Aug 18, 202530 minS3
<p >Listeners' producer Dakota Runyon-Trapp and Daniel Bloomfield spoke with Floyd Aragon of Southern Oregon Public Broadcast Service in order to figure out what the station is in terms of potential budget cuts. Along...
About this Podcast:
Listeners is a show about the craft and power of listening. We talk with media and communication experts, thought leaders, doers, and innovators whose ideas can amplify the quality of our dialogue and interactions. Listeners is produced by the Agora Journalism Center, the gathering place for innovation in communication and civic engagement at University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication.
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What is Listeners about?
Listeners is a show about the craft and power of listening. We talk with media and communication experts, thought leaders, doers, and innovators whose ideas can amplify the quality of our dialogue and interactions.
What has Listeners covered recently?
Recent episodes include "#29 The Frontline of Southern Oregon Public Broadcast Service Battle for Funding" (18 August 2025, 30 minutes), "#28 Teaching on the Edge" (12 August 2025, 20 minutes), and "#27 Food Hubbing Emerges as a Solution for Feeding Us All" (4 August 2025, 38 minutes).
How often does Listeners publish?
Listeners publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 34 minutes across 30 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Listeners?
Booking probability for Listeners is 21%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Listeners requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Listeners's contact route on record: verified email.
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The strongest fits for Listeners are Universities & Colleges. Listeners has a society audience.
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Listeners is a society podcast with 30 episodes published.
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Episode #28
#28 Teaching on the Edge
Aug 12, 202520 minS3<p >In this episode, host Devon Young talks with first-year educator MJ Poss, who shares an honest reflection on what it’s really like to be a teacher in today’s public schools. From chronic underfunding to emotional...
Aug 4, 202538 minS0<p >Listeners producer Kristen Mico speaks with Fiona Conneely and Shelley Sculer about how food hubbing models offer solutions to small farms, markets and food assistance programs. At a time when programs that support...
Jul 28, 202521 minS3<p >For this episode, we invite listeners into the realities of rural Oregon, where questions of identity, belonging, and resilience are part of everyday life. In this episode, Kristina Path and Leif Olsen travel to...
Episode #25
#25 Humanities Resilience
Jul 21, 202529 minS3<p >Listeners producer Daniel Bloomfield speaks with the Executive Director of the Oregon Humanities about the Trump administration’s recent cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities, and how they’ve impacted...
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Episode #24
#24 Advocacy in Organizing and Politics
Jul 14, 202529 minS3<p>Listeners producer Kaiya Laguardia-Yonamine speaks with Duncan Hwang about the importance of local organizing and turning inward to sustain our communities. In a time where federal cuts, mass political chaos, and...
Jul 7, 202530 minS3<p >In this episode of Mutual Aid, Mutual Love, host Ranya Salvant sits down with partners Cat Parkay and Ryan Stimmel to explore how disaster preparedness and mutual aid shape their relationship to the community. From...
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#22: Relationships During a Pandemic
Jul 27, 202023 minS0<p>Quarantine has meant that we’re having to listen to ourselves and each other as we navigate through new ways of being together for long stretches at a time. It’s near impossible to know how this global pandemic is...
Jul 11, 202031 minS0<p>Are you eager to diversify what you’re listening to these days? This episode is for you especially if you’ve been reflecting on and processing what we’re all going through these days. Listeners producer Cecilia Brown...
Jul 2, 202033 minS0<p>Listeners producer Cecilia Brown talks with Cleo Davis and Kayin Talton-Davis about homeschooling during COVID-19 and reimagining education by challenging the Eurocentric ideals most educational institutions are...
Jul 19, 201933 minS0<p>With this episode we introduce a new series called Strings. It’s all about how issues and individuals string our communities together in surprising ways. Podcast producers Kevin Beasely and Ann Powers take the show...
Jul 6, 201959 minS0<p>Last summer, bestselling author and Atlantic magazine contributor Amanda Ripley published an essay, Complicating the Narratives, exploring what journalists could learn from mediators, lawyers, rabbis, and others “who...
May 18, 201937 minS0<p>Kaitlin Prest is an award-winning podcast artist whose keen ability to blend intricate sound design and distinct narrative storytelling into one-of-a-kind sensory experiences has earned her high acclaim at audio...
Apr 27, 201957 minS0<p>The August Wilson Red Door Project strives to change Portland’s racial ecology through the arts. It started with a play called Hands Up: 7 Playwrights, 7 Testaments that showcases a powerful set of monologues...
Apr 6, 201948 minS0<p>Research shows that developing empathy, connection and compassion is crucial to a sustainable and humane society. But, in order to do that we must first admit our own biases, overcome them and step outside of our...
Mar 23, 201949 minS0<p>What happens when we change the narrative of the classic American Dream mantra - that our position in life depends on more than just pulling ourselves up by our own bootstraps? How does this impact reaching our...
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#13: Kara Moore - Being Present
Mar 9, 201923 minS0<p>Kara Moore is the lead facilitator at Kickstand Comedy Space in Portland, OR. Having studied, performed, and coached improv and sketch comedy since 2001. She says improv is more about being a hardcore listener than...
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#12: Eli Saslow - Building Trust
Mar 2, 201940 minS0<p>Eli Saslow is an award-winning journalist and a staff writer for The Washington Post. In 2014, he received a Pulitzer Prize Award for his work on food stamps in post-recession America. His most recent book, Rising...
Dec 8, 201832 minS0<p>Gabe Howe is the Executive Director of the Siskiyou Mountain Club. The group works to maintain and promote remote trail systems in southwest Oregon. Gabe finds that when volunteers from different walks of life and...
Nov 30, 201823 minS0<p>What happens to journalism when the public gets to choose the topics they’re curious about? “Public powered journalism” is the ongoing experiment the co-founder and CEO of Hearken Jennifer Brandel is working on to...
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