This is the central question of News Nerds, published by Oxford University Press. This interview ran on the What’s What podcast from WFUV News on July 21, 2025.

Circa Waves are from Liverpool and, as they’re not coy about their love of the Beatles, they treated the FUV engineering and videography crew to Lennon and McCartney impersonations during mic checks.

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Every week, herbalist and forager Journei Bimwala harvests the plants and teaches community members how they can use them for ...

In addition to stations in cities, the impact of the federal funding cuts will be devastating to smaller rural stations ...

On Monday, Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa says New York City’s animal shelter system is in crisis, and he’s making ...

The two friends met just a couple of years ago at the Sing Us Home Festival in Philly. Since then, as Kathleen said, they’ve ...

On this date in 1965, Bob Dylan plugged in and went electric in concert for the first time at the Newport Folk Festival. Today we're doing the opposite — going acoustic. Share an acoustic ...

The ADA was passed almost 35 years ago. It protects the rights of disabled people in public life, from voting to parking. It also sets accessibility standards for public transit. But it’s taken a ...

New York City’s Charter Revision Commission has decided not to move forward with a proposal for open primaries, meaning it will not appear on the city’s November general election ballot. The ...