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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LA Times podcast unravels 15-year-old mystery i...
Producer Michael O'Connell is joined this week by Joanne Faryon, the driving force behind the Room 22 podcast, which helped identify a man who lived for more than 15 years in a vegetative state and was known only as 66 Garage.
32 min
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Better News: Iconic southern newspaper undergoe...
The News Reporter of Whiteville, North Carolina is one of those iconic southern newspapers. Founded in 1896, the paper has a long history of serving rural Columbus County, including winning a Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service...
18 min
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Memes, manifestos and 4chan — making sense of a...
It's All Journalism producer Michael O'Connell interviews writer and artist Dale Beran about his new book, It Came from Something Awful — How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office. Beran tries to explain...
31 min
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Public good vs private enterprise: sustainabili...
Penny Muse Abernathy, author of Saving Community Journalism: The Path to Profitability and The Expanding News Desert, sat down with It's All Journalism producer Michael O'Connell to discuss Public Good or Private Enterprise? A Policy...
34 min
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Diverse newsrooms can act as fact-checking reso...
Producer Michael O'Connell is joined by Tina Lee, head of the ambassador program for Hostwriter and editor-in-chief of a new book, Unbias the News: Why diversity matters in journalism. This week, they discuss the book and why diverse...
31 min
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Journalism, anxiety and video therapy
Producer Michael O'Connell is joined by Anna Mortimer, a journalist-turned-psychotherapist and one of the creators of The Mind Field, a service that provides video therapy sessions for international development workers, journalists...
30 min
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Lacuna Voices will be home to stories that dese...
Producer Michael O'Connell is joined by Punteha van Terheyden, founder of a new platform that she hopes will help fill the gap of great stories that don't find homes in mainstream media outlets. Lacuna Voices is set to launch in...
28 min
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New book reveals the Tools for Podcasting
Producer Michael O'Connell is joined this week by American University professor Jill Olmsted to discuss her new book, Tools for Podcasting, the importance in working for diversity in all aspects of podcasting and reporting, and her...
40 min
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Podcast shares stories of DC's music scene
Sean Gotkin, the sound department manager at the Black Cat and host of the biweekly podcast Sounds Like DC, joins producer Michael O'Connell to discuss the importance of real conversations between friends and how DC's music scene...
22 min
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Get rid of your ego and be an empathetic journa...
P. Kim Bui, director of audience innovation for The Arizona Republic, joins producer Michael O'Connell to discuss empathetic journalism and why listening to "real humans" can help newsrooms better serve their readers, viewers...
30 min
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Better News: Post & Courier uncovers new revenu...
The Post & Courier of Charleston, South Carolina was in dire straights. Its traditional revenue streams — print advertising and circulation — were in decline and the newspaper needed to find a way to reverse that trend — and fast.
The...
17 min
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Citizen journalists help CitizenDetroit documen...
Producer Michael O'Connell is joined by WDET civic reporter Eleanore Catolico and Vassilis Jacobs, senior policy analyst at CitizenDetroit and a Documenters manager, to discuss their efforts to train people to take detailed notes at...
28 min
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SPLC reporter details challenges of covering ha...
Producer Michael O'Connell sits down with the Southern Poverty Law Center's Michael Edison Hayden to discuss the dangers of covering white supremacist groups, the lingering ghosts of the Charlottesville rally and why Twitter locked...
34 min
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What’s changed for women in newsrooms? Less tha...
It's All Journalism producer Amelia Brust talks to Kristin Grady Gilger and Julia Wallace about their new book, There’s No Crying In Newsrooms: What Women Have Learned About What It Takes To Lead, which examines what it’s like for women...
40 min
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373. Media outlets worldwide push for greater c...
Producer Michael O'Connell is joined by Mark Hertsgaard, environmental reporter for The Nation, to discuss next week's Covering Climate Now initiative, organized by The Nation and the Columbia Journalism Review. More than 160 outlets...
26 min
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Better News: Amplifier highlights Charlotte thr...
When Joni Deutsch arrived in Charlotte, North Carolina to become the podcast lead at NPR station WFAE, she wanted to create something that captured the city's unique identity beyond just football and banking. To that end, she launched...
23 min
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Algorithms are changing how journalists do thei...
Nick Diakopoulos is an assistant professor in communication studies and computer science at Northwestern University where he's also the director of the Computational Journalism Lab. In addition, Diakopoulos the author of Automating...
26 min
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NLGJA continues to transform how newsrooms cove...
Producer Michael O'Connell is joined this week by Sharif Durhams, a senior editor for CNN Digital and board president for the NLGJA -- The Association of LGBTQ Journalists, discussing how media coverage for the LGBTQ community has changed...
24 min
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What's your Credder rating? Are you trustworthy?
Chase Palmieri, one of the founders of Credder (formerly TribeWorthy), joins producer Michael O'Connell to talk about the platform that allows journalists and news consumers alike to rate the trustworthiness of articles.
26 min
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How journalists can avoid rising to the bait in...
Jay Rosen is a media critic and professor of journalism at New York University. He's also an observer of the trends and troubles affecting the media industry, which he documents on his blog, PressThink.org and on Twitter. Since...
30 min
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Amplifying young international voices to tell s...
Amanda Uhle of the International Congress of Youth Voices and Nelson Graves of News-Decoder join producer Michael O'Connell to discuss this year's conference and why giving young people support when speaking on issues of importance...
27 min
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Better News: Events may be difficult, but they'...
Chief Marking Officer Steve Yaeger and Managing Editor Suki Dardarian of the Star Tribune in Minneapolis discuss the challenges and benefits of hosting live events. Yaeger wrote about the Star Tribune's successful efforts in event hosting...
23 min
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IAJ partners with API on new podcast mini-series
It’s All Journalism is pleased to announce that it is partnering with the American Press Institute to produce a mini-series of podcasts around API’s Better News Initiative, which shares stories from newsrooms who are transforming themselves....
4 min
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Investigative reporter exposes injustice in civ...
Jerry Mitchell, a 30-year investigative reporter who now runs the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, joins producer Michael O'Connell to explain why cold cases and lapses in justice should never be shrugged off and left...
26 min
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Young women lead the conversation about periods...
Producer Michael O'Connell is joined by the energetic and wise-beyond-their-years young women of Bronx Prep Middle School about their new and award-winning podcast series, Sssh! Periods, who refuse to accept that menstruation is something...
19 min