News Over Noise
"News Over Noise" is a podcast and radio program about how media shapes what we know, what we believe, and how we understand the world around us. In each episode, hosts Matt Jordan and Cory Barker talk with journalists, researchers, and industry experts to examine the forces driving today’s information environment. The show explores how news is produced, distributed, and consumed, and what that means for public trust, democracy, and everyday life.
Matt Jordan is head of the Department of Film Production and Media Studies in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State University, and Director of the News Literacy Initiative.
Cory Barker, PhD, is an assistant teaching professor in the Film Production & Media Studies department and co-host of News Over Noise
Leah Dajches, PhD, is a postdoctoral scholar at Pennsylvania State University working on the News Literacy Initiative.