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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
Graham Lee Brewer, "a reporter covering criminal justice, the death penalty, and Indian Country," grew up listening to National Public Radio in the back of his parents' car. Today he's a working journalist in Oklahoma with a distinguished resum
In this episode I talk to Laura Dawn, chief creative officer of recently launched news aggregator FrontPageLive.com. The shorthand description is that it's a progressive response to the massively popular Druge Report. But it goes much deeper th
Larrison Campbell is a political reporter whose coverage for nonprofit news org Mississippi Today has an emphasis on public health. Her summer, meanwhile, has had an emphasis on viral news. That's because a married male gubernatorial candidate
"I actually enjoy covering public meetings," says Ty Rushing, managing editor for Iowa Information Inc., a family news operation that serves numerous communities in northwest Iowa and whose flagship newspaper is the N'West Iowa Review in the to
Our latest guest is dedicated veteran journalist Doug Burns, co-owner and editor of a family newspaper that has delivered quality local news for nearly a century. With the Carroll Times Herald and affiliated newspapers in western Iowa, Burns ma
Nick Nurse, head coach of NBA's Toronto Raptors, began his sports career as a Catholic-school basketball star in the small town (population < 10,000) of Carroll, Iowa. That hometown connection has given Brandon Hurley, assistant sports editor o
The new batch of Pulitzer Prize winners was announced today, with journalists awarded for deep reporting on coverage of presidential finances and mass shootings, among an array of other topics. This year's Pulitzer for Editorial Writing went to
One of the undercurrents of this podcast has been that the relationship between the press and the public has gotten so fractured that it's almost as if we need to get reporters and audiences into a classroom to study the problem and find a new
Tyler O'Neil now lives in Austin, Texas, where he's a content marketing entrepreneur with yourbikergang.com and leads people on adventures throughout the city. But here we talk mostly about his year spent in the newsroom of the English-language
It was inevitable with this podcast that I would begin to spend a little more time talking with journalists as they stream through Iowa, the site of the first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses, on the 2020 campaign trail. Christopher Cadelago
When billionaire Joe Ricketts of TD Ameritrade and Chicago Cubs fame in 2017 shut down digital news network DNAInfo, Stephanie Lulay and two of her colleagues didn't scatter to other industries. They co-founded Block Club Chicago, a hyperlocal
Collaborative journalism has become more of a trend in recent years. Newsrooms, struggling to remain ambitious as they cope with a sour media economy, are launching all manner of projects in which they're colleagues rather than competitors. The
Veteran journalist Sam Quinones is a self-described "immersive journalist" with the heart of a punk rocker. He began his career as a crime reporter in Stockton, Calif. In the decades since he has roamed around the U.S. and Mexico. He has been a
I was rummaging through my basement this weekend and found early mementos from my journalism career, including copies of my first publication, "6th Grade News Flash." That got me thinking about (1) what gets journalists hooked on this business
Laura Belin of Bleeding Heartland has spent more than a decade and produced more than 7,000 posts as a progressive political blogger. She's also on the front lines of changing notions of journalism in this scrappy era of digital media. She's a
Investigative reporter Amber Hunt of the Cincinnati Enquirer built a news career that led her through Iowa and Detroit before Ohio, where in 2016 with colleague Amanda Rossman she created the hit podcast "Accused." Hunt had no idea how drastica
Nikki Usher, associate professor of journalism at George Washington University and the University of Illinois, joins JAMH to share some of what she's learned from years of interviewing journalists and studying their industry. She also discusses
Whether in Indiana or Hawaii or Iowa, Erin Sommers, 37, has loved her lifelong job as a professionally nosy newshound. Now the reporter and driving force behind the Pocahontas Record-Democrat in northwest Iowa, Sommers sat down to talk about: c
This is a ham-fisted monologue to introduce a new podcast, Journalists Are My Heroes. It's simple: I have good conversations with working journalists in communities of every shape and size. Because the very notion of journalism needs to be reha
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