Laurel Wamsley
Laurel Wamsley is a reporter for NPR s News Desk. She reports breaking news for NPR s digital coverage, newscasts, and news magazines, as well as occasional features. She was also the lead reporter for NPR s coverage of the 2019 Women s World Cup in France.
Wamsley got her start at NPR as an intern for
Weekend Edition Saturday in January 2007 and stayed on as a production assistant for NPR s flagship news programs, before joining the Washington Desk for the 2008 election.
She then left NPR, doing freelance writing and editing in Austin, Texas, and then working in various marketing roles for technology companies in Austin and Chicago.
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Source: University of Otago
Complex yet critical discussions to be had at conference â Wednesday, 10 March 2021 â A conference organised by the the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies will focus on social media.
From hate speech to terrorism, regulation to misinformation, social mediaâs impact on democracy will take centre stage at a University of Otago conference this month.
New Ec(h)o Systems: Democracy in the Age of Social Media, organised by the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, will feature some of the worldâs leading voices involved in social media regulation, disinformation, hate speech, journalism, countering violent extremism and related domains.
More People Urged to Get Screened for Lung Cancer
March 9, 2021 – More long-term cigarette smokers are urged to get lung cancer screening under new guidelines released by the U.S. US Preventive Services Task Force .
The new recommendations are that anyone age 50 and older who have smoked for at least 20 years should be screened each year. The previous guidelines were for those over 55 who had 30 years smoking. This is great news because it means that nearly twice as many people are eligible to be screened, which we hope will allow clinicians to save more lives and help people remain healthy longer, said John Wong, MD, chief science officer, vice chair for clinical affairs, and chief of the Division of Clinical Decision Making at the Task Force.
Roger Mudd, a probing TV journalist and network news anchor, dies at 93
Matt Schudel, The Washington Post
March 9, 2021
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Roger Mudd, a longtime CBS News political correspondent who reported on the Pentagon s profligate spending, whose interview with Ted Kennedy ended the senator s White House prospects and who briefly shared the anchor job at his onetime rival, NBC News, died March 9 at his home in McLean, Va. He was 93.
The cause was complications from kidney failure, said a son, Jonathan Mudd.
Mudd spent almost 20 years covering Capitol Hill, political campaigns and corruption scandals for CBS News. He did special reports on the Watergate scandal and its fallout, including the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.