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#67 Demystifying Media Guest Lecture: Life Behind the Lens - Roberto Valenzuela's Photography Secrets
06 Jun 2024
00:43:20
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 Storytelling series'.
#66 Demystifying Science Communication with podcaster Rose Rimler
04 Jun 2024
00:37:52
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 the ideas are based in fact or not. Science Vs. takes material from political discourse and controversial opinion, with topics ranging from universal healthcare to fad diets. Rose's work for Science Vs. has been praised in the New York Times, the LA Times, the Atlantic, and more.
Show Notes 00:03: Guest Introduction 01:20: Rose's marine biology background 04:25: Moving from science to news writing 07:51: Internship culture and changes with COVID-19 09:46: The multi-media journalism learning curve 12:01: Background on Science Vs. 14:40: Rose's favorite episodes of Science Vs. (Mass Shootings: How do we stop them?, Who Killed Affordable Housing?, Coronavirus: Pregnant in a Pandemic) 19:39: Benefits of audio as a medium for storytelling 21:43: Transitioning show styles to follow trends 32:54: Rose's recommendations for science news (Ed Yong, Gina Kolata, Decoding the Gurus, Debunk the Funk, Abbey Sharp) 34:45: Advice for aspiring science communicators 37:10: Wrap-up
#57 Demystifying Memoir Writing with Putsata Reang
25 Aug 2023
00:29:11
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 Cambodia, and raised in rural Oregon, surrounded by berry farms where she and her family hustled to earn their middle class existence. Her memoir explores the glades of displacement felt by children of refugees, and the overlay of emotional exile that comes with being gay.
Putsata has lived and worked in more than a dozen countries, including Cambodia, Afghanistan and Thailand. She is an alum of Hedgebrook, Mineral School and Kimmel Harding Nelson residencies. She is a 2019 Jack Straw fellow. In 2005, she received an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship that took her back to Cambodia to report on landless farmers.
#56 Demystifying Media: Student Q&A with Atiba Jefferson
21 Aug 2023
00:36:51
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 publication’s history.
Atiba discovered a love and passion for skateboarding while growing up in Colorado Springs, CO. Moving to California in 1995 only strengthened that love and paired it with an equal passion for photography.
Atiba’s list of commercial clients include Supreme, adidas, Nike, Converse, Reebok, ESPN, Gatorade, Mountain Dew, Oakley, Pepsi, Canon, and Netflix.
Photo credit: Photo of Atiba Jefferson taken by Wesley Lapointe for Canon USA during Atiba's visit to the University of Oregon.
#55 Demystifying Media Guest Lecture: Photographing the Skateboarding Community with Atiba Jefferson
21 Aug 2023
00:27:17
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 publication’s history.
Atiba discovered a love and passion for skateboarding while growing up in Colorado Springs, CO. Moving to California in 1995 only strengthened that love and paired it with an equal passion for photography.
Atiba’s list of commercial clients include Supreme, adidas, Nike, Converse, Reebok, ESPN, Gatorade, Mountain Dew, Oakley, Pepsi, Canon, and Netflix.
Photo credit: Photo of Atiba Jefferson taken by Wesley Lapointe for Canon USA during Atiba's visit to the University of Oregon.
#54 Demystifying Media Guest Lecture: Workplace Happiness in the Media Industry with Valérie Bélair-Gagnon
18 Aug 2023
00:41:26
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 include: journalism, professions, knowledge production, and identity; digital labor and engagement; business and future of journalism; and happiness and well-being in work. She is the author of Happiness in Journalism , The Paradox of Connection: How Digital Media is Changing Journalistic Labor, Journalism Research that Matters, and Social Media at BBC News. She was executive director and research scholar at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and fellow at Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. She also worked in communications in corporate and non-profit environments. Born in Montréal, she earned her PhD in from the University of London in Sociology.
