My Principles of Journalism students were charged to create a podcast that focused on news literacy while critically engaging with journalism’s foundations and the journalism industry. The students created 60 episodes in the first year focused on 12 specialty or alternative presses. The podcast is now expanding to also have interviews with professionals about their work and the role of news literacy within it.
See below to listen to Ink and Airwaves, their incredible podcast.
Pittsburgh Public Source and the Ways it Lifts its City – Ink and Airwaves
This episode, hosted by student reporter Lukas Schulze, covers Pittsburgh's Public Source newsroom and their goals, missions, and achievements. The conditions of Pittsburgh's Public Source newsroom are introduced and covered within the episode, consisting of background of the newsroom and the Pittsburgh community, the type of organization Public Source is, legal, political, and social boundaries, and problem-solving for continued improvement down the line. This episode provides the audience with contextual understanding of how a local newsroom works, preparing to expand that understanding in future episodes.
- Pittsburgh Public Source and the Ways it Lifts its City
- What Local News Means to Us: WNIJ
- How WNIJ finds (or loses) its audience
- How WNIJ Told the Story of the Helicopter Crash killing 4 of Illinois GOP candidate's family members – and how the New York Times told it differently
- Inside the work of Jenna Dooley, News Director at WNIJ
Patrick R. Johnson, Ph.D., MJE 