418. California City: Secrets of a desert town revealed
Emily Guerin, creator of the California City podcast, tells how a promising desert boomtown became a real estate scam and environmental headache.
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417. Can’t find women who know sports? Try harder
Sports journalist Lindsay Gibbs of Power Plays and Burn It All Down talks about bringing women and non-binary perspectives to covering sports.
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416. The story of America’s most corrupt police squad
Baynard Woods talks about the new book he co-authored exploring an incredibly corrupt special unit within the Baltimore Police Department.
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415. Coronavirus is changing how newsrooms work
Everything about our collective daily lives has changed in the past three months, since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, but some of the ways we’ve adapted to meet this challenge were already in the works. Coronavirus might have just sped up the acceleration in evolving technology and work habits that were inevitable. “COVID has changed…
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414. Will local ownership help Baltimore Sun survive?
Local ownership may be the key to keeping the venerable Baltimore Sun a viable part of its community. Like many other newsrooms, The Sun is facing hard times. Two decades ago, with multiple international bureaus and a large presence just down the highway in Washington, D.C., the paper’s staff numbered in the hundreds. Now it’s…
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413. Long history of bad police responses to protests
Maggie Koerth of FiveThirtyEight and Jamiles Lartey of the Marshall Project discuss how police departments take the wrong approach to dealing with protests.
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