#53 Demystifying Workplace Happiness and Wellbeing in the Media Industry with Valérie Bélair-Gagnon
18 Aug 2023
00:28:44
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 include: journalism, professions, knowledge production, and identity; digital labor and engagement; business and future of journalism; and happiness and well-being in work. She is the author of Happiness in Journalism , The Paradox of Connection: How Digital Media is Changing Journalistic Labor, Journalism Research that Matters, and Social Media at BBC News. She was executive director and research scholar at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and fellow at Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. She also worked in communications in corporate and non-profit environments. Born in Montréal, she earned her PhD in from the University of London in Sociology.
#52 Demystifying Media Guest Lecture: From Participation to Dark Participation with Thorsten Quandt
07 Jan 2023
01:04:20
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 Germany.
#51 Demystifying Media Guest Lecture: Bonus Q&A Episode with Hamed Aleaziz
07 Jan 2023
00:25:20
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 graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in journalism.
#50 Demystifying Media Guest Lecture: Reporting U.S. Immigration Policy with Hamed Aleaziz
14 Dec 2022
00:26:50
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 finalist in 2021, Aleaziz graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in journalism.
#49 Demystifying Immigration Reporting with Hamed Aleaziz
14 Dec 2022
00:28:58
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 2021, Aleaziz graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in journalism.
Show Notes 0:03: Show and guest introduction 1:34: Hamed's first exposure to the power of journalism 4:03: How Hamed got into immigration reporting and what he enjoys about it 7:37: Building rapport and trust with sources 9:37: Fact-checking 12:32: Tools Hamed uses on the job to build trust 13:48: Advice for student journalists looking to break into the industry 15:18: How Hamed carved out his own reporting roles 16:47: Maintaining work-life balance as a journalist 18:56: Hamed's study-abroad experience in Amman, Jordan 22:35: Advice for UofO students 24:16: Graduating into the Great Recession and finding a job 26:36: Hamed's impressions of campus 27:48: Show wrap-up
#48 Demystifying Dark Participation with Thorsten Quandt
13 Dec 2022
00:31:54
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 Germany.
Show Notes 0:03: Show and guest introduction 1:16: Summary of Thorsten's Hearst Demystifying Media lecture 2:26: Evolution of Thorsten's research 4:19: Participatory journalism then and now 6:57: Changing discourse about internet communication and the media 9:19: Evaluating dark participation 12:25: Is dark participation the crisis we think it is? 16:19: Differences between dark participation in Europe and the U.S. 22:56: Assessing the real impact of media on public opinion 28:27: Advice for media consumers 30:45: Wrap-up
#65 Ruhl Lecture: Press Freedoms, Hostage Diplomacy and International Policy with Jason Rezaian
21 May 2024
01:03:35
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, about his time as a hostage in Iran and the extraordinary efforts it took to free him.
Rezaian was awarded the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Citizen Leadership in 2023 and serves as executive director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Commission on Hostages and Wrongful Detention.
#47 Demystifying Opinion Writing with Erin Aubry Kaplan
27 Sep 2022
00:36:36
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.
Show Notes 00:03: Guest Introduction 01:24: Erin’s journey to becoming a columnist and writer 06:50: Developing her voice as a writer 10:28: Dealing with bias and criticism as a journalist and woman of color 15:00: Managing vulnerability while writing about personal topics for a public audience 21:11: The origins of Erin’s most recent story about gentrification in Inglewood 25:10: Diversity in newsrooms, being siloed into news beats based on race or ethnicity, and finding one’s niche 33:52: Reflections on the future of journalism 35:21: Wrap-up
#46 Communicating emerging science during a pandemic with Kathleen Hall Jamieson
20 Nov 2021
00:53:28
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 communication to promote public understanding of complex issues.
Her guest lecture, which we are not unable to publish here, was sponsored by the Center for Science Communication Research and co-sponsored by the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact and the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics.
