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National Geographic was ahead of the curve. While it took last summer’s uprisings after the police killing of George Floyd for many media outlets to address bias in their reporting and newsroom culture, the magazine announced its own racial reckoning in 2018. That year it dedicated its April issue to the topic of race, and Susan Goldberg — the first woman to be the magazine’s editor-in-chief — publicly acknowledged the publication’s long history of racism in its coverage of people of color in the US and abroad. “Until the 1970s National Geographic all but ignored people of color...

(Welcome to  The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.) The Podcast:  Where You Can Stream It: Wherever you get your podcasts (or right here) The Pitch: We all know how frustrating it can be to have a lyric or a melody from a song stuck in our heads when we don’t know what the full song is. But usually it doesn’t take much to figure it: there are apps that can help identify melodies, and most of the time a search for the lyric will find the answer. But in this episode, filmmaker

(Welcome to  The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.) The Series: Where You Can Stream It: Hulu The Pitch: While working on a weed farm in Northern California in the early 1990s, David Holthouse witnessed a fellow employee tell an unbelievable story: according to the guy, multiple people on the farm where they worked had been ripped limb from limb, and Bigfoot was to blame. Decades later, Holthouse (now an investigative journalist) sets out to get to the bottom of that story and find o...

Bill to make Open Streets permanent passes City Council The city’s popular Open Streets program is one step closer to becoming permanent. In a 39-8 vote, the City Council on Thursday passed a bill to make the program a permanent part of New York City, even after the end of the pandemic. The legislation is now headed to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s desk, where it’s expected to be signed into law. Under the bill, Open Streets will be overseen by the Department of Transportation or local community organizations, who can apply to manage the programs in their neighborhoods. Roadways included in O...

Print After a two-month hiatus, on a new episode of the podcast “Reply All,” hosts Emmanuel Dzotsi and Alex Goldman discussed at length the controversy at Gimlet Media sparked by the podcast’s scrapped miniseries, “The Test Kitchen.” Released Thursday, the latest episode began with Dzotsi explaining a “pretty short and pretty direct” voice memo he received on Feb. 16 from a friend: “None of this is your problem to fix... Stay the f— out of it.” That problem was a scandal involving a miniseries that was scheduled to span four episodes. While uncovering how food magazine Bo...