Podclair

06/07/2021

Mini-vacation time on the Podclair end ☀️ After reaching our 100th episode we decided it was the perfect time to have a little R&R....take a little pause, enjoy the weather and time with friends & family.

We have had so many guests over the years that help shape the community, and we hope you'll take this time off to go back and listen or re-listen to the conversations we've had. Make sure to visit their places of business, tag them to photos you may take there and comment in the sections below their episode posts here.

Know we are still here and checking the inbox, so please message us with questions you may have, guest interests and even just to say hi!

We hope you are enjoying the start to summer and continue to practice safety and kindness as we transition into a new sense of normalcy with the pandemic.

And please remember, our community is nothing without us so shop locally as much as possible, stop in and visit as you can, and help support with posting, tagging, and providing reviews. Every bit counts, and your efforts go a long way for those businesses and to their families.

Talk to you on the airwaves again soon!

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05/30/2021

In this episode we talk with the Editor, Louis Hochman and the Sports/Community reporter, Andrew Garda from Montclair Local. They are two of the many dedicated people who make up the team that serves our community with their award-winning newspaper. Founded by Heeten Choxi, the paper operates as a non-profit and relies on this community to support their efforts to create a cohesive and informed community about local matters. ⁠
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Montclair Local won 34 New Jersey Press Association awards for work done in 2020. For the third year in a row, Montclair Local has garnered the New Jersey Press Association's General Excellence award.⁠

Tune in Sunday, May 30th for the release of our 102nd episode with 📰 📌

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05/28/2021

"We're here to serve the community on a mission founded and centered around the idea that an informed community is a better community....It has less to do with how many clicks or how many subscribers or what revenue in a particular month we bring in than it is whether those things are a means to an end, to making sure people are informed in useful ways."

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05/27/2021

"You could get all of our news without ever getting the paper, if that's not your preferred way of reading it. But it is sort of a weekly reminder that this exists and that we're here doing the work and just kind of jumps out in front of you, you know, in your mailbox and reminds you that there are things happening in your community."

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05/26/2021

"We recently hired what we're calling a human connections reporter...The person we brought into that role is bilingual, has done a lot of reporting around LGBTQ issues, around Latino issues specifically, and in his previous job is deeply invested in the idea that there are stories to be told outside of his own personal experience, but also comes from a place where some of his personal experience is reflective of a variety of experience that not all the rest of us on staff have."

Have a question about the makings of an issue of Montclair Local? Or the ways in which reporting has changed? Post your questions below and make sure to tag so they can be notified to answer directly!

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05/25/2021

This week on Podclair, "How we started (Montclair Local)... the challenges and joys of local journalism, how important it is to have someone keeping an eye on everything from local government to leaf blowers. We also talked about pets because who doesn't talk about pets." 🐾 - Andrew Garda, Montclair Local

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05/25/2021

This week on Podclair..."What it means to be Montclair's non-profit newsroom...the community's newsroom...to go deeper to reflect more of the culture, the diversity, the complexity, the beauty, the struggle, the triumphs of Montclair going forward." - Lou Hochman, Montclair Local

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05/24/2021

"This is an incredibly rich and diverse and complicated community that really deserves attention.".... and so Montclair Local was born.

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05/21/2021

What are you reading these days?

Tell us what has your interest whether for fun, to further your education, to add to your business, to share with your kids,.....

And please make sure to tune this week as we announce our next episode - #102! We'll be sharing some behind the scenes before we release our conversation on Sunday, May 30th!

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05/17/2021

A tremendous thank you to Andrew Garda and Montclair Local news for helping us celebrate our reaching 100 episodes 📰🎉🧡🎙

It has been such an honor to be a part of Montclair's landscape and to be welcomed into your lives as we share the stories that have built the community we love.

Take a read through by visiting the Montclair Local website - www.montclairlocalnews.com . And you can also hear an extension of that article in yesterday's podcast ( #101) as Andrew interviews our team Joanna Seltzer, Tracey Diamond and Margo Bruton.

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05/16/2021

We’re suddenly famous!!!

Home Arts ‘Podclair’ tells stories of Montclair’s businesses. Here’s the story of Podclair ArtsTop Stories‘Podclair’ tells stories of Montclair’s businesses. Here’s the story of PodclairIn the latest episode, Montclair Local's Andrew Garda interviews the Podclair team itself. May 16,...

05/16/2021

In this episode, Andrew Garda of the Montclair Local newspaper interviews Joanna Seltzer, Tracey Diamond and Margo Bruton of Podclair discussing how the podcast came to be, the need to share stories about our community, and the last three rewarding years producing a podcast for and about Montclair.

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Andrew is an experienced journalist who is a Member of the Pro Football Writers Association of America with a decade of experience writing about the NFL and 15+ years of writing in various other formats, including blogs, screen and teleplays, short stories and standard newsprint articles.

During his time on the sports beat for the Montclair Local, he has covered things like the high school’s first African-American female basketball coaching staff, an undefeated state championship football season. In our Covid year, he's been lending his considerable talents to other stories for the paper.

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Tune in Sunday, May 16th for the release of our 101st episode and celebrate reaching 100 episodes of 🎉

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