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Ernesto Castañeda Transcript: May 22, 2025 Anne Godlasky/NPF (00:00:00): Ernesto Castañeda is the director of the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies and the Immigration Lab at my alma mater American University. He's a professor there as well as an author of a number of books on immigration misperceptions, family reunification, immigrants in urban cultures. And so he is…

Kathy Pike Transcript: May 21, 2025 Rachel Jones/NPF (00:00:00): Welcome to the first session of the National Press Foundation's 2025 covering workplace mental health journalism training. 14 journalists from around the country will be hearing from experts on workplace wellbeing will help them add context and depth to coverage of key challenges faced by workers and companies. Today our keynote…

Samantha Ragland Transcript: May 5, 2025 Rachel Jones/NPF (00:00:00): Hello and welcome to the Evelyn Y. Davis Studio of the National Press Foundation in Washington, DC For this first session of the May, 2025, widening the pipeline virtual training, we'll focus on strengthening our foundations as journalists. Over the past few years of widening, several fellows have named imposter syndrome…

Rachel Rush-Marlowe Transcript: April 7, 2025 Rachel Jones/NPF (00:00:00): Session one of the April, 2025 widening the pipeline virtual training. We'll focus on the March 21st executive order signed by President Donald Trump that was intended to dismantle the United States Department of Education. In the weeks since then, there's been a great deal of focus on how that federal…

Joyce Boghosian and Shealah Craighead Transcript: April 4, 2025 Kevin Johnson/NPF (00:00:00): The session is on visual storytelling if you haven't figured it out yet. And the reason I wanted to do this is because sadly, as reporters, we just don't think visually when we prepare to present our work. And I say sadly because images, as these two photographers…

Delano Massey & Chastity Pratt Transcript: April 7, 2025 Rachel Jones/NPF (00:00:00): The third session of the April, 2025 widening training. We'll hear from two veteran journalists who will help us turn contexts about the education department dismantling into content for our newsrooms. First Delano Massey is the managing editor for Axios Local, where he helped launch coverage in more…

Aamer Madhani Transcript: April 4, 2025 Kevin Johnson/NPF (00:00:00): Well welcome and as you continue to finish, the donuts that graciously brought to you today, he's feeding you and teaching you along the way. So we're most grateful. And as all of you know, every organization that covers the White House these days has had to reassess how they do…

Covering any presidential transition is a challenge, but just more than two months into Donald Trump's second term the work has been unrelenting, especially for the Justice Department press corps. Justice Department correspondents spoke with NPF's Paul Miller fellows describing the effort to deliver meaningful journalism at a break-neck pace. 3 Key takeaways:         1. The accountability…

As the impacts of the Trump administration's immigration orders continue to mount, so too do concerns about strategic disinformation in and about Latino communities. Journalist Martina Guzmán, the daughter of immigrants working in the Detroit auto industry, encountered numerous examples of how false narratives had influenced communities in her years as a reporter. And as an avid NPR listener, she…

Martina Guzmán of Planet Detroit: Transcript March 3, 2025 Rachel Jones/NPF (00:02): Session one of the first 2025 widening the pipeline virtual training. We'll focus on adding contextual depth to one of the most urgent issues in America today, immigration and the impact of policies that play out in communities. Our first conversation centers on identifying myths and disinformation in…

Tandy Lau of New York Amsterdam News: Transcript March 3, 2025 Rachel Jones, National Press Foundation (00:01): Session three of the first virtual Widening training of 2025 amplifies a central issue. What does public safety mean for people whose very presence in public could lead to arrest or deportation? To explore that topic, we're joined by Tandy Lau. Tandy is…

NPF China DeepSeek Webinar Transcript, March 20, 2025 Anne Godlasky, NPF: Hello everyone and welcome. I am Anne Godlasky, president of the National Press Foundation, speaking to you from the Evelyn Y. Davis Studios in Washington, D.C. Thank you for joining us for "From DeepSeek to BYD, Is China pulling ahead in innovation?", a free webinar sponsored by RELX, a…

