It's All Journalism

Andrea Wenzel, a research fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism and upcoming assistant professor of solutions journalism at Temple University, returns to the podcast to talk with producer Michael O'Connell about the best ways to reach an audience and increase engagement for more effective solutions journalism.

David Mindich, a professor of Media Studies, Journalism and Digital Arts at St. Michael's College in Vermont, returns to talk with It's All Journalism producer Michael O'Connell about the importance of covering things other than the current administration while serving the public and providing crucial, well-researched information to hold leadership accountable.

Margot Susca, professorial lecturer in the American University School of Communications, talks to It's All Journalism producer Michael O'Connell about how journalism schools remain relevant and vital in times of rapid technological changes and fake news.

Ryan Craggs of Conde Nast Traveler talks to It's All Journalism Producer Michael O'Connell about a recent article he wrote for the Columbia Journalism Review, "Stop killing your social stories with bad headlines and images." They discuss how a good headline can help promote news stories and make them more shareable on Facebook.

Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News tells It's All Journalism producers Amber Healy and Michael O'Connell about the challenges of covering the current political climate. He also talks about...

Deborah Potter, president and executive director of Newslab, draws on her career as a broadcast journalist at CBS News and CNN, to help train newsrooms on how to make the most of what “new media” has to offer. She offers her take on the current state of digital media and interviews It’s All Journalism host Michael O’Connell about his upcoming book, Turn Up the Volume — A Down and Dirty Guide to Launching a Podcast, to boot.

Melanie Deziel, founder of MDeziel Media, the first editor of branded content for the New York Times and publisher of The Overlap League newsletter, talks to It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell about the growth of native advertising as a revenue source for digital news outlets.

Chase Palmieri talks to It's All Journalism producer Michael O'Connell about Tribeworthy, a platform he describes as Yelp for news consumers. TribeWorthy users rate articles based on a lack of bias, logical fallacies or other manipulative...

Daniel Ha, executive officer and co-founder of the Disqus commenting platform, talks to It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell about how websites can engage their readers in conversations on their comment boards. He discusses strategies for keeping out trolls and developing a rich social experience with your audience.

Blake Gopnik, the daily art columnist for Art Net News and contributor to the New York Times, talks to It's All Journalism Producer Michael O'Connell about art criticism and his upcoming biography of Andy Warhol.

Immigration reporting is the subject of this week's episode of It's All Journalism. Host Michael O'Connell chats with journalists Daniela Gerson and Elizabeth Aguilera, co-creators of Migratory Notes, a weekly email newsletter focused on immigration. Their goal is to explore the wide-ranging issues found under the immigration umbrella and share stories that provide context to this very complex topic.

Washington Post political editor Allison Michaels joins It's All Journalism producers Michael O'Connell and Nicole Ogrysko in studio this week to talk about her podcast, Can He Do That? In each episode, Michaels and a her guests try to shed light on the limits of executive power as wielded by the Trump administration. The discussion also explores how newsrooms can use podcasts to expand on their coverage and engage new audiences.

This week It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell is talking about underground press pioneer John Wilcock once again. This time around he talks to graphic novelist Ethan Persoff about the comic book biography of Wilcock he and artist Scott Marshall are collaborating on. They also discuss Persoff's archive of the underground satire magazine The Realist and the underground press scene of the 1960s and 1970s.

It's All Journalism host Michael O'Connell talks to radio reporter Neal Augenstein of WTOP in Washington, D.C., about his new podcast, Investigation Continues: The Lyons Sisters. The podcast focuses on the 1975 disappearance of Sheila and Katherine Lyon, sisters from Montgomery County, Maryland. Augenstein documents the decades-long case and the recent arrest of a suspect.

On this week's It's All Journalism podcast, host Michael O'Connell talks to reader engagement specialist Joy Mayer of the Reynolds Journalism Institute. They discuss how important it is for journalists to build a relationship with their readers, by responding to comments and creating a dialogue on social media. She also talks about a recent project she conducted to help newsrooms build trust with their audiences.