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ATLANTA, Jan. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ NBCUniversal News Group announces its launching of NBCU Academy on the campus of Clark Atlanta University and select universities and colleges across the country. The new, innovative, multiplatform journalism training and development program is designed for four-year university and community college students offering on-campus training and online programming in the communications field.
NBCU Academy will invest a total of $6.5 million to the initiative which also includes a curated onsite curriculum for hands-on learning experience with world-class NBCU News Group journalists, funding for accredited journalism programs and scholarships.
In addition to providing equipment and collaborating with professors to develop seminar courses, NBCU News Group journalists, executives and management from editorial and production teams across NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC and Telemundo will participate as guest lecturer
Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) is a national correspondent for NPR based in New York City. He reports on the people, power and money behind the 2020 census. Wang
The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA)and Comcast California have partnered to present the Rising with the Tides Storytelling Project. The project awards Bay Area journalists the chance to work on a story in any medium and a stipend.
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USA Today is on the warpath against high schools with so-called racially insensitive nicknames. In separate stories,
USA Today pressured Red Mesa High School in Arizona to drop “Redskins” and Robstown Early College High School in Texas to replace the nickname “Cotton Pickers.”
There’s a big catch to these stories. Red Mesa is a predominantly Navajo school located on the Navajo Reservation. Located near the U.S.-Mexico border, Robstown is 94 percent Hispanic or Latino. Minorities quoted in the two stories are proud of their schools’ respective nicknames and resist politically correct efforts to erase them.
In the story by Analis Bailey, fourth-generation Robstown grad Bianca Prado says of Cotton Pickers, “It’s merely a label that is accurately portraying what your grandmother did.” Prado was furious over an outpouring of social media opposition to the nickname, as she believes the name carries a sense of pride and admiration for migra
Indigenous Affairs Editor
Graham Lee Brewer joined KOSU s Indigenous Affairs team in December 2020, as an editor for the desk.
The Cherokee Nation citizen is also an associate editor for Indigenous Affairs at High Country News and a regular contributor to NPR and
The New York Times. He previously worked for The Oklahoman, Oklahoma Watch and eCapitol.
In 2018, Brewer teamed up with Buzzfeed News to produce a story about Navajo voters in San Juan County, Utah. The story received critical acclaim and won several Native American Journalist Association Awards.
In 2020, Brewer teamed up with Simon Romero from
The New York Times to report a story about Governor Kevin Stitt s falling out with the Tribes over the state s gaming compacts. The story shined a light on the unique situation Tribes in the state find themselves in as generators of revenue for the state as well as their citizens.