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Season 8

It's All Journalism episodes from 2020.

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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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...

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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,...

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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...

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406. Zigging with all the zags of a career in journalism

Journalism and careers therein are changing. But the core values of being fair, being transparent, being accurate and getting the story quickly remain cornerstones of the industry.  Peter Copeland,...

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405. Former public radio journalist pushes back on ‘objectivity’

Lewis Raven Wallace has never been entirely objective — so how could he expect to be as a journalist?  He cut his teeth as an activist and community organizer...

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404. What’s it like for a new journalist?

As a new journalist, Sarah Ramantanis knows the world of reporting and writing isn’t what it used to be.  But she’s still ready to do what she can to...

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403. Data journalism in the age of coronavirus

The world of data journalism has opened up and become more user friendly than ever at the exact right moment.  Simon Rogers, a data journalist with the Google News...

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402. Covering coronavirus in useful, trustworthy ways

In reality, there’s only one story in the U.S. these days, and every newsroom is trying to figure out the best way to cover it — the new coronavirus....

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401. How can storytellers crack writer’s block?

What if there was a way to get around writer’s block?  What if people in creative jobs figured out a way to cultivate a steady stream of ideas and...

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