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In this episode, we explore the role and power of language - words and phrases - in how we discuss the issues that affect us and that drive our new...
- Added: Apr 23, 2021
- Length: 29:30
Pandemics have played a huge role in human history. A cholera outbreak in Europe had huge implications for the way we see public health. And it was...
- Added: Apr 22, 2021
- Length: 04:06
In this episode, we explore the current state of news, and how the way news is presented in the U.S. has shifted during the pandemic, including a g...
- Added: Apr 09, 2021
- Length: 29:30
Two incidents of anti-Asian hate — the beating of an elderly grandfather in a San Francisco park and the harassment of a mourning son in a New York...
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- Added: Apr 03, 2021
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
In this episode, we explore how Asian Americans are framed in mainstream news and media, and how that framing informs our understanding and discour...
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- Added: Apr 02, 2021
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we explore how journalists experience trauma and manage - or fail to manage - the stressors that are inherent to the job. My guest...
- Added: Mar 25, 2021
- Length: 29:30
Domestic workers have been especially hard hit by the pandemic but have been consistently excluded from bills meant to help frontline workers. In t...
- Added: Mar 25, 2021
- Length: 04:10
We’re looking at the variant that emerged in South Africa: 501Y.V2. This variant is not only more transmissible, but has demonstrated the troubling...
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 04:00
In this episode, we discuss domestic violence – an issue that affects one third of women and teen girls in the U.S. As the COVID-19 pandemic has le...
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- Added: Feb 05, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we explore how to inform publics through a nonprofit journalism model, and the importance of bringing journalists together and sup...
- Added: Jan 22, 2021
- Length: 29:30
Today, a divided nation experiences one of the most tumultuous presidential transitions in US history. Leaders from marginalized communities across...
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 29:00
In this episode, we explore how unconscious bias has influenced news coverage - by defaulting to favor mainstream society and failing to adequately...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 59:00
In this episode, we talk with Glenn Kessler, editor… and chief writer of the Washington Post Fact Checker… and credited with doing the first offici...
- Added: Dec 17, 2020
- Length: 29:30
In this episode we explore how trauma and stress impact journalists, as well as an evolving sensibility among those who practice journalism that se...
- Added: Dec 03, 2020
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we explore the journalistic norms that have driven the profession, and why evolving those norms could lead to stronger coverage of...
- Added: Nov 13, 2020
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we talk with four college students from and/or attending school in the Bay Area - all of them taking classes right now online.
Th...
- Added: Oct 25, 2020
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we talk with four college students from and/or attending school in the Bay Area - all of them taking classes right now online.
- Added: Oct 23, 2020
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we talk with John Wood, Jr., national ambassador for Braver Angels, an organization also working to build relationships across the...
- Added: Oct 16, 2020
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we seek to make sense of the recent New York Times articles about the President’s tax returns. We also explore the U.S. tax system...
- Added: Oct 02, 2020
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we explore the allure and growing influence of conspiracy theories, and how they are both combated by and influenced by Media Lite...
- Added: Sep 18, 2020
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we explore the influence and impact of framing - in particular how mainstream news tends to frame national issues as gamified, two...
- Added: Sep 11, 2020
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we explore California’s history of and relationship to fire, in particular how native populations worked with fire, and how coloni...
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- Added: Sep 04, 2020
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we explore California’s dynamic and shifting climate, which impacts so much across the Bay area, region, and state, including our ...
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- Added: Aug 27, 2020
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we talk about the post office with Dr. Richard R. John, Professor of History & Communications in the Columbia Journalism School at...
- Added: Aug 20, 2020
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we explore allyship - How to support black people and other people of color in the fight for equity, protection from police brutal...
- Added: Aug 13, 2020
- Length: 29:30
