41 min
Billionaires Alone Can't Save Journalism, with Matthew Hansen Journalists Are My Heroes
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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. Also like me, he recently stepped out of journalism to flex his skills in the world of content marketing; he's now managing editor for the Buffett Early Childhood Institute. Like any good journalist given plenty of leash, Hansen in his 16 years at the World-Herald followed his whims far and wide -- including reporting trips to Afghanistan and Cuba. He also had a front-row seat to Omaha billionaire Warren Buffett's purchase of his hometown newspaper and the diminishing prospects that Buffett now sees for the financial viability of local news. This conversation runs the gamut: Hansen talks about how the journalism crisis cut his newsroom in half, but we also discuss the goofy origin of his @redcloud_scribe Twitter handle. I ask Hansen about one of his epic stories where he discovered that the most famous photo in American history essentially was a big lie. He also talks about some of his new outlets for writing, including online magazine Between Coasts. We even explore Hansen's feelings about the heart attack that he survived this summer (and wrote about, of course). Get to know a journalist who says he has "an overactive sense of justice, like every metro columnist in the country."
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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. Also like me, he recently stepped out of journalism to flex his skills in the world of content marketing; he's now managing editor for the Buffett Early Childhood Institute. Like any good journalist given plenty of leash, Hansen in his 16 years at the World-Herald followed his whims far and wide -- including reporting trips to Afghanistan and Cuba. He also had a front-row seat to Omaha billionaire Warren Buffett's purchase of his hometown newspaper and the diminishing prospects that Buffett now sees for the financial viability of local news. This conversation runs the gamut: Hansen talks about how the journalism crisis cut his newsroom in half, but we also discuss the goofy origin of his @redcloud_scribe Twitter handle. I ask Hansen about one of his epic stories where he discovered that the most famous photo in American history essentially was a big lie. He also talks about some of his new outlets for writing, including online magazine Between Coasts. We even explore Hansen's feelings about the heart attack that he survived this summer (and wrote about, of course). Get to know a journalist who says he has "an overactive sense of justice, like every metro columnist in the country."
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/journalistsaremyheroes/support
41 min