Demystifying Media at the University of Oregon

About Our Guest Hilke Schelmann is an Emmy-Award winning journalist, freelance reporter and journalism professor at NYU. She covers artificial intelligence and the future of work for the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian and MIT Technology Review amongst others.  She was a showrunner and reporter for the Wall Street Journal's video series Moving Upstream and her work has been featured in The New Y...

About Our Guest Greg Constantine is a documentary photographer, author, visual journalist whose work primarily focuses on human rights, injustice, and equality. Constantine has been featured in The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Newsweek, The New Republic, The Atlantic, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Mother Jones, CNN, and Al-Jazeera. Constantine spent over 11 years documenting...

About Our Guest Jackie Gutierrez is the founder and owner of Women Kick Balls , an independent media company providing free articles for soccer fans at all levels. Jackie has over nine years of experience covering the National Women's Soccer League and the US Women's National Team. In 2025, Jackie created Women Kick Balls Coffee Company , brewing fresh coffee which she sells online and operates as...

About Our Guest: Jackie Gutierrez is the founder and owner of Women Kick Balls , an independent media company providing free articles for soccer fans at all levels. Jackie has over nine years of experience covering the National Women's Soccer League and the US Women's National Team. In 2025, Jackie created Women Kick Balls Coffee Company , brewing fresh coffee which she sells online and operates a...

About Our Guest: Roberto Valenzuela is a wedding, portrait, commercial and fashion photographer partnered with Canon USA. As a Canon Explorer of Light, Valenzuela is recognized for his innovative use of light in photography and outstanding influence in the photography field. His wedding photography has been featured in Cosmopolitan Bride, Rangefinder and Professional Photographers of America. He i...

About Our Guest: Rose Rimler is a senior producer for the Spotify/Gimlet Media podcast Science Vs . An alumni from the University of Oregon, Rose graduated with a masters in marine biology and conducted studies on oysters in the Pacific Northwest. She was a AAA Mass Media fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has written for the Raleigh News and Observer, Healthli...

About Our Guest: Jason Rezaian  is an award-winning journalist and global opinions columnist for The Washington Post , writing primarily on international affairs, press freedom, and human rights issues. He has devoted his life to advocating for freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and rights for journalists abroad and at home. Formerly the  Post ’s Tehran bureau chief, Rezaian is the host of ...

About Our Guest: Erin Aubry Kaplan is a journalist with nearly three decades of experience as an opinion columnist. Her  career spans various prestigious publications throughout the United States, notably the New York Times, Politico, and the Los Angeles Times, where she made history as the inaugural black opinion columnist. Kaplan's writing delves into an array of topics, with an emphasis on race...

About Our Guest: Danny Parker, a PhD candidate at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin Madison is an ethnography researcher focusing on political engagement and media access.  Danny's research examines the role communication ecologies play in the reproduction of poverty, and the development of political identity. As an ethnographer, she chronicles the live...

About Our Guest: Today we're joined by Danny Parker, a PhD candidate at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin Madison.  Danny's research examines the role communication ecologies play in the reproduction of poverty, and the development of political identity. As an ethnographer, she chronicles the lived experiences of extremely impoverished rural and urban c...

About Our Guest: Adriana Lacy, an award winning journalist and consultant based in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the founder and president of Adriana Lacy Consulting : a full service digital consulting firm helping publishers and businesses to grow their digital audiences. She is also an adjunct lecturer in the Journalism Department at Brandeis University, and the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree ,...

About Our Guest: Adriana Lacy, an award winning journalist and consultant based in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the founder and president of Adriana Lacy Consulting : a full service digital consulting firm helping publishers and businesses to grow their digital audiences. She is also an adjunct lecturer in the Journalism Department at Brandeis University, and the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree ,...

About Our Guest: Gregory P. Perreault (Ph. D., Missouri) is a scholar of digital journalism, focusing on journalistic epistemology, hostility in journalism and digital labor. He currently serves as Vice Chair of the Standing Committee of Research for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and as Reviews Editor for Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly . He s...