Show Notes: 0:01: Introduction of Kathleen Hall Jamieson 1:26: Science reporting during a pandemic 4:31: The rise of COVID-19 misinformation 6:19: Eroding trust in science and the media 7:26: Understanding what makes a credible study 8:31: Hydroxychloroquine as a case study for misinterpreted studies 11:10: Establishing credibility 13:34: How doctors and scientists have changed their interactions with the media 16:28: Journalists' responsibility to convey information accurately 18:32: The lack of nuance present in issues reporting 20:22: Eroding boundaries between experts and non-experts in public opinion 23:29: Information fatigue during the pandemic 28:05: The need for context in reporting changes in pandemic science 2841: Digital capacities and the Zika virus outbreak 30:58: Why reporting lessons from the Zika virus failed to transfer to the COVID-19 pandemic 32:21: Journalists' being overwhelmed by the COVID-19 pandemic 32:59: "Hearing" the public and use of language in reporting 34:45: The power of lexicon and appropriate application of language 39:11: Communication solutions 39:50: Challenges for broadcast versus print journalists 46:43: Opinion presented as journalism 47:01: The responsibility of social media platforms to present accurate information 50:41: Political systems versus scientists
#45 Creating compelling documentaries with Jake Swantko
22 Oct 2020
00:41:47
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, Icarus received a special jury prize, the first ever "Orwell Award" for revealing "the truth at a time when the truth is no longer a commodity."
Show Notes: 0:04 - Introductions 01:24 - What is The Dissident about? 05:14 - The role of hacking in Jamal Khashoggi's murder 06:20 - Audience takeaways from The Dissident at Sundance 09:22 - What goes into film distribution? 11:14 - The ethics of film distribution 13:48 - A documentarian's sense of duty to the subject 16:38 - The relationship between documentarian and subject 19:41 - Choosing a stopping point/conclusion for a documentary 26:51 - The importance of screening one's work 31:06 - How to please your audience 33:51 - How did you launch your career in documentary? 35:55 - What have you learned that you didn't know when you started in this field? 37:59 - Media recommendations for aspiring documentarians
#44 Guest Lecture: A Masterclass in Documentary with Jake Swantko
15 Oct 2020
00:41:35
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 from the Q&A portion of Jake's lecture, but his responses to those questions are included in this recording.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.
#43 Guest Lecture: Social Responsibility Reporting with Karen McIntyre
14 May 2020
00:40:10
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 provide an in-depth examination of genres of news reporting that share a common goal — reporting beyond the problem-based narrative, thereby exemplifying a commitment to the social responsibility theory of the press, which asserts that journalists have a duty to consider society’s best interests during the newsmaking process. Such news forms include genres like constructive journalism, solutions journalism, peace journalism, and restorative narrative, among others.
Audience questions have been cut from the Q&A portion of Dr. McIntyre's lecture, but her responses to those questions are included in this recording.
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, especially as they relate to media psychology. She has won several Top Paper awards from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and has published in journals such as Newspaper Research Journal and Electronic News.
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#42 Exploring constructive journalism with Karen McIntyre
14 May 2020
00:29:58
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, especially as they relate to media psychology. She has won several Top Paper awards from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and has published in journals such as Newspaper Research Journal and Electronic News.
According to Dr. McIntyre, "Constructive journalism is an emerging style of journalism in which positive psychology and other behavioral science techniques are applied to news processes and production with the aim of engaging readers by creating more productive news stories, all while maintaining core journalistic functions like serving as a watchdog and remaining accountable."
Read her book: Her forthcoming book, Perspectives on Social-responsibility Reporting: Theory, Practice, and Effects, which is co-edited with University of Oregon Associate Professor Nicole Dahmen, will be available through Peter Lang Publishing.
