Episodes

  • Florida lawmakers want to make it easier to sue the media
    Mar 29 2023

    Florida Republicans propose laws that would make it easier to sue media outlets for defamation and repeal journalist privilege. Megan Lynch gets details from KMOX Legal Analyst, Attorney Brad Young of Harris, Dowell, Fisher, and Young.

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    9 mins
  • Short not Shallow: Axios Co-Founder talks about Smart Brevity in communication
    Mar 20 2023

    "It's a war for attention," and Axios Co-founder, CEO, and Chair Jim Vandehei has a strategy. KMOX's Megan Lynch talks to him about the Axios philosophy of communication and the book Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less.

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    12 mins
  • Reporting stories, from behind bars
    Mar 14 2023

    The prison press goes back to 1800. In the 1960's there were more than 250 prison newspapers across the US, but that number has dwindled.

    What the Media's Megan Lynch and Julie Smith talk with Kate McQueen, Editor at Prison Journalism Project, about efforts to find and document prison newspapers, and train new journalists working behind bars.

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    25 mins
  • Take It Down: New program to get explicit photos of kids and teens off the internet
    Mar 7 2023

    Around the world, explicit images of children and teens are circulating on the web. Sometimes they're willingly shared with a girlfriend or boyfriend, other times kids are tricked into sharing nude photos by a perpetrator. Now there's a new tool to help young people get some of them removed. KMOX's Megan Lynch and author Julie Smith talk with National Center for Missing and Exploited Children spokesman Gavin Portnoy about Take It Down.

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    18 mins
  • How the high court could unravel social media algorithms
    Feb 22 2023

    Two cases being heard by the US Supreme Court could change whether social media platforms and other online companies are shielded from liability for content posted by users. Megan Lynch gets insight on what the justices are considering with KMOX Radio Legal Analyst Brad Young.

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    9 mins
  • Byline AI
    Feb 13 2023

    "It can produce the natural human language information based off of structured data, but that does not mean that it understands the value of what it's producing. Newsworthiness is still a human capacity role." - Chad Owsley, PhD Candidate in the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri

    A study from the University of Missouri finds that many Americans are unaware that Artificial Intelligence is so prevalent, let alone that it's creating news content. KMOX Virtual Consumer Editor Megan Lynch talks with the study author Chad Owsley and his research advisor, Associate Professor, Dr. Keith Greenwood.

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    21 mins
  • What is Black Twitter?
    Feb 7 2023

    "There are many ways to experience Blackness."

    Megan Lynch and Julie Smith talk with Northeastern University's, Dr. Meredith D. Clark about her participation in and study of Black Twitter - the online, social media community creating connection and action. (She even teaches a class on it!)

    Clark is an Associate Professor in Northwestern's College of Arts, Media and Design and is the Founding Director of the Center for Communication, Media Innovation and Social Change.

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    20 mins
  • Where do you get your news?
    Jan 26 2023

    Julie Smith, author of Master the Media: How Teaching Media Literacy can Save our Plugged-In World joins KMOX Radio for News Literacy Week to talk about where we get our news, why getting it from social media may come with pitfalls, and how we can be smart about checking sources.

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    17 mins