Season 6

These are the podcast episodes and posts published by It’s All Journalism in 2018.

326. Give women a voice and the world listens

Xanthe Scharff, co-founder and executive director of the Fuller Project for International Reporting, joins producer Michael O’Connell to discuss her belief that writing every day and sharing stories can help change lives for girls and women around the world.

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325. Wounded Muse author follows career path through China

Robert Delaney, the U.S. bureau chief for the South China Morning Post, tells producer Michael O’Connell about his unusual career path, from kung fu student to futures reporter covering the market in China. He also talks about writing his first novel, The Wounded Muse, which will be released in October.

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324. Lynching, racism and seizing a moment to atone for a paper’s past sins

It’s All Journalism producers Michael O’Connell and Amelia Brust talk to Bro Krift and Brian Lyman of the Montgomery Advertiser. Inspired by the opening of The National Memorial for Peace and Justice earlier this year, the newspaper examined its role in perpetuating racism and racial segregation during the Jim Crow era.

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Underground press pioneer John Wilcock, 91, dies

John Wilcock, 91, a British journalist who was a pioneer in the underground press of the 1950s and 1960s, died Thursday in a care facility in Ojai, California. It’s All Journalism interviewed Wilcock in 2017, and he spoke about his early involvement in the underground press in the 1950s. “There were nine papers in New York…

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323. Can nonprofit newsrooms improve local coverage?

Magda Konieczna, an assistant professor at Temple University’s Klein College of Media and Communications, joins Michael O’Connell to discuss the importance of journalism to democracy and how nonprofit models could help fill the gaps in local news coverage left by diminishing newsrooms.

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332. Syrian child brides: Pursuing a story that needed telling

Lisa Khoury, a freelance reporter/producer based in Buffalo, joined producer Michael O’Connell to recount her decision to move to Lebanon for eight months in search of an investigative story, the saga of Syrian child brides and the struggle to get their story published.

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