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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Hot Pod writer turns Servant of Pod host
Nick Quah, founder of the Hot Pod newsletter and now host of the Servant of Pod podcast, joins It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell to discuss his introduction to the medium and why he decided to pick up a mic.
28 min
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Now is the time to focus on audience engagement
It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell talks with consultant Fiona Morgan about the importance of newsrooms rethinking and revitalizing engagement efforts to better understand and reach their communities.
32 min
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California City: Secrets of a desert town revealed
Emily Guerin is the creator of California City, a new investigative podcast from LAist Studios and public radio station KPCC. She tells It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell how a promised boomtown in the middle of desert turned...
34 min
279
Can't find women who know sports? Try harder
Lifelong sports fan Lindsay Gibbs is the co-founder of the Burn It All Down podcast and founder of the Power Plays newsletter. She talks with It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell about the importance of including women and...
29 min
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The story of America's most corrupt police squad
Friend of the podcast Baynard Woods talks to It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell about his new book, coming out next month, exploring an incredibly corrupt special unit within the Baltimore Police Department that led a cover...
36 min
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Coronavirus is changing how newsrooms work
It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell talks to David Cohn and Mike Donoghue of The Alpha Group about how COVID-19 has sped up technology-based evolutions that were already starting to take shape and how newsrooms will need...
27 min
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Will local ownership help Baltimore Sun survive?
It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell talks to reporter Liz Bowie of the Washington-Baltimore News Guild and Matt Gallagher of the Goldseker Foundation to discuss the community-driven efforts to purchase The Baltimore Sun and...
21 min
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Better News: How To Forge New Audiences Of Color
The Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester New York was facing a big problem. Its primary audience was old, white and dwindling. The newspaper had to figure out how to reach a younger and more diverse audience — and fast.
C.J. Benjamin, emerging...
26 min
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Long history of bad police responses to protests
It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell talks to science writer Maggie Koerth of FiveThirtyEight and Jamiles Lartey of the Marshall Project about their new collaborative piece on how police departments across the country are,...
26 min
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Critical thinking is an essential skill for jou...
It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell talks to Jonathan Haber, author of a new book on critical thinking from MIT Press, about how journalists can use critical thinking to improve their reporting.
30 min
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Massive Science behind covering COVID-19
It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell talks to Allan Lasser, co-founder of Massive Science, to discuss the challenges of making science more accessible and how to explain the coronavirus to a non-scientific audience.
25 min
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Reporting news of Latino workers during coronav...
It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell is joined this week by Alberto Mendoza, executive director of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, to discuss the challenges faced by the Latino community and especially in...
27 min
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Covering coronavirus: Advice from a health repo...
It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell is joined this week by Ivan Oransky of the Association of Health Care Journalists to discuss resources and tools available to reporters who find themselves covering the coronavirus pandemic...
29 min
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Google News Initiative wants to help local news
It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell is joined by Chrissy Towle, head of news and local media for the Google News Initiative, to discuss its ambitious project to help create sustainable models for local news outlets.
20 min
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The Cramm offers young people news they can use
It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell is joined by Olivia Seltzer, the founder and writer of The Cramm, an online newsletter and social media presence offering to bring young people around the world politically relevant news...
17 min
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Zigging with all the zags of a career in journa...
This week, It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell is joined by Peter Copeland, a former DC Bureau Chief for the E.W. Scripps Company and author of a new book, Finding the News: Adventures of a Young Reporter, to discuss changes...
29 min
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Former public radio journalist pushes back on '...
On this week's It's All Journalism podcast, Producer Amelia Brust talks to Lewis Raven Wallace, a former NPR journalist who lost his job for expressing a political opinion in a blog post. They discuss Wallace's book, The View...
39 min
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What's it like for a new journalist?
This week, It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell is joined by Sarah Ramantanis, an intern with World Vision Australia and founder of the recently launched KOS Magazine in her home country. They talk about the challenges facing...
25 min
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Data journalism in the age of coronavirus
Simon Rogers, a data journalist with the Google News Initiative, joins It's All Journalism producer Michael O'Connell this week to discuss the ways in which data journalism can help reporters find new ways to cover coronavirus with...
19 min
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Covering coronavirus in useful, trustworthy ways
It's All Journalism Producer Michael O'Connell is joined this week by Mollie Muchna of TrustingNews.org and the Arizona Daily Star to discuss what newsrooms should be doing to provide useful, beneficial and trustworthy updates on...
19 min
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How can storytellers crack writer's block?
It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell is joined this week by Melanie Deziel, brand storytelling consultant and founder of Storyfuel, to discuss her new book, Content Fuel Framework, about how storytellers have more ways to...
27 min
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Better News: Is it time to rethink your arts co...
KCUR.org, the website for Kansas City's public media station, made a concerted effort from 2014-18 to expand its arts coverage. It even had two-full-time reporters on the arts beat. When one of these reporters switched to another beat,...
22 min
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The more journalism and social media change, th...
For our 400th episode, It's All Journalism Producer Michael O'Connell is joined by our first guest, Amy Eisman of American University's School of Communication, to discuss how things have changed in ways large and small and...
29 min
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FedNet gathers latest multimedia news from Cap...
It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell is joined this week by Michael Kirby, managing editor for the video and transcript production company FedNet, which provides news materials for outlets across the country and around the...
27 min
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Alaska: More than what you see on reality TV
It's All Journalism Producer Michael O'Connell is joined this week by Cody Liska, a life-long Alaskan resident who started Crude, a magazine and podcast, to help dispel misconceptions about life in the biggest state.
33 min