Latest Meyerson Podcast Episodes
How tech-savvy author Cory Doctorow got scammed
Chicago Public Square Podcasts - March 12, 2024 05:01 ★★★ - 16 ratingsThe American Dialect Society’s 2023 word of the year? Enshittification. And our guest on this edition of Chicago Public Square Podcasts, Cory Doctorow, is the guy who coined it. Hear him define it—and his harrowing explanation of how he, one of the world’s most tech-savvy authors and journalis...
How best to open a podcast
Charlie Meyerson interviews - June 12, 2023 15:19I haven’t posted much here lately about my work with the talented team I helped assemble a decade ago at Rivet (now formally known as Rivet360)—mostly in secret at the beginning. That’s partly because, as I’ve shifted focus since 2017 to my award-winning Chicago Public Square email news briefi...
Science fiction writer Greg Bear in 1994: The Internet’s future
Charlie Meyerson interviews - November 20, 2022 14:39[Updating this original post—from March 1, 2015—on Nov. 20, 2022: Greg Bear is dead at 71.] Science fiction writer Greg Bear in a 1994 interview with me on WNUA-FM, Chicago, on the future of the Internet: “It’s going to be a huge intellectual telephone line, with graphics and library materials...
Chicago Media Talks: News to sing about w/ CityCast Chicago's Jacoby Cochran
Chicago Media Talks - November 14, 2022 11:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsDelivering local news with a twist, he finds a lot to sing about Cochran joins Rivet 360's Sheila Solomon to talk about what it's like hosting a one-of-a-kind daily news podcast in his hometown. Listeners hear a guy from the southside of Chicago interviewing people and talking about what...
Just look around: There’re a million stories to tell every day w/ The Chicago Reporter's Glenn Reedus
Chicago Media Talks - November 03, 2022 16:40 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFifty years of reporting in The Chicago Reporter's brought changes to housing, policing and poverty in Chicago, considered one of the most segregated cities in the country. But recently, it seemed on the verge of folding. Join us for a discussion with Glenn Reedus, long-time journali...
Teaching media literacy in the ‘fake news’ era: Peter Adams of the News Literacy Project
Chicago Media Talks - October 03, 2022 22:58 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsPeter Adams joins Rivet360’s Sheila Solomon to talk about his work with the education nonprofit, the News Literacy Project, teaching media literacy to students and educators in Chicago Public Schools and throughout the world. Get the latest on future shows: https://twitter.com/...
Axios Chicago's Monica Eng and Justin Kaufmann: ‘This is a talk show in an email format’
Chicago Public Square Podcasts - September 11, 2022 15:28 ★★★ - 16 ratingsShe’s worked for Chicago’s biggest newspapers and he’s worked for Chicago’s most successful radio stations. And now … they do email. Joining Charlie Meyerson for this edition of the Chicago Public Square / Rivet360 podcast, Chicago Media Talks: Axios Chicago newsletter authors Justin Kaufmann ...
Axios Chicago’s Monica Eng and Justin Kaufmann: ‘This is a talk show in an email format’
Chicago Public Square Podcasts - September 11, 2022 15:28 ★★★ - 16 ratingsShe’s worked for Chicago’s biggest newspapers and he’s worked for Chicago’s most successful radio stations. And now … they do email. Joining Charlie Meyerson for this edition of the Chicago Public Square / Rivet360 podcast, Chicago Media Talks: Axios Chicago newsletter authors Justin Kaufmann an...
Axios Chicago's Monica Eng and Justin Kaufmann: ‘This is a talk-show in an email format’
Chicago Media Talks - September 10, 2022 00:51 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsShe’s worked for Chicago’s biggest newspapers and he’s worked for Chicago’s most successful radio stations. And now … they do email. Joining Charlie Meyerson for this edition of the Chicago Public Square / Rivet360 podcast, Chicago Media Talks: Axios Chicago newsletter authors Justin Ka...
