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‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ Turns Fashion Satire Toward Journalism’s Crisis

The sequel uses Runway’s shrinking pages and clicks-driven management to probe how ads, metrics and influencers are reshaping what counts as news.

Overview

  • The film is in wide release and has drawn broadly positive reviews and strong box-office returns while shifting its tone from pure comedy to a meditation on media decline.
  • Anne Hathaway’s Andy Sachs returns as an award-winning reporter who is rehired at Runway and must work with a more subdued Miranda Priestly to try to steady the magazine.
  • Reviewers highlight the movie’s depiction of magazines chasing pageviews, cutting print size, and losing advertisers as a model for real-world newsroom financial pressures.
  • Coverage links the film to fresh research showing 57% of teens and adults now sometimes get news from influencers, a finding critics use to underline the story’s realism.
  • Commentary on the film splits along ideological lines with some writers mourning the erosion of legacy journalism and others framing the business-model shift as a non-catastrophic market change.