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We are so incredibly thrilled to receive this honor.

Working on this project was one of the highlights of my career and I could not be more grateful to @ire.org and my entire team.

Thank you to all my colleagues at @thebaltimorebanner.com and all of our readers and supporters.

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Summer reading! College players aren’t the only ones cashing in on #NIL deals — so are high school athletes. Check out our series on Name, Image and Likeness and its impact on high school sports.

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Blink and you’ll miss it — snapshots of our time in London 📸

#PovichLondon

Hanukkah is a modest holiday.

But I value it

I tell my kids light offers hope amid discouragement

and illuminates possible paths when the way seems obscured

All the more important after a heartbreaking weekend

the lights offer the possibility of light in days ahead

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

How, indeed: 'How will the American people find out what is being done at the Pentagon in their name, with their hard-earned tax dollars, and more importantly, the decisions that may put their sons and daughters in harm's way?' www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

I walked out of the @baltimoresun.bsky.social newsroom 28 years ago. But you never really walk out of a newsroom. #SunSportsReunion H/T #MollyDunham #StanRappaport

I once got to interview Robert Redford and nearly died of hyperventilation. At one point my notes just trailed off 〰️〰️〰️

Meet The Banner Montgomery newsroom For the past two months, we have been putting together a team of journalists who can cover the issues that matter most to residents.

Meet The Banner Montgomery newsroom buff.ly/nDRBXpG

American Soccer Abroad - Promo YouTube video by Nathaniel Scott Stevens

Soccer is a global sport. Its center of gravity is arguably the UK and the Premier League.

Join the Povich Center in January 2026 as we explore the expanding role of Americans in the sport in the UK and around the world in the run up to World Cup ‘26.

Apply here:
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Real policy impact. A @thebaltimorebanner.com must-read.

Baltimore's fledgling answer to the decline of independent American journalism -- the online non-profit daily known as the Baltimore Banner -- has just been awarded its first Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the city's overdose crisis. Subscribe now. Great cities have great metro dailies.

Baltimore Banner wins Pulitzer Prize for coverage of overdose crisis The Baltimore Banner was awarded the Pulitzer Prize on Monday for groundbreaking local journalism that exposed Baltimore as the deadliest large city in the nation for drug overdoses.

Baltimore Banner wins Pulitzer Prize for coverage of overdose crisis

Baltimore Banner wins Pulitzer Prize for coverage of overdose crisis The Baltimore Banner was awarded the Pulitzer Prize on Monday for groundbreaking local journalism that exposed Baltimore as the deadliest large city in the nation for drug overdoses.

We just won a Pulitzer Prize for our coverage of the overdose crisis. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

2025 Poynter Journalism Prizes Winners and Finalists - Poynter In 2024, the Poynter Institute will award The Poynter Journalism Prizes, honoring the best in American journalism. These awards previously were run by the News Leaders Association, which voted to tran...

The Banner team also won The Frank A. Blethen Award for Local Accountability Reporting in the 2025 Poynter Journalism Prizes for its project diving into Baltimore’s Overdose Crisis www.poynter.org/prizes/

Congratulations to reporters Alissa Zhu, Jessica Gallagher, Nick Thieme of @thebaltimorebanner.com and @nytimes.com for winning the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting.

A retrial of Sarah Palin's case against 'New York Times' begins Monday Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has the rare opportunity to retry her defamation case against The New York Times even though she lost it — twice in a 24-hour-period — in early 2022.

As another NYC institution once said, it's déjà vu all over again for The New York Times and former Gov. Sarah Palin.

My piece on the retrial of her defamation suit against the NYT

www.npr.org/2025/04/13/n...

Matt fixed a necklace I’d gotten in Italy years ago and managed to break. It always reminds me of the lovely way the jewelry artist said, ‘my atelier.’

Judge orders White House to allow AP access to news events U.S. Judge Trevor N. McFadden rules the White House cannot deny the Associated Press access to news events because the wire service continues to use "Gulf of Mexico" rather than "Gulf of America".

A federal judge ruled that the Trump White House must admit the AP's journalists to news events - ruling its exclusion was "unlawful."

Almost two hours later, two AP journalists were rejected from the WH pool to cover a Trump speech.

My NPR story:
www.npr.org/2025/04/08/n...

My interest in March Madness has entered the transfer portal

It would seem as though this is a federal expenditure that both reporters and budget reviewers might want to scrutinize

These far-right media figures are getting center stage under Trump The Trump administration has welcomed far-right media figures in the White House briefing room and elsewhere, even as it restricts access for established news outlets.

Far-right media gets center stage at White House even as Trump holds established media at bay

My story with @Tomdreisbach.Bsky.social

www.npr.org/2025/02/20/g...

Not just football

Trump allies smear Baltimore-based Global Refuge's history of humanitarian work Allies of President Donald Trump, including Mike Flynn and Elon Musk, have publicly smeared Baltimore-based Global Refuge and other humanitarian aid organizations.

Once upon a time: 'Every child knew this food was coming from some caring Americans, people who believed that helping those in need was just part of being an American.' baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/trum... by @danrodricks.bsky.social

Super Bowl LIX: Maryland upbringing set stage for Thomas Booker’s NFL success NEW ORLEANS – Growing up, Thomas Booker listened to NPR instead of music on the radio. He and his parents discussed geopolitical issues and the stock market at the dinner table. And he had the body…

Now I have a player to root for. Nicely done by Sam Jane, Povich Center’s reporter at the #Superbowl
@povichcenter.bsky.social
@sam-jane.bsky.social

Update: Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene asks NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS chief Paula Kerger to testify at hearing on public broadcasting, "including its systematically biased content."

Cites Uri Berliner essay in Free Press, Hunter Biden coverage for NPR and PBS segment on Musk salute

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Maher in note to staff: "NPR welcomes opportunities to discuss the critical role of public media in delivering impartial, fact-based news and reporting to the American people."

Trump's FCC chief opens investigation into NPR and PBS Brendan Carr, the new head of the Federal Communications Commission under President Trump, says the public broadcasters are being investigated for allegedly running commercials.

FCC chief Brendan Carr launches inquiry into NPR and PBS stations with an eye to help allies on Capitol hill unravel federal funding for public broadcasting

My story for NPR:

www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...

Will Lewis's first year at 'Washington Post': Cancellations, red ink and an exodus Subscribers and star journalists have fled the Post in its first year under CEO and Publisher Will Lewis. Now staff have signed a petition asking owner Jeff Bezos to intervene.

In Will Lewis's first year at 'Washington Post,' readers and staffers flee

My story for NPR:

www.npr.org/2025/01/15/n...