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Karolis works in Nanook a collective of journalists - as they describe themselves - who are interested in how Lithuanian society works and want to tell stories neglected by mainstream media. In the span of just a few years they managed to build an active and loyal base of listeners thanks to whom Nanook is in most part self-sustainable. Listen to conversation with Karolis about how to build and run a collective following rules of integrity, what are the ways to build credibility and a devoted following among your listeners and cross the traditional definitions of what the journalists role is.
Karolis also talks about one of the activities they do - face to face meeting during which people featured in the published stories have a chance chance to meet the listeners. He shares how they create those offline spaces for people to not only share stories but also have an opportunity to personally interact (and how important that is in a society like Lithuanian where that type of contact between strangers is not something that happens often) - tips on everything from the technical background of how to organize such a meeting to how to you know if it worked.
We're going a little bit meta this time with a podcast about making podcasts. Listen to a conversation with Kairzhan Albarazov, creator of “Find your B – Найди в себе Батыра” podcast, which aims at helping Kazakh youth with self-realization, confidence, personal freedom and to find the strength to deviate from societal pressures, and has helped thousands of listeners in the region.
Join us for the 4th episode in our series to learn:
- How an engineer with no skills or back round in podcasting can go from having just an idea to the most successful podcast in their region interviewing celebrities, activists and prominent figures of the public life
- Why podcasts are the future (a teaser: they're democratic, accessible and create a level of intimacy which other medium don't offer)
- How to go about starting one
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Journalists and human right’s activists on daily basis deal with difficult situations affecting themselves directly or the people they’re helping, they work under stressful conditions, always chasing a deadline and oftentimes while trying to make the world better they mend up encountering the darker side of it. All those things make them prone to experiencing compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. Learn more about what these are, how they manifest themselves (whether it comes to you or members of your team) and why paying attention to symptoms is crucial not you for you but also people you work with from a great conversation with Andy Carvin in our first episode of the third season of MEGAPHONE podcast series.
This one is especially dedicated to those of us who shake their heads when they hear the term “mindfulness” as Andy explains how it actually means looking out for yourself and each other.
Andy Carvin, an award-winning journalist who has pioneered new forms of online collaboration for more than 20 years. Now a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), where he leads the lab’s training and capacity-building efforts. Andy was founder and editor-in-chief of reported.ly, a social news initiative at First Look Media. Using social media and digital forensic tools, reported.ly covered breaking news stories around the world, with a particular emphasis on human rights and social justice. From 2006 to 2013, Andy was a senior strategist at NPR, where he founded the company’s social media desk and developed new reporting techniques to improve the quality and diversity of NPR’s journalism.