I don’t know how Michael Rain finds time to sleep. He has so many ideas and projects and collaborations, and he’s ready to learn and take on even more. He was an ideal candidate for a fellowship with the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism where he continued to shape some of his already in-progress projects, like ZNews Africa, which he talks about in this episode. He also describes the origin, development and future plans for Enodi, a digital gallery that highlights the stories of first-generation black immigrants of African, Caribbean and Latin descent. In addition to those two enterprises, he completed a TED residency, culminating in a TED talk that’s been downloaded over a million times. I’ll save you the time Googling the Ghanian dish he talks about. You’re going to want it, too.
Michael recently completed a podcast certificate program produced through a partnership between the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and the Made in NY Media Center. The latter is a vibrant, multi-disciplinary collaborative workspace in DUMBO, Brooklyn where we recorded our conversation. While I was there, I got the chance to sit in on a listening session – basically a participatory pitchfest – for the PRX Google Podcast Creator’s Program. Podcasts are happening, people!
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