Industry

The rescue of a group of Chilean miners this week has become a media phenomenon. We want your opinion on it all.
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Last night, the Banksy-directed opening credit sequence “couch gag” for The Simpsons took us into the sweatshop behind the franchise. As executive producer Al Jean noted, “This is what you get when you outsource.”
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Some good news came from the battlefield that is media and technology policy recently: some important fair use rulings that help to hold off the ever expanding clutches of copyright.
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FX's Louie and new possibilities for half-hour television comedy.
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International audiences seem to dig Jake Gyllenhaal’s abs more than Americans do – but is that enough to save the Prince of Persia film franchise?
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Disney’s announcement that it will be replacing cable channel Soapnet with a new preschool channel has generated serious concerns for U.S. soap viewers.
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What Summit Entertainment fails to see is that by courting male viewers, they are devaluing Twilight’s devoted female fans and missing an incredible opportunity to develop the terms for future female franchises.
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Nielsen's planned return to being publicly traded is the latest significant change for a company that has become much more than the primary source of television ratings, but rather has evolved into the primary arbiter of media audiences of virtually all types.
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Music videos are alive and well on the internet, and Miley Cyrus' latest - for her new single,"Can't Be Tamed" - represents a significant rhetorical moment in her star persona (and Disney's pockets).
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NBCU is offering "integrated sales marketing" to advertisers at this year's upfronts to bolster poor ratings during the ad sales push...but will it work?
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Today is Record Store Day, a music industry event taking place at hundreds of independent record shops internationally. But is this "holiday," intended to bolster record retailers, really better seen as an assertion of vinyl's renewed importance in the industry?
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Warner Bros. and DC have handed the keys to the kingdom to Christopher Nolan. Is there a downside?
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Media studies stands to gain from the consideration and analysis of new media and vice versa. Bringing two major conferences together, SCMS and SXSW Interactive, and seeing what that gets us seems like as good a place to start as any.
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The proposition that the Academy’s female winners are in a more profound sense losers has emerged as a media talking point.
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On the heels of the popularity of the Rube Goldberg video for “This Too Shall Pass,” OK Go announced that it was leaving an already beleaguered EMI to establish its own label Paracadute Recordings. Quickly a story emerged treating OK Go as the musical David fighting the evil Goliath of EMI.
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