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Daily Archives : Jun 18, 2015

YouTube Ramps Up Its Role in Citizen Journalism

YouTube appears to be going all in on citizen journalism. The company today announced three new initiatives “designed to expand the video-sharing site’s role in new media journalism, including eyewitness news,” TechCrunch reports. “Most notably, the company is launching a…

MTV Plays the Race Card

MTV has announced plans to air a project that examines race — an especially timely announcement considering the recent controversy over former NAACP Chapter President Rachel Dolezal, The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports. The project is the documentary “White People,…

NBA Finals Wrap Up as the Highest-Rated Ever on ABC

The 2015 NBA Finals, in which the Golden State Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 4-2, wound up as the most-watched and highest-rated ever on ABC, based on Nielsen figures, the network announced. The six-game series, which concluded Tuesday night, averaged…

TV Land’s Hit Comedy ‘Younger’ Wraps First Season, Setting Audience Records for TV Land

Press release from TV Land, June 17, 2015: TV Land’s critically acclaimed “Younger” from TV icon Darren Star was a runaway hit with audiences in its freshman season. The series, which stars Sutton Foster as Liza, a 40-year-old woman trying…

The Comedy Continues at NBC News With Reports That Brian Williams Will Become the Face of MSNBC. Have Burke and Lack Missed the Point? The Real Funny Business

Is this a joke? It appears that Brian Williams will soon reappear, but not at his old job as the anchor of the “NBC Nightly News.” On Wednesday night Brian Stelter of CNN wrote, “So what will [Brian] Williams do?…

Can’t Wait for the Return of ‘Empire’? Here’s How You Can Get a Fix Ahead of Time …

Those anxiously awaiting the return of Fox’s breakout hit “Empire” can get a bit of a fix when Taraji P. Henson and Terence Howard co-host the ninth annual Spike TV Guys Choice Awards, airing June 18. It’s an always irreverent…

Shedding New Light on a Holocaust Tragedy

It is the most well-known personal story to come out of the Holocaust, the journey of young Anne Frank, her family and friends who hid from the Nazis for more than two years before they were betrayed and discovered in…