Comcast’s NBCUniversal News Group on Thursday announced NBCU Academy, a journalism training and development program that’s set to partner with 17 academic institutions across the U.S. The NBCU Academy launch comes about half a year after Comcast committed to spending $100 million over three years to help combat racism and…

Im Javier Sarmiento Jr., a black man born and raised in Harlem, NY, and a remote student at BVU. I am a junior at BVU pursuing a bachelors degree in Communications and Digital Media. My life has been defined by helping others and shaped by the stories of the people…

ViacomCBS’ 2021 Showcase is going virtual this year — and they have set the producing team for the annual event that highlights diverse talent in the industry. Tess Paras will executive produce and direct while Tien Tran will serve as executive produce and return as head writer. Frank Garcia-Hejl joins…

With “Judas and the Black Messiah,” Warner Bros. (and now HBO Max) has the makings of a dynamic and refreshing awards contender on their hands. Knowing the tastes of Oscar voters, including the newer members that have changed the landscape of nominees and winners in the past few years, it…

The Arizona Coyotes named Lyndsey Fry as their new radio analyst. She will become the third woman to fill that role for an NHL team. Fry, who played for Harvard and the 2014 U.S. Olympic women’s hockey team, grew up in Arizona. While the 28-year-old said the radio job was…

Crowdsourced Responses from Dermatologists on Twitter Found to be as Effective as Formal Telemedicine At the start of the pandemic, many doctors on the front lines turned to Twitter and other social media platforms to find guidance and solace directly from their peers. In early 2020, information on COVID-19 had…

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — A coalition of young, diverse voters delivered two Democratic Senate seats in Georgia, which has one of the fastest-growing Latinx populations in the country. Voto Latino, the nation’s leading Latinx voter registration outfit, registered 11,528 Georgian voters between November 30 and December 7 for the…

Psychobilly inhabits a space where some of rock’s oldest genresrockabilly, garage, surf, country, and bluescross-pollinate with punk rock. Despite looking back to look forward, this sub-genre of sub-genres has never stopped moving and mutating, such that today it ranks among punk’s most enduring and revitalizing manifestations. Make a pit-stop in…

An advertisement for banh Mi sandwiches is displayed as a customer exits a 7-Eleven store in Ho Chi … [+] Minh City, Vietnam, on Wednesday, June 20, 2018. For decades, Vietnamese have shopped, snacked and hung out at the countrys traditional markets: colorful, chaotic mazes of open air stalls where…

When more of us shovel our sidewalks, our community is safer for us and others. This network effect also applies to masks and vaccines to curb COVID. I shoveled the snow from my sidewalk recently, and that got me thinking about masks, the pandemic, and the power of networks. Snow…