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Evan Gershkovich stands inside a defendants' cage before a June hearing in Moscow.

Jews around the world send Rosh Hashana wishes to detained reporter Evan Gershkovich

10:39am September 15, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

The Wall Street Journal reporter has been held in Russia since March. Thousands have written him letters for the Jewish new year, as the campaign for his release hones in on next week's U.N. meeting.

Infowars founder Alex Jones appears in court to testify during the Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Conn., on Sept. 22, 2022.

National

Alex Jones' expenses topped $93,000 in July. Sandy Hook families have yet to be paid

3:17pm September 14, 2023

by The Associated Press

Alex Jones' personal spending is frustrating families who are trying to collect on the $1.5 billion in judgments against him for calling the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting a hoax.

A motorcyclist rides past a mural of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, left, and revolutionary hero CÃ©sar Augusto Sandino during general elections in Managua, Nov. 7, 2021. Ortega won a fourth consecutive term against a field of little-known candidates while those who could have given him a real challenge sat in jail.

World News

I returned to Nicaragua, where I was born, and found a country steeped in fear

11:01am September 14, 2023

by Eyder Peralta

NPR's Eyder Peralta recently visited Nicaragua for the first time in a decade, gaining rare access to a nation that is hostile to journalists and known as the Western Hemisphere's newest dictatorship.

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Music & Culture

The country's largest newspaper chain is also hiring a Beyoncé reporter

6:42am September 14, 2023

As Gannett searches for a Taylor Swift reporter, it did not want to stir up a bee's nest — or in this case the Beyhive. Gannett is also hiring a Beyoncé a reporter.

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Music & Culture

America's largest newspaper chain is hiring a full-time Taylor Swift reporter

6:04am September 13, 2023

That's how influential Taylor Swift is in the music industry, she gets her own beat reporter. Gannett is looking for the right person to cover the pop star's music, impact and business empire.

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Maria Ressa, 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Rappler CEO, gestures as she talks to reporters after being acquitted by the Pasig Regional Trial Court over a tax evasion case in Pasig city, Philippines on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023.

World News

Nobel-winning Philippine journalist Maria Ressa is acquitted in tax evasion case

11:02am September 12, 2023

by The Associated Press

Maria Ressa said the charges against her were politically motivated as Rappler was critical of Duterte's brutal crackdown on illegal drugs that left thousands of mostly petty drug suspects dead.

Opinion: High schoolers can do what AI can't

9:39am September 09, 2023

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon has an idea for newspapers experimenting with AI: hire high school journalists to cover high school games rather than settle for substandard reporting.

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World News

Amid a crumbling Indian media landscape, journalist Ravish Kumar remains resolute

5:17pm September 08, 2023

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with filmmaker Vinay Shukla and journalist Ravish Kumar about the new documentary While We Watched.

Journalists protest outside the offices of the Austin American Statesman in June as part of a nationwide effort by staff at Gannett-owned newspapers to draw attention to layoffs and budget cuts. A coalition of donors is promising to bolster local news with a half-billion dollars over five years.

Philanthropies pledge $500 million to address 'crisis in local news'

4:35pm September 07, 2023

by David Folkenflik

The new coalition of donors, led by the MacArthur Foundation, says one out of every five Americans lives in a "news desert" with little to no reliable local news.

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NPR President and CEO John Lansing plans to step down in December, nine months before his term is set to end.

NPR CEO John Lansing will leave in December, capping a tumultuous year

4:31pm September 05, 2023

by David Folkenflik

President and CEO John Lansing plans to leave NPR nine months before his term is set to expire. His tenure has been defined by the pandemic, a racial reckoning, and economic headwinds.