Author: Abel Rodriguez

News Analysis: Health care podcast helps listeners navigate complex medical system

By Media News, Midwest, News and Opinion

With discourse around health care becoming increasingly polarized, Dan Weissmann’s podcast, An Arm and a Leg, offers an insight and understanding into the complex system. But more than that, it serves as a guide for how to create narrative news podcasts.   Weissmann is both a traditional print reporter as well as a radio reporter. He…

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Campaign to save student newsrooms shifts gears from finances to censorship

By Media News, News and Opinion

In the year since the Florida Alligator issued a call to action to save college newspapers around the country, hundreds of student-run publications signed on to raise awareness about the financial cuts that threaten to shutter or significantly reduce their presence at their institutions. The campaign received  national publicity in its first days and months,…

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