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    Jacqueline Stewart to lead Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

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    Jacqueline Stewart

    By Lindsey Bahr

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    Film scholar Jacqueline Stewart has been named the next director and president of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.

    The organization's board of trustees said Wednesday that Stewart, who previously served as the museum's chief artistic and programming officer, would succeed Bill Kramer to guide the vision of the museum beginning July 18.

    "Jacqueline Stewart is the ideal choice to lead the Academy Museum into the future," said Ted Sarandos, the chair of the Academy Museum's Board of Trustees and co-CEO of Netflix. "A strong and inspiring partner to Bill Kramer throughout the period leading up to our opening, she gave indispensable direction to the curatorial program that has been so widely admired."

    Kramer last week was named as the new CEO for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization that puts on the Oscars.

    Stewart is a Chicago native and a 2021 MacArthur Foundation Fellow known for her contributions to film studies and advocacy for film preservation. Among her many accomplishments, Stewart is the author of the book "Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity," hosts "Silent Sunday Nights" on Turner Classic Movies and is a chair of the National Film Preservation Board.

    In her previous role at the Academy Museum, she led strategy and planning for its curatorial, educational and public programming initiatives from exhibitions to screenings to podcasts. The museum opened last year and will celebrate its first anniversary in September.

    "Our ambition in opening the Academy Museum was to give Los Angeles and the world an unprecedented institution for understanding and appreciating the history and culture of cinema, in all its artistic glory and all its power to influence and reflect society," Stewart said in a statement. "I feel deeply honored to have been chosen for this new role."

    Lindsey Bahr is an AP film writer.

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    Amazon scraps partnership with surveillance company after Super Bowl ad backlash

    Friday, February 13, 2026
    A person pushes the doorbell on their Ring doorbell camera, July 16, 2019, in Wolcott, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

    Amazon's smart doorbell maker Ring has terminated a partnership with police surveillance tech company Flock Safety.

    The announcement follows a backlash that erupted after 30-second Ring ad that aired during the Super Bowl featuring a lost dog that is found through a network of cameras, sparking fears of a dystopian surveillance society.

    But that feature, called Search Party, was not related to Flock. And Ring's announcement doesn't cite the ad as a reason for the "joint decision" for the cancellation.

    Ring and Flock said last year they were planning on working together to give Ring camera owners the option to share their video footage in response to law enforcement requests made through a Ring feature known as Community Requests.

    "Following a comprehensive review, we determined the planned Flock Safety integration would require significantly more time and resources than anticipated," Ring's statement said.

    "The integration never launched, so no Ring customer videos were ever sent to Flock Safety."

    Flock reiterated that it never received Ring customer videos — and that ending the planned integration was a mutual decision that allows both companies to "best serve their respective customers." In a statement, Flock added that it "remains dedicated to supporting law enforcement agencies with tools that are fully configurable to local laws and policies."

    Flock is one of the nation's biggest operators of automated license-plate reading systems. Its cameras are mounted in thousands of communities across the U.S., capturing and billions of photos of license plates each month. The company has faced public outcry amid the Trump administration's aggressive immigration enforcement crackdown. But Flock maintains that it does... Read More

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