The Journalism Salute

On this episode, we’re joined by Anushka De . Anushka is a freshman from Cupertino California studying computer science at Stanford University. This past year, Anushka was named the Journalism Education Association Student Journalist of the Year and the National Scholastic Press Association’s Writer of the Year.  Anushka talked about her initial fear of being a journalist and how she overcame it a...

On this episode, we’re joined by Ahmed Ahmed. Ahmed was named the Nevada Student Journalist of the Year – by the Journalism Education Association . He spent 3 years on the staff of the Southwest Shadow at Southwest Career and Technical Academy . And he’s now headed to the University of Chicago to study political science. Ahmed talked about his journalism origin story, why opinion writing is so imp...

On this episode, we salute Erin Perry , the managing editor of Outlier Media.  Outlier Media is a Detroit-based service journalism organization that identifies, reports, and delivers valuable information to empower residents to hold landlords, municipal government, and elected officials accountable for longstanding problems. They do this with text messaging, newsletters, and a section of OutlierMe...

On this episode we’re joined by Mariel Padilla . Mariel is a general assignment reporter for The 19th .  The 19 th is an independent non-profit newsroom reporting on gender, politics, and policy. It’s name invokes the 19 th amendment, which gave women the right to vote. She’s been with them for 2 years after working for a year as a reporting fellow for the NY Times. And she was a part of a Pulitze...

On this episode, Mark Simon is joined by Nicole Neroulias Gupte . Nicole is an editor with Global Press Journal , a news organization working with women around the world covering undercovered countries. She’s also the founder and executive editor of Trailing-Spouse ( Trailing-Spouse.com ), an online magazine and community that shares stories of expats, military families and significant others who...

On today’s episode, we’re joined by James Queally , who covers courts, crime, and police for the Los Angeles Times. He previously had a similar job for the Newark Star-Ledger.  James is the 2 nd Pulitzer winner to join us (Ted Bridis is the other). He was part of a 2015 breaking news team that covered the San Bernadino terrorist attacks that won the Pulitzer.  He’s also a book author – 2 novels. J...

On this episode, Mark Simon is joined by Javeria Salman , a digital news producer and staff writer at The Hechinger Report , which covers innovation and inequality in education.   Her beat is the future of learning in kindergarten through 12 th grade and her work is most often seen in a newsletter that comes out every 2 weeks. She’s based in New York City.   Javeria talked about her journalism car...

On this episode, Mark Simon is joined by Aneri Pattani . She’s a national correspondent for Kaiser Health News based in Raleigh, North Carolina. She has a VERY full resume – with internships, reporting, and radio producing work. She has won an award from INN for her news reporting. Aneri is also teaching an online class on responsible reporting of suicides on the Coursera online platform and gave...

On this episode Mark Simon talked to to Jen Maxfield . Jen is a reporter and substitute anchor for WNBC TV in New York. She’s has spent nearly 20 years reporting in and around New York City. She’s also the author of More After the Break from Greenleaf Press (out July 12) – this book revisits news stories from Jen’s reporting past. It’s a book of storytelling and of where-are-they now reporting. It...

On this episode, Mark Simon is joined by Mary C Curtis . Mary is a longtime reporter and editor, and now columnist for Congressional Quarterly Roll Call – covering the intersection of politics, race and culture.  Mary is also a senior facilitator at The Op-Ed Project , a group that mentors people (mostly women) to share their stories and be thought leaders. She has 40 years in an NABJ Hall-of-Fame...

On today’s episode, Mark Simon interviews Jake Wittich . Jake is a reporter for Block Club Chicago covering different neighborhoods in the city and LGBTQ issues. He’s also the vice-president of the Chicago chapter of the NLGJA , which is the association of LGTBTQIA journalists. And – he’s part of Block Club thanks to Report for America , from which we’ve had many guests. Jake shares his journalism...

Denise Clay-Murray is a reporter with 30 years of journalism experience who was recently hired by Votebeat to cover the upcoming elections in Pennsylvania. Votebeat has reporters embedded around the country to cover stories related to the election process. Denise talked about the work she’ll be doing for Votebeat but also about her career covering elections and about why Votebeat is so important....

