AAN News

AAN plans Texas-sized conference in Austin

On this week's It's All Journalism, producer Michael O'Connell talks to Tiffany Shackelford, executive director of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, about AAN's 2016 Conference in Austin. We talk about some of the big guests that will be there along with all the after hours activities AAN has planned for attendees. (FULL STORY)
It's All Journalism  |  06-24-2016  12:00 pm  |  It's All Journalism

It's All Journalism: Solutions Journalism With a Global Perspective

Peter Klein, award-winning journalist and director of the Global Reporting Centre, discusses solutions journalism and the Centre's efforts to report global stories that fall between the cracks of mainstream media coverage. (FULL STORY)
It's All Journalism  |  06-10-2016  10:30 am  |  It's All Journalism

It's All Journalism: SecureDrop Helps Journalists Protect Identity of Anonymous Sources

Charles Berret, a Ph.D. student at the Columbia University School of Journalism, talks about SecureDrop, a new technology that helps journalist protect the identity of their anonymous sources. (FULL STORY)
It's All Journalism  |  06-03-2016  2:00 pm  |  It's All Journalism

It's All Journalism: Live-Streaming Into a Two-Way Conversation

Louise Story, executive producer of Facebook Live at The New York Times, discusses what the Times has learned in its first four weeks live-streaming video content on Facebook. (FULL STORY)
AAN  |  05-27-2016  4:00 pm  |  It's All Journalism

It's All Journalism: Sisi Wei tells stories through interactive graphics

Sisi Wei, a news apps designer at ProPublica, talks about telling stories through graphics, including Wei's recent experience using Sketchnotes to cover presentations at the Society for News Designs conference in San Francisco. (FULL STORY)
It's All Journalism  |  05-20-2016  11:00 am  |  It's All Journalism

It's All Journalism: Photojournalist recalls photo that still haunts him

This week, It’s All Journalism Producer Michael O’Connell talks about the milestone 200th-episode podcast with two special, in-studio guests. Then, the podcast focuses on an interview with Pulitzer-Prize-winning photojournalist Paul Watson and playwright Dan O’Brien. They discuss a play O’Brien wrote about Watson’s experiences covering war zones. (FULL STORY)
It's All Journalism  |  05-13-2016  12:30 pm  |  It's All Journalism

It's All Journalism: Time to Bring FOIA Into the Digital Age

Kevin Goldberg, attorney for AAN and ASNE, and Rick Blum of the Sunshine in Government Initiative, talk about legislation making its way through Congress that will update the 50-year-old Freedom of Information Act. (FULL STORY)
AAN  |  05-06-2016  11:00 am  |  It's All Journalism

It's All Journalism: Gitmo, ISIS, Afghanistan

Walking the national security beat. (FULL STORY)
It's All Journalism  |  04-29-2016  9:00 am  |  It's All Journalism

It's All Journalism: Tow Center report unlocks solutions journalism

On this week's It's All Journalism podcast, producer Michael O'Connell talks to Andrea Wenzel, one of the authors of a new report from Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism: Engaging Communities through Solutions Journalism. They discuss how solutions-oriented stories can better engage local audiences and inspire them to take positive actions in their communities. (FULL STORY)
It's All Journalism  |  04-22-2016  8:00 am  |  It's All Journalism

It's All Journalism: Transgender coverage beyond Caitlyn Jenner

Sara Morrison talks about how journalists can cover transgender issues in the aftermath of the Caitlyn Jenner story. (FULL STORY)
It's All Journalism  |  04-15-2016  4:35 pm  |  It's All Journalism

It's All Journalism: Alan Cross - Where are all the angry guitars?

An interview with Alan Cross, host of the Ongoing History of New Music. (FULL STORY)
It's All Journalism  |  04-11-2016  11:30 am  |  It's All Journalism

It's All Journalism: FOIA Request Exposes FOIA-Reform Obstruction

On this week's It's All Journalism podcast, Producer Michael O'Connell talks to Jason Leopold, investigative reporter for VICE News, about a recent story he wrote about how the Obama administration has worked behind the scenes to scuttle legislation aimed at reforming the Freedom Information Act. Leopold talks about the importance of FOIA to investigative journalists and the public, and how he used the law to uncover documents to expose the administration's actions (FULL STORY)
It's All Journalism  |  04-01-2016  10:00 am  |  It's All Journalism

It's All Journalism: Finding Stories Inside Statistics

On this week's It's All Journalism, producer Michael O'Connell talks to Sean McMinn, a data journalist at CQ Roll Call, which tracks state and congressional legislation. They talk about using statistics to tell a story and what goes into making a newsroom data team. (FULL STORY)
It's All Journalism  |  03-18-2016  11:00 am  |  It's All Journalism

It's All Journalism: Campaign 2016 - Welcome to the Sideshow

Gabrielle Levy, political reporter for U.S. News and World Report, talks about the highs and lows of the 2016 presidential campaign. She also discusses how woman are portrayed in the media and how some journalists would never consider describing a male candidate as "shrill." (FULL STORY)
It's All Journalism  |  03-11-2016  10:30 am  |  It's All Journalism

It's All Journalism: That Retweet Might Actually Be an Endorsement

On this week's It's All Journalism podcast, Producer Michael O'Connell talks to Logan Molyneux, an assistant professor at Temple University, about his research looking into how journalists are using social media to cover the news and build their personal brands. (FULL STORY)
It's All Journalism  |  03-07-2016  6:10 pm  |  It's All Journalism

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