Media

Republican candidate for Arizona governor Kari Lake points to the crowd at a rally for former President Donald Trump on Jan. 15 in Florence, Ariz. Lake's introductory campaign ad included baseless claims of a rigged 2020 election.

Politics & Government

The truth in political advertising: 'You're allowed to lie'

8:25am March 17, 2022

by Domenico Montanaro

A campaign ad for Kari Lake, a Republican candidate for Arizona governor, includes baseless claims of a rigged 2020 election. Can candidates lie in their paid ads? The short answer: yes.

Russian Channel One employee Marina Ovsyannikova interrupted a live broadcast in Moscow on Monday, holding up a poster reading "No War" and condemning Moscow's military action in Ukraine.

World News

What Ukraine war news looks like from Russia

11:14pm March 15, 2022

by NPR Staff

State TV has long been Russians' top news source. Now it's becoming the only word of record, presenting stories of "surgical" attacks on Ukrainian nationalists and threats of anti-Russian bioweapons.

National

This journalist started owning her identity at work when covering anti-Asian violence

5:43pm March 15, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with CNN journalist Amara Walker about the persistence of violence against Asian American women, a year after the Atlanta area spa shootings.

World News

Ukrainian journalist Andriy Kulykov on the latest on the ground in Kyiv

4:26pm March 15, 2022

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Andriy Kulykov, a Ukrainian radio journalist, about the latest on the ground in Kyiv.

Amid misinformation, how do Russians perceive Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine?

5:12am March 15, 2022

NPR's A Martinez talks to Julia Ioffe, founding partner of the media company Puck, about Russia's crack down on free speech which has led many media outlets to leave the country or go underground.

World News

Remembering photojournalist in Uganda, Sumy Sadurni

4:27pm March 08, 2022

by Eyder Peralta

Sumy Sadurni was a Spanish-Mexican freelance photojournalist based in Kampala, Uganda. The 32-year-old was known for her evocative work across the region. She died in a car accident on Monday.

World News

Russian law bans journalists from calling Ukraine conflict a 'war' or an 'invasion'

8:48am March 05, 2022

by Scott Simon

In order to control what the Russian public knows about invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that imposes stiff sentences on journalists who air "false information."

Journalists report from Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 2. Media coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been massive.

Not every war gets the same coverage as Russia's invasion — and that has consequences

6:34pm March 04, 2022

by Malaka Gharib

Ongoing wars in, say, Yemen or Ethiopia get minimal attention compared with the media focus on the fighting in Ukraine. And there are ramifications on the humanitarian front.

World News

What the Saudi crown prince's latest interview says about the future of Saudi Arabia

4:43pm March 04, 2022

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Graeme Wood, staff writer at The Atlantic, about his profile of Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia.

World News

Russia is forcing media organizations to scrub their websites and go off the air

4:13pm March 04, 2022

by Michele Kelemen

Media consumers in Russia are losing ways to learn about what's happening in Ukraine. Russia has shut down most independent media and passed a new law criminalizing reporting on the war.