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In this episode, we explore the impacts of News Deserts and Ghost Newspapers - parts of the U.S. where there’s either no local paper, or where the ...

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  • Added: May 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode, we discuss the current state of California’s climate - how it’s changed in recent years, and what we face in 2021, including a sig...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: headshot: Laura Specker Sullivan
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
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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
Caption: Logo: La Casa de las Madres
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
Caption: Dave Kaplan
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

  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 01:42
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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
Caption: Firefighter with drip can at prescribed burn, Credit: Photo Courtesy: Ken-ichi Ueda (CC BY-NC 2.0)
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
Caption: Logo: News In Context, Credit: Joyce Cheng
In this episode. We explore America’s ongoing and persistent issues when it comes to race and social justice... in particular holding a mirror up t...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
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We talk with Michelle Ciulla Lipkin, Executive Director of the National Association for Media Literacy Education – or NAMLE. Our focus? How media l...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: ...finding moral ground..., Credit: Susan J. Cook
Moral Development thinkers of the 1960's and 70's helped make sense of those polarized times. The "moral" twist of these times is often reduced to ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2019
  • Length: 07:35
Caption: "...Should old fish stories be forgot and never allowed to surface..., Credit: Susan Cook
To the tune from Auld Lang Syne - for the Great American Wrongbook- a musical tribute to say farewell to the past and anticipate a more visionary ...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2018
  • Length: 05:46
Caption: Climate change will make Florida much hotter..., Credit: Susan Cook
A musical tribute to a special soon-to-be-retiring Government Elected! George Gershwin might not mind if you sing this to his 1937 "They Can't Take...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2018
  • Length: 03:51
Caption: There are race tracks that run horses daily...Picking ponies a good gig...", Credit: Susan Cook
A musical tribute to polling before Election Day! In the Department of Poetic Justice (and Reckoning) with lyrics for "The Great American Wrongboo...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 03:20
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It’s barely four months since the Las Vegas massacre, and already it’s all but forgotten. Now comes the Florida high school mass shooting and we mu...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2018
  • Length: 03:16
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The Justice Department has submitted a controversial request to add a question about citizenship status to the 2020 Census. Experts say the questio...

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  • Added: Jan 12, 2018
  • Length: 03:15
  • Purchases: 6
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It’s no secret that teachers are underpaid and underappreciated. But when a state’s Teacher of the Year jumps ship, it gets a lot of attention. Lil...

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The kindness of strangers made NYC subway and Obamacare..., Credit: Susan Cook
There is not a single insurance company in the country that has gone out of business because of the ACA . They’ve created new alliances, to wit Op...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2017
  • Length: 06:03
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A United States outdoor clothing store sells coats, labelled to assure us that the down is from US Ducks Independently Verified to Have been Neith...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:17
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Only days after announcing that the one China policy was no-good under a Trump Administration, U.S. President Donald Trump changed tack, stiffed Ta...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2017
  • Length: 04:56
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As President elect Trump orders China to cease "annexing" islands it claims as its own and cozies up to Taiwan, there seems now a real possibility ...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2017
  • Length: 04:50
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An underwater research drone was seized by China as an American crew was moving in to retrieve it. The episode threatens to increase tensions in a ...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 04:49
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President Duterte of the Philippines traveled to Japan last week, he talked to God on the way back and the U.S. is as confused as ever about where ...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2016
  • Length: 04:50
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The Philippines is America's oldest treaty ally in Asia. Its bases and ports are key building blocks in the United States attempt to encircle China...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2016
  • Length: 04:49