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The China ProjectChina Tobacco: How China’s tobacco monopoly also has ensured that China keeps smokingThis week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Jason McLure, a correspondent for a new investigative reporting outfit called The Examination, and reporter Jude Chan, who...2023-10-0500 min
Sinica PodcastChina Tobacco: How China's tobacco monopoly also has ensured that China keeps smokingThis week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Jason McLure, a correspondent for a new investigative reporting outfit called The Examination, and reporter Jude Chan, who writes for Initium Media. The two worked with two other reporters on a fascinating expose, funded by the Pulitzer Center, of China's tobacco monopoly, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (or China Tobacco), and how it has managed to be both the biggest seller of tobacco in the world — and also the effective regulator of tobacco laws in China.06:41 – The origins and mission of The Examination 09:24 – An overview of the tobacco...2023-10-051h 15
Sinica Early AccessChina Tobacco: How China's tobacco monopoly also has ensured that China keeps smokingThis week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Jason McLure, a correspondent for a new investigative reporting outfit called The Examination, and reporter Jude Chan, who writes for Initium Media. The two worked with two other reporters on a fascinating expose, funded by the Pulitzer Center, of China's tobacco monopoly, the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (or China Tobacco), and how it has managed to be both the biggest seller of tobacco in the world — and also the effective regulator of tobacco laws in China.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at ht...2023-10-031h 15
Global JournalistGlobal Journalist: From Kansas City To Kabul, The Aftermath Of The Afghanistan War LingersAs the U.S. finished its formal withdrawal from Afghanistan last month, many expressed outrage as the country fell quickly to Taliban forces. For the 20th anniversary 9/11, Global Journalist's Sean Brynda spoke with three veterans in Missouri and journalists around the world to look back on the war's impact at home.2021-09-1224 min
Global JournalistGlobal Journalist: From lone wolves to cross-border collaboratorsOnce cut-throat competitors, journalists are now more frequently working together — often across borders — to investigate social problems that authorities either can't or won't tackle.2020-12-2318 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: From lone wolves to cross-border collaboratorsOnce cut-throat competitors, journalists are now more frequently working together — often across borders — to investigate social problems that authorities either can't or won't tackle. All too often, these stories involve the murders of reporters. Global Journalist talked to founders of several ambitious collaborative journalism efforts about what got them started and how they keep going.2020-12-2318 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: Did Facebook's "pivot to video" cause publishers to face plant?Last week, the Federal Trade Commission and 48 attorneys general accused Facebook of violating antitrust laws and illegally stifling competition by buying its rivals. It was the latest development in the debate surrounding the power and influence of Big Tech. Facebook has been wielding its immense power in other ways for years and, wittingly or unwittingly, damaging other institutions along the way. On this episode of Global Journalist, three journalists talk about the collateral damage of a trend that Facebook launched: hundreds of newsroom layoffs and big changes in the news you see online. Host: Trevor Hook Guests: Derek Thompson, The...2020-12-1528 minGlobal JournalistThe fight for Voice of AmericaOver the summer, at the insistence of President Trump, the Senate confirmed Michael Pack as the new director of U.S. Agency for Government Media.2020-12-0529 minGlobal JournalistThe fight for Voice of AmericaOver the summer, at the insistence of President Trump, the Senate confirmed Michael Pack as the new director of U.S. Agency for Government Media. Since then, the venerable Voice of America and its sister broadcast outlets have been plunged into chaos. MU Journalism School students talked to two former VOA directors, a reporter fired by Pack and a lawyer for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press about the chaos enveloping what has been one of the nation's most effective vectors for "soft power."2020-12-0500 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: Making media accessibleModern media offers accessible information to a worldwide audience, but barriers still remain. Thirty years after the Americans with Disabilities Act became law, inconsistent captioning, improper ASL interpretation, and obtuse design hinder many from receiving critical news.2020-11-1808 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: Making media accessibleModern media offers accessible information to a worldwide audience, but barriers still remain. Thirty years after the Americans with Disabilities Act became law, inconsistent captioning, improper ASL interpretation, and obtuse design hinder many from receiving critical news. Moreover many who could provide valuable perspectives on what it's like to be "differently abled" are blocked from producing that journalism by newsrooms' failure to build accessibility into the process. In this episode, journalists look at what it will take to fix the problem — and why it matters. We thank the interpreters who assisted us in our interviews with some of the journalists. Th...2020-11-1800 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: Stars and Stripes forever?Founded on Nov. 9, 1861 in Bloomfield, Mo. by troops under the command of Civil War Gen. Ulysses Grant, the military newspaper Stars and Stripes has followed U.S. troops into battle for more than a century and a half.2020-11-0528 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: Stars and Stripes forever?Founded on Nov. 9, 1861 in Bloomfield, Mo. by troops under the command of Civil War Gen. Ulysses Grant, the military newspaper Stars and Stripes has followed U.S. troops into battle for more than a century and a half. But lately, government budget cutters have been threatening the future of a news outlet that has been a morale booster and watchdog for soldiers. Veterans talk about why they think the Defense Department should continue