Current statistics paint a bleak picture for American children: about one in four kids will experience some form of abuse or neglect at some point in their lifetimes. But, what if we could predict the likelihood of abuse before it happens? What

Aborting Abortion: How to Report Better on One of the Most Heated Topics of Our Time

Aug 20th, 2022 33m 50s

Covering abortion as journalist is a huge challenge, but we often create more problems by using language that inflames tension and deepens distrust. In this episode, we talk about four things that journalists can do to cover the abortion debate

Eight Suggestions for Journalists and the Public to Consider as Russia Continues Its Invasion of Ukraine

Mar 11th, 2022 47m 2s

All information that emerges during wartime, no matter where it comes from, is tainted. It’s tainted because of the nature of war. War splits us. It unites one side against the other. It completely eliminates nuance. It over-simplifies everythi

The Baffled Student Production Team Talks Journalism, PR, and Some Stuff in Between

Dec 16th, 2021 35m 14s

In this episode, host David DesRoches interviews the Baffled production team: Grace McGuire, Jillian Catalano, and Jake McCarthy. Grace is a second-year student are Quinnipiac University, majoring in Journalism with a double-minor in Spanish an

The Biggest Threat to Democracy Isn’t Donald Trump, It’s Nationalism Hidden in American Journalism

Dec 10th, 2021 30m 5s

It's not so much what American journalists write that threatens democracy. No, it’s more about what they don't write -- context. This lack of context is what perpetuates American propaganda. Journalists might not be waving American flags and ta

Quinnipiac's J School Chair Talks Journalism, Democracy and Keeping it Local

Dec 2nd, 2021 37m 1s

Host David DesRoches interviews Quinnipiac professor and journalism chair, Molly Yanity about the importance of journalism within democracy, what it means to defend a fragile democracy, and how to address the cross roads journalists are facing

The Good, Bad & Ugly of Modern Polling with Quinnipiac Poll's Doug Schwartz

Nov 18th, 2021 45m 8s

Polls are a lot like news stories. They can tell us about what’s going on, they inform the public about a moment in time, and they also drive us crazy. Host David interviewed Associate Vice President of the Quinnipiac Poll, Doug Schwartz in 201

Should Journalists Be Required to Have a License to Practice Journalism?

Nov 11th, 2021 40m 27s

Some countries, such as Portugal, require their journalists to be licensed and yet those countries rate higher on the Press Freedom Index than the United States. Is licensing journalists the way to regain the public's trust? Host David DesRoche

A Journalism Professor Talks Diversity and Ethics in the Modern J World

Nov 4th, 2021 33m 21s

Host David Desroches interviews Quinnipiac University Assistant Teaching Professor Wasim Ahmad about the value of diversity in newsrooms, the different types of diversity that actually exist, and about photojournalism in the modern age and its

Journalist Hacker? A Missouri Governor Goes Head-to-Head With a Newspaper Over Reality

Oct 28th, 2021 31m 28s

This episode looks into a story in which a journalist discovered that a Missouri state website had included the social security numbers of tens of thousands of public school teachers in the HTML code. The governor had responded by calling him

We Should Redefine Journalism as the Pursuit of Equitable Justice

Oct 21st, 2021 26m 50s

Many journalists are drawn to their work by a very strong sense of right and wrong. They’re driven by their sense of justice. This is how it is currently, yet our partisanship arises from our very different definitions of justice. And it’s thes

The Six Headline Tactics That Should Drive You Bananas

Oct 14th, 2021 31m 50s

Journalistic practices have changed. In some good ways, arguably, but many changes have not been for the best. And the things that really need to change, mostly remain unchanged. This episode is about bad changes. Specifically, headline writing

Four Reasons Why Journalists Should Not Defend Democracy

Oct 7th, 2021 30m 22s

Can journalists defend democracy and pursue truth at the same time? Can those two things coexist? Maybe? Maybe not? Maybe it depends? That’s what we’re going to talk about today, because, while there are many things wrong with this idea, there

The Seven Lies Journalists Want You to Believe

Aug 25th, 2021 24m 49s

Modern journalism has done some truly incredible work over the years. But we are not infallible. We are prone to mistakes. Most of the time they are unintentional, but often they are a result of institutional values that have gone unchecked for

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