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Ever find yourself in a conversation about race and identity where you just get...stuck? Code Switch can help. We're all journalists of color, and this isn't just the work we do. It's the lives we lead. Sometimes, we'll make you laugh. Other times, you'll get uncomfortable. But we'll always be unflinchingly honest and empathetic. Come mix it up with us.
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Fearless, Adversarial Journalism – Spoken Edition
The Intercept produces fearless, adversarial journalism, covering stories the mainstream media misses on national security, politics, criminal justice, technology, surveillance, privacy, and human rights. A SpokenEdition transforms written content into human-read audio you can listen to anywhere. It's perfect for times when you can't read - while driving, at the gym, doing chores, etc. Find more at www.spokenedition.com
It's All Journalism is a weekly podcast about the changing state of digital media. Producers Michael O'Connell and Nicole Ogrysko interview working journalists about how they do their jobs. They also discuss the latest trends in journalism and how they impact our democratic society.
Interview with Scholars of Journalism about their New Books
The Journalism.co.uk editorial team brings you a weekly look at some of the latest innovations in digital journalism, and speaks to industry experts on how newsrooms are approaching key challenges and opportunities in the industry.
Welcome to The Storyful Podcast. In this series, we hope to address the issues around journalism and news coverage in the 21st century.Storyful is a global news agency, verifying UGC news and trending video for media clients 24/7.For more information, contact: blog@storyful.com
Columbia Journalism Review's mission is to encourage excellence in journalism in the service of a free society.
A weekly look at the problems and pleasures facing journalists around the world and the power and responsibilities of news media.
“Journalism/Works” is an ongoing program of the Newseum Institute that focuses on journalism that matters — news reports in print, broadcast and online that produce change, provide insight and that fulfill the “watchdog on government” mission envisioned for a free press in the First Amendment.
Every week, we discuss how the media has covered the news and analyse issues affecting the industry with some of the biggest names in journalism in Australia and around the world. Broadcast live on Sydney's 2SER 107.3FM. Executive producer: Olivia Rosenman
Complete episode: In a media-saturated world, ABC Radio National's Media Report makes sense of it all. Richard Aedy talks to the key players, examines contemporary journalism and charts the enormous changes of the digital age. Published every Friday.
Welcome to a podcast designed exclusively for freelance journalists and video producers all over the world. We believe that 5 minutes of short interviews and practical advice can be more valuable and effective than 45 minutes discussions.Carlos P Beltran is an award-winning freelance journalist covering profile and human interest stories for some of the world's most influential networks (National Geographic, Discovery Digital Networks, AJ+, The New York Post, The Atlantic, Univision, Fusion, ...
The “How to Cover Money” podcast series, produced by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, is designed specifically for journalists who want to cover business better on their beats.
A weekly podcast created by the current masthead at the Ryerson Review of Journalism
The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism is a graduate professional school on the campus of University of California, Berkeley. It is among the top graduate journalism schools in the United States."On Mic" presents events of interest recorded live at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. From authors and photographers to scientists and visionaries, the Podcast brings thought leaders from around the globe to your ear buds.
JerdCast is a podcast produced by high school journalism teachers, FOR high school journalism teachers. We talk about innovative ideas for the classroom, topics that teachers are discussing, news items that affect our classrooms, etc.
Several times each week, well before she’s due to be at work, Christine heads into downtown Louisville where she dons an orange safety vest and volunteers as an escort outside the only remaining abortion clinic in Kentucky. Outside the nondescript, low-slung brick building that houses the EMW Women’s Surgical Center, she joins forces with a cad ...…
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Journalism.co.uk podcast
The team has been using a tool called Hearken to enable audiences to ask questions about the stories or topics that interest them
Images from the mass protests in St. Louis last month against the acquittal of a white former police officer in the fatal shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith felt like déjà vu: raised fists, Black Lives Matter signs, swarms of police armed in full riot gear.