funding a paper that sometimes criticizes it.2020-11-0500 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: How the world sees the U.S. electionAmericans aren't the only ones awaiting the results of this year's U.S. presidential election with intense interest.2020-10-3128 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: How the world sees the U.S. electionAmericans aren't the only ones awaiting the results of this year's U.S. presidential election with intense interest. Missouri School of Journalism students in Professor Beverly Horvit's International Reporting class interviewed journalists from all over the world about who people in their countries like in the 2020 campaign and why. The reporters know the U.S. well: They've all spent time here as Alfred Friendly or Hubert Humphrey fellows.2020-10-3100 minGlobal Journalist#MeToo at Three: Are Newsrooms Meeting the Diversity Challenge?Three years ago this month, stories about movie producer Harvey Weinstein's predatory behavior prompted a tidal wave of revelations about sexual harassment in the workplace and the birth of the #MeToo movement.2020-10-2228 minGlobal Journalist#MeToo at Three: Are Newsrooms Meeting the Diversity Challenge?Three years ago this month, stories about movie producer Harvey Weinstein's predatory behavior prompted a tidal wave of revelations about sexual harassment in the workplace and the birth of the #MeToo movement. The newsrooms that reported on the phenomenon were not immune from revelations of gender inequality, and turned inward to examine diversity and inclusion in their own newsrooms.2020-10-2200 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: Enterprise and Resilience in the Face of COVIDStudents in a Missouri School of Journalism multimedia class taught by Professors Kat Lucchesi and Major King started their spring semester thinking they were going to do a series of podcasts about a faraway pandemic. Then it hit home, scattering the team across the country — and, in one case, beyond — and depriving them of access to the equipment they'd normally use to create their programs. While interviewing professional journalists about how they keep their cool in the face of crisis, the reporters and producers of this story got a test of their own resilience.2020-06-0328 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: How a Sports Reporter Challenged Romania's OligarchyTol-on-tan! Tol-on-tan! More satisfying, perhaps, than a Pulitzer Prize was the tribute paid to Catalin Tolontan by a crowd of people chanting his name during a street protest. They were celebrating the Romanian journalist's role in exposing the oligarchs whose greed killed dozens of people. It's a scene from one of this year's True/False documentaries about a remarkable act of journalism and civic courage. In this week's edition of Global Journalist, we meet the movie director and his subject and talk to several Missouri School of Journalism professors about the function and future of investigative journalism.2020-05-0728 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: How a Sports Reporter Challenged Romania's OligarchyTol-on-tan! Tol-on-tan!2020-05-0728 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: From Ebola to COVID-19Two journalists who covered Ebola when victims of an outbreak in Africa came to the United States for treatment six years ago discuss how that experience compares to today's COVID-19 pandemic. Ebola, which continues to flare in Africa, causes fever and internal bleeding and kills half the people who contract it, according to the World Health Organization.2020-05-0321 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: From Ebola to COVID-19Two journalists who covered Ebola when victims of an outbreak in Africa came to the United States for treatment six years ago discuss how that experience compares to today's COVID-19 pandemic.2020-05-0321 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: Singapore Confronts a Second CoronavirusFor the second time in two decades, Singapore is grappling with a coronavirus. One of the hotspots of the SARS outbreak in the early 2000s, the country is putting the lessons it learned then to work as it faces COVID-19, the potentially deadly infection caused by another coronavirus. Missouri School of Journalism student Aqil Hamzah, quarantined in his hometown, interviewed two veteran newspaper editors about how coverage of the two outbreaks compares.2020-04-2707 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: Singapore Confronts a Second CoronavirusFor the second time in two decades, Singapore is grappling with a coronavirus.2020-04-2707 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: Covering Two Deadly VirusesAt first, it just seemed like an odd story to pursue during a quiet post-Christmas week in the newsroom in 2015. But New York Times reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr.'s interest in what would become the Zika epidemic has made him something of an expert on viral outbreaks. After his work on Zika, the virus that ravaged newborns in the tropics, McNeil now finds himself covering the even more deadly coronavirus that is causing COVID-19. In this episode, he gives a reporter's view of the ethics of covering a pandemic while a public health official, the University of Missouri's Lynelle...2020-04-2307 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: Covering Two Deadly VirusesAt first, it just seemed like an odd story to pursue during a quiet post-Christmas week in the newsroom in 2015. But New York Times reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr.'s interest in what would become the Zika epidemic has made him something of an expert on viral outbreaks.2020-04-2307 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: Photojournalism During a PandemicJournalists are first responders too. While many reporters and editors are working from home these days, the women and men who bring you the images of a society in lockdown don't have that luxury. In a March 20 webinar sponsored by the Reynolds Journalism Institute, three West Coast photojournalists discussed the challenges they are facing and the new precautions they are taking while bringing you the news. We're airing highlights of that conversation on this edition of Global Journalist.2020-04-1528 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: Photojournalism During a PandemicJournalists are first responders too.2020-04-1528 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: When a Coronavirus Hit in 2003A new