PRX - Pieces for Topic: News
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One Sunday night in November 1987, something very odd happened in the middle of the nine o’clock news in Chicago. As one television viewer said, it...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 23:35
Is being rural a pre-existing vulnerability in this crisis? Equipped with a mask and a selfie stick, Laura Flanders reports (from a responsible dis...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jun 25, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
In a Rough Draft Diaries first, we're entering the world of science by learning about the past (and present) struggles of Lake Erie with the former...
- Added: Mar 20, 2017
- Length: 06:06
In 1969, the Army Corps of Engineers shut off the American side of Niagara Falls to study erosion. We interview the man who led that team.
Bought by KUSU, WCPN, WCMU Michigan, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WBFO
- Added: Nov 23, 2016
- Length: 03:27
- Purchases: 5
To accompany a documentary screening, the National Museum of the Great Lakes is searching for Navy pilots who trained on Lake Michigan during World...
Bought by WXXI Rochester, WCMU Michigan, WKSU, and WBFO
- Added: Nov 02, 2016
- Length: 01:14
- Purchases: 4
The Freedom Riders of 1961 were upholding the law. So why were they being arrested as soon as they got off the buses in Jackson, Mississippi? KFAI'...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 2
The 1940s pre-movie newsreel "The March of Time" reenacted news events using actors. Henry Luce called it "fakery in allegiance to the truth." The ...
Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 25, 2014
- Length: 05:20
- Purchases: 3
What many people outside Massachusetts don't know is that the brother of reputed Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger, Billy Bulger, was similarly powerfu...
- Added: May 29, 2013
- Length: 02:24
Until recently, not much was known about the first Africans who stepped foot on the North American continent. Today, scholars are learning unexpect...
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 02:26
- Purchases: 2
How one Congressman's bald-faced bluff saved Reagan National from permanent closure.
- Added: Sep 09, 2010
- Length: 06:07
Examining how unpopular wars are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes
- Added: Oct 27, 2008
- Length: 08:00
Examining how social safety nets are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes
- Added: Oct 24, 2008
- Length: 08:09