I. “Do you think our asylum policy is broken? Do you really think that? That’s what you wrote,” the red-faced lawyer from Homeland Security shouted at me. We were in immigration court at Federal Plaza in New York City. He was young and outraged that I had written those words in an op-ed and was now testifying as an expert witness on Afghanistan ...…
I arrived at the polling station on the night before Catalonia was set to vote in a contested referendum on the region’s independence from Spain. A Spanish court had declared the referendum illegal, and Madrid had sent thousands of riot police to Catalonia to shut down the vote. By midnight, workers at the polling station closed the building’s ...…
Harvey Weinstein and the media's complicated relationship by Columbia Journalism Review
An internal handbook obtained by The Intercept provides a rare view into the extensive asset seizure operations of ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations, an office that trains its agents to meticulously appraise the value of property before taking it.
In the aftermath of the recent mass shooting in Las Vegas, online hoaxes and unverified rumors spread widely online. Many of these featured prominently in Google searches, on YouTube, and on Google News. More were shared on Facebook pages, some of them verified by the platform. This episode of the Storyful Podcast examines the ways in which Goo ...…
Jeff Fogel woke to the sound of someone furiously banging on his door. He quickly threw on a T-shirt and pajama bottoms while the banging continued, and stole a glance at his alarm clock before running downstairs. It was 12:30 a.m. in Charlottesville, Virginia. When Fogel opened the door, he couldn’t believe what he saw. He was face-to-face wit ...…
Beginning on Wednesday, Jair Bolsonaro, a hard-right member of the Brazilian Congress and a 2018 presidential hopeful, will visit Florida, Massachusetts, New York, and Washington, D.C. And he’s expected to get a rowdy welcome: Brazilian activists in the U.S. are gearing up to let him know his extreme right-wing politics won’t go unnoticed durin ...…
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Oil in Our Creeks, the latest full-length virtual reality documentary from Contrast VR, details how the community in Bodo City, Nigeria, was impacted after an oil pipeline burst in 2008
As the controversy over protests during the national anthem grew, President Donald Trump denounced NFL owners as being “afraid of the players,”a state of affairs that he called “disgraceful”.
Politico's editor Carrie Budoff Brown joins producer Michael O'Connell to discuss the evolution of Politico in Washington and the European Union.
In an otherwise predictable New Jersey election season, the state’s largest public sector union has come out behind a Trump-supporting Republican facing an incumbent Democrat. The New Jersey Education Association, which is New Jersey’s top political spender, is backing Republican Fran Grenier against Steve Sweeney, the Democratic state Senate p ...…
Abailiff pushedJabar Ali Refaie’s wheelchair into a federalcourtroom in Tampa, Florida, on September 20. Dressed in an orange jumpsuit and looking weak from not having had the drugs he takes to treat his multiple sclerosis, the 37-year-old Refaie was here for a bond hearing after being indicted on felony charges that allege he sold counterfeit ...…
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When a school shuts down, students lose more than a place of learning; they lose friends, mentors and a community. This is an experience that disproportionately affects black students in the U.S. Shereen Marisol Meraji looks at what it's like when a predominantly black suburb outside Pittsburgh loses its only public high school.…
Despite being called “Sanctuary Sally” by her Republican opponent, Sally Hernandez sailed to victory in last year’s Travis County, Texas, sheriff’s raceby pledging to end the department’s voluntary cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That Hernandez’s stance would find a receptive audience in Travis County, which isdominat ...…
The Democratic Party has fully mobilized multiple times this year in defense of the Affordable Care Act. But when it comes to the future of health care, the party has quietly given up on the idea of trying to make theACA principle of regulated private insurance markets work. Instead, they see expanding public health insurance as the future. Rep ...…
A lot of the debate around blackNFL players kneeling to protest police killings and racism seems to take placein a historical vacuum. The history of athletes and protest is seldom mentioned and, what’s worse, the reason why Colin Kaepernick and his comrades began protesting during the national anthem has been drowned out in the shouting.…
By Laura Howells, Jacob McNair and Emily Pardo When should journalists use the word “terrorism?” Why refer to the attack in Edmonton as terrorism, and not the mass shooting in Las Vegas? Does it matter that neither the Edmonton attacker nor the Quebec City mosque shooter from January have actually been charged with terrorism? In this episode, w ...…
Businesses ground to a halt here in Barcelona and across Catalonia on Tuesday, as a general strike was observed and protesters poured into the streets. Two days after the Spanish government authorized the use of force to disrupt a referendum on independence from Spain, Catalans for and against secession remain livid. The small village of Caldes ...…
In our weekly media program, we travel to Jordan where the media watchdog is being muzzled. We also go to Myanmar, where cartoonists and journalists appear to have lost their objectivity and take aim at Rohingya muslims, adding insult to injury to people who the UN and human rights groups say are being persecuted and forcibly evicted from their ...…
The growing propensity of government hackers to re-use code and computers from rival nations is undermining the integrity of hacking investigations and calling into question how online attacks are attributed, according to researchers from Kaspersky Lab.
