Demystifying Media at the University of Oregon
UO School of Journalism and Communication, Damian Radcliffe
How we consume and create media is changing faster than ever. The Hearst Demystifying Media Series from the School of Journalism and Communication (SOJC) at the University of Oregon explores these dynamics. With interviews and guest lecturers from leading media practitioners and scholars, it dives into the latest digital developments and their implications.
Hosted by University of Oregon journalism professor Damian Radcliffe, each episode features leading experts—media practitioners, academics, and researchers— to talk about these global developments. Conversations and guest lectures are recorded at the University of Oregon campus in the Pacific North West.
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#67 Demystifying Media Guest Lecture: Practice in Photography with Roberto Valenzuela
About Our Guest:Roberto Valenzuela is a wedding, portrait, commercial and fashion photographer partnered with Canon USA. As a Canon Explorer of Light, Valenzuela is recognized for his innovative use of light in photography and outstanding influence in the photography field. His wedding photography has been featured in Cosmopolitan Bride, Rangefinder and Professional Photographers of America. He is the top-selling wedding photography author on Amazon with his Picture Perfect and Wedding Storytell
#66 Demystifying Science Communication with podcaster Rose Rimler
About Our Guest:Rose Rimler is a senior producer for the Spotify/Gimlet Media podcast Science Vs. An alumni from the University of Oregon, Rose graduated with a masters in marine biology and conducted studies on oysters in the Pacific Northwest. She was a AAA Mass Media fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has written for the Raleigh News and Observer, Healthline, and Sleep Review Magazine. Science Vs. researches claims made on social media and examines whether
#65 Ruhl Lecture: Press Freedoms, Hostage Diplomacy and International Policy with Jason Rezaian
About Our Guest:Jason Rezaian is an award-winning journalist and global opinions columnist for The Washington Post, writing primarily on international affairs, press freedom, and human rights issues. He has devoted his life to advocating for freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and rights for journalists abroad and at home.Formerly the Post’s Tehran bureau chief, Rezaian is the host of 544 Days, the acclaimed Spotify Original podcast series based on his 2019 best-selling memoir, Prisoner, ab
#64 Demystifying Media Guest Lecture: Making Sense of Chaos, with journalist Erin Aubry Kaplan
About Our Guest:Erin Aubry Kaplan is a journalist with nearly three decades of experience as an opinion columnist. Her career spans various prestigious publications throughout the United States, notably the New York Times, Politico, and the Los Angeles Times, where she made history as the inaugural black opinion columnist. Kaplan's writing delves into an array of topics, with an emphasis on race-related issues, alongside broader discussions on culture, politics, and the arts. Her work has been
#63 Demystifying Guest Lecture: Media Access and Political Engagement with Danny Parker
About Our Guest:Danny Parker, a PhD candidate at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin Madison is an ethnography researcher focusing on political engagement and media access. Danny's research examines the role communication ecologies play in the reproduction of poverty, and the development of political identity. As an ethnographer, she chronicles the lived experiences of extremely impoverished rural and urban communities by living among them and documenti
#62 Demystifying Media Access and Political Disengagement with Danny Parker
About Our Guest:Today we're joined by Danny Parker, a PhD candidate at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Danny's research examines the role communication ecologies play in the reproduction of poverty, and the development of political identity. As an ethnographer, she chronicles the lived experiences of extremely impoverished rural and urban communities by living among them and documenting their everyday lives. Danny has a professional backgro
#61 Demystifying Guest Lecture: News and Social Media with Adriana Lacy
About Our Guest:Adriana Lacy, an award winning journalist and consultant based in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the founder and president of Adriana Lacy Consulting: a full service digital consulting firm helping publishers and businesses to grow their digital audiences. She is also an adjunct lecturer in the Journalism Department at Brandeis University, and the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, in recognition of her work as the founder of Journalism Mentors, a website dedicated to advancing earl
