2 journalists win prizes for work on underrepresented people

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterFor the first time in nearly a year, New York-based movie theater operator Nicolas Nicolaou can breathe a sigh of relief. That’s because Gov.

The share of episodic TV shows directed by women and people of color has reached “new highs,” according to the latest DGA Inclusion Report, with women directing more than a third of TV episodes in the 2019-20 season, and directors of color helming nearly a third of the episodes.

plastic surgery clinic has been falsely passing off work carried out by a high-flying New York celebrity plastic surgeon to advertise its own services.Signature Clinic – which has a base in Glasgow city centre – has used photographs of cosmetic work done by Dr Andrew Jacono, the MD of New York’s Center for Facial Plastic and Laser Surgery, on its website.The clinic used a photograph of a woman’s neck before and after undergoing cosmetic procedures.The website boasts: “With the skills of our

It will surprise precisely no one that the current state of the world has led to even more insomnia than we were already suffering. In the US, Google searches for “insomnia” went up by 58 per cent in the first five months of the pandemic (to 2.77 million), which surely is some indication of our sleep-deprived situation.

Angelina Jolie is turning heads now that she is selling one of her most prized art possessions.The Hollywood star is the owner of a one of a kind painting, created by former British Minister Winston Churchill in 1943 during World War II.The historic piece was painted in Marrakech, Morocco by Churchill when he was attending the Casablanca Conference with the United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt.The painting named Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque was given as a gift to the president and was

direct to your inboxWhat do a United States Army veteran, a former property developer, and a retired Bentley engineer have in common?They are all among Manchester’s vaccination volunteers, and have come out of retirement to help fight the virus with every jab.As the UK passes over 500,000 vaccinations a day, the MEN has spoken to three people playing their part in the biggest vaccination drive in NHS history.Their stories are testament to quiet public spiritedness that is helping the UK through

System Of A Down drummer John Dolmayan has claimed that companies won’t work with him because of his right-wing views.The musician has previously expressed his support for Trump, backed an investigation into the results of the 2020 US election, and accused the Black Lives Matter movement of being “propaganda” for Democrats.Now in an appearance on a podcast centred around people who have been “cancelled”, he said his political opinions have seen him lose support for his projects.

NEW YORK -- If Tom Brokaw has one piece of advice to leave for television journalists upon his retirement, it's to get out to more of the country —and not just to visit.The Capitol insurrection is but one example of a story that might not have seemed as much a surprise if more journalists were attuned to communities outside of the power centers, the veteran NBC newsman said.Television news is “much, much too wedded to the East Coast and West Coast only” and needs to expand its presence across

President Joe Biden has officially taken action on the Trump Administration’s transgender ban, which prohibited people from enlisting and serving in the military.

< 1 min read US President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order on Monday that will lift the Pentagon’s ban on transgender people serving in the military.

The Village People have issued a statement about Donald Trump’s use of their song ‘YMCA’ to soundtrack the closing moments of his US presidency. Although they say that they have “no ill will” towards Trump, they also call him a “bully” and say they’re glad to see the back of him.“We have no ill will towards the president, but we asked him to cease and desist [using our music] long ago”, they say in a statement given to Billboard.