At the end of every year, It’s All Journalism looks back over the last 12 months to determine which episodes received the most downloads.
The following are the most downloaded episodes from the beginning of December 2023 to the end of November 2024.
1. Legacy media is failing to give people the news they really want
Meghann Cuniff, a legal affairs reporter based in Southern California, has a long history of covering breaking news, conducting investigations and writing long-form narratives from courtrooms about high-profile cases.
2. What does the next generation of investigative journalists need to know?
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Ted Bridis teaches investigative journalism to the next generation of media professionals at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications.
3. What drives journalists to put themselves at risk?
Dr. Anthony Feinstein, author of “Moral Courage: 19 Profiles of Investigative Journalists,” conducted the first study on the topic of journalists, trauma and emotional well-being.
4. Journalists need to show their work to earn readers’ trust
Julia Angwin, founder and CEO of Proof News, discusses how journalists can restore trust by adopting a scientific approach to their reporting.
5. Empowerment journalism: How to build trust with the community you’re covering
Andie Crossan and Britney Dennison coauthored The Empowerment Journalism Guide. Crossan talks to It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell about how empowerment journalism can help newsrooms produce “community-engaged reporting.”
6. How can journalists and academic researchers find common ground?
Tamar Wilner is a postdoctorate fellow at UT Austin’s School of information, where she works on Co-Designing for Trust National Science Foundation-funded project aimed at tackling the misinformation crisis. She and Valérie Belair-Gagnon recently wrote a report for Nieman Lab on the disconnect between what journalists experience in the newsroom and what academic researchers understand about the news industry.
7. Report stories that are additive and talk to those no one else is talking to
Jane Ferguson, a foreign correspondent for PBS NewsHour and contributor to The New Yorker, was recently named the inaugural winner of the Neal Conan Prize for Excellence in Journalism. She discusses how covering news in conflict areas has changed in the 20 years.
8. Private equity firms in search of profits are killing off newsrooms
Margot Susca, American University’s first professor of journalism, accountability and democracy, discusses her new book, “Hedged: How Private Investment Funds Help to Destroy America’s Newsrooms.”
9. Pop culture’s influence on media is the subject of a new college course
Richard Lee, a professor in the Jandoli School of Communication at St. Bonaventure University, is teaching a class on the intersection of pop culture and media.
10. J-school students express hope, concern for journalism’s future
Angelica Amegashie, Andrew Herbst, and Beatrice Amune are members of the student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists at William Paterson University. The chapter was recently named SPJ’s chapter of the year.
