Valeria Fernandez, a 2021 visiting fellow, on building a village at a time when the world feels scary and distant We were barely starting the first season of our Spanish-language podcast to talk about health for immigrant women and non-binary … Read more
In the early summer of 2020, the Black Lives Matter protests unleashed after a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd reached Europe, too. During the protests, people filled the streets and squares across European cities to denounce systemic racism, chanting … Read more
With the new CBC podcast “What On Earth,” Laura Lynch, NF ’00, is bringing climate change coverage — and potential solutions — to Canadians. The phone call came in May. The Canadian Broadcasting bosses in Toronto wanted … Read more
I had long been a print reporter with a serious crush on audio. But until the opportunity to host a podcast fell in my lap, becoming someone who was lucky enough to make audio stories seemed like an elusive dream. Read more
“I think we hit a tipping point” is how the findings of a recent survey examining podcasting habits was described. Nearly one in three people listen to a podcast every month. Last year it was about one in four. Not … Read more
The work of a print journalist can be very unrewarding. When I worked for a magazine, writing a piece could take several weeks. The potential audience was 100,000. Often, this is the response: 15 likes on Facebook, maybe one angry … Read more
My NPR podcast “Hidden Brain” launched this fall, but it’s been more than a decade in the making, one that started mere blocks from Lippmann House. While reporting for The Washington Post in 2004, I interviewed Harvard psychologist … Read more
When I hear the “All Things Considered” theme, I hear vegetables sizzling in a pan. I think about being 6 years old and playing with toys at the kitchen table while my mom cooked dinner and caught up with … Read more