This is a roundup of my listening notes for July playlist for the Vancouver chapter of the Podcast Brunch Club. For the original Podcast Brunch Club list, see here: https://podyssey.fm/list/podcast-episodes/id130-Breaking-the-News%3A-Podcast-Brunch-Club-playlist
Since the Internet exploded journalism’s business revenue, local newsrooms around the country have been in free fall. We speak to The Denver Post's former managing editor and other experts to debate h...Show More
Stat: 64 percent of Americans say fake news is causing confusion over basic facts, according to the Pew Research Center. Story: It’s becoming increasingly more difficult to sort fact from fiction in t...Show More
The news to know for Friday, June 28th, 2019! Today, what to know about President Trump's meetings at the G20 Summit, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling about the 2020 census, and Twitter's new rules for pol...Show More
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A sampling of theNewsWorthy podcast to prep for the Podcast Brunch Club interview with the founder and host of the podcast, Erica Mandy: https://podyssey.fm/episode/id3734083-The-NewsWorthy-podcast-ho...Show More
Erica Mandy, the founder and host of the theNewsWorthy, chats with Jenna Spinelle, one of the co-leaders of our virtual PBC chapter. We featured an episode of The NewsWorthy on the podcast listening l...Show More
Aba is back to host this episode with Jessica Lessin, journalist, founder, and editor-in-chief of The Information. Founded in 2013, The Information breaks exclusive stories and publishes deeply report...Show More
With publishers refocusing on direct connections with their audience, email newsletters are critical. Quartz has bet on email from its earliest days. On this limited edition episode of the Digiday Pod...Show More
Publisher interest in podcasts is at an all-time high. But figuring out exactly what kind of storytelling model is ideal for audiences, as well as metrics for success, still remains difficult. On this...Show More
Quartz is onto its next big move to diversify reader revenue. The publisher, which originally launched as an ad-supported model, launched a membership program in November. Lauf discusses the subscript...Show More
Gawker unionized in 2015, setting off a wave of digital newsroom organizing, invigorated by layoffs and politics that leave journalists feeling embattled. Emily and Heather are joined by long-time lab...Show More
Alice Xin Liu and Joanna Chiu interview two Chinese women who work as news assistants for foreign media in China. News assistants are sometimes dubbed "researchers," though they really are journalists...Show More
Emily + Heather consider what place opinion journalism has in public discourse today. With Jeet Heer (The New Republic) and Katie Kingsbury (New York Times) the two ask: Is intellectual diversity poss...Show More
Michael Barbaro, who hosts the hit podcast The Daily for the New York Times, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in front of a live audience at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. Barbaro explains why he...Show More
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Interesting take on the future of the “subscription wars” of news outlets. Also interesting argument about how The Information is actually antithesis to news as a driver of democracy because the busin...Show More