Question Everything with Brian Reed

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A KCRW listener weighed in with some criticism on Substack [https://kcrwlrc.substack.com/p/can-press-freedoms-withstand-white]. Brian (our host) got involved. Some advice for journalists ensued. It ended up inspiring an entire segment on KCRW’s show Left, Right & Center [https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/left-right-center], which we’re sharing with you here. This is the kind of action that’s happening over on our new Substack – which you should subscribe to! If you do, we’ll enter you in a lottery to join us at the next taping we do at Bibber & Bell Wine Shop in Brooklyn. We’re getting together reporters there in a couple weeks who are all covering the Jeffrey Epstein story as it has burst back into the news and is threatening Donald Trump. If you want a chance to eavesdrop on the conversation from the storage area in the back with our sound guy – sign up at questioneverything.substack.com [http://questioneverything.substack.com]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

After her NPR show was canceled some years back, producer and host Yowei Shaw gave herself a new title: “Emotional Investigative Journalist.” She started a podcast called Proxy, where she helps people who are facing unique emotional or personal obstacles by connecting them with a proxy who’s uniquely positioned to help them. Our host, Brian, recently went on Proxy, and got help with a problem of his own: something he’s been struggling with involving a member of his family. Here are the caregiving resources from Claudia Drossel [https://open.substack.com/pub/proxypodcast/p/the-caregivers-are-not-all-right?r=ky41&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false]. Listen to Proxy with Yowei Shaw [https://pod.link/1746433334]. Follow them on Instagram: @proxypodcast [https://www.instagram.com/proxypodcast/] @yoweishaw [https://www.instagram.com/yoweishaw/?hl=en] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Local reporters from around the country tell stories of using the experiences of their neighbors to confront people in power.  Featuring: Anna Wolfe with Mississippi Today [https://mississippitoday.org/] Lisa Halverstadt with Voice of San Diego [https://voiceofsandiego.org/] Alissa Zhu with The Baltimore Banner [https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/] Tony Plohetski with The Austin American-Statesman [https://www.statesman.com/] and KVUE Austin [https://www.kvue.com/] Lisa is a part of the Homelessness Beat Reporters Collective, which recently produced a guide on how to responsibly cover homelessness. That guide can be found here.  [https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2025/how-to-report-cover-homelessness-unhoused-people/#:~:text=The%20Homelessness%20Beat%20Reporters%20Collective,find%20data%20on%20the%20problem] Sign up for our newsletter at: www.kcrw.com/questioneverything [http://www.kcrw.com/questioneverything] “Question Everything” is a production of KCRW [http://www.kcrw.org/] and Placement Theory [http://www.placementtheory.com/]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

A TV reporter from Kansas City hears about the brazen newspaper raids over in Marion. Her interest is piqued by the fact that the police chief who oversaw the raids had recently left Kansas City PD. So she heads to Marion to see what she can find out. And what she finds…is basically a Bravo reality series, small-town prairie style.  Part One of this story ran last week. Listen to it first if you haven’t already. Also: We’re now on Substack! You can weigh in on what we’re doing at Question Everything – make your pleasure or displeasure known – and talk to us about our reporting, the stories we’re working on. This week, Brian will share an outtake from the Mystery in Marion series – a moment of police bodycam footage that makes his skin crawl.  Sign up at: www.kcrw.com/questioneverything [http://www.kcrw.com/questioneverything] “Question Everything” is a production of KCRW [http://www.kcrw.org/] and Placement Theory [http://www.placementtheory.com/]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]