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In this episode, we explore the power of language – both the words we use and the larger context of narratives and stories we tell.
My guest is Ka...
- Added: Aug 22, 2024
- Length: 29:30
This week we head back to East Orosi, California, and we take a deep dive into the organizations that run basic services in unincorporated areas al...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WXDU, WETS, and KGLP
- Added: Aug 06, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
After the recent assassination attempt on former President Trump, Jess talks with Dr. Garen Wintemute, Director of the Violence Prevention Research...
- Added: Jul 23, 2024
- Length: 29:00
In this episode, we explore the recent history of women’s sports, particularly basketball, in college and professionally - including in the 90’s, w...
- Added: Jun 11, 2024
- Length: 29:30
Former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates predicts how war in Israel could ripple through the Middle East. Then, Ray Suarez speaks with Trita Par...
Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: May 24, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic are behind us and it’s time for an early reckoning of our successes and failures. An epidemiologist shares...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 21:30
Welcome to News in Context. I’m Gina Baleria.
In this episode, we explore how bridging by building relationships and being curious can connect peo...
- Added: Feb 26, 2024
- Length: 29:30
Coming up in this edition of Eco Report, Agrivoltaics and Climate Resilience as Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze brings us Part Three of his d...
- Added: Feb 23, 2024
- Length: 29:41
In this episode, we discuss press freedom in the U.S. in the wake of a police raid of the local paper in Marion, Kansas. In that raid, officers con...
- Added: Aug 17, 2023
- Length: 29:30
Originalism is a way of interpreting the Constitution that could help it be understood through either framer’s intent or what the public would’ve i...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jun 08, 2023
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
This week, Ray takes a close look at Taiwan: its colonial past, vibrant democratic tradition, and what recent disputes over independence could mean...
Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Nov 03, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
In this episode, we explore the sharp increase in fentanyl deaths across the country, including in San Francisco and the Bay Area, which had thus f...
- Added: Jul 06, 2022
- Length: 29:30
Today's guests are Dr. Cathy Whitlock, Regents Professor of Paleoecology at Montana State University, and Dr. Steven Hostetler, Hydrologist at the ...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Oct 07, 2021
- Length: 28:18
- Purchases: 3
In this episode, we take a deeper look at California’s fire outlook in 2021 and moving forward.
Over the past few years, massive wildfires tore ac...
- Added: May 14, 2021
- Length: 29:30
Citizens deserve to know what’s going on, so the framers made sure that news could be printed and information disseminated. But how does the press ...
- Added: Sep 28, 2020
- Length: 21:25
In Norfolk, Virginia scientists battling sea level rise enlist residents to help collect data that could help the city better understand its rising...
- Added: Aug 31, 2020
- Length: 32:34
In this episode, we explore California’s dynamic and shifting climate, which impacts so much across the Bay area, region, and state, including our ...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Aug 27, 2020
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we talk about the post office with Dr. Richard R. John, Professor of History & Communications in the Columbia Journalism School at...
- Added: Aug 20, 2020
- Length: 29:30
In Part 2 of my interview with Dr. Anita Varma, we discuss how word choice and passive voice can infuse bias into coverage, the pros and cons of hu...
- Added: Jul 16, 2020
- Length: 29:30
In part one, we explore how news organizations are navigating the many major ongoing stories that currently dominate our news landscape, including ...
- Added: Jul 09, 2020
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we talk with Dana Sitar… Freelance writer & editor in personal finance, careers, and digital media. Dana recently wrote a piece fo...
- Added: Jun 10, 2020
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Nancy Bristow… Chair of the History Department at the University of Puget Sound… and author of American Pandemic:...
- Added: May 14, 2020
- Length: 29:30
Travel news from around the world in 3 minutes
- Added: Dec 15, 2014
- Length: 03:00
Under rules codified at the 1961 Vienna Convention, diplomatic missions are generally considered inviolable. But with the murder of Libya Ambassado...
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 02:07
Americans are used to hearing about drones being used in Pakistan and Yemen, but they are increasingly being deployed domestically. With organizati...
- Added: Jul 12, 2012
- Length: 01:56