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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Journalist James Foley Killed by ISIS

    Slain journalist James Foley was captured nearly two years ago while reporting in Syria. The Islamic militant group ISIS posted a video online yesterday of Foley being beheaded. It was titled “A Message to America.” US officials and Foley’s family today confirmed the video was authentic. We look back at his life and work.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Aug 20, 2014 • 1 min read

    Slain journalist James Foley was captured nearly two years ago while reporting in Syria. The Islamic militant group ISIS posted a video online yesterday of Foley being beheaded. It was titled “A Message to America.” US officials and Foley’s family today confirmed the video was authentic. We look back at his life and work.

    The full episode

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    ISIS Executes James Foley, “Bad Feminist,” and B.K.S. Iyengar
    1. 0:00Journalist James Foley Killed by ISISYou’re reading this
    2. 8:22The ISIS Europe Connection
    3. 14:27Social Media and Terrorism
    4. 22:25'Bad Feminist'
    5. 38:15Father of Modern Yoga Dies
    6. 46:18Pioneering designer Deborah Sussman Dies
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Andrew Walsh

      Too Beautiful to Live

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      Christian Bordal

      Managing Producer, Greater LA

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Charlie Sennott

      co-founder of Global Post and executive director of the GroundTruth Project, an organization that trains international correspondents

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    The full episode

    1 of 6
    ISIS Executes James Foley, “Bad Feminist,” and B.K.S. Iyengar
    1. 0:00Journalist James Foley Killed by ISISYou’re reading this
    2. 8:22The ISIS Europe Connection
    3. 14:27Social Media and Terrorism
    4. 22:25'Bad Feminist'
    5. 38:15Father of Modern Yoga Dies
    6. 46:18Pioneering designer Deborah Sussman Dies
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