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Ten years ago, NPR dropped the first episode of Code Switch Original

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By Kelly McBride 
| NPR
It's one of the last podcasts about race still standing A decade ago, NPR released the first episode of the Code Switch podcast. The episode's title: "Can we talk about whiteness?" It was May 2016, which can be described as the Obama moment or maybe more aptly, the Hamilton moment. It was becoming widely known that the demographics of the United States were (and still are) rapidly changing, that white people would some day soon make up less than 50% of the population.
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After COVID, audiences demand less panic, more practical information from Ebola coverage

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By Kelly McBride 
| Poynter Online
After working on the front lines of public health for 20-plus years, through several waves of Ebola crises and COVID-19, Alfayo Wamburi knows a thing or two about how people understand infectious disease outbreaks. And after all that time, he says he’s noticed journalists still tend to make the same mistakes. “Over and over we have used fear techniques to drive our communication,” said Wamburi, a Ph.D. behavioral specialist working for the Johns Hopkins  Center for Communications based in Kenya.
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How important is terrorism in a story about a Lebanese music icon? Original

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By Kelly McBride 
| NPR
A listener objects when Israel's perspective is left out of the story One constant criticism in my inbox is that NPR is unfair to Israel. Listeners and readers often point out that stories about the Middle East don't always include Israel's point of view, even when Israel plays a role. I often ask these letter writers to join me on a Zoom call so that we can listen to news stories together and they can further explain how they receive NPR's reporting.
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