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1Aug 27, '24From NPR’s ⁦@QuilLawrence:⁩ Arlington National Cemetery officials say Trump campaign staff verbally abused and pushed aside cemetery official who objected to filming and photograph416×18M34k14k2.7k
2Oct 28, '24NEWS: More than 200,000 subscribers have canceled their digital subscriptions to the Washington Post after the revelation that owner Jeff Bezos blocked an endorsement of VP Harris.238×10.3M42k8.3k1.7k
3Oct 29, '24UPDATE: The number of cancellations since Friday’s revelation now exceeds 250,000, NPR can report. That represents approximately 10 percent of all paid circulation.81.3×3.5M28k4.8k664
4Apr 25, '23Update: I have spoken with three people with knowledge of Fox's ouster of Tucker Carlson They say Carlson's digital exchanges captured by the Dominion legal team echo the suite of 75.9×3.3M14k2.3k281
5Oct 25, '24Former WaPost Executive Editor Marty Baron on paper's decision not to endorse in WH race: "This is cowardice, a moment of darkness that will leave democracy as a casualty. " MORE B60×2.6M30k5.5k536
6Oct 25, '24As I reported on the air tonight, the Washington Post registered 1600+ cancelations of digital subscriptions in the first three hours after my story broke, according to internal WP50.9×2.2M17k3.3k429
7Oct 25, '24UPDATE: Robert Kagan confirms to NPR that he has resigned from WaPost editorial board after disclosure it would not make an announcement. Kagan has been a persistent conservative c46×2M24k5.3k397
8Jan 16, '24The Baltimore Sun's new owner, David D. Smith, met with staffers today for more than two hours. Many left on edge. He claimed he had read the paper just four times. He grew up here42.6×1.8M3.7k1.2k412
9Apr 12, '23NPR quits Twitter after it questions the network’s editorial independence - my story:35.4×1.5M2.5k81761
10Oct 28, '24WaPost's @DavidHoffman has stepped down from the paper's editorial board warning of appeasing tyranny. From his resignation: "For decades, the Washington Post's editorials have bee35×1.5M21k4.7k516
11Jul 19, '24Tonight has been a journey for us all30.7×1.3M12k1.5k774
12Oct 29, '24Wash Post Exec Editor Matt Murray is holding an all-staff - claims he can't confirm cancellation numbers and doesn't know what they are. This has triggered "an anger bordering on i21.5×928k7.9k1.4k294
13Jan 15, '25NEWS: More than 400 Washington Post journalists - including some of its most distinguished reporters & editors - have sent plea to owner Jeff Bezos to intervene at the paper. W21×908k6.4k1.5k367
14May 15, '25UPDATE: Corporation for Public Broadcasting board passes bylaws stating no board member can be removed by anyone, including the President, without a 2/3 confirming vote from rest o20.6×891k16k2.6k567
15Jun 6, '24The Washington Post's publisher pushed his executive editor hard to kill a damning story about him. It wasn't the first time - he did the same to me. My piece for NPR19.4×836k3.5k1.6k371
16Sep 3, '24After a week, here's what we're left with: No video, no exoneration on Trump side. Journalists and lawmakers should push for answers and more materials. If either side - the Trump 18.4×792k5.6k1.4k89
17Oct 25, '24Mini update: The furor at the WaPo is such that its chief tech officer is getting engineers to block Qs about its decision to not make an endorsement pm the Post's own AI site sear18.3×788k9.5k2.1k300
18Apr 24, '23Re; Tucker - It is likely that this has more to do with pending litigation - Abby Grossberg's lawsuit alleging sexism and harassment at Carlson's show - than the defamation lawsuit17.7×762k4.1k56573
19Mar 25, '25News: NPR’s Tom Bowman reports of a Pentagon-wide warning about Signal’s security vulnerability - one week ago 👇🏼15.1×651k9.5k4.5k733
20Oct 30, '24Family-owned Seattle Times says "Hell, Yes!" in endorsing Harris, throwing shade at owners of WashPost (and LAT and USA Today) for recent decisions not to weigh in editorially. h/t14.5×624k33k9.5k348
21Jul 31, '24News: Scotland Yard has opened a criminal inquiry into the actions of Washington Post publisher Will Lewis while police were investigating phone hacking and other crimes at Rupert 13.7×592k2.4k1.1k171
