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Sage Steele, an ESPN veteran anchor, has filed suit against ESPN and Disney over claims of violating her right to free speech and breaching her employee contract.

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Anchor Sage Steele is suing ESPN over free speech claims

Steele's lawyers accuse ESPN and Disney of violating her First Amendment rights and breaching her contract after she made comments on a podcast last September.

April 29, 2022
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  • Dustin Jones
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva disputed allegations that he orchestrated the cover-up of an incident where a deputy knelt on a handcuffed inmate's head last year.

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The LA sheriff now says no charges for the reporter who wrote about a cover-up

Sheriff Alex Villanueva said he was investigating leaked materials, including a video published by the Los Angeles Times in an article by reporter Alene Tchekmedyian that detailed inmate abuse.

April 27, 2022
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  • Vanessa Romo
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says he has lined up $46.5 billion in financing to buy Twitter, and he's trying to negotiate an agreement with the company.

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Twitter in talks with Musk over bid to buy platform, according to reports

The Tesla CEO says that the money to buy Twitter would come from Morgan Stanley and other banks, some of it secured by his huge stake in the electric car maker.

April 25, 2022
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Ronan Farrow on investigating the world's most notorious spyware company: NSO Group

NPR's Daniel Estrin speaks with Ronan Farrow about his New Yorker investigation into Israeli spyware company NSO Group, and his interview with an employee who quit.

April 21, 2022
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  • Daniel Estrin,
  • Gabe O'Connor,
  • and 1 more
Rupert Murdoch speaks in San Francisco in 2011. Murdoch's media empire has included News Corp, Fox News, Fox Sports, 21st Century Fox, HarperCollins,<em> The New York Post</em> and <em>The</em> <em>Wall Street Journal.</em>

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In the Murdoch family succession battle, Fox News and democracy hang in the balance

The new CNN+ docuseries The Murdochs looks inside the Fox media empire and the family's behind-the-scenes in-fighting. Journalist Jim Rutenberg says the real-life drama rivals HBO's Succession.

April 21, 2022
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  • Terry Gross
Will Smith cannot attend any Academy events or programs after slapping Chris Rock.

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The Academy bans Will Smith for 10 years for Chris Rock slap

In a statement, Academy president David Rubin said Will Smith's behavior was unacceptable and harmful.

April 08, 2022
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  • Mandalit del Barco
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki arrives at a White House daily press briefing at the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on March 21.

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Jen Psaki leaving the White House for MSNBC this spring

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.

April 01, 2022
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  • David Folkenflik,
  • Eric McDaniel,
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Russia's communications regulator is threatening to fine Google and Wikipedia for not removing what it describes as misinformation about the war in Ukraine.

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  • Business

Russia threatens to fine Wikipedia if it doesn't remove some details about the war

Russia's communications regulator says it will fine Wikipedia up to $47,000 for not complying with requests to take down information. It has made similar warnings to Google about YouTube videos.

April 01, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
Los Angeles Police Department officers block the street near Echo Park Lake as protesters demonstrate against the removal of a homeless encampment on March 25, 2021, in Los Angeles. Officials asked people living in tents at the park to leave. Police detained 16 journalists reporting on the night's events, arresting two and shooting two others with rubber bullets.

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  • Media

When police cracked down on reporters on one chaotic night in LA's Echo Park

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.

March 31, 2022
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  • David Folkenflik and
  • Marc Rivers
Police form a line as activists and supporters of residents of a homeless encampment protest at Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles late on March 24, 2021.

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  • Media

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

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.

March 31, 2022
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  • David Folkenflik
A view of some of the damage after shelling in pro-Russian, separatist-controlled Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, on Monday. Several houses and garages were damaged, and some homes were completely burned down.

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  • Europe

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (March 28)

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

March 28, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
Alexei Venediktov in 2017 the office of Russian radio station Echo of Moscow, which the Russian authorities shut down earlier this month citing its coverage of Russia's military activities in Ukraine. Venediktov, who was an editor at the station, says someone left an antisemitic message at his door.

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  • World

A top Russian journalist found a pig's head and antisemitic slur left at his door

It was the latest in a series of acts of intimidation in Russia aimed at journalists and critics of the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine.

March 25, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
Reporters and residents stand outside a residential building that was damaged by what authorities say is a Russian bombardment in the Vynogradir district of Kyiv, Ukraine on  March 15. Some Ukrainian journalists have been detained and held hostage in Russian-occupied areas of the country.

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Russian forces are reportedly holding Ukrainian journalists hostage

International groups say Russian soldiers are threatening, detaining and even torturing Ukrainian journalists in occupied areas. One news editor says troops are holding her 75-year-old father hostage.

March 25, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
Russian journalist Oksana Baulina in 2017. Baulina was killed in a rocket strike while on assignment in Kyiv.

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  • Europe

A Russian journalist was killed by shelling while on assignment in Kyiv

Oksana Baulina reported on government corruption for The Insider, based in Latvia. She formerly worked for the non-profit of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and was "amazingly brave," a colleague said.

March 24, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
Maksim Chepchenko near a burning home in in Irpin, Ukraine, after Russian bombings on Saturday.

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  • Photography

A photojournalist in Ukraine heads toward deadly conflict to humanize war

The deaths of three journalists this week in Ukraine are a reminder of the perils of covering conflicts from behind a camera. Photojournalist Marcus Yam is on assignment in Kyiv covering the war.

March 19, 2022
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  • Ashley Lisenby
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