#60 Demystifying Digital Journalism and Social Media with Adriana Lacy
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#59 Demystifying Justice and Power Distribution in Journalism with Gregory Perreault
About Our Guest:Gregory P. Perreault (Ph.D., Missouri) is a scholar of digital journalism, focusing on journalistic epistemology, hostility in journalism and digital labor.He currently serves as Vice Chair of the Standing Committee of Research for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and as Reviews Editor for Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. He served as Fulbright-Botstiber Professor of Austrian-American Studies at the University of Vienna Journali
#58 Demystifying Media Guest Lecture: Justice in News Production with Gregory Perreault
About Our Guest:Gregory P. Perreault (Ph.D., Missouri) is a scholar of digital journalism, focusing on journalistic epistemology, hostility in journalism and digital labor.He currently serves as Vice Chair of the Standing Committee of Research for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and as Reviews Editor for Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. He served as Fulbright-Botstiber Professor of Austrian-American Studies at the University of Vienna Journali
#57 Demystifying Memoir Writing with Putsata Reang
About Our Guest:Putsata Reang is an author and journalist whose writings have appeared in a variety of national and international publications, including the New York Times, Politico, the Guardian, Ms, The Seattle Times and the San Jose Mercury News. She is the author of a recent memoir Ma and Me, which talks about her leaving Cambodia at 11 months old, and moving to rural Oregon, and how coming out—and marrying a woman in her 40s—broke her relationship with her Mother.Putsata was born in Cambod
#56 Demystifying Media: Student Q&A with Atiba Jefferson
About Our Guest:Atiba Jefferson is an American photographer based in Los Angeles, California. Best known for his 25 years of skateboarding photography, over the years he has worked for all the major skateboard publications and now works at Thrasher Magazine. Another passion – basketball – landed him a gig as a staff photographer for the L.A. Lakers during the Shaq and Kobe years, and he currently holds the record at SLAM magazine for the most covers taken by a single photographer in the publicat
#55 Demystifying Media Guest Lecture: Photographing the Skateboarding Community with Atiba Jefferson
About Our Guest:Atiba Jefferson is an American photographer based in Los Angeles, California. Best known for his 25 years of skateboarding photography, over the years he has worked for all the major skateboard publications and now works at Thrasher Magazine. Another passion – basketball – landed him a gig as a staff photographer for the L.A. Lakers during the Shaq and Kobe years, and he currently holds the record at SLAM magazine for the most covers taken by a single photographer in the publicat
#54 Demystifying Media Guest Lecture: Workplace Happiness in the Media Industry with Valérie Bélair-Gagnon
About Our Guest:Dr. Valérie Bélair-Gagnon is an Associate Professor and Cowles Fellow in Media Management at the Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication. She is also a Waldfogel Scholars of the College of Liberal Arts (2023-26) and McKnight Presidential Fellow (2022-2025) at the University of Minnesota. She is also a visiting researcher at the Oslo Metropolitan University Department of Journalism and Media and fellow at the Yale Information Society Project. Her research interests inclu
#53 Demystifying Workplace Happiness and Wellbeing in the Media Industry with Valérie Bélair-Gagnon
About Our Guest:Dr. Valérie Bélair-Gagnon is an Associate Professor and Cowles Fellow in Media Management at the Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication. She is also a Waldfogel Scholars of the College of Liberal Arts (2023-26) and McKnight Presidential Fellow (2022-2025) at the University of Minnesota. She is also a visiting researcher at the Oslo Metropolitan University Department of Journalism and Media and fellow at the Yale Information Society Project. Her research interests inclu
#52 Demystifying Media Guest Lecture: From Participation to Dark Participation with Thorsten Quandt
