EditorialMicrophones as President Joe Biden meets with Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, March 10, 2023. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
EditorialA bank of microphones is set up outside the presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on Monday morning, Oct. 31, 2022. (Dado Galdieri/The New York Times)
EditorialDouglas McCauley of the Benioff Ocean Initiative at the University of California, Santa Barbara, inspected a buoy fitted with sensors and microphones to detect whales, about 25 miles off San Francisco Bay, Calif, on Sept. 19, 2022. (Dexter Hake/The New York Times)
EditorialDouglas McCauley of the Benioff Ocean Initiative at the University of California, Santa Barbara, inspected a buoy fitted with sensors and microphones to detect whales, about 25 miles off San Francisco Bay, Calif, on Sept. 19, 2022. (Dexter Hake/The New York Times)
EditorialMicrophones clustered on a lectern as Victor Escalon, regional director of the Texas Department of Safety, speaks at a news conference addressing the police response timeline to the school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, May 26, 2022 (Christopher Lee/The New York Times)