IJNotes: An IJNet podcast
23 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago -Maybe you've read the final story, but have you ever wondered what the reporters did behind the scenes? We sit down with journalists from around the world to shine a light on the projects and initiatives they're involved with, new technologies and skills they may be utilizing, and challenges they’ve both confronted in the past, and continue to navigate today. Tune in to IJNotes, the premiere podcast from the International Journalists' Network (IJNet), a project of the International Center for Journalists.
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Reporting on Reproductive Health, Part 5: The path to decriminalizing abortion in Brazil
February 09, 2024 15:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBIn Latin America, legislation and debates around reproductive rights are moving in different directions. Abortion has been banned in Nicaragua and Guatemala in recent years, but other countries such as Mexico and Colombia have decriminalized or even legalized it. In Brazil, Latin America’s largest nation, abortion laws remain restrictive. Today, abortion is only allowed in the case of rape or incest, if there is a risk of death for the pregnant woman, or in cases of anencephaly, a serious, ...
Reporting on Reproductive Health, Part 4: India's limited abortion landscape
November 21, 2023 20:00 - 17 minutes - 12.1 MBIn India, as in many other countries, abortion is a divisive social and political issue. Although it is legal to get an abortion in India, there are many obstacles to obtaining one. In our latest podcast, we spoke with two reproductive health professionals from CommonHealth India, a coalition that advocates for increased access to sexual and reproductive health care for women and marginalized communities. Dr. Alka Barua leads the organization’s abortion portfolio and Sanjeeta Gauri is a co...
Reporting on Reproductive Health, Part 3: Covering reproductive rights in Ireland
September 22, 2023 15:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBFor our latest podcast on reporting on reproductive health, Sofia Heartney with the ICFJ communications team spoke with Dr. Camilla Fitzsimons, a professor in the department of adult and community education at Maynooth University and the author of “Repealed: Ireland’s Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Rights.” In this episode Fitzsimons discusses the role of journalists in the movement for reproductive rights, how reporters can continue to cover the issue even after abortion access moves o...
Reporting on Reproductive Health, Part 2: Combating disinformation on abortion
August 04, 2023 14:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBMis- and disinformation surrounding reproductive health is not new. But since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the U.S. in June 2022, the consequences of the vast amounts of false information seeking to affect the reproductive choices of millions of Americans have made their way front and center in people’s minds. In our second IJNotes episode on reproductive health reporting, IJNet’s Disarming Disinformation Intern, Mya Zepp, spoke with Felice Freyer, a health care reporter at the Boston...
Reporting on Reproductive Health, Part 1: Local reporting on reproductive rights
June 12, 2023 17:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBOur new IJNotes podcast series will dive into reproductive health, how journalists globally are reporting on this highly personal and political issue, and the ways in which reporters can accurately and ethically cover the many related topics. To kick off the series, I spoke with Maya Miller, a reproductive health reporter at the Gulf States Newsroom, on the role local journalism plays in covering reproductive rights. In this episode, Miller discusses the importance of local journalism, how...
Environmental Journalism, Part 6: Managing threats to environmental journalists
September 08, 2022 18:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBIn early June, environmental journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira went missing in the Amazon while reporting on Indigenous peoples in the state of Amazonas. The two were later found to have been murdered, in one of the most high-profile kilings of environmental journalists in recent years, wich have also taken place in Mexico, India and Colombia. In the aftermath of the killings of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, we sat down with Jonathan Watts, global environmental ...
Environmental Journalism, Part 5: Reporting on environmental crime
August 10, 2022 20:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBEnvironmental crime, also known as eco-crime, is any form of illegal activity — organized or otherwise — that has a direct and negative effect on the natural world. From illegal deforestation in the Amazon, to unregulated overfishing in the Indo-Pacific, to water, air and soil pollution caused by illegal gold mines, environmental crime doesn’t just harm the environment, it also often has devastating consequences for local communities who rely on healthy ecosystems for their livelihoods. Rep...
Environmental Journalism, Part 4: Global crisis, local perspectives
January 14, 2022 19:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MBNo two communities will experience the effects of climate change in the same way. As the climate crisis worsens, the need for comprehensive, educational and sometimes life-saving news coverage increases. While national and international media play an important role in covering the crisis, local outlets may be better able to understand how their communities view and bear its consequences, and what solutions are best for them. In addition to an in-depth understanding of their local audienc...
Environmental Journalism, Part 3: Covering major climate events
December 16, 2021 19:00 - 17 minutes - 12 MBExtreme weather events and natural disasters have ravaged many communities around the globe, and their devastating consequences seem only to be intensifying. This past year alone, the world witnessed record droughts in the U.S. and Latin America, while China and Europe suffered fatal floods. Hurricanes, tornadoes and wildfires also dominated headlines due to the significant destruction they’ve caused. Are these events all related to climate change? How should reporters explain the connectio...
Environmental Journalism, Part 2: The keys to environmental justice reporting
November 18, 2021 21:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MBThe climate crisis doesn’t affect everyone equally. As more journalists report on environmental issues, it’s critical that they shine a light on the heightened consequences our deteriorating environment has on vulnerable communities. Environmental justice reporters do just this. Although the environmental justice movement began more than 30 years ago, many newsrooms are only just beginning to report on the intersection of discrimination and the environment, and how structural inequities i...
Environmental Journalism, Part 1: Are we all climate reporters now?
November 04, 2021 19:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBToday, from flooding and wildfires, to droughts, heat waves and hurricanes of increasing intensity and frequency, we’re experiencing these repercussions, and experts agree they’ll only get worse. In the coming years, more journalists than ever will be needed to report on our deteriorating environment. They’ll be tasked with covering the crisis and its fallout from all angles — and as comprehensively as they’ve reported on the COVID-19 pandemic. This is why we’ve decided to focus on enviro...
