From doxxing to death threats: Are music critics misunderstood?
Culture • Nov 7, 2025, 2:50 PM
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This week, FRANCE 24's media show Scoop looks at the music critic. There are a number of challenges facing the job, including slashed entertainment reporting budgets and even hardcore pop fans threatening critics. Our guests are pop critic Minjae Jun and John Doran, co-founder of The Quietus, one of the leading independent voices in music and cultural criticism. They discuss the importance of music journalism – past, present and future.
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Acclaimed British playwright Tom Stoppard dies aged 88
Culture • 8:09 PM
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British playwright Tom Stoppard, a dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998's "Shakespeare in Love", has died at the age of 88. Famed for his dazzling wit and depth, Stoppard was credited with reshaping modern theatre, combining int
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Paris arthouse cinemas reinvent themselves amid audience decline
Culture • 6:43 AM
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With audiences dwindling and streaming on the rise, Paris’s iconic arthouse cinemas are racing to reinvent themselves or risk closing for good. One cinema in the Champs-Elysées area has adopted a "modular" economic model, enabling screening rooms to be r
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