Demystifying Media At The University Of Oregon

The SOJC welcomes journalism researcher Sue Robinson to this episode of the Demystifying podcast. Sue joined the faculty at UW-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication in January 2007 and now holds the Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism research chair. As a scholar, she explores how journalists and news organizations adopt new information communication technologies to report on public affairs in new forms and formats as well as how audiences and individuals can use the technologies for civic engagement. Her book, Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power & Privilege Shape Progressive Communities, researches how digital platforms enable and constrain citizens – especially those in marginalized communities – who produce and share information in the public sphere about racial achievement disparities in the K-12 education system. The book is meant to be a guide for journalists, politicians, activists and others on how to navigate information networks to improve public deliberation.

This episode is a recording Jennifer LaFleur's Demystifying Media, which she gave to an audience of students and faculty at the University of Oregon on May 9. See the slides from Jennifer's talk here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1b3YVhOA8_w-a7crAB1M-OCRxZhUUOOFRqZxRNEF6WBI/edit#slide=id.p1 About Jennifer LaFleur: Jennifer LaFleur is a data editor for The Investigative Reporting Workshop and an instructor of data journalism at American University. Previously, she was a senior editor at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, managing data journalists, investigative reporters and fellows. She also contributed to or edited dozens of major projects while at Reveal, one of which was a 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist. She is the former director of computer-assisted reporting at ProPublica and has held similar roles at The Dallas Morning News, the San Jose Mercury News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She is a former training director for Investigative Reporters and Editors and currently serves o

Joining us for this podcast is Jennifer LaFleur, data editor for The Investigative Reporting Workshop and an instructor of data journalism at American University. Previously, LaFleur was a senior editor at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, managing data journalists, investigative reporters and fellows. She also contributed to or edited dozens of major projects while at Reveal, one of which was a 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist. You can learn more about Jennifer's visit to the UO here: https://demystifying.uoregon.edu/2019/04/18/demystifying-how-not-to-run-with-scissors-knowing-and-checking-your-data/ Also in the room is Brent Walth, an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication. A Pulitzer finalist in 200 and a winner in 2001, Brent’s experience includes working as staff writer, correspondent, senior investigative report, and managing editor for major publications in Oregon. He is a five-time winner of the Bruce Baer Award, Oregon’s top reporting pr

In this episode we interview Mandy Jenkins, a John. S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University who prior to this was the first editor-in-chief at Storyful, the leading social news and insights agency. There she managed a team of 60+ social journalists who worked with the world’s top newsrooms in surfacing, verifying and acquiring eyewitness journalism and debunking disinformation. Before Storyful, her roles include being the managing editor of the Project Thunderdome newsroom for Digital First Media, as well as coordinating the Off the Bus citizen journalism program as a social news editor for politics at The Huffington Post, and working as social media editor for TBD, a Washington, D.C.-area local news startup. Mandy is also President of the Online News Association and sits on the board of directors for the American Society of News Editors. Listen to Mandy's lecture given during her visit to the University of Oregon here: https://soundcloud.com/demystifying-media/33-guest-lecture-mandy-jenkins Find Mandy online

This podcast features a facilitated public Q&A with NPR National Desk reporter Tom Bowman at the University of Oregon. This event was facilitate and co-sponsored by NPR affiliate station KLCC. You can learn more about this event here: https://demystifying.uoregon.edu/2019/01/28/tom-bowman/ This podcast includes audio playback of a radio story Bowman produced for NPR. The University of Oregon has permission from NPR to republish the story via this podcast. You can find the NPR story here: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/17/657010704/in-syria-a-school-helps-children-traumatized-by-war About Tom Bowman: Tom Bowman is a NPR National Desk reporter covering the Pentagon. In his current role, Bowman has traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan often for month-long visits and embedded with U.S. Marines and soldiers. Before coming to NPR in April 2006, Bowman spent nine years as a Pentagon reporter at The Baltimore Sun. His coverage of racial and gender discrimination at NSA led to a Pentagon investigation in 1994. Bowman is