George Little Transcript: Finding Success on The Impenetrable National Security Beat Kevin Johnson/NPF So we've been talking a lot about a lot with reporters today and how they approach the work of covering the Pentagon and how they build and establish relationships. We've talked about a little bit of that with Louie this morning and with Helene this afternoon. And…

Emma Cordover, a digital producer for Politico, spoke to National Press Foundation Widening the Pipeline journalists on March 2, 2025. Rachel Jones, National Press Foundation (00:00): Session two of the first 2025 Widening the Pipeline virtual training. We'll explore how the new White House administration's immigration policies have affected access to maternal healthcare. We're joined by Emma Cordo, who is…

Forming and maintaining relationships with mentors can provide journalists with an invaluable sounding board outside of your newsroom and help strengthen your career goals. Former NPF Widening the Pipeline fellows Torrance Latham of the Miami Herald and Politico's Bianca Quilantan, as well as her former mentor and current NPF board member Catalina Camia of Bloomberg Law, spoke with the 2025…

Adults under 30 are nearly as likely to trust news on social media as news from national news outlets, according to Pew Research Center, making it increasingly important that journalists understand how to reach Gen Z there. Ryan Sorrell, founder and publisher of The Kansas City Defender, and Marian Liu, projects editor of strategic initiatives at The Washington Post, shared…

Suki Dardarian, the former editor and senior vice president of the Minnesota Star Tribune and NPF's Editor of the Year, has faced a multitude of challenges in the changing and disrupted landscape for local newspapers. Dardarian and her team were tested by reporting the death of George Floyd and the erupting community anger in the newspaper's hometown of Minneapolis. Dardarian,…

When CNN anchor Boris Sanchez spoke with National Press Foundation Widening the Pipeline fellows in 2024, his central message was that journalists must find the "why" for their careers. Sanchez outlined his family's journey from Cuba to the U.S. when he was three years old, and articulated the career path he traveled to gain the privilege of telling stories and…

For many families, the first encounter with rare disease happens when a child is born and receives a heel prick that yields a drop of blood. That blood is analyzed to determine the presence of complex medical ailments like phenylketonuria or PKU, cystic fibrosis and sickle cell anemia. Journalists interested in covering rare diseases received a wealth of insight into…

Reporting on a sprawling Washington institution like the Department of Defense can be challenging in the best of times, let alone three weeks into the whirlwind of the new Trump administration. Helene Cooper, a long-time Pentagon correspondent for The New York Times, spoke about her experience covering President Donald Trump's first term and how she plans on being more "deliberate"…

Journalists who explore equity and community development issues are often fueled by their own lived experiences. For Joseph Lee, the questions began during his childhood as a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag Indigenous tribe based on Martha’s Vineyard. That curiosity only deepened with age. “I really wanted to understand where I came from and my tribe and my community and…

Hamed Aleaziz is most interested in the policies that impact the lives of immigrants and migrants coming to the United States, and the debates within the agencies charged with carrying out these policies. He also covers the outcomes of their decisions, with a focus on the people whose lives have been changed as a result. Aleaziz first began covering immigration…

Joseph Lee is an Aquinnah Wampanoag writer based in New York City. He has an MFA from Columbia University and teaches creative writing at Mercy University. His writing has been published in The Guardian, BuzzFeed, Vox, High Country News, and more. He was a Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers Workshop and a Senior Indigenous Affairs Fellow at Grist.…

For journalists who cover local communities, understanding what's at stake for residents is a paramount objective. But equally important is investigating whether those residents have a say in the policies and decisions that affect them. That's why the 24 journalists who participated in NPF's Covering Equitable Community Development fellowship in Missoula, Montana started their program by exploring the topic of…

Susan Hay Patrick is chief executive officer of United Way of Missoula County. Her past experience includes serving as deputy director of Feeding America, one of the nation’s 10-largest nonprofits; working as a fundraiser and communications director in Washington, DC, for a national NGO; serving as executive director of a national foundation; and operating her own independent consulting business. Prior…

