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Originally published on December 11, 2020 1:10 pm
NPR assembled a team of journalists in 2013 to plow new ground at the intersection of race and culture. In 2016, the
Code Switch team launched a podcast. Last week, Apple named the show
the podcast of 2020.
Rightly so. Perhaps no other news team was better prepared to address all three of the year s biggest stories: the fourth year of President Donald Trump s term in office, a global pandemic that disproportionately kills people of color and the global response to George Floyd s tragic death on video under the knee of a policeman.
What transpired at
Code Switch between its birth and this appalling year is a lesson in how innovation happens at NPR. It s not a fairy tale. But it is unique to public media. I m fairly certain that