People who are blind spend a lot of time listening to words. So much that they often prefer to listen at faster speeds, including for TV shows.

Nearly one year since The Vindicator went out of business, the new site Mahoning Matters is hoping to become a destination for local watchdog journalism.

Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong media tycoon known as a fervent supporter of democracy and human rights, is the most prominent figure arrested thus far under China's new national security law.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with essayist Shani Silver on the end of her Refinery29 column covering single womanhood.

The billboards will be placed across Louisville, Ky., where Taylor was shot and killed in her apartment by police. The signs' message urges the arrest of the officers involved.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan remembers the veteran NYC newsman, who died Aug. 5, as "a tenement kid and high school drop out who never lost connection to where he came from."

Hamill, who died Aug. 5, was a columnist and editor at the New York Post and the New York Daily News, covering wars, crime and the people of NYC's boroughs. Originally broadcast in '94, '08 and '11.

The documentary A Thousand Cuts focuses on how Ressa and her Rappler news organization navigate Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's attacks on the press. It will be released in the U.S. Aug. 8.

More than 2,000 newspapers have shut down in recent years, and some regions have become news deserts. Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan says the collapse of local news undermines democracy.

The rupture capped a period of intensifying criticism of coverage and views in the news empire created by his father Rupert Murdoch, such as in The Wall Street Journal and the Fox News Channel.

After 17 years behind bars, Dennis Perry was freed from a Georgia prison after being convicted in a double murder case.

In a career spanning four decades, Dickey authored seven books and reported from more than 40 countries, often covering war, conflict and espionage. He died July 16. Originally broadcast in 1998.

The suit was filed in federal court in Manhattan by two former Fox News employees. Fox hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity are also named and accused of sexual misconduct.

Author Lisa Napoli joined On Second Thought host Virginia Prescott for an Atlanta History Center Virtual Author Talk, where she discussed her latest book, "Up All Night."

Georgia Today host Steve Fennessy talks with science journalist Maryn McKenna, who for years covered the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.