About Our Guest:Thorsten Quandt is a professor of online communication at the University of Münster in Germany. He has authored and co-authored over 150 articles and books on topics including online journalism, participatory and citizen journalism, social media, and online gaming. His work has been cited more than 11,000 times by fellow academics. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including being nominated twice to the list of the top 40 most significant young scientists in Germ
#51 Demystifying Media Guest Lecture: Bonus Q&A Episode with Hamed Aleaziz
Hamed Aleaziz is a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times covering immigration policy. Previously he was at BuzzFeed News, where he wrote about immigration and broke news on Trump and Biden policies and the effects of those policies on families and communities. Before that, he covered immigration, race, and civil rights at the San Francisco Chronicle, was a criminal justice reporter at the Daily Journal, and did a fellowship at Mother Jones magazine. A Livingston Award finalist in 2021, Aleaziz g
#50 Demystifying Media Guest Lecture: Reporting U.S. Immigration Policy with Hamed Aleaziz
About Our Guest Lecturer:Hamed Aleaziz is a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times covering immigration policy. Previously he was at BuzzFeed News, where he wrote about immigration and broke news on Trump and Biden policies and the effects of those policies on families and communities. Before that, he covered immigration, race, and civil rights at the San Francisco Chronicle, was a criminal justice reporter at the Daily Journal, and did a fellowship at Mother Jones magazine. A Livingston Award fi
#49 Demystifying Immigration Reporting with Hamed Aleaziz
About Our Guest:Hamed Aleaziz is a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times covering immigration policy. Previously he was at BuzzFeed News, where he wrote about immigration and broke news on Trump and Biden policies and the effects of those policies on families and communities. Before that, he covered immigration, race, and civil rights at the San Francisco Chronicle, was a criminal justice reporter at the Daily Journal, and did a fellowship at Mother Jones magazine. A Livingston Award finalist in
#48 Demystifying Dark Participation with Thorsten Quandt
About Our Guest:Thorsten Quandt is a professor of online communication at the University of Münster in Germany. He has authored and co-authored over 150 articles and books on topics including online journalism, participatory and citizen journalism, social media, and online gaming. His work has been cited more than 11,000 times by fellow academics. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including being nominated twice to the list of the top 40 most significant young scientists in Germ
#47 Demystifying Opinion Writing with Erin Aubry Kaplan
About Our Guest: Erin Aubry Kaplan is a Los Angeles native who writes about herself, her community, and the city, often all three simultaneously. A longtime journalist and essayist, she won the PEN Center West award for journalism in 2001 for "Blue Like Me," a personal exploration of the link between depression and racial struggle that she wrote for the LA Weekly. In 2005 she became the first black opinion columnist in the history of the Los Angeles Times, and remains a contributing op-ed writer
#46 Communicating emerging science during a pandemic with Kathleen Hall Jamieson
About Our Guest:Jamison is a Professor of Communication at he University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication, Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, and the co-founder of FactCheck.org, a nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. She received the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 2020 for her nonpartisan work in public discourse and the development of science
#45 Creating compelling documentaries with Jake Swantko
About our guest:Jake Swantko has worked on a number of films, shooting for the Associated Press, ESPN, HBO, National Geographic, PBS Frontline, Time Magazine, Passion Pictures, and Nike. He is a 2011 graduate of the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.As director of photography, he has shown three films at Sundance: Entrapped (2016), Icarus (2017), and The Dissident (2020), which explored the story of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi.At the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, Ic
#44 Guest Lecture: A Masterclass in Documentary with Jake Swantko
About our guest:Jake Swantko has worked on a number of films, shooting for the Associated Press, ESPN, HBO, National Geographic, PBS Frontline, Time Magazine, Passion Pictures, and Nike. He is a 2011 graduate of the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.His new film, The Dissident, about slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi, premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2020. In this talk, Swantko delivers a masterclass on documentary storytelling. Audience questions have been cut fro
