The Newsonomics of This American Life and Mr. Daisey’s Media Blur

The 39-minute Daisey piece did what dozens of previous stories on Foxconn’s massive manufacturing of our Apple (and other) wonders hadn’t accomplished: It captured listeners’ imaginations. Why? Daisey turned our portable pleasures to guilty ones. Then, within two weeks, The New York Times began ...

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Adam Davidson in Haiti

You can see how public media is finally forging long-overdue connections: NPR, Frontline and PBS, and now the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is putting money into local online news. That's a potent combination brewing.

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