Little News Ears

It's March 22, 2022. In this episode, Precious presents the breaking news, types of jobs in television, television history, and 3 influential women in TV; in honor of women's history month. We learn about Shonda Rhimes, Tina Fey, and Issa Raye.

It's February 6, 2021. Paxton 'kidifies' world headlines about rare twin elephants born in Kenya, the devastation of the tsunami and volcanic eruption in Tonga, Indonesia changing its capital city, a 19 year-old Belgian pilot flying around the world, and a 4,000 year-old board game discovered in Oman.

It's February 10, 2022. Glow is back with Asian American news for kids. Today Glow will teach us about American Girl's First Asian American doll, reinforcing Asian American studies, hope for Asian Americans with disabilities, gathering for an Asian American victim in a NYC subway, and how the US is offering aid to the people of Tonga.

It's April 9, 2022. BoxerBlu and Bram are back to teach us about news for kids that relates to Disney censoring The Simpsons in Hong Kong, how cook books can often be plagiarized, a 5 million dollar lawsuit against Kelloggs over not having enough strawberries in Strawberry Pop-Tarts, celebrities like Justin Bieber promoting fast food products, and the explosion of regional soda chains. 

Brand new show! It's February 8, 2022. Anika teaches us all about research into dogs being bilingual on her show, The Spontaneous Works of Earth.

It's February 20, 2022. Paxton 'kidifies' world headlines about the Beijing Winter Olympics, Swedish composers making K-pop, Queen Elizabeth II wishing Camilla Bowles to become Queen, 6 coups in Africa, and Irish fishermen who convince the Russian Navy to go somewhere else.

It's February 23, 2022. Elyssa is back with Wow! News, teaching us about the youngest magazine editor ever, the history of the Olympics, the 2022BH7 asteroid, and about the CNEOS and NASA. As always, there are some bloopers too!

It's April Fools! Please listen to our short show of real and imaginary headlines. Can you guess which one is which? And don't forget to check out other kids podcasts' special April Fools' Day Episodes like Newsy Pooloozi, Dorktales Storytime, Best Whatever Ever, Stories for Wonderful Children, and Cool Facts about Animals!

It's March 6, 2022. BoxerBlu and Bram teach kids about the concept of realpolitik, Ludwig von Rochau, Lindsey Graham, Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, propaganda, sanctions, Volodoymyr Zelenskyy, Joe Biden, BBC shortwave radio, and The Ghost of Kiev. Please consider donating funds to help Ukraine through one of these organizations: https://www.kxan.com/news/international/ukraine/list-charities-supporting-ukrainians-vetted-by-the-bbb/

It's March 25, 2022. Clementine and her dads are back to teach us about the passing of a pioneer: Masyuki Uemura, who created the Nintendo Entertainment System. They also learn about a 6th grade hero who saved two people's lives in one day, about Birds Aren't Real?, Earth's biggest black box (to record climate change), and how grandmothers may share a deeper bond with their grandchildren than with their own children.