#43 Guest Lecture: Social Responsibility Reporting with Karen McIntyre
Karen McIntyre is an assistant professor of multimedia journalism in the Richard T. Robertson School of Media and Culture at Virginia Commonwealth University and researcher of constructive journalism.In this lecture, Dr. McIntyre discusses her work and key lessons from her forthcoming book, Perspectives on Social-responsibility Reporting: Theory, Practice, and Effects, which is co-edited with University of Oregon Associate Professor Nicole Dahmen (forthcoming, 2020, Peter Lang).This book will pr
#42 Exploring constructive journalism with Karen McIntyre
About our guest:Karen McIntyre received her PhD in journalism and mass communication from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She previously served on the AEJMC's Electronic News Division and Newspaper and Online News Division. Prior to joining Virginia Commonwealth University, she worked for publications such as the The National Geographic Channel, News21, The Richmond Confidential, and many others.Her research interests more broadly involve the processes and effects of digital media
#41 Guest Panel: Esports Journalism
About our guests:Gaming is the fastest growing form of entertainment in the world, with the esports economy surpassing $1 billion for the first time in 2019. In this panel discussion, esports journalists Mitch Reames and Will Partin discuss the emerging field of esports journalism with moderator and SOJC Assistant Professor of Game Studies Maxwell Foxman.This event was part of a day-long conference titled "The Business of eSports," hosted by the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center at Lundquist Colleg
#40 Media and the Esports Industry with Will Partin, Mitch Reames, and Maxwell Foxman
About our guests:Mitch Reames graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication in 2017. He has written about emerging technology and the esports industry for publications such as AdWeek, SportTechie, Blazer5 Gaming, and Dexerto, and is the founder of the Esportz Network podcast, which partners with Reuters to report on the biggest stories in esports.Will Partin is a doctoral student and graduate research assistant at the University of Nor
#39 Fighting a New Era of Disinformation with Claire Wardle
About Our Guest:Claire Wardle is the co-founder and Executive Chair of First Draft, the world’s foremost nonprofit focused on research and practice to address mis- and disinformation. In 2017 she co-authored a report for the Council of Europe entitled, Information Disorder: Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and policymaking. Previously, she was a Research Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy, and also the Research Director at the Tow Center for
#38 Guest Lecture: Community Engagement with Ashley Alvarado
About Our Guest:Among Ashley's efforts to develop strategies and opportunities to engage new and existing audiences across platforms is the engagement-driven, community-centered live storytelling series Unheard LA, leading human-centered design projects, and Feeding the Conversation, an ongoing series of engagement-sourcing gatherings that bring together members of the community with KPCC journalists around specific themes or coverage areas.She also serves as board president of Journalism That M
#37 The evolution of community engagement with Ashley Alvarado
About Our Guest:Among Ashley's efforts to develop strategies and opportunities to engage new and existing audiences across platforms is the engagement-driven, community-centered live storytelling series Unheard LA, leading human-centered design projects, and Feeding the Conversation, an ongoing series of engagement-sourcing gatherings that bring together members of the community with KPCC journalists around specific themes or coverage areas.She also serves as board president of Journalism That M
#36 Guest Lecture: Fireside Chat with Matthew Winkler
About Our Guest:Matthew Winkler, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus and co-founder of Bloomberg News, answers questions from our journalism students in the studio during his visit to the University of Oregon in November.Find Matthew Winkler online:LinkedInTwitterShow Notes:01:12 - The Bloomberg Way08:57 - Getting all sides of a story11:54 - Showing not telling in data journalism16:21 - Using statistical computing software for storytelling18:01 - Robo journalism22:36 - Transitioning to economic reporting26