This week on The Kicker, we present a special episode recorded live from Atlanta. CJR Managing Editor Vanessa Gezari talks with The New York Times’s Glenn Thrush and The Guardian’s Ben Jacobs about covering the Trump White House. They discuss the emotional toll of the breakneck news cycle, what’s different about the new administration, and how ...…
Voters in Columbus—Ohio’s largest city — will head to the polls this November to choose between a group of Democratic Party-endorsed incumbents for city council and the school board and a slate of progressive challengers backed by the Working Families Party. The challengers, running under the banner of “Yes We Can,” were inspired by the Bernie ...…
For bondholders sitting on Puerto Rican debt, Hurricane Maria may have come just when they needed it, just as a yearslong battle over the fate of the island’s financial future was beginning to turn against them. Or, depending on how the politics shake out, they could see their entire bet go south.
Julia Goldberg, professor of creative writing at Santa Fe University and author of the recently published book, "Inside Story: Everyones Guide to Reporting and Writing Creative Nonfiction," talks with producer Michael O'Connell...
As hundreds of undocumented immigrants were rounded up across the country last February in the first mass raids of the Trump administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcementofficials went out of their way to portray the people they detained as hardened criminals, instructing field offices to highlight the worst cases for the media and attemp ...…
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When the Department of Homeland Security notified 21 states that Russian actors had targeted their elections systems in the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election, the impacted states rolled out a series of defiant statements. “Oregon’s security measures thwarted Russian government attempts to access the Secretary of State computer ...…
Catalonia’s independence referendum concluded on Sunday night amid deep uncertainty about everything from the integrity of the vote to the meaning of the result. The counting of what the Catalan government said would be millions of votes came at the end of a long day, which began before dawn with voters and poll workers across the region defend ...…
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With new editions, video series and even a book launch, Quartz is expanding its storytelling
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The haphazard response to Hurricane Maria has underscored the tricky, in-between space that Puerto Ricans occupy. They're U.S. citizens — although nearly half of the country doesn't know that. But those who live in Puerto Rico don't enjoy many of the same privileges as citizens on the mainland. In this week's episode, Shereen travels to one of ...…
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Pull Quotes: Ryerson Review of Journalism
By Laura Howells, Jacob McNair and Emily Pardo Welcome to Pull Quotes, a new podcast from the Ryerson Review of Journalism. This week: Cracks in Canadian press freedom. The RCMP wants Vice reporter Ben Makuch to hand over all his messages with one of his sources — an accused terrorist. But new reports say that man has been dead for the last two ...…
Austin Frerick couldn’t believe the numbers. Last year, while working as an economist at the Office of Tax Analysis in the Obama Treasury Department, Frerick co-wrote a paper on “excess returns,” which he describes as “a fancy way of saying monopoly profits.” And the data were leaping off the charts. “We were seeing returns in places we shouldn ...…
TENSIONS ARE RUNNING high in Barcelona. Last month saw a terrorist attack on one of the city’s main thoroughfares, Las Ramblas, which killed a dozen people and injured more than 100. At the same time, Barcelona and the greater region of Catalonia are a day away from an independence referendum that has pitted the Catalan and Spanish governments ...…
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It was atypical Saturday night at the Border Patrol checkpoint outside Laredo, Texas: cars and commercial trucks lined up and waiting to pass the last line of agents and cameras on the northbound highway. Every day there are thousands of them, an endless river of people and things moving between the U.S. and Mexico. Among the vehicles that nigh ...…
At the height of the movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline’s construction last fall, the Federal Aviation Administration imposed a rare “temporary flight restriction,” also known as a no-fly zone, covering nearly 154 square miles of airspace above the pipeline resistance.
