Category: Podcasts

  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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.

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  • 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.…

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  • Behind the Stories: Confronting Racism as Journalists

    Journalists encounter racism daily. Between the diversity stories that journalists report, and the diversity – or lack thereof – in newsrooms, race and racism affects journalists of color, and the people we are reporting on.

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  • Behind the Stories: How Connecticut journalists localize national stories

    Our third “Behind the Sto­ries” pod­cast fea­tured NBC Con­necti­cut Chief Inves­tiga­tive Reporter Len Besthoff, who talked with UConn Jour­nal­is­m’s Gra­cie Enright about how he dis­cov­ers and cov­ers local inves­tiga­tive sto­ries. The Roundup fol­lowed how the NBC Con­necti­cut Trou­bleshoot­ers team helped expose a major patient abuse scan­dal at the Whit­ing Foren­sic state…

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  • #MeToo: Behind the Podcast

    In a spe­cial edi­tion of UConn Jour­nal­is­m’s ‘Behind the Sto­ries’ pod­cast, we spoke with two Hart­ford Courant jour­nal­ists — Edi­to­r­i­al Page Edi­tor Car­olyn Lums­den and sports writer Desmond Con­ner — about two preva­lent top­ics in the news world: the #MeToo move­ment and the inter­sec­tion of sports and pol­i­tics. Car­olyn Lums­den has been work­ing for…

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  • Behind the Stories podcast: Connecticut budget battle & local elections

    In this episode of UConn Jour­nal­is­m’s ‘Behind the Sto­ries’ pod­cast, the team ana­lyzes the sto­ry that kept on giv­ing dur­ing the Fall 2017 semes­ter: the Con­necti­cut bud­get bat­tle. UConn senior Caio Goncalves spoke toCT Mir­ror bud­get reporter Kei­th Pha­neuf, who broke down the many “hard choic­es” leg­is­la­tors had to make when…

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