coronavirus emerging out of Asia, striking panic with the suddenness of its onset, the ease of its spread and the virulence of its impact.2020-03-2728 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: When a Coronavirus Hit in 2003A new coronavirus emerging out of Asia, striking panic with the suddenness of its onset, the ease of its spread and the virulence of its impact. Sound familiar? In 2003, the coronavirus caused SARS, sudden acute respiratory syndrome. This from-the-vault episode of Global Journalist features a conversation with reporters who back then were on the ground at SARS infection hotspots: Beijing, Singapore, Hong Kong and Toronto. We're re-airing the program now because we think it raises some interesting questions: What stopped the SARS epidemic? And are there lessons we should have learned then that might have spared us some of the...2020-03-2728 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: Covering COVID in ChinaDuring the coronavirus outbreak, Global Journalist is talking to some of the workers on the frontlines. They don't always get the recognition of doctors and nurses, but journalists also are risking — and in some cases — giving their lives to get information to the public. In this first in a series of podcasts. Missouri School of Journalism students interview a Voice of America reporter how he navigated China's closed society to report on the outbreak.2020-03-2307 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: Covering COVID in ChinaDuring the coronavirus outbreak, Global Journalist is talking to some of the workers on the frontlines. They don't always get the recognition of doctors and nurses, but journalists also are risking — and in some cases — giving their lives to get information to the public.2020-03-2307 minGlobal JournalistFrom the Global Journalist Vault: Former Hostage Terry Anderson on Press FreedomWhile Global Journalist is on hiatus from the KBIA airwaves, a team of student researchers are combing through nearly 20 years of past programs. This one ran 18 years ago this week. We thought you might be interested in reflecting on how things have changed since then — and how they have not changed. In this program, the late Stuart Loory , a veteran correspondent who served as the first Lee Hills Chair in Free Press Studies at the Missouri School of Journalism, interviews a panel of representatives from the Committee to Protect Journalists about international issues of the day and press freedom. Among th...2020-02-2728 minGlobal JournalistFrom the Global Journalist Vault: Former Hostage Terry Anderson on Press FreedomWhile Global Journalist is on hiatus from the KBIA airwaves, a team of student researchers are combing through nearly 20 years of past programs.2020-02-2728 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: The Fight for Press Freedom in AsiaTwo women journalists who launched online start-up publications in their home countries face eerily similar challenges -- not from the business climate but from the political climate. Global Journalist talks with Supriya Sharma and Maria Ressa about the way the government and business leaders under investigation by their publications are using social media to silence and discredit journalists.2020-02-0528 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: The Fight for Press Freedom in AsiaTwo women journalists who launched online start-up publications in their home countries face eerily similar challenges -- not from the business climate but from the political climate.2020-02-0528 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: A Conversation with Jim LehrerMissouri School of Journalism alumnus Jim Lehrer talks about his career covering a presidential assassination, two presidential impeachments and 12 presidential debates in an interview at the Reynolds Journalism Institute. In this program, produced and anchored by Benjamin Brink, Lehrer also recalls his days as a cub reporter with the Columbia Missourian and discusses the challenges now facing journalism and democracy.2020-01-1628 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: A Conversation with Jim LehrerMissouri School of Journalism alumnus Jim Lehrer talks about his career covering a presidential assassination, two presidential impeachments and 12 presidential debates in an interview at the Reynolds Journalism Institute.2020-01-1628 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: PBS Filmmaker Stanley Nelson Speaks Out on CareerStanley Nelson Jr. came of age as a filmmaker in the 1970s as Hollywood was making 'blacksploitation' films like 'Shaft.'2020-01-1028 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: PBS Filmmaker Stanley Nelson Speaks Out on CareerStanley Nelson Jr. came of age as a filmmaker in the 1970s as Hollywood was making 'blacksploitation' films like 'Shaft.' But as the son of a librarian and a dentist, fictional stories of the ghetto didn't resonate with Nelson - so instead he became a documentary-maker. More than three decades after his first film appeared on PBS, he looks back on a career that includes documentaries about the Black Panthers, Freedom Riders, Miles Davis, and the murder of civil rights leader Emmet Till. On this special edition of Global Journalist, the winner of a MacArthur "genius" award and a...2020-01-1028 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: 'Panama Papers' Journalist Describes Sprawling ProbeMarina Walker Guevara has managed two massive global investigations for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.2020-01-0328 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: 'Panama Papers' Journalist Describes Sprawling ProbeMarina Walker Guevara has managed two massive global investigations for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Both the 'Panama Papers' and 'Paradise Papers' investigations of offshore tax havens and money laundering involved a global network of dozens of journalists working in six continents. On this special edition of Global Journalist, Guevara speaks with host Kathy Kiely about the leaks that revealed how some of the world's most wealthy and powerful people hid money offshore, and how ICIJ meticulously combed through millions of documents to make sense of it all.2020-01-0328 minGlobal JournalistGlobal Journalist: "Midnight Traveler" Shows Tenuous Lives of RefugeesAfter being threatened by the Taliban, filmmaker Hassan Fazili was forced to flee Afghanistan. Like thousands of others, he and his family set out for Europe seeking safety and a stable life.2019-12-2628 min