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NEW YORK | Knight Foundation doubling spending to boost local news

NEW YORK (AP) — The Knight Foundation says it will invest $300 million in local journalism over the next five years, seeding several programs designed to kick-start an industry decimated by layoffs and newspaper closures over the last 15 years.

The plans, announced Tuesday, will double the amount of spending the foundation started by newspaper publisher brothers John S. and James L. Knight has…

LOS ANGELES | Rap artists, women take center stage at Grammys

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rap artists and women have both felt shunned by the Grammy Awards in recent years. But this year, they took center stage.

Childish Gambino’s disturbing look at race relations, “This is America,” won record and song of the year on Sunday’s telecast. It was the first time a rap-based song won both of those awards, considered — with album of the year — the recording industry’s…

BURBANK, Calif. | Studio immortalizes ‘Big Bang Theory’ as series nears finale

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Champagne briefly replaced scripts Thursday for a ceremony renaming the nondescript Stage 25 on the sprawling Warner Bros. production lot after the sitcom “The Big Bang Theory.”

Still television’s most popular comedy, the show will exit the airwaves and the studio it has called home for 12 years this spring.

Actors Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki, Kaley Cuoco, Mayim Bialik and…

NEW YORK | CBS gives no indication it will release Moonves findings

NEW YORK — CBS offered no indication Tuesday that it would publicly release the findings of the report that led the network to deny a $120 million exit package to Leslie Moonves, the chief executive who was dismissed for sexual misconduct.

Moonves, once the most powerful executive in the television industry, lost the payout Monday when the CBS board of directors concluded that there were grounds…

NEW YORK | Janet Jackson, Def Leppard, Nicks join Rock Hall of Fame

NEW YORK  — Janet Jackson joins her brother Michael and the Jackson 5 as members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, earning induction on Thursday along with Stevie Nicks and the top fan vote-getter, Def Leppard.

Radiohead, the Cure, Roxy Music and the Zombies will also be ushered in next spring at the 34th induction ceremony. It will be held March 29 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Jackson’s…

NEW YORK | Some old favorites – very old – reappear on television

NEW YORK— Some of last week’s most popular television programs are much older than most of the people who watched them.

ABC’s showing of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” was the most-watched of a handful of holiday specials that aired in prime-time last week, reaching 5.3 million viewers, the Nielsen company said. It’s a tradition in many households that was first on television in December 1965.

Two…

NEW YORK | Media coverage contrast’s George H.W. Bush’s era with Trump

NEW YORK — With a week commemorating the death of former President George H.W. Bush due to climax with a memorial service Wednesday at the Washington National Cathedral, the national media has almost inevitably focused on the contrast between his era and the present day.

Even without President Donald Trump giving fresh fuel to those comparisons, they led to at least one angry television…

NEW YORK | White House to restore Acosta’s pass _ with a warning

NEW YORK — The Trump administration said Monday that it will fully restore CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s White House credentials, but warned that he must follow a series of rules at future press conferences.

White House officials Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Bill Shine sent Acosta a letter explaining his status. His press pass had been revoked after a dust-up at a press conference with President Donald…