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Capital Gazette Hasn't Missed A Day Of Publication Since Deadly Shooting

4:26pm July 20, 2018

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Andrew Green, editorial page editor at The Baltimore Sun, about the callout to journalists to help put out the Capital Gazette's daily paper in the wake of the shooting that killed five staffers.

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How 1 Tweet From Tesla And SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Affected His Companies

4:28pm July 19, 2018

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk caused an uproar last weekend when he tweeted that one of the British divers involved the Thai cave rescue was a "pedo." NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Ashlee Vance, a reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek, about the tweet and its fallout.

Chance the Rapper, photographed on February 17, 2018 in Los Angeles. The artist and philanthropist announced his purchase of the previously shuttered news site Chicagoist on July 19, 2018.

Music & Culture

In Batch Of New Songs, Chance The Rapper Announces He's Now A Media Executive

2:07pm July 19, 2018

by Andrew Flanagan

The Chicago-forever rapper released a suite of four songs overnight, and in one, revealed his purchase of the shuttered local news site Chicagoist.

Politics & Government

MS-13: Rhetoric And Reality

1:57pm July 19, 2018

There are a lot of misconceptions out there.

Dumisani Muleya, editor-in-chief of The Zimbabwe Independent.

World News

With Mugabe Out Of Power, This Zimbabwean Newspaper Editor Looks Ahead

7:07pm July 18, 2018

by Ari Shapiro

Most media outlets in Zimbabwe are state-run, and working as an independent journalist under Robert Mugabe came with serious risks. With Mugabe's rule over Dumisani Muleya speaks about his hopes as a journalist.

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Politics & Government

Editorial Cartoons: Calling It A Draw?

1:26pm July 18, 2018

What's the value of editorial cartoons in our political reality?

Science

How To Be A Savvy Consumer Of Science News

6:13pm July 17, 2018

Astrophysicist Adam Frank has a cheat sheet for how to not get overwhelmed or snookered by science headlines.

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Newly discovered aspects of Russia's active measures apparently reveal an effort to exploit Americans' greater trust in local news than in national news organizations.

Russian Influence Campaign Sought To Exploit Americans' Trust In Local News

4:27pm July 17, 2018

Russian influence-mongers appear to have created a number of fake local news Twitter accounts — and spent years posting real headlines.

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Even Conservative Media, Trump's Usual Defenders, Struggle To Explain Helsinki

6:46am July 17, 2018

by Brian Mann

Conservative media haven't been as supportive as usual of President Trump after the Helsinki summit in which he appeared to side with Russia's president over the U.S. intelligence community.

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Politics & Government

Russia: A State Gone Rogue?

4:01pm July 16, 2018

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced Friday that 12 Russian intelligence officers were indicted by the Mueller investigation for allegedly conspiring to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. The news