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Journalists Are My Heroes
by Kyle Munson
A podcast dedicated to conversations with real journalists at work in their communities. Kyle Munson, who spent 24 years in daily news, interviews the reporters, storytellers and media craftspeople of all kinds who help deliver not just information but meaning to our lives.
Episodes
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Billionaires Alone Can't Save Journalism, with Matthew Hansen
This finale for Season 1 of Journalists Are My Heroes finds me looking in the mirror: Matthew Hansen recently wrapped his tenure as metro columnist at the Omaha World-Herald. Like me, he's a child of the rural Midwest who ended up working as a columnist in his native state's largest newsroom.…
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Indigenous Journalism with a Capital 'I' and Graham Lee Brewer
Graham Lee Brewer, "a reporter covering criminal justice, the death penalty, and Indian Country," grew up listening to National Public Radio in the back of his parents' car. Today he's a working journalist in Oklahoma with a distinguished resume that blends experience on the radio and in the...
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Inside the Partisan Digital Warfare Reshaping Journalism
In this episode I talk to Laura Dawn, chief creative officer of recently launched news aggregator FrontPageLive.com. The shorthand description is that it's a progressive response to the massively popular Druge Report. But it goes much deeper than that, as you'll hear from our interview. Among the...
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Caught in the Viral News Vortex With Larrison Campbell of Mississippi Today
Larrison Campbell is a political reporter whose coverage for nonprofit news org Mississippi Today has an emphasis on public health. Her summer, meanwhile, has had an emphasis on viral news. That's because a married male gubernatorial candidate in Mississippi denied her a ride-along to cover him…
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From Kansas City to the Iowa Cornfields with Ty Rushing
"I actually enjoy covering public meetings," says Ty Rushing, managing editor for Iowa Information Inc., a family news operation that serves numerous communities in northwest Iowa and whose flagship newspaper is the N'West Iowa Review in the town of Sheldon, pop. 5,100. Rushing, who began his…
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Local News, Politics, Rural America, and the 2020 Campaign With Doug Burns
Our latest guest is dedicated veteran journalist Doug Burns, co-owner and editor of a family newspaper that has delivered quality local news for nearly a century. With the Carroll Times Herald and affiliated newspapers in western Iowa, Burns manages to cover everything from colorful local...
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Small-Town Sports Roots of Nick Nurse of the Toronto Raptors
Nick Nurse, head coach of NBA's Toronto Raptors, began his sports career as a Catholic-school basketball star in the small town (population < 10,000) of Carroll, Iowa. That hometown connection has given Brandon Hurley, assistant sports editor of the Carroll Times Herald and sports editor of two...
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What It Feels Like to Win a Pulitzer Prize, With Art Cullen
The new batch of Pulitzer Prize winners was announced today, with journalists awarded for deep reporting on coverage of presidential finances and mass shootings, among an array of other topics. This year's Pulitzer for Editorial Writing went to Brent Staples of the New York Times -- breaking a...
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People Pay This Public Radio Station to Learn How Journalism Works
One of the undercurrents of this podcast has been that the relationship between the press and the public has gotten so fractured that it's almost as if we need to get reporters and audiences into a classroom to study the problem and find a new consensus on how journalism even works. Well, guess...
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An American Journalist's Year in the China Daily Newsroom
Tyler O'Neil now lives in Austin, Texas, where he's a content marketing entrepreneur with yourbikergang.com and leads people on adventures throughout the city. But here we talk mostly about his year spent in the newsroom of the English-language China Daily in Beijing. O'Neil, who studied…
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2020 Campaign Coverage (Blizzards and All) With Politico's Chris Cadelago
It was inevitable with this podcast that I would begin to spend a little more time talking with journalists as they stream through Iowa, the site of the first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses, on the 2020 campaign trail. Christopher Cadelago of Politico popped up on my radar after he filed a...
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Hyperlocal Nonprofit Journalism With Stephanie Lulay of Block Club Chicago
When billionaire Joe Ricketts of TD Ameritrade and Chicago Cubs fame in 2017 shut down digital news network DNAInfo, Stephanie Lulay and two of her colleagues didn't scatter to other industries. They co-founded Block Club Chicago, a hyperlocal nonprofit news site dedicated to granular coverage of...
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Collaborative Journalism With Sara Konrad Baranowski
Collaborative journalism has become more of a trend in recent years. Newsrooms, struggling to remain ambitious as they cope with a sour media economy, are launching all manner of projects in which they're colleagues rather than competitors. The Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State...
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Immigration and Immersive Journalism with Sam Quinones of 'Dreamland'
Veteran journalist Sam Quinones is a self-described "immersive journalist" with the heart of a punk rocker. He began his career as a crime reporter in Stockton, Calif. In the decades since he has roamed around the U.S. and Mexico. He has been a full-time staffer for newspapers such as the L.A....
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How Journalists Get Hooked on Audience and Mission
I was rummaging through my basement this weekend and found early mementos from my journalism career, including copies of my first publication, "6th Grade News Flash." That got me thinking about (1) what gets journalists hooked on this business in the first place, and (2) why they stick around to...
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Who Qualifies as a Journalist in Our Partisan Digital World? With Laura Belin of Bleeding Heartland
Laura Belin of Bleeding Heartland has spent more than a decade and produced more than 7,000 posts as a progressive political blogger. She's also on the front lines of changing notions of journalism in this scrappy era of digital media. She's a research analyst by training who once covered Russian...
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Journalism's Pivot (Back?) to Podcasting, With Amber Hunt of 'Accused'
Investigative reporter Amber Hunt of the Cincinnati Enquirer built a news career that led her through Iowa and Detroit before Ohio, where in 2016 with colleague Amanda Rossman she created the hit podcast "Accused." Hunt had no idea how drastically her career would pivot to podcasting, as…
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3 Sins for National Media to Avoid in 2019 | Nikki Usher
Nikki Usher, associate professor of journalism at George Washington University and the University of Illinois, joins JAMH to share some of what she's learned from years of interviewing journalists and studying their industry. She also discusses the "three sins" that she fears national media will...
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Erin Sommers still believes in local print journalism. She staked her career on it.
Whether in Indiana or Hawaii or Iowa, Erin Sommers, 37, has loved her lifelong job as a professionally nosy newshound. Now the reporter and driving force behind the Pocahontas Record-Democrat in northwest Iowa, Sommers sat down to talk about: covering her neighbors' tragedies or controversies as…
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Journalists Are My Heroes: Preview
This is a ham-fisted monologue to introduce a new podcast, Journalists Are My Heroes. It's simple: I have good conversations with working journalists in communities of every shape and size. Because the very notion of journalism needs to be rehabilitated in the American mind, and in the minds of...
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A podcast dedicated to conversations with real journalists at work in their communities. Kyle Munson, who spent 24 years in daily news, interviews the reporters, storytellers and media craftspeople of all kinds who help deliver not just information but meaning to our lives.
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A podcast dedicated to conversations with real journalists at work in their communities. Kyle Munson, who spent 24 years in daily news, interviews the reporters, storytellers and media craftspeople of all kinds who help deliver not just information but meaning to our lives.
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Journalists Are My Heroes is created and hosted by Kyle Munson.
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