These are the It’s All Journalism podcast episodes published in 2020.
Imagine an online community where readers can ask reporters any and all questions they might have about their work, free from the insults and ridicule of trolls. Welcome to The Alpha Group‘s Subtext, an SMS-based platform that allows journalists and news organizations to talk directly with their audience. “It’s a platform that connects hosts —…
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Like so many other younger siblings, Matt Saincome just wanted to hang out with, and be like, his older brother. Since his brother was listening to punk bands from The Ramones and Black Flag to Minor Threat, that’s what Saincome listened to as well, from the time he was in elementary school. He tricked his…
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Jen Sorensen gets hate mail — she has a folder she checks with some regularity — but it’s not quite the pit of despair and misogyny some might expect. “There isn’t quite as much misogynist hate mail as I thought there’d be,” says the cartoonist. That might be due to the alternative press outlets in…
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When politicians and policy makers can’t agree on a basic set of facts, how can they really establish a set of priorities for a nation? When citizens have more difficulty discerning facts from opinion, and no longer trust elected leaders or the media to provide information, what does that do to a society? In a…
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Washington, D.C. is a competitive town where the federal government overshadows almost everything else. But it’s also a regular city, where people with no affiliation to the government live, work and thrive, or get pushed into the shadows. A group of 10 news outlets joined forces to help shine a light on one of D.C.’s…
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