Journalists fired from the military newspaper Stars and Stripes see their lawsuit against the Defense Department as a fight not just against their terminations--but as a fight against government censorship. National Press Club Broadcast Podcast Team member Tom Young spoke with Stars and Stripes publisher Max Lederer and editor-in-chief Erik Slavin in the latest edition of Update-1.

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The Daily Mail has dubbed Braden Miller the "Youngest Royal Expert." For Miller it all began when he developed an interest in covering the British royal family at the age of 17. Now 20 and a junior at American University in Washington, D.C., Miller has more than 240,000 social media followers. In the latest Update-1 episode with Broadcast Podcast team member Gemma Puglisi, Miller shares how he grew his platform, discusses the realities of reporting on the royals, and offers behind-the-scenes stories from covering events in the U.K.

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The news that Air Force One was used as a decoy in July to protect President Donald Trump from a possible assassination attempt may have sounded like something out of a political thriller. But the tactic has several precedents in American political history.

Long before AI, deepfakes and social media made it possible to create convincing imposters, impersonators could fool voters in a decidedly low-tech way—as lookalikes on whistle-stop campaign trains.

In this episode of Update-1, NPC member Edward Segal talks with Broadcast Podcast Co-Chair Mike Hempen about how deception was effectively used and cites many surprising examples. Segal is the author of “Whistle-Stop Politics: Campaign Trains and the Reporters Who Covered Them,” which traces 185 years of presidential campaign-train history.

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