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Kevin Hart
Arts & Entertainment

Kevin Hart to host famed telethon long hosted by Jerry Lewis

Hart called the telethon’s return an “incredible opportunity” to bring back the work of Lewis, who helped make the Muscular Dystrophy Association event a decades-old tradition

5 years ago

The Philadelphia Inquirer headquarters on Market Street in Center City. (Mark Henninger/Imagic Digital)
Community
Billy Penn

Inquirer journalists of color press for action on diversity and culture in public report card

A new website details institutional inequities and lists demands for change.

5 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks during an event at the Whirlpool Corporation facility in Clyde, Ohio, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Politics & Policy

Fox, C-SPAN, NBC moderators for upcoming Trump-Biden debates

Trump's team has tried to pressure the commission to move up the debates, citing increased use of early and absentee voting because of the coronavirus.

5 years ago

New Jersey Statehouse in Trenton
Politics & Policy

N.J. Civic Information Consortium could get first cash infusion in Murphy’s revised budget

Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law creating the consortium in 2018, but it still has not received state dollars as promised. That could change now.

5 years ago

Dr. Walter Lomax, a Philadelphia physician, tending to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his hotel room bed in Philadelphia, Feb. 10, 1968. (AP Photo)
Community

WURD celebrates its founder and Black women in politics

Philly’s only Black talk radio station was created to improve the health and wealth of the community. It’s annual Founder’s Day included a panel on women in politics.

5 years ago

Tribune Publishing is closing several of its newsrooms, including the one at New York's Daily News, as the pandemic forces journalists to work remotely. (Bebeto Matthews/AP)
NPR
Community

As journalists work from home, their newsrooms are shutting down

Tribune Publishing, the parent company of local news outlets across the country is closing the physical offices of five newspapers permanently.

5 years ago

A sign on a building marks the offices of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, in Pittsburgh. The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh submitted a charge to the National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday that publisher and editor-in-chief John Robinson Block
Community

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newsroom votes overwhelmingly to strike

Union members at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette voted overwhelmingly to go on strike Monday after years of stalled contract negotiations.

5 years ago

President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he finishes speaking during an event at the Whirlpool Corporation facility in Clyde, Ohio, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020.  (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Politics & Policy

Trump bans dealings with Chinese owners of TikTok, WeChat

President Donald Trump has ordered an unspecified ban on “transactions” with the Chinese owners of the consumer apps TikTok and WeChat.

5 years ago

The thumbs up Like logo is shown on a sign at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Tuesday, April 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Politics & Policy

Facebook, citing virus misinformation, deletes Trump post

The post in question featured a link to a Fox News video in which Trump says children are “virtually immune” to the virus.

5 years ago

Icon for the smartphone app TikTok. (Anjum Naveed/AP Photo)
NPR
Courts & Law

Class action lawsuit claims TikTok steals kids’ data and sends it to China

A lawsuit alleging that TikTok collects and sends American users' data to China could cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars.

5 years ago

Keyssh Datts
Community

‘You have these stories’: Philly first to launch national program to diversify media industry

This summer, PhillyCAM became the first to launch a new national pre-apprenticeship program to create a pipeline of diverse talent in TV, film and news.

5 years ago

Free Library archives of Black American newspapers
Community
Billy Penn

Free Library adds searchable archives of 10 Black American newspapers

Interested Philadelphians can now access “a more complete story of American history.”

5 years ago

Arts2Work lessons have gone digital thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. (Courtesy of Wendy Levy)
Community
The Philadelphia Tribune

Arts2Work: New program aims to help people of color find media jobs

Arts2Work is the first federally-registered National Apprenticeship Program in Media Arts and Creative Technologies. The pre-apprenticeship program calls PhillyCAM home.

5 years ago

Rep Jim Jordan
NPR
Politics & Policy

4 key takeaways from Washington’s big tech hearing on ‘monopoly power’

Democratic Rhode Island Rep. David Cicilline said Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple operate like monopolies and need to be broken up or regulated.

5 years ago

Donald Trump Jr.
NPR
Community

Twitter restricts Donald Trump Jr.’s account over COVID-19 misinformation

Twitter confirmed the restriction in a subsequent tweet, emphasizing the action was a temporary limit on some of his account's features and not a permanent suspension.

5 years ago

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