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An exploration of Hispanic media today (episode)
An overview of the Hispanic media landscape
Univision anchor Jorge Ramos has been dubbed "Star newscaster of Hispanic TV."
While an estimated 450 million people use Spanish, they don't all use it the same way.
"Metastasis" is an almost scene-by-scene Spanish-language remake of the hit show "Breaking Bad," starring Colombian actor Diego Trujillo.
"Radio Ambulante" is a Spanish-language radio program that's been called "This Latin American Life".
After hearing the rest of this special hour, Latino Rebels co-founder Julio Ricardo Varela returns to tell Brooke if we accomplished our goal to "not suck."
A special edition of On the Media examines the media's reaction to the grand jury decision not to indict Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown. (episode)
How media narratives have irreversible effects, a prominent journalist describes his editorial regret regarding the Bill Cosby rape allegations, and a conversation with George Takei. (episode)
Bob talks with The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates about a 2008 magazine piece he wrote about Bill Cosby.
In 1982, Lindy Chamberlain was falsely convicted of murdering her 9 week old infant daughter, and her cry for help became a global punch line.
Bob talks with Emergent's Craig Silverman about 'Rehana' - a mysterious Kurdish volunteer fighter who became the propaganda object of both ISIS and its enemies.
Rehtaeh Parsons's name became synonymous in Canada with online sexual cyber-bullying after her suicide following two years of torment. But now, saying her name is illegal.
Bob speaks to Star Trek icon turned multimedia phenomenon George Takei.
A newly released letter reveals the FBI's attempt to blackmail MLK into committing suicide. Plus, the song of the 67P comet. (episode)
As Obama's first post-midterms policy proposal, net neutrality has once again been shocked with a defibrillator. Bob speaks with NYT reporter Edward Wyatt about the latest developments.
The Marshall Project, a new not-for-profit investigative journalism organization, focuses its coverage on the American criminal justice system.
The attempts by late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to discredit Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were an ugly and well-documented chapter in American history.
In 1981, student journalist Seth Rosenfeld began researching the FBI's misconduct in its investigations of 1960s student protests at UC Berkeley.
In 1959, a solar storm threw an electromagnetic pulse at Earth so strong it fried the telegraph system. A whole lot more is on the line now.
Ben Winters considers the role of media before the arrival of an Earth-destroying asteroid in his trilogy, The Last Policeman.
This week, the European Space Agency’s Philae space probe landed on comet 67P/Churyumov Gerasimenko.
An unpacking of the post-midterm election myths, whether algorithms can intuit emotions, and 25 years after the Berlin Wall. (episode)
In the aftermath of midterms, election results swiftly fractured into election narratives.
Bob talks with public radio host Matt Miller about his unsuccessful (but enlightening) run for the House seat in California's 33rd District.
An app that alerts you to potentially suicidal tweets from the people you follow on Twitter raises ethical and even legal questions.
Can the algorithms built into social media really understand your emotional well-being? Munmun De Choudhury says yes, and explains how it works.
WNYC's Arun Venugopal explores the social media strategies of western Muslims in the age of ISIS.
How the changing media coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall over the past 25 years reflects our changing self image as Americans.