Media in the Margins

In Episode 10 of Media in the Margins, Becky Beamer speaks with Benjamin Haug-Toklum, a second-year photojournalism student at OsloMet, about what happens when news is compressed into TikTok format. Benjamin’s research examines how Norwegian national media outlets — NRK, TV 2, VG, and Dagbladet — adapt news stories for TikTok and how those videos compare with the corresponding written articles. Hi...

What can journalism learn from independent design publishing? In Episode 09 of Media in the Margins, Becky Beamer speaks with Lars Harmsen, co-founder of Slanted Publishers and Slanted Magazine, about independent publishing, design authorship, censorship, AI, print culture, and the future of visual media. Lars is an award-winning German graphic designer, typographer, publisher, professor, and crea...

This preview trailer brings together Episodes 5–10 of Media in the Margins , a video podcast and public-facing research project exploring creator journalism, independent media, trust, platform power, visual storytelling, labor, ethics, and the future of public knowledge. Across these six episodes, Becky Beamer speaks with journalists, media founders, researchers, designers, publishers, students, a...

In Episode 08 of Media in the Margins , Becky Beamer speaks with Carrie Regan about what media becomes after the institution — when a storyteller trained in global television builds an independent, founder-led platform of her own. Regan reflects on her years at National Geographic and Warner Bros. Discovery, her transition into entrepreneurship, and the launch of My Great Pivot , a podcast from Th...

In Episode 07 of Media in the Margins, Becky Beamer speaks with Dr. Toby Miller about journalism’s future through the lenses of labor, language, digital materiality, environmental consequence, and long-form public knowledge. The episode opens with a provocation: “The golden age of journalism is over and there’s no hope… This is nonsense.” For Miller, journalism is not dying simply because legacy n...

How do journalists earn trust in the public? In Episode 06 of Media in the Margins, Becky Beamer speaks with Mollie Muchna, project manager at @TrustingNews, about how journalism earns trust in the public. Mollie Muchna turns trust into practice: transparency, corrections, sourcing, ethics, AI disclosure, and credibility signals that help audiences understand why journalism deserves trust and how...

In Episode 5 of Media in the Margins , Becky Beamer speaks with Ford Fischer , independent journalist, filmmaker, co-founder of News2Share , and one of the clearest voices in primary-source documentary journalism. Ford describes his work not as “neutral,” but as primary source documentation : raw videography and livestreaming that records events as they happen, without shaping the footage around h...

In Episode 4 of Media in the Margins , Becky Beamer speaks with Liz Kelly Nelson , founder of Project C and co-developer of The Independent Journalism Atlas , about whether creator-led journalism is becoming a viable media system —or whether it remains a fragile, under-supported space. Liz brings nearly 30 years of journalism experience, including leadership roles at AOL, The Washington Post, USA...

In Episode 3 of Media in the Margins , Becky Beamer speaks with Ben Camacho , an investigative journalist, documentary photographer, and producer whose work focuses on state-sanctioned violence, public records, and communities affected by police and state power. This episode asks: What does independent investigative journalism look like when it is built outside legacy institutions — and when the g...

In Episode 2 of Media in the Margins , Becky Beamer talks with V Spehar , creator of Under the Desk News , about what happens when journalism is built directly for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and short-form video culture. V explains how creator journalism mirrors traditional media with reporters, commentators, specialists, explainers, and public voices but removes the old gatekeeping structure. In...

In the first episode of Media in the Margins , Becky Beamer speaks with Salla-Rosa Gröhn , a Finnish media professional specializing in social media journalism, audience engagement, and youth-focused platform-native storytelling. This conversation asks a deceptively simple question: Can journalists learn from influencers without losing journalistic integrity? Salla-Rosa discusses how journalism is...

Media in the Margins is a public-facing journalism and artistic research project about creator journalism, independent media, platform power, and public trust. We approach journalism as an evolving process rather than a finished product, and we treat knowledge-making as something developed through dialogue, transparency, and revision. Media in the Margins is a video podcast about the future of jou...

Join us for a new podcast about the art world and the people who live in it. No gatekeeping, just honest conversations about art culture, history, memory, and perspectives. Crafting the Frame is a video podcast about how culture manufactures meaning in the Artworld, Media, and Education. The throughline is simple: seeing isn’t believing — belief is designed. In season 1, we position the investigat...