Despite high-profile successes, the percentage of key TV roles for women both on screen and behind the camera did not improve last year, based on an annual study conducted by San Diego State University.
A fainting episode caught on camera has made Hillary Clinton's health a top story. But to the Democratic nominee's biggest boosters, the news coverage has amounted to media malpractice.
On September 9 and 10, 2001, George Carlin performed in Las Vegas, working out material for a planned live HBO special that was to derive its title from his closing routine: "I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die."
Fifteen years later, Aaron Brown still hears from viewers thanking him for his coverage of the 9/11 attacks. In a rare interview, he reflects on the experience.
'The Birth of a Nation' met rave reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival, despite the controversy surrounding the film's star and director, Nate Parker.
For news organizations that would normally never show nudity of any kind, printing the photo of a naked Vietnamese girl screaming in pain and terror after a napalm attack was a no-brainer. In fact, they knew, it belonged on the front page. Facebook treated it like child porn.