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Increases in the number of migrants arriving in San Francisco have stress-tested the city’s shelter system, revealing the dire need for more housin...
- Added: Apr 12, 2024
- Length: 29:30
The impact of the COVID 19 pandemic led to a rise in fatal overdoses among the tens of thousands of Indigenous Mayans living in the Bay area.
That...
- Added: Apr 12, 2024
- Length: 29:30
The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic are behind us and it’s time for an early reckoning of our successes and failures. An epidemiologist shares...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 21:30
Welcome to News in Context. I’m Gina Baleria.
In this episode, we explore how bridging by building relationships and being curious can connect peo...
- Added: Feb 26, 2024
- Length: 29:30
Former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates predicts how war in Israel could ripple through the Middle East. Then, Ray Suarez speaks with Trita Par...
Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Oct 25, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
In this episode, we discuss press freedom in the U.S. in the wake of a police raid of the local paper in Marion, Kansas. In that raid, officers con...
- Added: Aug 17, 2023
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we explore how othering has led to increased marginalization and vilification of people who are un-housed, and how civity can help...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we explore how engaging across our racial and class divides can help bring us together to care for and nurture our democracy.
My ...
- Added: Mar 02, 2023
- Length: 29:32
In this episode, we explore the strategic use of racism in electoral politics to divide citizens across racial and other differences in an effort t...
- Added: Feb 23, 2023
- Length: 29:32
In this episode, we explore the sharp increase in fentanyl deaths across the country, including in San Francisco and the Bay Area, which had thus f...
- Added: Jul 06, 2022
- Length: 29:30
This week, we cover carceral non-profits in an interview with Drs. Zhandarka Kurti, a professor of criminology and Criminal Justice at Loyola Unive...
- Added: Dec 11, 2021
- Length: 29:00
In this episode, we discuss the disparity in attention in the U.S., when it comes to missing people of color.
My guest is Derrica Wilson, co-found...
- Added: Oct 07, 2021
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we explore the parameters and jurisdiction of the First Amendment, as well as how we can better navigate issues and challenges inv...
- Added: Jun 04, 2021
- Length: 29:30
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 ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: May 28, 2021
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we explore the importance of precision in language - in particular for journalists and other content creators seeking to inform an...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: May 21, 2021
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we take a deeper look at California’s fire outlook in 2021 and moving forward.
Over the past few years, massive wildfires tore ac...
- Added: May 14, 2021
- Length: 29:30
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
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 explore California’s dynamic and shifting climate, which impacts so much across the Bay area, region, and state, including our ...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- 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 Part 2 of my interview with Dr. Anita Varma, we discuss how word choice and passive voice can infuse bias into coverage, the pros and cons of hu...
- Added: Jul 16, 2020
- Length: 29:30
In part one, we explore how news organizations are navigating the many major ongoing stories that currently dominate our news landscape, including ...
- Added: Jul 09, 2020
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we talk with Dana Sitar… Freelance writer & editor in personal finance, careers, and digital media. Dana recently wrote a piece fo...
- Added: Jun 10, 2020
- Length: 29:30
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
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Nancy Bristow… Chair of the History Department at the University of Puget Sound… and author of American Pandemic:...
- Added: May 14, 2020
- Length: 29:30
