When you started your career being compared to Mary Tyler Moore in Minneapolis, it’s pretty much guaranteed your future will be promising and feature more than a few twists and turns. For 30 years, Jill Olmsted has taught journalism, but she started as a reporter with a longstanding love of local news. After several stops…
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Spread across Montana are seven Native American reservations and the state-recognized Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians. And for four months each year, a team of students from the University of Montana School of Journalism reports their stories. The Native News Honors Project, now in its 28th year, has two missions: To bring much-needed coverage…
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It’s All Journalism Producer Michael O’Connell travels to Tajikistan at the invitation of the U.S. State Department’s Speakers Program to train young journalists in podcasting.
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Keren Henderson, an assistant professor of broadcast and digital journalism at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, joins producer Michael O’Connell to review her research on the makeup of local news broadcasts, breaking down the age, gender and race of the reporters along with the stories they cover.
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Meghan Murphy, the Online News Association’s community manager, joins producer Michael O’Connell to discuss new training opportunities developed and offered by ONA to help journalists learn skills to keep up in the ever-changing industry.
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