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Welcome to the Commuter Corner, your one stop podcast to find out everything you need to know about what’s going on and around campus for commuters. With over 80 events planned for September alone, Commuter Corner will help you connect with your campus and all of these great activities! Subscribe to our podcast for all […]

Eric Umansky, deputy managing editor of ProPublica and the man behind a series of 15 tweets to Press Secretary Sean Spicer Monday evening, joins guest host Joe Amditis of the Center for Cooperative Media to talk about how professionals journalist go about fact-checking statements and other information especially as it trickles down via official channels […]

Steve McCarthy, News Producer here at Montclair State joins host and colleague Tom Franklin for a conversation about freelance work on the professional field while teaching; and how to land those long form segments on network television news, including the recent passing of Jimmy Breslin and McCarthy’s recent trip to India with Montclair State students. […]

Tara Sullivan, an award winning sports columnist for The Record joins Tom Franklin to discuss an upcoming panel about “Women in Media” at the Yogi Berra Museum this Thursday. Sullivan will join legendary columnist Claire Smith and our very own Kelly Whiteside in this discussion. Tara Sullivan has been covering sports in New York for […]

Mike Kelly, a longtime columnist for The Bergen Record newspaper, now part of the USA Today network joined us on this week’s episode of Media Download to talk about his interview with President Trump’s senior counselor, KellyAnne Conway. His interview made national headlines earlier this week after Conway alleged that surveillance of the Trump campaign […]

Merrill Brown joins this episode as our featured guest. After almost 5 years at the helm of Montclair State University’s brand new School of Communication, he is leaving this position next month. Brown is an educator, consultant, investor, veteran media executive and journalist.  Merrill has worked at The Saint Louis Dispatch, The Winston-Salem Sentinel, The […]

Dr. Rob Quicke, Founder of The College Radio Foundation and College Radio Day joins us to talk about the importance of college radio and tackle a question we hear often, Is college radio dying? This is the basis of an article on Pitchfork magazine last week, where the author asked“Does College Radio Even Matter Anymore”? […]

David Brancaccio, host and senior editor of the Marketplace Morning Report broadcast on public radio and at marketplace.org joins Merrill Brown to discuss business and media in a Trump presidency. You may also know David as the former anchor of the television news program “Now on PBS.” He does a podcast titled Esquire Classic with […]

  Andrea Syrtash, relationship expert discusses a subject often left out of the conversation in the media—fertility. And in the current political climate, when women’s health and Planned Parenthood have become popular topics of discussion; she filled a void in the industry by creating a new website she named Pregnantish. This is the first online […]