It's All Journalism

It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell is joined this week by friend of the podcast Doug Mitchell, founder of Next Generation Radio , to discuss the long-lasting importance of relational approaches to journalism, for today and the future.  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/privac...

It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell is joined this week by Steven Waldman, president and co-founder of Report for America , detailing how the organization is helping local news outlets address their coverage gaps and the group's support for new legislation that could encourage newspaper subscriptions. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly...

It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell talks to Ellen Goodman about She Votes! , the new podcast she's produced with Lynn Sherr of ABC News, exploring the women's suffrage movement and the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. 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 Cali...

This week, It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell talks to Deborah Douglas , a distinguished visiting professor at DePauw University and author of a recent Nieman Reports article on the new Black press. 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 ht...

It's All Journalism Host Michael O'Connell talks to Kelsey Ryan, founder of The Beacon , a Kansas City nonprofit newsroom. They discuss the challenges of launching an independent nonprofit during the coronavirus and how LION Publishers is helping to foster independent local newsrooms across the country. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly emai...

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:/...

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 No...

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...

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...

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 u...

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...

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. Se...

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 a...

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 audie...

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 wee...

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://...

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 Priva...

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.co...

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 new...

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 Priv...

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 Priva...

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 w...

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...

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 newsle...

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 n...