EP 5 of the @abcaustralia.bsky.social podcast The Challenger Legacy has some disturbing assessments of risk about the upcoming Artemis II mission, with echoes of Challenger and Columbia. Fiona Pepper and team connect the dots. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

@npr.org Anas Baba shares the 2026 Louis M Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism from the @niemanfoundation.bsky.social Fellows nieman.harvard.edu/the-2026-nie...

From ABC Australia - EP 4 of The Challenger Legacy, with a closer look at the “normalization of deviance,” and its claimed role in the shuttle Challenger and Columbia disasters. Fiona Pepper and team connect the dots. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Oregon Public Broadcasting is one of the crown jewels of public media in the US. This is a shot across its bow.

Please take a media literacy moment and stop posting that the young boy in the Super Bowl halftime show was Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who was detained by ICE. It was a child actor, who posted about it on social media. www.instagram.com/reel/DUhUaQp...

My latest for NPR www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n...

“[Pam Bondi] pretty much slandered all of us,” said Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson. “And to me, that’s problematic to publicly claim that secretaries of state are not doing our jobs and the federal government has to do it for us. Not OK.”

My latest for NPR U.S. enters Winter Olympics with darker image on the world stage www.npr.org/2026/02/05/n...

Ep 3 of @abcaustralia.bsky.social podcast The Challenger Legacy is a gut wrenching look at the 2003 shuttle Columbia disaster & the failures that echo Challenger. From Fiona Pepper & team. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

The Trump admin wont name the agents who killed Alexi Pretti. So we are.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

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Two Alaska school districts are suing the state for what they say is its failure to adequately fund public education. Their suit cites the effects of underfunding, including low test scores, staff reductions and dangerous school conditions. With KYUK Public Media

More on the 40th anniversary of the Challenger disaster, and the failed effort to delay the launch, from me and @kuer.org Radio West radiowest.kuer.org/show/radiowe...

You’re likely hearing about space shuttle O-rings on this 40th anniversary of the Challenger disaster. Nate Carlisle of FOX13 Utah has this little known tidbit. The shuttle O-rings were produced by a company owned, operated & partially staffed by polygamists www.fox13now.com/news/fox-13-...

@abcaustralia.bsky.social has a superb, deeply researched podcast series about the Challenger disaster from reporter Fiona Pepper & team with captivating audio storytelling. Worth a listen. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

From @nhpr.org - A special series remembering teacher-in-space Christa McAuliffe during the 40th anniversary of the Challenger disaster. www.nhpr.org/remembering-...

Looking back 40 yrs ago this week at: the flawed decision to launch Challenger; the resistance to delay; the lingering guilt for some of those involved; & lessons learned that still resonate. NEW from me with @ayesharascoe.bsky.social @npr.org UpFirst/The Sunday Story www.npr.org/2026/01/25/g...

NEW from me and @ayesharascoe.bsky.social @npr.org UpFirst/The Sunday Story: a look back 40 years at the Challenger disaster; the desperate effort to keep Challenger grounded; lingering guilt for some who tried; & lessons learned critical for the space program today www.npr.org/2026/01/25/n...

Dozens of petrochemical plants are being built and expanded in Texas, which could worsen pollution in overburdened neighborhoods and exacerbate climate change. Here are 13 scenes chronicling the newest fossil-fuel infrastructure boom, from @pubhealthwatch.bsky.social ➡️ tinyurl.com/txpetchem 1/15

Via Shalina Chatlani and Stateline: Many left-leaning states and cities and a growing number of conservative lawmakers want to curb the use of surveillance technologies, such as automated license plate readers, that can be used to identify and track people. https://ow.ly/41K950XTpvj

NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.

What went on last year in the world of workplace safety and health? Check it all out here in the 2025 Confined Space Year in Review jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...

20 years ago today. The Sago mine disaster in West Virginia. A botched report of survivors turned euphoria to unbearable grief. @npr.org @franklangfitt.bsky.social was there. www.npr.org/2006/01/04/5...

