Paid by the Word: Conversations with Writers and Editors
Award-winning journalist and prolific author Mike Barlow interviews writers and editors. "Our conversations focus mostly on work habits and career advice. The interviews typically run 25-30 minutes. I try to keep them light and breezy, but when the topic veers into deeper waters, I'm not afraid to go there with the guest,” says Mike.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 36
- Years Active
- 2021
Season One Finale – Mike Barlow and Mike Bennett
In this episode of the podcast, I’m interviewed by radio talk show host Mike Bennett. Mike and I go way back, and I hope you enjoy our conversation as he prompts me to reflect on my career as a journ…
Pax Transatlantica – Jussi Hanhimäki
Following the twin shocks of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, the concept of a unified western transatlantic community seemed like a sentimental relic of a bygone age. Yet in his new book, P…
Law and the Written Word – Tami Aisenson
Sharing the Human Narrative – Cynthia Gregory
In this episode, I speak with award-winning author and teacher Cynthia Gregory. Her published short stories include Baby Blood, Melting at Both Ends, Use Me, and Rosalinda's Ambition.
Cynthia’s work h…
Morning Show Radio Star – Mike Bennett
In this episode, I’ll be chatting with radio personality Mike Bennett, the popular co-host of Mike & Kacey in the Morning on WHUD, the radio station serving New York State’s Mid-Hudson Valley, a regi…
Fresh Angles on Sports Writing – Jackson Thompson
Jackson Thompson is a sports writer for Insider. His articles tend to focus on the health – and the rights – of athletes. Jackson’s work has also been featured in The Boston Globe and Sports Illustra…
Eyes on the Future: Writing About Health Tech – Alfred Poor
Alfred Poor, PhD, is the founding Editor of Health Tech Insider, a website and weekly email newsletter that provides curated news and original analysis about mobile and wearable technology for health…
Ding Dong! Avon Calling: Writing About an Iconic Company – Katina Manko
Door-to-door selling. If you’ve ever done it, you know it’s grueling work. Throughout most of its history, door-to-door selling was considered a man’s job. That was before Avon invented the Avon Lady…
Covering the World – Edvige Jean-François
Edvige Jean-François is an award-winning global journalist and producer. At CNN, she served as Washington Bureau Producer, responsible for producing national and political news stories. She covered C…
Unpacking the Politics of Camping – Phoebe S.K. Young
Professor Phoebe S.K. Young teaches undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She is the recipient of the 2016 Boulder Faculty Assembly Award for Distinction in Te…
Learning Valuable Lessons From a Librarian – Joyce Garczynski
Joyce Garczynski is the Assistant University Librarian for Development & Communications at Towson University’s Albert S. Cook Library in Maryland. In this role she teaches journalism students about t…
Writer, thinker, truck driver – Euan Semple
Can driving a truck help you become a better writer? Euan Semple is living proof that sometimes, at least, doing something that's not related to writing can result in ... better writing!
Euan has been…
Connecting Journalism and Academic Research – Clark Merrefield
In this episode of Paid by the Word, Mike interviews Clark Merrefield, a senior editor at The Journalist’s Resource, a project of Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center and the Carnegie-Knight I…
Making the Leap from Print to Video Journalism – Stephen Janis
Stephen Janis is a documentary filmmaker and award-winning journalist whose work has earned praise in both video and print. He's the director of the recently released feature length documentary, Th…
From U.S. Marine to Newspaper Executive – Glenn Proctor
Glenn Proctor's life reads like an adventure novel: a difficult childhood, family tragedy, alcoholism, six years in the U.S. Marine Corps (including a tour of duty in Vietnam), four decades in newspa…
Writing Historical Fiction – Ellen Horan
Ellen Horan is the author of 31 Bond Street, a historical novel published by HarperCollins. Set against the backdrop of bustling, corrupt New York City four years before the Civil War, the book reco…
Editor, Teacher, Lawyer and Communicator – Rachelle Dickerson
Rachelle Dickerson began her career in print journalism, working as a copy editor at major American newspapers such as Newsday, the Los Angeles Times, the Houston Chronicle and The Star-Ledger. In be…
A Passion for Sports Journalism – Adam Hirshfield
Do you have the skill and passion to be a sports journalist? Adam Hirshfield, a senior NFL editor at The Athletic, reflects on his career in the new episode of the Paid by the Word Podcast.
Over the…
An Editor’s Journey From Newsroom to Academia – Walter Middlebrook
Walter Middlebrook is the Foster Professor of Practice in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at The Pennsylvania State University. Middlebrook has worked in editing roles at the Minne…
Writing Comedy for Late-Night TV – Joe Toplyn
Joe Toplyn began his television career on the writing staff of Late Night with David Letterman. He later served as co-head writer of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, head writer of Late Show with Davi…