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Amtrak Engineer Distracted By Radio Before Deadly Derailment, NTSB Says

8:56pm May 16, 2016

by Laura Wagner

The National Transportation Safety Board says the engineer of the speeding train that derailed last year, killing eight people, was distracted by radio transmissions, a source told NPR.

Peggy Girshman diving in Hawaii in the summer of 2015.

Peggy Girshman Gets The Last Word On Health Journalism

4:45pm May 10, 2016

Veteran NPR editor Peggy Girshman, who died in March, wrote her own eulogy, which included personal health advice and tips for better journalism. The eulogy was read at a memorial service Saturday.

Hillary Clinton Emails: 'I Only Know What I Hear On NPR' And Car Ride Flowcharts

8:40pm December 31, 2015

by Jessica Taylor

The year-end release of correspondence from Clinton's time at the State Department falls short of the court-ordered requirements. 275 of the new emails have been retroactively classified.

Reporting from a Seoul cat cafe, one of the many themed cafes in Japan and Korea.

World News

Reporter's Notebook: Settling In In Seoul

4:29pm December 29, 2015

by Elise Hu

NPR opened a South Korea bureau in March. Correspondent Elise Hu offers her take on the wonder and the wackiness of life and journalism in East Asia.

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Twitter changed its "favorite" star icon to a "like" heart icon prompting largely negative responses from Twitter users. But is it the heart they hate? Or the change itself?

Why No Love For Twitter's Hearts?

5:43pm November 03, 2015

by Laura Wagner

Twitter changed its "favorite" icon from a yellow star to a red heart. Twitter users aren't loving it, but NPR's social science correspondent Shankar Vedantam predicts it's just a matter of time.

Human Interest

NPR's Kelly McEvers On Syria, #15Girls, And Hosting All Things Considered

12:46pm October 28, 2015

by Sean Bueter

By now, public radio listeners know Kelly McEvers.

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A grandmother cries at the scene of her granddaughter's murder by suspected gang members in San Salvador.

World News

Facing The Challenge Of Reporting And Keeping At-Risk Sources Safe

9:46am October 06, 2015

by Jasmine Garsd

While covering gang violence in El Salvador, an NPR reporting team faced tough questions about how to report their stories while also protecting sources from harm that could befall them from talking.

#NPRreads: China's One-Child Policy, And Pat Sajak's Politics

3:57pm October 02, 2015

by L. Carol Ritchie

Also this week: What the Washington Nationals dugout clash between Jonathan Papelbon and Bryce Harper says about the culture of baseball.

Ellen Stofan (from left), chief scientist of NASA, and astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti, Serena Auñón and Cady Coleman.

3 Astronauts Walk Into NPR ...

6:49am September 16, 2015

by Laura Wagner

The women plus NASA's chief scientist came to talk space exploration, women in STEM, and common misconceptions. Oh, and which foods they wished they had in space.

How Sierra Leone's Most Famous Journalist Helped NPR Get The Ebola Story

7:03am August 01, 2015

by Nurith Aizenman

At the height of the epidemic, Umaru Fofana was our guide — and a one-man solution system. This summer, he stopped by NPR's headquarters for a reunion with our Ebola reporting team.