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NBCUniversal News Group will invest $6.5 million over the next two years in NBCU Academy, a new multiplatform journalism training and development program for four-year university and community college students. The initiative includes $3.5 million in scholarships, the company, a division of Comcast, announced Thursday. The program includes on-campus and…
Throughout the pandemic, one of the biggest unknowns about the coronavirus has been how long people are immune after they catch it and recover. Early indications were that it must provide some immunity, since if multiple infections were possible, they would probably be common. But even a year-plus into the…
NBCUniversal News Group chairman Cesar Conde announced the Fifty Percent Challenge Initiative last July, an aggressive action plan to turn the NBCU News Group employee base to be 50% women and 50% people of color. It remains to be seen if Conde and his team at NBCUniversal News Group can…
It’s supposed to be a celebration. On a balmy night in Miami, in February, 1964, four friends — Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke — get together in a humble room at a Black-friendly hotel, bypassing the environs of the nicer, whiter Fountainbleu nearby. The occasion: the…
By Reuters Staff NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India plans to achieve 20% ethanol-blending with gasoline by 2025, five years ahead of its previous target, to help reduce its dependence on costly oil imports, the government said on Thursday. Last year the government had set a target of reaching 10% ethanol-blending…
Bringing Latin American journalists together for GNI Summit Hispanoamérica 2020 We hosted the first regional GNI Summit for Spanish-Speaking Latin America, bringing together over 550 participants from more than 300 newsrooms and 18 countries. Newsrooms from across the region discussed their work with the GNI to build sustainable business models…
In a relatively slow-starting 2021 — where the pop world still seems to be regaining its footing following the holiday music rush of late 2020 — the impact of “Drivers License” feels particularly seismic. “I truly do think this is just a lightning-in-a-bottle moment that sort of brought together a…
Photo by Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge Samsung just finished its first Unpacked event of 2021. The headline announcements were the three new phones in its S21 lineup, but the company also announced new true wireless headphones, an item tracker, and a few other things. We’ve rounded up all of…
In an unprecedented turn of events, Donald Trump has been impeached twice during his term, with the second impeachment coming just a week before he’s set to leave office. Democrat-turned Republican Vernon Jones has slammed Democrats for accusing POTUS of what they themselves failed to do during the BLM protests.Vernon…
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. plans to name Jaime Harrison as his pick to lead the Democratic National Committee, part of an effort to bolster the committee ahead of what are already expected to be challenging midterm elections for the party, according to two people with knowledge of the selection.…
