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As immigration stories evolve, so does the language we use to talk about them

NPR | By Vincent Acovino,

Tony Cavin, Mary Louise Kelly

Published January 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM CST

NPR recently changed how reporters talk about immigration on air and in pieces for the website. Managing Editor Tony Cavin talks us through some of this guidance.

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Vincent Acovino

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Tony Cavin

Tony Cavin is NPR's Managing Editor for Standards and Practices.

Mary Louise Kelly

Mary Louise Kelly is a host of All Things Considered, NPR's flagship afternoon newsmagazine. She is also the host of NPR's national security podcast, Sources & Methods.

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Flock Safety alternatives: new names, same surveillance

Jaclyn Diaz

Strong public backlash has lead dozens of cities to cancel their contracts with Flock Safety, which makes license plate readers for police departments. But what are the alternatives to Flock?
A NASA telescope is slowly plummeting to earth and there's no way to save it

Danielle Kurtzleben , Henry Larson, Tinbete Ermyas

NASA's Swift Observatory has orbited the Earth since 2004. It's now falling towards earth, and after a failed mission to save it, NASA is leaving the doomed telescope to its fate.
What if adults talked like kids?

Danielle Kurtzleben , Henry Larson, Michael Levitt

Comedian Alyce Chan explores the hilarity of parenthood in her MOM-COM NYC on Instagram. Her video series about the blunt and innocent way children ask questions has gone viral.
Climate change is unearthing archaeological discoveries, while also threatening them

Danielle Kurtzleben , Henry Larson, Michael Levitt

NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben speaks with Jørgen Hollesen, a Senior Researcher at the National Museum of Denmark, about how climate change is impacting the study of archaeology.
How movies have explored manhood... For better and worse

Danielle Kurtzleben , Elena Moore, Marc Rivers

Movies have been exploring what it means to be a man almost as long as there have been movies. But where is the line between critiquing or lionizing the dominant ideas of manhood?