Media

In 2007, Vogue magazine editor at large André Leon Talley attends a post-Fashion Week panel discussion on the lack of Black images in the current fashion output in New York. Talley, the towering former creative director and editor at large of Vogue magaz

Influential fashion journalist André Leon Talley dies at 73

1:17am January 19, 2022

by The Associated Press

André Leon Talley, the towering former creative director and editor at large of Vogue magazine, has died. He was a regular in the front row of fashion shows in New York and Europe.

In this courtroom sketch, U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson presides over a Jan. 11 pretrial hearing for three former Minneapolis officers charged in the death of George Floyd.

National

Media groups protest limits on access to trial for ex-officers in George Floyd death

6:05pm January 18, 2022

by The Associated Press

A coalition of media groups says restrictions on access to the federal civil rights trial of three former Minneapolis police officers amount to an unconstitutional closing of the courtroom.

World News

The free press in Hong Kong is under fire from the Chinese government, critics say

5:24pm January 17, 2022

by John Ruwitch

Critics say the Chinese government is targeting Hong Kong's free press. The Hong Kong Journalists' Association is trying to protect freedom of the press, but it's unclear how much longer it can do so.

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One America News White House Correspondent Chanel Rion asks a question of President Donald Trump during a briefing about the coronavirus in April 2020. DirecTV isn't renewing the network's contract.

DirecTV to drop One America News Network

9:41pm January 15, 2022

by Matthew S. Schwartz

The far-right, pro-Trump news outlet has a reputation for spreading conspiracy theories.

Arts

Opinion: Remembering a friendship with Terry Teachout

11:14am January 15, 2022

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon remembers theater critic and playwright Terry Teachout, who died this week at the age of 65.

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Critic Terry Teachout in 2014 in New York.

Cultural critic Terry Teachout is remembered as 'unafraid of being human in public'

1:27pm January 14, 2022

by Neda Ulaby

Teachout has died at the age of 65. He wrote acclaimed biographies of such arts figures as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and George Balanchine.

National

At one Texas prison, men are building community through radio

5:28pm January 11, 2022

NPR's Ailsa talks with Keri Blakinger, a journalist who wrote about a radio station hosted by inmates at a prison in southeastern Texas.

The new Barbie doll of journalist and activist Ida B. Wells.

Journalist Ida B. Wells is commemorated with a Barbie doll for fearless activism

3:33pm January 11, 2022

by Elizabeth Blair

Wells was a writer and anti-lynching campaigner who edited and co-owned the Memphis Free Speech. Other role models the toy company has honored include Rosa Parks, Sally Ride and Maya Angelou.

Legendary reporter Carl Bernstein revisits his early career in 'Chasing History'

11:07am January 11, 2022

by Michael Schaub

It would have been easy for the famous journalist to fall into the nostalgia trap with his memoir, which chronicles his earliest years in the newspaper business. Happily, he doesn't.

Politics & Government

Congress and the media after Jan. 6

5:14pm January 08, 2022

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kadia Goba, political reporter for BuzzFeed News, and Paul Kane, senior congressional correspondent and columnist for The Washington Post, about covering Congress.

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