It's All Journalism

Shaheen Pasha and Yukari Kane, co-founders and co-executive directors of the Prison Journalism Project , join It's All Journalism host Michael O’Connell to explain their initiative. They work with inmates to help those with an interest in writing learn how to tell their stories to a wider audience.  Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email ne...

The Arizona Republic had a zombie problem. We're not talking about the brain-eating variety of zombies. Instead, the Republic had too many digital subscribers that weren't actively engaged with the newspaper's content. These "zombies" were also most likely to cancel their subscriptions, creating a retention problem.  In 2019-20, the Republic launched a campaign to turn those zombies into loyalists...

Deborah Dwyer, a 2020-2021 Reynolds Journalism Institute resident fellow at the University of Missouri, joins Michael O’Connell to discuss her work, building tools to help newsrooms deal with unpublishing requests . She talks about the ethical conflict some newsrooms might have over this topic and how journalists can help make it easier to comply. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Jo...

Michael Yarvitz, co-author with Rachel Maddow of Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House, joins producer Michael O'Connell to discuss the book  and its accompanying podcast. He explains their research process, including sharing new information with people who prosecuted former Vice President Spiro Agnew. Keep up with the latest new...

Jennifer Benz, vice president of the Associated Press’ National Opinion Research Center’s Center for Public Affairs Research, and Tim Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute , discuss a new survey in partnership with their organizations and the Media Insight Project . Their survey of more than 2,000 people found only 11 percent of Americans support what journalists believe a...

It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell talks with Summer Harlow and Danielle Kilgo about their new study , “Perceptions vs Performance: How Routines, Norms and Values Influence Journalists’ Protest Coverage Decisions." They discuss how reporters are failing to provide strong coverage of protests and continue to place more weight on the voices of authority figures than those standing up for the...

In 2020, the Las Vegas Review-Journal launched Mobbed Up , an 11-part podcast series examining the role organized crime played in the rise of Las Vegas. The idea behind Mobbed Up was to grow audience and revenue for the paper. The Better News Initiative recently spotlighted the Review-Journal’s successful foray into narrative podcasting. As Mobbed Up's creators put the finishing touches on its upc...

It's All Journalism producer Michael O'Connell is joined by Kate Cox, editor of The Counter , a nonprofit agriculture and food policy website. She explains how all news can be seen through the lens of food and why it's the best way to break down political issues because we all have to eat every day. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email ne...

It's All Journalism producer Amelia Brust talks with freelance reporter Emilia Benton . They discuss their shared love of running and how Benton has learned how to be a successful freelance writer by doing.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell talks to Angela Greiling Keane, Renuka Rayasam, and Allan James Vestal about Politico's data-rich project,  Why state legislatures are still very white — and very male, which examines how statehouses are less diverse than the communities they represent. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsle...

It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell talks with Megan Griffith-Greene, service features editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer . They discuss what service journalism means, how it can help reporters better understand their communities and why it’s no longer the territory of women’s magazines.  Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsl...

It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell is joined by Heba Aly, CEO of The New Humanitarian , an independent nonprofit newsroom covering humanitarian crises. She discusses how her publication handled the COVID-19 pandemic and why her newsroom might be a model for other outlets as advertising dollars shrink.  Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our week...

Chrissy Beck is the managing director of The Chronicle at Duke University and Erica Perel is the former general manager at The Daily Tar Heel at the University of North Carolina. Their newsrooms teamed up to create the Rivalry Challenge around the annual Duke-UNC basketball game, turning it into a revenue maker for both nonprofit newsrooms. Chrissy and Erica wrote about the Rivalry Challenge for A...

It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell talks with Joshua Vaughn, a senior multimedia reporter for The Appeal and creator of the What Is Life?   podcast. Vaughn describes the podcast as a “passion project” that features conversations with people sentenced to life in prison in who are unlikely to be released. Listen to What Is Life? on iTunes, Spotify, or GooglePlay . Keep up with the latest new...

It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell talks with David Chavern, president and CEO of the News Media Alliance , an Arlington, Virginia-based nonprofit organization representing digital and print news publishers around the world. They discuss new legislative efforts to help news publishers get paid fair value for their content by Facebook and Google and the precedent set in Australia to make th...

It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell talks with Karen Magnuson, project director for the Solutions Journalism Network . They discuss what solutions journalism is, how it differs from investigative journalism and her new effort in New York and Michigan to apply solutions journalism to the topic of caregivers for the aging population.  Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism...

It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell talks with Angilee Shah and Jareen Imam about the Women Do News campaign, which is creating Wikipedia entries for women in news to help raise their profiles and credibility. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter . Also, subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcasts , Google Play , PodcastO...

Randi Stevenson is an executive producer at the San Antonio Express-News . She and Joy-Marie Scott and Chris Quinn wrote an article for Better News back in November about how the Express-News used a COVID-19 timeline to drive subscriptions. On this episode of the Better News podcast, Stevenson shares what she and her colleagues learned by launching the COVID-19 timeline and offers tips on how othe...

It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell talks with Dr. Marco Clark, founder and CEO of the Richard Wright Public Charter School for Journalism and Media Arts in Washington, D.C. He explains how educational issues in his own childhood made him passionate about helping students have more of a voice in their own education and why charter schools are held more accountable in exchange for more auton...

It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell talks with Selene San Felice, a new reporter with Axios in Tampa Bay . She discusses her newfound respect for newsletters, the importance of local news and why her new outlet will help lift up what others might consider the competition.  Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter . Also, sub...

It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell talks with Priska Neely, managing editor of the new Gulf States Newsroom project from NPR. She talks about her career in journalism and the new initiative to help tell important stories from Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi across the region and the nation. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email...

It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell is joined by Mará Rose Williams, a 22-year education reporter with the Kansas City Star and co-creator of the paper’s series, “ The Truth in Black and White .” The series began with an apology for the paper’s white-washing of history and failing to adequately cover the lives and losses of Black Americans and revisited some events to try and make things ri...

Anjanette Delgado is the senior news director for digital at the Detroit Free Press . She recently wrote an article for the American Press Institute’s Better News initiative about the paper’s community impact report. Better News host Michael O’Connell talks to Delgado about how newsrooms can create their own reports to measure the effect local journalism is having on their community, as well as ho...

It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell talks with Britney Dennison, deputy director of the Global Reporting Centre in Vancouver. She talks about empowerment journalism and the culmination of several years’ worth of work, a new series for PBS Newshour called Turning Points .  Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter . See Privac...

It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell talks with Blake Baumgartner, a freelance sports writer from Naperville, Illinois. They discuss Blake’s passion for sports and the difficulties he’s faced as a reporter with cerebral palsy.  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...