Kelly McBride

'It's necessary to listen to the critics, even when they are spewing venom.'

Public radio journalists share their advice for treating sources with care

Managing conflicts of interest and competing loyalties

The guidelines for whose voices get into NPR news reports

An inaccurate verb choice made the reporting unclear

A look at what's driving women of color to walk away from NPR's most prominent jobs and why it matters to listeners

NPR opens the door for journalists to publicly advocate for fairness, justice and other human values.

Not glorifying a shooter isn't enough to ensure good journalism

The Capitol breach changed journalist vocabulary

A public radio initiative to bolster local reporting paid off in dividends

How a startup show grows in a legacy organization

Listeners react when outrageous news lacks outrageous delivery.

Why is it OK for a senior correspondent to be close friends with a key source on her beat, but it's not OK for her colleague to march in a Black Lives Matter protest?

'Without evidence' is a new catchphrase at NPR.
It prompts a deeper question about whose statements are fact-checked.

A close look at a week of storytelling around the massive blast that destroyed Beirut tells us how NPR could improve.

The conflict in Portland between federal agents and protesters escalated rapidly. As NPR responded, doing 40 stories over 15 days, some audience members saw bias.

Host Steve Inskeep and his team missed several opportunities to hold a powerful official accountable for misleading the public. Instead, they helped him perpetuate a myth.

NPR selected an inaccurate photo for a story about attacks on protesters.

Will manipulating images make them less true?

When the details of Floyd's death are rendered so opaque as to be meaningless, it incites anger and even rage in listeners and readers.