NBCUniversal News Group will invest $6.5 million over the next two years in NBCU Academy, a new multiplatform journalism training and development program for four-year university and community college students.
The initiative includes $3.5 million in scholarships, the company, a division of Comcast, announced Thursday.The program includes on-campus and online training, hands on instruction from NBCU journalists, equipment and funding for accredited journalism programs.