Season 6

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

292. Where do college students get their news?

On this week’s It’s All Journalism podcast, Producer Michael O’Connell travels to DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, to talk about podcasting. In a live podcast recording, he asks a room full of college students how they get their news. It’s a fascinating peek how young people consume their news.

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291. Ear Hustle’s remarkable success in podcasting from prison

Nigel Poor, co-host, co-producer and co-founder of the Ear Hustle podcast, joins Michael O’Connell and Nicole Ogrysko to provide an update on the surprising — to her! — success of the podcast, believed to be the first one ever wholly produced from inside a prison.

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290. What’s it like to report from North Korea?

Charlet Duboc, a correspondent and documentary producer for VICE, talks with producer Michael O’Connell about her obsession with American culture, her adventures in fashion reporting and a recent trip to North Korea during which one of the most controlled nations in the world felt at once too familiar and alien.

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289. Illustration: What’s included and what’s left out

Graphic designer and illustrator David Plunkert joins producer Michael O’Connell to discuss his view that designers are visual communicators who need to convey ideas and stories in a single piece of work and how it’s the little details that can make a powerful statement. He recently illustrated the new edition of Mary Shelley’s novel: Classics Reimagined, Frankenstein

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Facebook will do what Facebook does

Last Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would be changing the focus of customers’ news feeds, giving priority to posts from friends and family over content posted by brands, businesses and media outlets. This decision, he said, was based on feedback from the social media platform’s customers. As a Facebook consumer and journalist, I’m of…

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288. Telling stories of the past to change the world’s future

Erin Harper, a multimedia producer at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, joins producer Michael O’Connell to discuss how her journalism and newsroom skills are helping to tell important stories at one of D.C.’s most powerful institutions.

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