{"id":400292,"date":"2020-12-15T13:35:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T18:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/?p=400292"},"modified":"2020-12-15T13:35:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T18:35:40","slug":"google-selects-gray-television-for-2021-news-innovation-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/google-selects-gray-television-for-2021-news-innovation-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Selects Gray Television for 2021 News Innovation Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mw_release\">\n<p align=\"left\">\n        <strong>Atlanta, Dec.  15, 2020  (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Gray Television, Inc. (\u201cGray\u201d or \u201cour\u201d) (NYSE: GTN) <\/strong>announced that Google\u2019s GNI Innovation Challenge has selected Gray Television, Inc. for $200,000 in funding to support a multi-platform journalism project focused on health disparities in the Mississippi Delta and Appalachia regions of the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBridging the Great Health Divide-Mississippi Delta and Appalachia\u201d will explore why these disparities exist with a focus on long term and sustainable solutions.\u00a0 Both regions fare far worse than the national average in health indicators and outcomes.\u00a0 Journalists from more than 25 Gray stations, our DC News Bureau, and our National Investigative Unit will contribute to the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re proud to launch this initiative and give a voice to these underrepresented populations that have long lagged in basic health care.\u00a0 We also aim to provide resources to help people make better informed decisions on health-related issues,\u201d said Gray Chairman and CEO Hilton H. Howell Jr.<\/p>\n<p>The year-long project will launch in early 2021.\u00a0 Gray\u2019s \u201cBridging the Great Health Divide\u201d is one of 30 projects in the United States selected for GNI Innovation Challenge funding in 2020, as well as one of only three projects from television broadcasters.\u00a0 Google launched its News Initiative and GNI Innovation Challenge in 2018 to help support quality local journalism in a digital age.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <strong><br \/>\n          <u>About Gray:<\/u><br \/>\n        <\/strong>\n      <\/p>\n<p>Gray currently owns and\/or operates television stations and leading digital properties in 94 television markets, including the number-one rated television station in 68 markets and the first or second highest rated television station in 86 markets.\u00a0 Gray\u2019s television stations cover approximately 24 percent of US television households and broadcast approximately 400 separate programming streams, including nearly 150 affiliates of the CBS\/NBC\/ABC\/FOX networks.\u00a0 Gray also owns video program production, marketing, and digital businesses including Raycom Sports, Tupelo-Raycom, and RTM Studios, the producer of PowerNation programs and content.\u00a0 For further information, please visit www.gray.tv.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"__GNW8366DE3E__IMG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/newsroom\/ti?nf=ODExMjcyNCMzODgyOTE3IzIwMDk2MTE=\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n      <br \/>\n      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"__GNW8366DE3E__IMG\" src=\"https:\/\/ml.globenewswire.com\/release\/track\/4aad8a98-2a20-4d46-a640-14efc39c1784\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"mw_contactinfo\">\n<pre>Gray Contact Information:\u00a0\r\n\r\nContact: Sandy Breland, Senior Vice President, 504-352-4019<\/pre>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, Dec. 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Gray Television, Inc. (\u201cGray\u201d or \u201cour\u201d) (NYSE: GTN) announced that Google\u2019s GNI Innovation Challenge has selected Gray Television, Inc. for $200,000 in funding to support a multi-platform journalism project focused on health disparities in the Mississippi Delta and Appalachia regions of the country.\u00a0 \u201cBridging the Great Health Divide-Mississippi Delta and Appalachia\u201d will explore why these disparities exist with a focus on long term and sustainable solutions.\u00a0 Both regions fare far worse than the national average in health indicators and outcomes.\u00a0 Journalists from more than 25 Gray stations, our DC News Bureau, and our National Investigative Unit will contribute to the project. \u201cWe\u2019re proud to launch this initiative and give a voice to these &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/google-selects-gray-television-for-2021-news-innovation-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Selects Gray Television for 2021 News Innovation Challenge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Google Selects Gray Television for 2021 News Innovation Challenge - Market Newsdesk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/google-selects-gray-television-for-2021-news-innovation-challenge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google Selects Gray Television for 2021 News Innovation Challenge - Market Newsdesk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Atlanta, Dec. 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Gray Television, Inc. 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