On June 5, the Parallels blog is closing, and NPR's international coverage is moving to a page called .
It's part of an effort by NPR to present our digital stories in a new way. So five blogs 鈥� Parallels, All Tech Considered, NPR Ed, The Two-Way and The Record 鈥� are being retired and stories will instead be organized by topic. In our case, the topic is "World," since that is what we cover.
If you want to learn more about why this change is happening, As she notes, "The same stories will still be reported and posted. But readers will find them in different places, and the stories will no longer carry those blog labels."
In other words, the work of our international correspondents, contributors and editors will continue as ever 鈥� it will just be available at a different address. The Parallels page will no longer be updated after this post. Our new URL is . (Please bookmark it!)
If you already follow Parallels on Twitter, you're all set. Our Twitter handle has changed to , but you don't need to do a thing. (If you're not following us for global news and features on Twitter, we hope you will.)
If you're reading this on an RSS feed, you can Or you can use . You can also find our work by following NPR on or .
Parallels launched as NPR's international news blog five years ago, in May 2013, hosted by . Back then, Greg noted that it was a time "when many American news organizations have retreated from international coverage. ... But NPR has been bucking that trend. We have reporters around the world who are willing to go anywhere to find a good story and explain what it means."
Since then, we've published 3,460 stories 鈥� a mix of news, analysis, commentary, and distinctive, deeply reported and visually compelling features. Some of Parallels' first stories covered , the illegal trade in and the scene in Kabul.
More recently, amid the often dizzying churn of world news, we've brought you stories about , conditions facing , the aftermath of 鈥� plus a look back at a largely forgotten U.S. military and efforts to stop sorcery-related violence . One of readers' all-time favorites was about .
We look forward to continuing to offer our journalists' best reporting and analysis to make sense of a complicated world. And we are grateful to you, our readers, for taking the time to join us along the way.
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