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OTM looks at the great decline in beat reporting. (episode)
Over a 17-year period, the city manager and other municipal officials bilked tax payers out of millions of dollars. Here's how the scheme went unnoticed for almost two decades.
Bob remembers the best story he got while working the crime beat for a small newspaper in Pennsylvania.
You’d think that beat reporting has been fundamental to journalism since the birth of the business. But beats didn’t really take off until a little over a century ago.
Two-thirds of audited daily papers do not assign a single reporter to cover the State House.
How one reporter was in the right place at the right time to uncover the story of a lifetime.
As the power of the unions declined, so did the number of labor reporters covering them.
Everyone gets to be in the paper twice: when they’re born, and when they die.
On the Media producer Chris Neary reports an obit of Bruce W. Bray Jr.
Diane from Legal was nice to give you that Starbucks gift card, but this surprising Reddit user might be the Secret Santa of the year. (article)
The ethics of publicly exposing private emails, the demise of Cat Fancy magazine, and a farewell to the Colbert Report. (episode)
Did the Sony hack reveal newsworthy information, juicy gossip, or just our own voyeuristic tendencies? Ethicist Kelly McBride weighs in.
Are the terms Black and African American actually interchangeable? Emory University's Erika Hall has evidence to show that their usage has different consequences in various environments.
Would you sacrifice one person to save the lives of five others? Your answer may depend on whether you consider the problem in your native tongue or a secondary one.
This month the magazine world lost another one of its giants. Cat Fancy Magazine announced that it's ending in early 2015, after 50 years on newsstands and in cat lovers' hearts.
Bob Garfield tells a David vs. Goliath story of dueling ferret magazines, from 2002.
Thursday, December 18th, marked the final episode of the Colbert Report, and the end of Stephen Colbert's fake pundit character. Brooke and Bob bid them both farewell.
What happens when the most popular astrologer on the internet doesn't post on time? (article)
Content, Forever solves the problem of content. Forever. (article)
Many of you have asked how you can hear the full versions of the songs we used in the Liberia show. Here's a playlist. (article)
Instragram added the smallest update to their notifications. So why are users so offended? (article)
In the wake of the Australian hostage crisis, #illridewithyou started trending. (article)
The Facebook Artificial Intelligence Lab is working to prevent users from posting drunken photos. But do we want that? And will it even work? (article)
A special hour from Liberia, where Ebola figures into every issue, in ways both painful and profound. (episode)
FrontPage Africa editor Rodney Sieh and reporter Mae Azango investigate how Ebola-related restrictions are affecting celebrations on the country's biggest national holiday.
Human rights lawyer Kofi Woods tells Brooke about how the Ebola epidemic has become a stress test for Liberian democracy.
Brooke and Meara visit a "hatai shop," where scores of people gather to drink tea and debate current events.