s Men. Who knew that Clint Eastwood, filmdom’s Great Disruptor, would so ...

A regrettable by-product of modern media proliferation is its frequent lack of restraint and good humor, especially on the Web. Tony Snow rose above such vituperation as a happy political combatant, ...