By focusing on the audience funnel, owner and publisher Tom Lappas was able to generate 9,000 email subscribers and generated $34,000 at the Henrico Citizen. Lappas recently wrote a piece for Better News on how other news organizations can grow reader revenue and expand their email subscribers by focusing on the audience funnel. Lappas discusses…
Karen Rundlet became the new executive director and CEO of the Institute for Nonprofit News in January. She discusses how INN’s network of more than 450 independent news organizations across North America are connecting with their communities to identify and generate a sustainable revenue stream. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find out how to subscribe…
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. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find out how to subscribe to our podcast and weekly email newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy…
As the breaking news reporter for Columbia University’s City Newsroom, graduate student Francesca Maria Lorenzini covered pro-Palestinian protests at the school’s New York City campus. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find out how to subscribe to our podcast and weekly email newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy…
It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell talks to Ben Hallman, founder and executive director of The Examination, about how it delivers investigative journalism aimed at creating a healthier world. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find out how to subscribe to our podcast and weekly email newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
Julia Angwin, founder and CEO of Proof News, discusses how journalists can restore trust by adopting a scientific approach to their reporting. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find out how to subscribe to our podcast and weekly email newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and…
Executive editor Kayla Green recently wrote Better News case studies about these two initiatives to serve younger audiences. She discusses them both with host Michael O’Connell on this week’s Better News podcast. Read more about Athlete of the Week and Sumter Next Generation on BetterNews.org. The Better News podcast is a partnership between It’s All Journalism and the American Press Institute to a) showcase innovative/experimental ideas that emerge…
Press Forward was started as an effort to galvanize funders and donors to think more broadly about the importance of local news, according to the nonprofit’s director Dale Anglin. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find out how to subscribe to our podcast and weekly email newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
Dr Kate West and Leslie Rangel, authors of the book Journalists Break News. Don’t Let it Break You, which offers solutions to professors and newsrooms to better prepare students and young journalists for the pressure of a career in journalism. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find out how to subscribe to our podcast and…
Sarah Jane Weaver was recently named the editor of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints-owned Deseret News, becoming the first female editor in the 174-year-old newspaper’s history. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find out how to subscribe to our podcast and weekly email newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
Anita Brikman uses the same skills she mastered from working 20 years as broadcast journalist, news anchor and health reporter in her current role as the CEO of the Plasma Protein Therapeutics Association. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find out how to subscribe to our podcast and weekly email newsletter. Learn more about…
Steven Herman, former White House bureau chief for Voice of America, discusses his experience covering the Trump and Biden administrations and his new book about the experience: “Behind the White House Curtain: A Senior Journalist’s Story of Covering the President — And Why It Matters.” Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find out how to…
Allison Levine, CEO of Local Journalism Initiative, can discusses how LJI’s Delaware Journalism Collaborative, which has brought more than 25 partners throughout the state together to report on polarization and possible solutions, strengthens local journalism in Delaware and our democracy. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find out how to subscribe to our podcast and weekly email…
Jonathan Mingle is a freelance journalist and the author of a new book, “Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America’s Energy Future,” which documents how Virginia communities pushed back against Dominion Power’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline Project. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find out how to subscribe to our podcast and…
Viktorya Vilk and Jeje Mohamed wrote a report for PEN America with Columbia University’s Susan McGregor that focused on using peer support to reduce harm and increase resilience against the online abuse of journalists in the U.S. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find out how to subscribe to our podcast and weekly email newsletter. Learn…
Carrie Melago discusses how Chalkbeat, the education-focused, local newsroom, tracks impact rather than just chasing clicks. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find out how to subscribe to our podcast and weekly email newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Fran Wills, CEO of the Local Media Consortium, discusses how digital video has become the go-to news and information source for a growing number of people and what that means for local news. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find out how to subscribe to our podcast and weekly email newsletter. Learn more about your ad…
Nic Dawes, executive director of The City, discuses how the independent, nonprofit newsroom fills the gap in local news coverage of New York City, following the closures or shrinkage of the New York Daily News and DNAInfo. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find out how to subscribe to our podcast and weekly email newsletter….
