National Public Radio announced their plans to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 – Oct. 15) featuring special programming across their podcasts and media platforms.

Below is their full statement, which was translated to Spanish on the NPR website.

“We are celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, starting today until October 15, with special programming across NPR podcasts, playlists and social media reflecting on the diversity of the Latinx community and highlighting our latinidad. We also have two curated playlists and the Tiny Desk Concert (A.K.A “El Tiny”) will be featuring different genres of Latin music. Many of our podcasts feature Latinx stories all year long, not just this month. Check them out and celebrate with us! Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!“

NPR’s marquee podcasts such as Code Switch, Through Line and It’s Been a Minute are all dedicating content to the celebration of Latin heritage, music and culture. Additionally they have curated special Spotify playlists and social media programming.

Click here for a full rundown of their programming plans for Hispanic Heritage Month.

NPR’s senior editor for its arts desk, Nina Gregory, will be leaving the position she’s held since 2006 to join the live audio app Clubhouse to become its head of news and media publishers. 

Gregory confirmed the news of her new venture on Twitter, stating, “I’ve got some news…” while quote tweeting the story from CNN. 

“This is the first job I applied for in 15 years outside of public radio. I never thought I would leave,” Gregory stated to CNN. “But [Clubhouse] aligns so much with not just our mission, but the audio nerd in me and in us.”

Although the announcement of her hiring came this week, Gregory joined Clubhouse precisely one year before Wednesday’s news. Furthermore, she stated that Clubhouse reminds her of NPR’s former call-in show “Talk of the Nation.”

“As an audio journalist, [Clubhouse] aligned with what I’ve always believed is the best medium for news. You don’t need to know how to read to be able to hear radio news. You don’t need to have an expensive subscription. You don’t need cable,” Gregory said. 

“The accessibility across not just geography, but socioeconomics and cultures has always driven me to the power of the medium.”

NY Post columnist Karol Markowicz slammed late-night host Jimmy Kimmel for comments that he made during his monologue Monday about Floridians who have died from COVID-19.

“Of the 54,000 Americans who died from COVID since the start of the summer, almost one of five — one in five of them died in Florida, which my God, all those orphaned ferrets, it’s a shame,” Kimmel said.

“Jimmy Kimmel is a terrible person but at least he’s also not at all funny,” Markowicz tweeted.

Markowicz’s tweet drew plenty of support. Other media personalities rebuked Kimmel’s scathing monologue.

“They hate you and want you dead,” the Media Research Center’s Dan Gainor wrote

“This is an interesting statistic. COVID deaths have proven to be much higher in states that voted for Trump,” Kimmel added.