22Mar 15, '25VOA DIRECTOR MICHAEL ABRAMOWITZ: "I am deeply saddened that for the 1st time in 83 years, the storied Voice of America is being silenced. VOA needs thoughtful reform & we have 13.3×573k3k1.2k157
23Jun 16, '24New: The ‘Washington Post’ newsroom is on edge as the past record of new publisher Will Lewis and top editor Rob Winnett in U.K. raise red flags Lewis first pressured the Post’s ed13.1×567k2.2k1k238
24Oct 28, '25In October, several 'Washington Post' editorials fail to disclose Bezos interests My story for NPR13.1×565k3.4k1.3k318
25Aug 30, '24Seriously. The Trump campaign said it would release video that would exonerate staffers if people kept reporting that they had berated and shoved an Arlington National Cemetery off12.7×548k5.8k1.5k74
26Sep 27, '24The NYT caption for this whole family photo from a candidate’s campaign website is insanity (it’s not his family)12×518k2.9k680152
27Nov 22, '24Taylor Lorenz in August, saying that she hadn’t called President Biden a war criminal in a private IG post: “You people will fall for any dumbass edit someone makes.” Taylor Lorenz11.6×500k2.7k282213
28Feb 28, '25NEWS: More than 75,000 Washington Post subscribers have canceled subscriptions since owner Jeff Bezos overhauled its opinion sections to an explicitly libertarian line - sparking c10.8×465k6.7k2.2k264
29Jun 28, '24Reminder: Fmr CoS John Kelly confirmed to *Jake Tapper* that Trump disparaged war dead - pretty impressive for DJT to deny it as Tapper moderates10.6×456k2.9k1.1k59
30Jan 12, '23NEWS: Rupert Murdoch to be deposed under oath by lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems on mornings of Jan 19 & 20th, according to court filings. It will take place at Fox Studio 10.5×453k5.8k1.5k27
31Jun 16, '25Veteran photographer Michael Nigro was shot in the head with a non-lethal bullet while covering anti-ICE protests in LA. "It felt very very intentional," Nigro tells NPR, "a chilli9.6×413k12k3.6k492
34Jul 17, '24To be clear, this is pretty extraordinary as such things go7.2×310k2.9k69139
35Jul 23, '22The 73 minutes in which the Murdochs dumped Trump: The NY Post editorial page: "Trump's silence on Jan 6 is damning" - 5.39pm Friday. The WSJ editorial page: "The President Who Sto6.9×016k3.2k316
36Oct 25, '24Update: WashPost editorial page editor David Shipley had approved a Harris endorsement earlier this month, and colleagues had been drafting it. Shipley had said the matter was bein6.9×298k4.5k782103
37Oct 28, '24Reminder: Jeff Bezos brought in WaPo CEO Will Lewis in part for ability to handle conservative power bases (Murdoch, Telegraph, Boris Johnson). Lewis boasted of 4k net new subscrib6.8×292k4.3k1.2k145
42Oct 28, '24A third resignation at WaPo5.8×251k4.4k68523
43Jan 4, '25From my story: 300,000 people canceled digital subscriptions to Wash Post between Oct 24, when NPR revealed Bezos’s decision to kill a planned endorsement of VP Harris, and Electio5.8×250k2.8k801104
44Jul 16, '24So far the US Justice Department under President Biden's AG has secured convictions of the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the president's son.5.6×242k2k62080
45Oct 27, '24WaPo columnist Michele Norris resigns over Bezos decision to block endorsement5.5×237k3.1k58932
46Feb 15, '22News: JURY FINDS NEW YORK TIMES NOT LIABLE IN PALIN V NYT & JAMES BENNET Unanimous verdict of all nine jurors polled.5.2×014k1.6k26
47Jan 27, '21There is no more telling way to convey the corruption inherent in having a Trump branded property just blocks from a Trump White House than its desolation a week into the Biden era4.9×011k2.4k99
48Oct 17, '24Court releases Ariz Dem Senate candidate Ruben Gallego divorce docs that GOP opponent Kari Lake had hyped as damaging. Judge in case: “One of the most garden variety divorce files 4.9×211k2k48039
49Feb 20, '25NPR host Adrian Ma pays tribute to his remembers his girlfriend who died in D.C. plane crash - law prof Kiah Duggins4.7×204k3.8k643282
50Feb 3, '25LA Times owner says journalism and his paper’s editorial pages have been too partisan. He tweeted 18 times in a row last week to boost RFK Jr., even as a writer says the paper alte4.4×189k2.6k1k188