Joining us for this podcast is Rosalind Donald, a PhD candidate in communications at Columbia University researching community understanding of climate change in Miami. Her work focuses on the way the city’s politics, infrastructure and environment influence how climate change is interpreted in policy and the popular imagination. Also in the room are Hollie Smith, Assistant Professor of Science and Environmental Communication at the University of Oregon’s Media Center for Science and Technology, and Destiny J. Alvarez, a graduate student at our School of Journalism and Communication. You can learn more about Rosalind and the talk she gave at the University of Oregon here: https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/demystifying_how_climate_change_can_be_part_of_any_beat#.XNG5wJNKhR0 You can also find her on Twitter @RosDonald. Show Notes: 1:01 - Tell us about your research, 4:48 - What kind of role do you see science playing in discussion about the impact of climate change? 7:05 - What role does journalism play in he

In this episode of the Demystifying Podcast, University of Oregon journalism professor and host Damian Radcliffe interviews Cherie Hu, an award-winning freelance journalist whose work focuses on the intersection of music, media and technology. In addition to her conference speaking engagements and regular appearances as an expert commentator on CNBC and CGTN America, Hu's bylines can be seen in publications such as Billboard, Forbes, Variety, the Columbia Journalism Review--and many more. Listen to Cherie's lecture on the music journalism business here: https://soundcloud.com/demystifying-media/31-cherie-hu Watch Cherie's Q&A with journalism students here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdT7rJ5oMIs&list=PLoqXTlv_f5zGu5TJeuL1SMBVCXlM4ViyL&index=19&t=19s Find Cherie online: Twitter: @cheriehu42 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cheriehu/ Below are the show notes from this episode: 02:45 - How did you "fall into" journalism? 06:08 - Parallels between the state of journalism today a

In this podcast we're joined by NPR National Desk reporter Tom Bowman and Brigid Schulte, director of the Better Life Lab at New America, for an engaging discussion about the current state of journalism. Bowman's previous reporting at The Baltimore Sun on racial and gender discrimination at the National Security Administration led to a Pentagon investigation in 1994. Before joining New America, a non-partisan think tank, Schulte was an award-winning staff writer for The Washington Post, where she served for almost two decades. Schulte is also the acclaimed author of the New York Times best-selling book on time-management and time pressure, Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play when No One has the Time. You can find him on Twitter @TBowmanNPR. Listen to Tom's Q&A during his visit to the University of Oregon here: https://soundcloud.com/demystifying-media/26-demystifying-guest-lecture-tom-bowman Here are the show notes from today's podcast: 1:15 - Why and how did you both become journalists? (Tom) 2:38 - Why a

In this special edition, we are joined by Richard Gingras, Vice President of News at Google. He and host Damian Radcliffe discuss Google's role in supporting journalism, how the internet has disrupted the business model, and what skills young journalists need to develop. Gingras' interview was part of a wider visit to the University of Oregon in February 2019, which included delivering the annual Ruhl Lecture. www.journalism.uoregon.edu/about/events/ruhl-lecture Timestamps: 0:45 - Richard explains his current role at Google 1:53 - Differences in freedom of expression around the world 3:31 - What will you talk about in the Ruhl Lecture? 6:10 - How is Google trying to address the big questions facing the communications industries? 9:05 - Google's role supporting data journalism and journalism's business model 15:02 - How the internet changed the newspaper industry 20:48 - How Google is responding to changing dialogue about Silicon Valley 24:33 - Change is constant. What tech should we be keeping an eye on? 26:4

This is the official Demystifying Media podcast. In this podcast, host Damian Racliffe sat down with Tech Trends Editor Alice Bonasio to talk with her about her path from tech journalist to entrepreneur. Follow this link to listen to the Demystifying lecture given by Alice Bonasio, who appears in this podcast, about her work as a technology reporter, consultant, and entrepreneur: https://soundcloud.com/demystifying-media/19-demystifying-guest-lecture-business-journalism-in-a-digital-age-with-alice-bonasio More about Alice: Alice Bonasio is Editor-in-Chief for Tech Trends (https://techtrends.tech), a website “showcasing the latest disruptive technology that is changing the world we live, work, and play in.” Alongside her work at Tech Trends, Alice is also a VR (Virtual Reality) and Immersive Media consultant, and a contributor to publications such as Wired, Forbes, Fast Company, Quartz, VR Scout, Playboy, Scientific American, Ars Technica, The Next Web, and others. On her LinkedIn Profile, Alice describes her

