Media & Marketing

Betting on familiar brands is a way for broadcasters, buffeted by steadily declining ratings and stepped-up competition from cable networks and streaming services, to limit their risks in a tough environment.

Morley Safer, one of the best-known American television journalists of the past five decades, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan, his employer, CBS News, said. He was 84.

Alphabet’s Google argued that France risks upsetting international law and emboldening totalitarian censors by trying to force the search firm to broaden its application of Europe’s “right to be forgotten.”

A legal challenge by the tobacco industry against plain packaging in the U.K. has failed, opening the door for cigarette packs to be stripped of branding across the country and setting a precedent for other countries in Europe.

The Viacom board of directors voted to stop paying 92-year-old controlling shareholder and Chairman Emeritus Sumner Redstone, according to a person familiar with the matter, in the wake of a legal fight.

Charter Communications on Wednesday said it completed the acquisition of Time Warner Cable, solidifying the formation of a telecommunications behemoth that faced regulatory hurdles.

Tribune Publishing Co.’s second-largest shareholder urged the board to engage “immediately” in talks with Gannett Co. after it raised its unsolicited takeover offer to about $475 million earlier this week.

Folding laundry takes time and feels futile when clothes just get wrinkled; marketers are trying everything, even folding machines; why hasn’t this been solved?

San Francisco is set to become the first U.S. city to require health warnings on ads for soda.

A German court banned a comedian from repeating large sections of a satirical text about Recep Tayyip Erdogan, handing Turkey’s President a partial victory in efforts to silence mockery and criticism of him in Germany.

While Hollywood has mined comic books and newspaper articles for inspiration for years, it has started looking at movies themselves, and a market has cropped up at major film festivals for the rights to turn buzzy documentaries into big-screen features.

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg will meet with about 15 conservatives Wednesday as part of an effort to allay fears the social network suppressed conservative news.