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Bob Calo

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Bob Calo is a senior lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, where he codirects the video storytelling and reporting program and is executive editor of Richmond Confidential. During a fellowship at Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Public Policy he wrote a paper about audience disengagement.

What Football Pep Talks Taught Hyperlocal Reporters

‘Inestimable value comes out of making a human connection visible through something as ordinary as a half-time pep talk by a coach to his players.’