Justin Glanville
Deputy Editor - Engaged JournalismExpertise: People, neighborhoods, citizen journalism, serial podcasts
Education: Grinnell College - Bachelor of Arts
Cleveland State University - Master of Urban Planning and Development
Favorite spot in Northeast Ohio: My shoes, walking around neighborhoods and parks
Experience:
A native Northeast Ohioan, Justin Glanville began his career in New York City, where he worked for the Associated Press covering daily news and off-Broadway theater. After returning to Cleveland, he worked as an urban planner. He now combines his passions for storytelling, people and places in Ideastream Public Media's “Sound of Us” initiative, which tells stories Northeast Ohioans want to tell, in their own voices.
Highlights:
- Dedicated to working with Northeast Ohioans to tell their own stories.
- Conceived and launched Ideastream Public Media's first-ever community storytelling initiative, the “Sound of Us.”
- Passionate creator of serialized narrative podcasts, including “Inside the Bricks” and "Mary & Bill: An Ohio Cold Case."
- Winner of multiple awards both for his own work and for stories produced with community members, including an Edward R. Murrow regional award and nods from the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists and the Ohio Associated Press Media Editors.
Why trust Ideastream Public Media?
The mission of Ideastream Public Media is to be a trustworthy and dynamic multimedia source for illuminating the world around us. Our highest priority is providing news and information that is reliable and accurate, that is gathered with integrity and professional care and that is presented with precision and respect for the intelligence of our audiences. We are transparent about how we discover and verify the facts we present and strive to make our decision-making process clear to the public. We disclose relationships, such as with partners or funders, that might appear, but will never, influence our coverage.
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The fifth episode explores whether gentrification is a real problem in Rust Belt cities such as Cleveland. -
Neighbors talk about their decisions to leave or move into the gentrifying Gordon Square neighborhood of Cleveland. -
Leaders from Detroit-Shoreway in Cleveland talk about whether they believe the neighborhood can remain diverse.
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There's this tunnel at the end of my street that leads to Edgewater Park, which features one of the largest and most popular beaches in Ohio. -
In the first season of Inside the Bricks, I focused on a neighborhood on the brink of a complete rebuild. The neighborhood was Woodhill Homes, on Cleveland's East Side. -
The second season of Ideastream Public Media's podcast, "Inside the Bricks: My Changing Neighborhood," debuts Sept. 14, 2022, wherever you get your podcasts! -
Construction delays at the new version of Cleveland's Woodhill Homes mean that residents will likely have to move more than once if they want to live in a new unit. -
A Place for Us opened in 2016, and was marketed as Ohio's first residential building for LGBTQ seniors. A former resident and the building's co-developer question whether it's truly serving its intended constituency. -
A Richmond Heights student questions the logic of open enrollment policies when transportation is not provided for families. -
A high school student from Richmond Heights Secondary School faces the grief she feels over her grandmother's death.
