Chalkbeat Staff Unanimously Ratifies First-Ever Contract With WGA East

Two talented students at Perth College became the first winners of the inaugural University of the Highlands and Islands John Preston Music Awards.

Cast your mind back to December 2010 - it was a simpler time where the words Brexit and Coronavirus weren't yet invented - can you even imagine? Prince William and Kate Middleton had just announced their engagement, David Cameron was Prime Minister, One Direction had finished third behind Matt Cardle and Rebecca Ferguson on X Factor and Kara Tointon had won Strictly Come Dancing with boyfriend Artem Chigvintsev.

DGA members have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new contract with the Association of Independent Commercial Producers. The DGA’s national board unanimously approved the contract during a special meeting on November 20. DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter said that “This contract contains significant gains for our members and will grow this area of work for years to come.”

The “Jeopardy!” Professors Tournament has revealed its first-ever champion.

The WGA East has reached a new contract agreement with Vice Media that the guild calls “landmark,” consolidating the company’s four previous guild contracts under one deal. The new three-year collective bargaining agreement was ratified by Vice’s 160-member bargaining unit.

GSC Game World has announced it will be selling an NFT that will enable one player to become the “first ever metahuman” in Stalker 2: Heart Of Chernobyl.The auction, which takes place in January, will see players bidding on an NFT that’ll allow the owner to recreate their face as a ‘metahuman’ NPC in the Stalker 2 metaverse using photogrammetry.

Anita McBride, who served from 2005 to 2009, revealed exactly how presidential wives steer clear of repeating styles.“During the Bush White House — and I believe other first ladies’ aides have done this — every outfit that they’ve worn does have a tag on it tracked with where they’ve worn it and when, and you keep a record of it,” McBride recently explained to Insider.While the ladies are able to wear their normal, everyday clothes more than once, repeating gowns for larger, more public

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Gregg Goldstein What do Pedro Almodóvar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Kenneth Branagh and Jane Campion have in common? They’ve helmed acclaimed films for decades, earned Academy Award nominations and done some of their best work this year … yet they’ve never won a director Oscar.In exclusive new interviews with Campion, Branagh, Almodóvar and Wes Anderson — plus some unpublished thoughts from Paul Thomas Anderson — this reporter discovered how they built on their distinctive histories

In one of the longest contract negotiations ever, IATSE and Fox TV stations in New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., have been unable to reach a new agreement after more than 10 years of on-again/off-again bargaining. “Our members have not had a raise since 2006,” said Nick Kroudis, business agent of IATSE Local 794, which represents about 100 members employed at WNYW-TV in New York City.

go elf themselves this holiday season. Enterprising “Chief Elf” Sophie, a 15-year-old from Cobble Hill, told The Post she is hosting the city’s first-ever ElfCon this weekend, an event she billed as a “kid-friendly hot cocoa crawl” — or a journey that’s just a little less jolly than NYC’s annual, boozy SantaCon.The 10th-grader, who chose not to reveal her last name for privacy reasons, hopes the event will attract families dressed as elves for a tour of the city’s finest winter dens when it

A majority of the 125 writers, producers, hosts, editors and researchers at the iHeartPodcast Network have signed union cards to organize with the WGA East, which is calling on the company to recognize the guild voluntarily as the bargaining representative of its staff.

EXCLUSIVE: Filmocracy has announced its non-profit, The Filmocracy Foundation, is funding the first round of fellowships in its worldwide film festival mentorship program for underrepresented film festivals. Co-founder Paul Jun and chief product officer Kasia Kaczmarczyk announced today.

EXCLUSIVE: The 30-member editorial staff at The Intercept, the digital investigative news site, has ratified its second union contract with the WGA East. Gains achieved in the new three-year agreement include increases to minimum salaries of at least $10,000 for all job tiers; three months of paid professional leave; five months of paid parental leave; and pay equity salary adjustments as high as $11,200.

A massive 16,000 sq. ft 'affordable yet luxury' gym will open its doors in Denton later this month.

Alessandra Ambrosio and Candice Swanepoel glammed up the red carpet for the inaugural Red Sea International Film Festival on Monday night (December 6) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

A film festival is about more than just the films and the festival center. It is about the location, the journey, the experience. Here on Deadline we’ll be bringing you updates on what it’s like to be on the ground at the inaugural Red Sea International Film Festival, Saudi Arabia’s first ever film festival.