Join us for this special guest lecture by Alice Bonasio, Editor-in-Chief for Tech Trends, a website “showcasing the latest disruptive technology that is changing the world we live, work, and play in.” Alongside her work at Tech Trends, Alice is also a VR (Virtual Reality) and Immersive Media consultant, and a contributor to publications such as Wired, Forbes, Fast Company, Quartz, VR Scout, Playboy, Scientific American, Ars Technica, The Next Web, and others. In this talk, Alice will talk about her shifting career path, including reporting on business (as a journalist covering the tech sector) and making a business out of your reporting (building Tech Trends as a platform and monetizable brand), as well as the future of immersive storytelling and what that means for the next generation of communication professionals. On her LinkedIn Profile, Alice describes her key interests as “Technology, VR, Mr, AR, Gaming, Lego, Digital Skills, Diversity.” She has a large international following for her work. Join her 44,

Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) is one of the nation’s leading photographers, based in the Pacific Northwest. She earned her BFA from Brooks Institute of Photography where she double majored in Advertising and Digital Imaging. Her most recent endeavor, Project 562 (www.project562.com), has brought Matika to over 300 tribal nations dispersed throughout 40 U.S. states where she has taken thousands of portraits, and collected hundreds of contemporary narratives from the breadth of Indian Country all in the pursuit of one goal: To Change The Way We See Native America. In this podcast Matika, is also joined by the award-winning photographer and University of Oregon Professor Torsten Kjellestrand, and School of Journalism and Communication student Mitchell Lira. Together with host Damian Radcliffe they discuss issues of representation, how J-Schools and educational institutions can support native students, and how to build an indigenous Wakanda. You can find Matika on Twitter at: @matikawilbur @project_562 R

Join us for this special guest lecture by Project Facet founder Heather Bryant. Project Facet is an open source infrastructure project that supports newsroom collaboration with tools to manage the logistics of creating, editing and distributing collaborative content, managing projects, facilitating collaborative relationships and sharing the best practices of collaborative journalism. As a 2016-2017 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, she researched how to make collaboration easier and more effective for newsrooms. This year, she published the Collaborative Journalism Workbook and works with the Center for Cooperative Media to chronicle collaborative projects from around the world in the Collaborative Journalism Database. Her work includes managing the Collaborative Journalism Slack and doing trainings and workshops on effective, meaningful editorial collaboration. This is an audio recording of a lecture. To see the presentation slides from Heather's lecture, click here: https://uoregon-my.sharepoin

Heather Bryant is the founder and director of Project Facet, an open source infrastructure project that supports newsroom collaboration with tools to manage the logistics of creating, editing and distributing collaborative content, managing projects, facilitating collaborative relationships and sharing the best practices of collaborative journalism. As a 2016-2017 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, she researched how to make collaboration easier and more effective for newsrooms. This year, she published the Collaborative Journalism Workbook and works with the Center for Cooperative Media to chronicle collaborative projects from around the world in the Collaborative Journalism Database. Her work includes managing the Collaborative Journalism Slack and doing trainings and workshops on effective, meaningful editorial collaboration. This conversation includes case studies, such as Broken Philly (https://brokeinphilly.org) and the Solutions Journalism Network project Mountain West News (https://thewhole

Join us for this special 40-minute lecture with author and Professor of Writing and Journalism at the University of Tampa, John Capouya. This is an audio recording of a lecture. For copyright reasons, the lecture presentation images could not be included in the lecture recording. In this lecture, journalist and professor John Capouya, author of the newly published book, Florida Soul, discusses the evolution of rhythm and blues music in black communities and on the ”chitlin’ circuit” in the era of segregation, the vital role soul played in the civil rights movement, and how artists like Sam & Dave, James Brown, Aretha Franklin and Sam Cooke crossed over the racial divide into the mainstream, changing American culture.

