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Michael Oreskes Shares His NPR Preview For 2016
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Michael Oreskes joined NPR as its head of news at the end of April 2015. Since then, he has overseen extensive changes on air, as well as behind the scenes in the newsroom. He has also given a jump-start to NPR's previously stuttering collaboration efforts with local ...
New Commentators Coming To 'Morning Edition'
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
As listeners are hearing today on Morning Edition, longtime sports commentator Frank Deford, a Wednesday morning fixture on NPR for more than three decades, is going to appear less frequently on NPR in the future.
Deford, who has been delivering his Sweetness and Light commentary weekly since 1980 (except for ...
Asked And Answered: Post-Holiday Edition
Friday, January 08, 2016
Listeners often write about spoiler alerts—sometimes plot spoilers sneak through in reports on TV shows and movies, as careful as NPR's reporters and hosts try to be. I heard from listeners about one such unfortunate lack of a heads' up in a Morning Edition report on the "The Great ...
Mailbag: On Trump, And A Controversial Guest
Thursday, December 17, 2015
I've heard from many listeners in recent weeks about NPR's coverage of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Many of their messages can be boiled down to one word: "Enough."
David Mislin, of Pittsburgh, Penn., wrote:
It has become all too clear that Donald Trump is running a campaign based ...
NPR's Staff Diversity Numbers, Updated
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Last week I looked at the third year results of NPR's ongoing examination of the gender, geographic, ethnic and racial diversity of its on-air sources — the people who are interviewed on the air, either as experts or participants in events or part of the general public.
Later in ...
NPR's On-Air Source Diversity: Some Improvement, More Work To Be Done
Tuesday, December 08, 2015
Results are in from the third year of NPR's sourcing project—designed to understand and ultimately improve the gender, geographic, and racial and ethnic diversity of people heard on NPR as outside sources of news and opinion. The news is mixed.
In fiscal year 2015, which ended Sept. 30, there was ...
Going Live (Or Not): NPR's Complicated Approach To Breaking News
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Following the Paris terrorist attacks on the evening of Nov. 13, my office heard from Wyoming listener Patrick D. Sheehy, who wrote, "Out here two time zones away from Washington DC...I am curious what level of news does it take to get NPR out of package mode and into special ...
Islamic State, ISIS, ISIL or Daesh?
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
In the wake of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Beirut, I've heard from a number of listeners who want NPR to start referring to the extremist group that has been identified by French authorities as the perpetrator by the name "Daesh."
Current NPR policy, as at many major ...
'Heds' Will Roll: Readers React to Headlines Gone Wrong
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
The reaction to the headline on Danielle Kurtzleben's Nov. 5 online article about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump ("We Read Donald Trump's New Book So You Don't Have To") was swift—and in my mind, deserved, and not just because the phrase has become cliché.
In the comments below the ...
A Missing Report On Exxon Mobil And Climate Change
Monday, November 02, 2015
In early July, The Guardian reported that Exxon Mobil Corp., "the world's biggest oil company, knew as early as 1981 of climate change – seven years before it became a public issue, according to a newly discovered email from one of the firm's own scientists. Despite this the firm ...
Plagiarism Found In 10 NPR Music Stories
Thursday, October 29, 2015
NPR and WQXR, the New York City classical music station owned by New York Public Radio, said today they had identified 10 stories that included material plagiarized from 17 sources. The 10 stories had been posted jointly on the NPR Music and WQXR web sites since 2011, the most recent ...
The Right To Tell One's Own History
Friday, October 23, 2015
On Sept. 3, NPR's history dept. blog published an article with the headline "The 'Indian Cowboys' Of Florida," which looked at the ranching history of the Florida Native Americans known as Seminoles. The source of the information was Meredith M. Beatrice, the director of communications for the
Mailbag: Strong Opinions On Two Hot Button Issues
Friday, October 16, 2015
Friday Follow-up: Parsing Potential Conflicts Of Interest
Friday, October 09, 2015
I'm still catching up on issues that were raised by listeners in recent weeks while I was traveling. Here's one: a question of whether NPR needs to put a disclosure on each and every story about climate change.
After my recent columns looking at NPR's environmental coverage, I heard ...
Naming The Shooter: Why NPR Should Identify The Suspect
Monday, October 05, 2015
This post is not going to name the shooter who killed nine people at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., last week and then took his own life. But that does not mean I believe NPR should not name him.
Before I get to my reasoning I'll give NPR's listeners ...
Not All 'Sweetness And Light'
Friday, October 02, 2015
When Wednesday Morning Edition sports commentator Frank Deford was off the air for a couple weeks in June, several of his longtime admirers wrote my office with concern, to ask when he would be back. But the emails-- and tweets and a column from a rival news organization--weren't so ...
NPR's Environment Coverage: What's Next
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
In my first post on this topic, I highlighted some of the concerns that NPR audience members have raised about the network's on-air and online coverage of climate change and the environment. This follow-up post gives my own views and talks about a couple potentially very positive new NPR ...
Surveying NPR's Coverage Of Climate And The Environment
Monday, September 14, 2015
This office fields listener and reader concerns about a wide range of issues, but, in the seven months I have been on the job, NPR's coverage of the environment and climate change has been among the top topics. It is clear that many in the audience expect NPR to be ...
Gunshots And Screen Grabs: Reactions To NPR's Coverage Of The Virginia Shooting
Friday, August 28, 2015
A picture of a gun pointed at a victim, from the perspective of the shooter. The sound of gunshots. A photo of the gunman. Listeners and readers wrote to the Ombudsman's office with questions and criticisms of NPR's editorial choices as it covered Wednesday's killing of two television journalists from ...
Ombudsman Mailbag: Planned Parenthood
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
In recent weeks, listeners have written with many concerns about NPR's coverage of Planned Parenthood. Funding for the organization has received renewed political scrutiny following the drip-drip-drip release beginning in July of highly-edited sting videos, which critics say show organization employees selling fetal tissue; Planned Parenthood officials say the tissue ...