#35 The ethics of reporting on your own newsroom with the 2019 Ancil Payne Award Winners
About Our Guest:Each year, the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication recognizes the tough, ethical decisions made in the newsroom and in the field—decisions that make a difference in the community but are often invisible to the public. The Ancil Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism presents a $10,000 annual prize to a media organization or journalist who reports with integrity despite personal, political, or economic pressure in honor of Seattle broadcasting legend, Ancil P
#34 Guest Lecture: How climate change can be part of any beat with Rosalind Donald
About Our Guest:Rosalind Donald is a PhD candidate in Communications at Columbia University. She researches community understanding of climate change in Miami, focusing on the way the city’s politics, infrastructure, and environment influence the way climate change is interpreted in policy and popular imagination. Alongside her research, she has also taught media studies methods and production at NYU. Before she moved to the U.S, she was deputy editor of Carbon Brief, a fact‐checking website foc
#33 Guest Lecture: How news organizations can fight misinformation with Mandy Jenkins
About Our Guest:Before Storyful, Mandy was part of the ground up teams at TBD.com, Digital First Media’s Project Thunderdome, and the Cincinnati Enquirer. She is also President of the Online News Association and sits on the board of directors for the American Society of News Editors.Find Mandy online:TwitterLinkedInWebsiteWant to listen to this interview a different way? Find us wherever you get your podcasts:RSS FeedApple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsStitcherSpotifyYouTubeAmazon Music/AudiblePandora
#32 Guest Lecture: How Power and Privilege Shape Public Discourse with Sue Robinson
About Our Guest:Robinson's 2018 book, Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power & Privilege Shape Progressive Communities, explores how digital platforms enable and constrain citizens – especially those in marginalized communities – who produce and share information in the public sphere about racial achievement disparities in the K-12 education system. The book is meant to be a guide for journalists, politicians, activists and others on how to navigate information networks to improve public deli
#31 Guest Lecture: The music business as a petri dish for journalism innovation with Cherie Hu
About Our Guest:Hu writes regular columns for Billboard, Forbes and Music Business Worldwide, with additional bylines in Variety, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone and the Columbia Journalism Review. She has spoken at over 25 conferences to date, including but not limited to SXSW, Midem, Music Biz and the Web Summit, and appears regularly as an expert commentator for the likes of CNBC and CGTN America.In 2017, at age 21, she received the Reeperbahn Festival’s inaugural award for Music Business Journalist
#30 Understanding power and privilege with Sue Robinson
About Our Guest:The SOJC welcomes journalism researcher Sue Robinson to this episode of the Demystifying podcast. Sue joined the faculty at UW-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication in January 2007 and now holds the Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism research chair. As a scholar, she explores how journalists and news organizations adopt new information communication technologies to report on public affairs in new forms and formats as well as how audiences and indivi
#29 Guest Lecture: Knowing & Checking Your Data with Jennifer LaFleur
About Our Guest:Jennifer LaFleur is a data editor for The Investigative Reporting Workshop and an instructor of data journalism at American University. Previously, she was a senior editor at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, managing data journalists, investigative reporters and fellows. She also contributed to or edited dozens of major projects while at Reveal, one of which was a 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist.She is the former director of computer-assisted reporting at ProPubli
#28 Fact-checking your data with Jennifer LaFleur
Joining us for this podcast is Jennifer LaFleur, data editor for The Investigative Reporting Workshop and an instructor of data journalism at American University. Previously, LaFleur was a senior editor at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, managing data journalists, investigative reporters and fellows. She also contributed to or edited dozens of major projects while at Reveal, one of which was a 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist.
