Helping through Beacon Santa

Will Dowd talks about the Witch City & Halloween

Richard Hosford, Phil Gallagher of Burlington Cable Access Television (BCAT)

Digging into election coverage in Newton

Columnist Rick Holmes talks about traveling & opinion writing

MetroWest Daily News Deputy Director Rob Haneisen joins hosts Caitlyn Kelleher and Joy Richard on this episode. They talk about his experience as an editor preparing for a newspaper's natural disaster coverage. Haneisen also serves as the MetroWest Daily News Sunday editor. He talks about how he worked with the community to set up National Weather Service spotters to increase reader participation and to gather more data for local news coverage. He also shares stories from his time working in central Florida, where he covered tornados and wildfires. 

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New episodes will be released each week on Monday. Throughout the week, follow Caitlyn Kelleher on Twitter, @CMKelleher, and reach her via email at [email protected]. Readers and listeners can find Joy Richard on Twitter, @ExtraExtraJoy, and by email at [email protected].

Extra! Extra! host Caitlyn Kelleher talks about an upcoming panel discussion called De-Hate the Debate. The event starts at 7 p.m. at Regis College in Weston. It is open to the public.

Breaking news can be one of the most exciting and stressful parts of journalism. This week, hosts Caitlyn Kelleher and Joy Richard speak with Chelmsford Independent Multimedia Journalist Margaret Smith about the topic, and her most recent experience covering a breaking story.

For their sixth episode, the Richard and Kelleher discuss with Smith what goes into each breaking story, and how reporters navigate the sometimes sensitive topics that come with the territory of covering of police, fire and crime.

Smith said she most recently covered a breaking story that came by way of a Jet Ski crash on the Merrimack River. The crash led to the death of 16-year old Lowell resident who was pulled from the river after the Aug. 13 crash.

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New episodes will be released each week on Monday. Throughout the week, follow Caitlyn Kelleher on Twitter, @CMKelleher, and reach her via email at [email protected]. Readers and listeners can find Joy Richard on Twitter, @ExtraExtraJoy, and by email at [email protected].

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Hosts Caitlyn Kelleher and Joy Richard discuss a recent article from Tonic, which is part of the Vice network, focused on the mental health of journalists. They share their experiences dealing with the stress of covering death, terrorist events and more.

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Listen to full episodes and subscribe via iTunes, Stitcher or Google Play. And if you aren’t a podcast listener, don’t worry — you will be able to find each new episode here on wickedlocal.com/topics/Extra!Extra!-podcast.

New episodes will be released each week on Monday. Throughout the week, follow Caitlyn Kelleher on Twitter, @CMKelleher, and reach her via email at [email protected]. Readers and listeners can find Joy Richard on Twitter, @ExtraExtraJoy, and by email at [email protected].

Don’t forget to follow all of Wicked Local at @WickedLocal and wickedlocal.com

Ruth Thompson, the multimedia journalist for the Scituate Mariner and scituate.wickedlocal.com, talks about the reporting behind her two-part series about sharks on the South Shore.  She shares how a conversation after a meeting lead to this series of stories and the men and women she interviewed along the way.

And uses a moment to talk about Joe Kelly of Scituate. Kelly is one of the people who Thompson has interviewed and whose words and attitude has stayed with as the years have passed. 

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New episodes will be released each week on Monday. Throughout the week follow Caitlyn Kelleher on Twitter, @CMKelleher, and reach her via email at [email protected]. Readers and listener can find Joy Richard on Twitter, @ExtraExtraJoy, and by email at [email protected]

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