Podcast

Podcast Debut: Kat Downs Mulder livestream interview

It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell talks to Kat Downs Mulder, the former chief production officer and managing editor at The Washington Post. This interview originally aired Feb. 24, 2022 as a Facebook Live Event to commemorate IAJ’s 500th episode.

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541. Shutting people out of democracy: What it looks like

Matt DeRienzo discusses the Center for Public Integrity’s new 50-state plus D.C. investigation of how voting access has become less equitable since the 2020 election and what that bodes for next Tuesday’s mid-term elections.

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540. Uplifting a vision of media that better serves democracy

Collette Watson and Diamond Hardiman of the Free Press discuss how Media 2070 seeks to empower Black journalists and others from marginalized communities to create and control the distribution of their own stories.

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538. Wallace Carroll blazed a trail for a generation of journalists

Mary McNeil is a former editor and writer for the Congressional Quarterly, talks to It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell about her new biography of Wallace Carroll and what today’s journalist’s can learn from this pioneering editor’s life.

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536. Axios has a brief message for journalists

Mike Allen, co-founder of Politico and Axios, talks to It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell about the new book he co-authored with Jim VandeHei and Roy Schwartz: “Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less.”

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523. Will Be Wild podcast explores lead up to Jan. 6 insurrection

Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz had already explored the presidency of Donald Trump with their Trump, Inc. podcast for WNYC, but the events of Jan. 6, 2021 showed there was more to the story. Bernstein talks to It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell about Will Be Wild, which examines what led up to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. 

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