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#27 How news organizations can fight misinformation with Mandy Jenkins
About Our Guest:Before Storyful, her roles include being the managing editor of the Project Thunderdome newsroom for Digital First Media, as well as coordinating the Off the Bus citizen journalism program as a social news editor for politics at The Huffington Post, and working as social media editor for TBD, a Washington, D.C.-area local news startup.Mandy is also President of the Online News Association and sits on the board of directors for the American Society of News Editors.Find Mandy onlin
#26 Guest Lecture: An Evening with Tom Bowman
About Our Guest:Tom Bowman is a NPR National Desk reporter covering the Pentagon. In his current role, Bowman has traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan often for month-long visits and embedded with U.S. Marines and soldiers.Before coming to NPR in April 2006, Bowman spent nine years as a Pentagon reporter at The Baltimore Sun. His coverage of racial and gender discrimination at NSA led to a Pentagon investigation in 1994.Bowman is a co-winner of a 2006 National Headliners’ Award for stories on the la
#25 How climate change can be part of any beat with Rosalind Donald
About Our Guest:Rosalind's work focuses on the way the city’s politics, infrastructure and environment influence how climate change is interpreted in policy and the popular imagination.Also in the room are Hollie Smith, Assistant Professor of Science and Environmental Communication at the University of Oregon’sMedia Center for Science and Technology, and Destiny J. Alvarez, a graduate student at our School of Journalism and Communication.Find Rosalind OnlineTwitterLinkedInShow Notes:1:01 - Tell
#24 How the music business is a petri dish for journalism innovation with Cherie Hu
About Our Guest:Hu writes regular columns for Billboard, Forbes and Music Business Worldwide, with additional bylines in Variety, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone and the Columbia Journalism Review. She has spoken at over 25 conferences to date, including but not limited to SXSW, Midem, Music Biz and the Web Summit, and appears regularly as an expert commentator for the likes of CNBC and CGTN America.In addition to her conference speaking engagements and regular appearances as an expert commentator on C
#23 The evolution of journalism with Tom Bowman and Brigid Schulte
About Our Guest:Bowman's previous reporting at The Baltimore Sun on racial and gender discrimination at the National Security Administration led to a Pentagon investigation in 1994.Before joining New America, a non-partisan think tank, Schulte was an award-winning staff writer for The Washington Post, where she served for almost two decades. Schulte is also the acclaimed author of the New York Times best-selling book on time-management and time pressure, Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play when No On
#22 Google and Journalism with Richard Gingras
About Our Guest:In this special edition, we are joined by Richard Gingras, Vice President of News at Google. He and host Damian Radcliffe discuss Google's role in supporting journalism, how the internet has disrupted the business model, and what skills young journalists need to develop.Find Richard online:TwitterLinkedInShow notes:0:45 - Richard explains his current role at Google1:53 - Differences in freedom of expression around the world3:31 - What will you talk about in the Ruhl Lecture?6:10
#21 Business Journalism in the Digital Age with Alice Bonasio
About Our Guest:Alice Bonasio is Editor-in-Chief for Tech Trends, a website “showcasing the latest disruptive technology that is changing the world we live, work, and play in.”Alongside her work at Tech Trends, Alice is also a VR (Virtual Reality) and Immersive Media consultant, and a contributor to publications such as Wired, Forbes, Fast Company, Quartz, VR Scout, Playboy, Scientific American, Ars Technica, The Next Web, and others.Find Alice Online:TwitterLinkedInShow notes:0:34: What is Tech
#20 Guest Lecture: Business Journalism in a Digital Age with Alice Bonasio
About Our Guest:Alongside her work at Tech Trends, Alice is also a VR (Virtual Reality) and Immersive Media consultant, and a contributor to publications such as Wired, Forbes, Fast Company, Quartz, VR Scout, Playboy, Scientific American, Ars Technica, The Next Web, and others.In this talk, Alice will talk about her shifting career path, including reporting on business (as a journalist covering the tech sector) and making a business out of your reporting (building Tech Trends as a platform and m
#19 Changing the Way We See Native America with Matika Wilbur(Swinomish and Tulalip)
About Our Guest:Matika's most recent endeavor, Project 562 ,has brought Matika to over 300 tribal nations dispersed throughout 40 U.S. states where she has taken thousands of portraits, and collected hundreds of contemporary narratives from the breadth of Indian Country all in the pursuit of one goal: To Change The Way We See Native America.In this podcast Matika, is also joined by the award-winning photographer and University of Oregon Professor Torsten Kjellestrand, and School of Journalism an
#18 Guest Lecture: Why the Future of Journalism is Collaborative with Heather Bryant
About Our Guest:As a 2016-2017 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, Heather researched how to make collaboration easier and more effective for newsrooms. This year, she published the Collaborative Journalism Workbook and works with the Center for Cooperative Media to chronicle collaborative projects from around the world in the Collaborative Journalism Database. Her work includes managing the Collaborative Journalism Slack and doing trainings and workshops on effective, meaningful edito
#17 Why The Future of Journalism is Collaborative with Heather Bryant
About Our Guest:As a 2016-2017 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, Heather researched how to make collaboration easier and more effective for newsrooms. This year, she published the Collaborative Journalism Workbook and works with the Center for Cooperative Media to chronicle collaborative projects from around the world in the Collaborative Journalism Database. Her work includes managing the Collaborative Journalism Slack and doing trainings and workshops on effective, meaningful edito
#16 Guest Lecture: Segregation, Integration and the Sounds of Soul with John Capouya
Join us for this special 40-minute lecture with author and Professor of Writing and Journalism at the University of Tampa, John Capouya.