Join us for a special 40-minute lecture with Stanford University Journalism Program Director, James T. Hamilton. This is an audio recording of a lecture. The lecturer used visual tools that could not be captured in the audio recording. Changes in media markets have put local investigative reporting particularly at risk. But new combinations of data and algorithms may make it easier for journalists to discover and tell the stories that hold institutions accountable. Based on his book Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism, in this lecture Professor Hamilton explores how the future of accountability reporting will involve stories by, through, and about algorithms. Dr. James Hamilton is the Hearst Professor of Communication, Director of the Journalism Program, and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Communication at Stanford University. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, Hamilton taught at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, where he directed the De Witt Wallace Ce

Alan D. Abbey is director of media at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, which he joined in 2008 after a 30-year career in journalism in the United States and Israel. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from the SOJC. He founded Ynetnews and was executive vice president at the Jerusalem Post. He is also an adjunct professor of Journalism at National University of San Diego and ethics lecturer for the Getty School of Citizen Journalism in the Middle East and North Africa. He was a leader of the Online News Association’s digital ethics team, which created the “Build Your Own” Ethics Code course and website, and he chaired the Hartman Institute-American Jewish Press Association Ethics Project. He is the author of Journey of Hope: The Story of Ilan Ramon, Israel’s First Astronaut. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Abbey lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three children. Israeli journalists are among the most aggressive, intense, politicized, opinionated, and competitive media professionals anywhere.

Joy Mayer is the director of The Trusting News project, which researches news consumers and then helps journalists earn trust and demonstrate credibility. She is an adjunct faculty member at The Poynter Institute and the University of Florida and is a community engagement strategist based Sarasota, Florida. She spent 12 years teaching at the Missouri School of Journalism, where she created an engagement curriculum and a community outreach team in the newsroom of the Columbia Missourian and also taught web design and print design. Watch our interview with Joy in the studio: https://youtu.be/kXzSXsSO3Bw Watch Joy's talk:https://youtu.be/ZZkNSkXD_Eg Want to listen to this interview a different way? Find us wherever you get your podcasts: iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/demy%E2%80%A6ia/id1369395906 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/university-of-oregon-school-of-journalism-and-communication/demystifying-media-podcast?refid=stpr Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2Och6Oxpkhyo1nC7D6psHI F

Will Grant is one of the UK’s leading broadcast journalists on Latin American affairs. He has been the BBC’s Correspondent in Cuba since late 2014, shortly before the announcement of the re-establishment of diplomatic ties with the United States. In that time he has covered such historic moments as President Obama’s ground-breaking visit to Cuba and the death of the founder of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro. Before taking up his role in Cuba, he was the BBC Correspondent in Venezuela under Hugo Chavez and Mexico / Central America during some of the most violent years of the drug war. Will was previously the Americas Editor at the BBC World Service Radio, based in London and Miami and has covered the region extensively for over twenty years. In this podcast, Grant will discuss being a journalist in Venezuela, Mexico and Cuba, three of the countries that have forged the biggest headlines in Latin America over the past decade. Each country is different. Yet for reporters, there are certain similarities that

David Bornstein is CEO and co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network, which works to establish the practice of solutions journalism — rigorous reporting that examines responses to social problems — as an integral part of mainstream news. He has been a newspaper and magazine reporter for 25 years, having started his career working on the metro desk of New York Newsday. Since 2010, he has co-authored, with Tina Rosenberg, the “Fixes” column in The New York Times. He is the author of three books: How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas (2003, Oxford University Press), The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank (1996, Simon & Schuster), and Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know (2010, Oxford University Press). Watch our interview with David in the studio: https://youtu.be/O8t5sKJSj_g Watch David's talk: https://youtu.be/gpUeLqZCsnk Want to listen to this interview a different way? Find us wherever you get your podcasts: iTunes: https://podcasts.app