Have you ever wondered if birth order determines one's personality? Or if we know what happens in our brains when we have deja vu? Have you thought about the rights undocumented immigrants have? Does capitalism improve healthcare innovation?
The Journalism of Everything Podcast takes curiosity to another level. Host Darisse Smith is an experienced freelance journalist that brings research, expert interviews, and thoughtfulness to a wide array of topics. Let's go beyond a Google search and find out about everything!
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Have you ever wondered if birth order determines one's personality? Or if we know what happens in our brains when we have deja vu? Have you thought about the rights undocumented immigrants have? Does capitalism improve healthcare innovation?
The Journalism of Everything Podcast takes curiosity to another level. Host Darisse Smith is an experienced freelance journalist that brings research, expert interviews, and thoughtfulness to a wide array of topics. Let's go beyond a Google search and find out about everything!
INTERVIEW: Barry Siegel on the Freedom of the Press
The Journalism of Everything Podcast
41 minutes 3 seconds
3 days ago
INTERVIEW: Barry Siegel on the Freedom of the Press
In this episode of The Journalism of Everything Podcast, host Darisse Smith interviews Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Barry Siegel, chair of UC Irvine’s Literary Journalism Program and director of its Center for Storytelling. Together, they explore the evolving role of journalists in America, the meaning of FAKE NEWS, and what it really takes to uphold truth in an age of partisanship and polarization.
Siegel shares rare insights into the pressure of getting stories right under tight deadlines, how fact-checking evolved at major newspapers like the Los Angeles Times, and why an independent press is the backbone of any functioning democracy. The two also dive deep into the decline of traditional media, the impact of the internet on journalism, and Thomas Jefferson’s timeless defense of a free press.
It’s a fascinating and candid discussion about truth, storytelling, and survival in modern journalism—perfect for anyone who cares about free speech, ethics, and the future of news.
Listen to learn:
Why Barry Siegel believes the press must “empower the powerless and oppress the powerful”
How the term fake news became a political weapon
What the fall of classifieds and rise of the internet did to journalism
Why independent media is essential to democracy
Whether truly balanced news can still succeed today
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The Journalism of Everything Podcast
Have you ever wondered if birth order determines one's personality? Or if we know what happens in our brains when we have deja vu? Have you thought about the rights undocumented immigrants have? Does capitalism improve healthcare innovation?
The Journalism of Everything Podcast takes curiosity to another level. Host Darisse Smith is an experienced freelance journalist that brings research, expert interviews, and thoughtfulness to a wide array of topics. Let's go beyond a Google search and find out about everything!
