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589. Why would anyone still want to be a journalist?

Matthew Powers and Sandra Vera-Zambrano discuss their new book, “The Journalist’s Predicament: Difficult Choices in a Declining Profession.”

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513. Reporting for seven decades on the free speech frontier

Dan Rottenberg, author of The Education of a Journalist: My 70 Years on the Frontiers of Free Speech, tells It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell there’s always going to be a need for journalists, especially now when truth is under attack.

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441. 2020 Lookback: A new journalist’s first year

Sarah Ramantanis of Philanthropy Australia discusses her first year as a journalist and working in the time of COVID-19.

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405. Former public radio journalist pushes back on ‘objectivity’

Lewis Raven Wallace has never been entirely objective — so how could he expect to be as a journalist?  He cut his teeth as an activist and community organizer for issues such as transgender rights, police violence in Chicago and racial discrimination. On top of all that, as a transgender person his identity was never…

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404. What’s it like for a new journalist?

As a new journalist, Sarah Ramantanis knows the world of reporting and writing isn’t what it used to be.  But she’s still ready to do what she can to make a go of it.  “I think I’ve always gravitated toward hearing stories about people going through something challenging,” she says. “One of the main reasons…

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349. Reconsidering the editor-reporter relationship

How much thought is given to the relationship between journalists and their editors? George Sylvie, an assistant professor of journalism with the University of Texas at Austin and author of Reshaping the News: Community, Engagement, and Editors, says that people forget that “journalism is, number one, based on relationships between individuals and grounds. The bedrock…

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