In addition to the slates of candidates vying for election in 2024, voters also will be navigating a constellation of new laws governing when they can cast their ballots and how their votes will be counted. The new rules, a mix of voting restrictions and legislation expanding access to the ballot, were outlined for NPF’s 2024 Election Fellows by voting…

In the 2000 presidential election, Democrat Al Gore won the popular vote, but George W. Bush won the electoral college vote after taking Florida by fewer than 600 out of 6 million votes. It was this historic event that led political scientist and statistician Walter Mebane to develop election forensics, or “eforensics,” just a few years later. He has since…

Election officials are living in a state of fear right now, said Tina Barton, senior election expert at The Elections Group. Barton, who was threatened after the 2020 election, said election officials are fearful for their own safety. Because of this, officials are increasingly hesitant to talk to the press. "Your profession's under attack, people blast the media all the…

Detroit NAACP President Rev. Dr. Wendell Anthony told NPF's 2024 Election Fellows that the media is giving too much attention to the narrative that young Black men are becoming supporters of former President Donald Trump. "Black men are not going to vote for Trump in numbers," Anthony said. However, he predicts 2024 elections will see a greater number of Black…

In both state and federal legislatures, women make up less than a third of representatives – far below equity, despite huge strides in the past 50 years. News coverage today, for perhaps the first time in U.S. history, treats women running for office with sincerity rather than novelty. The quantity of stories has increased significantly in the past decade, but…

The volatile political climate promises to test the voting process as never before, as officials have taken unprecedented steps to protect 2024 election workers against rising threats, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson told NPF's Election Fellows. Benson said Michigan is preparing to outfit local election workers with a "panic button type of communication" to immediately alert law enforcement in…

Michigan remains on the frontlines of a continuing fight against misinformation and efforts to undermine public trust in government less than 100 days before the 2024 election, state Attorney General Dana Nessel told the National Press Foundation's 2024 Elections Fellows. Nessel said officials are bracing for an onslaught of misinformation, drawing on the post-election events of four years ago when…

American democracy and the rule of law are under serious threat, said Jeh Johnson, former Secretary of Homeland Security. "More than one-third of Americans indulge in the erroneous belief that the 2020 election was stolen," he told NPF's 2024 Election fellows in Detroit, Michigan. "Despite the challenges of COVID, numerous audits, recounts and lawsuits ... the 2020 presidential election was…

The Atlas of Economic Complexity allows reporters to produce data visualizations showing any country’s trends in imports and exports for 6,000 products and services. "Simply put, it's a tool that helps us to understand economic opportunity and dynamics for every single country in the world," Harvard Growth Lab’s director of software tools Annie White told NPF's International Trade Fellows, alongside senior manager of…

When it comes to international trade, the adoption of global standards helps everyone. “When you are covering issues to do with international trade, understanding the way that digital transformation can be a positive could be very beneficial,” such as more transparent product information, more efficient transportation and safer supply chains, said Daniel Giles, senior manager of international policy for GS1,…

Reports of China's economic death are greatly exaggerated, say economists Yuan Mei and Chen Gang. “It's not [about whether] the Chinese economy is weak or not, it's about how much China can buy from other parts of the world,” said Gang, deputy director and research fellow at the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore. "I do not…

Most international issues have no solutions, but they can be managed, says Bilahari Kausikan, the former Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore. "That's good news for diplomats and journalists because it means we'll never be out of a job," he told NPF International Trade Journalism Fellows. Taiwan and Gaza fall into this category of management as…

Modern slavery is a huge, underreported story, journalism trainer Kavita Chandran told NPF's International Trade reporting fellows. "How much profit does human trade generate for businesses per year? ... $150 billion," Chandran said, with much of that coming from the Asia-Pacific region. She said that there are "push and pull factors” that lead people into exploitative situations, and it is…

India’s economic growth is a sprinter to China's marathoner, says Manu Bhaskaran, founding CEO of Centennial Asia Advisors. It experienced short, sudden bursts of growth over the years, but it lacks the continual high growth rates of other countries. Now, India may be poised for another boom of 7% growth over the next few years, Bhaskaran told NPF International Trade…