Tricky
Summary: Disentangling journalism’s messiest problems. Heather Chaplin and Emily Bell tap the biggest brains in the business and beyond to tease out where we go from here. From the Journalism and Design program at The New School.
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Heather and Emily hunker down in the journalistic equivalent of a nuclear bunker with Storyful’s Mandy Jenkins and design technologist Rick Barraza to explore the looming crisis of AI-generated fakery that threatens our understanding of what’s real. Reading list: https://journalismdesign.com/episode-6-getting-ready-for-the-infocalypse/ Theme music: The Insider Theme by The Insider is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 International License.
A perverted sex act in a company-owned Mercedes, and a shriveled local media ecosystem. Heather and Emily are joined by Washington Post media critic Margaret Sullivan and Texas Tribune founder John Thornton to unpack the tricky problem of how to save local news from bankruptcy and bias. Reading list: https://journalismdesign.com/episode-5-whats-in-the-sinclair-broadcasting-box/ Theme music: The Insider Theme by The Insider is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 International License.
Heather + Emily talk to Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy at Yale, about misinformation, conspiracy theories, and how journalism can survive in systems flooded with propaganda. And Emily gives us an audio whiteboard sketch of the complexities of the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data story. Reading list: https://journalismdesign.com/episode-4-propaganda-and-pink-hair/ Theme music: The Insider Theme by The Insider is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 International License.
Heather and Emily talk to Sarah L. Roberts, the woman who coined the term “commercial content moderation,” about how elements of online discourse are governed by outsourced, low-paid workers. And they ask Andrew Losowsky (Coral Project) whether newsrooms + journalists still have a part to play in fostering civil discourse. Reading list: https://journalismdesign.com/please-dont-read-comments/ The Insider Theme by The Insider is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 International License.
Facebook’s 35 mentions in the indictment of Russian nationals solidified their position at the center of our current political and cultural conundrum. Heather + Emily retrace the steps that led to this point and debate the case for blockchain–technology with guest Jarrod Dicker (CEO of Po.et). Reading list: https://journalismdesign.com/episode-2-facebook-is-broken-should-we-hop-on-the-blockchain/ The Insider Theme by The Insider is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 International License.
In the inaugural episode of Tricky, Emily Bell and Heather Chaplin look at perhaps the greatest challenge facing journalism today: the fight to capture your attention and speak with Natasha Schull, author of Addiction by Design and James Williams, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology. Reading list: https://journalismdesign.com/journalism-podcast-journalismdesign-episode-one/ Theme music: The Insider Theme by The Insider is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 International License.
Disentangling journalism’s knottiest problems. Heather Chaplin and Emily Bell call on leading thinkers, doers, writers, and designers to tease out where we go from here. From the Journalism and Design program at The New School.
