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In the past, the entertainment industry was thought to be recession-proof. Even when people are tightening their belts, they still want to watch TV. But some analysts say maybe not this time. People who watched free broadcast TV during the last economic downturn might drop their pricey cable packages this time around.

All this week on The Salt and on Morning Edition, we've explored the stories behind your ritual cup of joe. Watch archived video of our Coffee Week conversation in our first Google+ Hangout.

Saying it needed to prevent inbreeding, the zoo killed a 2-year-old giraffe and fed its remains to lions as visitors, including children, watched.

In the 1700s, the French military put scouts in balloons to watch for advancing troops. These blimps — which are the size of a football field — will be looking for missiles.

The young Venezuelan singer chose to leave his unusually high voice intact so he could embrace a career in opera and sing soprano arias.

The Newport Jazz Festival, founded in 1954, was the first annual jazz festival in the United States.

A number of key U.S. Senate races will determine who controls Congress. We check in on three states to talk about early voting turnouts, how things are going at the polls, and the races to watch.

The Oscars are only a couple weeks away.

The list includes "Poor Things," "Past Lives," and "The Holdovers."

Plus: Who got Oscar nods? What's Prince Harry up to? Who's watching Elon Musk? Is Barron Trump a cryptobro?

An L.A. County detective testified that he gave a suspect the Miranda warning. But a TruTV reality show was following him around. Video shows the detective actually said, "You watch TV. You know your rights and all that?" Prosecutors say that's not close enough.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with a disaster management expert, Robert Jensen, about the complexities of rescue and recovery after the collapse of a highrise in Surfside, Florida.