It's All Journalism

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Latest Episodes

The story of America's most corrupt police squad
July 02, 2020

Friend of the podcast Baynard Woods talks to It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell about his new book, coming out next month, exploring an incredibly corrupt special unit within the Baltimore Police Department that led a cover...

Coronavirus is changing how newsrooms work
June 25, 2020

It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell talks to David Cohn and Mike Donoghue of The Alpha Group about how COVID-19 has sped up technology-based evolutions that were already starting to take shape and how newsrooms will need...

Will local ownership help Baltimore Sun survive?
June 18, 2020

It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell talks to reporter Liz Bowie of the Washington-Baltimore News Guild and Matt Gallagher of the Goldseker Foundation to discuss the community-driven efforts to purchase The Baltimore Sun and...

Better News: How To Forge New Audiences Of Color
June 15, 2020

The Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester New York was facing a big problem. Its primary audience was old, white and dwindling. The newspaper had to figure out how to reach a younger and more diverse audience — and fast. C.J. Benjamin, emerging...

Long history of bad police responses to protests
June 11, 2020

It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell talks to science writer Maggie Koerth of FiveThirtyEight and Jamiles Lartey of the Marshall Project about their new collaborative piece on how police departments across the country are,...

Critical thinking is an essential skill for journalists
June 04, 2020

It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell talks to Jonathan Haber, author of a new book on critical thinking from MIT Press, about how journalists can use critical thinking to improve their reporting.

Massive Science behind covering COVID-19
May 28, 2020

It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell talks to Allan Lasser, co-founder of Massive Science, to discuss the challenges of making science more accessible and how to explain the coronavirus to a non-scientific audience.

Reporting news of Latino workers during coronavirus
May 20, 2020

It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell is joined this week by Alberto Mendoza, executive director of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, to discuss the challenges faced by the Latino community and especially in...

Covering coronavirus: Advice from a health reporter
May 14, 2020

It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell is joined this week by Ivan Oransky of the Association of Health Care Journalists to discuss resources and tools available to reporters who find themselves covering the coronavirus pandemic...

Google News Initiative wants to help local news
May 07, 2020

It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell is joined by Chrissy Towle, head of news and local media for the Google News Initiative, to discuss its ambitious project to help create sustainable models for local news outlets.