David Folkenflik appears in the following:
Seth Rich's killing was exploited on Fox News and online. His parents are fed up
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Seth Rich's killing brought incalculable loss to Joel and Mary Rich. Baseless conspiracy theories on Fox News made it even worse. They're speaking out for the first time since settling with Fox.
Fired Fox News politics editor: Trump's ire at election night call led to 'panic'
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
In an interview with NPR, former Fox News politics editor Chris Stirewalt says that network should have been proud of being first to project that Joe Biden would win Arizona.
Conflict flared at Fox News after Biden's victory in 2020, former Fox editor says
Monday, June 13, 2022
A former Fox News political editor explains how the channel called Arizona for Biden during the 2020 election, and how that enraged former President Trump and controversy erupted within Fox.
Major broadcasters aired the Jan. 6 committee hearings live. Fox News did not
Saturday, June 11, 2022
We look at how Fox News covered the first of the Jan. 6 committee hearings, which it did not air live. The network chose to air it on its business channel, the Fox Business Network, instead.
Only one major cable news channel did not carry the Jan. 6 hearing live: Fox News
Friday, June 10, 2022
Airing the hearing would have required Fox to broadcast flat contradictions of what its personalities have told their audience in the past year and a half: that the riot was a mere legal protest.
Russia threatens to kick out U.S. journalists unless U.S. treats Russian media better
Thursday, June 09, 2022
Russia is warning foreign journalists that they could lose the right to stay unless the situation of Russian journalists in the U.S. improves.
A former TV news executive is producing the Jan. 6 hearings
Wednesday, June 08, 2022
The Congressional hearings on the Jan. 6 insurrection are being staged for TV consumption very differently than in the past — and most networks are taking them live. Fox News is the exception.
The New York Times' new editor will run its biggest newsroom ever — and most outspoken
Wednesday, June 08, 2022
Joe Kahn becomes The New York Times' executive editor next week. All he has to do is replace a legend and corral an often-contentious newsroom of more than 1,700 journalists.
Under his watch, Kahn says 'Times' will raise conduct standards for journalists
Thursday, June 02, 2022
Joe Kahn, the incoming executive editor at The New York Times, is replacing a newspaper legend — while facing challenges to traditional hierarchies from a younger generation of journalists.
How the media can cover mass shootings while respecting space for grief
Friday, May 27, 2022
With tragic events like mass shootings, how do journalists balance the need to hold those in power accountable and to tell the stories of those directly impacted, while respecting space for grief?
What the shooting in Buffalo has to do with Fox News host Tucker Carlson
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
The man accused of murdering 10 people in Buffalo said he'd been radicalized by a racist conspiracy theory, No one in a position of prominence has done more to promote that theory than Tucker Carlson.
'The New York Times' can't shake the cloud over a 90-year-old Pulitzer Prize
Sunday, May 08, 2022
In 1932, The New York Times' Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer for stories defending Soviet policies that led to the deaths of millions of Ukrainians. The Times disavows his work but not the prize.
The 'Roe v. Wade' leak has drawn attention to how journalists cover the Supreme Court
Tuesday, May 03, 2022
The leak of a draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade throws into sharp relief the cloistered existence of the U.S. Supreme Court — and tensions with journalists who seek to pierce that veil.
How Elon Musk's Bid to Buy Twitter Could Affect How We Use the Platform
Thursday, April 28, 2022
NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik joins us to discuss Twitter: how it impacts our discourse, why so many journalists use it, and how new ownership could change this.
More details emerge in federal investigation into Hunter Biden
Saturday, April 09, 2022
In 2020, much of the mainstream media dismissed a story about Hunter Biden's business dealings. Now emails supporting the story have been authenticated. Was the media too deferential to the Bidens?
Reporters at CBS and NBC are divided over new political pundits
Thursday, April 07, 2022
At CBS and NBC, journalists are vexed over moves to hire senior aides to President Biden and former President Trump, even though such hires are part of a tradition stretching back at least 50 years.
Jen Psaki leaving the White House for MSNBC this spring
Friday, April 01, 2022
The Biden press secretary will serve as a pundit and host a show on the network's streaming platform. She's the second administration official joining MSNBC and faced ethics questions from reporters.
How tensions between the police and media boiled over one chaotic night in LA
Thursday, March 31, 2022
The LAPD detained at least 16 journalists covering a protest in March 2021, a low point in a year of increasing mistrust and hostilities between police departments and the media.
From kid gloves to rubber bullets: How the LAPD's ties to news media unraveled
Thursday, March 31, 2022
Decades of tensions between police and journalists in Los Angeles led to a night of chaos last year in which officers detained at least 16 journalists covering a protest at the city's Echo Park.
A year ago tensions between the press and police erupted in Los Angeles
Friday, March 25, 2022
At a homeless encampment, police cracked down on protesters and journalists. Press advocates say that night of chaos was the capstone on tensions that had been building for years.
