Media

Journalists Nationwide Push Back Against President Trump's Anti-Media Rhetoric

6:03pm August 16, 2018

by David Folkenflik

More than 300 papers have heeded the call of The Boston Globe to run editorials on Thursday standing up for the press in the face of President Trump's ongoing anti-media rhetoric.

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An antenna tower is seen at the Orchard Plaza apartment building in Austin in 2014, the year the FCC imposed a penalty on the building's owners for operating a pirate radio station.

National

U.S. Sues Operators Of Pirate Texas Station Known As 'Alex Jones Radio'

4:59pm August 16, 2018

by Bill Chappell

The operators told the FCC they didn't recognize its right to regulate them. They were hit with a $15,000 penalty "for willful and repeated violation" of laws. Now the FCC has brought in the DOJ.

Politics & Government

'Boston Globe' Calls On Papers To Counter Trump's War On The Media

12:22pm August 16, 2018

David Greene talks to Marjorie Pritchard, deputy managing editor of The Boston Globe, about the paper's call for a coordinated editorial response to President Trump's attacks on the press.

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Politics & Government

Hundreds Of Newspapers Denounce Trump's Attacks On Media In Coordinated Editorials

7:59am August 16, 2018

by James Doubek

Staff members of the editorial page at The Boston Globe coordinated a campaign for hundreds of papers to simultaneously publish opinion pieces defending the role of the free press.

Journalist Austin Tice's Parents Are Still Fighting For Their Son's Return

12:07am August 16, 2018

Journalist Austin Tice went missing in Syria six years ago after being abducted by militants. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with his parents, Debra and Marc Tice, about their fight to bring him home.

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Photographer Tyler Mitchell On Being The First African-American To Shoot A 'Vogue' Cover

4:34pm August 15, 2018

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Tyler Mitchell about being the first African-American photographer to shoot the cover for Vogue and what it was like to work with Beyonce.

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Politics & Government

Discord Over Non-Disclosure Agreements

2:28pm August 14, 2018

Are they a method of protecting privacy? Or do they decrease transparency?

NPR Criticized For Interview With White Supremacist Jason Kessler

6:32am August 13, 2018

by David Folkenflik

Friday's interview with the organizer of last year's deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., stirred controversy. Critics argue NPR erred by giving Kessler a platform for his views.

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World News

'Frontline' Series With Thomas Erdbrink: 'Our Man In Tehran'

6:29am August 13, 2018

David Greene talks to Thomas Erdbrink of The New York Times about the series he produced for Frontline documenting life inside Iran which airs Monday and Tuesday night on PBS.

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National

How The Media Covers White Supremacists

5:08pm August 12, 2018

by Karen Grigsby Bates

Does media coverage of white supremacist events like the Unite The Right rally in Washington, D.C., inform or hurt? How should media organizations decide what to cover?