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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How The Washington Post Graphics Team Covered T...
For our 500th episode, It's All Journalism is sharing our April 2013 interview with Kat Downs Mulder, who is the Washington Post's chief product officer and managing editor, a role that spans newsroom digital teams and product and...
57 min
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Halfway To Episode 1,000; Kat Downs Mulder Redux
57 min
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Coming Soon: Kat Downs Mulder Livestream Interview
It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell interviews Kat Downs Mulder, the chief content officer and managing editor at The Washington Post, on Thursday, Feb. 24, 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT. View on the It's All Journalism Facebook...
13 min
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Philanthropy examined as a long-term newsroom f...
Victor Hernandez, chief content officer at Boston’s NPR news station WBUR, went back to school to bolster his digital skills. In the process, he wrote the “Philanthropy & Newsroom Positions Playbook," which serves as a guide on...
33 min
180
Biased awarding of state contracts exposed by G...
Paul Singer discusses the GBH News Center for Investigative Reporting's successful effort that expose unfair practices at the state and local level in Massachusetts to routinely exclude minority-owned businesses from receiving millions...
32 min
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SmartNews personalizes weather news with Disast...
AccuWeather’s Paul Lentz and McDavid Stoddard of SmartNews discuss how their companies partnered to provided readers more personalized, timely weather reporting and launched the Hurricane “Disaster Info Hub."
25 min
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Metropolitan Diary: Where readers share their s...
It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell interviews Ed Shanahan and Agnes Lee of the Metropolitan Diary, a daily column featuring stories about New York City written by readers of The New York Times.
30 min
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Newsy aims to deliver just the facts without a ...
In most people’s minds 24-hour news means cable news, which many see as hour after hour of politically slanted coverage. In October, the E.W. Scripps Company decided to change all that by converting Newsy into a 24-hour broadcast news...
23 min
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Entrepreneur bets on local news site for Northe...
Entrepreneur Lacy Starling divested her holdings from a $30 million logistics business in 2020 to pursue her passion for journalism. Now the president and CEO of OneNYK Alliance, Starling is focusing her business chops on creating...
35 min
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Inside the US Capitol on 1/6/21 — A reporter's ...
Tia Mitchell is the Washington correspondent for The Atlanta Journal Constitution and chair of the National Association of Black Journalists' Political Task Force. She was in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 and tells It's All Jouranlism...
50 min
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Prison Journalism Project Update: Best of 2021
This week, we’re happy to share with our listeners an update on the most popular episode of It’s All Journalism of 2021: The Prison Journalism Project, an initiative to help people who are behind bars and have a passion for writing to find...
35 min
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110-Plus Best Journalism Movies List Revisited
We're pleased to revisit the 10 most popular episodes of It's All Journalism from 2021 as an end-of-the-year gift to our listeners. We've covered a lot of ground this year, with a focus on the ever-changing journalism landscape...
40 min
188
Union study reveals pay disparity at Gannett ne...
Rebekah Sanders and Megan Taros are both members of the union that represents employees of The Arizona Republic. They talk to It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell about a recent study that shows Gannett underpays women...
43 min
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Better News: Revisiting some success stories fr...
Kamaria Roberts, the new deputy director of local news transformation at the American Press Institute, joins host Michael O'Connell in a year-end review of the Better News podcast. They listen to clips from past interviews and discuss...
31 min
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Bellwether podcast offers journalism with a sci...
Sam Greenspan is the creator of Bellwether, a limited podcast series telling real reported stories inside a speculative fiction framework. Greenspan explains to It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell how this non-traditional...
29 min
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Virtual reality can strengthen news teams worki...
A self-described adventure seeker, Marshall Mosher is host of the Inside the Adventure podcast and co-founder of Vestigo, a company that conducts trust and team-building exercises using virtual reality. It's All Journalism host Michael...
32 min
192
Veteran journalist turns entrepreneur with Wind...
After 34 years covering the Chinatown crime beat for the largest Chinese language newspaper in the U.S., Portia Li suddenly found herself out of a job. Rather than give up or retire, she decided to launch Wind Newspaper to cover San Francisco's...
33 min
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Saving candidate websites from vanishing after ...
Melody Kramer,  director of communications and business development with the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, talks with It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell about her new project,...
30 min
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Older generations deserve media coverage too
Paul Kleyman, national coordinator of the Journalists Network on Generations and editor of Generations Beat Online, specializes in covering the issues of importance to older Americans. He talks with It's All Journalism producer Michael...
26 min
195
Thinking globally, writing locally about climat...
James Fahn, executive director of the Earth Journalism Network,  talks with It’s All Journalism producer Michael O’Connell about his experiences as an environmental reporter, the importance of thinking outside the box when writing...
25 min
196
Better News: Post and Courier philanthropic eff...
Like many newspapers, The Post and Courier  was experiencing a drop-off in local advertising spending, which meant diminishing revenues. However, the Charleston, South Carolina, daily decided to adjust course and...
23 min
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Trust.txt is a silent partner in legitimizing n...
Scott Yates is the founder of JournalList.net and Trust.txt, a tool news organizations can use to verify their legitimacy of the content and information. He talks with It’s All Journalism producer Michael O’Connell about how Trust.txt works,...
31 min
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City Paper uses its 40 years of expertise to he...
Duc Luu, publisher and chief development officer for the Washington City Paper, and interim editor Caroline Jones talk to It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell about the alt weekly's 40-year history in Washington,...
35 min
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Data can be the spine of your reporting
MaryJo Webster is the data editor for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. She talks with It's All Journalism producer Michael O'Connell about her aversion to math before learning about data journalism, how data can be a better story source...
34 min
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Noema aims to help academics, policy makers thi...
Kathleen Miles is the executive editor of Noema, a cross-disciplinary academic journal from the Berggruen Institute. She talks with It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell about the importance of breaking out of the 24-hour news cycle...
31 min