It's All Journalism

Naseem Miller writes about health and medicine for  The Journalist’s Resource at Shorenstein Center at Harvard Kennedy School. She's also the cofounder of the Journalists Covering Trauma Facebook group. She talks to It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell about resources to help reporters to diversify sourcing in their coverage of health and medicine, as well has how to deal with trauma.  Keep...

Liz Bowie and Justin Fenton discuss the soon-to-be launched Baltimore Banner , an all-digital news outlet focused on covering Maryland's largest city.  Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter . Also, listen to our podcast on Apple Podcasts , Google Play , PodcastOne , Soundcloud , or Stitcher.  

Gannett’s Knoxville News Sentinel in Tennessee got a wake-up call that prompted its newsroom to rethink how the paper covered the city's Black community. With the help of former Better News guest Cynthia Benjamin, the News Sentinel paired a free one-year subscription with a Facebook group to create the Digital Advisory Group or "The DAG" for short. Joel Christopher and Brenna McDermott, the News S...

Billy Warden is a Raleigh-based marketing executive, writer and musician. He specializes in writing features from a first-person, immersive perspective. He shares what it's like reporting from inside a nudist community and as a performer in a drag queen review . Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter . Also, listen to our podcast...

A new study from the Pew Research Center looks at the state of statehouse reporting in the U.S. and comes away with some good news and not-so-good news. Katerina Eva Matsa, Pew's associate director of research, shares the details. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter . Also, listen to our podcast on Apple Podcasts , Google Play...

This week, we’re happy to share with our listeners an update on the most popular episode of It’s All Journalism of 2021: The Prison Journalism Project , an initiative to help people who are behind bars and have a passion for writing to find a wider audience and change the conversation about life in prison. Our Best Of 2021 episode includes an update from Shaheen Pasha and Yukari Kane, the founders...

We're pleased to revisit the 10 most popular episodes of It's All Journalism from 2021  as an end-of-the-year gift to our listeners. We've covered a lot of ground this year, with a focus on the ever-changing journalism landscape in terms of student press, unions and buyouts, and people who come to journalism and media from all walks of life and views on creativity. Every year, we find a few podcas...

Rebekah Sanders and Megan Taros are both members of the union that represents employees of The Arizona Republic. They talk to It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell about a recent study that shows Gannett underpays women and journalists  of color across the company's many newsrooms. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for our weekly email newsletter . Al...

Kamaria Roberts , the new deputy director of local news transformation at the American Press Institute, joins host Michael O'Connell in a year-end review of the Better News podcast. They listen to clips from past interviews and discuss how they demonstrate the successful application of strategies developed by newsrooms in the Table Stakes Local News Transformation program and featured on BetterNew...

Sam Greenspan is the creator of Bellwether, a limited podcast series telling real reported stories inside a speculative fiction framework. Greenspan explains to It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell how this non-traditional approach to journalistic storytelling illuminates humanity's collisions with technology. Keep up with the latest news about the It's All Journalism podcast, sign up for ou...

A self-described adventure seeker, Marshall Mosher is host of the Inside the Adventure podcast and co-founder of Vestigo , a company that conducts trust and team-building exercises using virtual reality. It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell talks to Mosher about how Vestigo has conducted virtual team-building exercises at news organizations like CNN’s Emerging Tech Platforms team.  Keep up w...

After 34 years covering the Chinatown crime beat for the largest Chinese language newspaper in the U.S., Portia Li suddenly found herself out of a job. Rather than give up or retire, she decided to launch Wind Newspaper to cover San Francisco's Chinese-American community. 

Melody Kramer,  director of communications and business development with the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, talks with It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell about her new project, SavingPoliticalSites.org . She explains how most candidate websites stop working shortly after an election, the massive effort required to track and save them and why it...

Paul Kleyman, national coordinator of the Journalists Network on Generations and editor of Generations Beat Online, specializes in covering the issues of importance to older Americans. He talks with It's All Journalism producer Michael O'Connell about why these issues are often missing in mainstream media and how young journalists can find help in the form of fellowships and resources to correct t...

James Fahn, executive director of the Earth Journalism Network,  talks with It’s All Journalism producer Michael O’Connell about his experiences as an environmental reporter, the importance of thinking outside the box when writing about climate change and the ongoing Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

Like many newspapers, The Post and Courier  was experiencing a drop-off in local advertising spending, which meant diminishing revenues. However, the Charleston, South Carolina, daily decided to adjust course and focus on philanthropy as a way to pay for its journalism. Autumn Phillips The new fundraising model proved so successful that The Post and Courier was able to raise $1 million to support...

Scott Yates is the founder of JournalList.net and Trust.txt, a tool news organizations can use to verify their legitimacy of the content and information. He talks with It’s All Journalism producer Michael O’Connell about how Trust.txt works, why it matters and how newspapers and publishers can join together to fight disinformation.

Duc Luu, publisher and chief development officer for the Washington City Paper, and interim editor Caroline Jones talk to It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell about the alt weekly's 40-year history in Washington, D.C. They also discuss how the paper's role has changed in that time and how it's using its status and connections to work with small businesses during the pandemic. 

MaryJo Webster is the data editor for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. She talks with It's All Journalism producer Michael O'Connell about her aversion to math before learning about data journalism, how data can be a better story source than interview a person, and how entering a query into a database can help pull information to tell the real stories of a community.

Kathleen Miles is the executive editor of Noema, a cross-disciplinary academic journal from the Berggruen Institute. She talks with It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell about the importance of breaking out of the 24-hour news cycle to give writers the room to investigate deeper topics to help decision-makers approach policy discussions.

The Tennessean is a major newspaper in Nashville, Tennessee. It’s also the flagship of the USA Today Network South. Like many mainstream newspapers, The Tennessean has primarily served a white audience even though Nashville’s population is 24 percent Black. In the latest Better News podcast, opinion columnist LeBron Hill talks to host Michael O'Connell about the report he wrote for the American Pr...

Shirley Halperin is the executive editor for music at Variety for both its online and print music coverage. She talks with It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell about covering all aspects of the music industry, how old-school journalism practices differ from the digital world and the way the music industry adapted to COVID-19.

Zach Cohen is the Senate correspondent for the National Journal, also appearing on cable news stations on behalf of his publication. He talks with It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell about why he studied international service in college, how to set up a weekly schedule for coverage and why it's important to have trusted sources who get used to your questions.

Michael Hainsworth is a Toronto-based podcaster who left a 20-plus-year broadcast career to embrace all digital media has to offer. He talks with It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell about the fear mainstream media has for digital, why that’s a bad idea and how the ice cream moment has melted.

Christopher Post spent 20 years as a first responder before changing careers and becoming a video journalist. He talks with It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell about how journalists can develop situational awareness and be safe when covering potentially dangerous stories.