275. Politico grows beyond its digital startup roots
Politico’s editor Carrie Budoff Brown joins producer Michael O’Connell to discuss the evolution of Politico in Washington and the European Union.
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Season 5
These are the podcast episodes and posts published by It’s All Journalism in 2017.
274. Journalists, get excited about your writing
Julia Goldberg, professor of creative writing at Santa Fe University and author of the recently published book, “Inside Story: Everyone’s Guide to Reporting and Writing Creative Nonfiction,” talks with producer Michael O’Connell about the process of researching and writing a book and how reading more can translate into better, more engaging and vivid writing.
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273. Political polarization and the massacre that wasn’t
Andrea Wenzel, an assistant professor at Temple University, and Sam Ford, media executive and consultant, discuss their research on political polarization following the 2016 election, as published by the Tow Center in August as “Lessons on overcoming polarization from Bowling Green and Ohio County, Kentucky.”
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272. Lack of government transparency leaves press, public in the dark
There’s no one universal – or national — standard when it comes to open government laws, requiring the availability of public records requested by journalists or citizens. Each state has its own law, but what is required by each state is often a mystery to the journalists who cover state and local governments, said Miranda…
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271. ProPublica project documents rise of hate crimes in U.S.
As a nation, we’re talking more about hate crimes and the ideas of white supremacy more today than in the past 30 years. But is there evidence to support the suspicions that hate crimes are happening more frequently? That’s a question ProPublica has set out to try and answer. Unsurprisingly, it’s a murky field of…
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270. ‘Brutal’ times ahead for alt press
Alt weeklies and other publications have the same battles to fight as their bigger brothers and sisters: Finding enough advertising to keep the proverbial lights on. Andrew Beaujon, a senior editor at the Washingtonian, sees the next few years as being “brutal” for alt publications. Following a panel discussion at the recent Association of Alternative…
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