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3:06 pm
Fri April 12, 2013

Great Long-Form Journalism, Just Clicks Away

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As newspapers around the country struggle with declining subscription rates and smaller staffs, passionate, long-form digital storytelling is creating new ways of delivering richly detailed reporting.
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Jacqui Banaszynski, once a Pulitzer Prize-winning print reporter and editor at some of the country's most significant newspapers, says she is pleased by the growth of Web-based narrative journalism.
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Originally published on Mon April 15, 2013 10:12 am

In the age of hundreds of cable channels, millions of 140-character bulletins and an untold number of cat videos, a fear has been growing among journalists and readers that long-form storytelling may be getting lost.

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The Picture Show
2:30 pm
Fri April 12, 2013

Trains, Punks, Pictures And Books You Maybe Shouldn't Read

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Photos from the book A Period Of Juvenile Prosperity
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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
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Photos from the book A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
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Originally published on Fri April 12, 2013 4:20 pm

Mike Brodie's life, when narrated by an outsider, seems a lot like free association — where one thing leads to the next, leads to the next, etc.

Before he discovered trains, Brodie was bagging groceries in Pensacola, Fla., and really into BMX. Then he met a girl. She worked at the Chinese restaurant in the same strip mall and, he says, "she was like a punk rocker."

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The Two-Way
12:48 pm
Fri April 12, 2013

Funny Man Jonathan Winters Dies

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Jonathan Winters on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1969.
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Originally published on Fri April 12, 2013 4:20 pm

Jonathan Winters, known to one generation for his 1960s comedy albums, frequent Tonight Show with Johnny Carson appearances and comic movie characters, and to another generation as Robin Williams' baby on Mork & Mindy, has died. The news is coming from The Associated Press, TMZ, the NPR Arts Desk and other news outlets.

Winters was 87. TMZ says he died Thursday night "of natural causes in Montecito, Calif. ... surrounded by friends and family.

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Music Interviews
10:48 am
Fri April 12, 2013

Dale Watson: A Honky-Tonk Man With An Outlaw Spirit

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Dale Watson (second from left) and His Lonestars. Their new album is titled El Rancho Azul.
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Originally published on Sat April 20, 2013 10:34 pm

Honky-tonk veteran Dale Watson has an impressive white pompadour and arms that tell his story: flag tattoos of Alabama, where he was born, and Texas, where he lives. Musical notes circle his biceps. And he has an inked portrait of his first musical inspiration — his late father, a truck driver and sometime country singer who passed on to Dale his love of traditional country, from Hank Williams to Lefty Frizzell.

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5:07 pm
Thu April 11, 2013

Report: North Korea May Be Able To Deliver Nuclear Weapons

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It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, from NPR News. I'm Audie Cornish.

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And I'm Melissa Block. A stunning revelation today from a member of Congress. It came from Republican Doug Lamborn, of Colorado, during an exchange on Capitol Hill with Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Lamborn cited a Defense Intelligence Agency report on North Korea's military capability, one that had not yet been released. Here's what Rep. Lamborn said.

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