Show Notes: 0:06 - Introductions 1:02 - What is constructive journalism? 2:53 - How did you start researching this topic? 4:26 - Perceptions of constructive journalism 5:40 - Examples of constructive journalism 7:09 - Why is constructive journalism important? 9:00 - How do journalists feel about constructive journalism? 13:39 - What message do you have for students studying journalism? 14:40 - Highlights from Karen's Demystifying Media lecture 17:02 - Impact on constructive journalism on audience engagement 18:05 - What does the research say about constructive journalism? 19:05 - What new research areas are you excited to explore? 20:21 - What research informed your upcoming book? 21:53 - What lessons can we apply from your book to the western journalistic environment? 22:59 - What role can constructive journalism play in science reporting? 25:09 - What is your upcoming book about?
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 College of Business.
#40 Media and the Esports Industry with Will Partin, Mitch Reames, and Maxwell Foxman
04 Mar 2020
00:37:12
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 North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work focuses on the platformization of cultural production within the realm of livestreaming, video games, and esports. His writing can be found in such publications as The Atlantic, Variety, and Jacobin. He is also a consultant for Power Play, a boutique consulting firm that helps brands find their place in the growing esports market. Former clients have included Microsoft, AMC Networks, Tribeca Enterprise, Madison Square Garden, and others.
At the SOJC, Maxwell Foxman's research centers around how play manifests in non-game contexts, including social media, politics, and journalistic institutions. His work explores the way media makers frame games and play in their activities and professional lives.
Esports are on the rise; according to a recent Business Insider Intelligencer report, esports viewership is expected to grow to nearly 650 million by 2023, at a rate of 9 percent per year. In the studio to discuss this emerging industry are esports journalist Mitch Reames, technology researcher and brand consultant Will Partin, and Maxwell Foxman, Assistant Professor of Game Studies at the UO SOJC.
Show Notes: 0:00 - Introductions 0:56 - Why is esports growing so quickly? 2:20 - What is the appeal to brands? 4:13 - Demographics of esports audience 4:46 - Global appeal of esports 8:11 - Esports marketing research 9:44 - Monetization of esports 13:13 - Esports events 16:13 - Esports' global moment 21:53 - What does the rise of esports mean for different constituents? 26:14 - The normalization of esports 27:10 - What should journalism students be doing to break into this industry? 32:02 - How is the esports sector evolving? 35:47 - Wrap-up
#39 Fighting a New Era of Disinformation with Claire Wardle
05 Feb 2020
00:27:17
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 Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School.
Not only did Dr. Wardle give an incredible talk about the role of disinformation in the 2020 US election during her visit, but she also led a full-day training for students, professional journalists, and communications scholars to give them the tools to respond to this very real threat.
Show Notes: 0:11 - Introduction of guest and co-host 1:11 - Misinformation training 2:35 - How to report on disinformation 4:54 - Differences between misinformation, disinformation, mal-information 6:01 - Does motivation and intent matter? 7:12 - The complexity of misinformation 8:11 - Modes of disinformation on the horizon 9:27 - How has this evolved since the 2016 election? 11:03 - What should news platforms be doing? 12:51 - Why Dr. Wardle entered this field 14:01 - How journalism students can learn to fight disinformation 16:26 - How can we teach the public to be critical consumers of news information 20:05 - Sydney's takeaways from Dr. Wardle's visit 22:02 - What's next in the pipeline for Dr. Wardle 25:04 - The role that diversity plays in fighting disinformation
#38 Guest Lecture: Community Engagement with Ashley Alvarado
08 Jan 2020
00:47:11
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 Matters, sits on the steering committee of Gather, is a mentor for Membership Puzzle Project’s Join the Beat cohort, and works as a curator for American Press Institute’s BetterNews.org.
#64 Demystifying Media Guest Lecture: Making Sense of Chaos, with journalist Erin Aubry Kaplan
05 May 2024
00:35:27
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 featured and published in various anthologies.
#37 The evolution of community engagement with Ashley Alvarado
31 Dec 2019
00:33:59
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 Matters, sits on the steering committee of Gather, is a mentor for Membership Puzzle Project’s Join the Beat cohort, and works as a curator for American Press Institute’s BetterNews.org.
