Media

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It's A First! NPR And Member Stations KCUR And WABE Win A Pulitzer Prize

7:50pm June 11, 2021

by Neda Ulaby

NPR has won the Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting for No Compromise, a podcast about the role of the far right in American gun culture, co-produced with member stations KCUR and WABE.

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NPR Welcomes New Batch Of Pulitzer-Winning Journalists

4:29pm June 11, 2021

NPR welcomes a new crop of Pulitzer-winning journalists, among them the team behind No Compromise, a podcast from member stations KCUR and WABE.

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A police body camera image shows bystanders including Darnella Frazier (third from right filming) as former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was recorded pressing his knee on George Floyd's neck in Minneapolis.

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Darnella Frazier, Who Filmed George Floyd's Murder, Wins An Honorary Pulitzer

4:06pm June 11, 2021

by Joe Hernandez

Committee officials who give out the prestigious prize in journalism and the arts said Frazier's recording highlighted "the crucial role of citizens in journalists' quests for truth and justice."

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'New Yorker' Union Strike Still Looms After Protest Reaches Anna Wintour's Doorstep

4:28pm June 10, 2021

Employees at The New Yorker and other Condé Nast publications protested outside Anna Wintour's house Tuesday night: the culmination of months of negotiation with their parent company over wages.

Trillions of cicadas are emerging in the U.S. Scientists say Brood X is one of the biggest for these bugs, which come out only once every 17 years.

A Plane Carrying Biden's Press Corps Was About To Take Off. Then The Cicadas Swarmed

11:58am June 09, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

A plane carrying dozens of journalists abroad to follow President Biden's trip to Europe was delayed several hours due to cicadas that filled the plane's engine.

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DOJ Says It Will No Longer Seize Reporters' Records

6:18pm June 05, 2021

by David Folkenflik

The Justice Department says it will no longer use court orders to obtain journalistic materials. This comes after disclosures about the department's efforts to investigate various news organizations.

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Malala Yousafzai is the subject of the cover story in the new issue of British Vogue. A comment she made about marriage has prompted social media outrage in Pakistan.

Malala Yousafzai's Interview In 'British Vogue' Sparks Anger In Her Native Pakistan

6:14pm June 04, 2021

by Diaa Hadid

The Nobel Peace Prize winner posed for a cover portrait and spoke openly in an interview. One of her remarks about marriage has prompted vitriolic responses on social media in her homeland.

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In A Wild News Cycle, Student Journalists Rise To The Challenge

4:17pm June 04, 2021

by Mary Louise Kelly

The Red & Black at the University of Georgia shows what it means to be entering journalism when trust in the media is low, disinformation is rampant and traditional media business models are broken.

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We Hold These Truths: How Newsroom Leaders Wrestled With Covering A Tumultuous Year

4:25pm June 03, 2021

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with NPR's Terry Samuel, PBS's Sara Just and Chicago Block Club's Dawn Rhodes about how editorial decisions are made in this fractured news environment.

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Politics & Government

Why Much Of The Media Dismissed Theories That COVID Leaked From Lab

6:49am June 03, 2021

President Biden has ordered a probe into the origins of COVID-19. An examination of how the media has covered the theory that it escaped from a Chinese lab, and why it's getting more attention now.

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