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American Dispatch
by Gabriel Greschler
We highlight local news stories from across America to showcase their importance to the community it serves. We also try to understand the crisis afflicting local journalism and discover what sort of solutions people are coming up with.
Episodes
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Episode 13 | Peter-Astrid Kane
Peter-Astrid Kane is a freelance journalist and communications manager at S.F. Pride. Their work has appeared in the Guardian, 48Hills, the S.F. Bay Times, the S.F. Examiner, SFGate, The Infatuation and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other outlets. From 2015 to 2019, Peter-Astrid worked for…
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Episode 12 | Kristen Hare
Kristen Hare is the editor of Locally, a project at Poynter that chronicles the challenges that newsrooms continue to face during the pandemic. She also works at the Tampa Bay Times as an obituary writer. Her work at Poynter has been crucial in understanding the scope of Covid’s effect on...
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Episode 11 | Annie Gaus
Annie Gaus is the founder and editor of Public Comment SF, an online news startup launched in October 2020 that offers coverage of the city’s economy and policy matters. In May, Annie’s site merged with Here/Say Media, another online local news startup that started at the beginning of this year....
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Episode 10 | Victor Pickard
Victor Pickard is a professor of media policy and political economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. He is also the co-director of the university’s Media, Inequality and Change center. He has been writing about the crisis facing journalism for over a decade...
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Episode 9 | Jacob Simas
Jacob Simas is the managing editor of The Oaklandside, an online news startup that launched in June 2020 and is overseen by Cityside, a nonprofit media organization whose portfolio also includes the online publication Berkeleyside. To support The Oaklandside, click here. Jacob’s career started in...
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Episode 8 | Lily Jamali
Lily Jamali is a co-host of the California Report at KQED. The radio show covers a variety of topics about California, including the economy, immigration and education. While at KQED, Lily has covered the utility company PG&E, which announced bankruptcy at the beginning of 2019 after being found...
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Episode 7 | Meira Gebel
Meira Gebel is a freelance journalist based in Portland, Oregon who writes about culture, business and technology. On May 27, Meira published an article for Business Insider that looked at how journalism schools were not preparing their students for the challenges facing the industry…
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Episode 6 | Robin Epley
Robin Epley is the editor of the Fort Bragg Advocate-News and the Mendocino Beacon and previously worked as a staff reporter for the Chico Enterprise-Record. In 2019, while on staff at the Chico paper, Robin and her fellow reporters were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Reporting...
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Episode 5 | Geoffrey King
Geoffrey King is the president and CEO of Open Vallejo, a startup, nonprofit online news site that publishes longform investigations about police and government misconduct in the city of Vallejo, California. An investigative report by Geoffrey for Open Vallejo published in July 2020 about the...
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Episode 4 | Lydia Chavez
Lydia Chavez is the founder and executive editor of Mission Local, a hyperlocal and bilingual news site that covers the Mission District in San Francisco. Lydia was born and raised in Albuquerque and her first reporting job after graduating from Columbia’s Journalism School was with The…
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Episode 3 | Thomas Peele
Thomas Peele is a Bay Area-based investigative reporter who has been working in the industry since 1983. For 20 years, he worked at the Bay Area News Group, where he was part of the team that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Reporting about the Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland....
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Episode 2 | Hana Baba
Hana Baba is a longtime, award-winning radio journalist in the Bay Area. She is currently the host of “Crosscurrents,” a daily radio show on KALW Radio. In addition to her role at KALW, Hana is the co-host of another show, a podcast called The Stoop, where she and Leila Day discuss stories from...
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Episode 1 | Tim Redmond
Tim Redmond is a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco who has been in the muckraking business for close to 40 years. He’s currently editor of 48Hills, an online, progressive, non-profit news outlet based out of San Francisco that offers breaking news, investigative reporting and...
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Introduction | The American Dispatch Podcast
As a young boy 20 years ago, I landed on page two of the Sharon Advocate, the local newspaper in my hometown of 18,000 people in Sharon, Massachusetts. Sadly, that newspaper is now a shell of what it once was. Its story is like many other local/regional news outlets in the United States. Since...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
We highlight local news stories from across America to showcase their importance to the community it serves. We also try to understand the crisis afflicting local journalism and discover what sort of solutions people are coming up with.
HOSTED BY
Gabriel Greschler
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We highlight local news stories from across America to showcase their importance to the community it serves. We also try to understand the crisis afflicting local journalism and discover what sort of solutions people are coming up with.
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American Dispatch is created and hosted by Gabriel Greschler.
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