It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell talks to John Vitti, a veteran of Boston newspapers, about Headliners in Education , a program that teaches students the basics of journalism as a way to expand their worldview and to become comfortable with writing. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Aug 06, 2020•31 min•Ep. 421
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. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jul 30, 2020•29 min•Ep. 420
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. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jul 23, 2020•33 min•Ep. 419
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 into a real estate scam and environmental headache. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/priva...
Jul 16, 2020•34 min•Ep. 418
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 non-binary people in sports coverage and why sports is not separate from any other news topic. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Pri...
Jul 09, 2020•30 min•Ep. 417
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 crime spree, undetected, for years. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-...
Jul 02, 2020•37 min•Ep. 416
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 to keep those changes coming when things return to "normal." Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pri...
Jun 25, 2020•27 min•Ep. 415
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 turn it into a nonprofit organization. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my...
Jun 18, 2020•21 min•Ep. 414
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 audiences editor for the Democrat and Chronicle , discusses how the paper successfully developed a strategy to better engage a younger and more diverse audience. She wrote about the experience for American Press Institute ‘s Better News Initiative. Read her...
Jun 15, 2020•27 min•Ep. 695
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, historically and currently, wrong in their understanding and approach to protests. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice a...
Jun 11, 2020•27 min•Ep. 413
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. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Jun 04, 2020•31 min•Ep. 412
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. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
May 28, 2020•25 min•Ep. 411
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 light of coronavirus. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
May 20, 2020•27 min•Ep. 410
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 without any specialized training in medical or health reporting. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art1...
May 14, 2020•29 min•Ep. 409
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. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
May 07, 2020•21 min•Ep. 408
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 of the day, focused on their interests and values. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do...
Apr 30, 2020•18 min•Ep. 407
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 in the business, but not the craft, of journalism over the course of his career. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice...
Apr 23, 2020•29 min•Ep. 406
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 From Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity , and its companion podcast, and whether journalists can ever be — or even should be — truly objective in their reporting. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekl...
Apr 15, 2020•39 min•Ep. 405
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 new journalists and how she's trying to make a name for herself. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19...
Apr 09, 2020•26 min•Ep. 404
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 information gleaned from search engine trends in their communities. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://a...
Apr 01, 2020•20 min•Ep. 403
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 coronavirus without overwhelming their audience. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-no...
Mar 25, 2020•20 min•Ep. 402
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 tell stories than ever and why that can be intimidating. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/priva...
Mar 18, 2020•28 min•Ep. 401
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, freelancers filled in to make up the gap. Despite all of these efforts, web traffic suggested KCUR readers were not all that interested in the website's arts coverage. Something had to change. The editorial team developed a new strategy that grew audiences and eve...
Mar 16, 2020•22 min•Ep. 709
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 why real, fact-based journalism has never been more important. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/priv...
Mar 12, 2020•29 min•Ep. 400
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 world in new and innovative ways. With FedNetNI.com , you can access live text feeds of press conference from Capitol Hill. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.co...
Mar 05, 2020•27 min•Ep. 399
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. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Feb 27, 2020•33 min•Ep. 398
This week, It's All Journalism producer Michael O 'Connell is joined by Sebastián Payán of 070 Podcasts in Colombia and Tiago Rogero of Negra Voz in Brazil, part of an group of nearly 20 international podcasters who recently visited the U.S. to share their experiences and learn how podcasts are made in America. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice ...
Feb 20, 2020•26 min•Ep. 397
It's All Journalism Producer Michael O'Connell is joined this week by Tess Koman of Delish.com , discussing her video series Iconic Eats , which involves traveling to amusement parks around the country and sampling all their tasty treats. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Feb 13, 2020•25 min•Ep. 717
It's All Journalism Producer Michael O'Connell is joined by Jhmira Alexander, president of Public Narrative , to discuss the importance of educating community partners on how news works and why story choice in newsrooms can leave big portions of audiences out of the headlines. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not...
Feb 06, 2020•25 min•Ep. 395
It's All Journalism Producer Michael O'Connell is joined by The Alpha Group 's David Cohn and Mike Donoghue. They talk about Subtext, an SMS-based platform the co-created that allows journalists to talk directly with their audience without being bothered by trolls. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-inf...
Jan 30, 2020•26 min•Ep. 394
