Category Archives: Podcasts

Around the World for Food-Cast: How Food Goes Viral

By Megan Williams, UConn Jour­nal­ism Decem­ber 14, 2019 Wel­come to the Around the World for Food-Cast. Each episode of this pod­cast dives deep­er into one of the food sto­ries from my blog. This week you’ll learn more about viral foods and exact­ly how some shot to Inter­net fame. You’ll also hear from New York City food­ieCon­tin­ue read­ing “Around the World for Food-Cast: How Food Goes Viral”

No Teacher Left Behind: A Podcast About Educators, Health & Wellness

Many edu­ca­tion pro­fes­sion­als enter the field because they would like to make a pos­i­tive impact on the lives of young peo­ple. They exert a lot of ener­gy as teach­ers to ensure that their stu­dents are healthy men­tal­ly, emo­tion­al­ly and phys­i­cal­ly. Peo­ple who work as teach­ers often for­get to give atten­tion to their own well­ness. Sad­ly,Con­tin­ue read­ing “No Teacher Left Behind: A Pod­cast About Edu­ca­tors, Health & Wellness”

One Hand Wonder: A Podcast About Celebrating Differences

By Katie Moloney, UConn Jour­nal­ism Decem­ber 14, 2019 Every­one is dif­fer­ent. Every­one has things about them that make them unique and see the world dif­fer­ent­ly. My dif­fer­ence is a lit­tle more obvi­ous. I was born with­out my left hand. To this day, doc­tors still aren’t quite sure why. Grow­ing up, I was very self-con­s­cious about my hand.Con­tin­ue read­ing “One Hand Won­der: A Pod­cast About Cel­e­brat­ing Differences”

Grocery shopping usually a mundane task, but at Trader Joe’s, people can’t get enough

By THOMAS ROBERG, UConn Jour­nal­ism Decem­ber 14, 2019 Trad­er Joe’s was estab­lished in 1958, and since then has grown to almost 500 stores nation­al­ly.  It has gained a cult-like fol­low­ing from its cus­tomers.  In this pod­cast, I take a first-time shop­per there to get gro­ceries, and explore the brands eccen­tric­i­ties.  In fact, the store only sellsCon­tin­ue read­ing “Gro­cery shop­ping usu­al­ly a mun­dane task, but at Trad­er Joe’s, peo­ple can’t get enough”

Behind the Stories: When Journalists Pivot into Politics

By Ryley McGin­nis, UConn Jour­nal­ism | May 9, 2019 Derek Slap, Mary Glass­man and Lon­nie Reed are three Con­necti­cut politi­cians who start­ed their careers in jour­nal­ism and made the switch to pol­i­tics. In this spe­cial ‘Behind the Sto­ries’ pod­cast, Slap, Glass­man and Reed out­line their moti­va­tions for going into jour­nal­ism, why they left the field forCon­tin­ue read­ing “Behind the Sto­ries: When Jour­nal­ists Piv­ot into Politics”

Behind the Stories: How the Sandy Hook shooting changed the way journalists in Connecticut cover guns

In Spring 2018, a team of UConn Jour­nal­ism stu­dents asked four Con­necti­cut jour­nal­ists how the 2012 Sandy Hook Ele­men­tary School shoot­ing changed the way they cov­er gun vio­lence and the gun con­trol debate. We talked with reporters Jenn Bern­stein and Matthew Kauff­man, edi­to­r­i­al page edi­tor Jacque­line Smith and colum­nist Susan Camp­bell. Mass shoot­ings had hap­penedCon­tin­ue read­ing “Behind the Sto­ries: How the Sandy Hook shoot­ing changed the way jour­nal­ists in Con­necti­cut cov­er guns”

Behind the Stories: How to Succeed in Hyperlocal News

In this edi­tion of our ‘Behind the Sto­ries’ pod­cast, UConn Jour­nal­ism seniors Aman­da Cabral, Madi­son Geerlof and Ryley McGin­nis talked with the edi­tors of three thriv­ing hyper­local news web­sites in Con­necti­cut:  Doug Hardy of CT News Junkie, Ron­ni New­ton of We-Ha.com, and Michael Dinan of the New Canaan­ite. The most pop­u­lar hyper­local news sites focus onCon­tin­ue read­ing “Behind the Sto­ries: How to Suc­ceed in Hyper­local News”

Behind the Stories: How To Cover Cannabis

There’s momen­tum in Con­necti­cut to legal­ize mar­i­jua­na for recre­ation­al use. Con­necti­cut’s brand new gov­er­nor, Ned Lam­ont, has made legal­iza­tion a pri­or­i­ty for his admin­is­tra­tion. It’s far from a done deal though. The change requires leg­isla­tive approval. And there are plen­ty of groups in Con­necti­cut opposed to the idea, cit­ing con­cerns about peo­ple dri­ving under the influ­ence, youth sub­stanceCon­tin­ue read­ing “Behind the Sto­ries: How To Cov­er Cannabis”

Behind the Stories podcast: How three women journalists found success covering sports

Mol­ly Qer­im is the co-host of ESP­N’s ‘First Take.’ Sports­writer and author Karen Crouse works at The New York Times. Gab­by Lucivero is a sports reporter at NBC Con­necti­cut. These three women jour­nal­ists talked with UConn Jour­nal­ism stu­dents about how they found suc­cess cov­er­ing the male-dom­i­nat­ed world of sports.

Behind the Stories: How to cover Connecticut’s ‘hot mess’ of a governor’s race

In this episode of UConn Jour­nal­is­m’s Behind the Sto­ries pod­cast, the team talked to polit­i­cal reporters about the chal­lenges in cov­er­ing Con­necti­cut’s 2018 guber­na­to­r­i­al race. Senior jour­nal­ism major Gra­cie Enright spoke to NBC Connecticut’s Max Reiss who explained the state’s elec­toral process and hur­dles ahead of elect­ing a new gov­er­nor come Novem­ber. Senior jour­nal­ism major Caio Goncalves inter­viewed Hart­fordCon­tin­ue read­ing “Behind the Sto­ries: How to cov­er Connecticut’s ‘hot mess’ of a governor’s race”