Media

Economy

As Renters Accumulate Housing Bills, Can An Eviction Tsunami Be Held Off?

6:25am September 16, 2020

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Michelle Singletary — personal finance columnist for The Washington Post — about the widespread risk of evictions due to job loss amid the pandemic.

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Facebook Vice President Nick Clegg, pictured in 2019, tells NPR there's "real appetite for people to find out more for themselves" when it comes to climate change and factual information.

Environment

Facebook VP Nick Clegg On New Climate Change Information Hub

5:12pm September 15, 2020

by James Doubek

Facebook is launching a page focused on climate change facts. Facebook's Nick Clegg talked with NPR about the company's steps to stop misinformation on climate change and other issues.

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Journalist Bob Woodward, seen here in 2017 arriving for meetings with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York, is the author of the newly released book Rage.

Woodward Addresses Criticism That He Should've Detailed Trump Interviews Earlier

9:17am September 14, 2020

by Barbara Sprunt

Journalist Bob Woodward has faced some criticism for not promptly sharing with the public what the president told him about the coronavirus in a series of interviews earlier this year.

On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist, by Clarissa Ward

Books
Arts

In 'On All Fronts,' CNN's Clarissa Ward Showcases Gravity, Costs Of A Reporting Life

12:48pm September 11, 2020

by Annalisa Quinn

Ward says she didn't know as a journalist she would "have my heart broken in a hundred different ways, that I would lose friends and watch children die and grow to feel like an alien in my own skin."

Trump Tells Woodward He Deliberately Downplayed Coronavirus Threat

1:28pm September 10, 2020

A new book by Bob Woodward reveals that President Trump thought the threat posed by the coronavirus was much worse than what he revealed publicly. Woodward's book Rage is due out next week.

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Hector Guerra, right and Juan Carlos Sanchez, from El Mariachi Continental, make their way to a funeral service in Donna, Texas on Aug. 21.

A Priest, An Editor And A Mariachi Player Talk Life In The Rio Grande Amid COVID-19

8:45am September 09, 2020

by John Burnett

Their work and lives have been upended in this region devastated by the coronavirus, and where poverty and preexisting conditions like diabetes, hypertension and obesity are prevalent.

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Investigating the journalism produced by Voice of America is one of the tasks lawyer Sam Dewey has taken on since joining the broadcaster's parent agency, the U.S. Agency for Global Media.

Politics & Government

Attorney Hired To Probe VOA's Coverage Has Active Protective Order Against Him

11:34pm September 08, 2020

by David Folkenflik

The CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Michael Pack, has accused executives of hiring practices that imperil national security. The investigator Pack hired has a protective order against him.

U.S. troops in the Vietnam War read the Stars and Stripes newspaper in 1969. The Pentagon plans to shut down the paper, for generations aimed at U.S. military personnel, at the end of this month.

National

Pentagon Says It Will Close 'Stars and Stripes,' But Trump Says It Won't Happen

9:40pm September 04, 2020

by Greg Myre

The Pentagon said the paper would shut down by Sept. 30. Shortly afterward President Trump tweeted that it won't happen "under my watch."

National

Ombudsman On The Pentagon's Order To Shut Down 'Stars and Stripes'

4:04pm September 04, 2020

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Ernie Gates, ombudsman at the Stars and Stripes newspaper, about the military ordering the publication to shut down.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, former White House press secretary, speaks as U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 30.

In Memoir, Sarah Huckabee Sanders Shows She's All In With Trump

5:50pm September 03, 2020

by Franco Ordoñez

The former press secretary is not about settling scores. Her book is an unabashed homage to the president and a feathering of her nest for a probable run for governor of Arkansas.