Preview: Rick Klein, political director for ABC News

Here’s a taste of our our interview with Rick Klein, ABC News’ political director and a regular guest on Fox News and NPR. Klein talks to It’s All Journalism about what it takes to be a political commentator and broadcaster in the digital age. Check back Saturday, July 13, for our full interview.

#45 – NPR’s apps editor Brian Boyer turns data into stories

What Brian Boyer does has many names. Some people call it computer assisted reporting. Some call it data journalism. “When I got into this game the name that was being thrown around was programmer journalist,” he said. On his website, Boyer calls himself a hacker journalist. “The word hack, hacking, is not a negative term…

#44 – Doug Mitchell fosters next generation of media entrepreneurs

They kept going in and out of the edit booths, trying to figure out how to do things. Nobody was helping them. That’s how Doug Mitchell, a producer, a director — a wearer of may hats — at National Public Radio, first saw that batch of NPR interns in 1999 struggling to get their work…

#43 – Josh Kramer takes journalistic approach to creating comics

Josh Kramer considers himself a little bit of a journalist and a little bit of an artist. “It’s journalism in the form of comics,” said Kramer, founder and editor of The Cartoon Picayune, a biannual digest-sized magazine with black and white artwork and color covers. “Different stories that are all about real people and true…