Latest International journalism Podcast Episodes
Reporting on Reproductive Health, Part 6: Covering reproductive rights as a democracy issue
IJNotes: An IJNet podcast - May 03, 2024 13:00 - 26 minutesReproductive health access has become a major issue in U.S. elections in the nearly two years since Roe v. Wade was overturned. A series of elections and ballot initiatives in which reproductive rights have been at stake have driven high turnout, and more critical decisions for voters are on t...
Reporting on Reproductive Health, Part 5: The path to decriminalizing abortion in Brazil
IJNotes: An IJNet podcast - February 09, 2024 15:00 - 28 minutesIn 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 larg...
Reporting on Reproductive Health, Part 4: India's limited abortion landscape
IJNotes: An IJNet podcast - November 21, 2023 20:00 - 17 minutesIn 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 ...
Reporting on Reproductive Health, Part 3: Covering reproductive rights in Ireland
IJNotes: An IJNet podcast - September 22, 2023 15:00 - 25 minutesFor 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Fitzsimons, a professor in the department of adult and community education at Maynooth University and the author of “Repealed: Ireland’s Unfinished Fight for Reprod...
Reporting on Reproductive Health, Part 2: Combating disinformation on abortion
IJNotes: An IJNet podcast - August 04, 2023 14:00 - 22 minutesMis- 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 cente...
Reporting on Reproductive Health, Part 1: Local reporting on reproductive rights
IJNotes: An IJNet podcast - June 12, 2023 17:00 - 27 minutesOur 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 r...
Environmental Journalism, Part 6: Managing threats to environmental journalists
IJNotes: An IJNet podcast - September 08, 2022 18:00 - 27 minutesIn 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...
Environmental Journalism, Part 5: Reporting on environmental crime
IJNotes: An IJNet podcast - August 10, 2022 20:00 - 21 minutesEnvironmental 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 b...
Environmental Journalism, Part 4: Global crisis, local perspectives
IJNotes: An IJNet podcast - January 14, 2022 19:00 - 15 minutesNo 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, loca...
Environmental Journalism, Part 3: Covering major climate events
IJNotes: An IJNet podcast - December 16, 2021 19:00 - 17 minutesExtreme 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. Hur...
Environmental Journalism, Part 2: The keys to environmental justice reporting
IJNotes: An IJNet podcast - November 18, 2021 21:00 - 15 minutesThe 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 Journalism, Part 1: Are we all climate reporters now?
IJNotes: An IJNet podcast - November 04, 2021 19:00 - 21 minutesToday, 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 envi...
Mental health and journalism, Part 6: A conversation with Mar Cabra
IJNotes: An IJNet podcast - October 23, 2020 20:00 - 26 minutesYou 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 ...
Mental health and journalism, Part 6: A conversation with Mar Cabra
IJNotes: An IJNet podcast - October 23, 2020 20:00 - 26 minutesYou 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 ...
Mental health and journalism, Part 5: A conversation with Hannah Storm
IJNotes: An IJNet podcast - October 02, 2020 19:00 - 39 minutesThis 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 internationall...
Mental health and journalism, Part 4: A conversation with Dr. Allissa Richardson
IJNotes: An IJNet podcast - September 10, 2020 18:00 - 30 minutesThis 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 B...
Mental health and journalism, Part 3: A conversation with Jesús Mesa
IJNotes: An IJNet podcast - August 28, 2020 16:00 - 20 minutesThis 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 e...
Mental health and journalism, Part 2: A conversation with Dean Yates
IJNotes: An IJNet podcast - August 12, 2020 16:00 - 30 minutesThis 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 worke...
Mental health and journalism, Part 1: A conversation with Anna Mortimer
IJNotes: An IJNet podcast - July 30, 2020 18:00 - 18 minutesThis 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 COV...
COVID-19 and press freedom: A conversation with Prof. David Kaye and Dr. Courtney Radsch
IJNotes: An IJNet podcast - May 04, 2020 19:00 - 29 minutesThe 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 in...
Under threat: A conversation with Paolo Borrometi
IJNotes: An IJNet podcast - November 25, 2019 15:00 - 21 minutesJournalists 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 ...
From print to digital: A conversation with Ruth Betz
IJNotes: An IJNet podcast - October 29, 2019 19:00 - 13 minutesWe 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 t...
Data driven: A conversation with Jacopo Ottaviani
IJNotes: An IJNet podcast - October 29, 2019 19:00 - 8 minutesOn 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
IJNotes: An IJNet podcast - October 29, 2019 19:00 - 15 minutesIn 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...
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