The Talking Pictures Podcast
Photojournalism on the radio...sort of. The photography centric podcast is hosted by veteran photojournalist Todd Mizener with help from fellow photogs Todd Welvaert and Meg McLaughlin. Our goal is to both entertain and inform with our personal experiences or via interviews with a wide variety of guests. Mizener is the former Director of Photography for the Dispatch/Argus, a mid-sized daily newspaper, located in western Illinois along the banks of the Mississippi River in Moline, Ill. He is currently the Marketing & Communications Director for the D/A and Quad-City Times. We all get asked questions about our jobs and the podcast lets us answer some of those questions. It also affords us the opportunity to connect with readers, aspiring photographers, and learn a thing or two from our guests. The podcast is also an extension of our historically strong intern teaching program. Please email your questions and/or topic suggestions to [email protected] and don’t forget to tune each week for a new episode.
- Update frequency
- every 21 days
- Average duration
- 46 minutes
- Episodes
- 68
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2020
When the circus came to Iowa
In this week's podcast we discuss the challenges of photographing the Iowa Caucuses with Des Moines Register photographers Zach Boyden-Homes, Michael Zamora, Kelsey Kremer and Brian Powers. They chas…
Super Bowl bound photo editor
Cold hands, warm podcast
Cows are people too and other stories
Tim Tai: At the center of the storm
Pasties and fur make for a great first day
A two-part episode built around a big surprise and a wild first day on the job for Meg. In part one we surprise young Meg with a chance of a lifetime and in part-two she discusses how to shoot a raun…
107-years in the making
The highs and lows of producing a multimedia project about Die Hard Cubs Fans, some of which are over a 100-years-old and hard of hearing. Our thumbnail photo for this week's podcast features Mick Ne…
Out of Africa with Nick Loomis
Western Africa based freelance multimedia journalist Nick Loomis sits down with us to talk about living and working in Africa and Haiti. Nick is native of Davenport, Iowa and one of our favorite Disp…
A legendary night in Iowa City
It was an emotional night for everyone in Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City when former player Brett Greenwood, who doctors thought would never walk again, led the Hawkeyes out of the tunnel on Saturday S…
Live from the Shanty Boat
We take the podcast on the road (technically the river) to talk with artist, historian and shanty boat captain, Wes Modes. Wes and his dog Hazel, recently docked their shanty boat in the Quad-Cities …
Lost Americana
There's no crying in camping
Cheap pants and Subarus
Over "Thinking" it
A conversation with the legend - John Greenwood
In this week's edition of The Talking Pictures Podcast we chat with veteran photojournalist John Greenwood on the eve of his retirement after over 31 years on the job. The conversation covers a wide …
How big is your lens?
It's John Deere Classic week for the photographers at the Dispatch/Argus. In this week's edition of the podcast the boys talk a little tech and swap some funny stories about covering the PGA's John D…
Fair queens and wood chippers
Her first dead body
Bill Murray, Jordan Spieth and the money shot