Kelly McBride

6 days ago | nhpr.org | Kelly McBride

At the Public Editor's Office, we routinely hear from audience members who take issue with NPR headlines. Vocal about their discontent, they let us know when they believe a headline was poorly framed or unfair. Sometimes, a keen-eyed reader will notice that a headline has changed, and ask why. Headlines do a lot of work. They serve as entry points into NPR's journalism on the internet. And they help online search engines match stories to users.

2 weeks ago | npr.org | Kelly McBride

Whenever protests break out across the country, we hear from audience members who are dissatisfied with the coverage. It happened during demonstrations in 2020 after the George Floyd murder. It happened a year ago when college students began protesting Israel's military campaign in Gaza. And since President Donald Trump was sworn in earlier this year, we've been fielding complaints about NPR's coverage of the most recent round of demonstrations.

3 weeks ago | npr.org | Kelly McBride

Interviewers prepare so bias doesn't seep in Good questions are the most basic tools in a reporter's kit. Yet, journalists sometimes go in unprepared. This has consequences. Fair reporting starts with fair questions. There are times when journalists will need to ask hard questions that sources don't want to answer. There are times when journalists might personally disagree with a source's point of view or even know that the source is lying or bending the truth.

4 weeks ago | npr.org | Kelly McBride

An audience member wants to hear from Jews who are concerned about Islamic connections to prejudice Antisemitism comes up often in NPR news stories. Most recently, journalists have been documenting the federal government's efforts to deport legal residents as punishment for their involvement in protests against Israel and in support of Palestinians. Republicans and other observers say the protesters sometimes cross into antisemitic speech as they criticize Israel.

1 month ago | poynter.org | Kelly McBride

Given the move-fast-and-break-things mentality of the second Trump administration, Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg may not be the last journalist accidentally looped into top-secret war plans. While nothing comes close to the jaw-dropping breach that Goldberg wrote about Monday, much lower-stakes breaches have happened in the past, and the ethical playbook is the same. Lawyers have released unredacted documents, rather than redacted versions.