Current Events

Walt and Jesse return to where the series began to stage the program's climactic peak.
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The policy battle over net neutrality is heating back up with the hearing in Verizon v. FCC. Here's what's at stake in the case.
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The season hits its first speed bump, as characters bide time while looking toward the inevitable confrontation.
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Disney's latest venture aims to earn much of its value through creativity, but you'll have to play—and pay—for it.
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Thinking about Infinity as a replacement for licensed tie-ins—as opposed to the creative revolution they claim—may still be overestimating Disney’s plans.
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Disney Interactive's big gaming industry play comes with rhetoric of revolution, and a business model built on the success of other gaming platforms.
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This week we get plenty of confessions, but not the ones we might have expected.
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All of the characters are digging themselves out, and deeper, after last week's confrontation.
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Breaking Bad returns from almost a year off to reset our timeframes and set-up its endgame.
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Extracting clips from DVDs is and will continue to be a crucial skill for media educators and researchers even as cloud and streaming services threaten DVDs; here's how to do it.
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Part 5 of a 7 part series on LeakyCon explores the ways fans and their creative labors influence the work of stars and producers of source texts.
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Part 4 of a 7 part series: LeakyCon’s LGBT fandom offers insights into the millennial generation’s attitudes towards current gender/identity categories, but they also express desire for more recognition of the multiplicity and fluidity of their identities as a whole.
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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