On this episode we’re joined by Gabrielle Hays . Gabrielle covers St. Louis for the PBS News Hour as a community correspondent. She both writes and does TV work.  She’s previously been a TV news reporter in Knoxville, Tennessee, and a reporter/producer for St. Louis’ PBS affiliate. Gabrielle talked about her career path, her current job, and the stories she’s covered, including multiple pieces on...

For episode number 75 of our podcast, we’re joined by Tionna Taite. Tionna will be attending the University of Alabama law school after completing her undergrad work there with a degree in News Media. Her minor is Advocacy, Voice, and Stewardship.   Two years ago, Tionna started a magazine for students, Nineteen Fifty-Six – the first Black student-led magazine at the school. It’s staffed by 50 stu...

On today’s episode, we’re joined by Nick Toso ( @rolliapp ). Nick spent 7 years at CNN, working largely in a production role on CNN Espa ñ ol. He supervised interviews with world leaders, including president Barack Obama, and was a senior producer for both a daily and weekly news show. He’s currently the founder of Rolli , an app that helps journalists find experts for any story they might be work...

Our guest today is Diana Kruzman. Diana is currently the Midwest Reporting Fellow for Grist which is a nonprofit, independent media organization that covers climate solutions.   But Diana has done a lot more than that. She also writes regularly about religion and urbanism, which includes some international reporting. Her Twitter bio asks – Journalist, or just plain nosy?   Diana talked about her u...

On this episode, we’re joined by Ted Bridis , a professor of investigative journalism at the University of Florida. Ted had a long career as an investigative journalist and editor. His team won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting on NYPD intelligence programs. He and his teams have done prominent work related to Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server, and Paul Manafort and Rick Gates’ cov...

On this episode of The Journalism Salute, we’re joined by Carol Marbin Miller and Daniel Chang of T he Miami Herald . With additional assistance from ProPublica, they produced a 5-part series published in April 2021 – Birth and Betrayal . This was about a Florida government program that was intended to help families of children who suffered catastrophic brain injuries at birth. But the program did...

On this episode, we’re joined by Kam Burns . Kam is an engagement editor at Politico, working on social media strategy after a couple of years in a similar position for Wired. Kam is also a founding member of the Transgender Journalists Association. He does freelance writing. In the last couple of years, he’s written pieces on the transgender travel experience published in Allure and National Geog...

On this issue, we talked with Susan LoTempio and Kristin Gilger of the National Center on Disability and Journalism . Susan, who had polio as an eight-month old and uses a wheelchair, talked about her long career as a newspaper editor and how she went from initially just writing headlines and editing to overseeing entire sections. Susan also gave examples of what you’ll see in writing about disabi...

On this episode, we’re joined by Jessica Meyers , editor-in-chief of Global Press Journal. Global Press builds and maintains independent news bureaus in some of the world’s least-covered places. Each bureau is staffed by local women journalists who are from the communities they cover. Jessica talked about Global Press’ mission, what sorts of stories Global Press Journal covers, what her role as ed...

On this episode, we’re joined by Starr Dunigan, a reporter for Reckon , an online website that covers the stories and tough and important issues facing the south. Her current primary role is writing the weekly Black Joy newsletter that comes out every Friday. Starr talked about her journalism career path, the different types of good news that she covers, the Birmingham 1963 project , and what it w...

On this episode, we’re joined by Anita Hofschneider, a staff writer with the non-profit Honolulu Civil Beat in Hawaii. Anita writes watchdog stories, investigative and explanatory deep-dives, features and breaking news. She has covered a variety of beats, including politics, housing, health care and the environment. In 2022, she became the Beat’s Pacific regional correspondent as the organization...

On this episode, we’re joined by Emma Restrepo. Emma is a freelance journalist focused on LatinX communities. She hosts a weekly Spanish-language radio show, Dos Puntos – out of Philadelphia. She’s also an adjunct professor at Temple, teaching Spanish for Media. Emma talked about her journalism origin story, some of her recent projects - one on disparities of education in Philadelphia suburbs, ano...

On this episode, we’re joined by Allie Singer . Allie is a senior editor for special projects at Time Magazine for Kids with previous stops at Scholastic and DK Publishing. Allie and I are both graduates of The College of New Jersey. I’m class of 1997. She’s class of 2009. Allie talked about the moment that changed her aspirations from a career in teaching to one in editing and journalism. She exp...