David Folkenflik

David Folkenflik appears in the following:

What we're taking away from the first week of the FIFA World Cup

Sunday, November 27, 2022

NPR's David Folkenflik recaps the first week of the World Cup with Jeremy Schaap of ESPN, including surprising upsets and team USA's performance.

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The world is doing away with the leap second

Sunday, November 27, 2022

The world is doing away with the leap second, an extra second that gets inserted into the global timescale every few years due to earth's slowing rotation.

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With inflation looming, Americans are shopping smart this holiday season

Sunday, November 27, 2022

With holiday shopping season coinciding with a year of inflation, we hear from Americans about their spending plans for the season.

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The Murdoch media empire decides how to treat Trump after his campaign announcement

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

The Murdoch media empire is deciding how to treat former President Trump after an uneasy alliance lasting years.

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It's Elon Musk's Twitter Now, and We're All Living In It

Tuesday, November 08, 2022

Elon Musk's Twitter takeover

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Right-wing 'zombie' papers attack Illinois Democrats ahead of elections

Monday, October 31, 2022

Printed newspapers sent out across Illinois push Republican talking points against Democrats just in time for election season. They're taking advantage of the erosion of local news.

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'Pittsburgh Post-Gazette' journalists go on strike

Sunday, October 23, 2022

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette journalists are on strike in the nation's first newspaper strike in decades. The union is demanding the owners reinstate better working conditions and benefits.

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Rupert Murdoch weighs merging News Corp and Fox Corp.

Sunday, October 16, 2022

Rupert Murdoch is exploring whether to merge the two major companies he controls — News Corp and Fox Corporation — into a unified media empire 10 years after splitting them apart.

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Maggie Haberman's Work Is Not Over

Friday, October 07, 2022

Trump's prolific chronicler on scoops, access journalism, and her subject's long relationship with media.

The Murdochs Go To Court

Friday, October 07, 2022

What two lawsuits can tell us about the future of the Fox empire. 

The Internet As We Know It

Friday, October 07, 2022

The Supreme Court cases that could reshape the internet.

It's Just Business: How Media, Money, and Football Changed the Legal Profession

Friday, October 07, 2022

A deep dive into the relationship between law, journalism, and politics. 

Fox News CEO warned against 'crazies' after 2020 election, Dominion says

Thursday, October 06, 2022

Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott warned colleagues not to "give the crazies an inch" after the 2020 elections. Dominion Voting Systems revealed her words in its $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox.

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Fox's Jeanine Pirro is back in the hot seat in $1.6 billion election defamation case

Friday, September 30, 2022

Dominion Voting Systems' lawyers want to question the Fox News star again over texts they got just hours before she sat for a sworn deposition. Dominion sued Fox over false claims of election fraud.

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NPR chief news executive Nancy Barnes to depart as network reshapes top ranks

Friday, September 23, 2022

Nancy Barnes, NPR's newsroom leader, announced her forthcoming departure as the network moves to create a new executive to oversee both the news and programming divisions.

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CNN chief Chris Licht puts a stamp on network with new morning show lineup

Thursday, September 15, 2022

Chris Licht taps Don Lemon, Kaitlan Collins and Poppy Harlow for CNN's new morning show. Licht made his name reimagining mornings for MSNBC and CBS, then revived Stephen Colbert's Late Night on CBS.

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A look at Chris Licht's first few months as CNN's chairman and CEO

Friday, September 09, 2022

Chris Licht became CNN's chairman and CEO in May. A few months later, high-profile departures and arrivals may signal how he will lead the network.

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Remembering Bernard Shaw

Friday, September 09, 2022

We celebrate the life of the late CNN anchor Bernard Shaw.

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Fox producer's warning against Jeanine Pirro surfaces in Dominion defamation suit

Tuesday, September 06, 2022

Jeanine Pirro, Tucker Carlson and others are being grilled under oath in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News for spreading lies about a voting tech company's role in the 2020 elections.

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An Australian news site dared Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch to sue. Now he has

Wednesday, August 24, 2022

An Australian news site published an opinion column arguing that Fox News, Lachlan Murdoch and his father Rupert shared in responsibility for the U.S. Capitol siege.

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