Nieman Storyboard podcast

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Storyboard Editor Mark Armstrong welcomes Mary Schmich , the Pulitzer Prize-winning former columnist for the Chicago Tribune and host of the podcast "Division Street Revisited," which follows the stories of seven people featured in Studs Terkel's 1967 oral history book, "Division Street: America." Schmich teamed up with former colleague Melissa Harris, who came up with the idea for the show, and a group of acclaimed journalists to research and produce the podcast. In Terkel's original book, the people profiled used pseudonyms — so Schmich, Harris, and the team tracked down their real identities and surviving family members, and pulled audio recordings from a recently digitized archive of Terkel's work. Sign up for the Nieman Storyboard newsletter: https://niemanstoryboard.org/about/subscribe-to-nieman-storyboard/ Schmich has won the Pulitzer Prize and the Studs Terkel Award for her work as a columnist at the Chicago Tribune. She grew up in Georgia and Arizona as the oldest of eight children, and she graduated from Pomona College and attended journalism school at Stanford. From 1985 until 2021, she worked at the Chicago Tribune, where she was a features writer, a national correspondent and, for 29 years, a columnist. "Over the years, I cultivated three essential mantras, which [were]: Panic is my muse. Deadlines crowd out doubt. It always gets done," Schmich said. Show credits Hosted and produced by Mark Armstrong Associate producer: Marina Leigh Episode editor: Kelly Araja Audience editor: Adriana Lacy Promotional support: Ellen Tuttle Operational support: Paul Plutnicki, Peter Canova Nieman Foundation curator: Ann Marie Lipinski Deputy curator: Henry Chu Music: “Golden Grass,” by Blue Dot Sessions ( www.sessions.blue ) Cover design by Adriana Lacy Nieman Storyboard is presented by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard .…

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Wired's Makena Kelly on Elon Musk, DOGE, and breaking news narratives 50:13

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Storyboard editor Mark Armstrong sits down with Makena Kelly , senior writer for Wired covering the intersection of politics, power, and technology, about the magazine’s coverage of Trump's second term and how it has aggressively covered Elon Musk and DOGE's takeovers of federal agencies. Amid its breaking news coverage, Wired published “Inside Elon Musk’s Digital Coup” on March 13, a longform narrative that aimed to step back and tell the larger story of what was happening inside these agencies. Kelly's was one of nine bylines on the 5,400-word piece, and on the Storyboard podcast she talks about how Wired's editorial team — led by global editorial director Katie Drummond and including senior editor Leah Feiger — helped organize the reporting and make sense of a rapidly developing story. Subscribe to the Nieman Storyboard newsletter: https://niemanstoryboard.org/about/subscribe-to-nieman-storyboard/ Reading List: “Inside Elon Musk’s Digital Coup” (Wired, March 13, 2025) Makena Kelly at Wired Politics Lab Newsletter Makena Kelly at The Verge "How to leak to a journalist." (Laura Hazard Owen, Nieman Lab) Show Credits Hosted and produced by Mark Armstrong Associate producer: Marina Leigh Episode editor: Kelly Araja Audience editor: Adriana Lacy Promotional support: Ellen Tuttle Operational support: Paul Plutnicki, Peter Canova Nieman Foundation curator: Ann Marie Lipinski Deputy curator: Henry Chu Music: “Golden Grass,” by Blue Dot Sessions ( www.sessions.blue ) Cover design by Adriana Lacy Nieman Storyboard is presented by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard .…

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Erika Hayasaki on trauma-informed reporting and celebrating the 'reported essay' 57:45

6 weeks ago57:45

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On the debut episode of the Nieman Storyboard podcast , host and Storyboard editor Mark Armstrong sits down with acclaimed journalist and author Erika Hayasaki , for an in-depth conversation about trauma-informed reporting, questions of "telling a story versus taking a story," and when it makes sense for journalists to include their own stories in their work. Full show notes: https://niemanstoryboard.org/2025/03/28/podcast-erika-hayasaki-trauma-informed-reporting-reported-essay/ Books by Erika Hayasaki Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family The Death Class: A True Story About Life Sign up for the Nieman Storyboard newsletter Show Credits Hosted and produced by Mark Armstrong Associate producer: Marina Leigh Episode editor: Kelly Araja Audience editor: Adriana Lacy Promotional support: Ellen Tuttle Operational support: Paul Plutnicki, Peter Canova Nieman Foundation curator: Ann Marie Lipinski Deputy curator: Henry Chu Music: “Golden Grass,” by Blue Dot Sessions ( www.sessions.blue ) Cover design by Adriana Lacy Nieman Storyboard is presented by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard . Follow our other publications: Nieman Reports Nieman Lab…

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Trailer: Welcome to the Nieman Storyboard podcast 1:04

7 weeks ago1:04