Sheryl Underwood and the Infinite Scroll of Global Empathy Fatigue By Our Correspondent in a Hotel Room with One Working Lightbulb Somewhere between the burnt-coffee time zone of U.S. breakfast television and the 3 a.m. doom-scroll in Jakarta, Sheryl Underwood cracked a joke about her own wig budget and accidentally became a diplomatic incident. It…
Hoda Kotb and the Global Morning-After: How One Anchor Became a Soft-Power Export By Dave’s Foreign Correspondent, still jet-lagged in three time zones Cairo, 3 a.m. local—while most of Egypt is debating whether the pound will outlive the pyramids, a downtown café is streaming TODAY with Arabic subtitles. The topic isn’t the Suez, Gaza, or…
Ari Shapiro’s Velvet Voice Keeps the World from Completely Imploding—One Broadcast at a Time By Dave’s Locker International Desk If the planet ever awards a Grammy for “Least Panic-Inducing Tone While the House Burns,” the trophy would surely go to Ari Shapiro, the NPR stalwart whose nightly baritone glides across time zones like a diplomatic…
Nate Burleson: The Accidental Diplomat Quietly Teaching the World How to Talk to Itself By the time most Americans were debating whether their morning coffee tasted more like hope or despair, Nate Burleson had already addressed three continents without leaving a Midtown studio. The former Detroit Lions receiver—whose career highlight reel once consisted of hurdling…
