It's All Journalism

On this week's It's All Journalism podcast, host Michael O'Connell talks to Joshua Vaughn, a criminal justice reporter at the Sentinel newspaper in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Vaughn taught himself coding and built tools that allowed him to scrape data from public records. He shares how this information has both supported the reporting he had been already doing and led to new stories about the criminal justice system.

On this week's It's All Journalism podcast, host Michael O'Connell talks to Joshua Vaughn, a criminal justice reporter at the Sentinel newspaper in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Vaughn taught himself coding and built tools that allowed him to scrape data from public records. He shares how this information has both supported the reporting he had been already doing and led to new stories about the criminal justice system.

Rachel Leibrock woke up feeling sick on Wednesday, Nov. 9. She thought about calling in sick to her job as the editor of the Sacramento News & Review. But after watching Hillary Clintons concession speech, she knew that was unacceptable. There was work to be done.

Rachel Leibrock woke up feeling sick on Wednesday, Nov. 9. She thought about calling in sick to her job as the editor of the Sacramento News & Review. But after watching Hillary Clintons concession speech, she knew that was unacceptable. There was work to be done.

On this week's It's All Journalism podcast, host Michael O'Connell talks to Aram Zucker-Scharff about his recent Medium article, The media is a business and journalism is a job. Get it together., which examines the perceived threat of fake news and Facebook's recent solution ? fact-checking by news outlets like the Associated Press

On this week's It's All Journalism podcast, host Michael O'Connell talks to Aram Zucker-Scharff about his recent Medium article, The media is a business and journalism is a job. Get it together., which examines the perceived threat of fake news and Facebook's recent solution ? fact-checking by news outlets like the Associated Press

On this week's It's All Journalism podcast, host Michael O'Connell talks to cartoonist Jessica Abel about the differences and surprising similarities in audio and graphic storytelling. Abel is the author of Out on The Wire, a graphic novel about the storytelling techniques behind the popular Radiolab and This American Life radio shows.

On this week's It's All Journalism podcast, host Michael O'Connell talks to cartoonist Jessica Abel about the differences and surprising similarities in audio and graphic storytelling. Abel is the author of Out on The Wire, a graphic novel about the storytelling techniques behind the popular Radiolab and This American Life radio shows.

Every journalist comes to their respective newsroom in a different way, but almost all have a similar starting point: a high school English teacher. For this week's podcast, the three producers discussed their trials and tribulations in the newsroom, trying to find the humor and personality in covering the federal government and how to go about covering difficult stories in which reporters are treated as hostile witnesses to painful events.

Every journalist comes to their respective newsroom in a different way, but almost all have a similar starting point: a high school English teacher. For this week's podcast, the three producers discussed their trials and tribulations in the newsroom, trying to find the humor and personality in covering the federal government and how to go about covering difficult stories in which reporters are treated as hostile witnesses to painful events.