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Shayla Torres dealt with a lot of violence in her last school, where she was a peer mediator. Here, the 17-year-old junior recalls one especially c...

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  • Added: Jul 10, 2011
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Luis Lopez, Credit: Craig Santoro
For Luis Lopez, violence arrived unexpectedly at his own front door. The seventeen-year-old sophomore starts his story in a classroom.

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  • Added: Jul 10, 2011
  • Length: 01:55
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Students in Fukushima, seen here studying American junior high school yearbooks.
Long before most Americans had heard of a place called Fukushima, commentator Graham Shelby spent three years teaching English there. He's been wa...

Bought by KUT and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 2
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After the news that the Senate had not passed legislation to end "don't ask don't tell," commentator Mark Blackmon decided that it was time to remi...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2010
  • Length: 04:08
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A man breaks up a fistfight with a chainsaw

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  • Added: Sep 09, 2010
  • Length: 01:07
  • Purchases: 1
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Reporter Amelia de Sousa lost friends and co-workers in Haiti’s earthquake. Now she works in the UN compound near the airport cranking out stories...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2010
  • Length: 06:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Now we know why Tiger Woods was always smiling

  • Added: Dec 18, 2009
  • Length: :19
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
One of my friends saw Chase Whiteside’s Youtube piece called Sarah Palin Book Signing as “[e]vidence that our educational system has tanked.”

  • Added: Dec 12, 2009
  • Length: :33
Caption: David is one of thousands in America who lived and died without healthcare
The uninsured not only die, but believe they do not deserve to be healed.

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  • Added: Sep 02, 2009
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Seattle HempFest 06, Credit: hempfest.org
On 3/26/09 President Obama delivers a snub to millions of Americans who wanted to ask him about ending marijuana prohibition.

  • Added: Mar 30, 2009
  • Length: 07:25
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Almost 800,000 dog bites every year are serious enough to receive medical attention -- 30 or so people are killed by dogs in this country in any gi...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2009
  • Length: :57
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Kellogg's pulled their support for Michael Phelps and American cannabis consumers have called for a boycott.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2009
  • Length: 03:21
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Voting in the Israeli elections on a stormy winter morning.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: 02:17
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
We hear that times are hard

  • Added: Jan 06, 2009
  • Length: 02:00
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First-person essay in wake of Bernard L. Madoff scandal recalling a journalism student's dilemma in covering a similar scandal close to "home."

  • Added: Dec 18, 2008
  • Length: 04:20