52Mar 21, '20If only Harvard had a bank account with vast sums of money it could dip into to help set a model for appropriate corporate responsibility during times of national crisis3.9×09.1k1.9k31
53Apr 14, '20Bloomberg News Killed An Investigation of Chinese Ruling Elites And Fired Its Reporter. Then It Sought To Silence The Reporter's Wife. My NPR story - including never before heard a3.9×05.3k3.1k360
55Aug 13, '20Not words I expected to type, but between Trump's clarion call that he wants to block funds for the USPS to thwart voting by mail, and revelations of the Postmaster General's sever3.6×07.3k2.3k39
57Jun 18, '18We're watching Nielsen's credibility self-destruct before our eyes. It is what happens when you agree to defend the seemingly indefensible on the basis of falsehoods and lies.3.3×07.2k1.8k3
58Jun 16, '25UPDATE: The Los Angeles Press Club has filed suit against the city of Los Angeles and LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell in the Central District of California's federal courts over its actio3.3×143k4.6k1.4k142
59Aug 1, '17My full look at Fox's baseless Seth Rich story - and why a Fox contributor alleges it was designed to protect Trump3.3×04.2k2.9k1
60Dec 2, '22Journalism twitter is rough today. Serious cuts at NPR... threat of walkout at NYT... and people announcing their own layoffs at CNN and Gannett. Be good to yourselves and each oth3.3×03k50469
61Nov 19, '20For those taking the press conference live: If you're in the news business, it's malpractice to carry Giuliani's press conference live at length without any cut ins to note the myr3.2×04.9k76515
62Aug 22, '19Here's my story on how the media fell short on covering Epstein, with case studies on Vanity Fair, ABC & the NYT. It's a story of society ties, fears of legal threats, and work3.2×04.8k2.2k502
63Oct 22, '19NEWS: Astros assistant GM Brandon Taubman was targeting a female reporter wearing a purple bracelet on domestic violence. She has tweeted frequently on DV; he complained about her 3.1×04.1k1.9k123
64Nov 11, '24Ok folks! I’m now also over on the place where the skies are blue Same handle as ever Still here and on 🧵 s Come say hi 👋🏼2.9×123k2412816
65Jan 1, '22Group that claims to be outraged about cancel culture literally offers training to college students on how to egg on (edge on?) profs to get them to say things to surreptitiously r2.7×04.9k1.5k271
66Apr 17, '18FOX NEWS statement on Hannity: "While FOX News was unaware of Sean Hannity's informal relationship with Michael Cohen and was surprised by the announcement in court yesterday, we h2.7×02.4k1.2k8
67Oct 13, '25NPR joins NYT, CNN, WaPo, WSJ and Newsmax in rejecting Pentagon press policy NPR Editor in chief Tommy Evans: "NPR will never be party to limitations on the independence of the pre2.7×117k3.5k87586
68Apr 30, '25News: U. S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth orders USAGM and Kari Lake to release $8.7M for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s April operations, finding agency’s promises to neg2.6×114k3.9k935100
72Mar 5, '21First on NPR: Trump’s CEO at parent agency of Voice of America paid a law firm millions in taxpayer dollars to investigate his own executives.2.2×03.1k1.7k88
73Nov 24, '20NEWS: Fox News reaches settlement with Seth Rich's parents over May 2017 story baselessly alleging he had leaked 1000s of DNC emails to Wikileaks during the 2016 campaign. Fox also2.1×04.4k1.1k112
74Apr 26, '21“While the pandemic continues, Moderna will not enforce our COVID-19 related patents against those making vaccines intended to combat the pandemic. Further, we are also willing to 2.1×04.2k1.2k43
75Sep 6, '22NEWS: Shortly after the 2020 election, a Fox News producer begged colleagues not to let Jeanine Pirro back on the air. She was spouting election fraud conspiracies pulled from the 2.1×03.7k1.3k154
76Oct 17, '20Fb/Twitter’s handling of that NYPost story on the Bidens aside, why has the press shied away? Why wouldn’t it? Littered w red and yellow flags- piece was based on presumptions, wri2.0×03k1.1k139