Show Notes: 00:03: Summary of Ashley's work 01:12: What is engaged journalism? 02:21: More about Unheard LA and Feeding the Conversation 05:36: Putting on journalism engagement events and the benefit to KPCC 08:34: Developing and maintaining relationships with readers and listeners 12:03: The financial benefit of engaged journalism 14:27: How Feeding the Conversation builds KPCC's audience 16:25: How Ashley entered this line of work 21:32: How can journalism students build a career in engagement journalism? 23:33: Why Ashley's service commitment to journalism organizations is important to her 26:34: What other industries or influences shape Ashley's work 29:46: Big projects of the moment 33:01: Wrap-up
#36 Guest Lecture: Fireside Chat with Matthew Winkler
26 Dec 2019
00:46:29
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.
Show Notes: 01:12 - The Bloomberg Way 08:57 - Getting all sides of a story 11:54 - Showing not telling in data journalism 16:21 - Using statistical computing software for storytelling 18:01 - Robo journalism 22:36 - Transitioning to economic reporting 26:30 - Integrity in reporting 29:41 - Reporting on your customers 36:48 - Sharing stories with sources before publishing 37:33 - 2020 Presidential rumors 43:18 - Learning from 2016 election coverage
#35 The ethics of reporting on your own newsroom with the 2019 Ancil Payne Award Winners
11 Jun 2019
00:30:01
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 Payne.
During their interview, Yuen and Sepic discuss what it was like to report on their newsroom’s coverage of the fall from grace of one of its network’s biggest stars--Garrison Keillor, producer and host of "A Prairie Home Companion"--after he was accused of inappropriate behavior at the height of the #MeToo movement.
Show Notes 1:16 - How the investigation came about 6:41 - How Garrison Keillor's retirement impacted the team's reporting on the story 13:23 - How the team avoided being scooped by the competition 16:12 - Timeline for the reporting and findings from the internal investigation 23:18 - How MPR reacted to the story 24:40 - Lessons and takeaways for other newsrooms reporting on themselves 27:25 - What the Payne Award means to Lauren and Matt
#34 Guest Lecture: How climate change can be part of any beat with Rosalind Donald
03 Jun 2019
00:50:15
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 focused on climate science and policy in the media.
She’ll discuss how to integrate climate change into health, business, real estate, arts and science and environmental coverage, regardless of scientific expertise--and why it’s important.
Disclaimer: Listeners should note that we experienced some technical problems during the second half of this recording that make some parts of this talk harder to hear. However, given the interest in this topic, we have decided to publish it with this disclaimer.
#33 Guest Lecture: How news organizations can fight misinformation with Mandy Jenkins
03 Jun 2019
00:34:43
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.
#32 Guest Lecture: How Power and Privilege Shape Public Discourse with Sue Robinson
03 Jun 2019
00:39:19
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 deliberation. This lecture summarizes many of the key lessons from her book.
Sue is currently at work on two additional book projects — one on Trump and the media with Matt Carlson and Seth Lewis, and one on media trust projects.
Show Notes: 0:50 - Describe the essence of your book 1:30 - Where did the idea for the book come from? 2:50 - What key things did you find in your research? 6:36 - Discussion about the research process for the book 12:22 - What newsrooms can learn from Sue's research methods 15:07 - How do journalists own - and not be hindered by - their implicit biases? 17:14 - Application of lessons from the book to Sue's teaching 18:47 - How this has impacted Sue's home life 19:50 - Sue's current + future research projects
#31 Guest Lecture: The music business as a petri dish for journalism innovation with Cherie Hu
03 Jun 2019
00:58:27
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 of the Year. Previously, she spearheaded a research project on digital music innovation at Harvard Business School, and interned across product marketing, data analysis and artist development functions at music companies including Ticketmaster and Interscope Records.
#30 Understanding power and privilege with Sue Robinson
30 May 2019
00:24:31
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 individuals can use the technologies for civic engagement.
Her book, Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power & Privilege Shape Progressive Communities, researches 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 deliberation.