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In this lecture, journalist and professor John Capouya, author of the newly published book, Florida Soul, discusses the evolution of rhythm and blues music in black communities and on the ”chitlin’ circuit” in the era o
#15 Guest Lecture: Stories By, Through, and About Algorithms with James T. Hamilton
Join us for a special 40-minute lecture with Stanford University Journalism Program Director, James T. Hamilton.
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Changes in media markets have put local investigative reporting particularly at risk. But new combinations of data and algorithms may make it easier for journalists to discover and tell the stories that hold institutions accountable. Based on his book Democracy’s
#14 Israeli Media and Threats to Israeli Press Freedoms with Alan Abbey
About Our Guest:Alan D. Abbey founded Ynetnews and was executive vice president at the Jerusalem Post. He is also an adjunct professor of Journalism at National University of San Diego and ethics lecturer for the Getty School of Citizen Journalism in the Middle East and North Africa. He was a leader of the Online News Association’s digital ethics team, which created the “Build Your Own” Ethics Code course and website, and he chaired the Hartman Institute-American Jewish Press Association Ethics
#13 How Journalists Can Rebuild Trust with Joy Mayer
About Our Guest:Joy Mayer is an adjunct faculty member at The Poynter Institute and the University of Florida and is a community engagement strategist based Sarasota, Florida. She spent 12 years teaching at the Missouri School of Journalism, where she created an engagement curriculum and a community outreach team in the newsroom of the Columbia Missourian and also taught web design and print design.Find Joy Mayer OnlineTwitterLinkedInHear more from Joy MayerInterview VideoLecture VideoShow notes
#12 Reporting in Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela with Will Grant
Will Grant is one of the UK’s leading broadcast journalists on Latin American affairs. He has been the BBC’s Correspondent in Cuba since late 2014, shortly before the announcement of the re-establishment of diplomatic ties with the United States. In that time he has covered such historic moments as President Obama’s ground-breaking visit to Cuba and the death of the founder of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro.
Before taking up his role in Cuba, he was the BBC Correspondent in Venezuela under H
#11 Why 'Solutions Journalism' Matters with David Bornstein
David Bornstein is CEO and co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network, which works to establish the practice of solutions journalism — rigorous reporting that examines responses to social problems — as an integral part of mainstream news.
He has been a newspaper and magazine reporter for 25 years, having started his career working on the metro desk of New York Newsday. Since 2010, he has co-authored, with
Tina Rosenberg, the “Fixes” column in The New York Times.