About Our Guest: Gregory P. Perreault (Ph. D., Missouri) is a scholar of digital journalism, focusing on journalistic epistemology, hostility in journalism and digital labor. He currently serves as Vice Chair of the Standing Committee of Research for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and as Reviews Editor for Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly . He s...

About Our Guest: Putsata Reang is an author and journalist whose writings have appeared in a variety of national and international publications, including the New York Times, Politico, the Guardian, Ms, The Seattle Times and the San Jose Mercury News. She is the author of a recent memoir Ma and Me, which talks about her leaving Cambodia at 11 months old, and moving to rural Oregon, and how coming...

About Our Guest: Atiba Jefferson is an American photographer based in Los Angeles, California. Best known for his 25 years of skateboarding photography, over the years he has worked for all the major skateboard publications and now works at Thrasher Magazine. Another passion – basketball – landed him a gig as a staff photographer for the L.A. Lakers during the Shaq and Kobe years, and he currently...

About Our Guest: Atiba Jefferson is an American photographer based in Los Angeles, California. Best known for his 25 years of skateboarding photography, over the years he has worked for all the major skateboard publications and now works at Thrasher Magazine. Another passion – basketball – landed him a gig as a staff photographer for the L.A. Lakers during the Shaq and Kobe years, and he currently...

About Our Guest: Dr. Valérie Bélair-Gagnon is an Associate Professor and Cowles Fellow in Media Management at the Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication. She is also a Waldfogel Scholars of the College of Liberal Arts (2023-26) and McKnight Presidential Fellow (2022-2025) at the University of Minnesota. She is also a visiting researcher at the Oslo Metropolitan University Department of...

About Our Guest: Dr. Valérie Bélair-Gagnon is an Associate Professor and Cowles Fellow in Media Management at the Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication. She is also a Waldfogel Scholars of the College of Liberal Arts (2023-26) and McKnight Presidential Fellow (2022-2025) at the University of Minnesota. She is also a visiting researcher at the Oslo Metropolitan University Department of...

About Our Guest: Thorsten Quandt is a professor of online communication at the University of Münster in Germany. He has authored and co-authored over 150 articles and books on topics including online journalism, participatory and citizen journalism, social media, and online gaming. His work has been cited more than 11,000 times by fellow academics. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants...

Hamed Aleaziz is a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times covering immigration policy. Previously he was at BuzzFeed News, where he wrote about immigration and broke news on Trump and Biden policies and the effects of those policies on families and communities. Before that, he covered immigration, race, and civil rights at the San Francisco Chronicle, was a criminal justice reporter at the Daily Jo...

About Our Guest Lecturer: Hamed Aleaziz is a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times covering immigration policy. Previously he was at BuzzFeed News, where he wrote about immigration and broke news on Trump and Biden policies and the effects of those policies on families and communities. Before that, he covered immigration, race, and civil rights at the San Francisco Chronicle, was a criminal justic...

About Our Guest: Hamed Aleaziz is a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times covering immigration policy. Previously he was at BuzzFeed News, where he wrote about immigration and broke news on Trump and Biden policies and the effects of those policies on families and communities. Before that, he covered immigration, race, and civil rights at the San Francisco Chronicle, was a criminal justice reporte...

About Our Guest: Thorsten Quandt is a professor of online communication at the University of Münster in Germany. He has authored and co-authored over 150 articles and books on topics including online journalism, participatory and citizen journalism, social media, and online gaming. His work has been cited more than 11,000 times by fellow academics. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants...

About Our Guest:  Erin Aubry Kaplan is a Los Angeles native who writes about herself, her community, and the city, often all three simultaneously. A longtime journalist and essayist, she won the PEN Center West award for journalism in 2001 for "Blue Like Me," a personal exploration of the link between depression and racial struggle that she wrote for the LA Weekly. In 2005 she became the first bla...