Anti-terrorism laws are sometimes used to muzzle the media. Journalists Denis Nkwebo in Cameroon and Mohanad El Sangary in Egypt detail the challenges they and their colleagues face in trying to navigate deliberately opaque laws and not land in prison. Anti-terrorism laws were enacted in 2013 in Egypt and in 2014 in Cameroon. And one of the thi ...…
The government’s media reform bill finally passed the Senate on September 14, after months of negotiations with cross bench senators. Communications minister Mitch Fifield says the reform will strengthen Australia’s media industry and secure local journalism jobs. But not everyone is convinced. And what about Facebook and Google? We sat down to ...…
At the start of the American plunge into the Vietnam War, the State Department circulated an optimistic cable about Nguyen Van Thieu, the South Vietnamese president who had just taken power with U.S. support: His speeches and appeals to the people of Vietnam are directed at ensuring the national independence of Vietnam; rallying the people toge ...…
Fake news in a small town by Columbia Journalism Review
Just a few years ago, sending encrypted messages was a challenge. Just to get started, you had to spend hours following along with jargon-filled tutorials, or be lucky enough to find a nerd friend to teach you. The few that survived this process quickly hit a second barrier: They could only encrypt with others who had already jumped through the ...…
On July 1, 2001, Portugal enacted a law to decriminalize all drugs. Under that law, nobody who is found possessing or using narcotics is arrested in Portugal, nor are they turned into a criminal. Indeed, neither drug use nor drug possession are considered crimes at all. Instead, those found doing it are sent to speak with a panel of drug counse ...…
Andrea Wenzel, an incoming assistant professor at Temple University and Sam Ford, media executive and consultant, join producer Michael O'Connell to discuss their research on political polarization following the 2016 election, as published...
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The district attorney of Los Angeles County filed criminal charges this month against Ref Rodriguez, the school board president of the nation’s second-largest public school district. Accused of laundering money into his 2015 political campaign with the help of his cousin, Rodriguez faces three felony charges and 25 misdemeanors. It’s not your t ...…
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In his United Nations General Assembly speech last week, President Donald Trump loudly stated his intention to effectively dismantle the world order that the United States painstakingly built over the past century. Trump lauded nationalism before the assembled delegates at the same global institution that the U.S. helped create: “I will always ...…
The Governor of Rio de Janeiro, Luiz Fernando Pezão, admitted that his administration could no longer cope on Friday as he requested the assistance of the Brazilian military to help bring the situation in Rocinha, one of the city’s largest favela, under control. Hours later, some 950 heavily-armed soldiers dramatically descended on the favela o ...…
When social interactions become racially charged, sometimes even the most woke among us are prone to faux pas. So this week, we're taking on our listeners' most burning questions about race. We'll talk weddings. We'll talk kiddos. And most of all, we'll talk paletas.
The organisation offers mentorship to female journalists taking on assignments in new countries, or working in a particular beat
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Three weeks after the murder of outspoken Indian journalist Gauri Lankesh, the press in India fears their industry may be under threat. The high profile editor was shot dead outside her home in the southern city of Bangalore on Tuesday 6 September. Her death has sparked calls for greater protection of female journalists. Rarely has the death of ...…
