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Byline Confidential
by Gregory Pratt
A podcast where we talk with journalists about their lives, their journeys, and their careers. Think of it as a mix of the Longform podcast (talking about stories) and Colt Cabana/'s The Art of Wrestling (talking about the journey)
Episodes
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Phil Kadner
Some people think Daily Southtown columnist Phil Kadner is the state's best journalist. This episode is a good chat with the 37-year veteran about his life in the news business, mostly covering the city's south suburbs. Phil shares touching stories about the homeless and south suburban charities...
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Elvia Malagon
Elvia Malagon covers crime for the Times of Northwest Indiana. A fun talk about: An alleged serial killer in Gary IndianaCrazy FloridiansThe importance of storytelling relatives, like the grandmother who "always tells these really depressing stories" that "sound really uplifting" but end with…
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Jackie Spinner
As a child, Jackie Spinner always wanted to be the first of her siblings to tell her mother what they’d seen. That instinct took her from the Daily Egyptian at Southern Illinois University to the Washington Post and Iraq. Now she’s a media reporter with the Columbia Journalism Review and a...
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Jazmin Beltran
Univision's Jazmin Beltran is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, educator, person with a lot of neat stories to tell. From a small paper in Racine, Wisconsin to Spanish media, she's done all sorts of jobs: web publishing, stints on the assignment desk, broadcast journalist. A fun chat and a good...
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Matt O'Connor
He's been misidentified as "The Bearded Bandit" and dubbed "The" Matt O'Connor in Japan. Today, Matt is a "mild-mannered" newspaper editor at the Chicago Tribune, where he's covered public corruption at federal courts (including corrupt Gov. George Ryan), crime in Cook County (the Dowaliby...
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Mary Schmich
On a beautiful summer afternoon, Mary Schmich and I sat near the top of Tribune Tower and talked about her life in journalism: Mary’s discovery, at an early age, that you could have fun with words (“Fuse confusion”). Her memories of working at the LA Times, where she worked on a typewriter in the...
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Dennis Black
This is the sex, drugs and journalism edition of Byline Confidential, starring Dennis Black! Dennis is an old Texas wiseass with endless great stories: the time he asked Miss America who washes her underwear, intern torture, troublemaker reporters inserting funk into their copy to see if it gets...
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Sarah Engel
Ever wonder what goes into a traffic report? WBEZ’s Sarah Engel has you covered. A fun chat with a lifelong Chicago native who's got underground rock podcasts run by a circus owner in her backstory and helicopters.
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Gisela Orozco
In Mexico, being a female journalist is often considered an MMC career: “mientras me caso,” or “while I get married.” Not for Gisela Orozco, who has been a reporter and editor for 15 years. Gisela is currently the entertainment editor at Hoy in Chicago, where she writes about all sorts of cool...
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Maya Schenwar
Maya Schenwar is Truthout's Editor-in-Chief and the author of Locked Down, Locked Out, a fascinating new book about the prison system. A really fun interview about her career and detours, including time spent farming in Europe at a "center for spiritual wellness." Maya also opens up about her...
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Bryan Gruley
Bloomberg's Bryan Gruley shared a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of 9/11 at the Wall Street Journal. He's recently been on the elderly sex beat, reporting fascinating stories like this one: "Can a wife with dementia say yes to sex?" Gruley has interesting tales about dark days and good men: 9/11…
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Eric Roper
Eric Roper is one of the best young journalists in America. Hear: His humble beginnings as editor of the George Washington University student newspaper and a correction controversy over the phase-out of an unofficial hippo mascot (and how it haunts him); What it's like to cover a city…
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Marcus DiPaola
(Photo courtesy of Marcus DiPaola.) Freelance photographer Marcus DiPaola went to Liberia last month in search of stories, treatment centers and rural areas. He came back with entertaining, harrowing and sad tales of: Burial teams struggling to collect the dead from folks that won’t give them up;...
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Britt Robson
Britt Robson is his own man. He learned journalism on the road hitchhiking across the country and wrote his first magazine story on Cincinnati mayor Jerry Springer. Over the years, he's become a respected NBA writer and music scribe. For a time, he penned speeches or Rudy Perpich, Minnesota's...
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Emily Gurnon
Emily Gurnon has the steak! As a Pioneer Press courts reporter, Emily helped free a man from prison. In San Francisco, she exposed shady hotels, watched a heroin user shoot up ("God loves me") and got pranked by the alternative weekly. She even survived flying cockroaches and mean people at the...
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Tom Lyden
KSMP's Tom Lyden is one of the Twin Cities' best investigative reporters. A great episode about: Learning his trade at the University of Missouri Covering the story of a mill worker killed by his colleagues in Green Bay, Wisconsin Investigating cult leader Victor Bernard Being overwhelmed by...
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Maya Rao
Star Tribune reporter Maya Rao spent a month working at the Wild Bison truck stop in North Dakota for a story this summer. In this week’s episode she explains what went into her excellent Atlantic piece about the North Dakota oil boom, discusses the importance of taking risks, and opens up about...
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Showbiz Shelly
B96 entertainment reporter Showbiz Shelly started as the “perpetual intern” before becoming an on-air personality. She gives us the inside story on coming from a broadcasting family, being a shy person growing up, talking with celebrities and saying silly things on the radio (“So now he gets to…
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Adam Sege
For two years, Adam Sege worked as an overnight breaking news reporter for the Chicago Tribune. In this week's episode, Adam talks about the emotion at crime scenes, what he's observed about life for those growing up in gang neighborhoods, and the humanity Chicago violence leaves behind. An...
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Jesus Jimenez
Palladium Item sports reporter Jesus Jimenez got his job through a unique and tragic set of circumstances. He joins us to talk about getting into the news business, small town athletics, high school sports and more!
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How many episodes does Byline Confidential have?
Byline Confidential currently has 20 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Byline Confidential about?
A podcast where we talk with journalists about their lives, their journeys, and their careers. Think of it as a mix of the Longform podcast (talking about stories) and Colt Cabana/'s The Art of Wrestling (talking about the journey)
How often does Byline Confidential release new episodes?
Byline Confidential has 20 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
Where can I listen to Byline Confidential?
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Who hosts Byline Confidential?
Byline Confidential is created and hosted by Gregory Pratt.
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