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Outlet: A podcast by Kaitlin McCulley
Television news reporter Kaitlin McCulley left her job during a pandemic. Now what? Her goal: find a better way to share stories that matter. No BS. Look, it's no secret the TV news industry is broken and affecting how people treat each other. How can you find the facts? Join Kaitlin for an honest, unfiltered look at the media industry through personal stories and eye-opening interviews. New episodes each week.
Episodes
25 episodes
MySocialPulse co-founders on how they built a digital dashboard to track misinformation on social media
"We love data and helping people at the same time, so it’s a win-win," Janine Miles, MySocialPulse Co-FounderMy guests this week are Divya Prashanth and Janine Miles, or – as I was introduced to them initially – "super-smart data...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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15:11
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The future of community journalism with Maritza Félix
"Something that I learned during the pandemic: I remembered why I started in this journalism career to begin with, and it was to serve and to listen." – Maritza Félix, Founder of Conecta ArizonaServing and listening started with ...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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30:30
Using technology as a "force for good" with Moonshot CEO & Founder Vidhya Ramalingam
“I’m a big believer that the internet can be a force for good and that there’s a lot of power in the connections that can be formed online.” -- Vidhya RamalingamWe've talked before about how the internet and social media can spre...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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32:52
Inside the Covid-19 crisis in India: What's going on and how you can help
"It's like a war except everyone who's dying are innocent civilians." – Deval Sanghavi, Partner & Co-Founder at Dasra"Our team members are sick, unable to get a hospital bed, get oxygen. They're scrambling." – Sneha Sheth, CEO &a...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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27:20
Power relations between social media companies and monetizing content creators with Dr. Susanne Kopf
How does the trend toward content monetization on social media relate to the kinds of videos and posts we see? And do creators really have control over their own content?My guest this week is Dr. Susanne Kopf, a discourse analyst in Vie...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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29:30
Calling out discrimination in TV news coverage with Lori Lizarraga
“It is a very difficult thing to address this and hope that it will fall on people who will believe you. At the very least, you hope you’re not gonna get in trouble or get sued or have people tell you you're a liar." -- Lori Lizarraga, TV ne...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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30:38
“The lack of information the migrants have is amazing” - Cindy Andrade Johnson on reframing the U.S. immigration ‘crisis’
We've been hearing a lot about the U.S. immigration "crisis at the border." In March 2021, U.S. border authorities took in 18,890 children traveling alone from Central America, the highest monthly number on record.But the conversation a...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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33:29
How digital fact-checking tools help journalists cover Covid-19 (and everything else)
My guests this week are Nat Gyenes and Megan Marrelli with Meedan, a non-profit building digital tools for journalists, helping them fact check information quickly and turn it around for the public.When the Covid-19 pandemic hit last ye...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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25:37
Georgia Fort on Changing the Narrative, Spotlighting Social Justice, Citing Diverse Sources
"Maybe sometimes people don’t understand the value of storytellers. But when you look at history, history has only been preserved by people who captured and documented the stories.” – Georgia Fort, BLCK Press Founder and Video Journalist...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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34:30
Neki Mohan on Leaving TV News, Personal Identity, Hard Work
“I wasn’t afraid of being broke; I was afraid of being broken (…) if you don’t seize the life you want to live, who’s gonna do it for you?” — Neki Mohan, journalist & entrepreneurOur guest this week, Neki Mohan, left her job a...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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44:07
Storytelling from the U.S. to Switzerland with Arianne Alcorta
"Don’t be afraid to sail away from the shore and to accept change and to adapt. Because at the end of the day when you manage to do it, when everything works out, it’s just so worth it.” -- Arianne Alcorta, International multimedia correspon...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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32:53
How Bellingcat analyzes open source content to tell important stories
“In the world today, everyone’s walking around with a tracking device that can take pictures and upload them to the internet - your mobile phone. There’s a natural impulse to record your experience (…) When you have enough of it, you can rec...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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28:24
Using new media platforms to tell the whole story of Covid-19 with Dr. "J" Rutland
"Right now in the media all you’re hearing about are these variants and how people aren’t protected from variants in terms of antibodies, when antibodies don’t represent the entire immune system. And that statement is actually wrong." -- Ced...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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26:38
News for Gen Z & Millenials with Tabitha Lipkin
"(Rather than) going to seek out the news, people actually kind of avoid it. You have to take the news to them.” -- Tabitha Lipkin, NBCLX hostWith attention spans shorter than ever, how can we communicate in authentic ways to younger...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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22:39
Kaitlin's notebook: What I've learned and what I'm building now
I left my TV news reporting job in Boston in October, launched this podcast in December and I have learned *a lot* in these last 10 weeks. I set out to find a better way to share stories that matter. No BS. I think I’ve found a way to do tha...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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18:17
TikTok as a journalism tool with Bianca Graulau
"I think TikTok is more driven by stories and vulnerability and personality. And I think that because of what I do, it fits perfectly because that’s what I do. I tell stories." --Bianca Graulau, video storyteller based in Puerto Rico...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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23:51
Behind the scenes with Paige Hubbard
"Don't let anybody try to talk you out of your dream." - Paige Hubbard, multimedia journalistWhat is it like to be starting out in an industry that is struggling and uncertain? Paige Hubbard is about a year into her first on-air TV j...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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31:20
Why language in the media matters with Dr. Suzanne Wertheim
"Media language is one of the most influential languages that we have in terms of taking a little event or a thing that happens in a place or time and then broadcasting it out to everybody so then that interpretation of the event is made the...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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51:32
Taking control of the media with Michael Rosenblum
“It’s actually horrific. What passes for journalism is absolutely appalling in this country.” -- Michael Rosenblum, author of "Don't watch this: How the media are destroying your life."You could call Michael Rosenblum Critic-In-C...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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30:55
A big local news experiment with Ken Doctor
Do people really value local news? Will they pay for high quality local news if offered? Ken Doctor is betting on “yes.” He went from news business analyst and consultant to start-up CEO in his hometown, Santa Cruz, Calif. He launched Lookou...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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28:24
The last local reporter living in his town - Evan Brandt
"When I first started at The Mercury, there were nine reporters in the newsroom (...) I am now all of those people.” -- Evan Brandt, the last local news reporter living in Pottstown, PA.A hedge fund took over the newspaper compan...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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33:07
Earning trust with Dave Lopez
"We get a lot of criticism and some of it is fair," -- Dave Lopez, 48-year television news veteranOur guest is Dave Lopez, known for being a hard-charging, tough but fair reporter in Southern California, where he wo...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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30:55
"If it bleeds, it leads" with John Archibald
Americans tend to believe crime is up, even when the data shows it is down overall since the early '90s. (That's according to the FBI and the Bureau of Justice Statistics.) This is thanks in no small part to news coverage of crime. You've heard...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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36:55
Journalism as a calling with Christine Dobbyn
Veteran television journalist and entrepreneur Christine Dobbyn tells Kaitlin McCulley she views journalism as a calling. She shares her experiences traveling the world sharing stories, juggling the day-to-day demands of the news business and u...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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48:16
Outlet Podcast - An introduction
Start before you're ready. Is there a time in your life when you've started something new before you felt 100 percent confident in how it would turn out? Join Kaitlin McCulley as she launches a media production company, Outlet, in an effort to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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6:15