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NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports that a society's treatment of journalists often indicates the state of freedom in that society. Brooke talks to reporters who have risked their lives or their freedom to do their work. In New York tonight, four such reporters are being honored at the International Press Freedom Awards. Last week, several others were recognized by the International Women's Media Foundation.

Commentator Reuven Frank says that the television news reporters who do "stand -ups"...live reports done in front of a camera, usually by themselves...don't just seem to be standing around reporting anymore. They walk around and survey the scene...and their milling around, trying to set the scene, is sometimes more interesting than the news.

A report from scientists who advise the government concludes that the levels of the toxic chemical perchlorate currently found in drinking water do not pose a major threat to the nation's health. But an EPA report from 2002 -- and some environmental groups -- contradict that finding. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports.

The Union of Concerned Scientists recently issued a report accusing the Bush administration of distorting the science advisory process and ignoring advice in conflict with the White House agenda. The report reflects growing criticism from senior scientists over the way the administration makes decisions on science policy. NPR's Joe Palca reports.

The Republican primary in Calloway County’s judge-executive race has the incumbent facing off against a fellow member of the county’s fiscal court.

TOWN REPORT: Essayist Tim Brookes examines a 1935 town report from he village of Ferrisburg, Vermont.

& 2: .Foreign Correspondent for NPR, TOM GJELTON. He's been reporting from Bosnia. GJELTON won the prestigious George Polk Award for his piece, "Massacre on the Mountaintop." The piece aired September 22, 1992 and described a massacre of 200 Bosnian Muslim men. The George Polk Award honors excellence in journalism. GJELTON also reported on the Gulf War and on the conflicts in Central America. (REBROADCAST from 4/6/93).Foreign correspondent for "Newsday," ROY GUTMAN. He and his photographer were the first western journalists to report on genocide in a Serb-run concentration camp. Shortly after the story was published the camp was closed and the Red Cross let in. Their reporting led to public outrage, and official condemnation by the United Nations. GUTTMAN won a Pulitzer Prize for this reporting. The dispatches have now been collected in a new book, "A Witness to Genocide: The 1993 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Dispatches on the 'Ethnic Cleansing' of Bosnia." (Macmillan Publishing). (REBROADCAST FROM 9/

This may be your worst nightmare: Reports are emerging from multiple states of alarming interactions with people in clown clothing.

A new report from the International Atomic Energy Agency details the covert program, which ran until 2003. But experts say the findings are unlikely to derail Iran's nuclear deal with world powers.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright has disbanded a controversial Climate Working Group (CWG), which wrote a report that scientists say was full of errors and misrepresented climate science.