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Giant Bomb Gaming, as a hobby, has gone from a niche pastime for nerds to widely beloved, well-reputed activity of the masses. Everyone has a game console, a game they love on their computers, or something they incessantly play on their phones. Video game movies top the box office, hit games get turned into game…

Jeff Sharon is the Managing Editor, Publisher, and boss around here. He graduated from UCF in 2005 and worked in the Knights’ athletic department full-time from 2008-2010. He still works for UCF as a public address announcer at several sporting events and also thinks the Atlantic Sun Conference days were more fun than you realized….

Editor’s note: Atlantic Media publishes a weekly newsletter I like. It’s called The Idea and it’s about “everything new and innovative in the media industry.” You should subscribe! This week’s edition featured a Q&A with Ben Cotton, executive director of retention and customer experience at The New York Times, in which they discussed a couple…

Editor’s note: Hot Pod is a weekly newsletter on the podcasting industry written by Nick Quah; we happily share it with Nieman Lab readers each Tuesday. Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 159, published April 17, 2018. Quick measurement bite. Been a while since we’ve checked back into what is…

“I’m never going to make any money from it, but I’m learning so much,” he says of his new venture, which currently has the likes of Adam Sandler, Rebel Wilson, Neil Moritz, Michael De Luca and more booked as guests. Producer Todd Garner — a longtime studio executive turned producer who has worked on everything…

Tex McIver’s fate will almost certainly be in the hands of the jury sometime this week. The new episode of our Breakdown podcast, which went live early Monday, explores how McIver’s murder trial came to this pass — the weeks of prosecution testimony vs. the days of defense testimony. » Full season of the ‘Breakdown’ McIver…

It’s reasonably common knowledge that large numbers of Māori fought on the side of the government during the New Zealand Wars. We even have a name for them, kūpapa Māori. A less well-known story is the handful of Europeans who went in the other direction – Pākehā soldiers who deserted the British army and joined…

CLOSE A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet encountered this apparent UFO off the East Coast of the United States in 2015. USA TODAY Art Bell, radio’s master of the paranormal, in the studio at his home in Pahrump, Nev. The longtime time host of “Coast to Coast AM” also had a short-lived show on Sirius…

Empire on Blood is a complicated creature. There is a heartbreaking story at the center of this Panoply true-crime podcast, one that revolves around a once-powerful drug dealer who spent two decades in jail for a crime he did not commit. It hits a range of urgent, difficult issues: the systemic travesties of the American…

Pop culture critic Evan Narcisse was recently recruited to write the Rise of the Black Panther comic for Marvel. Narcisse wrote his story without any inside knowledge of the Black Panther movie, the details of which were kept tightly under wraps. When he finally saw the film, he was blown away. “I was surprised at…