Podcast

635. Most Black Americans believe media has held them back, according to new Pew Research survey

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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634. IWMF offers safety training for US journalists

Elisa Lees Muñoz, executive director of the International Women’s Media Foundation discusses a series of training sessions the foundation is offering for journalists covering political conventions and other news events.

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633. AI tests media industry’s ability to add value to the information ecosystem

Klaudia Jaźwińska and Pete Brown of the Tow Center for Digital journalism at Columbia University, discuss the Platforms and Publishers project, which seeks to promote mutual understanding of how emerging technologies are impacting the practice and business of journalism.

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632. How choice can skew the public’s understanding of what is real and what is fake

David Rothschild, an economist at Microsoft Research, is one of the people behind the Media Bias Detector Project, which “Tracks and classifies the top stories published by a collection of prominent publishers spanning the political spectrum in close to real time.” 

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631. Chestnut Hill Local seeks to grow readership in underserved communities

Daralyse Lyons, business growth officer at the Chestnut Hill Local, discusses a Lenfest grant of $100,000 to help the paper expand readership and its reader demographic in Philadelphia and Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

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Better News: Live events can help news organizations connect with their communities

Senior event producer Amy Zielinski shares how Vermont Public is using events to foster dialogue and connect with its audience.

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