Narrative Journalism at Denison University and Between Coasts welcomes you to join us for The New Storytellers: “Stories on the Air.”

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Narrative Journalism at Denison University and Between Coasts welcomes you to join us for The New Storytellers: a series of conversations about narrative journalism today. We are hosting panelists from the field at the following three events on Thursdays this spring:

“Journalism in the Age of Covid”
Feb. 18, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Investigative journalists reflect on the important work of longform narrative reporting during the pandemic.
Panelist: Ted Genoways, journalist for New Republic and Pacific Standard, author of “This Blessed Earth”
Panelist: Esther Honig, journalist for NPR, LatinoUSA, HuffPost & others
About the conversation: Co-authors of “Mother Jones” feature on Colorado meatpacking workers during Covid

“Stories on the Air”
March 11, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Audio storytellers discuss the process of getting good tape and capturing stories about place.

Panelist: Jesse Dukes is a Senior Podcast Producer at WBEZ Chicago. For five years, he produced the audio stories for WBEZ’s Curious City. He works with contributors as well as reporting stories for the project. He’s also the founder and a producer of the Trump Diaries project. Before coming to WBEZ, Jesse was an independent writer and radio producer based in Virginia. He worked with the public radio program Backstory and occasionally led student trips to Tanzania for the University of Virginia as well as hiking, kayaking, and canoeing trips in Maine.

Panelist: Jocelyn Robinson is a Yellow Springs, OH based educator, producer, and preservationist. She has worked in higher education and arts/cultural organizations for her entire professional life and has over two decades of experience. She incorporates critical cultural theory and her research interests in self-definition and identity into transdisciplinary courses that blend media studies and Africana literature, and is adept at guiding diverse student populations through discussions of difference and commonality. In addition, she teaches digital storytelling and is an independent public radio producer. Trained through the 2013 WYSO 91.3 FM Community Voices program, as the station’s first Archives Fellow she created short documentary pieces using WYSO’s historical audio as source material. Rediscovered Radio was awarded a 2014 Public Radio News Directors, Inc. (PRNDI) Award for Best Series, and that same year she was recognized as an Association of Independents in Radio (AIR) New Voices Scholar. Recent projects include contributing to Fehler/Mistakes, a podcast produced by Germany’s Goethe-Institut, and West Dayton Stories, in which she is working with a group of community-based producers to explore the Black community in Ohio’s sixth largest city. Jocelyn is also engaged with emerging radio preservation efforts, and serves on the African American and Civil Rights Radio Caucus of the Radio Preservation Task Force, a project of the Recorded Sound Preservation Board at the Library of Congress. She is the recipient of a National Recording Preservation Foundation grant to survey the archival holdings of HBCU radio stations, a project that is continuing beyond the current funding to preserve this important national legacy.

Panelist: Angela Dennis is a reporter and journalist for USA TODAY Network- Knoxville News Sentinel. She covers issues at the intersection of race and equity through both historical and contemporary lenses. An East Knoxville native, Angela was raised in Florida but ventured her way back to her Appalachian roots a decade ago. She is also an Editor for a national black-owned media company, Black with No Chaser, and Podcast Co-Host for Black in Appalachia. She takes pride in promoting Black initiatives and in delivering an unfiltered and unflinching approach to journalism and Black history. She is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists.

“Future of Local Journalism”
April 15, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
A discussion focused on nonprofit newsrooms, multi-platform innovation, and how to create a more informed democracy by serving underserved communities and audiences.
Panelist: Tracie Powell, founder of alldigitocracy.org, board member at LION publishers
Panelist: Ryan Nave, editor-in-chief of Reckon
Panelist: Tyler Buchanan, political reporter at Ohio Capital Journal

These events are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and a gift by Sue Douthit O’Donnell ‘67.


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