Shop Talk

Shop Talk is a weekly discussion about journalism issues. This week, the panelists discuss recently posted job opportunities at Gannett – one is for a reporter who will focus exclusively on Beyonce, and the other is for a journalist who will report only on Taylor Swift.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Shop Talk is a weekly discussion about journalism issues. This week, the panelists discuss Rupert Murdoch’s announcement that he will step down from running the global media empire he founded.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Shop Talk is a weekly discussion about journalism issues. This week, the panelists talk about a chart created to visualize 33 problems with the media.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Shop Talk is a weekly discussion about journalism issues. This week, the panelists talk about the new head of CNN.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Shop Talk is a weekly discussion about journalism issues. This week, the panelists talk about “the great invention of radio.”

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Shop Talk is a weekly discussion about journalism issues. This week, the panelists discuss the police raid on a small newspaper’s office in Marion, KS.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Student newspapers on two campuses are credited with being first to report significant stories in the past year.

The Daily Northwestern at Northwestern University reported last month on hazing, sexual assault, and other problematic behavior involving the university’s football team.

Head coach Pat Fitzgerald was fired, and some players have filed lawsuits while others have transferred to different institutions.

And The Stanford Daily at Stanford University reported last fall that the school president’s research was under investigation for scientific misconduct.

An independent review did clear Marc Tessier-Lavigne of research misconduct, but it found serious flaws in five scientific papers for which he was the principal author.

He eventually resigned.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Poynter reported that global momentum is growing to require online platforms such as Google and Meta to pay for the news they use.

Poynter reported that a two-day meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, brought together journalists and scholars from around the world to discuss how to implement such codes and agree on principles that can help with the drafting of the laws.

More than 50 organizations have signed on to the principles so far.

Australia has already imposed such measures, while Poynter reported the U.S. has lagged on the issue.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.