Graham Smith
Graham Smith is a producer, reporter and editor whose curiosity has taken listeners around the U.S. and into conflict zones from the Mid-East to Asia and Africa.
Smith came to DC from WBUR Boston, NH Public Radio and the Christian Science Monitor. He's worked at NPR since 2003, producing for and running All Things Considered, editing Morning Edition and jumping in on various field assignments and special projects. He is now a senior producer on the Investigations Unit, helping independent journalists and NPR staffers to produce sound-rich, long-form pieces and podcasts.
Smith was a 2019 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his work on NPR's White Lies podcast. In previous years, he accepted the Robert F. Kennedy and the Edward R. Murrow awards for investigations with Youth Radio. He earned a Murrow for battlefield reporting from Afghanistan, and another for producing in Sierra Leone during the Ebola crisis. Smith also received the George Foster Peabody award for editing a series on teen sex trafficking in Oakland.
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After threatening to sever ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts, Defense Secretary Hegseth announced a 6-month reprieve -
Months after NPR reported on the Pentagon's efforts to sever ties with Scouting America, efforts to maintain the partnership have new momentum -
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts. -
Documents show the Pentagon plans to cut ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts, citing changes the organization has made, including allowing girls to join.
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Required by Congress, the reports no longer single out things like rigged elections or sexual violence against children as human rights violations.
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Each year the State Department releases its Country Reports on Human Rights. NPR has obtained internal State department documents that show major changes coming this year
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The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses. -
First responder communications show the power company in Altadena was slow to respond to Eaton firefighters — and that live power lines sparked new fires days after flames first broke out. -
Three people died and nearly a dozen were injured in a deadly accident that the military initially lied about, then buried. -
In an update to NPR's Taking Cover investigation, a U.S. senator asks for answers from the Marines and an Army soldier, still serving on active duty, has been denied the truth about his war wounds.
