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Revisiting 'Rolling Stone's' Discredited Campus Rape Story

12:27pm April 10, 2016

T. Rees Shapiro, a Washington Post reporter who helped break the story, brings us updates on what's happened since the magazine retracted its story about a rape at the University of Virginia.

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'The Boston Globe' Imagines A Trump-Run America

12:27pm April 10, 2016

The Boston Globe printed a mock front page Sunday on its Ideas section, satirizing a potential Donald Trump presidency. Editor Kathleen Kingsbury explains why.

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With Hollywood's Advanced Digital Face-Lifting, Do We Even Need Actors?

12:27pm April 10, 2016

You can now digitally replace just about anything on an actor's body — including the actor himself. Journalist Logan Hill explains this practice of often invisible digital retouching in media.

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World News

Panama Is More Than A Hashtag

11:27am April 09, 2016

by Carrie Kahn

Panamanians are upset about their country's international reputation in light of the Panama Papers leak, which exposed the country as helping the world's rich and corrupt hide their money.

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For Some Asian-Americans, Calvin Trillin's Chinese Food Poem Is Unappetizing

6:37pm April 07, 2016

by Andrew Limbong

A satirical poem in The New Yorker about Chinese food in the U.S. has left many Asian-American writers with a bad taste in their mouths.

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How Janice Min Transformed 'The Hollywood Reporter' Into A Glamorous Weekly

5:38pm April 07, 2016

by David Folkenflik

And they said print is dead. Janice Min turned around Us Weekly and now The Hollywood Reporter — transforming a trade daily into a glossy magazine relevant to advertisers and the movie community.

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Panama Papers Leak Is The Result Of Unprecedented Media Collaboration

5:53pm April 05, 2016

NPR's Ari Shaprio interviews Gerard Ryle, director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Ryle coordinated with over one hundred media organizations around the world to read and analyze the 11.5 million files from the Panama Papers leak.

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National

First Mention: Susan Stamberg Celebrates 45th Anniversary At NPR

4:25pm April 05, 2016

Our "First Mention" feature salutes Susan Stamberg on her 45th anniversary at NPR. She began as a production assistant on April 5, 1971 and was first heard on air in June 1971.

World News

Being A Journalist In Veracruz, Mexico, Is A Very Dangerous Profession

6:50am April 04, 2016

by Carrie Kahn

Drug traffickers and a repressive state government make Veracruz one of the deadliest places for journalists in Mexico. Most now shun hard-hitting reporting, but still risk abduction and murder.

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Don Cheadle plays Miles Davis in the movie Miles Ahead. Cheadle's portrayal is being hailed as capturing the "badass" swagger that made Davis a hero to generations of black men.

Don Cheadle's Miles Davis: The Latest 'Badass' Black Man On Screen

1:49pm April 02, 2016

by Karen Grigsby Bates

Don Cheadle personifies jazz genius Miles Davis in his new film Miles Ahead. Badass black men rarely show up as leads in mainstream movies.

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