It's All Journalism
It’s All Journalism is a weekly podcast about the changing state of digital media. Each episode you’ll hear working journalists talk about how they do their jobs. They also discuss the latest trends in journalism and how they impact our democratic society.
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Prison Journalism Project helps inmates share t...
Shaheen Pasha and Yukari Kane, co-founders and co-executive directors of the Prison Journalism Project, join It's All Journalism host Michael O’Connell to explain their initiative. They work with inmates to help those with an interest...
28 min
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Better News: Killing Zombies On Your Subscripti...
The Arizona Republic had a zombie problem.
We're not talking about the brain-eating variety of zombies. Instead, the Republic had too many digital subscribers that weren't actively engaged with the newspaper's content....
32 min
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How newsrooms should handle requests to unpubli...
Deborah Dwyer, a 2020-2021 Reynolds Journalism Institute resident fellow at the University of Missouri, joins Michael O’Connell to discuss her work, building tools to help newsrooms deal with unpublishing requests. She talks about the ethical...
41 min
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How Spiro Agnew's crimes became relevant again
Michael Yarvitz, co-author with Rachel Maddow of Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House, joins producer Michael O'Connell to discuss the book and its accompanying podcast....
26 min
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Few Americans support journalism's core values ...
Jennifer Benz, vice president of the Associated Press’ National Opinion Research Center’s Center for Public Affairs Research, and Tim Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute, discuss a new survey in partnership with...
36 min
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Journalists aren't as good at covering protests...
It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell talks with Summer Harlow and Danielle Kilgo about their new study, “Perceptions vs Performance: How Routines, Norms and Values Influence Journalists’ Protest Coverage Decisions." They...
37 min
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Better News: Las Vegas Review-Journal bets big ...
In 2020, the Las Vegas Review-Journal launched Mobbed Up, an 11-part podcast series examining the role organized crime played in the rise of Las Vegas. The idea behind Mobbed Up was to grow audience and revenue for the paper. The Better...
23 min
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The Counter uses food to make news more digestible
It's All Journalism producer Michael O'Connell is joined by Kate Cox, editor of The Counter, a nonprofit agriculture and food policy website. She explains how all news can be seen through the lens of food and why it's the best...
37 min
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Knowing your worth in the diverse world of fre...
It's All Journalism producer Amelia Brust talks with freelance reporter Emilia Benton. They discuss their shared love of running and how Benton has learned how to be a successful freelance writer by doing.
43 min
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Politico project shows just how white and male...
It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell talks to Angela Greiling Keane, Renuka Rayasam, and Allan James Vestal about Politico's data-rich project, Why state legislatures are still very white — and very male, which examines...
29 min
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How service journalism helps solve community pr...
It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell talks with Megan Griffith-Greene, service features editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer. They discuss what service journalism means, how it can help reporters better understand their communities...
36 min
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New Humanitarian's mission-centric focus a mode...
It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell is joined by Heba Aly, CEO of The New Humanitarian, an independent nonprofit newsroom covering humanitarian crises. She discusses how her publication handled the COVID-19 pandemic and why her newsroom...
30 min
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Better News: Nonprofit newsrooms turn rivalry i...
Chrissy Beck is the managing director of The Chronicle at Duke University and Erica Perel is the former general manager at The Daily Tar Heel at the University of North Carolina. Their newsrooms teamed up to create the Rivalry Challenge...
20 min
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What Is Life shares stories of prisoners facing...
It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell talks with Joshua Vaughn, a senior multimedia reporter for The Appeal and creator of the What Is Life? podcast. Vaughn describes the podcast as a “passion project” that features conversations...
31 min
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Making Google, Facebook pay their fair share fo...
It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell talks with David Chavern, president and CEO of the News Media Alliance, an Arlington, Virginia-based nonprofit organization representing digital and print news publishers around the world....
30 min
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Solutions Journalism tackles community problems
It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell talks with Karen Magnuson, project director for the Solutions Journalism Network. They discuss what solutions journalism is, how it differs from investigative journalism and her new effort in New...
28 min
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Making sure Wikipedia shows that Women Do News
It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell talks with Angilee Shah and Jareen Imam about the Women Do News campaign, which is creating Wikipedia entries for women in news to help raise their profiles and credibility.
24 min
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Better News: COVID-19 timeline helps newsroom a...
Randi Stevenson is an executive producer at the San Antonio Express-News. She and Joy-Marie Scott and Chris Quinn wrote an article for Better News back in November about how the Express-News used a COVID-19 timeline to drive subscriptions....
15 min
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Journalism charter school inspires DC's young w...
It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell talks with Dr. Marco Clark, founder and CEO of the Richard Wright Public Charter School for Journalism and Media Arts in Washington, D.C. He explains how educational issues in his own childhood...
20 min
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Axios newsletter tackles local news in Tampa Bay
It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell talks with Selene San Felice, a new reporter with Axios in Tampa Bay. She discusses her newfound respect for newsletters, the importance of local news and why her new outlet will help lift up what...
31 min
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Gulf States Newsroom launches to share regional...
It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell talks with Priska Neely, managing editor of the new Gulf States Newsroom project from NPR. She talks about her career in journalism and the new initiative to help tell important stories from Alabama,...
32 min
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Making amends for failing to tell The Truth in ...
It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell is joined by Mará Rose Williams, a 22-year education reporter with the Kansas City Star and co-creator of the paper’s series, “The Truth in Black and White.” The series began with an apology...
26 min
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Better News: Measure the impact of local journa...
Anjanette Delgado is the senior news director for digital at the Detroit Free Press. She recently wrote an article for the American Press Institute’s Better News initiative about the paper’s community impact report. Better News host Michael...
22 min
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Giving sources the power to tell their own stories
It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell talks with Britney Dennison, deputy director of the Global Reporting Centre in Vancouver. She talks about empowerment journalism and the culmination of several years’ worth of work, a new series...
38 min
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Freelancer won't let cerebral palsy sideline hi...
It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell talks with Blake Baumgartner, a freelance sports writer from Naperville, Illinois. They discuss Blake’s passion for sports and the difficulties he’s faced as a reporter with cerebral palsy.
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