Weekly Journal #39

News

Startling Number Of Industry Workers Who Believe Sexual Harassers Are Not Held To Account (Deadline)

Black Lives Matter Has Inspired Cultural Shift in Entertainment Industry (Fordham)

Interview with John Stankey, CEO of AT&T (Watch Here)

The Battle For Our Screens, Part 1: The Race to Entertain Us (Listen Here)

Donald Trump And Melania Trump Test Positive For COVID-19 (Deadline)

Film

Give Nancy Meyers An Oscar Already (Bustle)

M. Night Shyamalan Teams Up with Biden Campaign for Filmmaking Contest to Encourage Voting (People)

‘Every Family Is Kind of Cultlike’ (Atlantic)

Television

Joel Stein Partners With SoulPancake to Host Author Conversation Series (Hollywood Reporter)

'Billions' Renewed for Season 6 at Showtime (Hollywood Reporter)

Conan Series Shows That Streaming Studios Are Repeating Hollywood’s Most Costly Mistake (Forbes)

Michaela Coel and Donald Glover have a lot to talk about (GQ)

Kat Coiro To Direct ‘Girls5eva’ Pilot For Peacock And Tina Fey (Deadline)

Barefoot in Quarantine (The Cut)

Digital

Leaks From Internal Facebook Meetings Show Mark Zuckerberg On His Back Foot (Verge)

Apple evolving into a services company (Mercury News)

Good Reads

Magawa the mine-detecting rat wins PDSA Gold Medal (BBC)

It's Been Three Days And I'm Still Thinking About The Rock's Extremely Tight Shirt (Buzzfeed)

The Pirates of the Highways (Narratively)

16 Weeks and 5 Days at the University of Arizona (Atlantic)

In His Own Words, Trump on the Coronavirus and Masks (New York Times)

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John Wells