Show Notes: 0:50 - Describe the essence of your book 1:30 - Where did the idea for the book come from? 2:50 - What key things did you find in your research? 6:36 - Discussion about the research process for the book 12:22 - What newsrooms can learn from Sue's research methods 15:07 - How do journalists own - and not be hindered by - their implicit biases? 17:14 - Application of lessons from the book to Sue's teaching 18:47 - How this has impacted Sue's home life 19:50 - Sue's current + future research projects
#29 Guest Lecture: Knowing & Checking Your Data with Jennifer LaFleur
25 May 2019
00:46:20
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 ProPublica and has held similar roles at The Dallas Morning News, the San Jose Mercury News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She is a former training director for Investigative Reporters and Editors and currently serves on the IRE Board of Directors.
Find Jennifer LaFleur Online: Twitter
Show Notes: 01:26 - How did you get into the data space? 02:22 - What does data journalism bring to the table that other story forms do not? 04:54 - Barriers for professionals and students in doing data journalism 06:26 – Barrier to data journalism in the classroom 08:28 – Overcoming resistance to data storytelling among journalists 11:56 – Good examples of data-driven stories / approaches 15:36 – Data literacy among audiences 17:10 - How newsrooms can improve their data journalism game 20:32 – Tips to interrogate data 22:48 – Jennifer’s key messages to journalism students 23:34 – Why data-driven storytelling is growing
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.
Also in the room is Brent Walth, an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication. A Pulitzer finalist in 200 and a winner in 2001, Brent’s experience includes working as staff writer, correspondent, senior investigative report, and managing editor for major publications in Oregon.
He is a five-time winner of the Bruce Baer Award, Oregon’s top reporting prize, and the Gerald Loeb Award, the nation’s top honor for business and financial reporting.
Find Jennifer & Bent online: Twitter: @j_la28 @BrentWalth
Show Notes: 01:26 - How did you get into the data space? 02:22 - What does data journalism bring to the table that other story forms do not? 04:54 - Barriers for professionals and students in doing data journalism 06:26 – Barrier to data journalism in the classroom 08:28 – Overcoming resistance to data storytelling among journalists 11:56 – Good examples of data-driven stories / approaches 15:36 – Data literacy among audiences 17:10 - How newsrooms can improve their data journalism game 20:32 – Tips to interrogate data 22:48 – Jennifer’s key messages to journalism students 23:34 – Why data-driven storytelling is growing
#63 Demystifying Media Guest Lecture: Media Access and Political Engagement with Danny Parker
10 Feb 2024
00:46:36
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 documenting their everyday lives. Danny has a professional background in international education. She taught English as a second language for seven years before pursuing her PhD. She obtained her bachelor's degree in applied linguistics from Georgia State University and her master's degree in journalism and mass communication from the University of Georgia. Her work has been recognized by awards from the International Communication Association (ICA), and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). And she's been published in leading peer reviewed journals such as the Mass Communication and Society.
#27 How news organizations can fight misinformation with Mandy Jenkins
16 May 2019
00:27:26
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.
Show Notes: 1:05 - Discussion about Mandy's career strategy/history 2:47 - Trying new things in newsrooms: challenges, strategies and tips 7:14 - Discussion about Mandy's Stanford Fellowship (what it entails + her "challenge" project) 14:09 - Takeaways from Mandy's research on consumers of disinformation 18:00 - What has caught your eye about the future of media and journalism? 23:12 - Key messages for journalism students 24:16 - How can students best equip themselves for the future? 25:23 - What does the future hold for you?
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 lack of advanced tourniquets for U.S. troops in Iraq. In 2010, he received an Edward R. Murrow Award for his coverage of a Taliban roadside bomb attack on an Army unit.
#25 How climate change can be part of any beat with Rosalind Donald
09 May 2019
00:29:55
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’s Media Center for Science and Technology, and Destiny J. Alvarez, a graduate student at our School of Journalism and Communication.
