Carol Robidoux: Manchester Ink Link & a Lesson in Entrepreneurial Journalism

06/01/21 • 39 min

On this episode, Mark Simon is joined by Carol Robidoux, the founder and publisher of the Manchester Ink Link, a news website serving Manchester, New Hampshire and its surrounding community.

Carol talked about her path to her current role and explained what’s in a name – both the name of the website and her self-appointed title of Chief Instigating Officer. She also discussed what a news organization can do to reflect its community, and how a collaborative organization of multiple media outlets can be a gamechanger for the community.

Carol also saluted multiple other organizations that have helped her along the way and told a story of how a piece of advice from journalism professor Bob Cole changed her life.

Thank you for listening. Please rate and review if you can. Stay safe and stay well.

On this episode, Mark Simon is joined by Carol Robidoux, the founder and publisher of the Manchester Ink Link, a news website serving Manchester, New Hampshire and its surrounding community.

Carol also saluted multiple other organizations that have helped her along the way and told a story of how a piece of advice from journalism professor Bob Cole changed her life.

Thank you for listening. Please rate and review if you can. Stay safe and stay well.

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Aaron Elson: On Copy Editing & World War II Oral History

On this episode, Mark Simon is joined by 40-year copy editor and World War II oral historian Aaron Elson.

Aaron talked about his long career in newspapers, emphasizing his role as a counselor of wayward commas about their place in sentences, protecting the English language, and writing headlines

He also talked about his work compiling more than 600 hours of oral history of World War II and the books and podcasts he’s created from that. Aaron his written multiple books and hosts a podcast: War As My Father’s Tank Batallion Knew It. You can learn more about him at AaronElson.com.

Thank you for listening. Please rate and review if you can. Stay safe and stay well.

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REAIR: What is Dialogue Journalism? Eve Pearlman of Spaceship Media

NOTE:

Taking the week off, so thought I'd dial it back to the very beginning - August 2020- with Episode 1a (I did 2 episodes to start- we'll call them both 1a).

This one is one of my favorites because the topics are interesting and the approach is so different.

Back next week with a new episode. Enjoy!

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On this episode of The Journalism Salute, Mark is joined by Eve Pearlman, the co-founder and CEO of Spaceship Media.

In Eve’s words, Spaceship Media is a company that invites exploration for journalists and conversation participants through a recently developed form of work known as dialogue journalism. Spaceship brings people from different groups together for conversations over an extended period of time and works with media outlets to report on what comes from those conversations.

Eve explains the origin of the company and how dialogue journalism works in the spirit of reconceptualizing what journalism is. She tells what motivated her to pursue this type of journalism, how projects are conceptualized, developed, and completed, and why journalists are ideal for the role they serve within dialogue journalism. She also shares her vision for future projects and pays it forward with advice, and a journalism salute of her own.

Core quote: “What can I do with the skills I have, from where I sit, to help the greater good?”

The Journalism Salute is a podcast intended to spotlight journalism organizations doing prominent work and to counter the notion of journalists as the enemy of the people. It is hosted by Mark Simon. Please subscribe, rate, and review.

Show Links

Spaceship Media

Spaceship Media Twitter page

Eve Pearlman’s Twitter page

Guns, An American Conversation (Spaceship Media’s book)

Eve’s Ted Talk

Journalism Salute Twitter

Mark Simon Twitter