Food critic Louisa Chu’s most vivid pandemic memory: ‘Crying so much’
Chicago Media Talks - August 24, 2022 16:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsChef, journalist, adventurer and Chicago Tribune critic Louisa Chu takes us from her time as a 4-year-old worker at her family’s Chicago restaurant through her stint as a judge on Food Network’s Iron Chef America to what she’s working on next. Her most enduring memory through the pandem...
Food critic Louisa Chu’s vivid pandemic moment: ‘Crying so much’
Chicago Public Square Podcasts - August 24, 2022 09:30 ★★★ - 16 ratingsThe most enduring memory of a restaurant reviewer through the pandemic: “Crying so much … over so many meals with gratitude and relief.” Joining this edition of the Chicago Public Square / Rivet360 podcast, Chicago Media Talks: Chef, journalist, adventurer and Chicago Tribune critic Louisa Chu...
Stephanie Skora and A.D. Quig: Reshaping Chicago’s news and political scene
Chicago Public Square Podcasts - August 12, 2022 19:36 ★★★ - 16 ratingsJoining this edition of the Chicago Public Square / Rivet360 podcast, Chicago Media Talks: A couple of media figures whose work is increasingly shaping Chicago’s news and political landscape. Meet A.D. Quig, a rising Chicago Tribune reporter who sees local government facing “a time of big chan...
Stephanie Skora and A.D. Quig: Reshaping Chicago’s news and political scene
Chicago Media Talks - August 12, 2022 17:13 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMeet a couple of media figures whose work is increasingly shaping Chicago’s news and political landscape: A.D. Quig, a rising Chicago Tribune reporter who sees local government facing “a time of big change”; and Girl, I Guess Progressive Voter Guide author Stephanie Skora—someone unafrai...
Pulitzer winners Hopkins and Reyes: Teamwork ‘wasn’t always easy’
Chicago Public Square Podcasts - August 03, 2022 16:34 ★★★ - 16 ratingsTheir groundbreaking alliance netted them and their news organizations a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. But that doesn’t mean they always worked together seamlessly. In this edition of the Chicago Public Square / Rivet360 podcast, Chicago Media Talks, meet Madison Hopkins and Cecilia...
Pulitzer winners Hopkins and Reyes: Teamwork ‘wasn’t always easy’
Chicago Media Talks - August 03, 2022 16:05 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTheir groundbreaking alliance netted them and their news organizations a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. But that doesn’t mean they always worked together seamlessly. In this edition of Chicago Media Talks, meet Madison Hopkins and Cecilia Reyes, praised by Pulitzer judges for ...
Meet the Sun-Times’ new executive editor, Jennifer Kho
Chicago Public Square Podcasts - July 20, 2022 02:24 ★★★ - 16 ratingsShe’s the first woman—and the first woman of color—ever to serve as Chicago Sun-Times executive editor. She’s facing challenges like none before her, as the paper comes under the control of an organization primarily in the radio business. In another edition of the Chicago Public Square / Rivet...
New Sun-Times editor: ‘Everything’s on the table’
Chicago Media Talks - July 19, 2022 19:47 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsJennifer Kho’s the first woman—and the first woman of color—ever to serve as Chicago Sun-Times executive editor. She’s facing challenges like none before her, as the paper comes under the control of an organization primarily in the radio business. And she joins the Sun-Times at a critic...
Why I should never sing in public
Charlie Meyerson interviews - June 11, 2022 18:31Chicago Reader columnist Ben Joravsky was kind enough to invite me on his show this week—we talked Wednesday, the podcast was published Saturday—to answer questions about how and why I do what I do for Chicago Public Square. I was honored along the way to express my admiration for columnists N...
1995: Peter David, Chris Claremont and Gary Colabuono discuss the comic book industry’s flirtation with disaster
Charlie Meyerson interviews - June 01, 2022 23:17[It’s been a while since we dove into the archives. But now that hour’s come round at last—again.] In 1995, the comic book industry was approaching what later became known as “the Great Comics Crash of 1996”—triggered in part by Marvel Comics’ 1994 purchase of the business’ third-largest distr...
