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My first exposure to football writing of any substance came when I started to leaf through my dad’s copy of The Oatcake on Stoke City match days. As a devoted Match Magazine and club programme reader, The Oatcake – then a no-frills, black and white effort – initially seemed to have little to offer me…

The Rev. Robert Wright Lee, a relative of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, resigned on Monday as pastor from a North Carolina church. Above, Lee speaks at the MTV Video Music Awards in August. Matt Sayles/Invision/AP hide caption toggle caption Matt Sayles/Invision/AP The Rev. Robert Wright Lee, a relative of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee,…

The Rough Translation podcast explores how ideas we wrestle with in the U.S. are being discussed in the rest of the world. Cornelia Li for NPR hide caption toggle caption Cornelia Li for NPR The Rough Translation podcast explores how ideas we wrestle with in the U.S. are being discussed in the rest of the…

Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah went to South Carolina to write about the trial of Dylann Roof. He’s the white man convicted of murdering eight black parishioners and their pastor at Charleston’s historic Mother Emmanuel AME church. She was planning to write about the people who died, but instead found herself writing about Roof. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:…

There have always been stories that Frontline wants to tell that, for one reason or another, didn’t work for film. In some cases, these stories are particularly sensitive, or involve people under 18. There is, for instance, Heather, who was 14 when her father took her from their home in Idaho to Missouri to marry…

Editor’s note: Hot Pod is a weekly newsletter on the podcasting industry written by Nick Quah; we happily share it with Nieman Lab readers each Tuesday. Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 135, published September 5, 2017. Programming note! Ah yes, so we are in September! As you might already…