David Folkenflik

David Folkenflik appears in the following:

Conflict flared at Fox News after Biden's victory in 2020, former Fox editor says

Monday, June 13, 2022

A former Fox News political editor explains how the channel called Arizona for Biden during the 2020 election, and how that enraged former President Trump and controversy erupted within Fox.

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Major broadcasters aired the Jan. 6 committee hearings live. Fox News did not

Saturday, June 11, 2022

We look at how Fox News covered the first of the Jan. 6 committee hearings, which it did not air live. The network chose to air it on its business channel, the Fox Business Network, instead.

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Only one major cable news channel did not carry the Jan. 6 hearing live: Fox News

Friday, June 10, 2022

Airing the hearing would have required Fox to broadcast flat contradictions of what its personalities have told their audience in the past year and a half: that the riot was a mere legal protest.

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Russia threatens to kick out U.S. journalists unless U.S. treats Russian media better

Thursday, June 09, 2022

Russia is warning foreign journalists that they could lose the right to stay unless the situation of Russian journalists in the U.S. improves.

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A former TV news executive is producing the Jan. 6 hearings

Wednesday, June 08, 2022

The Congressional hearings on the Jan. 6 insurrection are being staged for TV consumption very differently than in the past — and most networks are taking them live. Fox News is the exception.

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The New York Times' new editor will run its biggest newsroom ever — and most outspoken

Wednesday, June 08, 2022

Joe Kahn becomes The New York Times' executive editor next week. All he has to do is replace a legend and corral an often-contentious newsroom of more than 1,700 journalists.

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Under his watch, Kahn says 'Times' will raise conduct standards for journalists

Thursday, June 02, 2022

Joe Kahn, the incoming executive editor at The New York Times, is replacing a newspaper legend — while facing challenges to traditional hierarchies from a younger generation of journalists.

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How the media can cover mass shootings while respecting space for grief

Friday, May 27, 2022

With tragic events like mass shootings, how do journalists balance the need to hold those in power accountable and to tell the stories of those directly impacted, while respecting space for grief?

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What the shooting in Buffalo has to do with Fox News host Tucker Carlson

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

The man accused of murdering 10 people in Buffalo said he'd been radicalized by a racist conspiracy theory, No one in a position of prominence has done more to promote that theory than Tucker Carlson.

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'The New York Times' can't shake the cloud over a 90-year-old Pulitzer Prize

Sunday, May 08, 2022

In 1932, The New York Times' Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer for stories defending Soviet policies that led to the deaths of millions of Ukrainians. The Times disavows his work but not the prize.

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The 'Roe v. Wade' leak has drawn attention to how journalists cover the Supreme Court

Tuesday, May 03, 2022

The leak of a draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade throws into sharp relief the cloistered existence of the U.S. Supreme Court — and tensions with journalists who seek to pierce that veil.

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How Elon Musk's Bid to Buy Twitter Could Affect How We Use the Platform

Thursday, April 28, 2022

NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik joins us to discuss Twitter: how it impacts our discourse, why so many journalists use it, and how new ownership could change this.

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More details emerge in federal investigation into Hunter Biden

Saturday, April 09, 2022

In 2020, much of the mainstream media dismissed a story about Hunter Biden's business dealings. Now emails supporting the story have been authenticated. Was the media too deferential to the Bidens?

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Reporters at CBS and NBC are divided over new political pundits

Thursday, April 07, 2022

At CBS and NBC, journalists are vexed over moves to hire senior aides to President Biden and former President Trump, even though such hires are part of a tradition stretching back at least 50 years.

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Jen Psaki leaving the White House for MSNBC this spring

Friday, April 01, 2022

The Biden press secretary will serve as a pundit and host a show on the network's streaming platform. She's the second administration official joining MSNBC and faced ethics questions from reporters.

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How tensions between the police and media boiled over one chaotic night in LA

Thursday, March 31, 2022

The LAPD detained at least 16 journalists covering a protest in March 2021, a low point in a year of increasing mistrust and hostilities between police departments and the media.

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From kid gloves to rubber bullets: How the LAPD's ties to news media unraveled

Thursday, March 31, 2022

Decades of tensions between police and journalists in Los Angeles led to a night of chaos last year in which officers detained at least 16 journalists covering a protest at the city's Echo Park.

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A year ago tensions between the press and police erupted in Los Angeles

Friday, March 25, 2022

At a homeless encampment, police cracked down on protesters and journalists. Press advocates say that night of chaos was the capstone on tensions that had been building for years.

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2 Fox News team members in Ukraine were killed in an attack

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

A veteran video journalist for Fox News, Pierre Zakrzewski, and freelance journalist Oleksandra Kuvshynova died when their vehicle was hit by incoming fire, the network confirmed.

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Could libel lawsuits squash misinformation?

Saturday, March 12, 2022

David Folkenflik asks attorney John Langford about using libel laws to combat misinformation in the media.

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