It is this or nothing when navigating the power structures of mass media.

Episode Description

In the politics of economy and corporate media it can be difficult to have much of a say in things even if your voice is among the most trusted of major publications.

The final episode of this season of Pull Quotes interrogates questions of decision-making authority and why detrimental patterns of representation threaten to obstruct good journalists from writing stories that have a lasting impression.

US journalist Erica Cameron shares her story working for major news corporations that toe the mark to preconceived stigma for reasons of advertiser pressure and algorithmic prominence.

Kae Petrin from the Trans Journalists Association provides a conversant rundown of the challenges to giving media guidance on trans identities and how it stands up to the wider spread of misinformation in all aspects of news representation.

Creating a dialogue that touches on many feature stories included in this year’s Review of Journalism, examining who decides reminds us to take ownership as journalists in the perspectives we carry forward.

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Music Credits

“Into the Unknown” by Jonathan Grow via Retrorama APM

About Pull Quotes

Pull Quotes explores how journalism works behind the scenes, from the way stories are framed to the voices that shape public understanding.

Hosted by Mark Henick and Dylan Kulcher.

Podcast art by Matthew Konhauser

The post Pull Quotes – S8E7 – Who Decides first appeared on The Review of Journalism.

RJO status lends well to advocacy journalism, but the sustainability of online news is still in question.

Episode Description

Journalistic silencing in its core element is a question of platforms, resources and limitations.

Part two of Who Gets Silenced uncovers how active diminishment of news subjects is a systemic problem that the answer to partly lies in how journalists perceive themselves.

In conversation with Tai Huynh, editor-in-chief of The Local quarterly online magazine, the question of journalism needing to align itself as a public service as a half-measure to funding concerns is posed.

The Local functions as a tax-exempt RJO (Registered Journalism Organization) qualified donee that provides supporters with a tax receipt. They look to progressive news readers for establishing a new template for sustainable journalism in the post-print era.

But as their mandate zeroes in on groundbreaking coverage on unrepresented communities and investigative stories that uncover the hidden truths, AI search engine optimization seeks to undo the advancement of journalism into a self-sustaining public service.

Canadian news publications can set the example if only in permitting online news readers to take the choice into their own hands who have an expectation that localized news can mobilize to bring out their own voices.

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Music Credits

“Into the Unknown” by Jonathan Grow via Retrorama APM

About Pull Quotes

Pull Quotes explores how journalism works behind the scenes, from the way stories are framed to the voices that shape public understanding.

Hosted by Mark Henick and Dylan Kulcher.

Podcast art by Matthew Konhauser

The post Pull Quotes – S8E6 – Who Gets Silenced? – Part Two first appeared on The Review of Journalism.

Revisiting the past through a critical lens can better inform how journalists stay accountable.

Episode Description

Silence can operate passively or actively and challenging one form does not necessarily alleviate the other.

Part 1 of Who Gets Silenced is a trip down memory lane to reconsider the importance of the journalistic bygones of the past. Keeping the record straight demands careful maintenance that ensures silencing doesn’t repeat patterns of the past.

Speaking with Astrid Lange from the Toronto Star Library Archives, the issues of data preservation in the modern day is an immediate example of how the idealistic transparency of modern news reporting might not be all it seems.

Exploring the pitfalls of generative AI in not only silencing those who it misrepresents, it raises an even deeper question of how its mere presence calls into question the authenticity of journalistic artifacts that the practice of archival upkeep exists to preserve.

A studied approach towards the past and a researched keeping of the track record methodology to new journalistic projects can work against the silencers that are forged in the framework of the digital age.

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Music Credits

“Into the Unknown” by Jonathan Grow via Retrorama APM

About Pull Quotes

Pull Quotes explores how journalism works behind the scenes, from the way stories are framed to the voices that shape public understanding.

Hosted by Mark Henick and Dylan Kulcher.

Podcast art by Matthew Konhauser

The post Pull Quotes – S8E5 – Who Gets Silenced? – Part One first appeared on The Review of Journalism.