78Nov 23, '18Murdochs’ Fox will pay $7M over this yr and next to Trump’s White House Comms director and deputy chief of staff - Ex Fox News pres Bill Shine. (He left Fox 1.5 yrs ago.) Naturally2.0×02.2k2k24
79Sep 27, '18Fox's Chris Wallace: "This is a disaster for the Republicans."1.7×03.8k8983
80Jan 22, '21Demoted VOA reporter Patsy Widakuswara (@pwidakuswara) is back on White House beat, as of today. She was reassigned last week after asking pointed Qs to Pompeo and the then VOA dir1.6×04.1k63913
81Jan 21, '21UPDATE: President Biden names senior VOA news executive Keli Chao as acting CEO over its parent agency, the US Agency for Global Media. Chao had been named whistleblower in lawsuit1.6×03.4k84135
83Jan 26, '20More Pompeo: I reviewed emails between @NPRKelly & a top aide at State. Kelly did say Iran would be main focus but flagged she’d ask about Ukraine too. Kelly asked 11 substanti1.5×03.4k77922
84Oct 2, '20The power of reporting. Hicks' condition revealed by press, not administration - which forced Trump's hand. (take a bow, @JenniferJJacobs @josh_wingrove )1.4×03.2k75921
85Jun 28, '20The WH now says Trump “did not hear the one statement” meaning “white power.” It’s literally repeated three times by 2 men in the first 12 seconds of the video. The WH did not cond1.4×02.6k79618
86Aug 1, '17My story about Fox's baseless Seth Rich story - and allegation it was devised to distract from Trump crises1.4×02k1.1k0
87Nov 11, '20“To my knowledge at present, no”1.4×03.1k65048
88Jan 9, '21Michael Pack, Trump's pick over the parent agency of Voice of America, is newly accused of breaking tax laws for nonprofits, misuse of office, propaganda.... It's been quite a week1.4×02.4k89861
89Aug 10, '21Fox News’s ⁦@JaniceDean⁩ - driven by grief and outrage over the deaths of her in-laws at a NYC nursing home - was relentless over his false claims over Covid deaths at such places 1.4×03.5k44217
90Oct 2, '20Airlifting Trump to a military hospital for coronavirus, keeping him there for *several days,* giving him experimental antibody cocktails- these are sobering times. The WH needs to1.3×03.2k50512
91Aug 12, '22There is *always* an Onion headline1.3×02.7k73151
92Apr 24, '20What should happen is that news organizations should no longer carry this president’s remarks live. They can be taped, checked, covered and contextualized soon enough after.1.3×02.6k6146
93Jan 12, '21NEWS: Major public radio stations in Los Angeles, DC, Chicago, Seattle, Dallas, Pittsburgh etc send joint protest to NYT in fallout over collapse of "Caliphate" series. They cite "1.2×02.4k505196
94Jan 23, '21Breaking NEWS: Acting USAGM CEO Kelu Chao has fired the presidents of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia & the Middle East Broadcasting Networks, as of 6pm. RFE's1.2×02.2k69539
95Jul 14, '20Tucker Carlson announces at end he’s trout fishing and will be away for next four days! He says trip was long planned All Fox hosts say that when they’re suspended or execs want th1.2×02.7k44614
97Feb 17, '21Many on the right are honoring Limbaugh today - Trump, Glenn Beck and many many others The exec director of the Peabody awards, among the highest honors in broadcast journalism, of1.1×02.1k74550
98Nov 21, '20BREAKING: US judge Beryl Howell bars USAGM CEO Michael Pack and his team from investigating or interfering with journalists at Voice of America & sister networks - a significan1.1×02k65556
99Jul 27, '20Tapper is one of one of the best interviewers in TV news because he actually listens to what people say. And, in this case, what they don’t say - the politician and journalists ali1.0×02.3k44240
100Nov 6, '20Bret Baier to GOP chair McDaniel: "The transparency and watching the ballots is different than finding fraud that narrows the gap.... There's all kinds of stuff flying on the inter0.9×02.5k25615
101Jan 14, '21Welcome news for Seth Rich's family & anyone who values truth and decency. Ed Butowsky sued me for $60M for reporting on his role in a discredited Fox News story about Rich. He0.9×02.2k38223

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