412. Critical thinking is an essential skill for journalists
Jonathan Haber, author of a new book by MIT Press, discusses how journalists can use critical thinking to improve their reporting.
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Season 8
These are the It’s All Journalism podcast episodes published in 2020.
411. Massive Science behind covering COVID-19
Allan Lasser of Massive Science discusses the challenges of making science more accessible and how to explain COVID-19 to a non-scientific audience.
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410. Reporting Latino news during the coronavirus
Alberto Mendoza, executive director of the NAHJ, discusses the challenges faced by the Latino community, especially in light of coronavirus.
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409. How to cover the coronavirus pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic may be easier for medical and science reporters to cover, but that doesn’t mean general assignment reporters are without support. Ivan Oransky, vice president for editorial at Medscape and president at the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ), says his organization is prepared to offer advice, help finding sources and guidance on…
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408. Google News Initiative wants to help local news
Google supports news, because news supports Google. Chrissy Towle, head of news and local media for the Google News Initiative, says the massive company launched the initiative as a three-year, $300 million commitment to help the news industry in new and inventive ways because, as a search engine, news is a very important component of how…
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407. The Cramm offers young people news they can use
If the news outlet you need doesn’t exist, sometimes you have to create it. Olivia Seltzer was a 13-year-old student in California around the time of the 2016 presidential elections and “all anyone at my junior high school could talk about was news and politics. The majority of the people at my school are Latino…
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