Columbia Journalism Review Podcast

Columbia Journalism Review
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Columbia Journalism Review Podcast

In its fiftieth year, the nation's leading journalism review brings you a series of conversations with journalists, critics, and contributors to the Columbia Journalism Review magazine and CJR.org. Expect frank discussion, behind-the-scenes stories, and insightful media analysis from all corners of the news industry.

  1. 11/03/2016

    CJR Podcast: Corey Hutchins talks digital startups and local news with Denverite's Dave Burdick

    Corey Hutchins is a Colorado-based contributor to the Columbia Journalism Review's United States Project, which covers developments in local media around the country. Here, he speaks with Dave Burdick, editor-in-chief of Denverite, a 5-month-old for-profit Denver news startup, about the challenges of starting a hyperlocal, digital-only news product, how he's building new audiences and revenue streams, and his passion for local news.

    27 min

  2. 09/10/2016

    CJR Podcast: Solutions-based journalism with Corey Hutchins, Ben Goldfarb and Leah Todd

    Corey Hutchins is a Colorado-based contributor to the Columbia Journalism Review's United States Project, which covers developments in local media around the country. Here, he speaks with Ben Goldfarb and Leah Todd of the Solutions Journalism Network, and J.R. Logan of Taos News, about "Small Towns, Big Change," a collaboration between SJN and several local news organizations in Colorado and New Mexico.

  3. 03/23/2012

    CJR Podcast: Paul Berry

    Paul Berry was the CTO of Huffington Post from April 2007 through December 2011. He is currently the founder and CEO of RebelMouse, a social media startup, and Soho Tech Lab, an incubator. Here, he speaks with Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, about where he's been, where he's going, and what's in store for social news.

  4. 12/01/2011

    CJR Podcast: James Boylan

    In celebration of our 50th anniversary, James Boylan, who founded CJR in 1961, talks about the magazine's early history and his time as its editor with deputy editor Clint Hendler.

    18 min

  5. 05/11/2011

    CJR Podcast: Bill Grueskin and Lucas Graves

    Bill Grueskin, Lucas Graves, and Ava Seave are the authors of a new report released by Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism, entitled "The Story So Far: What we know about the business of digital journalism." In this conversation with assistant editor Lauren Kirchner, Grueskin and Graves discuss the report's recommendations for the news industry, from aggregation to advertising.

    14 min

  6. 05/05/2011

    CJR Podcast: Lawrence Pintak

    Lawrence Pintak, author of the book The New Arab Journalist: Mission and Identity in a Time of Turmoil, wrote the cover story of the May/June issue of CJR, entitled "Breathing Room: Toward a new Arab Media." In this conversation with assistant editor Lauren Kirchner, Pintak talks about the origins of television news networks like Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya, and assesses their long-lasting impact on the popular uprisings of the region. He also discusses the shift in American public opinion of Al Jazeera English, and how the death of Osama bin Laden has been handled in the Arab media.

    9 min

  7. 04/20/2011

    CJR Podcast: Calvin Trillin

    CJR's Michael Meyer sits down with author and Nation columnist Calvin Trillin about his new collection, "Trillin on Texas," out now from the University of Texas Press. In this excerpt of their conversation, Meyer asks Trillin about his experiences reporting and writing "U.S. Journal," his series of features that ran in The New Yorker from 1967 to 1982. A fuller transcript of their conversation is also up now on CJR.org.

    9 min

  8. 03/22/2011

    CJR Podcast: LynNell Hancock

    LynNell Hancock, a reporter specializing in education and child-and-family policy issues and director of the Spencer Fellowship for Education Journalism at Columbia University, is the author of the cover story of CJR's March/April issue, "Tested: Covering schools in the age of micro-measurement." In this conversation with deputy editor Clint Hendler, Hancock talks about the limitations of purely statistical analysis of teacher success and the controversy and challenges reporters face when trying to put value-added data into context for their readers. She also discusses how corporate interests in education research are increasingly pushing the national conversation--and pushing it toward closing schools, firing teachers, starting charters, and removing the job of public education from the public sphere.

    13 min
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In its fiftieth year, the nation's leading journalism review brings you a series of conversations with journalists, critics, and contributors to the Columbia Journalism Review magazine and CJR.org. Expect frank discussion, behind-the-scenes stories, and insightful media analysis from all corners of the news industry.

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  • Creator
    Columbia Journalism Review
  • Years Active
    2010 - 2016
  • Episodes
    15
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2010, Columbia Journalism Review
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    Columbia Journalism Review Podcast

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