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NPR - Washingtonian https://dev.w-cm.com The website that Washington lives by. Wed, 12 Apr 2023 14:03:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 https://dev.w-cm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png NPR - Washingtonian https://dev.w-cm.com 32 32 NPR Has Left Twitter https://dev.w-cm.com/2023/04/12/npr-has-left-twitter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=npr-has-left-twitter Wed, 12 Apr 2023 13:17:35 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1632539 NPR’s accounts will no longer be active on Twitter, NPR President John Lansing told staffers Wednesday via a memo obtained by Washingtonian. Under owner Elon Musk, Twitter “is taking actions that undermine our credibility by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent,” Lansing writes. The network will no longer place “our journalism on platforms […]

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How NPR’s “Latino Newsroom” Plans to Provide Bilingual Coverage of the State of the Union https://dev.w-cm.com/2023/02/06/npr-bilingual-coverage-state-of-the-union-sotu/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=npr-bilingual-coverage-state-of-the-union-sotu Mon, 06 Feb 2023 18:12:56 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1622682 Depending on how and where you listen, NPR’s coverage of Tuesday’s State of the Union speech may sound a little different than before. All Things Considered host Ari Shapiro will anchor the network’s traditional coverage alongside journalists including Mara Liasson, Scott Detrow, Michele Kelemen, and Scott Horsley. And for the first time, a bilingual Spanish-English broadcast will […]

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https://dev.w-cm.com/2022/11/23/nprs-new-food-series-explores-the-stories-behind-listeners-family-recipes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nprs-new-food-series-explores-the-stories-behind-listeners-family-recipes Wed, 23 Nov 2022 18:11:14 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1610106 There’s a reason we spend hours elbow deep in pots and pans every holiday season. Yes, the food is delicious, but more enduring than any casserole are the memories of cooking with friends and family. It’s those moments, rather than the recipes themselves, that NPR is highlighting in new food series All Things We’re Cooking.  In February, […]

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Leila Fadel Is the Newest Host of Morning Edition and Up First https://dev.w-cm.com/2021/12/28/leila-fadel-is-the-newest-host-of-morning-edition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=leila-fadel-is-the-newest-host-of-morning-edition Tue, 28 Dec 2021 17:30:23 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1562539 Leila Fadel will become the newest host of NPR’s flagship AM news show Morning Edition, the public media network announced Tuesday. She’ll also be a host of Up First, NPR’s daily news podcast. Fadel most recently covered race and identity as a national correspondent based in Los Angeles; she’ll move to DC for this job. Fadel […]

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The National Book Festival Kicks Off in DC on Friday https://dev.w-cm.com/2021/09/16/the-national-book-festival-kicks-off-in-dc-on-friday/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-national-book-festival-kicks-off-in-dc-on-friday Thu, 16 Sep 2021 20:14:14 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1548917 The Library of Congress’ National Book Festival is back Friday, September 17 for a 10-day run filled with author discussions, interactive presentations, and a PBS special hosted by LeVar Burton. This year’s festival theme is “Open a Book, Open the World.”  There are over 100 authors on the roster, with several big names, including Roxane Gay, […]

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The Washington Post Got Shut Out at This Year’s Pulitzers https://dev.w-cm.com/2021/06/11/the-washington-post-got-shut-out-at-this-years-pulitzers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-washington-post-got-shut-out-at-this-years-pulitzers Fri, 11 Jun 2021 18:42:14 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1535844 For the first time in years, the Washington Post came up empty on Pulitzer day this year. Though the Post was a finalist in two categories, it came away with no wins in the  2021 Pulitzer Prizes , announced today. That represents the only time in the tenure of now-departed editor Martin Baron that the paper didn’t score […]

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Watch 50 Amazing Tiny Desk Concerts Picked by NPR Staffers https://dev.w-cm.com/2021/06/01/npr-staff-favorite-tiny-desk-concerts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=npr-staff-favorite-tiny-desk-concerts Tue, 01 Jun 2021 15:12:41 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1533748 There have been more than 900 Tiny Desk Concerts since 2008, and until the pandemic, most of them were filmed in NPR’s headquarters, which artists visit to wedge a set in between workers’ cubicles. The most popular of all time, by video views? Anderson .Paak and the Free Nationals’ August 2016 set, with 68 million […]

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BTS Fans Are Donating to Public Radio Stations https://dev.w-cm.com/2020/09/22/bts-fans-are-donating-to-public-radio-stations/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bts-fans-are-donating-to-public-radio-stations Tue, 22 Sep 2020 21:00:23 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1279724 BTS’s Tiny Desk concert for NPR set a record for online viewership Monday. Later that day, Gabe Rosenberg, the digital news editor for Columbus, Ohio, NPR affiliate WOSU, encouraged the K-pop band’s fans to donate to public radio stations to say thanks. PS, if you want to support @NPR, you can do that by giving […]

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BTS’s Tiny Desk Concert Broke Billie Eilish’s Record in Minutes https://dev.w-cm.com/2020/09/21/btss-tiny-desk-concert-broke-billie-eilishs-record-in-minutes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=btss-tiny-desk-concert-broke-billie-eilishs-record-in-minutes Mon, 21 Sep 2020 17:28:18 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1276517 The K-pop group BTS’s Tiny Desk Concert on NPR blasted through the series’ previous viewership record in about 20 minutes, an NPR spokesperson tells Washingtonian. ?? Billie Eilish previously held the first-day record for views, with 782,000 on the first day of her session. BTS had 700,000 views in the first 15 minutes the concert […]

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1A’s New Host Wants to Ask America What America Should Be https://dev.w-cm.com/2020/06/25/1as-new-host-wants-to-ask-america-what-america-should-be/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=1as-new-host-wants-to-ask-america-what-america-should-be Thu, 25 Jun 2020 18:27:23 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1160857 WAMU and NPR announced this past May that Chicago radio host Jenn White will take over WAMU’s nationally distributed talk show 1A. On July 6, she’ll fill the spot vacated by Joshua Johnson, the program’s inaugural host who left for MSNBC last year. We spoke to the Detroit native to find out what she plans to do with […]

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