He is the author of three boo
#10 Documenting Chicago's Persistent Gun Violence with E. Jason Wambsgans
2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer E. Jason Wambsgans is a staff photographer at the Chicago Tribune, where he has spent the last 15 years covering stories that have taken him from the vanishing rainforests of Madagascar to the war in Afghanistan, and the last 5 years intensively documenting the problem of Chicago’s gun violence. Wambsgans studied fine art and cinema at Central Michigan University. Throughout a career of wide-ranging assignments, his editors have counted on his ability to
#9 Segregation, Integration and the Sounds of Soul with John Capouya
Professor Capouya specializes in teaching journalism and other forms of nonfiction writing. He is a former reporter and editor at The New York Times, Newsweek, New York Newsday and Smart Money magazines.
His latest book, Florida Soul: From Ray Charles to KC and the Sunshine Band, chronicles the soul music scene over the past 50 years. In this podcast, Capouya discuss the evolution of his book, and the little known role Florida played in the rise of soul music.
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#8 Stories by, through, and about algorithms with James T. Hamilton
About Our Guest:Dr. James Hamilton is the Hearst Professor of Communication, Director, of the Journalism Program, and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Communication at Stanford University. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, Hamilton taught at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, where he directed the De Witt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy.Changes in media markets have put local investigative reporting particularly at risk. But new combinations of data and algorithms
#7 Why People “Fly from Facts” with Troy Campbell
Troy Campbell is a design psychologist, which means he uses psychology to design better experiences, communications, and education. He is an expert in consumer behavior, marketing social psychology, political psychology, and scientific communication. Campbell’s research uses psychology to understand what makes people happy, how social movements can be effective, the power of advertising, what makes a good experience (such as a music festival), and consumerism.
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#6 Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Toxic Tech with Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Sara Wachter-Boettcher is a content strategy and user experience expert who has worked on the web since she graduated from the SOJC (Magazine, 2005). As the principal of Rare Union, she’s led projects and facilitated workshops for Fortune 100 corporations, education and research institutions, and startups. Her new book, Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech, looks at the way technologists often embed a narrow worldview into the products they build, pr
#5 Where Data Journalism Comes From with C. W. Anderson
About Our Guest:C. W. Anderson is the author of Rebuilding the News: Metropolitan Journalism in the Digital Age and Journalism: What Everyone Needs to Know (co-authored with former Washington Post Executive Editor Len Downie and sociologist Michael Schudson), which has been described as “an accessible, sweeping survey of the past, present, and future of journalism.”Find C. W. Anderson Online:LinkedInHear more from our guest:Video interviewLecture InterviewShow Notes:(00:04): Guest Introduction(0
#4 The Flattening of News with Stacy-Marie Ishmael
About Our Guest:Stacy-Marie Ishmael will be spending the 2016–17 academic year researching the challenges newsrooms face in adapting to the rise of the mobile-only audience. Prior to this fellowship, she was the managing editor of mobile news for BuzzFeed News, running the BuzzFeed News app and morning newsletter, and overseeing a team of news editors in New York, Los Angeles, and London.Find Stacy-Marie Online:LinkedInTwitterHear more from Stacy-Marie:Lecture InterviewVideo InterviewShow notes:
#3 The Future of Local Newspapers with Christopher Ali
About Our Guest:Ali has published in numerous journals, including Communication Theory, Media Culture & Society, and International Journal of Communication. His forthcoming book, Media Localism: The Policies of Place (University of Illinois Press, 2017), addresses the difficulties of defining and regulating local media in the 21st century in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada and the implications these difficulties have for the long-term viability of local news.Find Christopher Ali on
#2 Social Media Use in the Arabian Gulf with Sarah Vieweg
About Our Guest:Sarah Vieweg researches how citizens of Arab Gulf countries perceive, use, and re-interpret social media, with an eye toward defining design principles that consider non-Western cultural values. She also looks at how advertisers throughout the world turn to social media for advertising and marketing, and how diverse marketplace activities translate to digital environments.Find Sarah Vieweg online:LinkedInShow Notes:00:05: Guest Introduction00:48: Identifying how values and ideolo
#1 Visual Journalism in the Age of Trump with Nikki Usher
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