Before Jon Stewart there was The Onion. We’ll talk with writers for the satirical news site about their brand of fake-news humor.

On Wednesday night, June 24, On Point will tape a show before an audience in Boston with two stars of NPR’s “Planet Money,” Adam Davidson and David Kestenbaum. We need your online questions to put to them — about anything from the roots of the economic crisis to NPR’s coverage.

Web-only editions? Mexican billionaires? Charity? What, if anything, can save American newspapers as they scramble to transform – or die?

We’ll ask The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan, The New Yorker’s Nicholas Lemann, and Daily Beast chief Tina Brown.

This week, Leonard Downie Jr., the executive editor of The Washington Post, announced he’s stepping down after 17 years at the helm.
Forty-four years total at the newspaper, where he arrived as a summer intern in 1964.
Many of the stories he’s had a hand in are defining: Watergate. Secret CIA prisons. Walter Reed. The Post has [...]

The Australian Rupert Murdoch, global press baron, plays hardball and big money with the news media on several continents. These days, he’s up to his elbows in American media.
If you read The Wall Street Journal, which he now owns, you’ve seen the changes. Whether you watch or avoid Fox News, you know its impact. And [...]