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LISTENER READING LIST: BEST REPORTING OF 2012:
Jeremy Scahill’s reporting on Somalia and Yemen. Honest, on the ground reporting, how foreign policy impacts the rest of the world. Kind of my generation's Christiane Amanpour. (Rhonda Fanning)
This Land, Dan Barry's NYTimes series on the men and women of Elyria, Ohio. (Kurt Carapezza)
All of the efforts of Factcheck.org to completely document their fact check articles and to do it as quickly as they did during our recent election season. Both major parties were checked and, in just about every case, found wanting. (B. Fay Wiese)
Radiolab's Patient Zero episode. In epidemiology, the case at the heart of an outbreak is known as Patient Zero. (Aubrey Ralph)
"Is everyone on the autism spectrum?" from NY Magazine. (Erika Janik)
"Welcome to Yuma, the Fifth Most Dangerous City in Arizona", (Rebecca Breslin)
Ira Glass' interview with Mike Daisy after he got caught for fictionalizing. It was radio, but I felt like I could see and hear Daisy squirm, and I attribute it largely to how Ira questioned him so openly and directly, but without being snide or vindictive. (Sabrina Karl)
This visual outline of the campaigns from NY Magazine was memorable. (Sara Nics)