Ex-Chicago Tribune editor James Squires warned in 1993 about the corporate takeover of America’s newspapers
Charlie Meyerson interviews - August 25, 2021 00:40Back in 1993, a former editor of the Chicago Tribune sounded an alarm about the growing conflict between the drive for corporate profits and traditional journalism’s social-reform agenda. That was close to six years before I joined the Trib and close to two decades before that trend inexorably...
WTTW’s new stars navigate changing news landscape
Chicago Public Square Podcasts - August 10, 2021 21:01 ★★★ - 16 ratingsOdds are good you didn’t know their names a decade ago, when one of them was just breaking into Chicago radio news and another was barely removed from an internship at Chicago’s public TV station. And now they’re two of the city’s most influential journalists. In another edition of the Chicago...
WTTW’s new stars navigate changing news landscape
Charlie Meyerson interviews - August 10, 2021 21:01Odds are good you didn’t know their names a decade ago, when one of them was just breaking into Chicago radio news and another was barely removed from an internship at Chicago’s public TV station. And now they’re two of the city’s most influential journalists. In another edition of the Chicago...
WTTW’s new stars navigate changing news landscape
Chicago Media Talks - August 10, 2021 20:12 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsOdds are good you didn’t know their names a decade ago, when one of them was just breaking into Chicago radio news and another was barely removed from an internship at Chicago’s public TV station. And now they’re two of the city’s most influential journalists. WTTW News’ multiple-award-...
Block Club Chicago’s origin story
Charlie Meyerson interviews - July 27, 2021 02:11When a billionaire yanked the plug on a pioneering Chicago digital news site, putting a large team of local reporters out of work, some of them banded together to start another digital news site—for themselves, and for the people of the city. Block Club Chicago editor-in-chief Shamus Toomey jo...
Block Club Chicago’s origin story
Chicago Public Square Podcasts - July 27, 2021 02:11 ★★★ - 16 ratingsWhen a billionaire yanked the plug on a pioneering Chicago digital news site, putting a large team of local reporters out of work, some of them banded together to start another digital news site—for themselves, and for the people of the city. Block Club Chicago editor-in-chief Shamus Toomey jo...
Block Club Chicago’s origin story
Chicago Media Talks - July 27, 2021 01:17 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhen a billionaire yanked the plug on a pioneering Chicago digital news site, putting a large team of local reporters out of work, some of them banded together to start ANOTHER digital news site—for themselves, and for the people of the city. Block Club Chicago editor-in-chief Shamus To...
Music journalist Jim DeRogatis: ‘Every system in this city failed … to protect these young black girls’
Chicago Public Square Podcasts - July 21, 2021 01:27 ★★★ - 16 ratingsYou could trace the evolution of the news business through Jim DeRogatis’ career arc over the last 35 years—as he’s moved from print to broadcast to online and podcasting, and from employer-supported to audience-funded journalism. And along the way, he broke one of the biggest stories in music ...
Music journalist Jim DeRogatis: ‘Every system in this city failed … to protect these young black girls’
Chicago Media Talks - July 21, 2021 00:09 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsYou could trace the evolution of the news business through Jim DeRogatis’ career arc over the last 35 years—as he’s moved from print to broadcast to online and podcasting, and from employer-supported to audience-funded journalism. And along the way, he broke one of the biggest stories i...
How did COVID affect homeless Streetwise vendors? Executive director Julie Youngquist talks about that and why reading the street magazine might be as important as buying it.
Chicago Media Talks - July 06, 2021 15:39 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsStreetwise magazine has been a Chicago publication for almost 30 years. Before Covid 19, its vendors were ubiquitous on our streets. What happened to them when we were all forced to shelter in place? Executive director Julie Youngquist talks about how Streetwise -- which is so much more...
After a lifetime at the Chicago Tribune, Eric Zorn and Steve Johnson are leaving. What’s next?
Chicago Public Square Podcasts - June 29, 2021 00:04 ★★★ - 16 ratingsColumnist Eric Zorn started at the Tribune in 1980; cultural critic Steve Johnson started six years later. Now, they’re among the more than three dozen editorial staffers who’ve left—taking buyouts offered under the Trib’s new ownership. They join hosts Sheila Solomon and Charlie Meyerson for ...