Season 5

These are the podcast episodes and posts published by It’s All Journalism in 2017.

Special Announcement: We’ll do it live!

  After more than five years and 280 episodes, we’re proud to announce that we’ll be hosting the first live recording of our weekly It’s All Journalism podcast. In partnership with the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, the Online News Association’s D.C. Meetup Group and the National Press Club, It’s All Journalism will be hosting a…

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280. Vice News Tonight and its different take on political news

Shawna Thomas, D.C. bureau chief, senior producer and occasional correspondent for Vice News Tonight on HBO, joins Michael O’Connell to discuss the importance of breaking down one news story into its elements to reach a digital audience where it lives. 

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279. Collaboration key to combating fake news

  If newsrooms want readers to trust the validity and truthfulness of their work, show them the process. For the past year, the team at Storyful, led by Mandy Jenkins and Ben Decker, have been working with newsrooms around the world to not only shine a light on “fake news” practices but also demonstrate how…

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278. Progressive and unencumbered, The Young Turks way

Cenk Uygur has opinions on journalism and he’s not hesitant to share them. Uygur started his professional career as a lawyer but hated it. He took a turn into public access TV and loved it, later trying talk radio. In 2002, he started The Young Turks, the show for which he’s best known. “At the…

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277. Washington City Paper staff embraces uncertain future

The ground under their feet might not be very steady these days, but the staff at Washington City Paper remains focused on their mission. Alexa Mills came to journalism at the age of 32 and “job security was not my expectation. That’s not my framework coming into this,” she said. Perhaps that’s why she’s keeping…

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276. Write like a journalist, think like an entrepreneur

The time is right for journalists who think like entrepreneurs. Rich Gordon, a professor and director of digital innovation at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, knows this territory well. He was a reporter at the Miami Herald in the 1990s when the internet was still a new creation. Prior to that, he was digging…

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