Blood Work: I Sold My Plasma in America’s Cash-for-Plasma System As more people are caught in the economic squeeze of rising cost of living, many are looking for ways to make extra money. A growing number are turning to selling their blood plasma - an essential ingredient in making many life…

Blood Work: Crossing the Border to Sell Plasma As more people are caught in the economic squeeze of rising cost of living, many are looking for ways to make extra money. A growing number are turning to selling their blood plasma - an essential ingredient in making many life saving medications. In…

The Loosely Regulated Petrochemical Barge Industry is Commandeering a Texas River People who live on the San Jacinto fear chemical releases and explosions from the vessels. It’s unclear who’s policing the buildup.

From federal rulemakers all the way down to Kentucky lawmakers, 2025 was full of regulatory wins for mining companies. Meanwhile, health researchers confirm that deaths from black lung disease are rampant in the mine industry. www.lpm.org/news/2025-12...

My story on the decision of CBS Editor in Chief Bari Weiss to pull a 60 Minutes story on alleged abuses of Venezuelan migrants sent to notorious Salvadoran Center. Updated with this morning's remarks from Weiss: www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...

CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.

Thread: Some thoughts about Rep. Elise Stefanik's departure - for now from the political stage in the US, NY, #ny21 and northern NY. First, I've written for more than a decade about Stefanik's political acumen. If she thinks it's time to jump ship, the GOP should take notice. 1/

Today, we had an all-day bargaining session with @propublica.org management. Unfortunately, they did not bring a counter proposal on AI or agree to any of the guardrails we've proposed.

A few Republicans are concerned that Trump is killing their constituents so coal operators can make a few more bucks. jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...

NEW: Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal 🤔 @justinelliott.bsky.social @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

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Why are so many people sick in a town where the dominant economic and political force is a hospital? @gingerthompson.bsky.social explores the deep contradictions of American healthcare in this magisterial series: projects.propublica.org/albany-georg...

Ski mountaineering will get its moment in the spotlight at the Olympics. Now, it's a question of who from North America will get to share that limelight.

Thank you @franklangfitt.bsky.social for reporting from Indian Country. @npr.org.

Jim Morris is the founder and executive director at Public Health Watch, and he's known Infante and followed his work since the 1990s. In this episode of Petrie Dish, we're sharing Morris's profile of Dr. Infante, The Scientist Who Refused To Be Intimidated. Read More👉 ebx.sh/JptYCk

In rural America, public radio saves lives

NEW from @publichealthwatch.bsky.social and @texaspublicradio.bsky.social A bonus episode of Fumed. The Scientist Who Refused to be Intimidated www.tpr.org/podcast/fume...

News: To settle NPR's lawsuit, CPB revives $36 million deal it killed after Trump’s pressure My story for NPR: www.npr.org/2025/11/17/n...

A surprisingly frank interview from @npr.org Scott Simon with the new head of the United Mine Workers Union. Pitched & produced by WV’s @davemistich.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...

The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels. n.pr/47WGe0m

As villages across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta clean up from remnants of Typhoon Halong, they face another loss. Public radio and television station KYUK has lost federal funding and plans to make cuts in January. My @npr.org story: www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n...

NEW: Across hundreds of Alaskan communities, public schools are often the safest buildings where people can take shelter during disasters. After decades of state neglect, however, some have become emergencies themselves.

Wildfires in the western U.S. have been growing larger in recent years. Volunteer firefighters in Wyoming, like T.J. Gideon, are doing what they can to fight back. n.pr/4oQF4u9

With Medicaid cutbacks on the horizon, millions in the U.S. are expected to go uninsured. In the Mississippi Delta region — one of the poorest places in the U.S. — people are stressed and mad.

The "Industrial Risk: Beyond the Blueprint" podcast with Jowanza Joseph features some of my reporting from Mount St Helens to Coal's Deadly Dust. "How investigative journalism uncovers the human cost of industrial failures." parakeetinc.substack.com/p/episode-8-...

NPR has lost a singular, distinctive radio journalist: Susan Stamberg, who died Thursday. She was the first woman to host a national news broadcast and set the tone, pace, and scope of the network. n.pr/3IR4JUn