Better News: WITF uses democracy beat to restore trust and push back against political rhetoric
Tim Lambert and Scott Blanchard of WITF talk to Better News podcast host Michael O'Connell about the origins of the NPR's democracy beat and how this new approach impacts...
635. Most Black Americans believe media has held them back, according to new Pew Research survey
Kiana Cox, senior researcher on the Race and Ethnicity team at Pew Research Center, discusses the recent Pew report entitled: "Most Black Americans Believe U.S. Institutions Were Designed To...
634. IWMF offers safety training for US journalists
Elisa Lees Muñoz, executive director of the International Women’s Media Foundation discusses a series of training sessions the foundation is offering for journalists covering political conventions and other news events.
633. AI tests media industry’s ability to add value to the information ecosystem
Klaudia Jaźwińska and Pete Brown of the Tow Center for Digital journalism at Columbia University, discuss the Platforms and Publishers project, which seeks to promote mutual understanding of how...
632. How choice can skew the public’s understanding of what is real and what is fake
David Rothschild, an economist at Microsoft Research, is one of the people behind the Media Bias Detector Project, which “Tracks and classifies the top stories published by a collection...
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Better News revisits the best stories of 2023
Kamaria Roberts, the deputy director of local news transformation at the American Press Institute, highlights the work API has done over the last year through its Better News Initiative and...
Better News: The Coloradoan partners with university to foster public discourse, increase engagement
Eric Larsen, The Coloradoan’s executive editor, recently wrote a report for Better News about how a partnership with Colorado State University's Center for Public Deliberation reenergized the newspaper's opinion...
Better News: Louisville Public Media makes news for and with its Black audiences
Better News podcast host Michael O'Connell talks to Louisville Public Media's vice president of content, Gabrielle Jones, about LPM's new approach to covering the news for and with its...
Better News: The Fayetteville Observer charts new course with Black audiences
Editors Beth Hutson and Myron Pitts discuss The Fayetteville Observer's new initiative to restore trust and better engage its Black readers.
638. Newsy Nick and the next stage in journalism’s evolution
Andrew Conte, director of the Center for Media Innovation at Point Park University, and graduate student Nick Tommarello share how the Center for Media Innovation is revitalizing local journalism in Pittsburgh.