Show Notes: 1:01 - Tell us about your research, 4:48 - What kind of role do you see science playing in discussion about the impact of climate change? 7:05 - What role does journalism play in helping communities make sense of address climate change? 9:39 - How do journalists cover climate change in areas where the effects of climate change aren’t obvious? 13:40 - What barriers do we need to overcome, as communicators, to understand how to tell these stories differently? 16:13 - Wider trends in academia and journalism in communicating about science. 23:54 - What do you hope people will do with what you’ve learned? 27:29 - What key messages would you want students and faculty to take away from your visit?
#24 How the music business is a petri dish for journalism innovation with Cherie Hu
17 Apr 2019
00:30:12
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 CNBC and CGTN America, Hu's bylines can be seen in publications such as Billboard, Forbes, Variety, the Columbia Journalism Review--and many more.
In 2017, at age 21, she received the Reeperbahn Festival’s inaugural award for Music Business Journalist of the Year. Previously, she spearheaded a research project on digital music innovation at Harvard Business School, and interned across product marketing, data analysis and artist development functions at music companies including Ticketmaster and Interscope Records.
Show notes: 02:45 - How did you "fall into" journalism? 06:08 - Parallels between the state of journalism today and the music industry over the past decade 11:08 - What can the journalism industry learn from the music sector? 15:00 - Music artists as industry commentators / sources 20:15 - Similarities between independent artists and freelance journalists 23:33 - Innovations which may change the music industry in the next few years 27:33 - What's next for you?
#23 The evolution of journalism with Tom Bowman and Brigid Schulte
12 Mar 2019
00:41:10
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 One has the Time.
Show notes 1:15 - Why and how did you both become journalists? (Tom) 2:38 - Why and how did you both become journalists? (Brigid) 7:39 - The journalism landscape has changed immeasurable during your careers; what have been the biggest and most profound changes you’ve experienced? 11:45 - Current state of journalism (general discussion) 14:52 - The blurring of lines between journalism and opinion 18:02 - How can journalism schools and other stakeholders address these issues? 28:18 - Journalistic adaptability: Tom and Brigid's experience changing businesses and mediums 34:29 - Tom and Brigid's personal and working dynamic (they're married!); how do their professional lives intersect and diverge?
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.
Show notes: 0:45 - Richard explains his current role at Google 1:53 - Differences in freedom of expression around the world 3:31 - What will you talk about in the Ruhl Lecture? 6:10 - How is Google trying to address the big questions facing the communications industries? 9:05 - Google's role supporting data journalism and journalism's business model 15:02 - How the internet changed the newspaper industry 20:48 - How Google is responding to changing dialogue about Silicon Valley 24:33 - Change is constant. What tech should we be keeping an eye on? 26:45 - What skills do young journalists need to focus on?
#21 Business Journalism in the Digital Age with Alice Bonasio
31 Jan 2019
00:29:49
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.
Show notes: 0:34: What is Tech Trends for those who don't know? 2:20: What topics and themes resonate with your audience? 3:48: How do you define immersive media? 6:30: What immersive content have you seen recently that stands out? 14:30: What are the implications of immersive technology for content creators that we should be aware of? 18:10: Explain what you mean when you use Legos an analogy for refreshing one's skills? 23:30: You've said we all need to be a bit more like Madonna. What do you mean by that? 26:45: You've recently relocated to the United States. What's next for you?
#20 Guest Lecture: Business Journalism in a Digital Age with Alice Bonasio
22 Jan 2019
00:41:13
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 monetizable brand), as well as the future of immersive storytelling and what that means for the next generation of communication professionals.
#19 Changing the Way We See Native America with Matika Wilbur(Swinomish and Tulalip)
30 Nov 2018
00:29:01
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 and Communication student Mitchell Lira. Together with host Damian Radcliffe they discuss issues of representation, how J-Schools and educational institutions can support native students, and how to build an indigenous Wakanda.
