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Conversations Shaping the Future of JournalismE&P Reports is the weekly interview program from E&P Magazine (Editor & Publisher), the authoritative voice of the news media since 1884.Hosted by publisher Mike Blinder, each episode features in-depth conversations with the journalists, editors, broadcasters, publishers, innovators, educators and media leaders shaping the future of journalism.Topics include local news, investigative reporting, artificial intelligence, audience growth, revenue innovation, press freedom, public policy, digital transformation and the business of news.Watch the full video editions on YouTube or at:EditorandPublisher.com/vodcasts
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Signup to Generate a PitchConversations Shaping the Future of JournalismE&P Reports is the weekly interview program from E&P Magazine (Editor & Publisher), the authoritative voice of the news media since 1884.Hosted by publisher Mike Blinder, each episode features in-depth conversations with the journalists, editors, broadcasters, publishers, innovators, educators and media leaders shaping the future of journalism.
E&P Reports with Mike Blinder is hosted by Mike Blinder. The show has published 359 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "358 Borrell: Local advertising is growing. Is your sales strategy keeping up?" (31 October 2026, 20 minutes), "358 Stop competing, start collaborating: A new model for local news" (24 October 2026, 20 minutes), and "356 Local news losses accelerate as digital traffic plunges, Medill warns" (17 October 2026, 21 minutes).
E&P Reports with Mike Blinder publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 19 minutes across 359 episodes.
Booking probability for E&P Reports with Mike Blinder is 38%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. E&P Reports with Mike Blinder requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. E&P Reports with Mike Blinder's contact route on record: verified email.
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Mike Blinder hosts E&P Reports with Mike Blinder, a news podcast with 359 episodes published.
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Local advertising dollars are growing, but the businesses spending them—and the products they're buying—are changing faster than many media companies' sales strategies. For publishers building their 2027 budgets...

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Episode #353
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For the third consecutive year, Northwestern University's Medill School has tracked how Americans' local news habits are changing. The latest survey confirms that audience demand for local journalism remains remarkably...

Episode #351
Twenty-five years after the attacks of September 11, leading journalists, First Amendment advocates and scholars gathered at Columbia University for The Forever War and the First Amendment, a symposium examining how two...

Episode #350
News industry leaders weigh whether pressure to repeal Canada's Online News Act could threaten newsroom funding and weaken publishers' push for platform compensation worldwide. Could a deal to ease the U.S.-Canada trade...

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Episode #346
She expected to find an industry weighed down by layoffs, closures and uncertainty. Instead, a summer spent visiting independent newsrooms across America introduced Jasmine Shiffer to publishers, editors and reporters...

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Local journalism does not need another obituary. It needs a new operating model. In New Jersey, Stefanie Murray is helping build one that treats local information as civic infrastructure, supported by collaboration...

For decades, the leaders of America's newspaper industry have gathered separately to tackle many of the same challenges—from protecting journalism and strengthening business models to navigating public policy and...

While much of the news industry continues to focus on shrinking newsrooms, disappearing newspapers and expanding news deserts, Village Media is proving another path is possible. In this exclusive E&P Reports...

Local media sales has entered a new era. Advertisers no longer need a salesperson to launch a marketing campaign, buy digital ads or build an online presence, giving them more choices—and less patience for generic sales...

News organizations have spent years debating whether artificial intelligence will replace journalists, whether social media is helping or hurting democracy, and whether younger audiences still value news. But according...

<p >A new global study suggests journalism's biggest challenge may not be AI, declining trust or shrinking revenues. Instead, it may be the widening gap between what news organizations say their priorities are and how...
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Professor, John M. Mutz Chair in Local News and founding director of the Medill Local News Initiative, Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University
Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University
Senior Editorial Advisor, 44FU Layfield Court Residents Committee
director of Columbia’s Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism, Columbia’s Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism
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