Mayborn Lit Conversations

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The Mayborn LitConversations is a podcast produced by UNT's Mayborn School of Journalism and the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, featuring conversations with journalists and authors who offer down to earth advice about reporting, writing and storytelling.

  1. 09/27/2021

    Steve Gamel

    Journalist and author Steve Gamel says writing is not easy, but he has some tips on how to help us to overcome our fears and improve our writing skills.

  2. 05/14/2021

    Gene Weingarten

    Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner Gene Weingarten reunites with one of his former reporters during last year's Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference to give a master class in narrative storytelling. You'll learn about how you tell stories about the people in your everyday life, how you bring scenes alive and why you always stay curious about the world around you.

  3. 04/15/2021

    MARTY BARON

    The recently retired executive editor of the Washington Post discusses the dramatic pursuit of truth in journalism during a time when journalists are under attack. Baron talks about his passion for storytelling, highilights about his career at The Miami Herald and The Post and what's next

  4. 04/14/2021

    BOB FORD

    During the Vietnam War, 2,197 helicopter pilots and 2,717 crew members were killed. Black Cat 2-1 is the story of Bob Ford, the pilot, discusses how he wrote this compelling story about his many missions and the valiant men he served with who risked their lives for the troops on the ground. Ford flew on more than 1,000 missions when he and his men dared to protect and rescue.

  5. 01/07/2021

    Albert Samaha

    Listen to Buzzfeed Investigative reporter Albert Samaha talks about how he is focused on reframing the way to tell the story of social justice in America. At the same time, he offers pro tips on how he revealed the unsafe conditions of essential workers around the country during the coronavirus pandemic. Samaha is author of Never Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City, which was a finalist for the 2019 PEN/ESPN Literary Sports Writing Award.

  6. 11/19/2020

    Cary Aspinwall

    During this high-energy conversation, Dallas-based reporter for The Marshall Project, Cary Aspinwall is a passionate investigative reporter who admittedly spends most of her life chasing down documents and information for her stories. Listen to this Pulitzer finalist talk about Oklahoma's flawed execution process and how to questioning authority is just second nature for her. he won the Gerald Loeb Award for reporting on a Texas company's history of deadly natural gas explosions

  7. 11/12/2020

    Alfredo Corchado

    By all accounts, it was just another typical day at the always busy Walmart in El Paso until a gunman drove from Dallas, shot and killed 23 people. Alfredo Corchado, a veteran Dallas Morning News reporter who has covered Mexico and the border for more than 20 years, discusses how he and a team of journalists, tell the stories employees, families and the community still reeling from the tragedy. Corchado, whose family lives in El Paso, also reveals the importance of having diverse reporters and editors in newsrooms to share stories that are rich with cultural understanding adn empathy.

  8. 11/05/2020

    Mike Wilson

    This week I’m talking with Mike Wilson, who recently announced that he is stepping down as editor of the Dallas Morning News. Wilson spent nearly five years at the newspaper after a short stint at ESPN’s FiveThirtyEight. Before that, Wilson became a success editor at the Tampa Bay Times, and started out at the Miami Herald – where he and I crossed paths – way back in the day. Over two conversations, we discussed his love of newspapers and journalism, the challenges of leading a newsroom that was shrinking every year, the role of unions, diversity and how local journalism is changing. As Mike explains, regional papers like the Dallas Morning News can no longer remain “newsrooms of record” but are becoming “newsrooms of choice,” where editors and reporters have to make painstaking decisions everyday about publishing stories their readers care most about.

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The Mayborn LitConversations is a podcast produced by UNT's Mayborn School of Journalism and the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, featuring conversations with journalists and authors who offer down to earth advice about reporting, writing and storytelling.

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  • Creator
    Podotron Network
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2021
  • Episodes
    15
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright Podotron Network
  • Show Website
    Mayborn Lit Conversations

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