How Lost Radar and Silent Radios Have Upended Newark Air Travel

How Lost Radar and Silent Radios Have Upended Newark Air Travel

On a recent afternoon in Philadelphia, an air traffic controller began shouting that he had lost his radar feed for planes flying in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport. Some of his colleagues still had radar but their radios went dead, prompting frantic calls to their counterparts in New …

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Richard Carlson, Journalist Who Led Voice of America, Dies at 84

Richard Carlson, Journalist Who Led Voice of America, Dies at 84

Richard Carlson, who won a Peabody Award for his investigative television reports about an automobile company’s brazen fraud — during which he also outed the company’s founder as a transgender woman — and who later ran Voice of America during the last years of the Cold War, died on March …

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PBS and NPR Prepare for Showdown With Congress

PBS and NPR Prepare for Showdown With Congress

PBS is practicing answers with lawyers. NPR executives are preparing to monitor the fallout. Members of Congress are promoting the star witnesses — the leaders of the two public media networks — as if they were combatants in a prizefight. They’re all getting ready for a hearing on Wednesday — …

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Trump Did What Castros Couldn’t: Take Radio Martí Off the Air

Trump Did What Castros Couldn’t: Take Radio Martí Off the Air

Journalists from Radio Martí, the U.S. federally-funded news outlet aimed at communist Cuba, were in the middle of interviewing a Cuban activist in Miami on a recent Saturday when bleak looks suddenly came over their faces. The 40-year-old news agency, designed to send uncensored news in Spanish into Cuba, had …

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