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Scripps Howard Awards announce 2020 winners, recognize excellence in journalism News provided by Share this article Share this article CINCINNATI, April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovation, data-driven journalism and determination to keep a nation and a world informed characterize the 2020 recipients of the prestigious Scripps Howard Awards. The Scripps Howard Foundation is pleased to announce winners of its 68th awards, which honor the best in American journalism from the previous year. A pan...

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Heaping, hefting grains of salt that not even a vibranium shield could stop the flow of at the ready! During a recent interview with BBC 1 Radio—(via The Direct)—Wyatt Russell appears to have teased a potential appearance, in some form, of Chris Evans’ Captain America in the season finale of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Have I ever met Chris Evans? I think I have. I don’t think I’ve ‘shook his hand’ met him, but I think I’ve walked by hi...

In a tweet on March 11, King said she is “truly thrilled” and that she “could not be more excited to be part of this adventure.” She said “Writers & Lovers” is “a novel about taking big risks and here is Toni Collette making a huge leap with it.” According to publisher Grove Atlantic, the book is about “a former child golf prodigy [who] now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she’s been writing for ...

Courtesy of CAA Topic Studios, which recently released the Jodie Foster starrer The Mauritanian, is behind the project that is based on the New York Times best-seller. Toni Collette will make a feature directorial debut with an adaptation of Lily King’s Writers and Lovers. The Mauritanian, is behind the project that is based on the New York Times best-seller. It follows Casey Peabody, an underemployed, aspiring novelist in 1990s Boston whose world is rocked by a recent love affair and her...

Toni Collette will be making her feature directorial debut with an adaptation of novel "Writers and Lovers" by author Lily King.

Scripps Howard names top prize finalists, including AL.com’s ‘Mauled’ Updated Mar 09, 2021; Facebook Share Scripps Howard Awards has named finalists for its top journalism prizes, including AL.com. The list of three finalists for Excellence in National/International Investigative Reporting, the Ursula and Gilbert Farfel Prize, includes the series “Mauled: When Police Dogs Are Weapons.” The investigative series was the work of The Marshall Project, AL.com, The Indianapolis Star and In...

Scripps Howard Awards honor best of 2020 journalism with finalists in 14 categories News provided by Share this article Share this article CINCINNATI, March 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York Times and The Washington Post are the front-runners in the 68th Scripps Howard Awards, each with three entries selected as finalists for one of the media industrys most prestigious honors. The Awards, presented by the Scripps Howard Foundation and The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP), will award $160,0...

St. Vincent Meta-Documentary ‘The Nowhere Inn’ Acquired by IFC Films Film that premiered at Sundance in 2020 stars and was written by Annie Clark and Carrie BrownsteinBrian Welk | March 1, 2021 @ 3:50 PM Minka Farthing Kohl/Sundance IFC Films has acquired from Topic Studios the North American rights to “The Nowhere Inn,” the film starring, co-written by and centered on indie rock guitarist St. Vincent. Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, wrote the screenplay with “Portlandia” star an...

Surf’s up at HBO with the announcement of 100 Foot Wave, a six-part sports doc series from filmmaker Chris Smith and executive producer Joe Lewis. The series follows the decade-long journey of world class surfer Garrett McNamara on his quest to surf a 100-foot wave. The odyssey takes McNamara, his wife Nicole and fellow surfers to the seaside village of Nazaré, Portugal, where locals have for centuries been in awe of the dangerous waters off their coast. Over the course of the six episodes,...

Passionate, personal and profoundly moving. TWITTER Writer-director Lucy Walker casts an immigrants eye over Californias catastrophic wildfires for this essayistic documentary. Bring Your Own Brigade isnt the first cinematic report on the Camp Fire that destroyed Paradise, California, in 2018, or even the first one to screen at Sundance (Ron Howards Rebuilding Paradise played at the festival in 2020). It almost certainly wont be the last film about the devastation wrought by uncontrolled wildf...