Connecting Journalism and Academic Research – Clark Merrefield

06/06/21 • 30 min

Paid by the Word: Conversations with Writers and Editors

In this episode of Paid by the Word, Mike interviews Clark Merrefield, a senior editor at The Journalist’s Resource, a project of Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center and the Carnegie-Knight Initiative.
Clark joined The Journalist’s Resource in 2019 after working as a reporter for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, as a researcher and editor on three books related to the Great Recession, and as a federal government communications strategist. He was a John Jay College Juvenile Justice Journalism Fellow and his work has been awarded by Investigative Reporters and Editors.
In our conversation, we chat about the basics of investigative journalism, and talk about some of his recent articles for The Journalist’s Resource.

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Making the Leap from Print to Video Journalism – Stephen Janis

Stephen Janis is a documentary filmmaker and award-winning journalist whose work has earned praise in both video and print. He's the director of the recently released feature length documentary, The Friendliest Town, a compelling story of the controversial firing of the first black police chief of a small town in Maryland.

He is the co-author of three books with former homicide detectives Why Do We Kill: The Pathology of Murder in Baltimore , You Can’t Stop Murder: Truths about Policing in Baltimore and Beyond , and The Book of Cop: A Testament to Policing That Works.

Stephen has narrated a variety television shows including Dead of Night on Investigation Discovery, NBC/Universal Relentless , the Netflix reboot of Unsolved Mysteries , and the forth coming crime series Sins of The City on Television One. He is the co-host and producer of the Police Accountability Report on The Real News Network, a non-profit news service based in Baltimore.
Stephen is a graduate of Hamilton College in Clinton, NY.

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Euan has been a leader and an influencer in the ever-changing field of digital technology for two decades. An early adopter of social media he implemented one of the world's first enterprise social network systems inside the BBC. He also ran BBC DigiLab, a department whose purpose was to help the BBC understand new technologies across the range of its activities and make better decisions about their use and implementation.

Euan left the BBC in 2006 to establish his own consultancy and has subsequently worked around the world with an amazing range of organizations including BP, The World Bank, The European commission, and Volvo. His work with them has been to help stretch their thinking about digital transformation in all its forms and to ensure that they end up doing the right things for the right reasons.

Euan is the author of Organizations Don't Tweet, People Do: A Manager's Guide to the Social Web, and it’s my great pleasure to have him on this episode of the podcast!