Hilke Schellmann, an Emmy award-winning journalist and professor at NYU, discusses her book "The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now" and what inspired her to write it. Schellmann highlights biases in these tools that companies use to assess candidates, advocates for transparency, explainability, and validity in AI hiring practices, and emphasizes the need for journalists to critically assess AI technologies and for AI literacy among job seekers and the public.

Greg Constantine, a Canadian-American documentary photographer, discusses his career focusing on long-term, immersive projects, particularly on immigration detention and statelessness.

Independent women's soccer journalist and founder of Women Kick Balls, Jackie Gutierrez, talked about what inspired her to start her own website and coffee company and how she balances being an entrepreneur and journalist.

Jackie Gutierrez, founder of Women Kick Balls, details how she overcame her battle with mental health and persevered to become a sports journalist and entrepreneur covering women's soccer.

Roberto Valenzuela, a photographer partnered with Canon USA explains how tenacity and preparation allowed him to quit his job as a high school economics teacher to pursue wedding and commercial photography.

Senior producer of the Science Vs. podcast, Rose Rimler, talks with professor Damian Radcliffe about her journey to becoming a science communicator and the challenges of multi-media journalism.

Jason Rezaian speaks at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication's 2024 Ruhl Lecture. Rezaian, who spent 544 days in an Iranian prison as a wrongfully detained journalist, discusses international policy, advocacy for hostages around the globe, journalists exiled from hostile regions, and the emergent use of visual forensics in search of the truth.

In this lecture at the University of Oregon, journalist Erin Aubry Kaplan speaks to students about her career path. She touches on covering Black LA, the importance of diversifying news outlets, her move into opinion writing, and persevering when a story is intimidating to tell or you feel like you have run out of ideas.

In this lecture at the University of Oregon, Danny Parker shares her ethnography research at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin Madison. She details her time spent within deeply impoverished communities researching cultures rooted in political disengagement, stemming from negative interaction with the government and media.

Danny Parker, a PhD candidate at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin Madison discusses her ethnographic research in deeply impoverished communities with cultures rooted in political disengagement and distrust in media.

In this lecture at the University of Oregon, journalist and consultant Adriana Lacy speaks to a Media Professions class about the importance of being present on various social media platforms, as well as having a clean digital footprint. She also shares what her experience has been like as a freelancer in social media and brand consulting; and takes questions from students.

Damian speaks with founder of Journalism Mentors, Adriana Lacy, about how she turned her passion for student journalism into a career in digital journalism and consulting.

In this episode we hear from digital journalism scholar Gregory Perreault, who discusses how power and justice is distributed among news outlets and reporting niches, and how the internet and digital technology has generated hostility towards journalism.

In this lecture at the University of Oregon, journalist and scholar Gregory Perreault shares how digital journalism can be leveraged by hate groups and inadvertently exacerbate hostility in both journalism and society. He also discusses how expectations for digital innovation and aspirational labor can prove untenable - and potentially harmful - for journalists.

Author and journalist Putsata Reang talks to Professor Peter Laufer about her new memoir, Ma and Me. The award-winning book describes her story of leaving Cambodia at 11 months old and moving to rural Oregon, and how coming out — and marrying a woman in her 40s — broke her relationship with her mother.

This is the bonus Q&A podcast from a recorded talk given by photographer and skateboarder Atiba Jefferson to the SOJC J100 Media Professions course in Spring 2023.

Renowned photography and skateboarder Atiba Jefferson spoke to students in the SOJC's J100 Media Professions course about his career and how he became photographer.

University of Minnesota associate professor and media industry researcher Dr. Valérie Bélair-Gagnon talks about the effects that growing workplace stressors have on journalists and media creators and what the industry can do about it.

In this episode, journalism workplace scholar Valérie Bélair-Gagnon discusses how issues like burnout, trauma, harassment, and economic uncertainty affect the workplace happiness and wellbeing of journalists and media creators.

This podcast is a recording of University of Münster professor Thorsten Quandt's lecture, "From participation to dark participation: online news between hope and hate." Online communication has been subject to many projections and wild speculation, both in society and academia. In particular, online news and participation were greeted with optimism and hopes for democratic rejuvenation. However, not all of these expectations were met. On the contrary: In recent times, academics have been discussing how destructive forms of “dark participation” serve malicious purposes and undermine democracy. How did it come so far? In his presentation, Thorsten sketches the development of online news and participation during the past 20 years, discuss urgent issues, and outline potential solutions, including for democratic countries under stress.