Photojournalist Kevin Painchaud is a member of the Lookout Santa Cruz team that won a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for its community-focused coverage of the flooding and mudslides that destroyed thousands of homes in early 2023.
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Andrew Conte, director of the Center for Media Innovation at Point Park University, and graduate student Nick Tommarello share how the Center for Media Innovation is revitalizing local journalism in Pittsburgh.
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Tim Lambert and Scott Blanchard of WITF talk to Better News podcast host Michael O’Connell about the origins of the NPR’s democracy beat and how this new approach impacts the station’s election coverage.
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The idea of a “small but mighty” newsroom is deeply ingrained in the mind of Kari Hulac, the editor-in-chief of Richmondside, a new independent, free, nonprofit online newsroom covering the city of Richmond, California, and the latest offering of the Cityside Journalism Initiative. “We are very small but we have the small but mighty mentality…
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Lucy Santerre, social media manager for Maine Public, discusses the role social media plays in public media.
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Kiana Cox, senior researcher on the Race and Ethnicity team at Pew Research Center, discusses the recent Pew report entitled: “Most Black Americans Believe U.S. Institutions Were Designed To Hold Black People Back.”
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