UNITY Journalists of Color, Inc., has received a $100,000 grant from The Ford Foundation to implement a New U: News Entrepreneurs Working through UNITY (New U) project. The New U project will support the creative ideas of participating journalists of color through a series of two-day "boot camps" at each of the four summer 2010 UNITY alliance partners' conventions

Asians, women and people with less than a college degree fare better than white men who hold advanced degrees, according to CB Insights report; youth also a factor in funding decisions.

Nelson George has had an amazing career as a journalist, a screenwriter and producer and now he’s an online content provider with a Web series based on something familiar to most of us, Facebook. Left Unsaid premieres today after being well-received at the American Black Film Festival in Miami last week. Http://www.Leftunsaidseries.com

The forecast is for a white summer -- at least at the movies. With the notable exception of "Karate Kid," headlined by Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan, most of the big-budget films hitting over the next few months star Caucasian actors.

Forty-six congressmen -- many from the Congressional Black Caucus and from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus – Thursday night called on the Federal Communications Commission to hold off approving Comcast’s deal for NBC Universal until a series of public hearings can be scheduled.

"The situation in Burma now is pretty much the same as in 2007," says Aye Chan Naing. Aye Chan is the Executive Director of the Democratic Voices of Burma (DVB), a collective of anonymous underground video journalists (VJs) who record events at great risk inside that troubled and largely closed country, smuggle the footage out and then broadcast it worldwide via satellite.

The Kaiser Family Foundation has a new study which reports that kids between the ages of 8-18 consume massive quantities of digital media and barely any print at all. They are packing 10 hours 45 minutes in each day. That's a two-hour increase over five years ago.

Microsoft, magazine publisher Hachette Filipacchi US and the Hollywood production company BermanBraun have teamed up to launch Glo, a lifestyle site aimed at upscale women 25 to 49 years old.

The story of civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez is headed for the big screen.

The spat between Google and the Chinese government has been rumbling along for weeks, but just now it's been elevated to "fist fight" status: The inevitable strongly-worded Chinese warning about "consequences" has arrived.