Candice Frederick
@candicefrederick.bsky.social
Journalist for hire | Formerly: Senior Culture Reporter at HuffPost | Other Bylines: The Daily Beast, Time, New York Times, Bloomberg, ELLE and Harper's Bazaar | [email protected] | candicefrederick.contently.com
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The Future Of 'Sesame Street' Hangs In The Balance. Its Core Audience Might Not Care.
The news that Max has ended its partnership with the iconic series raises questions about whether the show really abandoned its mission years ago.
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As I am back on the job hunt (and, in the meantime, the freelance work hunt), I'm dropping a thread of some of my proudest work here for consideration. Contact info and journalism portfolio are both linked in my bio. www.huffpost.com/entry/future...
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Founders of a startup now valued at $1 billion went public about how the company got started by manually taking notes and pretending to be AI.
An AI startup's viral LinkedIn story and the 'fake it till you make it' approach
Founders of a startup now valued at $1 billion went public about how the company got started by manually taking notes and pretending to be AI.
www.businessinsider.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Founders of a startup now valued at $1 billion went public about how the company got started by manually taking notes and pretending to be AI.
The Plague is indeed very good.
Niche post for critics and movie-awards-season nerds: Don't sleep on The Plague, a superb, excruciatingly tense American debut film--not horror, but in its way terrifying--about being a 12- or 13-year-old boy among other 12- or 13-year-old boys. Opens next month; it's haunted me since I saw it.
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The Plague is indeed very good.
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Kiefer Sutherland and Rebel Wilson charm in Tinsel Town, a winsome holiday comedy about a faded action hero learning to love the season again.
‘Tinsel Town’ Review: Kiefer Sutherland and Rebel Wilson Charm in an Overstuffed but Winsome Holiday Comedy
It’s that time of year again. The time of year when you can’t walk into a multiplex or turn on your television (especially the Hallmark Channel) without encountering a movie determined to make you feel good about the holidays. It can all make you feel as Scrooge-like as washed-up Hollywood action movie star Brad Mac, the protagonist in Chris Foggin’s new addition to the overcrowded genre. It’s no spoiler to reveal that by the end of Tinsel Town (a cute punning title), Brad has learned to embrace the holiday, even if it means having to appear in a British pantomime show.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Kiefer Sutherland and Rebel Wilson charm in Tinsel Town, a winsome holiday comedy about a faded action hero learning to love the season again.
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Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Gaten Matarazzo, and Caleb McLaughlin have been acting in Netflix juggernaut Stranger Things since it debuted in 2016.
As the monumental series finale approaches, the co-stars confront the end of the show that defined their childhood.
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As the monumental series finale approaches, the co-stars confront the end of the show that defined their childhood.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Gaten Matarazzo, and Caleb McLaughlin have been acting in Netflix juggernaut Stranger Things since it debuted in 2016.
As the monumental series finale approaches, the co-stars confront the end of the show that defined their childhood.
https://gq.visitlink.me/JthwcV
As the monumental series finale approaches, the co-stars confront the end of the show that defined their childhood.
https://gq.visitlink.me/JthwcV
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
www.marieclaire.com/politics/out...
Women Are Telling the Truth in Their Out-of-Office Messages. It’s Devastating
Women Are Telling the Truth in Their Out-of-Office Messages. It’s Devastating
Women Are Telling the Truth in Their Out-of-Office Messages. It’s Devastating
A national campaign is delivering a radically honest wake-up call about childcare, burnout, and what it means to live in a country without paid leave.
www.marieclaire.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Women Are Telling the Truth in Their Out-of-Office Messages. It’s Devastating
Women Are Telling the Truth in Their Out-of-Office Messages. It’s Devastating
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“Embarrassing” and “Horrifying”: CDC Workers Describe the New Vaccines and Autism Page
“Embarrassing” and “Horrifying”: CDC Workers Describe the New Vaccines and Autism Page
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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“Embarrassing” and “Horrifying”: CDC Workers Describe the New Vaccines and Autism Page
“Embarrassing” and “Horrifying”: CDC Workers Describe the New Vaccines and Autism Page
deadline.com/2025/11/broc...