Earlier this year, six local news organizations participated in the American Press Institute’s Live Events Sprint for Table Stakes Alumni. The goal of this five-month cohort was to help news organizations design and market live events within their communities. Through the program, Vermont Public planned a series of community picnics to better understand election questions and policy…
Daralyse Lyons, business growth officer at the Chestnut Hill Local, discusses a Lenfest grant of $100,000 to help the paper expand readership and its reader demographic in Philadelphia and Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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 of prominent publishers spanning the political spectrum in close to real time.” Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find out how to subscribe to our…
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 emerging technologies are impacting the practice and business of journalism. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find out how to subscribe to our podcast and weekly…
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. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find out how to subscribe to our podcast and weekly email newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy…
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 Hold Black People Back.” Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find out how to subscribe to our podcast and weekly email newsletter. Learn more about your…
Lucy Santerre, social media manager for Maine Public, discusses the role social media plays in public media. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find out how to subscribe to our podcast and weekly email newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Editor-in-chief Kari Hulac talks about Richmondside, the independent, free, nonprofit online news site that launched over the summer. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find out how to subscribe to our podcast and weekly email newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
WITF, the NPR station in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania recently started a democracy beat as a way to build trust, counter misinformation and tamp down political rhetoric. Special projects editor Tim Lambert oversees the democracy beat and Scott Blanchard is WITF’s director of journalism. They talk to Better News podcast host Michael O’Connell about the origins of…
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. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find out how to subscribe to our podcast and weekly email newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
Photojournalist Kevin Painchaud is a member of the Lookout Santa Cruz team that won a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for its community-focused coverage of the flooding and mudslides that destroyed thousands of homes in early 2023. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find out how to subscribe to our podcast and weekly email newsletter. Learn more about…
It’s like Christmas. You wait and wait and wait, but it never arrives fast enough. But when it finally does, something is wrong. The anticipation has vanished. You feel awkward and a little afraid. This is not the way to start a post about the latest episode It’s All Journalism. But, as we are the…
Writer and English instructor Lonnie Lee Hood discusses their passion for journalism and their experiences being a trans, freelance journalist in Tennessee. As we count down to our final episode on Dec. 26, visit the It’s All Journalism website, where you can still listen to 12 years of episodes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
Alexander Howard, a self-described earnest advocate for freedom of information, open governance, and digital democracy, talks about his concerns and hopes for journalism and America’s future. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find more episodes like this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice…
Lisa Snowden, editor-in-chief and cofounder of Baltimore Beat, discusses the importance of serving a diverse audience while developing the next generation of BIPOC journalists. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find more episodes like this one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Amy Kovac-Ashley, the executive director of the Tiny News Collective, talks about developing first-time entrepreneurs in the news and community media space. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find more episodes like this one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Jason Leopold, an investigative reporter with Bloomberg News, is known for his aggressive use of the Freedom of Information to research stories. He discusses the need for greater transparency in public records and his views on the future of FOIA in U.S. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find more episodes like this one. Learn…
Josh Hatch, senior director of digital at The Chronicle of Higher Education, discusses fake news, misinformation and the evolution of digital news over the last decade. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find more episodes like this one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice…
Yukari Kane and Shaheen Pasha, co-founders of the Prison Journalism Project, discuss the challenges of creating and implementing a journalism curriculum in order to help incarcerated people find their voice and share their stories with the world outside of prison. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find more episodes like this one. Learn more about…
Since August 2019, the Better News podcast has highlighted many of the news organizations that featured in the American Press Institute’s Better News Initiative. Better News serves as a platform where local news organizations who participated in the Table Stakes Local News Transformation Program can share actionable strategies with others experiencing similar challenges in navigating the…
Hanna Rifaey, head of strategic partnerships at the Online News Organization, and Meghan Murphy, ONA’s director of programs, talk about the state of digital news, sustainability and ONA’s AI in Journalism Initiative. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find more episodes like this one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at…
Megan Cloherty, senior reporter and 10 p.m. anchor at KOAA5 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, talks about her experiences as a broadcast reporter, digital journalist and one of the founding producers of It’s All Journalism. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find more episodes like this one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See…
Michael O’Connell, host and one of the founding producers of It’s All Journalism, shares what he learned from the more than 650 conversations he had during the podcast’s 12 years. Visit the It’s All Journalism website to find more episodes like this one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at…
WELL, WE TOLD YOU SO! ALL SEASON LONG. WE ARE WHO WE THOUGHT WE WERE. GIANTS INSIDER RODNEY HENDERSON HELPS THE BOYS TO BREAK DOWN THE MEANINGLESS COWBOYS GAME. AND A POSTSEASON PREVIEW Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
A SPECIAL TREAT! MARCUS WASHINGTON (@MTCWITHMOOK ) JOINS THE GUYS TO TALK HOYAS HOOPS! IF YOU ARE NOT FOLLOWING HIM ON TWITTER, YOU ARE WRONG!!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
DO YOU WANT TO HEAR WHAT CLAUDE AND KEVIN THINK ABOUT THE ‘MANDERS OWNERSHIP SITUATION? WELL, THAT’S TOO BAD, CUZ THEY’RE GONNA TELL YOU ANYWAY! aLSO, KEVIN GIVE A REVIEW OF “CREED 3” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
THE ‘MANDERS COORDINATOR SEARCH REMAINS OFFENSIVE…IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE. GIANTS INSIDER RODNEY IS BACK TO HELP BREAK DOWN THE PLAYOFFS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
NEVER HAS THE BACKUP QB POSITION KICKED UP SO MUCH DUST! THE GUYS BID TAYLOR ADIEU’, AND WELCOME JACOBY. ALSO, THERE’S A REVIEW OF JOHN WICK 4, FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO KILL SOME TIME. (SPOILER…TIME WAS THE ONLY THING JOHN WICK DIDN’T KILL) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy…
A NEW SEASON, A NEW OWNERSHIP GROUP, A NEW HOPE! THANKFULLY THE D LINE BAILED US OUT1 KEVIN AND CLAUDE ARE BACK AGAIN FOR ANOTHER SEASON OF ‘MANDERS TRUTH! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
SEEMS THAT THE TEAM WAS SO DISTRAUGHT THAT WE DIDN’T HAVE A SHOW LAST WEEK, IT AFFECTED THE ON-FIELD PRODUCT. CLAUDE AND KEVIN EXPLAIN WHY THIS GAME WAS LOST AT THE COIN FLIP. ALSO, BIG NEWS ABOUT A CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED MOVIE REVIEWER Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy…
WE WENT TOE TO TOE WITH THE DEFENDING NFC CHAMPS IN THEIR PLACE…AND TOOK THEM TO OT. NOW IF OLY THE DEFENSE CAN HOLD SUMBODY TO 29 POINTS. KEVIN AND CLAUDE TALK Xs AND WHYS. OH, AND GUESS WHO DIDN’T SEE A MOVIE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at…
I GOT A BAAAAD FEELING ABOUT THIS TEAM. CLAUDE AND KEV BREAK DOWN THE INS AND OUTS OF THE VICTORY (???) OVER THE FALCONS. HEY, RON TOLD US TO DO OUR JOBS! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.