NEW: lawmakers have been trying to force a sale of TikTok from ByteDance or ban it for ~4 years. here's the inside story on how this new bill, set to be signed by Biden, was drafted in secrecy for a year by a tiny group in the House with the DOJ & NSC nytimes.com/2024/04/24/tec…

NPR's audience is shrinking even faster than broadcast radio in general, according to internal documents obtained by Ben Mullin & Jeremy Peters, and a push to diversify the staff hasn't generated the listenership boost some executives had hoped for. nytimes.com/2024/04/24/bus…

The NYT looks at NPR and finds far more systemic concerns than those that have dominated recent weeks

⁦Ben Mullin⁩ & Jeremy Peters nytimes.com/2024/04/24/bus…

Last year, NPR asked an outside law firm to investigate a human resources complaint against its C.E.O., John Lansing, after an employee accused him of 'dog-whistle racism.' Here's what happened:
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NEW: I spent the last 8 months(!) digging into the situation at NPR with my colleague Jeremy Peters. Here's what we found
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Hate Read #22: I hate the media class complaining about class ..... deezlinks.com/p/youre-alread…

Explaining the Chaos at NPR – With Ben Mullin
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'The Lakeside Programmers Group'

Paul Allen and Bill Gates, age 17 and 15.

For years, women complained they were sexually assaulted. Each time, DNA pointed to the same man, who allegedly picked up intoxicated women outside Boston bars. But again and again, police declined to make an arrest and kept the incidents secret. wbur.org/news/2024/04/2…

Hats off to Columbia Daily Spectator, Bwog & Columbia Journalism students reporting for various media for telling the world what is going on @columbia.

Axel Springer's Trump years semafor.com/article/04/21/…

You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

Erik Wemple of the Washington Post finally does what many news organizations should have done when Uri Berliner’s misguided essay about NPR was first published. He researched the allegations and found scant evidence of the broad conclusions Berliner made. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

*turns chair around, sits facing audience* you know who else was a “tortured poet?”

chair of the tortured poets department

The guy who self immolated at the Trump trial was a minor celebrity on r/stupidpol and used to co-host a podcast entirely focused on Laura Dern (it ran for 53 episodes)

Mike Mike Abramowitz named as the new director for Voice of America nytimes.com/2024/04/19/bus…

public radio legend Diane Rehm tried to ask WAMU leadership about the shuttering of DCist and their confusing, inconsistent messaging around it. They muted her microphone during an all staff call and then, when asked about it, pretended not to know what the reporter was talking