Become a Patron! This week on the Visu.News podcast Aaron Cynic and I speak with journalist Kit O’Connell about the media’s use of language around police violence and shootings. The favored phrases of ‘unbiased’ news outlets around these incidents are often in a passive tone – not wanting to lay blame on anyone in law…
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‘The Day the Klan Came To Town’ – Interview with Bill Campbell
Bill Campbell takes an incredible amount of research and information on the KKK and his hometown at the time and builds a narrative arc that will keep everyone reading.
VisuNews Podcast: Jackson’s Water Crisis with Laurie Bertram Roberts
Become a Patron! This is a new bi-weekly special for the Visu.News podcast where we check in on activists across the country – especially ones in quote-unquote “RED STATES.” These are some of the most badass activists around – they’re not just fighting for their causes with passion and way too little money… if any,…
VisuNews Podcast – COVID Disaster Response
Chicago and NY are dealing with COVID-19 vaccine rollout in varying degrees of terrible. Aaron and Zach discuss.
VisuNews Podcast – Catching Up on the Sh*t Show
We’re back! (Again). This week Aaron Cynic and I catch up and discuss the last years news… err I mean the last months news. We catch up on the January 6th marauders, our hopes for what the incoming administration will do and more. Support our Visu.News work on Paypal Become a Patron!
VisuNews Podcast – The 9/11 of Bad Takes, Fact Checking the Internet and Losing Mercy
VisuNews Podcast – The 9/11 of Bad Takes, Fact Checking the Internet and Losing Mercy
VisuNews Podcast – RNC, Racism and Steamed Hams
Aaron Cynic and I chat calmly about The Purge-like Republican National Convention. How there was, unsurprisingly no voices outside of the Trump cult, the terrifying world of MAGA, and two days of weird “TRUMP’S NOT RACIST” and “TRUMP HAS BLACK FRIENDS.” Then we move on to the linguistics of “officer-involved shootings,” well-coiffed racist Richard Spencer’s…
Photojournalists on the Unite the Right Rally 3 Years on and more…
Become a Patron! This is a special crossover episode of the Visu.News and Around the Lens podcasts. We’re recording this on the third anniversary of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville that ended in the death of Heather Heyer and severe injuries to dozens more. I’m here with a handful of photojournalists who were…
Emerald City Video Awards
Winners are announced on the podcast and tagged via social media. If they want to receive the actual award, they can. The Yellow Brick in question is a VHS tape spray-painted gold and then labeled with their project and mailed out in a rental case. You can find us (and a number of other awesome…
Visu.News Podcast – Chicago Teachers Strike w/ special guests from Unicorn Riot
We’re back after a long unplanned hiatus that had both Aaron and myself covering picket lines. Aaron was in Chicago, of course covering the Chicago Teachers Union strike and I was mostly in Rochester covering the UAW/GM strike. This episode we’re joined by two of the awesome people at the non-profit journalist collective, Unicorn Riot…