Show notes: (00:04): Guest Introduction (02:06): How has Native American life historically been portrayed, and why does that need to change? (04:45): The struggles Mitchell had gone through as a young Native American man (07:31): How Native American are represented in the media landscape (09:40): How to create a new lens to change the existing portrayal of native Americans (14:48): Advice to young Native American students on how to amplify their voices (19:00): How universities can help Native American students feel more welcomed (26:59): Advice on how the public can best portray Native Americans (27:43): Wrap-up
#18 Guest Lecture: Why the Future of Journalism is Collaborative with Heather Bryant
03 Nov 2018
00:34:04
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 editorial collaboration. 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 editorial collaboration.
#62 Demystifying Media Access and Political Disengagement with Danny Parker
09 Feb 2024
00:29:54
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 background in international education. She taught English as a second language for seven years before pursuing her PhD. She obtained her bachelor's degree in applied linguistics from Georgia State University and her master's degree in journalism and mass communication from the University of Georgia. Her work has been recognized by awards from the International Communication Association (ICA), and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). And she's been published in leading peer reviewed journals such as the Mass Communication and Society.
00:02: Guest Introduction 01:14: Danny's introduction to research 03:24: Uncovering a research topic 08:43: The relationship of government and media to impoverished communities 16:52: Solutions to political disengagement 20:33: Advocacy in media 25:05: The response to Danny's research 27:33: Wrap-up
#17 Why The Future of Journalism is Collaborative with Heather Bryant
03 Nov 2018
00:27:48
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 editorial collaboration.
Show notes: (00:04): Guest Introduction (01:03): The importance of collaboration in newsrooms (02:38): Newsroom collaboration as a necessity in 2018 across the US (03:46): Potential reasons for collaborating with new organizations (08:25): Checklist of things organizations should be thinking about when they're looking at collaboration (11:18): Navigating challenges while collbaoring with various working cultures and practices (13:24): The significance of creating a safe work space (14:46): Factors to overcome in order to increase collaborations among newsrooms (17:20): Collaboration entails being inclusive of both journalists and people from other industries (20:21): Representing people from different backgrounds in the newsrooms (22:49): Advice and solutions the journalism industry needs to embrace (25:08): Wrap-up
#16 Guest Lecture: Segregation, Integration and the Sounds of Soul with John Capouya
24 Oct 2018
00:47:58
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 of segregation, the vital role soul played in the civil rights movement, and how artists like Sam & Dave, James Brown, Aretha Franklin and Sam Cooke crossed over the racial divide into the mainstream, changing American culture.
#15 Guest Lecture: Stories By, Through, and About Algorithms with James T. Hamilton
24 Oct 2018
00:59:00
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 Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism, in this lecture Professor Hamilton explores how the future of accountability reporting will involve stories by, through, and about algorithms.
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.
He earned a BA in Economics and Government (summa cum laude) and PhD in Economics from Harvard University.
#14 Israeli Media and Threats to Israeli Press Freedoms with Alan Abbey
22 Jul 2018
00:23:01
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 Project. He is the author of Journey of Hope: The Story of Ilan Ramon, Israel’s First Astronaut. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Abbey lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three children.
Israeli journalists are among the most aggressive, intense, politicized, opinionated, and competitive media professionals anywhere. They differ from American media in significant ways.
Show notes: (00:00): Guest Introduction (01:30): Understanding Israeli media as opposed to American media (02:19): What American journalists could learn from Israeli journalists (05:02): Survey on ethical codes and journalism ethics amongst Jews in US and Canada (06:24): Identifying Jewish codes that inform jewish journalists (08:21): Navigating Alan's transition from the US to Israel (11:11): Alana's reasons for moving to Israel (13:06): How the media landscape looks like in the Middle East (15:47): Featuring Alan's role working in the Hartman Institue (17:51): Alan's transition from a journalist in the US to a PR representative in the Hartman Institute (22:24): Wrap-up