NPR listeners heard an interview this week that pretty well shows the challenge a radio host is faced with when an interview takes a sudden turn.
On Morning Edition on Wednesday, the morning after the New York primary, host David Greene was interviewing Carl Paladino, an honorary co-chairman of Donald Trump’s New York campaign, about the Trump victory the night before. Read more →
As we’ve posted numerous times, we’re not generally a big fan of TV reporters standing in water to reveal the drama of a flood, but we make an exception today for a reporter from KTRK in Houston, where severe flooding has hit. Read more →
Slate’s Leon Neyfakh is the latest media watcher to predict doom for Public Radio, specifically the organization formerly known as National Public Radio.
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A nine year old girl is upsetting her neighbors because she dares to write about the news. Read more →
Politico’s senior editor has pushed back in a big way against President Barack Obama’s lecturing the media the other day on how to their jobs.
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John Witmer, of West Allis, Wis., has more than earned the right to ask a question of any one of the three men who will appear on stage tonight for the Republican presidential debate. His daughter died for his right to be able to ask it. Read more →
Not long after the attack on the airport in Brussels, a familiar theme emerged in some media: Why don’t attacks whose victims aren’t white get as much coverage.
Today, an editor for The Guardian provided a stark answer: You probably don’t care about those. Read more →
Donald Trump is heading to Wisconsin where a pre-visit round of appearances on conservative talk radio didn’t go so well yesterday. Today’s visit is the candidate’s first and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has hung out the unwelcome mat.
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Ketevan Kardava had a choice photojournalists sometimes have to make. When is it time to help and when is it time to take photographs?
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NPR, which was the one of the first major media companies to embrace podcasting, now seems afraid of it. Read more →
Around Grand Forks, Marilyn Hagerty’s sister, Shirley, was almost as famous as the Grand Forks Herald’s writer herself. Read more →
For the second time in a month, NPR is distancing itself from some of the pioneer reporters who built the news organization.
NPR clarified that Cokie Roberts, who wrote an anti-Trump newspaper column, is not a full-time employee of the network and hasn’t been for a long time. She’s a commentator. Read more →
Perhaps you’ve seen the Oscar-winning Spotlight by now, the story of how the Boston Globe and a culture of investigative reporting uncovered the pedophiles of the Catholic Church and the deferential attitude of other media that allowed it to flourish.
Today, the Boston Globe provided a little spotlight on the actual reporters and editors that did the work. Read more →
He says he hopes he can make a difference, too, by providing a Minnesota perspective to his national column.
That could be the most important part of his decision to live the good life in Minnesota.
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Alex Savidge of KTVU was live on the air at the not-scene-of-the-train-derailment when the near tragedy occurred.
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