Journalism stuff

Here is an interview with Lewis Raven Wallace about his book on the journalistic shibboleth of objectivity, The View From Somewhere. 

In this episode, we'll examine many possible roles and goals of the journalist and ask: What do you want to accomplish in journalism school and in your journalism career? 

Follow the money to find out why we do what we do the way we do it. 

The entire history of media and journalism since Gutenberg in way less than hour to answer the questions: How did we get here? And what must we fix?

A very brief welcome to Newmark J-School to the entire class of 2021 with an explanation about what's in the episodes that follow. 

Here's my conversation with Nathan Allebach, who turned the Twitter account for Steak-Umm into a voice of reason and sanity in the COVID pandemic. 

An interview with Emma Hodcroft, a geneticist working in Switzerland on an amazing project to track every mutation of the SARS CoV2 virus as it has traveled the world. 

A conversation with Columbia University virologist Angela Rasmussen on covering the pandemic. 

Here is my interview with infectious disease doctor Krutika Kuppalli, a veteran of the ebola epidemic in West Africa. 

Here is the first of what might become a series of discussions with experts about what journalism is doing wrong and right in covering the COVID-19 pandemic.

I start with epidemiologist Dr. Gregg Gonsalves of Yale, who has been a trenchant critic of coverage, especially of armchair epidemiology from the op-ed pages of The New York Times. He is also a strong voice in my COVID Twitter list of more than 500 experts.