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Copies of the McClatchy Co. owned Miami Herald newspaper are shown Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009 in Miami. (Wilfredo Lee/AP Photo)
Money

McClatchy files for bankruptcy protection

The publisher of the Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star and dozens of other newspapers across the country is filing for bankruptcy protection.

5 years ago

Actor Kirk Douglas, shown above at 39, was born Issur Danielovitch in New York to Russian-Jewish parents. He would later tell his own children that they didn't have his
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

Kirk Douglas, Hollywood tough guy and ‘Spartacus’ superstar, dies at 103

Douglas was often cast as a troubled tough guy in films, most famously as a rebellious Roman slave named Spartacus. Offscreen, he was devoted to family and charity.

5 years ago

Radio host Rush Limbaugh says he's been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.
(Julie Smith/AP)
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Community

Rush Limbaugh says he has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer

He said the diagnosis was confirmed by two medical institutions on Jan. 20, after he became concerned earlier that month that something was wrong.

5 years ago

FILE - This Sept. 26, 2008 file photo shows debate moderator Jim Lehrer during the first U.S. Presidential Debate between presidential nominees Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss.  PBS announced that PBS NewsHour's Jim Lehrer died Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, at home. He was 85. (AP Photo/Chip Somodevilla, File)
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PBS NewsHour co-founder Jim Lehrer dies at 85

Jim Lehrer, co-host and later host of the nightly PBS "NewsHour" that for decades offered a thoughtful take on current events, has died, PBS said Thursday. He was 85.

5 years ago

Heshimu Jaramogi (Martin Regusters)
Community
Tne Philadelphia Tribune

Heshimu Jaramogi, leader of multimedia journalism in Philadelphia, has died

Longtime journalist Heshimu Jaramogi, considered a forefather of multi-media journalism in Philadelphia, died Tuesday after a brief battle with colon cancer.

6 years ago

TIKTOK / @EVANDAHGOAT AND @GABESCO
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Billy Penn

TikTok teens: How Philly highschoolers get millions of followers to watch their every move

It’s all about connecting with your audience, local softboys say.

6 years ago

This Jan. 17, 2017, file photo shows a Facebook logo being displayed in a start-up companies gathering at Paris' Station F in Paris. (Thibault Camus/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Facebook again declines to limit political ad targeting

And it still won't fact check them, as it's faced pressure to do.

6 years ago

Director Kathryn Bigelow poses backstage with the Oscar for best achievement in directing for
Arts & Entertainment

Pop culture in 2010s marked gains in diversity, inclusion

In the decade drawing to a close, the conversation about diversity and inclusion moved to the front burner of our popular culture as never before.

6 years ago

Patients line up for remote health consultation sessions on a remote island near Rangpur, Bangladesh. (Allison Joyce for NPR)
NPR
Community

The global stories of 2019 that you probably missed

Sure, everybody thinks it's great when a story is read by many hundreds of thousands of folks. That's definitely a success.

6 years ago

Thousands of new holiday songs have been released since 1994, but none have become standards in the way pop songs about Christmas routinely did in the '60s, '70s and '80s. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images)
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

Why are there no new Christmas songs?

This year, Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" turns 25. Her single-item wish list seems to have been the punctuation mark on half a century.

6 years ago

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A visual journey through 2019

This timeline chronicles some of the most compelling photojournalism of 2019, covered by WHYY staff and contributing photographers.

6 years ago

Joseph Segel, founder of a number of companies including QVC, has died. (Courtesy of Philadelphia Business Journal)
Community

Joe Segel, founder of QVC, dies at 88

Joseph "Joe" M. Segel, the entrepreneur who founded TV shopping giant QVC and the Franklin Mint, died of natural causes early Saturday in Gladwyne.

6 years ago

Rep. Conor Lamb (left) and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (right). (Keith Srakocic and Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Super PACs pour money into Pa. ahead of divisive impeachment vote

Conservative and liberal groups are using the proceedings to spread negative messages about representatives in swing districts, with an eye to 2020.

6 years ago

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From left, Megan Coyne and Pearl Gabel, who run the @NJGov Twitter account, with Edwin Torres. The trio work on Gov. Phil Murphy's digital team. (Courtesy of Governor's Office)
Politics & Policy

Mom jokes, butt puns, Baby Yoda memes: N.J. gov’t goes full ‘Jersey Girl’ online

New Jersey’s official Twitter account has gotten noticeably sassier of late. It’s a way to make state government ‘digestible,’ its creators say.

6 years ago

Listen 1:35
Robert Costa speaking with journalists on Washington Week.
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Political journalist Robert Costa

First, Marty's conversation with journalist Robert Costa to get the inside scoop on reporting in the Trump era. Then, we'll get a preview of the UK general elections.

Air Date: December 10, 2019 10:00 am

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