Barbara Broccoli’s First Post-James Bond Feature ‘Othello’ To Shoot In Qatar With David Oyelowo, Rachel Brosnahan & Cynthia Erivo
Barbara Broccoli’s First Post-James Bond Feature ‘Othello’ To Shoot In Qatar With David Oyelowo, Rachel Brosnahan & Cynthia Erivo
Barbara Broccoli’s First Post-James Bond Feature ‘Othello’ To Shoot In Qatar With David Oyelowo, Rachel Brosnahan & Cynthia Erivo
Barbara Broccoli's First Post-James Bond Feature 'Othello' To Shoot In Qatar With David Oyelowo, Rachel Brosnahan & Cynthia Erivo
deadline.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Barbara Broccoli’s First Post-James Bond Feature ‘Othello’ To Shoot In Qatar With David Oyelowo, Rachel Brosnahan & Cynthia Erivo
Barbara Broccoli’s First Post-James Bond Feature ‘Othello’ To Shoot In Qatar With David Oyelowo, Rachel Brosnahan & Cynthia Erivo
deadline.com/2025/11/the-...
‘The Rookie: North’ Gets ABC Pilot Order; Jay Ellis To Star In Spinoff From Alexi Hawley
‘The Rookie: North’ Gets ABC Pilot Order; Jay Ellis To Star In Spinoff From Alexi Hawley
‘The Rookie: North’ Gets ABC Pilot Order; Jay Ellis To Star In Spinoff From Alexi Hawley
Jay Ellis is set to headline The Rookie: North, Alexi Hawley’s spinoff from his ABC drama The Rookie. The network has picked up the project to pilot.
deadline.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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‘The Rookie: North’ Gets ABC Pilot Order; Jay Ellis To Star In Spinoff From Alexi Hawley
‘The Rookie: North’ Gets ABC Pilot Order; Jay Ellis To Star In Spinoff From Alexi Hawley
I have now seen Train Dreams. I understand the praise. It also reflects a certain nostalgia Hollywood has been embracing lately.
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I have now seen Train Dreams. I understand the praise. It also reflects a certain nostalgia Hollywood has been embracing lately.
November 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen Star in a Love Story, Onscreen and Off www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/a...
Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen Star in a Love Story, Onscreen and Off
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen Star in a Love Story, Onscreen and Off www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/a...
Film critics are great – and awful – because they’re human. AI critics are nothing www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
Film critics are great – and awful – because they’re human. AI critics are nothing
Artificial intelligence has given rise to a new breed of movie pundit – one that gloms onto consensus opinion and regurgitates rote praise. Xan Brooks looks out at this new frontier of film criticism ...
www.the-independent.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Film critics are great – and awful – because they’re human. AI critics are nothing www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
Will Arnett’s Very Good Year www.gq.com/story/will-a...
Will Arnett’s Very Good Year
With Is This Thing On?, an Oscar contender about the breakup of a marriage and the solace of an open mic, Will Arnett finds himself center stage for the first time. Here, the actor talks the unlikely ...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Will Arnett’s Very Good Year www.gq.com/story/will-a...
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
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Rebel Wilson is opening up about facing a slew of lawsuits and allegations surrounding her directorial debut The Deb.
Rebel Wilson Speaks Out on ‘The Deb’ Controversy: “I Was a Whistleblower”
Rebel Wilson is opening up about facing a slew of lawsuits and allegations surrounding her directorial debut The Deb.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Review: Gregory Maguire extends his fictional expansion of L. Frank Baum’s Oz with “Elphie,” traveling back to the childhood of the antiheroic witch Elphaba.
‘Elphie’ Review: One Future Witch, Not So Wicked
Gregory Maguire extends his fictional expansion of L. Frank Baum’s Oz, traveling back to the childhood of the antiheroic witch Elphaba.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Review: Gregory Maguire extends his fictional expansion of L. Frank Baum’s Oz with “Elphie,” traveling back to the childhood of the antiheroic witch Elphaba.
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Books We Love is back with a brand new batch of hand-picked titles. Mix and match tags like “Book Club Ideas” and “Eye-Opening Reads.” Find 380+ new 2025 reads, and stick around to browse more than 4,000 books from the last 13 years.
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Books We Love is back with a brand new batch of hand-picked titles. Mix and match tags like “Book Club Ideas” and “Eye-Opening Reads.” Find 380+ new 2025 reads, and stick around to browse more than 4,000 books from the last 13 years.