Mental health and journalism, Part 6: A conversation with Mar Cabra
October 23, 2020 20:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBYou may have heard about the groundbreaking Panama Papers investigation, which exposed how some of the most rich and powerful people around the world used offshore tax havens to conceal their wealth. Former journalist Mar Cabra played a critical role during the groundbreaking investigation, as the head of the data and research unit at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the organization that spearheaded the global collaborative effort. She and her colleagues wo...
Mental health and journalism, Part 6: A conversation with Mar Cabra
October 23, 2020 20:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBYou may have heard about the groundbreaking Panama Papers investigation, which exposed how some of the most rich and powerful people around the world used offshore tax havens to conceal their wealth. Former journalist Mar Cabra played a critical role during the groundbreaking investigation, as the head of the data and research unit at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the organization that spearheaded the global collaborative effort. She and her colleagues wo...
Mental health and journalism, Part 5: A conversation with Hannah Storm
October 02, 2020 19:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBThis summer, accomplished journalist and media consultant Hannah Storm published a personal story about her diagnosis with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The PTSD was a result of many traumas over the years, Storm wrote: it stemmed from experiences she had when reporting internationally on crises and disasters, and sexual assaults she survived when she was a young reporter. All were in some way related to her job. While today more and more journalists, news organizations and media...
Mental health and journalism, Part 4: A conversation with Dr. Allissa Richardson
September 10, 2020 18:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBThis episode is the fourth in our series on mental health and journalism. Coverage of the anti-police brutality and Black Lives Matter protests that erupted around the world following the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor last spring has laid bare the unique challenges Black journalists across the U.S. face in the newsroom. As Black journalists cover these deeply personal protests, they must also navigate potential repercussions like being arrested while reporting ...
Mental health and journalism, Part 3: A conversation with Jesús Mesa
August 28, 2020 16:00 - 20 minutes - 13.8 MBThis episode is the third episode in our series on mental health and journalism. More than 5 million Venezuelans have fled their country in recent years. They’ve done so to escape violence, economic turmoil, political unrest and more. The crisis is the worst of its kind Latin America has ever experienced, former Mexico foreign minister Jorge Castañeda wrote earlier this year. Almost 2 million Venezuelan migrants have crossed the border into neighboring Colombia — more than any other countr...
Mental health and journalism, Part 2: A conversation with Dean Yates
August 12, 2020 16:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBThis is the second episode in our series about journalism and mental health. In this episode, we interview Dean Yates, a longtime journalist whose struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) led him to become an advocate for journalists’ mental health. For more than 20 years, Dean worked in the Middle East and southeast Asia as a journalist and bureau chief for Reuters. He covered war and tragedy on numerous occasions, and since then, he has been outspoken about the way his experien...
Mental health and journalism, Part 1: A conversation with Anna Mortimer
July 30, 2020 18:00 - 18 minutes - 12.8 MBThis episode is the first in a series on mental health and journalism. From crime scenes and road accidents to natural disasters and wars, journalists often report on the frontlines of the world’s most challenging events. Today, journalists around the world are working overtime to cover the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering these developments, whether major international stories or events much closer to home, can take a mental toll on those reporting. This can lead to issues like post-traumatic...
COVID-19 and press freedom: A conversation with Prof. David Kaye and Dr. Courtney Radsch
May 04, 2020 19:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBThe COVID-19 pandemic threatens more than our health, but also our freedoms. Threats to press freedom are cropping up all over the world, taking the form of physical and political attacks on journalists, the criminalization of journalists’ work, restrictions on free access to information and increased surveillance. ICFJ global director of research, Dr. Julie Posetti interviews Prof. David Kaye, UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and exp...
Under threat: A conversation with Paolo Borrometi
November 25, 2019 15:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBJournalists are tasked with telling the truth, but sometimes it comes with a cost. Paolo Borrometi, a Sicilian investigative journalist, knows this cost all too well. When his reporting on the Italian mafia made him a target, he was forced to uproot his life. Years later, he still lives under 24/7 police protection, often confined to his own home. However, Borrometi is undeterred. He continues to report for his own news website, La Spia, and TV2000. He also serves as the president of Art...
From print to digital: A conversation with Ruth Betz
October 29, 2019 19:00 - 13 minutes - 9.27 MBWe sat down with Ruth Betz, the head of digital transformation at Funke Mediengruppe, one of Germany’s largest newspaper and magazine publishers. Betz oversees the print to digital conversion of Funke Mediengruppe’s news outlets, working to ensure they adopt sustainable business models as they transform from print to digital-first publications. Support the show
Data driven: A conversation with Jacopo Ottaviani
October 29, 2019 19:00 - 8 minutes - 5.98 MBOn our first episode, we sat down with Jacopo Ottaviani, a Pan-African ICFJ Knight Fellow who works at Code for Africa as its Chief Data Officer, helping newsrooms on the continent create data desks and use data more efficiently in their reporting. Support the show
Beyond the border: A conversation with Maya Srikrishnan
October 29, 2019 19:00 - 15 minutes - 10.5 MBIn episode three of IJNotes, we interview Maya Srikrishnan, an immigration reporter for Voice of San Diego. Srikrishnan is one of the International Center for Journalists 2019 Bringing Home the World Fellows. As part of the fellowship, she traveled to San Pedro Sula, Honduras on a reporting trip. In this episode, she shares the challenges, discoveries and lessons she learned covering the other side of immigration. Support the show