In this episode, broadcast journalist Ron Bryant discusses American democracy and the Electoral College with Dr. La Trice Washington. Dr. Washington is an Associate Professor of American Government at Otterbein University and the author of Political Scandals: The Consequences of Temporary Gratification . Dr. Washington lends her expertise to help us understand why the founders created the Electoral College, how it affects our elections, and the college's future in our democracy. Perfecting Democ...
Nov 24, 2020•39 min•Ep. 18
In this series, we explore Democracy and the Informed Citizen. Our guests in this episode are Destiniee Jaram and Jack Boden. Both are undergraduate students in the journalism program at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, and they share their perspective on the profession for which they are preparing themselves. Here are some links to stories reported by today’s guests: https://www.athensnews.com/news/campus/shawnee-chief-speaks-about-her-people-s-history-legacy/article_8dbb84a0-58cf-11ea-b6e7-b3c...
Nov 09, 2020•27 min•Ep. 17
Perfecting Democracy—Why it Matters” explores the history of civic engagement in the United States. In this episode, we bring together award-winning broadcast journalist Ron Bryant, and Akron based journalist and author of Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America , David Giffels. Together they discuss how Ohio’s unique past and regional identities have shaped electoral engagement across the state. Perfecting Democracy explores the topic of civic and electoral participation using history and juri...
Nov 03, 2020•35 min•Ep. 16
Our guest for this episode – in which our focus is racial equity in media reporting - is Mark Curnutte ( http://www.miamioh.edu/cas/academics/departments/sociology-gerontology/about/faculty-staff/mark-curnutte/index.html ). Mark Curnutte has been on the faculty of Miami University in Oxford Ohio for the past several years where he teaches courses on journalism and social justice. He is also a multi-award-winning career newspaper journalist who has reported extensively on social issues of race, c...
Oct 12, 2020•30 min•Ep. 15
This episode of the Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is about Report for America . In it, we hear from some of the project’s 2020-2021 Ohio-based corps members who all began their new jobs during June of 2020. The guests interviewed are Seyma Bayram, who is reporting on minority and immigrant issues for The Akron Beacon Journal , H.L. Comeriato, who is focusing on Public Health also in Akron for The Devil Strip , and Conor Morris, who’s covering poverty-related issues in Cleveland - such ...
Sep 21, 2020•39 min•Ep. 14
This episode of the Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified in August of 1920. Our guest in this episode is Jen Miller who is the Executive Director of the League of Women Voters of Ohio which is also 100 years old this year. Jen discusses the history and current work of the League an...
Aug 31, 2020•34 min•Ep. 13
This episode’s guest is writer and reporter, Tim Feran, talks about the landscape of local newspapers in Ohio. You can find out more about Tim at https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-feran-1b0944a/ and here are some links to his work: The Poynter article about Gannett, the Ithaca Journal , and ghost newsrooms mentioned in the interview can be found at https://www.poynter.org/locally/2020/at-gannetts-ithaca-journal-local-news-staffing-is-down-to-one-reporter/ The name of the journalist whom Tim talks ...
Aug 11, 2020•31 min•Ep. 12
This episode features Neenah Ellis and Luke Dennis of WYSO - https://www.wyso.org - which is the Greater Dayton area’s only NPR News station. Luke Dennis, who has a background in arts and music administration, is WYSO’s General Manager. Neenah Ellis, who was Luke’s predecessor in that role, is a multi-award-winning radio documentary maker of several decades standing. She is also the President of Miami Valley Public Media - the recently formed community owned non-profit organization behind WYSO. ...
Jul 20, 2020•32 min•Ep. 11
This episode of Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified in August of 1920. In this episode, Dr Treva Lindsey discusses the role that women of color have played in the struggle for the right to vote both before the 19th Amendment was passed and since. Dr Lindsey is an Associate Profess...
Jun 19, 2020•43 min•Ep. 10
Ladies First: A Century of Women’s Innovations in Comics and Cartoon Art This episode of Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified on the 18th of August of 1920. The guests in this episode of the podcast are Caitlin McGurk , Associate Curator of Outreach & Engagement and Assistant P...
Jun 10, 2020•25 min•Ep. 9
This episode of the Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified in August of 1920. Our guest in this episode is historian Dr Kimberly Hamlin who talks about the history of the suffrage movement, the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and about ongoing issues concerning voting r...
May 18, 2020•49 min•Ep. 8
Today, the podcast’s guest is Patricia Gallagher Newberry - https://www.miamioh.edu/cas/academics/departments/mjf/about/faculty-staff/newberry-patricia/ - who is the current President of the Society of Professional Journalists - https://www.spj.org – and who runs the Journalism Program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. In this episode – which was recorded in late March, 2020 - Gallagher Newberry discusses the fluctuating and sometimes fraught relationship between U.S. Presidents past and pres...
May 07, 2020•39 min•Ep. 7
In this episode of the Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast revisits Kent State University 50 years on from the May 4th 1970 shootings by members of the National Guard of four unarmed students on the campus. The episode includes an interview with poet and playwright David Hassler who discusses his play “May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970” which is based on the university’s oral history archive. It also features Mindy Farmer, who is Director of the May 4 Visitor’s Center on the Kent State campus...
Apr 06, 2020•18 min•Ep. 6
This episode of Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified on the 18th of August of 1920. Susan Trollinger - professor of rhetoric and writing at the University of Dayton, Ohio - is the guest on this podcast, in which she discusses some of the rhetorical devices deployed by women fightin...
Mar 16, 2020•33 min•Ep. 5
This episode of Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified on the 18th of August of 1920. This episode’s guest is Barbara Palmer - a professor of political science at Baldwin Wallace University – and she is talking about the history of women running for public office both specifically in...
Feb 25, 2020•40 min•Ep. 4
Join a conversation between Ohio Humanities Executive Director Pat Williamsen and Ohio University professors Daniel Skinner and Berkeley Franz as they discuss their new book Not Far from Me: Stories of Opioids and Ohio . With support from Ohio Humanities, Ohio University medical school professors Daniel Skinner and Berkeley Franz have launched a website that provides resources for facilitating community conversations and reducing stigma around the issue of opioid abuse. The website is hosted at ...
Feb 07, 2020•12 min•Ep. 3
This episode of Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified on the 18th of August of 1920. Stephanie Hinnershitz - professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Cleveland State University - is the guest on this podcast, in which she discusses the history of the Equal Rig...
Feb 05, 2020•36 min•Ep. 2
In this episode of Ohio Humanities’ Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast, Ohio author Mindy McGinnis talks about her latest YA novel Heroine (Harper Collins, 2019). Mindy McGinnis is an Ohio-born-and-bred ninth generation farmer and an award-winning author of YA fiction. Mindy’s latest book, Heroine , has been described as “captivating and powerful exploration of the opioid crisis—the deadliest drug epidemic in American history—through the eyes of a college-bound softball star” and a “viscera...
Nov 25, 2019•31 min•Ep. 1
