Journalism Today

Bill Bratton is a former two-time NYPD commissioner, Boston Police Commissioner and Chief of the LAPD. His new book is "The Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America."

Mack spoke with Bill about all things policing, including his thoughts on the Defund movement, what police reforms he believes are needed, and what he's learned from his own past in law enforcement.

Writer Michael Lista on the cold case murder of a woman in Canada in 1974, and how cops devised an elaborate undercover operation to try and nab a killer decades later.

Jeff Butera is an anchor at the ABC affiliate in Fort Myers, Florida, and the writer of a book called “Write Like You Talk,"a lesson for those in the broadcast news media about how to make your writing sound more conversational and relatable to the viewer and listener.

The nation is still in shock over the death of NBA star Kobe Bryant, along with his daughter and 7 others in Southern California Sunday. LA Times feature sportswriter David Wharton co-wrote Bryant's obituary, and talks about the complicated life Bryant led.

Connell McShane hosts "After the Bell" on Fox Business Network. We spoke about a range of topics, including his time working for Don Imus, and how he navigates the current climate of news media.

This week’s guest is William Cohan. He’s a writer for Vanity Fair who is an expert in the markets; he was once a Wall Street investment banker.

Cohan has also taken on other topics like the Duke Lacrosse scandal. His new book is called Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short. It's about four men he knew in high school at the prestigious Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. All of them died young.

Three of the men you probably don’t know…but the fourth is John F Kennedy Jr.

Bill Ritter anchors the 5, 6, and 11 o'clock news on WABC Channel 7 Eyewitness News in New York. Bill took an interesting path into TV news. He was expelled from college in the 1970s while protesting the Vietnam War, and then ended up as a newspaper writer before landing his first on camera gig at age 37. He's been at WABC 21 years.

Jere Hester is a local news veteran, having spent 15 years as a city editor at the New York Daily News. He also worked at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. Currently, he serves as editor in chief of The City, a new local news website supported by New York Magazine.

Steven Waldman is the co-founder of the non-profit Report for America, and the author of several books about religion. His most recent book involves the fight for religious freedom in America.