How Far Will the Army Go?
The KCNC-TV Investigation Team’s startling news story How Far Will the Army Go? began when David McSwane, a 17-year-old honor student and reporter for his high school paper, contacted them…
Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!
It would be entirely in keeping with the mischievous spirit of Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me to refer to it as something like “Washington Week in Rebuke,” but the public-radio series…
Design Squad
Design Squad is a true delight—educational television in the best sense of the term. This series, directed at viewers ages 12 to 17, works because it recognizes and appreciates the…
Southland
Southland is grounded in one of television’s most familiar and traditional forms, yet in each episode it shatters the traditions and startles with the unfamiliar. It’s not enough to say…
The Case for School Desegregation Today
This American Life tapped reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones, now at the New York Times, to help tell three radio stories that make an important point: School desegregation, however unpopular politically, can…
The Good Place
Michael Schur’s fantasy-comedy about the afterlife refuses to follow the formulas of broadcast network sitcoms, constantly moving into unexpected territory and renegotiating its format before our eyes. After the series…
$2 Tests: Bad Arrests
Reporter Randy Travis delves into the reliability of drug-testing kits, known as “$2 Tests,” used by police in metro Atlanta as a quick, cheap way to analyze suspicious substances in…
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 reminds us of a time before SpaceX when America celebrated scientific accomplishment, when engineers, test pilots, human “computers,” and government agencies collaborated to pull something off that had…
Terror on Tape
It is one thing to imagine the processes of planning for terrorist tactics. It is quite another to see the process. In Terror on Tape, CNN Reporter Nic Robertson presents…
The Eddie Files
In the past year, policy makers and programmers have turned increasing attention to children’s television. As the debate rages about mandates for achieving a higher quantity and quality of programming…