Podcast

503. Legacy newsrooms identify new streams of digital revenue

March 17, 2022 Amber Healy 00:21:28 Comments Off

Will Medina, director of sales and marketing at Prensa Arizona, and Dana M. Peck, director of digital solutions at The AFRO, discuss how the Google New Initiative’s Ad Transformation Lab helped them identify new streams of sustainable revenue.

502. How crime reporting plus data leads to greater transparency

March 10, 2022 Amber Healy 00:38:36 Comments Off

Amos Gelb is the founder and publisher of DC Witness and Baltimore Witness, which combine journalism, transparency and data to ensure accountability of the criminal justice system in Washington D.C. and Baltimore.

Meera Senthilingum is a health editor at CNN International.

501. Skin whitening focus of CNN International series

March 3, 2022 Amber Healy 00:32:00 Comments Off

Senthilingam discusses CNN International’s “White Lies: Exposing the Dangers of Skin Whitening,” a series focusing on the problem of skin whitening and colorism across the globe.

500. Halfway To Episode 1,000; Kat Downs Mulder Redux

February 23, 2022 Michael O'Connell 00:57:12 Comments Off

To celebrate our 500th episode, we’re sharing our first interview with Kat Downs Mulder of The Washington Post from April 2013.

499. Philanthropy examined as a long-term newsroom funding source

February 17, 2022 Amber Healy 00:33:38 Comments Off

Victor Hernandez, chief content officer at WBUR, shares insights from his “Philanthropy & Newsroom Positions Playbook.”

Paul Singer leads the investigative reporting team at GBH.

498. Bias exposed by GBH investigation into government contracting

February 10, 2022 Amber Healy 00:32:41 Comments Off

Paul Singer discusses the GBH News Center for Investigative Reporting’s successful effort that expose unfair practices at the state and local level in Massachusetts to routinely exclude minority-owned businesses from receiving millions of dollars in government contracts.