Once 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.

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Global Journalist: From lone wolves to cross-border collaborators

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 Atlantic Max Willens, Digiday Simon Owens, Freelance Tech and Media Journalist Producer: Trevor Hook Executive producers: Ryan Famuliner, Ryan Thomas, Kathy Kiely Audio Engineer: Trevor Hook

Global Journalist: Did Facebook's "pivot to video" cause publishers to face plant?

Over 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."

The fight for Voice of America

Modern 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. Theirs are some of the voices you will hear on this podcast. For a transcript of the program, click here.

Global Journalist: Making media accessible

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.

Global Journalist: Stars and Stripes forever?

Americans 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.

Global Journalist: How the world sees the U.S. election

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.

#MeToo at Three: Are Newsrooms Meeting the Diversity Challenge?

Students 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.

Global Journalist: Nothing Stops A Good Story

Tol-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.

Global Journalist: How a Sports Reporter Challenged Romania's Oligarchy

Two 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.

Global Journalist: From Ebola to COVID-19

For 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.

Global Journalist: Singapore Confronts a Second Coronavirus

At 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 Phillips, offers a different perspective.

Global Journalist: Covering Two Deadly Viruses

Journalists 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.

Global Journalist: Photojournalism During a Pandemic

A 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 pain we're experiencing now?

Global Journalist: When a Coronavirus Hit in 2003

During 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.

Global Journalist: Covering COVID in China

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