Today’s guest is Jerome Vaughn, News Director at WDET (Detroit’s NPR station), Michigan Journalism Hall of Famer, and 30-year veteran of the radio news industry. Listen in and hear about: the podcast I call “the African-American TED Talks,” new and favorite Black podcasts, how to get your email pitch opened and read (instead of deleted or ignored), 2 Detroit NPR shows and what to pitch to them, why NPR rarely reports on crime, what NPR is really good about and why, how much radio time you can expect to get, and whether people still read press releases … and more!

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