Journalism

As Ideastream’s education reporter, one of the ways I stay in the loop with students’ experiences is by volunteering my time to work with students on the Unsilenced Voices of CMSD, a student blog.

New efforts are aimed at training journalists to better support sources and care for their own mental health while reporting.

Last week, the normally quiet East Professional Center in Cleveland was buzzing with activity as 200 students thronged the halls, eagerly discussing what presentation they wanted to go to next. Was it hearing from The Marshall Project’s Mark Puente about his life journey from truck driver to investigative journalist? Or from Ideastream’s own Rachel Rood and Drew Masiaz about how to produce a live radio show?

The Marshall Project has tapped Jim Crutchfield as editor-in-chief of its Cleveland newsroom. Lila Mills has been selected as Cleveland editor-in-chief of the Ohio Local News Initiative.

Noorulbari Mal has lived in the United States since 2017, but his family is still in Afghanistan as the Taliban takes over the country.

Two public media organizations in Northeast Ohio — ideastream and WKSU — will explore opportunities for growth and expansion after receiving a $100,000 grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). The two organizations announced their intention to study growth and expansion, funded by the grant, in a joint press release Monday. The grant will provide funding for research and analysis, as well as recommendations on how the stations can expand and best serve the Northeast Ohio community.

After almost 24 years on the air at WKSU and more than four decades in radio, Mark Pennell is retiring.On the day of his last shift here, we wanted to…

Ten Plain Dealer journalists are leaving the newsroom after recent layoffs and a change in direction for the Cleveland paper. Twenty-two staffers were laid off at the end of last week. On Tuesday, the paper announced most of the remaining 14 journalists would be taken off their established beats and shifted to focus on five outlying counties. Now, 10 of those staffers are resigning from the paper.

Updated: 5:37 p.m., Tuesday, April 7, 2020 Most of the remaining staff at The Plain Dealer will no longer cover news in Cleveland or Cuyahoga and Summit counties, instead shifting to become a "bureau" covering outlying areas. The announcement comes just days after 22 staff were laid off. The 14 remaining reporters will cover five Northeast Ohio counties: Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina and Portage, according to a statement from the Northeast Ohio Newspaper Guild Local 1.

Journalist Cokie Roberts died on Tuesday. Fellow NPR "Founding Mother" Nina Totenberg says Roberts was an "always polite political reporter, willing to ask the impolitic question if necessary."