Editor’s note: Roxanne Jones, founding editor of ESPN The Magazine and former vice president of ESPN, has been a producer, reporter and editor for the New York Daily News and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Jones is co-author of “Say It Out Loud: An Illustrated History of the Black Athlete.” He speaks weekly about politics, sports and
In the last episode of VarietyOn the “Strictly Business” podcast, top leaders from NBCUniversal, IBM, State Farm, Autodesk and Coinbase talk and compare notes on marketing, technology and consumer trends in conversations with Todd Spangler. Variety business editor. The conversations were recorded from June 22 to 25 in the Canva Creative Cabana space at the
A German artist rejected an award from a prestigious international photography contest after revealing that his submission was generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Berlin-based Boris Eldagsen won the creative open category at this year’s Sony World Photography Award with his work “Pseudomnesia: The Electrician.” The eerie black and white image shows two women of different
Hundreds of Southwest Airlines flights were delayed after technical issues led the airline to temporarily halt operations Tuesday morning. Southwest said the flight delays were the result of “data connection issues resulting from a firewall failure,” an issue that caused a brief ground stop. The Federal Aviation Administration The ground stop began at the request
Several dozen states could have to fork over millions of dollars to provide food aid to lower-income residents, if they don’t cut down on payment errors in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Nine states, meanwhile, won’t have to pay a penny toward SNAP benefits, because their error rates are so low that they won an
The governor of Oklahoma is calling on four McCurtain County officials to resign after they allegedly participated in a secretly recorded conversation that included racist remarks about lynching Black people and talking about killing journalists. The McCurtain Gazette-News over the weekend published the audio it said was recorded following a Board of Commissioners meeting on