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Iran To Try 'Washington Post' Journalist With Economic Spying

9:24pm April 26, 2015

News reports from Iran say Washington Post Tehran bureau chief Jason Rezaian will be tried for espionage, 10 months after his arrest. Renee Montagne talks to Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari.

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American journalist Ned Parker (foreground) is the Reuters bureau chief in Baghdad. He fled Iraq last week after receiving threats in response to reports on human rights abuses by Shiite militias allied with Iraq's government. He's shown here at Iraq's Fo

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An American Journalist Explains Why He Had To Flee Iraq

9:04pm April 26, 2015

by NPR Staff

Ned Parker has covered Iraq for more than a decade. But the Reuters bureau chief abruptly left the country last week after a report of human rights abuses prompted threats from a Shiite paramilitary.

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Near Valletta, Malta, on Thursday there was a funeral service for 24 of the hundreds of migrants who died earlier in the week when the ship they were on capsized and sank.

There's A Sad Reason 'Migrants,' Not 'Immigrants,' Is The Word Being Used

2:55pm April 26, 2015

by Mark Memmott

Hundreds of people died this month when an overloaded ship sank in the Mediterranean Sea. They were on the move, but never reached their destinations.

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Secret Papers Reveal Islamic State's Structure

7:41am April 23, 2015

Renee Montagne talks to German journalist Christoph Reuter of Der Spiegel about exclusive documents he received, detailing successful plans by the Islamic State to conquer parts of Iraq and Syria.

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Protesters support jailed veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu during a rally outside the central government's liaison office in Hong Kong last week. China ranks eighth on the Committee to Protect Journalists' list of 10 most censored countries.

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Report Lays Out 10 Most Censored Countries

4:39pm April 21, 2015

by Miles Parks

The Committee to Protect Journalists says Eritrea, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia are tops at silencing journalists.

Small South Carolina Newspaper Takes Home Top Pulitzer Prize

6:01am April 21, 2015

by Neda Ulaby

The winners of this year's Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, fiction, poetry, drama, music, biography, history and nonfiction were announced Monday at Columbia University in New York.

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'Post And Courier' Of Charleston, S.C., Wins Pulitzer For Public Service

8:34pm April 20, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

The newspaper's series examined why South Carolina is among the deadliest states for women in the United States. Anthony Doerr won the prize for fiction for All the Light We Cannot See.

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BuzzFeed Deleted Stories After Complaints From Advertisers

5:35pm April 20, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

In a memo to staff, editor in chief Ben Smith acknowledged that the site had deleted more than 1,000 posts — three of them after complaints from advertisers. Gawker first reported on the deletions.

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Furious 7 has hit the $1 billion worldwide box-office mark, two days faster any other film. Earlier this month, stars Sung Kang, left, and Ludacris attend the film's Los Angeles premiere.

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'Furious 7' Races To New Record, Quickly Hitting $1 Billion Mark

2:50pm April 18, 2015

by Bill Chappell

Universal says the movie is the studio's first to cross the billion-dollar mark during its first run in theaters, putting it above films such as Jurassic Park and Despicable Me.

Don Quayle, the first president of NPR, has died at the age of 84.

Remembering Don Quayle, NPR's First President

10:05pm April 17, 2015

by Susan Stamberg

The first president of NPR has died at the age of 84. Don Quayle had a long career in public broadcasting, both in television and radio. Susan Stamberg reflects on his impact on NPR and her career.

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