Oct. and Nov. Monthly Content Review Memo April 1, 2026 • A 10-member cohort discussed NPR's coverage of the Sept. assassination of Charlie Kirk and the shutdown of the federal government in October and November.
September Monthly Content Review Memo December 3, 2025 • A 10-person cohort discussed NPR's coverage in August of President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C.
August Monthly Content Review Memo October 28, 2025 • A 10-person cohort discussed two topics from July: the Israel/Gaza conflict and the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein files
July Monthly Content Review Memo September 19, 2025 • A 10-person cohort discussed NPR coverage of the Israel-Iran conflict and the U.S. strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities.
June Monthly Content Review Memo August 12, 2025 • A 10-person cohort discussed NPR's coverage of the papal transition and the fifth anniversary of George Floyd's murder
May Monthly Content Review Memo July 24, 2025 • A 10-person cohort met in May to discuss the top performing stories in April, pegged to President Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs.
April Monthly Content Review June 10, 2025 • A 10-person cohort reviewed a sampling of NPR's coverage in April of hot-button social issues.
March Monthly Content Review Memo May 12, 2025 • A 10-person cohort met in March to discuss NPR's coverage of developments linked to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
February Monthly Content Review Memo May 12, 2025 • A 10-person cohort met in February to discuss NPR's coverage of the Trump Administration's immigration policies and developments.
December Monthly Content Review Memo February 14, 2025 • A 10-person cohort reviewed NPR's top 20 culture pieces from November 2024
November Monthly Content Review Memo January 17, 2025 • A 10-person cohort met in early December to discuss a sampling of NPR's Instagram coverage.
October Monthly Content Review Memo January 3, 2025 • A 10-person cohort met in October to discuss the fairness and completeness of a sampling of NPR's coverage in September 2024.
September 2024 Monthly Content Review Memo November 12, 2024 • A 10-person cohort met to discuss NPR's audio coverage of the Republican National Convention and the Democratic National Convention.
August 2024 Monthly Content Review Memo October 14, 2024 • A 10-person cohort met to discuss NPR's three-week run of coverage from the day of the Biden-Trump debate until the day President Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race.
July 2024 Content Review Memo August 30, 2024 • A 10-person cohort met to discuss NPR's content produced in July 2024. The focal points of discussion were listener versus readers preferences and NPR's new religion team.
June 2024 Monthly Content Review Memo August 8, 2024 • A 10-person cohort met to review NPR’s content mix in May 2024. Pro-Palestinian campus protests on U.S. campuses were the focal point of discussion.
May 2024 Monthly Content Review Memo August 8, 2024 • A 10-person cohort met to review NPR’s content mix in April 2024. Israel-Hamas pieces from that month were the focal point of discussion.
Another Fact That Needs To Be Right: A Person's Pronouns November 26, 2019 • A pronoun is a biographical detail that has to be correct. Getting it wrong not only means we've made a mistake, it means we may have hurt the person we interviewed.
Guidance Reminder: About DACA And 'Dreamers' November 12, 2019 • We need to be careful when we cite figures and refer to those in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Guidance: On Covering The 'Whistleblower' If A Name Is Revealed November 4, 2019 • The decision on what, if anything, to say will be made by Nancy Barnes (with input, obviously, from senior editors).
Guidance: Keep Adding 'According To' Or Other Attribution To al-Baghdadi Reports October 28, 2019 • Also: As stories such as this evolve, it is tempting to refer to details that turn out to be wrong as having been "fake news." That's a term we should not use.
This Is No Mistake: There's Good News About Corrections October 2, 2019 • We reached our goal (on reducing mistakes) in September.